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Speaker 1: Commentator Andrew Alderson morning greetings, Float Test cricket back the

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Speaker 1: summer baby, although it's not feeling awfully summary what a

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Speaker 1: conditions like up in christ Church?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's that's fair point. I mean it's a bit

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Speaker 2: gloomy overcast at the moment, Luke, but the cloud cover,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's moving pass from moving from the west.

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Speaker 2: And I just had a look at the rain radar.

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Speaker 2: Looks like it's going to evade. Well, so he's going

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Speaker 2: to evade the rain for the time but probably a

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Speaker 2: few sprinkles but nothing dramatic. So I think we will

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Speaker 2: get a start on time or leaven a clock at

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Speaker 2: at Hagley Oval. And I mean plenty to look forward

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Speaker 2: to with the West Indies here for three tests and

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Speaker 2: well New Zealand's first Test in a year effectively at home.

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Speaker 2: Letters just got to play Zimbabwe over the winter, but

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Speaker 2: there's an opportunity for home fans to get out and

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Speaker 2: savor the red ball format while it's here over summer.

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Speaker 1: And King Williamson, after giving up short forms of the game,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be cool to see him with bat

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Speaker 1: in hand.

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Speaker 2: I look always a pleasure to say, came Williamson and

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Speaker 2: he struggled in his first class fixture that all the

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Speaker 2: district's up against Auckland at left off blocks of Rowett Gulati.

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Speaker 2: But it was seventeen and three. But we know the

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Speaker 2: pedigree of Cain Wininson over fifteen years playing Test matches

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Speaker 2: and yeah, just it's going to be a chance to

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Speaker 2: see him again today. We're thirty five years old now,

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Speaker 2: so it's coming probably to the back end of his career.

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Speaker 2: But of course it's a bumper schedule lined up in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand over the next twelve months or so, with

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Speaker 2: tours to England, India coming here, Australia away for forty

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Speaker 2: so I think we're still going to see a bit

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Speaker 2: more of Williamson yet injury im pedding, but yeah, he'll

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Speaker 2: get back in the Whites to day and betting a

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Speaker 2: number three in the New Zealand lineup on injuries.

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Speaker 1: There was a bit of uncertainty in the days leading

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Speaker 1: into this Test, but it sounds like for the most

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Speaker 1: part we're in in pretty good form.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Nichols growing strains and worries for Daryl Mitchell.

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Speaker 2: We knew that from the One day series against the

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Speaker 2: Western he's a fresh one. Yesterday that we heard of

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Speaker 2: was Mitchell Center. But it looks like they're just gonna

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Speaker 2: undergo standard. Uh. I guess fitness training this morning to

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Speaker 2: see whether they're going to pass muster if Centaer doesn't play,

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Speaker 2: presumaly Michael Braceall moving to the side as a spinning option.

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Speaker 2: If Mitchell doesn't play, I think they'll move Will Young

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Speaker 2: and I think Young or well sorry Van Comway will

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Speaker 2: get then over Young at the top of the order

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Speaker 2: on the form recently. But yeah, that was that. Those

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Speaker 2: those were pretty simply contained. I mean, coming up against

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Speaker 2: the West and the West needs had a bit of

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Speaker 2: a brutal start to their World Test Championship campaign. They're

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Speaker 2: zero to five, so they've lost five matches in Australia

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Speaker 2: and India New Zealand beginning the World Test Championship campaign

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Speaker 2: or at least the next cycle of it today Luke,

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Speaker 2: So that's something to look forward to see if they

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Speaker 2: can get on the board. And I guess the advantage

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Speaker 2: of those home games.

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Speaker 1: Well maybe that explains the odds orders a dollar twenty

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Speaker 1: for the Black Camps West Indies paying seven twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be a one sided affair? Can

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Speaker 1: we get this done in two days, like what we

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Speaker 1: saw over in the first test of the ashes.

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Speaker 2: I'm not guaranteeing that. I think, well, I think on

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Speaker 2: the Western these one here would be ninety ninety five

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Speaker 2: and go back and yeah, so that would be make

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Speaker 2: those odds relatively understandable. And then a rostin Chase Western.

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Speaker 2: This captain asked about that yesterday, you know for the

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Speaker 2: slightly sheepish grown on his face, just looking want to

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Speaker 2: be on the wanting to be on the right side

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Speaker 2: of history, I think he said in relation to that

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Speaker 2: for a change. But you know, I've been look at

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Speaker 2: some of the footage of the West and the thing,

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Speaker 2: I don't think they should be written off. And we've

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Speaker 2: seen what they could produce relatively competitive at times in

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Speaker 2: the white ball crickets. But just having seen a bit

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Speaker 2: of them white just going over the video footage and

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Speaker 2: there's some handy bowlers in that pace tech no that

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Speaker 2: about it. And you know, even on those pictures in

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Speaker 2: the Western, these adults tend to have as much spice

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Speaker 2: as they will hear. And that was another thing that

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Speaker 2: Chase was focused on. If they thinking how much is

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Speaker 2: bowlers are looking forward to playing on with it's with

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Speaker 2: a bit more bounced, a bit more carry, and a

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Speaker 2: bit more venom I suppose in total, but not on

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Speaker 2: The Batsman will be killed about that