WEBVTT - "The BYC Is Back!" 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.680 Live from the Export Bear Garden Studios. You're listening to 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.480 the BYC and I can tell you where stoke to 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.680 be back as we look forward to the summer of 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.000 cricket ahead. A shame then, that we should kick it 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.600 off with an absolute debarcle that was the Afghanistan Test. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.000 And while we can admire the innovation shown to dry 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.200 out what amounted to a swamp, it was a disappointment 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.720 that an historic occasion was ruined in such a fashion. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.479 But fear not, there's plenty to come, including Thisra Lankans, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.720 though it seems mother Nature may have something to say 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.640 there as well. And fell as it's been an age 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:42.280 Dyllan Cleaver. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.400 It's been so long that this entire studio has changed. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.839 It has beneath our feet, has very clean lines now 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.080 very Swedish, Scandinavian, very yeah, corporate. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.279 Yes, I feel quite uncomfortable in it. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.960 I know you keep looking over my shoulder here. I 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:56.120 keep thinking I'm missing something. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:57.680 Well, I was just trying to remember what the name 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.160 of the studio was. Paul Ford your barst how's life? 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.760 It's good, Jason, it's good. Spring is nearly sprung at 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.800 Wellington and it's probably about three months away, I think, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.560 and then we'll be ready for cricket season down here. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.319 But good news, we're ripping into it over in Gaul 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:13.640 very soon. Yeah. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.000 Just on spring. Actually, interesting fact about spring. I don't 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.120 know if you know this, Dylan, that spring doesn't officially 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.240 start till the twenty third of September. I always thought 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.480 it started at the very beginning of September, but it's 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:26.600 actually the twenty third. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.040 No, it's on the equinox, which is either the twenty 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.360 second or the twenty third or the twenty first, depending 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.000 on when the right. Okay, the Earth is exactly halfway distant, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.120 and it's access to the sun. But do you know 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:39.520 there's a. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.080 Well this is fascinating. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.440 Yeah, there's a very cunning way of getting yourself twenty 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.760 one extra days of summer. So you adhere to the 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:54.320 strict calendar interpretation of the seasons. So spring starts on 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.000 September first, summer starts on December the first, but then 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:03.400 you switch to the actual technical scientific equinox things, and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.480 you don't go into autumn until March twenty second. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.800 Give you two days this summer fascinating. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:13.160 Can you just go through it again? 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:14.200 Now? 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.240 This is what people tune in for totally. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.600 Astronomy season season chat. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:27.000 Now New Zealanders is Shri Lanka that starts today, right, yes, yeah, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.959 and the weather forecast, as you briefly mentioned there, Paul 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.440 Forward not looking great. For God say, let's not have 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.560 more Shenanigans. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.000 No, that's right, but you know, there's always a result 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.400 at Gaul, so we shouldn't be too despondent about that. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.320 And there is a slightly bizarre situation with this test 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.880 match given the scheduling. First of all in monsoon season, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.280 albeit at the sort of bitter end of it. But 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.359 it's a six day test. We've got a rest day 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:56.839 plank on Saturday because it is the Sri Lankan presidential elections, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.480 so there's extra day so everyone can bigger off and 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.919 vote than the New Zealand boys can get absolutely steamed 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.639 on Friday night, so they to themselves perfect. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.160 Yeah, well, I've got a lotit. I'm massively looking forward 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.120 to it, and it begs the question, and now that 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.800 the BYC is back, of course, where are we at 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.000 New Zealand. You know, I was thinking about the end 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.520 of last season and it was not a great end 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.519 to the sea. It wasn't a great season all round. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.800 We talked often about changes and you know what needs 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.440 to happen, because it felt like we were sliding a 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.480 little bit. Where are you with the New Zealand side 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.520 at the moment, Dylan. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.440 It felt like a kind of dribbly old season. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:35.400 Yes, it did. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.520 Never really amounted too much. Well, I can tell you 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.200 where we're officially at, if that helps. Sure, we're officially 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.600 third on the WTC table, which is the world tiest 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.560 championship obviously, but it is a misleading third. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.760 I'm staggered by that. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.840 Yes, so we're at fifty percent, where New Zealand does 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.120 really well. And this is something to really be proud of, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.080 Like your chest fills up with this amazing feeling, groundswell 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.720 of goodwill and good feeling. We're very good at not 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:10.280 getting any points deductions for slow overrates. That's the strongest 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.680 part of our game at the moment. So where you've 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.880 got a team like England that has played sixteen tests 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.040 one eight of them, they've actually got a better than 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.160 fifty percent record, they have a massive nineteen point deduction 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.640 for overrates, so well behind US. Australia has big deductions 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.559 for overrates but they're still well ahead of us. Really, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.400 we have to win in Sri Lanka to give ourselves 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.000 any chance of qualifying for that final, and we've got 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.080 two tests at a venue. Gul Paul may correct me 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.279 if I'm wrong on this, that we have had no 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.520 success at or very little success at Gaul over the 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.760 years of I think we do all right in Colombo, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.919 but not so well at the fortified city of Gaul. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.159 I think that is exactly right when you are talking 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.599 about the world example of a Ford city bought. But 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.760 as you would know, of course, Jase by the Portuguese 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.640 the World Heritage site. Yeah, look, it's going to be tough. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.440 I think you know, Sri Lanka at Homer are bloody tough. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.360 And that goal there, I think we're zero and four 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.000 something like that. And yeah, Dylan, as you say, in 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.559 terms of that World Test Championship cycle, we've only played 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.120 six of the fourteen matches that were set to play 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.440 and we've got a really, really tough set. We would 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.599 have would have had a nice warm up about against 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.160 Afghanistan that we can talk about in a minute. Sri 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.920 Lanka are really the entre before a very very chewy 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.040 main course over in India and so really we need 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.400 to probably win you know, five of the next eight 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.360 tests really really difficult given tour in Sri Lanka and 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.320 then three in India. Jase, you were talking about the 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.840 fact that it's been a long time between drinks. It's 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.680 about it's one hundred and ninety one days since we 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:55.840 played Test cricket. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.160 That is crazy. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.440 Yeah, And just to bring you down, can I remind 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.720 you of what happened the last delivery that New Zealand 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.120 played Test cricket. See us to Cummins four runs, the 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.880 Captain's done. It opens the face to elect all punches 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.840 it through point lets out of raw. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.760 Yeah, I'm still spewing about that particular Test match. You're 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.440 right then, and we should have won it, you know, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.560 And it isn't concern to me, and I don't know 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.200 how you fellas feel about it. We're coming in cold. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.760 You know. Sri Lanka's obviously had this series against England, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.200 a great final Test match victory. That all does not 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.800 go well for us in that regard playing in their 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.360 conditions as well. It would be fair to say then 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.360 I think we are significant underdogs. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.880 Yeah, I think you're right. If I can just bring 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.520 the mood down even a little bit more. I guess 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.400 we'll talk about the probable eleven soon, but these four 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.040 players will definitely play it, and that is Conway, Lathan, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:03.440 Mitchell and Blundell. That is kind of the four of 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.680 our top six that Conway's averaging seventeen point seven in 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.040 his last Test innings, Latham's averaging twenty four point seven, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.680 that's not great as an opening peer. Blundell, who was 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.360 just such a reliable keeper batsman, is just having a 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.400 terrible run of it, averaging ten point three to three 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.760 in his last Test ten Test innings. And the one 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.520 that might have gone under the radar a little bit 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.480 is New Zealand's number one ranked cricketer and justifiably so, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.280 but he's just come down to earth a little bit recently, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.200 and that's old Dasid. Mitchell was yes, only averaging thirty 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.160 two point four, which is not awful, but it's not 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.840 the sort of stratospheric heights that were being used to him. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.440 So really we're only going in with Cain Williamson and 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.760 Retch and Revendra have got any kind of recent red 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.200 ball form behind them. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.400 Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, Kay Williamson doesn't have, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.240 and that's red ball form in Sri Lanka. Against Sri 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.200 Lanka he averages twenty six. Versus Sri Lanka in New 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.560 Zealand he averages one hundred and fourteen. So it looks 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.560 good on paper, you know, averaging seventy eight overall. But 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.240 his record in Srilanka is shiphouse. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.560 Yeah, come on, fel let's have a bit of faith. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 Yeah, this is miserable, this is terrible. I'so remember the 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.400 one hundred that came Williamson got, which was a brilliant 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.000 one hundred with Ross Taylor, Russ Taylor's arts tested captain 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.920 in a test New Zealand one entry link. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.560 Yeah. Also you want to check into the next too, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.480 just to bring us down again. You know, we're notoriously 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.320 bad against spin in the past, so it's going to 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.320 be a challenge. But let's look at the likely eleven, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.000 shall we. And I also believe, you know, players such 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.680 as Conway, he's got the ability to turn things around, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.880 he's got the experience and we know he's a quality player. Pedigree, pedigree, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:58.359 thank you, certainties for this eleven Conway, Lathan Williamson, Ravendra, Mitchell, Blundell, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.440 Salviy Yep. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.480 He will definitely play the first, yes, Skipper. Yeah, and 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.200 Tim he might not play all six coming up, but 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.240 he will definitely play this one. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.760 Yeah. Yeah. Because there was a bit of chat about 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.880 Tim Salvey at the end of that last season. Really 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.080 is you know, he's coming towards the end of his 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.400 career and I think he played a bit of county cricket, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.040 hasn't he. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.080 Played the hundred? Yeah? 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.720 Yeah, and he said he's feeling really good. He acknowledged 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.760 actually that he wasn't playing that great at the end 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.439 of the season, and you know, he's the sort of 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.480 player that knows this game pretty well, so hopefully he 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.480 can turn it around. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:32.640 Good record in Asia too. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:38.319 Yes, yes, your thoughts on this? There are certainties to you, Paul. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.360 Yeah, yeah, I think I think that's right. I mean 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.000 I'd probably put Phillipson as a certainty as well, and 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:50.360 I think a JS Patel as well as an absolute 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.320 certainy to play. But yeah, really it really comes down 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.600 for me to you know, who's the extra pace bowler 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.679 in which spinnar you want to go with? 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.240 Yeah, all the possibilities there, of course, Glenn Phillips, Sant Bracewall, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.800 Mad Henry willow Rat, Michael Sears and a JS battalion. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.600 It's one of those scenarios just looking at it on 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.320 the bowling front, because you're in Sri Lanka. Do you 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.840 just chuck in and just stack it with spinners? And 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.400 is that the way to go about it or is 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.720 that a I think so? Yeah, I guess you do. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.400 Really don't two seamers. I think Sow there will be one. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.000 You're choosing between Raw, Henry and. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.680 Sears. I think probably for the first yest they go 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.480 with the experience. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.360 Yeah, you've got to go Henry, I think. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.200 But man of the Series against Australia, so you know, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.200 good form six and a half months ago. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.160 Yeah, and I definitely think you do have to do 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.439 that though having said that, jeez, I was tremendously excited 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.400 by willow Raw before he got injured. I thought, yeah, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.760 he's he's got something about him. But yeah, I think 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.839 in this scenario you go experience, you get Henry in there, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 and you're just chuck in as many spinners as you can. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.560 Yeah, throwing spinners against the wall really and seeing which 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.840 one stick. So I'm pleased that pulses. He think that 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.679 Agaz is a definite. I would love to see him 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.400 in there. I just know they just do funny things 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.160 with spinners. They tend to pick the guy they think 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.480 we'll get them more runs rather than the guy that 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.400 get your wickets, get them wickets. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.679 Yeah. The other thing on that is that you know, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.480 with Ranganahirath obviously in there as the spin bowling coach, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.160 you would expect that they're drilling in some some left 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.480 arm spin there. So you know, stating there is probably 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.960 the great beneficiary of that. You would assume that there 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.840 that's a bit of a project that's been happening behind 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:40.560 the scenes as well. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:40.800 Well. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.200 My information when they went to do their rankings for 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.240 this latest Central Contract list, my understanding is that they 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:53.040 rated virtual Santner as the number one red Bull spinner 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.640 in the country. So there you have it. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:02.360 Yeah, I but in Gaul, Yeah, I think that, you know, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.840 I don't have a massive issue with that because I 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:10.040 think Santaer did bowl well last last season, apart from 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.320 against the Australians in that T twenty series where I 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.920 thought he bowled like he was shipping his pants quite frankly, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.040 and it annoyed the crap out of me. And he's 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.720 and you know, and in terms of you know, adding 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.280 the runs to that requirement, you know, he's he's never 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.840 done that enough. Yeah, he's a handy batsman. But yeah, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.160 who do who do we ultimately think they're going to 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.360 go with from the bowling stocks. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.200 I think he's right. I think Phillips will get that 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.680 screen all around her ahead of Michael Bracewell. I think 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.000 he's probably a better uption with both bat and ball 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.840 and in the field, so I think he's got the 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:50.760 edge of the year, Henry. I think you're right. I 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.280 think they'll go with him. I've got a funny feeling 0:12:53.400 --> 0:13:00.240 they will go Santa, I really do. Yeah, room one 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.360 will spin. I've lost track. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.440 No, I think we're all right because you ended up 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:09.040 with Latham, Conway, Williamson, Ravendra, Mitchell, Blundell, Phillips, and then Santna, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.199 Henry South and ajs Okay and so Bracewill misses out 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.400 and well Young of course miss out. I think krick 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.720 Info had that Henry Nichols was going to be bearing 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.839 down on some statistical milestones and this selected. But he's 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.360 actually not in the squad. So I'm going to be 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:25.640 betting that that's not going to happen. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.480 Yeah, I mean I'm pretty comfortable with that side. I 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.200 think that's relatively solid. And let's not forget in terms 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.480 of Phillips too, as a bit of a rando that 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.280 performance in the second Test against Australia. Didn't he get 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:38.880 a five. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.440 For first Test of the basin I was at. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.240 The first Test? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he gives it 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.840 a bit of a rip he does, so, you know, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.640 and as we know, he's buddy great in the field 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.760 and he's more than handy and as we previously mentioned too, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.079 by the way, Dylan a great Sri Lanka coming off 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.559 a great victory against the English. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.480 Yeah, that was an amazing Test. It was much a 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.880 bit of it on ICC TV actually, and yeah, hell 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.320 of a surprise. I mean everything about that series looks 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.720 like it was just going to be in England Waltz 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.520 the victory. But there's some good players in that Sri 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.240 Lanka team and they've got the guy who did didn't 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.840 feature really over there about the guy pro Bath js Arara, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.240 I think the left arm spinner has got a phenomenal 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.840 just like a Bonker's record a bowling in Sri Lanka, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.200 and they've got this t twenty convert that they've turned 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.680 into a test better whose name has scapes me now. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.360 But it's Camindu Mendus, is it. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.440 Yes, yes, Pascual, which is a great name, Pasqual. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.120 So he's just burst onto the scene and is scoring 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.760 runs for fun. So it is not going to be easy. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.760 Can I just sorry? Can I just mention one thing 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.440 about our spinners and our development? 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.200 Sure, I just got this. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.720 It's this weird thing that we seem to be better 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:58.120 at developing bits and pieces battery Bowldery type of spinners, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.560 your brace Wolves, your Phillips, your s then we are 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.960 of actually developing our specialist spinners like our issues and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.600 our Eddie air Sharks, and I think you can go 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.800 back to Nethula and those sort of guys. I think 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.120 there's something a little bit broken in our system that 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.320 we are valuing these kind of all roundery converts. Yes, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.920 I mean Phillips was a wicket keeper. Michael Bracewell was 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.480 a wicket keeper, and Center's obviously talent. He could do anything. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.560 You could go to the Olympics for badminton, He's that talented. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.400 But I think our development has missed a trick with 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.000 some of our specialist spinners, great stuff. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it's an interesting point. I guess 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.240 it's just those New Zealand conditions again. You know, when 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.040 do you get to bowl? If you're a specialist spinner 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.000 that can't bat, you're just you're never going to be 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.960 doing anything in a game. So you probably get melded 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.280 into the into these the into that type of player 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.600 through the conditions that we have in domestic cricket. Just 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.640 going back to Pisul, come into Mendos just to make 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.000 you love him a little bit more. Dylan as well, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:05.080 well he bowls left orthodox and right offspin. That's not 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.880 a bad combination when you're a batting all rounder. Yeah, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.120 there are some bloody good players in the in the 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.400 Sri Lankan team, as you say, for bath jas Area 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.360 fifty three wickets in twelve innings at Gaul. That's scary. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.040 But weirdly they're a little bit like New Zealand. They've 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.720 actually got a bunch of really good seamers at the moment. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.240 They've got a Setha Fernando, they've got Laharu Kumara, they've 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.520 got Vishua Fernando, they've got Milan Rath Nayaka, they've got 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.560 a whole bunch of guys and they've got to do 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.480 the same as New Zealand. They've got to gall and gone, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.560 oh geez, We've just had a pretty decent finish to 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.280 a tour in England and there's a couple of guys 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.560 that are just not going to be selected because the 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:44.000 conditions just don't suit them in Sri Lanka. So yeah, interesting. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.080 The other guy to keep an eye out is keep 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.800 an eye on is of course the wicket keeper. Kusal 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.240 Mendus will be blazing away probably at number seven, and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.560 a couple of the opening batter is of course very 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.680 familiar with Frank Dimoth, Karuna Ratna and Pethandsunka, the guy 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.920 who added magnificently in that third Test match. So yeah, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.159 they're going to be They have got a lot of 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.560 guys that bowl a lot of spin and bat very 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.520 similar to us. And let's not forget Angela. Matthews has 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.000 a spectacular record against Zealand. I think he everage is 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.320 better than fifty, very very good record against. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.040 That formidable Well, let's laid on the table then fellas 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.760 the scores. Please, how do you see this turning out? 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.000 I think we're going to cling on for a drawing 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.920 this first, Yes, where they're assisted Ford. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.720 Yeah, I reckon. I think it'll be a result. I 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.280 think we'll win one and lose one. I reckon it's 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.680 going to be one. All yeah, I'm not sure which 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:36.240 way around? 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.879 Okay to zip to Sri Lanka? 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:45.920 All right, geez, well about the length of the days. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.320 I'm not mucking around here, fellows. Um, all right, well 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:51.480 tell you what we're going to do. We'll take a 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.720 short break and then we'll come back and talk about 0:17:53.760 --> 0:18:00.400 the debacle that was the Afghanistan Test. Yes, welcome back 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.000 to the b YC. Well, the cricket seasons actually started 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.959 Dylan Clever against the Afghanistan's side, and what an absolute 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:09.959 bloody shambles. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.920 Yeah, not much happened in great annoyed way. Actually plenty 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.000 happened in great annoyed Yes, nothing in terms of actual cricket. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.280 At times it was unintentionally hilarious, it was very funny. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:26.440 But then theadre for me for conditions was in terms 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.359 of hosting will always be them running kiddy letter onto 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:35.119 university overall in Dunedin to try and drive that ground out. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.760 But this will take some betting. The site of fans 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:45.760 been held, your table fans, table fans been held horizontally. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.440 Then well one of them was not being held. It 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.439 was literally just plugged and plugged into an extension cord 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.919 out from the dressing room, plugged into a four plug 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.280 and then the fans are literally laying directly on the grass. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.560 It's just unbelieve evable. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.359 It didn't work. I loved it when they just cut 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.040 a whole bunch of turf out of out of a net. Yes, 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.800 and for the mine and tried to stitch it together 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.600 in less than ideal conditions on the field. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.480 It was. It was the good news. It was free 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.120 to go and watch that game. So there were three 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.680 thousand people in the stands on the first day, three thousand. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.440 Yeah, well I would have been quite entertaining to watch. Yeah, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.360 you know what I mean, because it was such It 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.720 was such a debarkle, you know. And you're right about 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.399 them cutting out, you know, if the game did go ahead, 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.120 one of the players on the outfield could have been 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.520 running and then disappearing into a hole somewhere. But it 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.720 is my understanding though there's never been a test match 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:45.960 played on that ground, has there No? 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.359 So, and it probably never should be. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:49.800 It never should have been. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.120 So there was a worry beforehand. There was a talk 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.880 of unseasonable monsoon like conditions. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.359 It rained for twenty three to twenty three. 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.160 Days solid, right, it did. But I also read somewhere 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.480 it might have even been on crick Info the Bible. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:13.080 I read a preview where the writer expressed serious doubt 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.399 whether there'd be a bull bowled in that test. So like, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.040 this was a couple of days before the game, that's 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.119 how poor the ground was. And you just shouldn't be 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.640 playing test cricket on those sort of grounds. No, they 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.119 can't handle rain. I mean, in this day and age, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.400 you should literally be able to have a ground flooded, drained, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.199 dried within a couple of hours and ready for cricket. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.080 Well you remember the debacle down in New Zealand. What's 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.760 that ground there? McLean park, same thing and no drainage, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.560 get a bit of rain. It's like, oh, sorry, fellas, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.760