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Speaker 1: The summer of cricket gets underway, so we got the

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Speaker 1: short term stuff that's all sorted out, the tests to

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Speaker 1: hear the real deal New Zealand Windys. Of course, Hagley

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Speaker 1: oval no better place to play cricket in this country.

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Speaker 1: Rob Walters, the black Caps coach, and as well, it's

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Speaker 1: Rob morning to you. I'm a bit worried about the weather,

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Speaker 1: should I be?

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Speaker 2: It's not looking too flash at the moment, it's not

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Speaker 2: raining heavily overcast, but hoping that that's going to move

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Speaker 2: on and we're going to get some playing.

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Speaker 1: What sort of pitchure we got.

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Speaker 2: It looks pretty good, not as green as you normally

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Speaker 2: arrived to here at Hagley, but still hoping for good

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Speaker 2: home conditions pitch.

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Speaker 1: Without putting too fine a point on it, might the

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Speaker 1: Windys be a bit better at test cricket than they

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Speaker 1: are at the other forms, as we found out so far.

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Speaker 2: I certainly think so. I think, you know, if you

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Speaker 2: track the performances through India, they kept getting better in

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Speaker 2: tough conditions there. Know they've managed to create a few

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Speaker 2: upsets along the last twelve months. In test creet They've

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Speaker 2: got a nice bowling unit and certainly some players who

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Speaker 2: probably find their space better and test cricket, so I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't expect it just to be a pushover there for sure.

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Speaker 1: Are the guys can big able? I mean you're seeing

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Speaker 1: what sort of the ashes? I mean, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to have a two day are we?

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Speaker 2: Certainly hope not.

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Speaker 1: How do the players compartmentalize and is it an issue

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Speaker 1: or are you already thinking about things like England and

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Speaker 1: T twenties and World Cups and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: No, I think you know, players have become pretty used

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Speaker 2: to swapping in and out of different formats, and I

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Speaker 2: must say this team is particularly good at being with

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Speaker 2: their feet are and focusing specifically on this test. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you always have one eye on, you know, the pinnacle

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Speaker 2: event that you're either part of a building towards you

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Speaker 2: obviously have to, but it's but it's in the background

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Speaker 2: and really focusing, you know, very hard on taking care

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Speaker 2: of today.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, good stuff. You're enjoying the job so far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, loving it. It's an awesome, awesome so far. A

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Speaker 2: great group of people started, the players.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. That's to catch up. Appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Rob Walter, who's the Black Cats, head coach. For more

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