WEBVTT - "Struggling To Get Aroused After India..." 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:08.200 Live from the ex Board Bear Garden Studios. You're listening 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.719 to the BYC where we're still basking on the glow 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.040 of our series victory against India. With that in mind, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.160 I must admit to finding it difficult getting aroused in 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.840 any way about the T twenty series against Sri Lanka. However, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.160 there were some notable performances and it's also an opportunity 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.520 to blood new players as we look to identify the 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.199 next tier of Black Caps, and I feel more and 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.720 more Dylan Cleaver that T twenty is just a breathing 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:43.760 ground now. It's something where maybe selectors and so forth 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.360 of various countries just said as an opportunity to give 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.080 other players an opportunity, which suggests to me that they 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.840 don't really care immensely about it. It's just a training exercise. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:55.880 Am I wrong? 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.440 Half and half? I think you're wrong. When it comes 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.480 to World Championships, I think they're sure. I think they 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.960 care very deeply about doing well at those. But in 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.160 terms of a non contextual bilateral T twenty series, I 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.520 think you're dead right that it is. Let's have a 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.479 look at this fuller. Let's have a look and see 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.880 how they go under the pressure of international cricket. But yeah, 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.760 I mean, one all, I think that's probably about as 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.679 good as you can hope for in that New Zealand 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.640 team that's shorn of most of it stars. Yes, and yeah, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.200 and there were some intriguing little performances there from a 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:32.680 few guys. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.080 Yeah. And look, I'll be really honest with you, Paul Ford. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.440 You know, we've talked a lot on this podcast about, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.360 you know, looking at the next tier of players, and 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.479 I'm all for giving players an opportunity, but holy how 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.880 I mean to go from that series against India down 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.400 to a T twenty to you know, two program sort 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.400 of situation in T twenties against Sri Lanka. She's a 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.200 bit of a drop down, mate. It's hard to get 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:56.920 the old enthusiasm going. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.760 It's ratchet scheduling, it really is. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.440 Yeah. I was struggled with that too. I've got to 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.720 say though, I was. I've been thinking about this and 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.400 I got a real kick out of us winning that 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:10.200 second game. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.040 I really did. And for me, it. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.120 Was just a little bit of icing on the cake 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:21.640 after the massively, massively unexpected result in India. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.480 And you know, I. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.760 Guess that's just renewed my faith. You know, schlank are 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.560 that good. I think they're ranked number eight and teach 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.679 twenty cricket. But the fact of the matter is that 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.760 with that team, Mitchell Center in charge and all of 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.040 that Jazz pretty much the only senior player along with 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:44.720 maybe Glenn Phillips and arguably Will Young Lucky. Maybe I 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.760 just thought we were going to get thumped and then 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.280 we didn't. And so I guess the combination of those 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.480 two things is renewed my faith after I felt like 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.720 I lost it in that Sri Lankan test series. So 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.840 I hate to break it to you, fellas, but I'm 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.480 back in the frothy optimist Optimistic supporters club again Inurious. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.160 Yeah, and look, you know, I don't want to denigrate 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.600 it anyway, and I have always put my cards on 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.920 the table with regards to T twenty. I'm not a 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.560 massive fan of it, but I it is great. Let's 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.480 be honest to see some new talent coming through, you know, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.360 to see how they go to have a completely different 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.280 setup in regard to the team Santana a skipper, et cetera, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.000 et cetera. So let's look at the first game. And 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:30.200 I thought, oh Lordie, okay, but having you know, there 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.280 was some pretty dominous signs there Dylan Cleaver, but also 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:38.720 some some nice standout performances in terms of the new Zealanders. Yep. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.560 I think the first thing we should say is that 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.200 at Dan Buller, it was Dan Buller, wasn't it not 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:50.400 Pala Kelly. Yep, Dan Buller wasn't conducive to massively entertaining No. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.480 Twenty cricket. But I yeah, look, I have seen Bagger 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.000 all of Zach Falkes to the point where I don't 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.160 even really know how to say his name properly. But 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.040 twenty seven I think it is folks. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.320 I think it's just folks that folks. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.400 Okay, it's going to go where folks from now, But 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.920 twenty seven out of sixteen and then three for twenty 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.200 with the ball, and you know, he looks he looks handy, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.600 like he looks the kind of and like this is 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.000 woefully premature, but he looks like the kind of player 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.200 that could really add something across all three formats. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.279 Yes, And I think that's the good thing, you know, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.760 is that if you're sort of showing this new talent, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.200 the encouraging thing is that they can potentially play across 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.280 all forms, not just b T twenty specialists. What were 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.080 your thoughts there, Paul Ford in that first game. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.400 Yeah, look, I think Folks was absolutely caught the eye. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.840 He's only twenty two, I think only twenty two in June, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.000 so he's a he is a young buck bowls one 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.680 hundred and thirty five kilometers an hour. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.839 Not bad teams in jess it around. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.640 He's got some couple of variations back of the hand, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.680 slow and split finger and gives it a whack. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.320 With the bat. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.040 I mean, this is a kid who's come out of 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.719 St Andrew's College, won the Gillette Cup with that first 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.920 eleven and twenty nineteen, from a cricket family, but he 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.159 is the best cricketer in his family. So yeah, his 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.400 old man played for Canterbury Country and he played in 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.280 that team with his younger brother Robbie and his older 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.040 brother Liam, so. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.719 Real Canterbury Stock. He looks hip. I really really like 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:28.320 the look of him. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.680 I think, yeah, it looks like he's going to be 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.880 right in contention for that sort of the next cab 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.640 off the rank alongside you know, someone like Nathan Smith. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.320 I think you got a Yeah, Nathan Smith, he's a 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.520 real prospect m And you've got to look at it 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.000 two in context of I guess you'd have to say 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.200 regarding Test cricket, Glenn Phillips is kind of out all 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.960 rounder now and we don't have that sort of Chris 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.400 Ken's type character who can bowl a pretty nippy delivery 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.400 and give it a bit of a thump and you 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.880 know you're Jimmy Nishams and so forth. Their sort of 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.000 down the line now, So it's encouraging. How old did 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.400 you say? It was? Twenty two? You know to see 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.119 because he caught my eye too and I thought, hello, hello, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.480 he's a prospect here and certainly for higher honors in 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:12.520 terms of Test cricket. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.159 Yeah, and I think the one thing that's really lacking 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.400 from our Test side at the moment is that balance 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.000 that a seam bowling all around of brings. I think 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.039 before we started a naunting him there. He's got to 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.279 get a few more runs, of course, like big runs 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:29.280 in first clast cricket. But yeah, certainly, yeah, he Yeah, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.159 he was intriguing. That's the word I kept coming back to. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.120 I kept on watching him and thinking, yeah, this kid, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.640 sure he might have come through the the Canterbury. I 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.200 guess it's now the tried and true way into the 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.320 New Zealand team, isn't it to go to a private 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.560 school in christ Church? Oh? 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:54.400 Come on, now, come on now the Yeah. Can I 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.080 ask you guys a question just in terms of, you know, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.599 looking at the other formats, your one day cricket, Test cricket. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.599 You know, with Michael Bracewall coming back into into the 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.200 sort of fray as it were, it's kind of a 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.520 head to head between him and Phillips. Now do you. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.880 Think, Yeah, I think he might actually be on the 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.400 outer and Test cricket now sure, because Phillips has taken 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.600 that mantle. Yes. The one thing I would say about 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.360 Phillips though, is again like if he's going to be 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.400 an all arounder and Test cricket, he's got to start scoring 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.760 centuries like big runs. And he's made a couple of 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:34.640 really telling cameos at this point. But yeah, you would 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.720 like to see him. I mean you what Daniel for 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.160 Torre sixty centuries? 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:38.800 Did he? 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.679 I think he ended up sixtieth century? 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.440 Yeah? Pretty handy average too, thirty odd. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.480 You look at guys like Chris Ken's five Test centuries 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.800 averaging in the thirties, so I think Phillips needs to 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.120 have some substance to the cameos. But I do think 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:59.559 he's gone ahead of Bracewell for their off spinners around 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.040 us things is the other interesting thing. Who has actually 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.000 got a test century But you can't I don't think 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.000 in New Zealand conditions, in particularly, you can play more 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.600 than one of those spins around. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.880 Us one of three there. Pull forward? 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:14.600 Yeah, that's right? 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:14.960 Good? 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:15.400 Good? 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.680 Isn't it lovely conversation to be having? Not Oh my 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.520 god is injured? What the hell are we going to do? 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.880 It's much more about how how do we squeeze all 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.680 these guys in? And you know, the Williamson will Young 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.000 conundrum is the other one, which we've talked about previously. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.040 But these are good problems, right, these are bloody good 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:33.560 problems there. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.920 Yeah, well, I feel like you pull forward quite optimistic, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.559 you know, because we were here talking about oh god, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.080 I mean, where's the talent coming through, et cetera, et cetera. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.239 And it's beginning to sort of emerge, which is exciting. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.480 So we go to game two and then it's like, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.240 oh god, okay, so it's going to be a two 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.240 nil here but not to be Dylan Kleber. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.200 Yeah, I didn't see a lot of the New Zealand earnings. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.079 I have to confess. I just saw the highlights, and 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.200 they were in a huge amount of them. I think 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.120 Will Young might have top scored with a grinding thirty 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.840 or thirty two. But I did watch the entirety of 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.720 the chase and New Zealand were on top of things. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.120 They looked good again in conditions that were pretty helpful. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.240 But someone who didn't have a great tournament with the 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.480 sorry series with the bat, Mitch Hay certainly made up 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.360 for it behind the stumps in that second game with 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.240 six dismissals. So he's played two Internationals and he's now 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.120 a world record holder, and a couple of those catches 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.720 were pretty bloody good, including one where he dropped an 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.199 edge up a spinner onto the stumps and regathered it 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.480 before it hit the ground. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.480 Yes, drama, that was. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.080 A weird one. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.800 I actually got on such a nerd and I shouldn't 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.880 confess this and you won't be that surprised, but when 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.080 that happened, I was trying to work out whether a 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.280 wicket keeper is allowed to sort of use the stumps 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.600 as leverage from making a catch. Now, not saying that 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.720 he did that, but obviously knocked the bails off and 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.280 got a bit hectic. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.840 My understanding of the rules is that, yeah, you can. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.640 You can kind of use the use the glove to 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.920 sort of wedge the and wedge the ball up against it. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.679 As long as it doesn't touch the ground, you're good 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.800 to go. So yeah, bloody difficult thing to pull off. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.400 I think he had a couple of catches like that 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.960 where he kind of juggled it and caught it at 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.680 the second go and went into the huddle cackling away 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.240 to himself. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.040 Yes, well, and you see a lot of poultry. One 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.920 hundred and eight and then a bit of a contribution 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.560 there from our good man Lucky Ferguson and Sri Lanka 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:34.360 shot the bed. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.360 That hat trick. That hat trick was curious. The first 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.640 one it looked like a squeeze initially like there wasn't 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.160 a massive amount of excitement. Luckie Ferguson you he had 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.120 had nicked it. But at first sight it looked like 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.439 it was a full toss that the better squeezed into 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.120 the ground, but it wasn't. It was actually a half folly, so. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:56.560 That was out. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.160 Then the next one was a pretty adjacent LBW coming 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.240 around and look at to a left hander and I 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:04.760 think it was the guy who scored all the runs 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:11.280 in the Test series. The mindoumendous. And then the third 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.440 one was just a rank awful delivery to our league side, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.120 which the guy got a feather on and Mitchell took 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.440 a good catch something down the league side. But yeah, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.280 I love what Paul was written down here in the notes, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.640 which is just classic Lucky right. It reeks absolutely havoc 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.640 and then follows it up with a torn hemy Yeah, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.040 or it might be calf this time, is it. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.400 I'll tell you what. We our fast bowlers. It's just infuriating. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.560 Who's the other quirkie that was always apart from Jamison 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.400 of course mil. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.280 Who they brought over, yes, to replace, And that's tempting 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.280 fate of fever I've seen. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:51.480 Yeah. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.800 Yeah, So we're going and heading into the one day 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.280 is now and oh. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.520 Can I just say one more point on that second game? Yes, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.640 the set up from the Sri Lankan rabbit. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.160 Of the baseball, the Shara sensational. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.080 Have you ever seen anything like that before? 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.320 No, it was highly ineffective. It was terrible, but jezus 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:18.160 looked magnificent, real MLB stuff, wasn't it. Yeah, there was 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.480 a great piece of fielding too from Michael Bracelell in 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.520 that game, diving over the rope. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.040 He's a fantastic. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.319 Field of bracelet caught the ball, scooped it back kind 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.960 of under his body as he clattered onto the ground. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.040 Well beyond the the toblerone. And you know, when you 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.839 look at the maths in the final equation, super super important. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.200 And yeah, Glenn Phillips, great job as the closer in 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.199 that game. Three wickets and his over and yeah, the 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.800 lucky Ferguson thing. I mean, I actually when I was 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.240 watching that, I jotted down some notes about his first over, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:50.880 which which was the start of the hat trick, the 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.080 last ball of that over, which was the eighth ball 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:53.680 of that over. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.960 It was just a mannic over. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.839 There were beamers, there was there were appeals, there were 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.560 side ages, there were it was just ridiculous. Betsman got 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.040 caught off a no ball. It was just absolutely wild. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.600 And then he comes back, completes the hectoric and hobbles 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:10.440 off Paul Bastard. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.920 Yeah, well you know and as you said earlier, Paul Forward, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.040 you know, I'm pretty happy with one all given where 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.520 we were. I'll take it in our record, yes, and 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.400 our record in Sri Lanka and the fact that there 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.160 were a lot of most of the team missing. So yeah, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.120 I'll give that a tech. I'll give that a six 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.160 point five out of ten. Now the one day is 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.960 coming up thirteenth of November, seventeenth of November and nineteenth November. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.160 I'm a little more interested in those as rung out 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:48.120 with a hammy and lockeye out with a calf. Yeah. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.080 Yeah, this looms is relatively important given that there's not 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.400 a lot of one day cricket. I been here in 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.720 the Champions Trophy, the Champions Trophy which is now looking 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:04.520 a little imperiled. You do some geopolitical differences between the 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.480 hosts and the most important cricket country in the world, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.600 But regardless, is. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.199 It just is it geopolitical? Is it just shit housery 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:13.040 from India? 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.400 India just refusing to go to Pakistan to play. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.400 Yeah, and Sri Lanka, of course, just for the record, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:19.840 they don't give a shit about that because they didn't 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.040 qualify for the Champions Trophy, because they came ninth in 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.320 the World Cup, so they definitely don't care about the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:25.160 Champions Trophy. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.520 But we do, we do. And yeah, look it starts 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.840 tonight in dan Buller before they go to Palakelly. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:35.200 Yeah. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.600 I am quite interested in this. I'm interested in seeing 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.920 how some of these guys go in a format where 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.160 they've got a little bit more time to express themselves. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.440 I think it's probably Mitchey obviously needs some runs. Yes, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.640 Will Young. It's funny, we were almost talking about him 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.840 like the senior better and the squad at the moment, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.440 but you know, he's probably a fringe player at best. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.920 So this is are you talking in terms of following 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.040 on from here for the Cheaampions Trophy? Yeah? 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.040 Yeah, yeah, So there's a lot of things that Will 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.560 they need to sort out for the Champions Trophy, and 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.040 this is this is the start. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.280 I sort of yeah, I sort of feel for Forward 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.240 on the Well Young front. You know that he's kind 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.440 of earned his place now and he deserves a bit 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.920 of respect and a bit of support in terms of 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.240 being kind of seen as a regular member of the 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.760 side or am I being biased? 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:25.880 I think you can be those two things. No, I 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.880 think right, I think, Yeah, I feel like he's I agree. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.000 I think he's in that spot and he should be 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.000 in the you know, ahead of the likes of Henry Nichols, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.440 barring what happens over the next few days. So Gladdy good. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.520 Good for him to be in there and under some pressure. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.760 Another guy to keep an eye on. Tim Robinson, who's 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.640 sort of making noises about. You know, he's a contracted player, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.760 didn't do much in the t twenties. Is he then 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.000 next Fanellen or is he not? We've mentioned Nathan Smith. Interesting, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.320 interesting to be watching him and he's tonight. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.280 Yeah, out of a targer, out of a targer. Yeah, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.120 because I was reading an article about him as a 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.720 as a real prospect for the future. Got the most 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:08.520 wickets in the first class last year, was that right? Yep, yep, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:09.840 I'm pretty nippy. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.240 When I played the season of county cricket. I think 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.000 he might even be Omoru. Originally he might even be 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.320 north Ochago. But yeah, I mean he's twenty six years old. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.960 Good age, good age, good age. Yet my only worry 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:28.920 about Nathan Smith is just maybe a few kilometers short 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.840 of what you need your start a bowling. He bowls, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.400 he's kind of a hit the deck hard guy. But 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.760 I mean he's not tall like Jamison or Rourke. And yeah, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.920 I don't know you've seen more of them, Paul. But 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.880 does he have that kind of one forty two to 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.960 one forty five in him? 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.840 I think he does, But does he have it consistently 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.960 or so I think as your point, yeah, I'm not sure. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.720 And yeah, it's interesting there's a real trial in this 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.840 series for that fourth Seema because you've got Duffy, who 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.960 is maybe the incumbent with Sears out. Cougar Line's not 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.600 in here, so you know, there's a bit of a 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:11.080 duel here between a three way duel between Smith, Duffy 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.960 and you know, arguably someone like Folks could come steaming 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.040 through the middle if they decide to get a bit 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.960 funky for this England Test series. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.200 But yeah, look, it's not it's not certain. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.800 The other thing that Jason, I think you'll agree is 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.640 that it would be really good if Mark Chapman didn't 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:26.200 drop any. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.040 Catches what is going on there? 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.400 He Look, I think he's just got the YEPS man. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.479 It's just that classic because as we say, all that 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.200 time ago where all the started for him, he's actually 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:47.159 not a bad fieldsman. He moves nicely, yes, but I 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.359 think it's just you know, it's like my passing at 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.399 the moment. It's just all over the place. And I 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.119 think he gets an anxiety attack when he sees the 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.119 ball in the air coming towards him, you know what 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.000 I mean, he has a full blown panic attack. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:05.080 I think that is I think there is some something 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.880 merit in that. Actually, I do think that when you've 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.160 spilled a few, and my word is spilled a few, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.720 you do get to a point where you're out in 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:14.800 the field and you're. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.000 Actually hoping it doesn't come near, and the ball. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.520 Doesn't come near. You'd be quite heavy to station yourself 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.520 at third man and field a few grounders that go 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.679 down to third man. But you don't you do know 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.159 what anything in the year coming your way, And I 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.000 reckon Chapman's at that point that testy that catchy dropped 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.240 in Mumbai. Ah Man, that is just. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.000 Awful, I know. But also but also you know that 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.959 that probably is a stot. Put me down at third man, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.719 and then there's a massive top edge as soon as 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.080 you move there, and you know, and it's isn't it funny? 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.520 How when shit isn't going well for you in any 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.800 form of the game, you know, but particularly fielding. The 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.440 ball suddenly starts following you around everywhere. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.520 It's so hard to hide. It's so hard to hide. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:18:59.320 Yes, sure. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.040 The other thing about this series coming up is that 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.560 it's obviously going to be a real spin friendly track. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.040 And we're talking about, you know, trialing, running this trial 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.879 for the fourth sema, and I don't think we're going 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.240 to get a lot of pictures that are going to 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.080 be particularly conducive to pay some who we've got. We've 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.960 got sat in Embrace, Will Phillips and Sodi and Jase. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.520 I think you've got the list of Shri Lankan spinners there. 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:33.440 Look at them the center of the match person himself 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.400 for those of you that can't see him. So do Paul, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.280 how would they look at? Do you know? Well a 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:50.160 Lagi uh Commendo, Mendes, tariff Aslanka and do Himantha well done? 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.400 So yeah, I don't know much about them, but let's 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.520 assume they'll be pretty handy with the ball in hand. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.480 Well, the good news, Jason is that huss is not 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.680 there because his little chubby hamstring didn't hold up during 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.000 the t twenty, so he won't be there. And I'm 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:08.760 pretty sure the last block you mentioned is the guy 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:13.520 that came in from duchan Amantha, another legie. So going 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.199 to be plenty of intrigue at the Sri Lankan Bowl increase. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.119 Hey, now, let's talk about this this upcoming Test series. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.400 And I've just read this here on the notes, all 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.760 but a sellout across the three tests. How good? With 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.280 the question asked, why is that? I just think Dylan 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:36.000 clear with it that England is always England is always 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.959 a very popular prospect for fans of cricket when they 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.000 come to New Zealand. It doesn't surprise me at all 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.760 that that's the case, particularly given of course we're on 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.199 this high after India. People are just into it. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:46.520 Yep. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.000 They bring a big traveling support with them. Yes, I 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.000 mean the Barmai Army love coming to New Zealand. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.200 Two percent of the tickets have been sold off shore. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:57.120 Yeah good. 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.159 And it also is the McCallum Stokes thing, Yes, that 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:05.720 New Zealand connection. I think you know, there's seems to 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.000 be these things go in cycles, right, and there's a 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.359 real pushback on the whole baseball term now and and 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.000 but you still can't deny that they play a brand 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.199 of cricket that's pretty intoxicating and you want to be 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.439 there to watch it. And it also is not that 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.160 long ago and it's still quite fresh in our memories 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.639 that Test from the Basin, the follow on Test, that 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:32.040 New Zealand one, and it's just like, yeah, I want 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.200 to be part of this. I mean, the only thing 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.040 I have a little bit of concern about is Test 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.919 in christ Stretch in November still can be a bit 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.280 nippy down there that time of year. But apart from that, 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.720 it's just yeah, get me there. Just want to be 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:50.159 part of it. 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:55.880 Yeah, I'm absolutely proffing about it. Pul Ford, it's so good. 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.000 Yeah I am as well, of course, but you know, 0:21:58.040 --> 0:21:59.800 as say, I'm back in full optimist mode. 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:00.920 Of course I am. 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.200 But I think the other thing is that the Black 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:07.520 Cats have earned the right of, you know, just be 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.280 selling out these three grounds. You know that what they 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.400 did in India is extraordinary. I do think people will 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.920 want to come out and salute that. There hasn't really 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:16.960 been an opportunity to do that as they've gone straight 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.359 on to Sri Lanka. And the other thing is for 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.520 cricket nerds like us, But there's a massive hole in 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.040 the calendar after this. I mean basically, you know, no 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.479 cricket sort of no long form cricket tool is it 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:30.879 next year? I think it's bloody ages. Wait and I 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:35.040 think only next summer. It's only the West Indies as well, 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.560 so you know there's a real gap. And of course, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.240 and for real nerds, they will be thinking about the 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.080 maths of the World Test Championship and wanting to help 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.720 New Zealand get up and potentially potentially qualify for that 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:48.920 final next year at Lord's in June. 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.000 Yeah, I think it's just going to be an absolute cracker. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.760 I'll be glued to the TV, much to my wife's 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:55.639 chagrin and. 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.680 Real shame of it. As Paul mentioned there is Yeah, 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:03.720 it's just so barren after this series. Yes, yeah, just 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.119 make the most of this Test series, hold on to it, 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:10.080 cuddle it, because after that, unless we make that final 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.720 at Lord's in June, I think it is it's a 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.360 long time before we're getting more five day cricket. Yeah, which, 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.160 actually I mean it's just a noise the shit out. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.199 Yes, samee Man and t You're gonna have your tea too, 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.119 and he's even your one days. Give me test cricket 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.600 any day of the week, any day of the week. 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:29.440 But I'll tell you what we're gonna do. I're gonna 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.320 have a little break here and come back very shortly. 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:36.600 Welcome back to this b YC podcast. So Pakistan beat 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:43.000 Australia in Australia. I loved it. I loved it. Australia 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:47.000 of course, winning the first one day, just just but 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:51.480 the Australians really under the pump and not handling pace 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:54.840 at all. Ralph was just next level. 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.640 How good what a great cricketer is to watch because 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.439 you watch them run up sometimes doesn't look like he 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:02.720 knows what has run up is. He's got these funny 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.359 little paces. He seems to take off from different spots. 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:07.760 A couple of the deliveries he bowled, his front foot 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.880 was only just ahead of the line where the stumps 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.560 are at like no danger of him doing Muhammad Ama 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:19.919 type nobles in that game, but just real pace, like fire. 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:23.120 And there's nothing better than watching quick bowlers on top 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:27.600 of the game in places like Perth. Yeah, I watched 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:32.399 the entirety of that game, the decider in Perth in 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:36.240 Pakistan just so much better than Australia. It was. It 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.480 was actually quite weird watching it. It was and you 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:41.360 they're under fire Australia, They're getting. 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:44.640 It, and so they should be because asking themselves and 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:48.400 you know, was it Australia alb first and foremost pull 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.879 forward and just specifically on that final game, which was 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:57.280 the deciding game, a very very under power Australian side. 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:01.800 And was that a specific decision of Australian cricket to 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:05.280 rest their key players for that match, because my assumption 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:07.640 is that that was always what they were planning to do, 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:09.919 but they would have thought that they would have been 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:11.080 too nill ahead by then. 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:15.119 I reckon that. I agree one hundred percent, Jase. I 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:18.280 reckon that was absolutely the script. And then things went 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.280 off piece in that second game, very nearly went off 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:22.640 piece in the first and still have mentioned, but yes, 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.880 Australia are always going to going to rest their red ball 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:29.040 players from these games. Basically it was sort of an 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.440 optional to play, so I think Cummens played the Pat 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.600 Cummins played the first game. But yeah, look it was 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:37.879 it felt like a mismatch. That's exactly right, and I 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.360 love some of the headlines. You know, Pakistan punished disengaged 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:45.520 Australia for their first series winning for twenty and twenty 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:46.119 two years. 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:49.159 I love that. Some sensational pace bowling. I mean you 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:50.160 mentioned Harris Ralph. 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:51.439 I mean the last time we saw him, I think 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:52.760 he was getting in a punch up at the TEA 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:56.760 twenty World Cup and then he's just ferocious. Shane Shah 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.959 Fredi and Nasim Shah was sensational and I absolutely love 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.159 I don't know if you saw this, but Cooper Connley, 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:04.640 the great White Hope, this twenty one year old slogger, 0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:09.600 the surfy looking kid and the Pakistan fast body you've 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:12.959 never heard of. Muhammad has Nae broke his hand so 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:16.040 see you later. That probably him out for a few weeks. 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:22.200 Absolutely fantastic from from Pakistan. Yeah, got a real sense 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:25.160 of joy out of that. I did love seeing Pat 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:28.360 Cummins get into trouble as his wife I assume kind 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:30.400 of not against as will, but probably. 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:33.080 Surprised him by banging that photo up on Instagram. 0:26:32.680 --> 0:26:37.480 Literally as the Australians were losing, which really does wind 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:38.120 everyone up. 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:41.240 But you know, you're just it was the decider. 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:44.359 You're absolutely right, I think they've stuffed up here and 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:48.040 it's it just plays into that narrative that Pat Cummins 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:50.840 and the Australians are out of touch with Heartland Australia. 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.320 It's great to see, yeah, I And you used a 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:56.720 word there in one of the headlines which I watch 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:58.840 was the sort of impression that I got, which was 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:05.680 disengaged and arrogant. And you know, but what the interesting thing, 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.680 as it always is with Pakistan, is my god, they've 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:13.560 got talent. Their pace attack, their pace attack is next level. 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:18.360 And I was like, why are these guys so damn erratic? 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:22.080 I mean, it must be infuriating for the coaches when 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:24.159 you've got that kind of talent that they're so up 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:26.520 and down. But it kind of turned around with that 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:29.080 Test series against England, didn't it. Yeah? 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:31.960 But the problem was is the problem is the test 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.080 services they put them on in Pakistan. Yes, they get 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.280 really worried about the opposition strengths. So the first Test, 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:42.600 I can't remember if it was Raoul Pindi against England, 0:27:42.600 --> 0:27:47.560 it was an absolutely flat track and Shahin Sharaffredi got 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:50.760 blitzed by basball, which you're not allowed to call it now. 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:54.680 And so they lose. In Pakistan, there is no patience. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.760 They just lose patients straight away. So they've been him, 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:02.480 they've been a Nasim Shah clearly is a really good player, 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.280 gutsy player, but not those two were gone and instead 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:07.600 they give them absolute bunts and burner tracks. They come 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:09.840 back into that series through their spinners and win it. 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:13.280 But then you go to a place like Australia which 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.199 just suits them down to the ground and you realize 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:16.040 how good they can be. 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.680 Yes, absolutely, that's that. 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:20.600 Is their problem, I think is the patience of their 0:28:20.600 --> 0:28:24.240 selectors at home and actually giving these guys some decent 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:28.159 services onto which to display their full pallid of skills. 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:32.480 Because man, that that four prong pace attack the other day. Yeah, 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:35.360 I barely even heard of that guy has name, but yes, 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:38.280 I mean either he broke Connelly's hand, he was whizzing 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:41.880 it over heads. He was he looked highly entertaining. 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:44.560 And they had they bowl, they had they bowled this 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:48.920 many have spin zero. Yeah, it's just the bull blitz 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:49.760 And am I. 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:53.600 Right in saying that. Jason Gillespie or is it Jason 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:57.280 Gillespie he's the coach or he's the bowling coach. 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:00.600 He's the coach at the moment, and Gary Kirston was 0:29:00.600 --> 0:29:03.120 the director of cricket. But Gary Kirston walked out when 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:07.160 they suddenly stripped him and Gillespie of any selectorial powers. 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:10.720 I think that's how it went. Yes, so yeah, and 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:16.160 it's just off the field, it's just chaos and that 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:16.960 will never change. 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:17.480 Yeah. 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:21.840 I remember Gillespie this week too, sorry about He actually 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:24.440 came out in the aftermath of the series win and said, 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:28.600 you know, the Australians were disengaged and what he means 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:32.240 by he means the Australian public, he means the Australian players, 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:35.480 and he stood the Cricket Australia's marketing. It was no 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:39.080 promotion of this series that he saw. Every poster, every billboard, 0:29:39.120 --> 0:29:43.320 every social media post that he saw was for border 0:29:43.320 --> 0:29:46.920 Gavascar for the Australia Indian Cricket Series, which really pissed 0:29:46.920 --> 0:29:47.840 the Pakistani's off. 0:29:47.920 --> 0:29:49.440 And obviously how they played better. 0:29:49.600 --> 0:29:53.200 And it isn't fascinating because we were talking about, you 0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:56.040 know that maybe INDIAD you know, didn't have their eye 0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:57.800 on the ball when it came to playing us, so 0:29:57.840 --> 0:30:01.200 that they too were possibly guilty of looking ahead to 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:04.560 that tour of Australia. Australia are guilty of the same thing, 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:07.520 and as a result of that, both sides in this 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:11.240 huge upcoming series now look like idiots because they've been 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:14.280 given a hiding by the teams that they've played previous 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:14.920 to the series. 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:15.600 Isn't that great? 0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:17.760 Yeah? I love it. I love it. Don't get me wrong, man. 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:23.520 We're reveler Lions fighting back against the Dark Empire. 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:24.160 Yeah good. 0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:26.959 We need to factor this into our scheduling. We need 0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:29.640 to look at when all of the headline big dog 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:31.840 series are and just sneak in there and play them 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:34.440 just before they guess, before they get there, because I 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.280 feel like we did this to England ahead of the 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:38.600 Ashes as well. We just sort of snuck in there 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:40.760 with a slightly ramshekel team and gave them a touch 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:44.280 up just before the Ashes in England last time around. 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:46.120 Two, you know. Having said that, actually I'm looking forward 0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:49.320 to that series in the Australia. Oh just as a 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:53.120 side note here, feel as I discovered on Sky which 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:56.200 I've been enjoying quite a lot actually the sort of 0:30:56.320 --> 0:31:03.040 domestic Australian cricket, you know, and I've been watching the Indie, RA, 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:07.320 Australia or A tests. Yeah, that's you know, for cricket fans, 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:09.520 it's quite nice to sort of stumble upon that quality 0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:10.400 of cricket pretty good. 0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:13.800 Well again, that's been quite controversial in Australia because of 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:18.080 those India AA, Australia A essentially became a bat off 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:21.920 for the one remaining opening spot, yes in the Australian 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:25.640 team to partner Usman Kwaja and they ended up giving 0:31:25.680 --> 0:31:28.520 it to the guy who doesn't open South of South 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:31.200 Australian middle order player Nathan McSweeney. 0:31:31.320 --> 0:31:34.840 And he was a skipper, wasn't he. Oh yeah, was 0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:35.480 he the skipper? 0:31:36.280 --> 0:31:39.200 He did skipper And yeah, you got people. I think 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:42.960 it's a former Australian payer whose name just as Casey 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:45.080 at the moment just come out and said they're just guessing. 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:48.280 It's just complete guesswork. They've got no idea what they're doing. Oh. 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:51.880 I was Joe Burns, the former Queensland opener who I 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.920 think he scored big runs against New Zealand and McCallum's 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:56.520 last series as skipper. 0:31:57.440 --> 0:31:59.560 Yeah, and I'll tell you one of the things, genuinely 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:02.360 as a cricket lover that I am looking forward to 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:07.000 us seeing how jazz well goes over there for Australia, 0:32:07.120 --> 0:32:09.520 because he's great to watch and he he, he just 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:14.040 gives it a bash, all right. Our own domestic game, 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:18.080 the Plunket Shield CD versus Otago and Napier Otago two 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:20.920 O three Max two eighty five Randall four for twenty 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:24.960 one and three for two CD three fifty nine for 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:30.360 nine d Kleaver one fifty one night out Muller three 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:31.120 for fifty two. 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:33.480 Well, actually they said vace a little bit since then 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:38.080 Otago at the time of reading, and now one O 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.840 six for eight in their second inning is crashing towards 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:44.800 a heavy defeat against the mighty CD. But the curious 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:47.360 thing about that being three for two overnight last night 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:50.480 was the fact they sent two night watchmen out to 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:53.360 the crease. Because the first night watchman, who I think 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:57.640 was Travis Muller, did they have the curious incident of 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.400 being caught on the boundary, which is. 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:03.120 Not really as a night watchman, that's not your job 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:08.640 to have a tonk are your boys pull forward? I 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:10.520 don't know if you got down to watch any of this. 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:15.680 Wellington versus Auckland, Auckland won eighty four, Bevan Jacobs seventy five, 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:18.480 Logan Van beat five for fifty three and one seventy 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:22.480 one for six. Will o'donald fifty two not out Wellington 0:33:22.520 --> 0:33:26.160 two to seventy, Van beat one oh one. Peter old Wife, 0:33:26.760 --> 0:33:28.680 I feel like that's some sort of set up there, 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:33.520 and Jordan seventy five and Jordan Sussex four for fifty. 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:36.960 Paul did see it out in the window. 0:33:37.960 --> 0:33:41.720 Regendravendra, Devin Conway and Tom Blundell all playing in that game, 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:46.920 along with Finn Allen. And yeah, that's advanced a little 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:49.800 bit as well. Auckland actually managed to rustle up three 0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:52.080 hundred and seventeen. So I've done the quick math. It 0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:54.600 looks like Wellington need about two hundred and thirty to 0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:57.480 win that one. They're currently started like an absolute sack 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.800 of shit. They're one for one and both Batsman at 0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:03.840 the crease zero not out with Retch and Revenger and 0:34:03.920 --> 0:34:06.600 next Devin Conways and so yeah, look out, it could 0:34:06.600 --> 0:34:08.640 be quite quite a thriller. I might have to check 0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:10.400 my annual leave balance for this afternoon. 0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:13.720 So that's there was a nice little double of seventy 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:18.040 seventy five and seventy nine from I think it's Bevan 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:21.880 John Jacobs, who's an interesting cricketer himself. 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:25.239 So that's right, and it's been pretty that game though. 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.960 We should give Logan van Bekers shout out betting. I 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.279 think at number eight scored one hundred and a five 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:33.560 wicket bag. Pretty sensational from him to resurrect that first 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:34.680 innings of Wellington. 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:39.160 Hey, just there's a very quick sideline here, fin allen. 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:42.400 Ah, Now, let me tell you about his little innings 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:44.360 opening the batting and the I think he failed in 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:46.920 the first deck, open the batting and the second deck. 0:34:46.920 --> 0:34:49.520 He might even be skipper. Yeah, Paul might have to 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:53.280 go to the interweb while I'm relating this little tale. 0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:54.800 But solely I think is the skipper. 0:34:54.960 --> 0:34:56.840 Solely is the skipper, right, So he was opening with 0:34:56.920 --> 0:35:00.480 Solier and he scored forty nine in the second ins. 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:03.520 I'm pretty sure that forty nine was made up of 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:08.560 ten fours and one six. Wow, that's correct, And he 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:11.840 went out having a wild swipe across the line. 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:17.520 That was good. Good Canterbury versus Indiant Hagley Canterbury three 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:20.359 sixty one for nine Chad Bows one oh seven, Matt 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:24.160 Boyle fifty nine, Christian Clark four for eighty three in 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:28.640 D two ninety one for eight, San Deep, Patawel fifty 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:30.600 six and bred Hampton fifty. Yeah. 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:33.320 Well, Indy actually managed to get their way up to 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:36.439 five point fifty two for nine declared, so they did 0:35:36.440 --> 0:35:40.320 really well. I'm guessing that must mean that Wags scored 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:42.000 some runs. But what a start to the season for 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:46.440 Chad Bows. He scored that record setting double ton in 0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:50.040 the four Trophy, scored a ton in the first round 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:54.719 of the Plunket Shield, so yeah, all power to him. 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:57.960 He kind of feels like a name that's was very 0:35:57.960 --> 0:36:00.799 briefly in New Zealand Lights but as all disappeared out 0:36:00.840 --> 0:36:03.680 of it. But perhaps there will be the second coming 0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:06.040 of Chad Bows made. 0:36:05.920 --> 0:36:08.759 Them thirty three and twenty six in that match. 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.839 Right, great stuff. Now I will take another short break here. 0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:15.000 When we come back, it'll be Dylan Cleavers. Who am I? 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:19.520 Welcome back to the BYC And now it's time for 0:36:19.800 --> 0:36:24.400 Dylan Cleavers. Who am I? It's Dylan Cleavers, who am I? 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:30.439 Yeah, last week we had several correct answers. I thought 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:33.880 I made the clues particularly cryptic, but people recognize that 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:36.600 it was in fact, Craig Spearman. A couple of good 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:40.640 little bits of correspondence actually from Matt Parker wrote, Hey guys, 0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:42.719 I believe the answer is Craig Spearman. I moved to 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:45.160 London to work in banking around the same time as his. 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:47.840 As him, I grew up as a wisty, although not 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:50.840 quite as big as whisty as where he went to school. 0:36:50.840 --> 0:36:53.920 I think he were to Kelston Boys. I always thought 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:56.919 that Craig Spearman was in my commercial law tutorial once 0:36:56.960 --> 0:36:59.680 at Auckland Union nineteen ninety three. Had heard of him 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:02.239 listen to the shell trophy, just looked it up and 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:04.480 he went to Massy. So now that whole story is 0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:06.799 ruined all the best man. 0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:07.560 Sorry about that. 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:13.319 And Peter Douglas wrote, Craig Mary Spearman, tough clues. I 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:16.120 just think about these things a lot. I understand, Peter, 0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:18.319 so do I. I seem to record he had three 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:21.200 hundred plus for Gloucestershire, which broke the county record held 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:24.560 by a reasonable player named W. G. Grace. Mind blowing 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:26.719 stuff for any black Cat fan left pulling their hair 0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:30.680 out at his lovely but inconsequential twenties and thirties in 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:34.160 the late nineties. Keep up the great work. That is correct. 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:38.719 He was such an exasperating player, wasn't he? Man? And 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:44.160 he's right lovely twenties and thirties. Ah, he had so 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:45.800 much talent, Craig Spearman. 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:47.359 He looked like he could see your past. 0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:54.160 Yes, destructive, absolutely destructive batsman on his day. That three 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:58.120 hundred and forty one that he got for Gloucestershire unbelievable. 0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:01.440 He's an absolute legend in there at that county, isn't he. 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:04.279 And the other thing about him quite a sort of 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.920 quite a sad story. Actually, he was a compulsive gambler 0:38:08.160 --> 0:38:09.719 and has been a real front man for that. I 0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:12.359 think we might have talked about that that before, but yeah, 0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:15.719 quite quite sad. And he genuinely talks about, you know, 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:19.120 the time that he can pinpoint when it moved from 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:21.800 being recreational gambling to problem gambling. 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:23.600 And then Black Captain stopped over. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:25.840 I think it was in Ken's on the way to 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.759 a tour in India or Pakistan or off to the 0:38:28.800 --> 0:38:31.399 sub continent, and he lost an absolute ship ton of money, 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:36.279 won it all back, but realized realized that he had 0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:39.920 had a real problem and yeah that kind of he 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:44.240 had this. I think it was his wife got really sick, 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:45.960 and yeah there was also there's all sorts of really 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:49.080 difficult stuff that he's had to encounter. So yeah, quite 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:50.200 an interesting character for sure. 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:52.080 All Right, Dylan hit us mate. 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:53.799 All Right, this one's a bit of a sad one, 0:38:53.800 --> 0:38:54.680 ag but here we go. 0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:55.879 Who am I? 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.480 I made my first class debut while still at school, 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:01.319 with a small curiosity being that it wasn't even one 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:04.839 of the right schools inverted commas that dominated the christ 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:08.000 Church cricket scene. I was a man of notable firsts, 0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:11.120 including scoring my one and only first class century in 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:15.000 less than an hour against Otago. Think about that, a 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:18.359 century in fifty three minutes. And that same game I 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:21.320 also dismissed the yappy little wicket keeper for a golden 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:24.440 deck and later in the match for two. I'm not 0:39:24.480 --> 0:39:27.920 surprised Ted Henry rose to prominence in the Winter Game instead. 0:39:28.800 --> 0:39:31.160 Another first was being banned for a Test for a 0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:35.680 relatively arcane transgression. But my most notable moment in another 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:39.520 first came in I dismissed Phil Sharp LBW for forty 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:41.759 eight at the Oval. Though if I gave you any 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.759 more details, i'd be giving the game away. I was 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:46.919 known as the workingman's hero for the way I played 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:48.520 the game, and that was more to do with my 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:53.080 mighty six hitting than anything else. But fast, occasionally hostile 0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:58.200 bowling was my raison datre. Unfortunately, life was not kind 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:00.600 to me once I left the sport. Couple of failed 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:03.360 marriages it was one thing, failed attempts as a public 0:40:03.400 --> 0:40:06.680 in another, but worst of all was a family tragedy 0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:12.120 that haunted me until my final morbidly obese breath. Who 0:40:12.200 --> 0:40:18.440 am I? Hmm, well, you just gave the universe. It 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:20.919 was signal of an eyebrow raise, which in the case 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:21.879 that I think you know it. 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:26.959 Yeah, it's quite a great another quite slightly grim story. DC, 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.880 it's a good good clothes, very good clothes, I thought. 0:40:30.000 --> 0:40:33.320 Very good. With that in mind, let's have Paul Ford's 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:34.440 news or Ruse. 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:40.600 Jace. You're going to be bloody excited about the fact. 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:43.040 There's a new five team T twenty tournament called the 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:48.960 Global Super League launching in Guyana in late November, featuring 0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:53.520 teams from five different countries, sanctioned by the by Cricket 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:57.400 West Indies and fully supported by the state government. Was 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:01.400 the National Government Guyana anyway, and prize money US a 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:06.319 million dollars. It's going to feature the Amazon Warriors and 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:11.880 a team from Cricket Victoria, the lahau Wilanders, Hampshire Cricket 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:17.120 Club and Rangper Riders from Bangladesh and none other than 0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:22.839 Cory Anderson will be captaining the Cricket Victoria team number two. 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:24.120 The White Fans opening. 0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:26.320 Game of the summer against Australia at the Basin Reserve 0:41:26.320 --> 0:41:29.120 will be gold coin entry as New Zealand Cricket looks 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:32.600 to keep up the momentum behind the newly crowned icc 0:41:32.800 --> 0:41:36.400 T twenty World champions Legends. The first ODII of the 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:40.520 Rose Bowl Series is on Thursday December the nineteenth, of course, 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:43.080 another piece of grim news and New Zealand haven't won 0:41:43.120 --> 0:41:46.360 that for twenty five years. New Zealand Cricket said the 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:48.560 White Fans are a team. The New Zealand public are 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:51.360 really embracing at present and we're determined to make the 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:54.360 most of it. They've seen large crowns, crowds of excited 0:41:54.360 --> 0:41:56.760 fans turning up and down the country during the trophy 0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:59.319 tour and they need the supporters they get into this 0:41:59.440 --> 0:42:03.520 Crunch series against the dirty, filthy, cheating Australians. 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:06.200 And number three West Indies fastball Alzari Joseph has been 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:08.480 suspended for two matches by Cricket West Indy's over a 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:11.600 very public disagreement with captain Shy Hope of a field 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:14.000 placements during an ODII against England this week, which the 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:17.080 West Indies won. Ironically, Joseph and Hope engaged in a 0:42:17.160 --> 0:42:20.000 lengthy argument for Joseph's over and he had to be 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.600 urged by the umpires to resume play after a ball 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:24.319 was played away on the off side During the over. 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:26.880 Joseph remonstrated with Hope. When the over ended, he just 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:28.040 simply walked off the field. 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:32.440 Unbelievable. Cricket West Indies said. 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:35.000 In a statement that his conduct fell short of their 0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:39.240 standards of professionalism. Joseph, to be fair, also apologized and said, 0:42:39.600 --> 0:42:40.200 I'm sorry. 0:42:40.320 --> 0:42:41.920 My passion got the best of me. 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:44.640 I think it's you'll tend to go first. 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:47.800 Actually, d C had a lot of luck of this lately. 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:50.279 No, you mean I've been giving luck. 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:51.359 It's not about luck. 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:55.399 So that Western he's one is dead right. I watched that. 0:42:55.400 --> 0:43:02.200 That was hilarious, that that was insane. I don't know 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:05.880 anything about that Global Super League. It just sounds bizarre. 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:07.719 Why did they pick those five teams to go and 0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:10.759 play in Guyana. But I'm going to go with the 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:13.719 White Fans because I believe that it's not even a 0:43:13.760 --> 0:43:18.000 gold coin entry. I just believe it's just free. That's 0:43:18.000 --> 0:43:20.000 what I was marketed as. Anyway, in the email, I 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:22.000 go from New Zealand Cricket free entry. 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:24.200 I'm going to go for the first option because it 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:28.480 sounds like a hideous disgrace of a tournament, and I'm 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:33.319 going to say the prize money is incorrect. 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.479 Like the rage and the fury in your belly chase. 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:39.360 But Dylan Clever's going to take this one home. That 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:40.160 is exactly right. 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:43.120 As free entry to the White Fans game at you, 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:43.600 I'd be. 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:49.000 Back, knew whatever, whatever, All right now, I believe now, 0:43:49.560 --> 0:43:52.560 Dylan Cleaver, you're going to give us a book review 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:58.000 of the twenty twenty four New Zealand Cricket Almanac. 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.880 Yeah, that wone work on a podcast so well. But 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:05.719 I'm holding it up now so my fellow pundits and 0:44:05.800 --> 0:44:08.920 panelists can see the cover. It is. I've remiss of 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:10.960 this not to do it earlier actually, because it's always 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:14.040 a it's always a great day for me when the 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:18.319 book drops through into my letterbox from the publishers. 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:20.319 Do you get it for free or do you pay 0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:21.879 fifty five dollars like the riff Raft. 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:24.400 I must I get it for free? 0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:26.840 No, wonder you look to it, bugger. 0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:31.439 Yeah, and it's it's always immaculately presented. This time Retch 0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:33.840 and Revenger is on the cover after he's scored his 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:36.799 double ton against South Africa. I think that's fair enough. 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:39.680 Can I just ask you a question. I'm just I'm 0:44:39.719 --> 0:44:42.640 just watching you holding that book, Dylan, and I can 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:44.320 see it's like I used to be when I was 0:44:44.320 --> 0:44:47.000 a little kid with brand new stationery. I can see 0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:49.720 the glee and the joy. Do you get quite excited 0:44:49.760 --> 0:44:51.319 when do you handle new books? Yeah? 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:53.880 I smell them, Yes, good. I don't know what I 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:56.000 expect them to smell like, but I'm always. 0:44:55.680 --> 0:44:58.000 Pleased newly printed. 0:44:57.680 --> 0:45:01.799 Newly printed smell. And just a couple of points of 0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:05.640 interest in it. As the players of the year were 0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:08.600 ritching Revendra and Kane Williamson, which I don't think you 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.960 can argue about. They both had incredible seasons, but the 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:18.799 promising players Zach Folks, Will O'Rourke and Gareth Severin, and 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:23.760 I think they've already probably been proved pretty accurate. Accurate 0:45:23.840 --> 0:45:27.880 on folks in willow'rourke, it might take Gareth Severin a 0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:31.480 little bit longer to make that step up. But there 0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:35.600 was one other thing that like Francis Payne and Ian 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:39.520 Smith who compile this just legends in their field. And 0:45:39.600 --> 0:45:43.120 I didn't realize this, This is this little factoid, yes, 0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:46.879 escaped me. But with those wins in India, with Tim 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:50.920 Sowdy playing two tests that one, he is now the 0:45:50.960 --> 0:45:55.120 most successful test cricketer in New Zealand history. Wow, did 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.239 you realize that? No, he now has. 0:45:57.200 --> 0:45:59.520 I didn't know either that. That's a bloody good record 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:01.640 to have, isn't it. I've won Imagine going to the 0:46:01.640 --> 0:46:04.799 pub and going I've won more Test matches for New 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.799 Zealand than anyone else in the history of the game. 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:09.000 Yes, that's good, that's a good record. 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:11.000 It's amazing. So he went past Ross Taylor. He is 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:14.920 now forty six. Ross Taylor as forty four. Cain Williamson, 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:17.560 who lester remind you did not play in any of 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.600 the three tests and is stuck on forty three, but 0:46:20.760 --> 0:46:27.640 I suspect that he will eventually pass both Sauvi and Taylor. 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:29.879 How long does Cain go for? 0:46:30.920 --> 0:46:31.840 Two more years? Reckon? 0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:32.719 Two more? 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:35.320 Maybe three? I think he might do the next Wiltis 0:46:35.400 --> 0:46:39.719 Championship cycle and that might be it for him. I 0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:43.000 don't know, I've got no that's just speculations. 0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:46.200 He's really struggled with injury. He seems to be under 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:47.720 the gun a lot these days. 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:52.120 I reckon, I reckon it could be the end of 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:53.160 this England series? 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:55.439 Do you reckon? I reckon it could be for Suvi. 0:46:56.680 --> 0:46:59.839 I honestly think this summer might be Soudy's last, But 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:03.200 well it might. The choice might not be his, to 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:03.920 be fair. 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:07.759 Yeah, all right, that's a grim thought, Yeah, isn't it? 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:14.839 Pull forwards? Cricket violence corners, cricket violence corner gun. 0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:17.800 A man's been assaulted in an apparent road rage incident 0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:20.600 in high Wickham Valley. Police have launch an appeal for 0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:22.600 witnesses following the assault. When two men got out of 0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:25.760 a dark colored carn Air traffic lights on doors Hill Lane. 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:29.680 They proceeded to use homophobic language towards the victim, A 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:32.320 man in his forties before assaulting him with a cricket bat. 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:35.879 The victims suffered injuries which required hospital treatment, but he's 0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:39.200 since been discharged. Officers are appealing for witnesses and footage 0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:41.840 to the incident. The maker's name of the bat was 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:44.800 unable to be seen in security footage. I know because 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:47.720 I locked. The driver of the car is described vaguely 0:47:47.840 --> 0:47:51.680 as thus mixed heritage, in his early thirties and around 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:55.400 six feet tall. That would cover about seventy percent of 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:56.359 the people in that area. 0:47:56.400 --> 0:47:57.680 I'd suggest, how. 0:47:57.640 --> 0:48:00.920 Am they know his mixed heritage for what has mixed me? 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:06.160 He could be just heritage. What they're saying is he's 0:48:06.200 --> 0:48:08.520 not classically Anglo Saxon, aren't they. 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:11.719 That's what they're saying. Hey, you know to your correspondence, 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.600 this is from Jack, and he writes, hey, guys, love 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:17.200 your work may need some deeper analysis here, but I'd 0:48:17.239 --> 0:48:19.120 like to draw attention to a wider member of the 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:21.640 black Caps team that seems to have an interesting knack 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:25.439 for winning. Mike Sandor, the current team manager. He joined 0:48:25.440 --> 0:48:27.920 the black Caps at the start of the twenty eleven 0:48:28.000 --> 0:48:31.880 twenty twelve summer and finished up early twenty twenty two 0:48:32.000 --> 0:48:34.919 quite clearly the meat and bones of our golden era. 0:48:36.000 --> 0:48:38.600 In twenty twenty two, right when the black Caps performances 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:41.480 started to dip, he took up a CEO position at 0:48:41.520 --> 0:48:44.560 Taranaki Rugby, this being the region he grew up in. 0:48:45.040 --> 0:48:47.200 During the two years he was in this position, the 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:50.719 Taranaki Bulls won the provisional title in twenty twenty three 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:53.759 and had a very good win record in twenty twenty four, 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:57.719 might I add, finishing with the great Ranfordy Shield. He 0:48:57.760 --> 0:49:00.000 then joins the black Caps again in twenty twenty five 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:02.600 for right before the greatest Test series in New Zealand 0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:06.839 cricket history. Coincidence or is there something a bit more 0:49:06.840 --> 0:49:10.080 at foot here? Whatever it is, I hope his presence 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.120 brings plenty more victories in the future. 0:49:12.200 --> 0:49:14.359 Dylan Cleaver, Yeah, there's a bit of a spell check 0:49:15.040 --> 0:49:17.680 or what is it, what's it called autocorrect issue? There? 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:20.760 It was the provincial title rather than the provisional title. 0:49:20.800 --> 0:49:24.040 But ah right, Yeah. As a keen man of the 0:49:24.080 --> 0:49:27.919 Taraniki as well, I have followed Mike Sanders progress very 0:49:27.920 --> 0:49:32.160 closely and there is something quite freaky actually about that. 0:49:33.840 --> 0:49:35.560 I wonder what they had to do to convince him 0:49:35.560 --> 0:49:36.080 to come back. 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:39.960 I yeah, he does seem like a bit of a 0:49:40.040 --> 0:49:42.440 lucky charm, but I think that massively sort of undervalues 0:49:42.480 --> 0:49:44.520 his contribution. I think the role that he's come back to, 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:47.440 as I understand it without getting into sort of page 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:49.479 seven of the job description, but I think it's much 0:49:49.480 --> 0:49:53.120 more focused on that broader performance of the of the team, 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:57.279 and so looking after the crew that managed the performance 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:59.600 of the team, rather than just the sort of logistics 0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:02.840 and where the suitcases are going and the admin and 0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:05.480 how many people want bacon with their eggs and all 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:07.320 of that kind of stuff and all the cricket diplomacy. 0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:09.120 I think it's a yet very much kind of in 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:12.120 the thick of the action with the team, which is 0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:14.200 fantastic in terms of that question though DC. 0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:16.040 I mean, I've got absolutely no idea. 0:50:15.800 --> 0:50:17.759 But it does seem a curious move to sort of 0:50:18.239 --> 0:50:20.279 come out and say, yep, really great, can't wait to 0:50:20.400 --> 0:50:22.880 go home? Be great to get rid of all of 0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:25.160 the travel and all of that kind of stuff. He 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:28.480 did go in there. It coincided with that Silver Lake 0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:30.719 money being handed down, and I do wonder whether some 0:50:30.760 --> 0:50:34.000 of the shenanigans that have created a lot of headlines 0:50:34.040 --> 0:50:35.920 and a lot of anks and rugby circles. He maybe 0:50:36.000 --> 0:50:38.240 just was there for the taking for New Zealand cricket 0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:39.960 and bloody good on them forgetting them, I'd. 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:42.440 Say, great Steven, terms of your correspondence, pulled forward, What 0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:43.200 do they need to do? 0:50:43.760 --> 0:50:46.200 Flick as an email to b YC at Beije Brigade 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:48.200 dot code on end ed will slide into the DMS 0:50:48.520 --> 0:50:50.759 of the alternative commentary collective All the Beige Brigade on 0:50:50.800 --> 0:50:53.200 Instagram or Facebook. Keep it to a sort of one 0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:56.800 hundred words or thereabouts, just to so we can screenshot 0:50:56.840 --> 0:50:59.239 it into our WhatsApp chat and bring it up to 0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:00.919 up to the mixer each week. 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:03.160 Great stuff. Hey well thanks for taking the time to 0:51:03.200 --> 0:51:05.200 listen to this podcast telling your mates about it. Why 0:51:05.239 --> 0:51:08.400 don't you and we will be back of course, same time, 0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:10.439 same place next week. Till then, see you later.