Speaker 1: Live from the Export Bear Garden Studios. You're listening to
Speaker 1: the BYC with just one more sleep before the start
Speaker 1: of the Test series against the English. For all the
Speaker 1: Test loving fans out there, we need to lock in
Speaker 1: all fifteen days and let our respective partners and loved
Speaker 1: ones know we will be unavailable during that time, because
Speaker 1: that's it for the summer. The rest is a hefty
Speaker 1: diart of t twenties and one days. So personally, I'll
Speaker 1: be tuning into the Test series being played across the
Speaker 1: Tesman with the Indians off to a flying start and
Speaker 1: handing the Aussies are hiding, which by extension must make
Speaker 1: us the greatest Test nation in the world at present.
Speaker 1: Ghido Fellas, how we going?
Speaker 2: Dylan Kleaver, I'm baddy good. I'm excited. I love this
Speaker 2: time of year.
Speaker 1: Yes, lovely, isn't it. It's got this sort of crickety
Speaker 1: Christmas e summary flag work kind of vibes about it.
Speaker 2: I'm both edgy at the prospect of a Test series
Speaker 2: and yet the sun's starting to shine, you know, the
Speaker 2: lawns are starting to be cut. Everything feels just a
Speaker 2: little bit more optimistic and glass half forward the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear what you're saying, man, and I tell
Speaker 1: you what, Paul Ford, I'm always a big fan of
Speaker 1: the English coming over it to aways a popular tour.
Speaker 1: So these three tests we're going to be locked and
Speaker 1: loaded and ready to go.
Speaker 3: Yes and lovely to have three tests, Yes punishing two
Speaker 3: tests series. Thank you England for dagning, for for coming
Speaker 3: to us on this one one occasion at least.
Speaker 1: I just want to make an apology for last week,
Speaker 1: by the way, and the system's mountdown. That cut it short.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in your absence, Jason, things felt a bit, well
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: You see, what people don't know about this is that
Speaker 1: I'm in charge of the technical side of things and
Speaker 1: when I'm not here it all turns to shit. But
Speaker 1: let's focus instead on this upcoming series, Joe Route, I mean, hello,
Speaker 1: far it up? Then why don't you Winning the Ashes
Speaker 1: in Australia would mean more than anything? Dylan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the headline in the Guardian on the
Speaker 2: eve of a three test series against New Zealand, and
Speaker 2: I just thought, yeah, you'd appreciate this, Jason. Being a
Speaker 2: student of history, it will be meaningless of Paul. But
Speaker 2: it took me way back to eighteen twelve. Sure, and
Speaker 2: Napoleon's obsession with Moscow, okay, and he got there and
Speaker 2: he found that it was empty and it was on fire.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile it had his ass handed to him and Pollots
Speaker 2: and Tarantino. So New Zealand are going to have to
Speaker 2: be the Cossacks. They're going to have to play that
Speaker 2: role and take down these arrogant English that are already
Speaker 2: thinking ahead to the MCG and the SCG and defeat
Speaker 2: them on the fields of Hagley, defeat them at the Basin,
Speaker 2: and defeat them on the fields of Sedven.
Speaker 1: Needley's a nice point, Dylan, need I say, Paul Forward
Speaker 1: that the English maybe have a little look at what
Speaker 1: happened to the Indians. They were thinking about the future
Speaker 1: and playing Australia. In Australia three zip, it was three zip.
Speaker 1: And so now after hearing those comments, nothing short of
Speaker 1: three now will suffice for New Zealand v England. And
Speaker 1: there's always been a situation too, I mean we've always
Speaker 1: as New Zealand as there's been this sort of concept
Speaker 1: that the English are arrogant, that they do look down
Speaker 1: their noses at us. Is that fair? Come on?
Speaker 3: I think it is fair. It's certainly something that we
Speaker 3: should get fired up about, even if it's not fair,
Speaker 3: and it might not be quite everything may not be
Speaker 3: what it seems here in this Guardian piece. First of all,
Speaker 3: please that he didn't ask me too many more questions
Speaker 3: about the French occupation of Moscow in the Battle of Borodino,
Speaker 3: which Dylan seems to be obsessed with. But anyway, here
Speaker 3: we are. Look, I think the point about those the
Speaker 3: Joe Root comments, to be fair to him, is that
Speaker 3: he said some nice things about New Zealand in that
Speaker 3: article to Donald McCrae. I think it was in the Guardian.
Speaker 4: Didn't make the headline. They did, it just.
Speaker 3: Didn't make the headline. Well, that's right, that's right. It's
Speaker 3: hard to blame him. It's hard to blame him for that,
Speaker 3: and he did even he even said poignant things about
Speaker 3: Graham Thorpe and how he was a poor bearer at
Speaker 3: his funeral and Graham Thorpe had done all this wonderful
Speaker 3: stuff for him. Of course, the Thorpe Crow Trophy or
Speaker 3: whatever it is that we're playing for in this series. Yes,
Speaker 3: a connection there, But yeah, look, I think this is
Speaker 3: that point. If England are distracted by all sorts of things,
Speaker 3: including the ashes, which are what a year away, thirteen
Speaker 3: months away? I'm all for it. Sounds great to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, man, totally, just on that front. In terms
Speaker 1: of looking at the weather conditions across the Test match,
Speaker 1: they're pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and seasonably warm tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty eight degrees.
Speaker 4: That would send some of the cants mad, won't it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, hot northwester Is that what it is the wind
Speaker 2: that sends them all crazy?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The next go read is that what you're saying, Dylan?
Speaker 4: Sorry I missed that, Paul Was that the.
Speaker 3: Next go read? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't have put it quite like that.
Speaker 1: A well. Funnily enough, my one of my girls had
Speaker 1: just moved to Melbourne. It was thirty four degrees yesterday
Speaker 1: and she said, shit, what was the thinking. It's just insanity.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a green wicket. We know that much.
Speaker 1: And there's a little bit of a what's that there
Speaker 1: on the pitch there, Paul Ford, You've got a bit
Speaker 1: of a bit of a conversation with someone there. Oh,
Speaker 1: William Nichols.
Speaker 2: Willie Nicholas, Willie Nichols sent me a little note that's
Speaker 2: saying it will be green, but perhaps not as green
Speaker 2: as usual.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, so more lime green rather than emerald green.
Speaker 1: Do you think.
Speaker 4: You're not verdant green?
Speaker 2: I'd still say it's pretty much a win the toss
Speaker 2: bowl first.
Speaker 4: First.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's get into the let's get I've got
Speaker 1: some stats beyond that, Jay Steve, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3: Christa. I look back to twenty fourteen at Hagley, team
Speaker 3: bowling in the first innings has won sixty two percent
Speaker 3: of the games, eight out of thirteen. The average score
Speaker 3: is two hundred and eighty nine off eighty over. So
Speaker 3: if you get the second new ball at Hagley, you're
Speaker 3: betting very very well. If you crack three hundred, you're
Speaker 3: betting very very well. So a couple of indicators there.
Speaker 1: Now let's look at the playing eleven fellows, and there's
Speaker 1: some interesting things to discuss here. My little bud bear.
Speaker 1: Of course, Will Young the perpetual loser in these sort
Speaker 1: of scenarios, even after he performs well, But is it
Speaker 1: an official.
Speaker 4: Ar No, Will Young things not. But we do have
Speaker 4: a little bit of audio.
Speaker 2: I believe that makes one of the contentious selections official,
Speaker 2: so we'll just have quick listen to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Nathan will make his debut, which is obviously exciting
Speaker 5: for I think someone that's played on the first class
Speaker 5: cricket recently has obviously been successful obviously both in all formats,
Speaker 5: but yeah, someone that's deserves his opportunity over a period
Speaker 5: of time and really exciting challenge for him, which is
Speaker 5: going to be in a great series as Yes, we're
Speaker 5: looking forward to tigging them behind him.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, Nathan Smith, he's a Wellington, Wellington
Speaker 1: born of our player.
Speaker 2: No Wellington domiciled now, but he's straight out of Blue
Speaker 2: and Gold Country down south.
Speaker 1: I thought he was playing for Wellington.
Speaker 4: He does play for them now, Yes, yeah, it's planted.
Speaker 3: Turn that off, why, techie boys.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm always excited by the debut
Speaker 1: of a new player. What are your thoughts on that,
Speaker 1: Paul Ford?
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I'm excited. I think it was, I guess,
Speaker 3: a straight decision once the decision was made to go
Speaker 3: with four seamers, which seemed all but inevitable. Despite your protestations, Jase,
Speaker 3: it was really just a straight swap. The only argument
Speaker 3: was really between or a straight decision really between Nathan
Speaker 3: Smith from Amadu, North Otago and Worcestershire fifty three first
Speaker 3: class matches, one hundred and forty wickets, twenty six year
Speaker 3: old versus Jacob Duffy of Lumsdon one hundred first class matches,
Speaker 3: three hundred wickets and a thirty year old can't really
Speaker 3: bat has had a stint at Nottinghamshire. I think they've
Speaker 3: gone for the batting insurance. I think they've gone for
Speaker 3: the future. This is a guy that picked up a
Speaker 3: national contract in September. No international experience, a pretty good
Speaker 3: indicator that he was going to get a shot. He's
Speaker 3: on the recorders loving the long format. He's had a
Speaker 3: couple of stellar seasons in the planket shield, with one
Speaker 3: in between where he's out with back surgery, which makes
Speaker 3: me feel a bit nervous for him. You know, he's
Speaker 3: going to be fantastic. There was a lovely yarn about him.
Speaker 3: I think Brendan Egan wrote it, but they talked to
Speaker 3: his brother, and his brother first of all gave up.
Speaker 3: His nickname is not Jason's Bugbear, but Mighty Mouse. He
Speaker 3: was a very small kid, famously bowling bounces and hawk
Speaker 3: cut games at men aged fifteen. So yeah, he called
Speaker 3: him a great little quote called him an aggressive little bastard.
Speaker 3: I mean that is his brother, but still great intel
Speaker 3: from the around the family table.
Speaker 1: That sounds great to me. Let's go true probable eleven there,
Speaker 1: Dylan Latham of course, Conway Williamson, Revenger, Mitchell, blundele Phillips, Smith,
Speaker 1: Henry tim sal the willow' rourke. Any issues with that
Speaker 1: oka not.
Speaker 4: So much issues.
Speaker 2: I think once they decided to go for seamers, I
Speaker 2: don't necessarily agree with that move on a green wicket. Yes,
Speaker 2: we saw them do it last season in Scott Koglin
Speaker 2: barely bold and over in the second innings.
Speaker 4: I think you can get away with it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't great though, to be fair, No, I think.
Speaker 2: You can get away with three if you have got
Speaker 2: that pace bowling all round it. And they clearly don't
Speaker 2: consider Mitchell being able to fulfill that Colinder Grondholm type role,
Speaker 2: so there they therefore they feel compelled to be for seemers.
Speaker 2: I am excited to see Nathan Smith. I do think
Speaker 2: the batting got ahead of Duffy and also just athleticism
Speaker 2: apparently he's magnificent in the field. He can create wickets
Speaker 2: out of nothing in terms of runouts, and so I
Speaker 2: do think that's a great selection. I do think it's
Speaker 2: a nod to the future. So then you get the
Speaker 2: problem is how do you shoehorn the player of the.
Speaker 4: Series in India? And can I read this from stuff?
Speaker 2: And it says as in regards to the Will Young decision,
Speaker 2: it feels like bad news looms for Will Young. The
Speaker 2: Blackcaps batter was the player of the series and the
Speaker 2: stunning three nil series sweep of India last month, but
Speaker 2: it's difficult to see him getting a start in the
Speaker 2: first Test of the home summer. That seems like a
Speaker 2: remarkable statement given how good he was in India. But
Speaker 2: it underlines the batting depth at gary At coach Gary
Speaker 2: Stead and captain Tom Latham's disposal. And I don't actually
Speaker 2: have a fundamental problem with the decision. You just can't
Speaker 2: fit that many players into a team. But it does
Speaker 2: not underline the batting strength of gary At, coach Gary
Speaker 2: Stead and captain Tom Lathan's disposal. And I will give
Speaker 2: you the reason why you've got Tom Latham, who in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four is averaging twenty five point sixty six.
Speaker 2: You've got Devin Conway in twenty twenty four who's averaging twenty.
Speaker 4: Six twenty six flat.
Speaker 2: You've got Darryl Mitchell who in twenty twenty four is
Speaker 2: averaging twenty eight. You've got Tom Blundell in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four who's averaging sixteen point eighty six, and you've got
Speaker 2: Glenn Phillips in twenty twenty four who's averaging twenty nine.
Speaker 2: So it's utter horse crap to suggest that they've got
Speaker 2: this amazing, you know, well spring of batting depth to
Speaker 2: cool on. That's five of the top seven who are
Speaker 2: averaging less than thirty in a calendar year full of
Speaker 2: test cricket.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and your next cabs off the rank from the
Speaker 3: contract to playlist are Henry Nichols and Mark Chapman.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not batting death. It's just a choice they've made.
Speaker 2: And I do kind of understand why it has to
Speaker 2: be Will Young that misses out because he's not an
Speaker 2: opener and Latham's captain, so he's not going to miss out.
Speaker 2: Conway has shown signs of life there, so that's all right,
Speaker 2: You're not going to drop Avenger and Mitchell who have
Speaker 2: been critical to New Zealand success recently, and Phillip's up
Speaker 2: as you're a bit of Offsmanane Williamson. Yes, and you're
Speaker 2: not going to drop Williamson clearly, So okay, Well, I
Speaker 2: can understand Will Young missing out.
Speaker 4: This idea that he's missing.
Speaker 2: Out because we've got this incredible strength and depth is
Speaker 2: just absolute nonsense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. And I was going to
Speaker 1: suggest something that that I know both of you are
Speaker 1: going to mock me relentlessly for.
Speaker 3: But I mean, here we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Benny Lister coming in at four. No, I was
Speaker 1: going to say, well, maybe well Young for Mitchell.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't know that's rubbish.
Speaker 1: I see, I knew you were gonna say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean Mitchell has been a match winner
Speaker 2: for New Zealand pretty recently and I think he needs
Speaker 2: to get the home series you'll.
Speaker 3: Have recently as well. Young though, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true, but although he did play a critical role
Speaker 2: with alongside will Young and.
Speaker 1: That third Test and one of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, here's something that you guys now can mock me for.
Speaker 2: My idea is that you drop Blundle, who's just a
Speaker 2: walking wicket and you give the gloves to Tom Latham.
Speaker 2: But would that require a reshuffle in this as I'm
Speaker 2: arguing with myself. Yet reshuffling they don't.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that, but listen, Paul, just so,
Speaker 1: I just want to take up Dylan's point of the
Speaker 1: four seamers because I think it's a good one. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that weather forecast belting down for five days,
Speaker 1: I mean spinners, because let's not forget we're dropping all
Speaker 1: our spinners as per usual because we're at home after
Speaker 1: they've performed magnificently. What's your view on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an interesting one. And yeah, what what was
Speaker 3: it against Australia? What it's got Google line Bowl? Against
Speaker 3: Australia it was basically nine overs or something crazy like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got two in his first spell in the
Speaker 1: basin I recall, and that was pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yet I think you bolt six overs in the first
Speaker 2: innings against Australia and Hagley, yes, you know, in green conditions,
Speaker 2: mind you, Matt Henry went through Australia.
Speaker 4: Was that that ending to the second anyway?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean, and I guess this is the thing,
Speaker 3: you know in England. We'll talk about their team in
Speaker 3: a minute, but yeah, they've definitely gone with a front
Speaker 3: line spinner. But maybe we're just considering that Phillips is
Speaker 3: a front line spinner now not really a batsman, so
Speaker 3: he's playing as that kind of bowling all round her.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean there's a little bit of insurance there, Jason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I guess, I guess that Phillips
Speaker 1: does nudge out Santana, though I would say that Satana's
Speaker 1: begin beginning to show a little bit of form with
Speaker 1: the bat. He's not even in the squad, not.
Speaker 2: For this first Test, right for the second two. And
Speaker 2: to be fair of the selectors, Hagley is the one
Speaker 2: ground that's all seems to refuse to give up any turn.
Speaker 2: So okay, so they're probably justified there and thinking about
Speaker 2: Revendra and Phillips's guys that can bowl a few overs
Speaker 2: to get through to the second new ball if needed,
Speaker 2: But they're not going to be I think they'll probably
Speaker 2: find it hard to envisage the scenario where they're going
Speaker 2: to be frontline bowlers expected to take wickets.
Speaker 4: One concerned.
Speaker 2: I do have to as an extige on your point, though, Jason,
Speaker 2: there's four right arm seemers.
Speaker 4: Yes, at around the same one, three, five to one,
Speaker 4: four to two.
Speaker 1: What is smith Bowl? Does anyone know that he's like
Speaker 1: mid one thirties, isn't he?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 3: Late one thirties maybe occasionally.
Speaker 1: Let's look at the English because I've named there eleven
Speaker 1: Zach Crawley been duck at Jacob Beth l Joe wrote,
Speaker 1: Harry Brook, Ollie Pope, Ben Stokes, Chris Wokes, Gus Atkinson,
Speaker 1: Brian and Carson Shower. The sheer thoughts pull forward.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess the interesting maneuver there has been forced
Speaker 3: upon them, which is Jordan Cock the Flaming Ranger wicket
Speaker 3: keeper has gone down after some over vigorous throwdowns from
Speaker 3: none other than Wellington's Jet and Patel. He's gone down
Speaker 3: with a fractured right thumb. So you've got they're in
Speaker 3: a bit of disarray, which they probably love because I
Speaker 3: feel like it plays to McCullum's strengths of doing some
Speaker 3: random shit. So, OLLI, Pope's taking.
Speaker 4: The gloves another Flaming Ranger.
Speaker 3: He's drop dropping down the order to number six, and
Speaker 3: I think there'll be a new wicket keeper who is
Speaker 3: Olli Robinson, but not the fat fast bowler, a different
Speaker 3: Oli Robinson who's on his way out to New Zealand
Speaker 3: but won't be here in time. Ben Folks still on
Speaker 3: the outer, doesn't score runs fast enough as a wicket keeper.
Speaker 3: Johnny Bestow it seems like everybody hates him. And so
Speaker 3: the new guy that's come in is the prodigy Jacob Bethel.
Speaker 3: Maybe we talk about a little bit more about him shortly,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I guess England got show up a share
Speaker 3: in there as the off spinner scene. Attack of Wokes,
Speaker 3: who I'm sure will enjoy the conditions are really predictable
Speaker 3: top order, and a couple of other right arm fast
Speaker 3: bowlers that we haven't seen much of, Atkinson and Bright
Speaker 3: and Cars who were both pretty swift, but yeah, if
Speaker 3: their runs will come. I'm scared maybe of Ben Duckett.
Speaker 3: I think he could enjoy enjoy Hackley belting force.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm scared of I'm scared of two or
Speaker 2: three players, but I think they're there for the taking.
Speaker 4: I'm scared of Joe Route, who just gorged.
Speaker 1: Joe his one hundred and fifty tests. I believe ye.
Speaker 2: Warming up for the action as Paul mentioned Ben Duckett.
Speaker 2: If he gets going, he can take a game away
Speaker 2: from you in a session. And I do like the
Speaker 2: look of this Gus Atkinson. I think he's got a
Speaker 2: bit about him and he could be that kind of
Speaker 2: awkward guy that one can Williamson doesn't like enjoy very
Speaker 2: much with that just sort of short of a length
Speaker 2: on or off around.
Speaker 4: Off decent pace I can see.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I have visions of early edge off the gray
Speaker 2: nickels into that slip Cordon.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean you know you've got are and
Speaker 1: he hasn't been playing a lot of credit. So I
Speaker 1: just want to get your guys feeling in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm thinking back to what Joe Roots said,
Speaker 1: and I do wonder if there is an element that
Speaker 1: the English are viewing this test series against US as
Speaker 1: a kind of warm up preparation for future future games.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm sure they would deny that
Speaker 1: was the case, but how do you feel I.
Speaker 3: Think they are very much. I mean literally, Joe Root's
Speaker 3: talking about it as a barometer of where they're at,
Speaker 3: having lost in Pakistan and ahead of playing India and
Speaker 3: then Australia, Like that's literally what they're saying, so, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I think that absolutely is one hundred percent
Speaker 3: on their minds. It's bloody annoying, Okay.
Speaker 2: And they wouldn't take punts like they're taking now against Australia,
Speaker 2: would they. They wouldn't have a guy who has a sum
Speaker 2: total of five first class fifties batting number three.
Speaker 4: Yes, in the first day of Ashiest. He's surely they wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Do you like the look of him, Jason, No, So
Speaker 3: he's just flown and he's just flowing in from the
Speaker 3: West Indies. He's he's going to be bloody tired. I
Speaker 3: feel kind of I don't feel so for him, but
Speaker 3: it's pretty extraordinary. Not only has he got no first
Speaker 3: class tons, he's never scored a professional hundred at any level.
Speaker 3: He's never played at number three. It's quite kind of mad,
Speaker 3: but yeah, he's a he has a prodigy. Sold for
Speaker 3: half a million dollars in the IBL This week. Ian
Speaker 3: Bells called him the best seventeen year old he's ever seen.
Speaker 3: Brian Lara saw him when he was eleven because he's
Speaker 3: from Barbados and said he was much better than himself
Speaker 3: at that age and his family friends with Garfield sobers. So,
Speaker 3: I mean he's got connections.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the thing is, what's what? What has he
Speaker 1: got to lose? You know, it's not like he's a
Speaker 1: dignity well yeah, but I mean he might have a
Speaker 1: soft stump, but he's still a young fellow to be
Speaker 1: you know, be good to go. Now, who's going to win? Dylan?
Speaker 1: This first Test match? Let's just talk on the first
Speaker 1: t match?
Speaker 4: Can I slightly sit on the fence here?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's a two wins to toss wins
Speaker 2: this first Test I already do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's fair, Paul, No, I reckon.
Speaker 3: I think New Zealand. I think Matt Henry destroys them
Speaker 3: in this game. That's what that's my vibe. New Zealand
Speaker 3: wins ye day four.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good because I'm commentating on day five. Um No,
Speaker 1: that's a joke. I think I'm on day four. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because Matt Henry, Yeah, in those conditions, he loves it there,
Speaker 1: didn't he He's had a couple of stealing games at
Speaker 1: Hagley Oval.
Speaker 2: And he's nicely primed. Yes, I think he didn't play
Speaker 2: all three in India, did he? So he had he
Speaker 2: had an injury in the last one. He had a
Speaker 2: break fear and he's come back. I think he might
Speaker 2: have had one game for the Cantabs in the Plunket Shield.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Henry will be dangerous.
Speaker 4: I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 2: I mean, Nathan Smith, we know enough about him to
Speaker 2: make value judgments about what we can expect from him
Speaker 2: in terms of his output in this test. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a guy that's going to be good for the future,
Speaker 2: but we just don't know enough about him to be
Speaker 2: confident run through England. I'm a little bit worried that
Speaker 2: Tim Soudy paid for Indy the other day and kept
Speaker 2: up his tradition as of late by taking one wicket
Speaker 2: in each innings. So yeah, it feels I mean, I
Speaker 2: would hate to see this turn into a bit of
Speaker 2: a damp squib of a farewell yes series for him, and.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget our mate, where's he gone here? Will
Speaker 1: O Rock of course looking forward to seeing him against
Speaker 1: the English. That's going to be a doozy well just
Speaker 1: on that Fellows in terms of who's going to win,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. I believe you've got a tab
Speaker 1: hunch for us pull forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely do. And we're not really pushing the
Speaker 3: boat out too far here, barring what Dylan Cleaver just
Speaker 3: said about him. But we've got Cane Williamson for at
Speaker 3: Ford dollars twenty to be New Zealand's top scorer in
Speaker 3: the first innings, so massive thanks to the tab that's
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars and we'll get three hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: bucks back for that fellas.
Speaker 1: Great stuff mate. Now listen, we're going to take a
Speaker 1: short break and be back to discuss the current series
Speaker 1: Ossie v. India. Welcome back to the b YC. So
Speaker 1: obviously Australia versus India going on at the moment. Don't
Speaker 1: know about you, fellers. I've been saying this for a
Speaker 1: long time. I love my Test cricket in Australia. What
Speaker 1: a Test match. And I was saying to Dylan Cleaver
Speaker 1: before we started this podcast, Paul Ford Boomra to me
Speaker 1: is just clearly the best bowler in the world at
Speaker 1: the moment. But I also said to me at times
Speaker 1: he bowls spells that are simply unplayable that I don't
Speaker 1: know how as a batsman you get through those spells.
Speaker 1: But let's start with you, Dylan, your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: first Test match there?
Speaker 4: First of all, what a beautiful time zone?
Speaker 1: How good is it?
Speaker 2: Perth just slots into my day, just absolutely wonderfully. Yes,
Speaker 2: So I barely missed a ball of this Test and
Speaker 2: I was amazed. That's how a flat Australia looked, even
Speaker 2: given that they ran through India on that first day
Speaker 2: pretty quickly for one fifty year And you probably thought
Speaker 2: it was a continuation of India's form against New Zealand, yes,
Speaker 2: and that this could be a disappointing series. But from
Speaker 2: that moment on, Wow, I mean Boomera was the key figure,
Speaker 2: wasn't he that that o'tening spell? When Australia were dismissed
Speaker 2: for one O four had Steve Smith on toast first ball,
Speaker 2: he had Manus love A Shane should have been caught
Speaker 2: a slip but was dropped, but he had him on toast.
Speaker 2: I think with Saraja ended up getting love A Shane
Speaker 2: in that first innings.
Speaker 4: But Boomera was just irresistible. And then they had this
Speaker 4: this young fellow, Yeah, came on hash it and he
Speaker 4: was full.
Speaker 1: Of fem and vigor.
Speaker 4: Fem and vigor.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a good way of putting it. And he
Speaker 2: was right up the Aussies as well, and they just
Speaker 2: looked like they didn't have anything to fly back with.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was really impressed with that young fellow too,
Speaker 1: because I did suspect Paul when he came on. I thought,
Speaker 1: oh that, you know, is it going to loosen up
Speaker 1: a little bit because Larva Shane at that point was
Speaker 1: all over the shop. He didn't even look like getting
Speaker 1: a run. But yeah, he impressed me. Boomra just utterly magnificent.
Speaker 1: I was struck too. Lava Shane just looks dreadful and
Speaker 1: I think his run over the last wee while it's
Speaker 1: been pretty piss poor as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, takeing out the ninety against New Zealand and he
Speaker 2: is in a world of pain.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that two off fifty two was extraordinary and
Speaker 3: it should have been. It should have been back long
Speaker 3: before that too, with that weird slow motion drop catch
Speaker 3: from Kali. I love that Labashane has been. Just before
Speaker 3: the Test match was saying how he was watching Pajara videos,
Speaker 3: which I thought was hilarious. That said he averages seventy
Speaker 3: odd in Adelaide, so he could come right. But gee,
Speaker 3: he looks like he's coming from a hell of a
Speaker 3: long way back, you know, low on confidence with his batting, bowling,
Speaker 3: an absolute pile of shit with his bowling. Some of
Speaker 3: the things that kind of caught caught my eye. I
Speaker 3: guess the bombra chat like he was as I agree
Speaker 3: with you guys, one hundred percent unbelievable, you know, exhilarating spell.
Speaker 3: He looked like he's getting so much joy. Made some
Speaker 3: great captaincy decisions. I loved how he didn't really bring
Speaker 3: himself back to bowl to sort of try and take
Speaker 3: as many wickets as possible in the second innings, just
Speaker 3: kept himself fresh. I thought that was really really smart.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I thought I thought he captain brilliantly and
Speaker 3: as bowling was even better. But some of the hero
Speaker 3: worship from the Australian commentators around him just has a
Speaker 3: little bit of an edge, a little bit of dog
Speaker 3: whistling about it. Actions, his action. You know, he's really
Speaker 3: zeroing in on the hyper extension point. They just can't
Speaker 3: help themselves. And ironically, I think some of the criticism
Speaker 3: that the Australian team has copped is that they've been
Speaker 3: too nice and.
Speaker 1: That this you know we've been there before, but have
Speaker 1: been too nice. That's what they're losing.
Speaker 3: And they've literally won basically every single competition in world
Speaker 3: cricket over the last few years. But suddenly they lose
Speaker 3: one Test match and you have a bunch of players
Speaker 3: and commentators and observers who say, I reckon, they need
Speaker 3: to go back to being a bit meaner. And I
Speaker 3: just thought that was hilarious Jays While yes, absolutely magnificent
Speaker 3: that ramp shot over long leg to bring up one hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 3: Waiting for that sex unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean, the world is this kid's oyster? How good
Speaker 1: is he? And one extraordinary life story as well that
Speaker 1: he's that he's had.
Speaker 4: And didn't the commentators go to town.
Speaker 3: Chat.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the commentators, I can't do Warner, I just
Speaker 1: can't do it. I'm sorry, I can't.
Speaker 3: It must really really great. Imagine if you're Nathan mixed Meena.
Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting he would watch this, but you're Nathan
Speaker 3: mcsweeny going out to bat and David Warner is talking
Speaker 3: incessantly for an hour before, then during, and then an
Speaker 3: hour after play about what you should have done. I
Speaker 3: just it must be just such a balllake having to
Speaker 3: sit through that, but yeah, he's atrocious.
Speaker 1: Next Sweeny of course making his debut. I think he's
Speaker 1: skippered than the Australian A side was twenty six and
Speaker 1: he must be thinking, oh, of all the teams in
Speaker 1: the world to come up with in my first Test match.
Speaker 1: I mean I look at both of his lbw's and
Speaker 1: this is what I was talking to Dylan about and go,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what you do about
Speaker 1: that if you're no, but yeah he's not, and you go, well,
Speaker 1: do you bat out of your christy what? Because he
Speaker 1: moves it both ways at pace. I mean he must
Speaker 1: have just gone, oh, well.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 2: The first one was quite like he scraped together what
Speaker 2: ten rounds or something like that, and he you could
Speaker 2: kind of give him a pass mark. But the second
Speaker 2: dig was just mean, yeah, declaring well for twenty minutes
Speaker 2: to go. The shadows had all fallen across the pitch.
Speaker 2: Boomer was charged up and I suspected it was not
Speaker 2: going to go well for him.
Speaker 3: And Kwaja helpfully going to the non strikers. They had
Speaker 3: a conversation about that too, didn't they wear you know
Speaker 3: he said, Kwaja said I'll go take the first ball
Speaker 3: and mixed when he said no, no, I'm going to
Speaker 3: do it. And it's like I think it was Michael
Speaker 3: Vaughan was saying, you don't have that conversation. If you're Kwaja,
Speaker 3: just get out there and take guard. Don't tell them,
Speaker 3: just tell them, don't there's no conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, just and I think you know,
Speaker 1: Travis Head of course had a bit of a belt
Speaker 1: in the second innings there as his want. But I
Speaker 1: found all of the Australian batsmen lacking. There was not
Speaker 1: one of them. I was going, oh, yeah, they're in
Speaker 1: good touch. I mean even the opener who were just
Speaker 1: talking about cold didn't look in particularly good. Nick Smith,
Speaker 1: what did he get seventeen or something on the second innings.
Speaker 4: And he didn't look okash in that second inning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their top fourth scored forty four runs in that
Speaker 3: Test match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so not good, which sets it up nicely for
Speaker 1: the second Test, Dylan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, second Test. They go back to the scene of
Speaker 2: the crime, the pink ball Test in Adelaide, where India
Speaker 2: were dismissed for thirty six Yes, last time around Australia.
Speaker 2: I think Paul correct me if I'm wrong here, but
Speaker 2: I think Australia have got a pretty formidable record in
Speaker 2: home pink ball tests. Guys, I think Josh Hazel would
Speaker 2: have been unplayable in the past. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is about it, but you know, perhaps it's just
Speaker 2: suits their style of bowling. Hit that hit the deck hard,
Speaker 2: the lacquer on the pink ball maybe lasts a little
Speaker 2: bit longer. I'm not sure what it is, but they're
Speaker 2: pretty formidable. But there's one interesting point I think we
Speaker 2: should make before we go into the sick In Test,
Speaker 2: and that we mentioned it briefly, but Wooman's captain c
Speaker 2: was not only excellent in terms of decision making, and
Speaker 2: let's face it's easy to make decisions which things going
Speaker 2: your way, but just the way the whole team looked
Speaker 2: as if there was a bit of a weight off
Speaker 2: their shoulders compared to how they looked in that home
Speaker 2: series against New Zealand.
Speaker 4: They all looked up for it. They all looked positive.
Speaker 2: They all looked when they made mistakes in the field,
Speaker 2: and they did, they didn't look like the world was
Speaker 2: coming crashing down on them. They just got on with that,
Speaker 2: and I thought, I thought it's really interesting now with
Speaker 2: Rowt Sharma coming back, who's a much more patrician type
Speaker 2: yes on the field, or whether they might have to
Speaker 2: have a word to him and say, hey, look you.
Speaker 4: Lighten up a bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and who's going to have a word. Who's
Speaker 3: going to have a word?
Speaker 1: Wow? That's right. But the thing that strikes strikes me
Speaker 1: about Bomber as he does seem to be that kind
Speaker 1: of character. He's always got a kind of smile on
Speaker 1: his face. He doesn't seem to get that worked up
Speaker 1: about stuff. He always seems to be in control of himself.
Speaker 1: I was also impressed with Raoul actually with his batting.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really solid in that first and
Speaker 1: second innings. You know, he had a shocker against us
Speaker 1: in and he catches a.
Speaker 3: Bit of a whipping boy in Indian cricket too, ra Rowl.
Speaker 3: He's often the guy that's been singled out. You know,
Speaker 3: he should be dropped, he's let us down. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: thought I thought he was terrific. I really like there's
Speaker 3: Lid as well, great sort of Maine going out the
Speaker 3: back of his flowing lots at the back of his helmet.
Speaker 3: But you know, you touch on something interesting as well.
Speaker 3: What doing do you do. They've got Rowitt Sharma coming back,
Speaker 3: They've got Mohammed Charmi who's just arrived. They've got Sugar
Speaker 3: and Gil and I think may still be out because
Speaker 3: I think he's still in a maybe not a cast,
Speaker 3: but I think he's not quite right. And then they've
Speaker 3: still got Ashwan and Jadeja to play with on the sidelines. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about depth, They've got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, jeez, I struggle because I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of Judaisha. I think he's a great cricketer. Must
Speaker 1: be hard leaving him out Nashvian as you say what
Speaker 1: I mean once he got five hundred and fifty Test
Speaker 1: wickets or something. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I don't think either of them have taken a lot
Speaker 2: of wickets in Australia. Yes, I think that's the problem.
Speaker 2: But Judaish is such a good cricketer you just play him.
Speaker 1: And you've got to be impressed with Washington Sunda too,
Speaker 1: because you know he looked the least threatening of the
Speaker 1: bowlers over when we were playing them, but actually got
Speaker 1: the most wickets and he's a bloody handy batsman as well,
Speaker 1: very handy batsman. Let's get into the IPL slave auction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the a few New Zealanders were picked up.
Speaker 4: Trent Bolt.
Speaker 2: Justifying his decision to turn down a central contract and
Speaker 2: he's raking it in again.
Speaker 4: He's going back to Mumbai for two point five million.
Speaker 2: Conway's going back to Chinno Super Kings, as is rich
Speaker 2: In Revendra one point two million and eight hundred thousand, respectively.
Speaker 2: Lucky Ferguson going to Punjab Kings for nearly half a million,
Speaker 2: Glenn Phillips for nearly half a million, to Gujaratt Mitchell
Speaker 2: Sanna is going to the Mumbai Indians see for close
Speaker 2: to half a million.
Speaker 4: He deserves it. I'm pleased for him.
Speaker 2: And the one that's kind of come out of nowhere
Speaker 2: is Bev and John Jacobs, the Pretoria born transplanted South
Speaker 2: African Kiwi.
Speaker 4: Who's going to Mumbai for sixty thousand. But man, it's
Speaker 4: better than.
Speaker 1: Kicking the ass and the ass, isn't it? Those are
Speaker 1: just ludicrous numbers. Paul Forward, Well, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: in the context of the option, but holy shit, that's
Speaker 1: big money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's awesome, right, That's that's kind of what
Speaker 3: we need. We want our cricketers to be played market rates.
Speaker 3: We want our best sports people to become cricketers. This
Speaker 3: is how it happens. And I yes, they are big numbers,
Speaker 3: you know, without the context. But you know, I think
Speaker 3: if you look back to what the salaries were at
Speaker 3: the start of the IPL, what's that ten fifteen years ago,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, you know, I think they've only gone
Speaker 3: up around about one hundred percent, whereas I think the
Speaker 3: value of some of the franchises has gone up closer
Speaker 3: to tenfold. And there's lots of interesting statistics around what
Speaker 3: percentage of revenue is being made by the players compared
Speaker 3: to the owners, and in the OPL frankly, it's well
Speaker 3: below some of those international benchmarks around the NFL and
Speaker 3: the NBA and so on. So I think that there's
Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of room for growth in
Speaker 3: these salaries too. So, yeah, be shocked now, but you'll
Speaker 3: be even more shocked in the future, i'd suggest.
Speaker 4: And not all the New Zealander's got lucky no want
Speaker 4: to run Allen of course.
Speaker 1: Michael Bracewill, Mark Chapman, Matt Henry Unlucky, Kyle Jamison, Tom Latha,
Speaker 1: Madam Melne, Mitchell Nish and List O'Rourke, Sears, Say Fitz
Speaker 1: Smith Williamson and Keith No no, not the actor Keith
Speaker 1: Urbarn I'm not as Carl Urban actually the actor Country.
Speaker 1: He was married to Nicole Kidman years. I knew it.
Speaker 1: Jabs appointed me to that shut up a batch.
Speaker 3: The Bevan John Jacobs one is pretty interesting. There was
Speaker 3: a nice little aside in a profile because everyone's going,
Speaker 3: who the hell is this kid? I think he's the
Speaker 3: next generation Finaleen. I mean, fin Allen's getting a bit
Speaker 3: long in the tooth. He's what twenty five now, so
Speaker 3: you know he's we can maybe consign him to the scrappeak.
Speaker 3: But they were saying that the Mumbai Indians have got
Speaker 3: their scouting team. There's a guy called John Wright who
Speaker 3: was part of that scouting team and I think he
Speaker 3: was over in Queensland and Bevan John Jacobs was playing
Speaker 3: in the Queensland T twenty max competition, scored one hundred
Speaker 3: off forty balls and they reckon it's literally that innings
Speaker 3: that may have propelled him into the eyeballs for the
Speaker 3: IPL auction this week. How good, amazing opportunities that are
Speaker 3: opening up for some of our youngsters.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I'll tell you what. We're going to take another
Speaker 1: short break and be back for Paul Ford's News or Rus.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the bayc and right now it's time
Speaker 1: for Paul Ford's News or Rus.
Speaker 3: Yea, it is three pieces of news. Will be something
Speaker 3: wrong with one of them. I think Jason Hoyt's got
Speaker 3: the trophy correct.
Speaker 1: Get it back, thanks mate.
Speaker 3: I wasn't actually trying to be slippery there, but I
Speaker 3: know it does probably sound like that if you've listened
Speaker 3: to the news of hers over the last few years.
Speaker 3: All right, Number one New Zelle open to Georgia. Plummer
Speaker 3: has been ruled out of cricket for the remainder of
Speaker 3: the year after sustaining a bone stress reaction in her knee.
Speaker 3: The injury means she will be unavailable for the home
Speaker 3: one days against Australia in December, and New Zealand Cricket
Speaker 3: release said she experienced pain in her left knee during
Speaker 3: the ODII series in India last month. M a ray
Speaker 3: an assessment by a specialist upon return to New Zealand,
Speaker 3: confusom the injury shall be back to high speed running
Speaker 3: in January. She'll also miss the Halliburton Johnston Shield and
Speaker 3: the super smashed domestic comp as Tom and Ben Sawyer,
Speaker 3: the New Zealand woman's head coach, had said, we're really
Speaker 3: gutted for this to happen to Georgia when she's at
Speaker 3: the top of her game. That's not the rules. The
Speaker 3: coach the thing Number two seven all out Ivory Coast
Speaker 3: record lowest men's T twenty cricket international score. The Ivory
Speaker 3: Coast managed seven in a two hundred and sixty four
Speaker 3: run defeat at the hands of Nigeria and Lagos Legos
Speaker 3: on Sunday, marking the lowest score ever recorded in a
Speaker 3: men's TEA twenty international. Ivory Coast's reply saw the opener
Speaker 3: Ultara Muhammad top score with four, with Mimi Alex Mega
Speaker 3: Ibrahim and Da Claude each adding one run to the total,
Speaker 3: with six batters falling for ducks. The previous lowest score
Speaker 3: and a men's TA twenty was ten. The lowest total
Speaker 3: in a woman's game is six, shared by the Maldives
Speaker 3: and Marley Powerhouses, and number three a domestic tournament in
Speaker 3: the West Andies ended in a forfeit after the captains
Speaker 3: of Barbados and Jamaica, two teams who were set to
Speaker 3: take part in the final of the Super Fifty Cup
Speaker 3: on Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, didn't arrive on time
Speaker 3: for the toss. The patch was set to be a
Speaker 3: fifty over contest, then reduced to twenty after some bad weather.
Speaker 3: A statement was released where it said the one pm
Speaker 3: start was disrupted and our prior. Then rain hit the
Speaker 3: area and pushed the game back at about five point
Speaker 3: forty five they did. The officials decided the game would proceed,
Speaker 3: but the captains did not turn up and the championship
Speaker 3: was shared. Audacious from the captains, I'd suggest, sure honor
Speaker 3: George's knee. Yeah, the useless Africans.
Speaker 1: Or the lazy. I've never heard of a bone stress.
Speaker 1: I don't really get how a bone can be stressed.
Speaker 1: It's either busted or not busted. So I'm going with
Speaker 1: one that the injury is not a bone stress. I
Speaker 1: know it's right out there, but hey.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that's right.
Speaker 2: I've got a funny feeling actually that they didn't end
Speaker 2: up sharing that One day Cup that the West Indies
Speaker 2: Cricket Board was so furious that they didn't declare a
Speaker 2: winner rather than share it. But knowing Paul, I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to get inside his warped mind here. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be story too, and it will be.
Speaker 2: It was definitely seven and it was definitely overy case.
Speaker 2: But perhaps it wasn't against Nigeria. Perhaps it was against
Speaker 2: Marry or Angola. Anyway, that's what I'm going for a
Speaker 2: story too.
Speaker 3: Got some news about the trophy. The trophy is going
Speaker 3: to be changing hands due to Jason Hoyt's incredible anatomical
Speaker 3: knowledge of women's bodies. It is correct. The bone stress
Speaker 3: reaction is in Georgia Plummer's growing, not her me.
Speaker 4: It's still a bone stress, correct, Dr Hoyt?
Speaker 1: Thanks mate?
Speaker 4: How do you have a link?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Doesn't he it's still a bone stress. He didn't actually
Speaker 4: get well, yeah, but I got the main vibe of
Speaker 4: it right.
Speaker 1: It just didn't feel right to me there. Dylan right,
Speaker 1: speaking of Dylan Luck, he's felthy. It's Dylan Cleavers. Who
Speaker 1: am I? It's Dylan Cleavers? Who am I? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Onto more important matters, well, not last week actually foughtnight ago,
Speaker 2: the tragic tale of Dick Motts was told, and there
Speaker 2: were a couple of winners.
Speaker 4: From a couple of usual suspects.
Speaker 2: Actually, Matt Parker took some research, but Dick Motts didn't
Speaker 2: really know much about him other than his first New
Speaker 2: Zealander is to take one hundred wickets. It also raises
Speaker 2: the question I've been wondering for a while before Hadley
Speaker 2: who was considered New Zealand's greatest bowler. Was it Motts, Cowie,
Speaker 2: Taylor or Collins or the best? Matt? I think it
Speaker 2: was probably Jack. Cowie was considered a wonder of the age,
Speaker 2: so that's who I go for. Matt and Michael Seth
Speaker 2: also got and obviously the tragic part of that story
Speaker 2: was his son Wayne I think it was, was murdered
Speaker 2: in Cathedral Square as he waited to start his shift
Speaker 2: as a street cleaner. I think he was, and he
Speaker 2: was murdered by a skinhead. Anyway, onto more pleasant matters.
Speaker 4: Who am I?
Speaker 2: I played my first three internationals and the newest, busiest,
Speaker 2: bangiest form of the game, but then had to wait
Speaker 2: two months. I have five years to don national colors again,
Speaker 2: but plenty had changed in the interim to skip straight
Speaker 2: to the end. I played my last Internationals in the
Speaker 2: same T twenty I format, finishing with a three bat
Speaker 2: sequence that went first ball duck, first ball duck, second
Speaker 2: ball duck for the last of those blondes coming for
Speaker 2: my third international side, which must make me a man
Speaker 2: or a centaur at least of the world. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you probably guessed already, but humor of me for a while.
Speaker 2: I was born in a sleeper town named after a
Speaker 2: famous fortification line built as a result of the Second
Speaker 2: Sledshwig War of eighteen sixty four. Not far from where
Speaker 2: I was born, you can buy a really good pair
Speaker 2: of socks moving as a child, I made my name
Speaker 2: as a dasher and a grabber, a hooker and a
Speaker 2: catta whose game was suited to the hardest and fastest
Speaker 2: of wickets. Debuting in the West Indies, I look set
Speaker 2: for a long and fruitful career, but there always just
Speaker 2: seemed to be one or two people in front of
Speaker 2: me in the queue in my specialized position. Relocation to
Speaker 2: tafonganui Atara re energized my game and although I was
Speaker 2: almost exclusively a white bull option on the international stage,
Speaker 2: I still managed to sneak in a handful of tests
Speaker 2: and finished with a batting average that suggested I probably
Speaker 2: should have played a few more. My best test not
Speaker 2: came in a famous win, and should have resulted in
Speaker 2: a century had I not hooked one down the throat
Speaker 2: of final leg, just the way I played. Even though
Speaker 2: I'm long removed from my final game as a player,
Speaker 2: the camera still has a habit of finding me.
Speaker 4: Who am I got a.
Speaker 1: Question for you, Dylan. Yeah, never heard of the word blonger, blonder, blonde?
Speaker 1: Is that a word? I mean, you're a wordsmut so
Speaker 1: I'm taking it it is.
Speaker 2: I think it's a word that I've used to describe
Speaker 2: with dak. It might not be in the Oxford English.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that's of you. I just wanted to clarify. Well,
Speaker 1: if you know the answer to that, Paul Forward, Well
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 3: You should flick as an email to b y C
Speaker 3: at Baseebrigade dot co dot d or slide into the
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Speaker 3: or the Base Brigade and.
Speaker 1: For any of you. I know this, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I know. I don't. Actually I thought I did, but
Speaker 1: then I t twenties.
Speaker 3: I thought you cricketers from this place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, yes, you're right, Paul, and I thought
Speaker 2: you would have got up with the reference to the
Speaker 2: Second Serge War there, Jason, the what you can slish
Speaker 2: Wig War of eighteen sixty four.
Speaker 1: Oh right is hey? Now sign for Paul Ford's Cricket
Speaker 1: Violence Corner and he's given us a photo to have
Speaker 1: a ganderrect too, which I've seen previous to this podcast.
Speaker 1: My god, what a nightmare. Forward's Cricket Violence Corner.
Speaker 4: This is going to be grim.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry. A Western Australian cricket umpire copt the night mes
Speaker 3: scenario for any official taking of full blooded straight dive
Speaker 3: drive directly to the face and a third grade match.
Speaker 3: Senior cricket umpire Tony dinn Abrego was umpire in the
Speaker 3: West Australian Suburban Turf Cricket Association when it all went wrong.
Speaker 3: He got the brutal brelow when a straight drive out
Speaker 3: of the screws hit Tony flush on the side of
Speaker 3: the face. Good news though, he spent the night in
Speaker 3: hospital and he hasn't got any broken bones, but some
Speaker 3: surgery is possibly looming. The Western Australian Umpire's Association posted
Speaker 3: on Facebook, Paul, it looks absolutely it's a shocker, horrifict.
Speaker 4: Did you only get hit yourself when you're doing that, Jesse.
Speaker 1: No, I only got I got hit once from a throw.
Speaker 1: It's square legg It's yeah, it's square leg where I
Speaker 1: temporarily took my eye off the ball because I was
Speaker 1: seeing if the batsmen were crossing, and yeah, got one
Speaker 1: between the shoulder blades at full pase.
Speaker 3: It is instructive to look at what a baseball catch, sorry,
Speaker 3: a baseball umpire wears. Obviously, they stand, you know, directly
Speaker 3: behind the you know, in the line of fire with
Speaker 3: the picture with the picture. But so does a cricket umpire,
Speaker 3: you know, and they're wearing like full blowing you know,
Speaker 3: vests and shin pads and helmets.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, quite sincerely. You know, there's times
Speaker 1: when someone rarely times won straight back down the worker
Speaker 1: and there were some close calls in terms of ducking
Speaker 1: and weaving and stuff. It's like Jesus, you want to
Speaker 1: take a step back or two because they some of
Speaker 1: those players bout the crap out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it all happened something bad will happen.
Speaker 2: I'm always amazed actually that no one in the crowd
Speaker 2: has been Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's some of them are so bad.
Speaker 3: You don't think that they are watching the ball, but
Speaker 3: clearly most of them are.
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Hey. Well that's the end of the podcast
Speaker 1: for today. Obviously we'll be back next week, same time,
Speaker 1: same place to deeply analyze this first Test match, which
Speaker 1: we're all looking forward to. What's going on with the
Speaker 1: Bounce there, Dylan Cleaver, you must be busy.
Speaker 2: Are the Bounces preparing for It's a special series during
Speaker 2: the Test. Actually, I do something called Notes from the Oval. Yes,
Speaker 2: very analyze each day's play, take a cap of little
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Speaker 1: Great stuff mate, A well, thanks for listening. We'll see
Speaker 1: you all next week. Bye bye,