November 19, 2025 • 33 mins
This week, we're joined by Peter Holland post-ODI series, and we review the achievements of World No 1 ODI batsman Daryl Mitchell.
Later, we propose our test team for the Windies series, assess the teams for the Ashes and deliver a bouncer at the BCCI.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Now it's a trick. It is out.
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The test is over.
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Wow? Was a beauty?
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Is out?
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this week. Black Taps one day shortcomings exposed as they
pushed for another series win. They did just enough from
the lead up to what is an important three match
Test series. Does Mitchell Santner currently the ideal closer in
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whiteball cricket? He shot up more than once that he's
certainly got the qualities the bowling issues one hundred and
seventeen off the last ten overs against the West Indies. Boy,
they've got some hitters that side, but that wasn't enough
to get them through. Could have been costly though. Oh
and it's time for the talk to stop. The ashes
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start in Perth Brendan who India britten in the behind
by four pitch doctoring and the base reserve blame for
Wellington's traffic wows. Some bouncers ready to be delivered might
even need a direct it to the Swede. In fact,
I'm going to bowl a bouncers straight away as I
welcome in. Jeremy Coney and Peter Holland Moose is going
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to join us today and thy support me.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'm sure they will on the front foot. And here
he goes the bouncer blaming.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
The bait reserved to try and help the Willington Traffick goes,
what about sixty years of poor management by politicians locally?
Leave the basin alone? What's this blooming limp Dick talking about?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Not a fan, Brian, No, no, it's not surprising. He
bowls his first ball a bouncer, is it is it
most runs and just this first over of the match, bouncer.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Pushing himself off the back off the fence, coming in hard.
But can I just say, Can I just say, Brian
that I was actually at the basin on the first
day of the Plunket Shield and it was absolute picture.
I've got to say, you know, the outfield looked wonderful,
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and I must say the Otago batting was rather good
and Wellington's bowling was somewhat insipid. Bout but it's just
a beautiful, beautiful bunder ground and keep your hands off.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And I say exactly, yeah, we don't want cars going
through it. And we've had enough of talking about Wellington's
bowling and fielding. I'm settled now. It's a head of breath.
Cony wants to have a savor. I'm going to let
him go.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
No, no, you can't. You can't do that. I've been
left out of so many sides before. Look, I just
think it's a great ground and its location is central.
How many patrons have taken that walk up Courtney from
Courtney Place, you know, and you think about it. You
know there aren't that many open green spaces in the city.
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But yeah, those who want to say get rid of
it for tar seal, you know, they've been tried before
and it provoked a sense of outrage, and so it
should because it's been central to the history of Wellington,
hasn't it. So there you know, right from the tie go,
when when little when what did ships want? Were they
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once there in that shallow lagoon. They came up, Yeah,
they came up Kent Terrace or Cambridge Terrace. And then
then of course an earthquake came and then the prisoners
from Mount Book were set stept on sort of you're
draining it and leveling it and that sort of thing.
And and cricketers said, hey, here's a chance. We've been
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booted out of lots of grounds for buildings. Let's make
it a cricket ground in a public park. And it's been.
It's been a damn good idea, hasn't it. About one
hundred and sixty years of having a focal point for
recreation and leisure. That's fantastic, I think. So, yep, your peat,
your little classial fingers off it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, you can bet on State High one at another time.
As far as I'm can say, let's get back to reality.
Darryl Mitchell has to throne row at Scharna to become
the new number one better in icc ODII rankings. It's
the second time in New Zealander has occupied this bot.
Glenn Turner was there in nineteen seventy nine and the
likes of crow et Cetra didn't quite make number one.
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But I think it just highlights how important he's been
to the New Zealand side in these recent series against Australia,
England and now the Western.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Isn't this a really good story about Mitchell. He he
doesn't sort of look the park per se, but he
he's really settled into himself and looks comfortable in his
own skin, so to speak. Very mature cricketer now can
weather the tough moments, noses game appears extremely well and
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Annow's has become an absolute foot from for the New
Zealand cricket side. I applaud him because he's Yeah, as
I say, he came in somewhat late and now he's
must have can't do without them, So I just say done,
well done you Daryl Mitchell.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Fantastic Jerry you rated him alongside Cain Williamson a couple
of weeks ago. Didto here in terms of his commitment
to the side of what he's been able to achieve.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Oh, he's right at the heart of our side, isn't he.
We all know that, we all know where the runs
come from in a one day match, in particular, the
top four fours a good place to bat, isn't it
because the generally the newness of the of the white
balls has gone. He's got a good method. If you're
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not express pace, he's coming at you and he will
affect that battle of for length and he will attack
bowlers down the ground and if they prepared to drop
short they think they're quick enough, he'll pull them away
to legs side. So he wins that battle quite it.
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He bats out of his crease if the keeper doesn't
come up. He's got he's got a definite method that
everybody knows, but no one's been able to really knock
him off at particularly in New Zealand with the ball
just nipping around. He doesn't allow that to happen. So
a range of shots playing aggressive. He's got an aggressive
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frame of mind and he's been very effective in that
middle order for news and he's now become the Williamson.
As I say in the if Williamson's pulling out of
the white ball games and formats, he's the man who's
holding the glue together.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And Jerry can I add what I really like about
Mitchell is that he plays cricket shots. He'll come down,
hit you over the top straight and as you say
he'll he'll drop back and pull you if you, if you,
if you drag one down proper cricket. Shot doesn't need
to get so called funky. And that's the other bit
that I'd really admire about him, and has power in
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his game, which is what we talked about some time
ago when when I was last letter out of Coventry.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And so and so.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I just think this is a guy who's just developed
and really is comfortable in his own skin.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, he's the model for common sense cricket, isn't it
in terms of discipline shot selection. You know, every now
and again he's going to make a mistake and probably
do something a little bit untoward, because that's the nature
of the white ball game, isn't it to you sometimes
have to take risks. But I think he's been smart,
intelligent and sensible about everything he's done. And he's now
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number one in the ADI game and great stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
How fantastic?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. You guys have highlighted the point
that really, for me, he doesn't get he doesn't get
drawn into the funky. You don't see him reverse sweeping,
do you, not often? You don't see him sweeping very
often either. He's a front footer who goes hard enough
that he gets the hooks and he earns the hooks
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and he earns the cuts.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Are you guys concerned a little bit about the bowling.
I was concerned at the way the bowler's bowled and
the deathovers one hundred and seventeen runs off ten overs.
Was it just the style of the game. Was it
McLean park Napier where I could probably throw from the
boundary to the stumps in the middle on one bounce,
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or have we got a bit of work to do
with our bowlers because there was some you know, there
were some pies tossed in there.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, bit of a combination I think was for me
things like sort of intimate grounds their rugby grounds, really,
aren't they, or Napier certainly is. It's an odd shape,
big hitting lower order for the West Indies. And also
batting with a you know, with a batsman who had
been in for some time so he could control things,
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and some inconsistent deliveries that we've seen, you know, they're
trying to do things. I like the way that Santner
goes to his bowler when he's in trouble and just
clears his mind. And they obviously discuss what sort of
ball is going to be next, and Santana can adjust
the field because of that. But they're just not delivering it,
are they? If it's just you know, Jamison seems to
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go slower balls at the end. Henry tried last night
to go Yorkers and was missing those and getting full tosses,
wasn't he. So it's just the consistency of that, I think,
And it's and it can be quite costly. I thought
that the West Indies have pushed New Zealand twice now
and two tight finishes. I mean, it didn't feel like
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a five wicket win really did it last night?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But credit to the Hope good Knock I have played well.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Isn't isn't isn't he a bit of an enigma?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Or we met that?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I bet it superbly last night. Here's a guy who's
got six thousand runs. He's done it quicker than anybody
in the West Indies than Verv, even quicker than Brian Lara,
and he bettered superbly. What is wrong with the West
Indies game that we don't see that on a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, he came, he came to notice some two or
three years ago or maybe I'm just losing tracks as
a real start in England. If I can recall and
and look to be the you know, the new good thing.
The guy's got talent. But your evidence from the last
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series against Australia in the West Indies their bowling attacked,
heared Australia up, but they just couldn't get runs. And
yet you've got this sort of talent there, latent talent
which came out today, but it just it doesn't come
through consistently enough by the look boll. I've just got
to say good innings.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yep, don't add too much. Actually, wadds. I don't none
of us quite know. Why is it West Indian pictures
that are more difficult. We saw the way that Australia struggled,
you know over there, and also the West Indies in
that recent Test series very low scores. I don't know
about the Batsmen whether that's some of the reason, whether
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some of them are more interested in the cash. We
know that and are giving the longer formats, and even
ODI's is regarded as a longer formats. I think for
some of the West Indies now that they just don't
they're not interested in batting time. They can have frivolous
little twenty fives bit of luck thrown in might be
thirty and then you earn your next gig. They're not
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quite so permitted. I don't think to the longer, longest
format of all. Don't know other than those thoughts and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Also the state of there, wik it's having looked at
that whoever it was a few months back, didn't look great.
It just looked very very hard work, especially when you've
got and now Western's have got a very very useful
pace bowling quartel. We don't have the chosen with us
very good. But you know, when you've got start running
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in on on on less than ideal wickets, that's no,
that's no easy feat. So yeah, you've got to give
them some sort of slack there. But it'll make for
an interesting look this upcoming series.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Brian, Yeah, most definitely will, and the final ode I
will be played in Hamilton of little interest. We've won
that series, but we will be looking at a Test
side next week and I put some names together and
I don't know how you guys feel about it, but
it seems as though in New Zealand are probably going
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to do what England have done.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Pick a predictable side.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
To me, I think there's real certainties there and it
is Latham, Conway, Williamson, Ravendra, Mitchell, Blundele. A slight question
mark Santna, Henry Duffy, Jamison is is that a fair
makeup for the test?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So well?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
For me?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I agree with down to Mitchell. I think I agree
with you with Blundell. I think there are a few questions.
I'm assuming what it would be Hay as a possibility
to go in there, I don't know. I think probably
Blundle will get the first couple of tests. Satny. Yes,
Bracewell doesn't seem to me to be quite in his
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best form at the moment, certainly with the bat he's
not getting many overs even in the ode eyes. The
only name I would throw in with the Seamas Wadds
would be folks with the West Indies top three if
it's Campbell, Chanderpaul Athenay's or left handers poached and swing
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that away from them, so that might be might be
a thought that they will have so the rest, and
I guess Henry will be there and perhaps Jamison with
tall swing would probably be there, so it'll be the
folks Duffy question.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I think pity that Young isn't giving the selectors enough
to think about. I mean, brilliantly in India last year,
was Man of the Series.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, he's he's out of form, Moose isn't he So
that's been the problem for Young. I think. I don't
think in the context of Conway, who was struggling, who's
now recently found form. I think they'll probably go Conway
even though he isn't I know, Moose likes the fact
that he's he's not contractor and therefore, you know, should
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that should come into the decision making process. But I
don't think they will Wads No.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I mean there's the likes of Nathan Smith as a
possibility as well. I mean, he'll probably make the squad. Phillips,
I don't know that he had enough cricket to make
himself a viable option. You know, you talk about Phillips,
you're also talking about Bracewell, aren't you, in terms of
their abilities to add to the squad but perhaps not
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be in the Test team.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I think you're probably right. Phillips was that his
first game against Wellington. I don't think after those long partnerships.
He would regard that as a success. He might have
got a wicked or two. I didn't see. I know
they tago Bold Wellington out yesterday, which was a disappointment
for Wellington on top of their bowling. Yeah, I think
you're right. I think it may be just a little
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bit late for him to make that side. He might
go around the group, but I don't see him being
selected myself in that first or probably the first two tests.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Yeah, and your point Duffy and the folks that you
see them in contention. I mean I see Duffy as
a good opportunity.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well, he bowls his out swing. Jamison can do that,
and also a little bit of in swing as well. Canti.
I just thought that folks say will get that in
swinger going, which will make it difficult for that top
three if those are the selection, all being left hand
as they've got two more other left handers lower in
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the order. And also he can hold a battley but
can't he and useful in the park. So I just look,
it's a close one. It's a close one.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
This series is an opportunity actually to do something with
an eye to the future, much as he's got a
good record, but Henry Nichols is not the future, and
I'd love to see some experimentation or some new players
like Mario who brilliantly against the South African elevens. Let's
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see someone like that come in. Jerry mentioned folks that
would be ideal. This is a chance because against a
lesser nation, shall we say, than performance in terms of Wisdernies,
now's an opportunity to blood some new people.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I think yes, indeed, I mean Henry Nichols came in
and scored runs at domestic level and he came into
the squad for the short form game. Remember he scored
one hundred and fifty in his last tested things and
his last testings in New Zealand he got a double hundred.
I know, yes Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, etc. But you know
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others weren't doing it. So I mean, he's got ten
test hundreds. But you're right. I think we have to
start looking at the future. And you're right in terms
of players that you mentioned all one player, particularly Murray
who opened for the side in South Africa. He's captain
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in Canterbury at the moment, a young man and we
know he's got plenty of talent.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, I look, I say think that there is an
opportunity there. I don't think they'll necessarily and we'll find
out about Rob Walter, won't we his his views on
introducing use and keeping the movement that seems to have
gained a bit of momentum through our a team keep
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that going. I'm not sure though, will they Will they
kick Conway now that he's back in some form, will
they you know, push him aside?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I think he's making it hard because he actually has
come into some sort of form, decent form actually and
looking at it. But I still have the question mark
that you know what, what's coming up in the next
eighty months. His technical deficiencies that have been apparent, I
wonder whether they've gone away and you're going to get
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found out. So question mark remains there. But as I
said before, pretty young hasn't really put the runs on
the ball when it has been given opportunities. Because technically
he surely is one of our most proficient players.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Well, it looks like Bruce Edgar might have to get
back and help Devin Conway because if he's got those deficiencies,
they've been around for a while and I think we've
all noticed that that weakness that Conway has, so you
know that's something for them to search and try and repair.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Brian Waddell Jeremy Coney on the front foot talking about predictable.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Did we all pick the twelve in England have picked
for the first ashes? I got them.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think it was quite predictable, and it's been. It's been,
it's been sort of foreshadowed for quite for some time,
and she was are we looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It most definitely? Shahbashir will be the twelfth man Wady Jerry.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I would think so. Wad's given that it will be
at Perth this first Test match, not at the Whacker,
of course, the Optus which is close by, but it's
still I saw. I think a one day match was
being played there and it certainly had the bounce and
the pace associated with the Whacker, So that'll be interesting.
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And it's also interesting, isn't it that England had their
one effort at warm up at Lilac Hill, which is
quite slow and flat and very different from what I've
just described. I think that they will confront on Friday,
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so yeah, but I don't think there's in change. They're
clearly going to go in with all the pace. I
don't know what you guys think. That just seems to
me both these side have a fragility about them and
it could be described as kind of slightly suspect. Top
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three in both sides some doubts, you know, for Auckland,
sorry for Australia, a thirty one year old on debut
and a thirty eight year old who's going to be
thirty nine and the third Test, you know, that's going
to be interesting to see how he goes against real pace.
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And then of course Lavishane who's batted very well recently
and stacked up some runs. And then of course you've
got some bowlers, bowlers for both sides, some of them
who are already injured and some of them who could
break down any moment, because Woods hasn't played virtually all season.
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He played he bowled what eight overs at Lilac Hill
and then pulled up with a bit of a hamstring problem.
And then you've got Archer, who has played two Tests
in three years. You know, a lot of work perhaps
for Cars and for Atkinson to do the bulk of
the of the bowling. Stokes will obviously come in there intends,
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if anything, to over bowl himself, and then you've got
the comparison with Green who's had problems and maybe underbolt.
So it's quite it's quite interesting the two sides. When
you look at those two factors, I think that are
about them.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Jerry, you use the word fragility, and I think that's
very apt. The way that I look at this series
is one of who can keep or get their bowlers
and keep them on the park for as long as possible,
because there are certainly match winners and when going well,
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they can beat either side. Be that would be that Archer,
be that stark Hazel with a tweet hamstring comes Wen's
he back. But with that, if if they can't keep
them on the on the park, then it becomes much
more unclear to me as to quite how it's going
to play out. And you're right again, the top orders
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both seem quite fragile. And it's interesting that Australia are
looking at bring maybe two players and weather Or and Doggett,
and both of them in their early thirties. Okay, they're
experienced first clas players, but it's just this there's some
there's some there's some searching around isn't there in the
Australian team as to who's going to make make up
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and come into the site. You know, I wondered where
guys like Marcus Harris have gone. McSweeney who they've tested
earlier at opening is the guy from Queensland Renshaw. There's
all these players come and gone, no more to be seen.
But the one thing that I think does tell is
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that the the Australians have actually been playing four day
first class cricket. That counts for a lot and I
and okay, England have been planning for this for for
for several years. But you're right, Jerry lina Hill is
not the whacker or or or of this oval. They
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could could find themselves undone that you know in Test one.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
What do you think was I mean? I mean for me,
I think if you could play, if you could manage
three tests out of the five for Wood, you'd have
done brilliantly.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And Archer, he's always getting injured and stuff. Cast is
the one man who can hold together Atkinson's they're waiting
to to to play his part. I mean, he's named
in their selection. So you know it is an issue
in terms of fitness and the point that Nurse made
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about the fact that the Ossies have been playing Sheffield
Shell cricket. Remember when New Zealand went to a perst
to play that day night game and we all had
a bit of a holiday and we need ten days
off and we got our backside spanked by the Ossies
because you've got to go and you know, Jerry, you've
got to have a bit of experience in Ossie conditions,
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a bit of hard experience to build up for a
Test match, and I don't think England have got it.
I think they've got a good side and they're pretty
even those sides, but I just wonder about their build
up for the series. You know, pace bowling doesn't do
it all, does it well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I mean England are hoping so, aren't they. They're not
going to play a spinner really so, And that's an
interesting point. I mean, if you look at spin in
the series, lion is really a point of difference for Australia.
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England probably won't bowl too many overs of spin. I
don't think they'll have to at some point surely. But
the other point is that Lion's going to be crucial
in bowling overs to enable the likes of Stark to
become fresh again. And can their batsmen bat long enough
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Australia in order to give their bowlers a rest. Same
for England, can their bolt batsmen keep the Aussies out
there long enough and give their about bowlers arrest too?
So that's that's going to be a really important thing.
And can Brook versus Lion it's a very important matchup
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because he'll try and take line down and maybe Root
as well, but he'll be more manipulative about it. Maybe
Crawley's right handers, and they will try and change a
four or five field four on the off, five on
the on to a three six take the slip out.
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They might have to drop people around the bat where
Lyon relies on those people and if that starts happening,
keep an eye on that, that will be advantage England.
So that's an interesting whole scenario. I think that could
play out in this series.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yes, indeed, I'm going to buy them a second bouncer
in the over now too, because we've just about time
to finish here and it's directed at the BCCI and
their cricket pitchers.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
On the front foot and here he goes the bouncer.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
What a load of garbage. That was for a Test
match Eden Gardens, one of the iconic cricket rounds. It
wasn't fit to graze cattle on as far as I'm concerned.
Jason Gillespie put up on a personal opinion. He said,
why don't they allow curators the opportunity to prepare the
best possible surface? They can no expectations from the home team,
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prepare a service to suit them. Sadly, it's been going
on since time began, hasn't it? Preparation of pictures to
seat yourself and it's not going to change. But it
doesn't do the game of Test cricket any good, does it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I watched it with a certain degree of glee as
they went down. I really I quite enjoyed seeing is
that this guy Harmer who's journey.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
He plays county most of the time, doesn't he?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah? Essex.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, there was in bolve beautifully and under the Indian bats.
But I just thought, God, they are a pretty useful
Test side South Africa, aren't they. They got some tough
people in there and they didn't have probably their best
bowler out there. Now, I it's lamentable that the game
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finishes in about two and a half days. But but
it was it was in some ways quite an interesting
and enjoyable victory for South Africa.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Oh yeah, we love that, even though it was South
Africa exactly.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, when you get a pitch like that,
you know, the balance between bat and ball swings wildly
in favor of the bowl as, doesn't it. So batsmen
have to really approach their innings. It's hard enough staying
in and you've got to get runs. Runs matter, and
so you know, you've you've got to take some risks
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and got to work out what shots you can actually play.
And what it does really it brings teams closer together
and superior players are reduced to the level of the
average player and that makes a huge difference, you know,
and innings of fifty as it happened from Bavooma was
a major difference. And you know they used to applaud
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twenty fives in India when I played, So, I mean
it just shows you what the pitchers can be like.
And I mean home advantage has become a way for
sides to score points in the World Test Championship twelve
points for a win, four points for a draw, there's
a hell of a difference between those. So nowadays most
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teams do it, and it's something that if the ICC
don't want to get involved, it's their tournament, then you
know it's going to continue. It's not going to stop.
Very watchable, very watchable, I would say, and a lot
of people would say, bring it on. This is more
like Test frigate. Well, actually it's not the whole aspect
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of time, which is very important, the whole idea of
the Test format. There's time to bowl long spells with
certain bowls. Can you come back? Can you bowl consistently?
Can you put enough revs on the ball in your
fourth kind of spell? So all those things are batsman
who gets and gets one ninety can change again most definitely.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
And I've managed to avoid a sanction from the ICC
for bowling two bouncers in and over. Neither of them
really hit their mark, but at least there was a
point to be made anyway. That brings to an end
another edition of On the Front Foot. Thank you Peter
Holland most for your contribution, and of course Jerry, we'll
be back again next week with another edition of On
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the Front Foot. We'll have the opportunity to review the
first ashes test boy, is that something to look forward to.
I'm looking the lips and the thought of what cricket
is coming up. We've got the Test match in Perth,
there's the day night event being played in Brisbane, and
of course we've got our own Test series starting against
the Western. There's a lot of fun in the head,
a cricket to be enjoy so why don't we go
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out and get on the front foot and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now it's a trick. It is out.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
The test is over.
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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Wow? Was a beauty?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
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Speaker 4 (00:47):
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this week. Black Taps one day shortcomings exposed as they
pushed for another series win. They did just enough from
the lead up to what is an important three match
Test series. Does Mitchell Santner currently the ideal closer in
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whiteball cricket? He shot up more than once that he's
certainly got the qualities the bowling issues one hundred and
seventeen off the last ten overs against the West Indies. Boy,
they've got some hitters that side, but that wasn't enough
to get them through. Could have been costly though. Oh
and it's time for the talk to stop. The ashes
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start in Perth Brendan who India britten in the behind
by four pitch doctoring and the base reserve blame for
Wellington's traffic wows. Some bouncers ready to be delivered might
even need a direct it to the Swede. In fact,
I'm going to bowl a bouncers straight away as I
welcome in. Jeremy Coney and Peter Holland Moose is going
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to join us today and thy support me.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I'm sure they will on the front foot. And here
he goes the bouncer blaming.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
The bait reserved to try and help the Willington Traffick goes,
what about sixty years of poor management by politicians locally?
Leave the basin alone? What's this blooming limp Dick talking about?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Not a fan, Brian, No, no, it's not surprising. He
bowls his first ball a bouncer, is it is it
most runs and just this first over of the match, bouncer.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Pushing himself off the back off the fence, coming in hard.
But can I just say, Can I just say, Brian
that I was actually at the basin on the first
day of the Plunket Shield and it was absolute picture.
I've got to say, you know, the outfield looked wonderful,
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and I must say the Otago batting was rather good
and Wellington's bowling was somewhat insipid. Bout but it's just
a beautiful, beautiful bunder ground and keep your hands off.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And I say exactly, yeah, we don't want cars going
through it. And we've had enough of talking about Wellington's
bowling and fielding. I'm settled now. It's a head of breath.
Cony wants to have a savor. I'm going to let
him go.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
No, no, you can't. You can't do that. I've been
left out of so many sides before. Look, I just
think it's a great ground and its location is central.
How many patrons have taken that walk up Courtney from
Courtney Place, you know, and you think about it. You
know there aren't that many open green spaces in the city.
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But yeah, those who want to say get rid of
it for tar seal, you know, they've been tried before
and it provoked a sense of outrage, and so it
should because it's been central to the history of Wellington,
hasn't it. So there you know, right from the tie go,
when when little when what did ships want? Were they
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once there in that shallow lagoon. They came up, Yeah,
they came up Kent Terrace or Cambridge Terrace. And then
then of course an earthquake came and then the prisoners
from Mount Book were set stept on sort of you're
draining it and leveling it and that sort of thing.
And and cricketers said, hey, here's a chance. We've been
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booted out of lots of grounds for buildings. Let's make
it a cricket ground in a public park. And it's been.
It's been a damn good idea, hasn't it. About one
hundred and sixty years of having a focal point for
recreation and leisure. That's fantastic, I think. So, yep, your peat,
your little classial fingers off it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, you can bet on State High one at another time.
As far as I'm can say, let's get back to reality.
Darryl Mitchell has to throne row at Scharna to become
the new number one better in icc ODII rankings. It's
the second time in New Zealander has occupied this bot.
Glenn Turner was there in nineteen seventy nine and the
likes of crow et Cetra didn't quite make number one.
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But I think it just highlights how important he's been
to the New Zealand side in these recent series against Australia,
England and now the Western.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Isn't this a really good story about Mitchell. He he
doesn't sort of look the park per se, but he
he's really settled into himself and looks comfortable in his
own skin, so to speak. Very mature cricketer now can
weather the tough moments, noses game appears extremely well and
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Annow's has become an absolute foot from for the New
Zealand cricket side. I applaud him because he's Yeah, as
I say, he came in somewhat late and now he's
must have can't do without them, So I just say done,
well done you Daryl Mitchell.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Fantastic Jerry you rated him alongside Cain Williamson a couple
of weeks ago. Didto here in terms of his commitment
to the side of what he's been able to achieve.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Oh, he's right at the heart of our side, isn't he.
We all know that, we all know where the runs
come from in a one day match, in particular, the
top four fours a good place to bat, isn't it
because the generally the newness of the of the white
balls has gone. He's got a good method. If you're
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not express pace, he's coming at you and he will
affect that battle of for length and he will attack
bowlers down the ground and if they prepared to drop
short they think they're quick enough, he'll pull them away
to legs side. So he wins that battle quite it.
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He bats out of his crease if the keeper doesn't
come up. He's got he's got a definite method that
everybody knows, but no one's been able to really knock
him off at particularly in New Zealand with the ball
just nipping around. He doesn't allow that to happen. So
a range of shots playing aggressive. He's got an aggressive
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frame of mind and he's been very effective in that
middle order for news and he's now become the Williamson.
As I say in the if Williamson's pulling out of
the white ball games and formats, he's the man who's
holding the glue together.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And Jerry can I add what I really like about
Mitchell is that he plays cricket shots. He'll come down,
hit you over the top straight and as you say
he'll he'll drop back and pull you if you, if you,
if you drag one down proper cricket. Shot doesn't need
to get so called funky. And that's the other bit
that I'd really admire about him, and has power in
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his game, which is what we talked about some time
ago when when I was last letter out of Coventry.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And so and so.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I just think this is a guy who's just developed
and really is comfortable in his own skin.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, he's the model for common sense cricket, isn't it
in terms of discipline shot selection. You know, every now
and again he's going to make a mistake and probably
do something a little bit untoward, because that's the nature
of the white ball game, isn't it to you sometimes
have to take risks. But I think he's been smart,
intelligent and sensible about everything he's done. And he's now
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number one in the ADI game and great stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
How fantastic?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. You guys have highlighted the point
that really, for me, he doesn't get he doesn't get
drawn into the funky. You don't see him reverse sweeping,
do you, not often? You don't see him sweeping very
often either. He's a front footer who goes hard enough
that he gets the hooks and he earns the hooks
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and he earns the cuts.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Are you guys concerned a little bit about the bowling.
I was concerned at the way the bowler's bowled and
the deathovers one hundred and seventeen runs off ten overs.
Was it just the style of the game. Was it
McLean park Napier where I could probably throw from the
boundary to the stumps in the middle on one bounce,
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or have we got a bit of work to do
with our bowlers because there was some you know, there
were some pies tossed in there.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, bit of a combination I think was for me
things like sort of intimate grounds their rugby grounds, really,
aren't they, or Napier certainly is. It's an odd shape,
big hitting lower order for the West Indies. And also
batting with a you know, with a batsman who had
been in for some time so he could control things,
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and some inconsistent deliveries that we've seen, you know, they're
trying to do things. I like the way that Santner
goes to his bowler when he's in trouble and just
clears his mind. And they obviously discuss what sort of
ball is going to be next, and Santana can adjust
the field because of that. But they're just not delivering it,
are they? If it's just you know, Jamison seems to
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go slower balls at the end. Henry tried last night
to go Yorkers and was missing those and getting full tosses,
wasn't he. So it's just the consistency of that, I think,
And it's and it can be quite costly. I thought
that the West Indies have pushed New Zealand twice now
and two tight finishes. I mean, it didn't feel like
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a five wicket win really did it last night?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But credit to the Hope good Knock I have played well.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Isn't isn't isn't he a bit of an enigma?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Or we met that?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I bet it superbly last night. Here's a guy who's
got six thousand runs. He's done it quicker than anybody
in the West Indies than Verv, even quicker than Brian Lara,
and he bettered superbly. What is wrong with the West
Indies game that we don't see that on a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, he came, he came to notice some two or
three years ago or maybe I'm just losing tracks as
a real start in England. If I can recall and
and look to be the you know, the new good thing.
The guy's got talent. But your evidence from the last
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series against Australia in the West Indies their bowling attacked,
heared Australia up, but they just couldn't get runs. And
yet you've got this sort of talent there, latent talent
which came out today, but it just it doesn't come
through consistently enough by the look boll. I've just got
to say good innings.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yep, don't add too much. Actually, wadds. I don't none
of us quite know. Why is it West Indian pictures
that are more difficult. We saw the way that Australia struggled,
you know over there, and also the West Indies in
that recent Test series very low scores. I don't know
about the Batsmen whether that's some of the reason, whether
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some of them are more interested in the cash. We
know that and are giving the longer formats, and even
ODI's is regarded as a longer formats. I think for
some of the West Indies now that they just don't
they're not interested in batting time. They can have frivolous
little twenty fives bit of luck thrown in might be
thirty and then you earn your next gig. They're not
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quite so permitted. I don't think to the longer, longest
format of all. Don't know other than those thoughts and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Also the state of there, wik it's having looked at
that whoever it was a few months back, didn't look great.
It just looked very very hard work, especially when you've
got and now Western's have got a very very useful
pace bowling quartel. We don't have the chosen with us
very good. But you know, when you've got start running
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in on on on less than ideal wickets, that's no,
that's no easy feat. So yeah, you've got to give
them some sort of slack there. But it'll make for
an interesting look this upcoming series.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Brian, Yeah, most definitely will, and the final ode I
will be played in Hamilton of little interest. We've won
that series, but we will be looking at a Test
side next week and I put some names together and
I don't know how you guys feel about it, but
it seems as though in New Zealand are probably going
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to do what England have done.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Pick a predictable side.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
To me, I think there's real certainties there and it
is Latham, Conway, Williamson, Ravendra, Mitchell, Blundele. A slight question
mark Santna, Henry Duffy, Jamison is is that a fair
makeup for the test?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So well?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
For me?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I agree with down to Mitchell. I think I agree
with you with Blundell. I think there are a few questions.
I'm assuming what it would be Hay as a possibility
to go in there, I don't know. I think probably
Blundle will get the first couple of tests. Satny. Yes,
Bracewell doesn't seem to me to be quite in his
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best form at the moment, certainly with the bat he's
not getting many overs even in the ode eyes. The
only name I would throw in with the Seamas Wadds
would be folks with the West Indies top three if
it's Campbell, Chanderpaul Athenay's or left handers poached and swing
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that away from them, so that might be might be
a thought that they will have so the rest, and
I guess Henry will be there and perhaps Jamison with
tall swing would probably be there, so it'll be the
folks Duffy question.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I think pity that Young isn't giving the selectors enough
to think about. I mean, brilliantly in India last year,
was Man of the Series.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, he's he's out of form, Moose isn't he So
that's been the problem for Young. I think. I don't
think in the context of Conway, who was struggling, who's
now recently found form. I think they'll probably go Conway
even though he isn't I know, Moose likes the fact
that he's he's not contractor and therefore, you know, should
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that should come into the decision making process. But I
don't think they will Wads No.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I mean there's the likes of Nathan Smith as a
possibility as well. I mean, he'll probably make the squad. Phillips,
I don't know that he had enough cricket to make
himself a viable option. You know, you talk about Phillips,
you're also talking about Bracewell, aren't you, in terms of
their abilities to add to the squad but perhaps not
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be in the Test team.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I think you're probably right. Phillips was that his
first game against Wellington. I don't think after those long partnerships.
He would regard that as a success. He might have
got a wicked or two. I didn't see. I know
they tago Bold Wellington out yesterday, which was a disappointment
for Wellington on top of their bowling. Yeah, I think
you're right. I think it may be just a little
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bit late for him to make that side. He might
go around the group, but I don't see him being
selected myself in that first or probably the first two tests.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Yeah, and your point Duffy and the folks that you
see them in contention. I mean I see Duffy as
a good opportunity.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well, he bowls his out swing. Jamison can do that,
and also a little bit of in swing as well. Canti.
I just thought that folks say will get that in
swinger going, which will make it difficult for that top
three if those are the selection, all being left hand
as they've got two more other left handers lower in
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the order. And also he can hold a battley but
can't he and useful in the park. So I just look,
it's a close one. It's a close one.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
This series is an opportunity actually to do something with
an eye to the future, much as he's got a
good record, but Henry Nichols is not the future, and
I'd love to see some experimentation or some new players
like Mario who brilliantly against the South African elevens. Let's
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see someone like that come in. Jerry mentioned folks that
would be ideal. This is a chance because against a
lesser nation, shall we say, than performance in terms of Wisdernies,
now's an opportunity to blood some new people.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I think yes, indeed, I mean Henry Nichols came in
and scored runs at domestic level and he came into
the squad for the short form game. Remember he scored
one hundred and fifty in his last tested things and
his last testings in New Zealand he got a double hundred.
I know, yes Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, etc. But you know
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others weren't doing it. So I mean, he's got ten
test hundreds. But you're right. I think we have to
start looking at the future. And you're right in terms
of players that you mentioned all one player, particularly Murray
who opened for the side in South Africa. He's captain
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in Canterbury at the moment, a young man and we
know he's got plenty of talent.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, I look, I say think that there is an
opportunity there. I don't think they'll necessarily and we'll find
out about Rob Walter, won't we his his views on
introducing use and keeping the movement that seems to have
gained a bit of momentum through our a team keep
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that going. I'm not sure though, will they Will they
kick Conway now that he's back in some form, will
they you know, push him aside?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I think he's making it hard because he actually has
come into some sort of form, decent form actually and
looking at it. But I still have the question mark
that you know what, what's coming up in the next
eighty months. His technical deficiencies that have been apparent, I
wonder whether they've gone away and you're going to get
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found out. So question mark remains there. But as I
said before, pretty young hasn't really put the runs on
the ball when it has been given opportunities. Because technically
he surely is one of our most proficient players.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Well, it looks like Bruce Edgar might have to get
back and help Devin Conway because if he's got those deficiencies,
they've been around for a while and I think we've
all noticed that that weakness that Conway has, so you
know that's something for them to search and try and repair.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Brian Waddell Jeremy Coney on the front foot talking about predictable.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Did we all pick the twelve in England have picked
for the first ashes? I got them.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think it was quite predictable, and it's been. It's been,
it's been sort of foreshadowed for quite for some time,
and she was are we looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It most definitely? Shahbashir will be the twelfth man Wady Jerry.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I would think so. Wad's given that it will be
at Perth this first Test match, not at the Whacker,
of course, the Optus which is close by, but it's
still I saw. I think a one day match was
being played there and it certainly had the bounce and
the pace associated with the Whacker, So that'll be interesting.
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And it's also interesting, isn't it that England had their
one effort at warm up at Lilac Hill, which is
quite slow and flat and very different from what I've
just described. I think that they will confront on Friday,
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so yeah, but I don't think there's in change. They're
clearly going to go in with all the pace. I
don't know what you guys think. That just seems to
me both these side have a fragility about them and
it could be described as kind of slightly suspect. Top
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three in both sides some doubts, you know, for Auckland,
sorry for Australia, a thirty one year old on debut
and a thirty eight year old who's going to be
thirty nine and the third Test, you know, that's going
to be interesting to see how he goes against real pace.
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And then of course Lavishane who's batted very well recently
and stacked up some runs. And then of course you've
got some bowlers, bowlers for both sides, some of them
who are already injured and some of them who could
break down any moment, because Woods hasn't played virtually all season.
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He played he bowled what eight overs at Lilac Hill
and then pulled up with a bit of a hamstring problem.
And then you've got Archer, who has played two Tests
in three years. You know, a lot of work perhaps
for Cars and for Atkinson to do the bulk of
the of the bowling. Stokes will obviously come in there intends,
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if anything, to over bowl himself, and then you've got
the comparison with Green who's had problems and maybe underbolt.
So it's quite it's quite interesting the two sides. When
you look at those two factors, I think that are
about them.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Jerry, you use the word fragility, and I think that's
very apt. The way that I look at this series
is one of who can keep or get their bowlers
and keep them on the park for as long as possible,
because there are certainly match winners and when going well,
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they can beat either side. Be that would be that Archer,
be that stark Hazel with a tweet hamstring comes Wen's
he back. But with that, if if they can't keep
them on the on the park, then it becomes much
more unclear to me as to quite how it's going
to play out. And you're right again, the top orders
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both seem quite fragile. And it's interesting that Australia are
looking at bring maybe two players and weather Or and Doggett,
and both of them in their early thirties. Okay, they're
experienced first clas players, but it's just this there's some
there's some there's some searching around isn't there in the
Australian team as to who's going to make make up
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and come into the site. You know, I wondered where
guys like Marcus Harris have gone. McSweeney who they've tested
earlier at opening is the guy from Queensland Renshaw. There's
all these players come and gone, no more to be seen.
But the one thing that I think does tell is
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that the the Australians have actually been playing four day
first class cricket. That counts for a lot and I
and okay, England have been planning for this for for
for several years. But you're right, Jerry lina Hill is
not the whacker or or or of this oval. They
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could could find themselves undone that you know in Test one.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
What do you think was I mean? I mean for me,
I think if you could play, if you could manage
three tests out of the five for Wood, you'd have
done brilliantly.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And Archer, he's always getting injured and stuff. Cast is
the one man who can hold together Atkinson's they're waiting
to to to play his part. I mean, he's named
in their selection. So you know it is an issue
in terms of fitness and the point that Nurse made
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about the fact that the Ossies have been playing Sheffield
Shell cricket. Remember when New Zealand went to a perst
to play that day night game and we all had
a bit of a holiday and we need ten days
off and we got our backside spanked by the Ossies
because you've got to go and you know, Jerry, you've
got to have a bit of experience in Ossie conditions,
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a bit of hard experience to build up for a
Test match, and I don't think England have got it.
I think they've got a good side and they're pretty
even those sides, but I just wonder about their build
up for the series. You know, pace bowling doesn't do
it all, does it well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I mean England are hoping so, aren't they. They're not
going to play a spinner really so, And that's an
interesting point. I mean, if you look at spin in
the series, lion is really a point of difference for Australia.
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England probably won't bowl too many overs of spin. I
don't think they'll have to at some point surely. But
the other point is that Lion's going to be crucial
in bowling overs to enable the likes of Stark to
become fresh again. And can their batsmen bat long enough
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Australia in order to give their bowlers a rest. Same
for England, can their bolt batsmen keep the Aussies out
there long enough and give their about bowlers arrest too?
So that's that's going to be a really important thing.
And can Brook versus Lion it's a very important matchup
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because he'll try and take line down and maybe Root
as well, but he'll be more manipulative about it. Maybe
Crawley's right handers, and they will try and change a
four or five field four on the off, five on
the on to a three six take the slip out.
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They might have to drop people around the bat where
Lyon relies on those people and if that starts happening,
keep an eye on that, that will be advantage England.
So that's an interesting whole scenario. I think that could
play out in this series.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yes, indeed, I'm going to buy them a second bouncer
in the over now too, because we've just about time
to finish here and it's directed at the BCCI and
their cricket pitchers.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
On the front foot and here he goes the bouncer.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
What a load of garbage. That was for a Test
match Eden Gardens, one of the iconic cricket rounds. It
wasn't fit to graze cattle on as far as I'm concerned.
Jason Gillespie put up on a personal opinion. He said,
why don't they allow curators the opportunity to prepare the
best possible surface? They can no expectations from the home team,
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prepare a service to suit them. Sadly, it's been going
on since time began, hasn't it? Preparation of pictures to
seat yourself and it's not going to change. But it
doesn't do the game of Test cricket any good, does it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I watched it with a certain degree of glee as
they went down. I really I quite enjoyed seeing is
that this guy Harmer who's journey.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
He plays county most of the time, doesn't he?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah? Essex.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, there was in bolve beautifully and under the Indian bats.
But I just thought, God, they are a pretty useful
Test side South Africa, aren't they. They got some tough
people in there and they didn't have probably their best
bowler out there. Now, I it's lamentable that the game
(30:12):
finishes in about two and a half days. But but
it was it was in some ways quite an interesting
and enjoyable victory for South Africa.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Oh yeah, we love that, even though it was South
Africa exactly.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, when you get a pitch like that,
you know, the balance between bat and ball swings wildly
in favor of the bowl as, doesn't it. So batsmen
have to really approach their innings. It's hard enough staying
in and you've got to get runs. Runs matter, and
so you know, you've you've got to take some risks
(30:54):
and got to work out what shots you can actually play.
And what it does really it brings teams closer together
and superior players are reduced to the level of the
average player and that makes a huge difference, you know,
and innings of fifty as it happened from Bavooma was
a major difference. And you know they used to applaud
(31:18):
twenty fives in India when I played, So, I mean
it just shows you what the pitchers can be like.
And I mean home advantage has become a way for
sides to score points in the World Test Championship twelve
points for a win, four points for a draw, there's
a hell of a difference between those. So nowadays most
(31:39):
teams do it, and it's something that if the ICC
don't want to get involved, it's their tournament, then you
know it's going to continue. It's not going to stop.
Very watchable, very watchable, I would say, and a lot
of people would say, bring it on. This is more
like Test frigate. Well, actually it's not the whole aspect
(32:03):
of time, which is very important, the whole idea of
the Test format. There's time to bowl long spells with
certain bowls. Can you come back? Can you bowl consistently?
Can you put enough revs on the ball in your
fourth kind of spell? So all those things are batsman
who gets and gets one ninety can change again most definitely.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
And I've managed to avoid a sanction from the ICC
for bowling two bouncers in and over. Neither of them
really hit their mark, but at least there was a
point to be made anyway. That brings to an end
another edition of On the Front Foot. Thank you Peter
Holland most for your contribution, and of course Jerry, we'll
be back again next week with another edition of On
(32:48):
the Front Foot. We'll have the opportunity to review the
first ashes test boy, is that something to look forward to.
I'm looking the lips and the thought of what cricket
is coming up. We've got the Test match in Perth,
there's the day night event being played in Brisbane, and
of course we've got our own Test series starting against
the Western. There's a lot of fun in the head,
a cricket to be enjoy so why don't we go
(33:12):
out and get on the front foot and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It all the world a qualities That'summarting do.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
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