April 23, 2026 • 35 mins
This week on On The Front Foot, Bryan Waddle and Jeremy Coney react to the rumours around the appointment of the new NZ Cricket CEO.
They also discuss whether anything was achieved in the ODI series in Bangladesh, and whether there’s room for any new talent in the test squad for England.
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hello, We're on the front foot. Well, the New Zealand
cricket team, the black Caps probably weren't on the front foot.
A limp batting display against Banglavik settled the ode I
series in the heats of Cheta Graham used to be
known as Chittagong, which was a hell of a lot easy
to say. Was anything meaningful achieved from that one day series.
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Heap and Boyle continue to impress in Sri Lanka with
the a's will any new faces make the fifteen man
squad for England and the leaky rumor SI says that
former paceballer Jeff Allett is likely to get the CEO's
job at New Zealand Cricket. If it's true, is it
a good option? I don't know. The interesting the names
(01:32):
I've heard, Peter Holland and Jeremy Coney will us again
on the front foot lead Jamon, Jeff Allett and Rayleian Castle.
Well now Rallian Castle's back with New Zealand Sports signed
or twenty twenty nine. Jerry, So, I guess it's between
Allott and Jamon.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I think Jamon's pulled out too, hasn't he wadds. I
thought I saw something somewhere to say that at least
they're both cricketers former cricketers.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That's a bonus.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I think you need to know the game intimately. And
I think also uh and the fans. I think you
need to to be That's one of the main roles,
isn't it. Most she'll know that so that they they've
got to be aware the board.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
He spoke to me last night or when he.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Had just seen seeds at the favorite watering hole and it.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Was the Cambridge Terrorist Community Center.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Jerry, Yes, okay, yeah, and uh and and and you
really I think we we did mention at some point
about Allott and Jimon and also the role of New
Zealand cricket and the board.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And and and and part of this was was triggered
by some of the correspondents that Brian had has has
received from from listeners to to our to our meanderings
on on the on the wireless, so to speak. That
I and and and what got me is particularly with
our previous conversation that we'd had with respect to decisions
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concerning the T twenty and it came to me thinking about, well, actually,
what do the board members owe duties do they owe
to the cricket community. And the cricket community is fans,
the people. It's not sectional interests such as players only.
It's the broader community, if you will. And I just
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wonder whether, in fact, I would like for them to
explain to us how they believe that they are meeting
the obligations in terms of the duties they owe to
the community for the greater good of the sport here
and not just to line some pockets of some people,
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which then brings you back squarely to the role of
the CEO in order to implement the requirements of the board.
And clearly there was a clash which caused the previous
CEO to leave. I think we still have and I
would posit the view that anyone who takes on that
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role as a CEO is in for a very tough
and challenging year or two because cash is short. There
may be cash flying for the T twenty, but that's
not for the New Zealand Cricket necessarily, so the demands
will continue. So I wish that person well. And Jeff
seems to be a pretty sensible person.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah indeed, and he was on the board for a
considerable period of time. I only concern, of course, is
that that board has become rather negative to some extent,
or has received negative press from many quarters. And their
ability to spend money and raise money is important, I suppose.
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But their whole job is the administration of the game,
as you say, most not just T twenty competitions and
international players. It's the guy that plays down at Cornwall
Park or Nenville Park or Hagley Park and christ Church
or even in the outlying reaches of New Zealand. Their
responsibility is the administration of the game.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
YEP, community cricket, and that's where the future players come from.
They have an obligation to try and arrange various things
so that anybody who wants to enjoy the game in
New Zealand has the opportunity to do so, and so
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in an organized way. It's not playing on the beach necessarily,
but to have structured kind of competitions throughout a potential
players playing Korea. So that's that's their job, and to
keep people interested in the game generally and to be
able to put it in front of them. So I
don't I don't have any problem with what either of
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you two are saying there about that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
There's a slight concern in the back of my mind.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Has Jeff All has ever been involved in some business
kind of operations with say, people like Fleming or you know,
people who have worked with India particularly. I'm just a
wee bit concerned that there might be an ongoing relationship
between those two when he's going to have to if
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he's going to be the CEO, has to make decisions
outside of that and consider exactly what Moose has just
been talking about and still have a past and a
history with some of the players who are pushing that
particular option. That's my just a little question mark in
the back of my mind because I've heard those names
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together a number of times.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
In business terms.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I believe that that is correct theory and in the
in the off use and phrase conflict. I don't know
that that would require And this is not this is
not casting any dispersions about ours, but you'll have to
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tread a very careful line in order to ensure that
previous relationships and and there's nothing against that either, of
course not but but or that person must be focused
about what it is that the obligations and the duty
day o to the cricket community in its broadest sense,
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and not a select few, as it were, And that
will be tricky for for any person who tax on
that role, really.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Would We'll have to wait and see what the announcement
is in terms of at It's only a rumor, as
they say, but those rumors are fairly strong around the country.
So we'll wait and see what happens when an announcement
has made and what plans are put forward. I know
when the last Chief executive came in he had great
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plans for test cricket, but we haven't seen them, so
we'll just have to wait and see. Talking about plans
for test cricket, we'll be talking about our squad to
go to England shortly. But I just want to reflect
on the trip to Bangladesh by the New Zealand side
black Caps. They were beaten. I've got to say I
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tossed the toys again when they were three down chasing
two hundred and sixty five and decided sleep was better
than watching cricket. I missed Foxcroft hitting something like seven
six is and doing a number down the order, but
it came a little bit too late. I just I'm
still sort of wondering at the rationale of going to
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forty two degrees and playing ODI cricket at this time
of the year. And to me, while any experience should
be a good experience, seems to me a pointless exercise.
And they've lost the series two one.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And lost I think is yes, I would say they
got soundly beaten in the last matches.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I was trying to be nice, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yes, yeh and yeah, and diplomatic, which is not something
I'd always.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Around the bush.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I can't help but think that the opportunities to provide
or give give opportunities to a broader number of players
like Fotscroft, like Clark's and a bass in those conditions,
because we have to face the fact that we're going
to play a lot of cricket in the subcontinent. If
we have to be relevant in any way, shape or form,
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that's probably a reality of it. And so exposure to
these conditions against what I will say, it was a
pretty good sign. And can I just make it make
it another another comment. The quick bowling, I've got to say,
took me by surprise this and yeah, uinely, genuinely good bowlers,
and so I'm giving them, giving them a hat off
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to them. I thought that the way they played, I
thought they played damn good cricket. Okay in their backyard,
but well well done, blanded dish we went. We weren't
close enough with the New Zealand a team so to speak.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That go right. I was bowling at one forty five,
concrestently by the old slower ball. But boy, he's tall
and he gets good bounce and generates pace. He's going
to be an interesting one to watch.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And that was in those conditions. I mean, get him
on something a little bit bouncy in green over over
this side, well that'll be that'll be interesting, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, they've certainly found someone, haven't they. They they cleaned
up Pakistan just before they met the New Zealanders.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He is.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You're right, he's the sort of the key.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
To it, claiming wickets one forty five to one fifty.
He was, wasn't he quite and quite consistently and also
pretty accurate. It wasn't as it was firing it down
leg side and then one outside that she could have
a crack out, you know, you know, over to third
man and so on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
He held his pace, He had a good wrist, you
know that he was flicking it down as well as
tall and lean as you say, wads I thought he was.
He was a really good look actually, and went well
with Shoreful, who was very tight at the other end.
The left armor, who we've seen before but is really
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again tidied up and become much more consistent.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Mustafis was there last night.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well we know he's got the variations, particularly at the
back end. He surprised Nichols, didn't he with a short
one last night and hurried him. I mean, the runs
were the problems for New Zealand, effectively.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Weren't there.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
There was just no one getting collid runs at the
top of the order.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Young and Latham at.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Three and four Young thirty two nineteen Latham fourteen, fourteen
and five. You've got to have more from that, from
those two positions, and that put a great deal of
pressure on players like Kelly, who came out of it
again quite well, even though it was a strange and
odd dismissal last night, sort of lurching his way from
outside leg to off went outside of stump, hitting it
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to sort of a straight cover.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So I think we had a few little gains, though
I don't think it was totally wasted.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yes, the heat got to.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Us, no doubt about that, especially when you field first there.
But I thought O'Rourke improved. He's a key man for us.
He got some competitive bowling in the legs, bowling around
the wicket a little bit more than he normally does.
He's learning to get off the wicket, which is not
his natural thing, because he wants to lean away, doesn't he,
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which is leaning if you're round the wicket to all
the center of the pitch. I thought Smith made a
few little movements as well. He's starting to.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Swing the ball.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I thought that his couple of not outs were handy
lower down the order in the first two matches, and
he's getting wickets in the powerplay I thought Lenox continued
his improvement in the heat. I thought it was a
weird team that they selected last night. To be honest
with you, it didn't make sense when you got obviously
two opening bowlers, and that's Smith and O'Rourke. That lister,
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who really is only a swing bowler, comes in straight
after that and the ball's not swinging, So what does
he do? For heaven's sake, that's his strength, that's how
he gets wickets. He was forced to bowl wide for
a start and then sort of across seam for the
rest of his overs, and that did show some limitations
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that he had in that role. Then Muhammader Bass bowled
a few. He did okay. He was sort of gripping
the ball a little bit and bowling little left arm
off spinners coming back into the left handers. But he
wasn't threatening and so really they only had three bowlers O'Rourke,
Smith and Lennox. They tried a bit of Foxcroft, they
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tried a bit of fox Trot, they tried a bit
of Clarkson, they tried a bit of a bass and listen.
So they didn't really have the bowlers to continue the
decent start. They had and so they you know, they
chased a big total and they seemed to all be
getting out to me to the horizontal batshots they did
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in game two Bastard, Kelly did, Foxcroft did, and technical
not quite so important.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And in game three you know you had.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Nichols did, Latham did a sweepless time lower down horizontal
and are bastard as well. So that's that's been a
common thread for me about that part. Make you a lot,
But I think there were things there you maybe have
to look a little bit harder, but the runs clearly
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with the difference.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But then picking up on that, from what I understand
is if the if the opposition's bowling is quite good,
then runs are quite often hard to come by. I
think that's how it works. So we have to pace,
you know, due respect to Bangladesh, but we were found
a little bit wanting. I think the one that the
one player that I'm disappointed about it, and I guess
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he will be as well as is Will Young. He
was our best player arguably in that Test series against
India a little while back, and really since then it
hasn't hasn't come on, so to speak. And you touched
on a little bit earlier that his output wasn't great Jerry,
and I just I'm disappointed for New Zealand Cricket because
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he looked so fantastic in that series, but we really
haven't seen too much of that sense, which is a
petty for us as as New Zealand Cricket followers. But
no doubt he's he's not that thrill either. But I
think by and large there were some pluses in there
to see Fox Foxcroft and Clarkson and a bass and
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Nick Kelly and Smith Smith coming on. There was I
think better for having gone and and done it. And
okay they got beaten, but but you learn from it,
I think if you if you're good enough.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. Indeed, interesting that you mentioned those names, and I
guess the one that is significant is young and will
he be part of the squad going to England?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We asked last week for people to come forward with
their ideas of a squad of fifteen and I'll just
pick one out. A guy who thinks that Jeremy is
a very very good broadcaster and congratulates I'm getting into it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
To pick up the fact that I actually wrote that
once for him.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm just going to say, Jerry's changed his name to
Paul and has said in a team, and he hasn't
picked a bad side. I think thirteen of them make
good sense to me, and I go quickly through it. Latham, Conway,
Ravendra Williamson, Mitchell Phillips, Blundell Smith, Henry Duffy, O'Rourke, Santna
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and Jamison. And the last two Henry Nichols and Ajz
Patel now interesting calls. Paul says. Nichols domestic form edges
out will Young for him, and he likes Ajs. Pattell.
I mean I do too, but I just wonder whether,
on top of the spin talent you've got there, whether
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a Jaz is going to be part of that squad
and you might need another seamer like Tickner or Sears
or or the like, or even Fuchs the all rounder.
How do you say that, Moose?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I mean I always lovel this as that, because there's
no right or wrong, and we will probably should be
the selectors, but no one's ever asters. More's the pity,
I think. But I I look at this and Young
I would like to see, but I don't think he
makes it. Patel, I think you're right because we've already
got satin in their bowling left left arm. The guy
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that I would like to see because he gives quite
a lot is Michael Bracewell. Bats yeah, really good for you,
has leadership qualities which I think helps in all of this.
Devin Conway, I put a question mark around him. I'm
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just not sure. I don't think he's sorted out that technique,
that rising one up on his on his on his
on his hip. And because the English, all things being equal,
will come with some pace archer and there, and they've
got a few others knocking around there, so they're going
to make it awkward for for Conway. And I'm from
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that wonderful start. I think he's he's come off the
ball well and the other one, which I'm sorry to say,
being a Wellingtonian, I would probably go with Hey rather
than Blundle. He just seems to be offering more, particularly
with the bat and a certainly refine keeper. So this
is all, this is all good stuff, but I yeah,
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I would. I got more questions than I have answers
to this.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I had a chat to Mose a couple of nights
ago and we had an interesting conversation, including some of
those he's just mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I've had a kind of a rethink.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I think, you know, this is not really a tour
in the sense of developing a player.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't think it is. It's a test tour, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It's three games, three tests, or four you could count.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But let's just look at the England part particularly.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's not, not, in my opinion, a series to blood
new players. Don't forget if we blood a player there,
they're the ones who are going to Big heading over
to face Cummins and Hazelwood and Stark and.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Bowland in a few months time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Blooding players is quite a sort of a careful thing,
I think, and it has to be treated that way.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You generally want. They'd like to do it at.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Home, as he was, you know, at Wellington, that kind
of approach. But to go to Lord's and introduce a
new player is a question mark in my mind. Then
we get someone like say a Williamson, for example, who's
indicated he's available for this tour, and New Zealand do
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need that solidity there. How long However, is Kine going
to keep playing. He's thirty six, he's got three kids,
He's pulled out a tween twenties, he's.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And not quite so.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You know seen around ODIs now he plays the odd tests,
doesn't he and the ones that he wants to play,
and he's certainly earned those that kind of position. But
how long is it going to be? Would you say
two years? Would be thirty eight?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'd say the Australian series.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Has got to be some plan over the next year
or so for someone to go into three.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, there's Test matches against India here in New Zealand
before Australia, after the England series, then there's Australia, then
there's Sri Lanka coming here and then a Test series
in Pakistan, Who've got thirteen Test matches in the next
twelve months, which is quite a lot. And some of
those A players who would obviously come into contention, the
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likes of Heafi Marriou and even Robinson now after his
batting in Sri Lanka, they may be further down the line.
But I'm not sure that you're right. I'm sure that
you're right in terms of England is not a place
to blood somebody and send them out to Lords on
their first Test match after a warm up game in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't know most you and he comment about all
that much.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The other point I would make very quickly is we
know the method of our selectors, don't we Yes, they
tend to be conservative.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
One of Onslow's finest, and and so what more can
I say?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Coney's not a selector.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
He was, he was on Slow's finest. May have the
Williamton Club champions Now.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Oh sorry, oh oh, I take that all back there.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, goodness me, Jerry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to let
that loosely on. I think that that's totally harsh and unfair.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well I didn't hear it once, thank heavens.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh good we're.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Learning quickly on. I think Williamson that absolutely the right.
But when you're thirty six, you're coming, you're coming to
that phase where the reactions aren't quite what they were,
and when you're up against and in Australia where he
hasn't gone that well, that's going to be going to
be interesting. And I think the one that the place
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where we do want to prove ourselves is surely Australia,
because I think we've we've we know we can play
in England and we can be competitive there, but Australia
is the one. But if you're thirty six thirty seven
in Australia, that's going to be tough, tough for Williamson,
but hey, we'll see. The one who I'd like to
see more out of is Revendra and the English certainly
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worked them out last time they played here, short short
outside off and he kept following it. So he's he's
got a lot to prove. I mean, wonderful player that
he is and when he gets going. But yeah, there's
real talent that we do have, but it's harnessing it
and I frankly would like to see some of these
players come on. This Guyry he seems he seems to
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be a fabulous prospect. I like to see Hay in
there in place of Blundell, who's just not given us,
giving us enough, sad to say, compared with a few
years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But I might just point out that he was a
big scorer domestically for Wellington because it's all the cricket
that he's had over the season. So he did win
the Wellington Cricketer of the Year and performed all but yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
There was a lot of competition in the Wellington was there.
They didn't go that good this year.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I didn't. I didn't bring that up.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
There's trading of insults. I love hearing this.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
That's excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Carry on, Moose.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
But I but I do. But I do think Blundell,
that player we had two or three years ago, is
not it doesn't seem to be there, but that they
will go with them. I'm pretty sure because that's that's
that has been their their remo, so to speak, and
and by a large, hey, it's been pretty successful. But
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we we're going to be wanting a lot from Mitchell,
Ravendra and and and the likes up the top of
the order there. So Phillips, I just wonder about that
a bit seems to get included anyway. I'm able to
go with in Test cricket with a brace rather than Phillips.
That's me so I yeah, I wait with some interest,
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Jerry will will you be over there around that time
when they're playing.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yes, I'm over there, sort of opening my mouth again.
I'm sorry, but you guys easily avoid that by changing
the station and doing something better.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
The best player.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yea, they should play the third Test at Nnville. But look, guys,
I just have the feeling that the wave of England
enthusiasm that swept through the last time I was there
in twenty twenty two when New Zealand played England won
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that series three nil and it felt unstoppable, you know.
And now I think supporters turned against them, and we
should be very wary of a wounded team. I think
they've been subjected to a wealth of dislike and criticism
from a lot of quarters, and they've been told that
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they're too relaxed and they have no specialists, of they're
playing too much golf. There's incidents off the field as
poor preparation. So on ad nauseum they will be very
keen I think to close ranks and show what they
can do, whether that criticism is founded or otherwise, so
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there will be changes in their side. You would expect
to show that they've been listening. I think an opener
is on the cards. I would guess, well, they've got
a keeper who doesn't keep for the county championship, but
he's getting lots of runs.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Will they pick a spinner in June? I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
They'll probably play four seamers, I would have thought, and
it would be Stokes and Tongue and Archer as you mentioned,
Moose and either Pass or Atkinson, and they will be
the main bowlers. I would think with Stokes, as I say,
to back them up. New Zealand I think will go
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with an eight to seven split eight batsmen, in other words,
seven bowlers, the batsmen being basically Lathan, Conway, Williams and
Revendra Mitchell, and some of them are a bit more
loose at the start, as you pointed out Moose Ravendra,
but he's so dangerous he's obviously there, Mitchell determined, Blundle Phillips.
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Probably they will go with normally He's seven, isn't he?
And Blundle six and it's just a question of that
last position. But I would go with Young because I
think he's going to be the one to take over
at number three from Williamson.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I think to put in a new.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Lad like a Hea for who's good Maria is showing
and our bas and the Robin. We've all talked about
those names. They're the ones that are emerging, the key ones.
But I'm not sure in this particular tour, in these circumstances,
that it's necessarily the best idea Bowlers. Henry Duffy Obviously,
Henry nips it both ways. Duffy swinging it away over
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there with the Duke's ball will be handy. Oh Rourke returning,
do you pick a Sears with O Rourt when they
have both had just.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Injury and they are slightly slightly vulnerable?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Jamison the same, you know, so those are interesting. Is
Tichner a possibility certainly, folks, Not quite yet because I
don't think he has kind of shown he can.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Handle the workload.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He does swing it a different way, which I think
John Bracewell pointed out quite nicely in one of the
podcasts we had him onwards. And then you've got to choose,
as you guys were talking about, do you go Bracewell,
remembering that spinner's like any bowler is there to take
wickets and I think Bracewell is more than Phillip's. And
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there's Patel or Santna And those are the questions we
are really the ones around the key parts, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay, just one quick question before we have to move
on because we can look at the England part of
the tour next week. There's plenty of time to talk
about that. Fraser who has been a regular contributor to
our program, has put center forward as the captain rather
than Latham.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Any thoughts, I actually quite like that, I think, and
I may have said have been a much earlier podcast.
I thought Satler was sort of on his way out,
but his progression into being a quality equality bowler with
variations as opposed to just simply darts. But more to
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the point, it's his leadership and captaincy, most notably in
the One Day Game, has been nothing but impressive. The
guy never gets ruffled. I mean, as I say, he's
so laid back, he's horizontal. But I rather like that,
and I would I would support that frankly though I
(30:47):
do it, but I would genuinely go that way. I
think he offers a lot. He really does, and he
deserves to be in sight, which is the other first
important thing.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yep, I agree with what most says in terms of
his abilities.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
He seems very relaxed, and that's a good thing to be.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
He also seems well gemmed up with what possibilities there are.
A different man than Latham. Can he help Latham from
the position of being in the side, is my first thought.
Do they need to make a major change like that
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when he can be a close Certainly.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
He bats a bit that helps the New Zealand side.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
He captains both the white ball games, which is he's
a little more unconventional I think, and comes up with
perhaps different solutions and Latham might and that might be
a nice combination. Whether that means that he overtakes Latham
and becomes the captain, I think they won't do that.
(31:58):
They won't do that, but it's not a bad sort
to have him, and I think he wouldn't generally be
in the in the picture, wouldn't he.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Guys absolutely agree. Yeah, As I said, I've become quite
afan oftner.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I think we all have, and I mean Latham hasn't
done too much wrong. We'd have to say and corrects.
Got Williamson in the side, Mitchell. If there is a
possibility that, say someone like Nichols or younger, they're both
experienced players and you see them supporting Latham currently on
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this tour of Blangladesh, then there's plenty of leadership there.
That's the only question I would ask does he deserve
to go? But I agree with the points that you make.
Center has taken good control of the team and the
decision making.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I look very much. So I think it's it's it's
always a quality problem when you actually when you've got
other contenders, So so you take that and you just
hope that. And they seem to be a pretty pretty
good team. I'm not close to it, I was clearly,
but they don't seem to be into little ructions and
the like. They seem to get on with each other.
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So it seems to be a pretty collaborative set up there.
And and you know, no one's no one's the sole
sole owner of the only good ideas. I think I
think they'll be uh, they'll work well together, and I
think SAT there will be will be fabous, which therefore
puts pressure on Agesptel getting in the site. And that's
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why I would like to go towards Racewood.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, that's something that we can have a look at.
I don't know when the team is going to be named,
but we might also investigate a little bit about the
English opposition and what's going on in the United Kingdom
in terms of county competition and possible selections, the ructions
that they have had. Jerry will know a bit about
that from his experience of dealing with England and watching
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English cricket, and we can perhaps get an English voice
in next week as well, just to put some ideas
forward because we're getting to that stage now where you know,
the Test match series is only about five weeks away,
the one on Ireland twenty seventh of May. They're starting that,
so that's five weeks away. Thanks your time, guys. Good
(34:22):
to talk to you. We've selected as I'm thank you
to all those people who sent them their teams. We
got pretty close to them. It will be interesting to
see now what the brains trusts produce in the end.
Nice to talk guys.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It's all right. I think it's very exciting that we've
got Test cricket of the sort coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Oh wait, that's great.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, great, because it's a change too, hasn't it, fellas
we don't see much of it now.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
All right, There you go, summer.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Do do.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
On the front foot with Brian Waddell and Jeremy Cody
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Hello, We're on the front foot. Well, the New Zealand
cricket team, the black Caps probably weren't on the front foot.
A limp batting display against Banglavik settled the ode I
series in the heats of Cheta Graham used to be
known as Chittagong, which was a hell of a lot easy
to say. Was anything meaningful achieved from that one day series.
(01:08):
Heap and Boyle continue to impress in Sri Lanka with
the a's will any new faces make the fifteen man
squad for England and the leaky rumor SI says that
former paceballer Jeff Allett is likely to get the CEO's
job at New Zealand Cricket. If it's true, is it
a good option? I don't know. The interesting the names
(01:32):
I've heard, Peter Holland and Jeremy Coney will us again
on the front foot lead Jamon, Jeff Allett and Rayleian Castle.
Well now Rallian Castle's back with New Zealand Sports signed
or twenty twenty nine. Jerry, So, I guess it's between
Allott and Jamon.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I think Jamon's pulled out too, hasn't he wadds. I
thought I saw something somewhere to say that at least
they're both cricketers former cricketers.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That's a bonus.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I think you need to know the game intimately. And
I think also uh and the fans. I think you
need to to be That's one of the main roles,
isn't it. Most she'll know that so that they they've
got to be aware the board.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
He spoke to me last night or when he.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Had just seen seeds at the favorite watering hole and it.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Was the Cambridge Terrorist Community Center.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Jerry, Yes, okay, yeah, and uh and and and you
really I think we we did mention at some point
about Allott and Jimon and also the role of New
Zealand cricket and the board.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And and and and part of this was was triggered
by some of the correspondents that Brian had has has
received from from listeners to to our to our meanderings
on on the on the wireless, so to speak. That
I and and and what got me is particularly with
our previous conversation that we'd had with respect to decisions
(03:14):
concerning the T twenty and it came to me thinking about, well, actually,
what do the board members owe duties do they owe
to the cricket community. And the cricket community is fans,
the people. It's not sectional interests such as players only.
It's the broader community, if you will. And I just
(03:36):
wonder whether, in fact, I would like for them to
explain to us how they believe that they are meeting
the obligations in terms of the duties they owe to
the community for the greater good of the sport here
and not just to line some pockets of some people,
(03:56):
which then brings you back squarely to the role of
the CEO in order to implement the requirements of the board.
And clearly there was a clash which caused the previous
CEO to leave. I think we still have and I
would posit the view that anyone who takes on that
(04:17):
role as a CEO is in for a very tough
and challenging year or two because cash is short. There
may be cash flying for the T twenty, but that's
not for the New Zealand Cricket necessarily, so the demands
will continue. So I wish that person well. And Jeff
seems to be a pretty sensible person.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah indeed, and he was on the board for a
considerable period of time. I only concern, of course, is
that that board has become rather negative to some extent,
or has received negative press from many quarters. And their
ability to spend money and raise money is important, I suppose.
(05:01):
But their whole job is the administration of the game,
as you say, most not just T twenty competitions and
international players. It's the guy that plays down at Cornwall
Park or Nenville Park or Hagley Park and christ Church
or even in the outlying reaches of New Zealand. Their
responsibility is the administration of the game.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
YEP, community cricket, and that's where the future players come from.
They have an obligation to try and arrange various things
so that anybody who wants to enjoy the game in
New Zealand has the opportunity to do so, and so
(05:43):
in an organized way. It's not playing on the beach necessarily,
but to have structured kind of competitions throughout a potential
players playing Korea. So that's that's their job, and to
keep people interested in the game generally and to be
able to put it in front of them. So I
don't I don't have any problem with what either of
(06:05):
you two are saying there about that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
There's a slight concern in the back of my mind.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Has Jeff All has ever been involved in some business
kind of operations with say, people like Fleming or you know,
people who have worked with India particularly. I'm just a
wee bit concerned that there might be an ongoing relationship
between those two when he's going to have to if
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he's going to be the CEO, has to make decisions
outside of that and consider exactly what Moose has just
been talking about and still have a past and a
history with some of the players who are pushing that
particular option. That's my just a little question mark in
the back of my mind because I've heard those names
(06:53):
together a number of times.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
In business terms.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I believe that that is correct theory and in the
in the off use and phrase conflict. I don't know
that that would require And this is not this is
not casting any dispersions about ours, but you'll have to
(07:23):
tread a very careful line in order to ensure that
previous relationships and and there's nothing against that either, of
course not but but or that person must be focused
about what it is that the obligations and the duty
day o to the cricket community in its broadest sense,
(07:44):
and not a select few, as it were, And that
will be tricky for for any person who tax on
that role, really.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Would We'll have to wait and see what the announcement
is in terms of at It's only a rumor, as
they say, but those rumors are fairly strong around the country.
So we'll wait and see what happens when an announcement
has made and what plans are put forward. I know
when the last Chief executive came in he had great
(08:13):
plans for test cricket, but we haven't seen them, so
we'll just have to wait and see. Talking about plans
for test cricket, we'll be talking about our squad to
go to England shortly. But I just want to reflect
on the trip to Bangladesh by the New Zealand side
black Caps. They were beaten. I've got to say I
(08:33):
tossed the toys again when they were three down chasing
two hundred and sixty five and decided sleep was better
than watching cricket. I missed Foxcroft hitting something like seven
six is and doing a number down the order, but
it came a little bit too late. I just I'm
still sort of wondering at the rationale of going to
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forty two degrees and playing ODI cricket at this time
of the year. And to me, while any experience should
be a good experience, seems to me a pointless exercise.
And they've lost the series two one.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And lost I think is yes, I would say they
got soundly beaten in the last matches.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I was trying to be nice, yes.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yes, yeh and yeah, and diplomatic, which is not something
I'd always.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Around the bush.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I can't help but think that the opportunities to provide
or give give opportunities to a broader number of players
like Fotscroft, like Clark's and a bass in those conditions,
because we have to face the fact that we're going
to play a lot of cricket in the subcontinent. If
we have to be relevant in any way, shape or form,
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that's probably a reality of it. And so exposure to
these conditions against what I will say, it was a
pretty good sign. And can I just make it make
it another another comment. The quick bowling, I've got to say,
took me by surprise this and yeah, uinely, genuinely good bowlers,
and so I'm giving them, giving them a hat off
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to them. I thought that the way they played, I
thought they played damn good cricket. Okay in their backyard,
but well well done, blanded dish we went. We weren't
close enough with the New Zealand a team so to speak.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That go right. I was bowling at one forty five,
concrestently by the old slower ball. But boy, he's tall
and he gets good bounce and generates pace. He's going
to be an interesting one to watch.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And that was in those conditions. I mean, get him
on something a little bit bouncy in green over over
this side, well that'll be that'll be interesting, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, they've certainly found someone, haven't they. They they cleaned
up Pakistan just before they met the New Zealanders.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He is.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You're right, he's the sort of the key.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
To it, claiming wickets one forty five to one fifty.
He was, wasn't he quite and quite consistently and also
pretty accurate. It wasn't as it was firing it down
leg side and then one outside that she could have
a crack out, you know, you know, over to third
man and so on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
He held his pace, He had a good wrist, you
know that he was flicking it down as well as
tall and lean as you say, wads I thought he was.
He was a really good look actually, and went well
with Shoreful, who was very tight at the other end.
The left armor, who we've seen before but is really
(11:45):
again tidied up and become much more consistent.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Mustafis was there last night.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well we know he's got the variations, particularly at the
back end. He surprised Nichols, didn't he with a short
one last night and hurried him. I mean, the runs
were the problems for New Zealand, effectively.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Weren't there.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
There was just no one getting collid runs at the
top of the order.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Young and Latham at.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Three and four Young thirty two nineteen Latham fourteen, fourteen
and five. You've got to have more from that, from
those two positions, and that put a great deal of
pressure on players like Kelly, who came out of it
again quite well, even though it was a strange and
odd dismissal last night, sort of lurching his way from
outside leg to off went outside of stump, hitting it
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to sort of a straight cover.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
So I think we had a few little gains, though
I don't think it was totally wasted.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yes, the heat got to.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Us, no doubt about that, especially when you field first there.
But I thought O'Rourke improved. He's a key man for us.
He got some competitive bowling in the legs, bowling around
the wicket a little bit more than he normally does.
He's learning to get off the wicket, which is not
his natural thing, because he wants to lean away, doesn't he,
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which is leaning if you're round the wicket to all
the center of the pitch. I thought Smith made a
few little movements as well. He's starting to.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Swing the ball.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I thought that his couple of not outs were handy
lower down the order in the first two matches, and
he's getting wickets in the powerplay I thought Lenox continued
his improvement in the heat. I thought it was a
weird team that they selected last night. To be honest
with you, it didn't make sense when you got obviously
two opening bowlers, and that's Smith and O'Rourke. That lister,
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who really is only a swing bowler, comes in straight
after that and the ball's not swinging, So what does
he do? For heaven's sake, that's his strength, that's how
he gets wickets. He was forced to bowl wide for
a start and then sort of across seam for the
rest of his overs, and that did show some limitations
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that he had in that role. Then Muhammader Bass bowled
a few. He did okay. He was sort of gripping
the ball a little bit and bowling little left arm
off spinners coming back into the left handers. But he
wasn't threatening and so really they only had three bowlers O'Rourke,
Smith and Lennox. They tried a bit of Foxcroft, they
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tried a bit of fox Trot, they tried a bit
of Clarkson, they tried a bit of a bass and listen.
So they didn't really have the bowlers to continue the
decent start. They had and so they you know, they
chased a big total and they seemed to all be
getting out to me to the horizontal batshots they did
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in game two Bastard, Kelly did, Foxcroft did, and technical
not quite so important.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And in game three you know you had.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Nichols did, Latham did a sweepless time lower down horizontal
and are bastard as well. So that's that's been a
common thread for me about that part. Make you a lot,
But I think there were things there you maybe have
to look a little bit harder, but the runs clearly
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with the difference.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But then picking up on that, from what I understand
is if the if the opposition's bowling is quite good,
then runs are quite often hard to come by. I
think that's how it works. So we have to pace,
you know, due respect to Bangladesh, but we were found
a little bit wanting. I think the one that the
one player that I'm disappointed about it, and I guess
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he will be as well as is Will Young. He
was our best player arguably in that Test series against
India a little while back, and really since then it
hasn't hasn't come on, so to speak. And you touched
on a little bit earlier that his output wasn't great Jerry,
and I just I'm disappointed for New Zealand Cricket because
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he looked so fantastic in that series, but we really
haven't seen too much of that sense, which is a
petty for us as as New Zealand Cricket followers. But
no doubt he's he's not that thrill either. But I
think by and large there were some pluses in there
to see Fox Foxcroft and Clarkson and a bass and
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Nick Kelly and Smith Smith coming on. There was I
think better for having gone and and done it. And
okay they got beaten, but but you learn from it,
I think if you if you're good enough.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. Indeed, interesting that you mentioned those names, and I
guess the one that is significant is young and will
he be part of the squad going to England?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We asked last week for people to come forward with
their ideas of a squad of fifteen and I'll just
pick one out. A guy who thinks that Jeremy is
a very very good broadcaster and congratulates I'm getting into it.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
To pick up the fact that I actually wrote that
once for him.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm just going to say, Jerry's changed his name to
Paul and has said in a team, and he hasn't
picked a bad side. I think thirteen of them make
good sense to me, and I go quickly through it. Latham, Conway,
Ravendra Williamson, Mitchell Phillips, Blundell Smith, Henry Duffy, O'Rourke, Santna
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and Jamison. And the last two Henry Nichols and Ajz
Patel now interesting calls. Paul says. Nichols domestic form edges
out will Young for him, and he likes Ajs. Pattell.
I mean I do too, but I just wonder whether,
on top of the spin talent you've got there, whether
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a Jaz is going to be part of that squad
and you might need another seamer like Tickner or Sears
or or the like, or even Fuchs the all rounder.
How do you say that, Moose?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I mean I always lovel this as that, because there's
no right or wrong, and we will probably should be
the selectors, but no one's ever asters. More's the pity,
I think. But I I look at this and Young
I would like to see, but I don't think he
makes it. Patel, I think you're right because we've already
got satin in their bowling left left arm. The guy
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that I would like to see because he gives quite
a lot is Michael Bracewell. Bats yeah, really good for you,
has leadership qualities which I think helps in all of this.
Devin Conway, I put a question mark around him. I'm
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just not sure. I don't think he's sorted out that technique,
that rising one up on his on his on his
on his hip. And because the English, all things being equal,
will come with some pace archer and there, and they've
got a few others knocking around there, so they're going
to make it awkward for for Conway. And I'm from
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that wonderful start. I think he's he's come off the
ball well and the other one, which I'm sorry to say,
being a Wellingtonian, I would probably go with Hey rather
than Blundle. He just seems to be offering more, particularly
with the bat and a certainly refine keeper. So this
is all, this is all good stuff, but I yeah,
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I would. I got more questions than I have answers
to this.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I had a chat to Mose a couple of nights
ago and we had an interesting conversation, including some of
those he's just mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I've had a kind of a rethink.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I think, you know, this is not really a tour
in the sense of developing a player.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't think it is. It's a test tour, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
It's three games, three tests, or four you could count.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But let's just look at the England part particularly.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's not, not, in my opinion, a series to blood
new players. Don't forget if we blood a player there,
they're the ones who are going to Big heading over
to face Cummins and Hazelwood and Stark and.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Bowland in a few months time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Blooding players is quite a sort of a careful thing,
I think, and it has to be treated that way.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You generally want. They'd like to do it at.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Home, as he was, you know, at Wellington, that kind
of approach. But to go to Lord's and introduce a
new player is a question mark in my mind. Then
we get someone like say a Williamson, for example, who's
indicated he's available for this tour, and New Zealand do
(20:58):
need that solidity there. How long However, is Kine going
to keep playing. He's thirty six, he's got three kids,
He's pulled out a tween twenties, he's.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And not quite so.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You know seen around ODIs now he plays the odd tests,
doesn't he and the ones that he wants to play,
and he's certainly earned those that kind of position. But
how long is it going to be? Would you say
two years? Would be thirty eight?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'd say the Australian series.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Has got to be some plan over the next year
or so for someone to go into three.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, there's Test matches against India here in New Zealand
before Australia, after the England series, then there's Australia, then
there's Sri Lanka coming here and then a Test series
in Pakistan, Who've got thirteen Test matches in the next
twelve months, which is quite a lot. And some of
those A players who would obviously come into contention, the
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likes of Heafi Marriou and even Robinson now after his
batting in Sri Lanka, they may be further down the line.
But I'm not sure that you're right. I'm sure that
you're right in terms of England is not a place
to blood somebody and send them out to Lords on
their first Test match after a warm up game in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't know most you and he comment about all
that much.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The other point I would make very quickly is we
know the method of our selectors, don't we Yes, they
tend to be conservative.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
One of Onslow's finest, and and so what more can
I say?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Coney's not a selector.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I thought he was.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
He was, he was on Slow's finest. May have the
Williamton Club champions Now.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Oh sorry, oh oh, I take that all back there.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, goodness me, Jerry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to let
that loosely on. I think that that's totally harsh and unfair.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Well I didn't hear it once, thank heavens.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh good we're.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Learning quickly on. I think Williamson that absolutely the right.
But when you're thirty six, you're coming, you're coming to
that phase where the reactions aren't quite what they were,
and when you're up against and in Australia where he
hasn't gone that well, that's going to be going to
be interesting. And I think the one that the place
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where we do want to prove ourselves is surely Australia,
because I think we've we've we know we can play
in England and we can be competitive there, but Australia
is the one. But if you're thirty six thirty seven
in Australia, that's going to be tough, tough for Williamson,
but hey, we'll see. The one who I'd like to
see more out of is Revendra and the English certainly
(23:48):
worked them out last time they played here, short short
outside off and he kept following it. So he's he's
got a lot to prove. I mean, wonderful player that
he is and when he gets going. But yeah, there's
real talent that we do have, but it's harnessing it
and I frankly would like to see some of these
players come on. This Guyry he seems he seems to
(24:09):
be a fabulous prospect. I like to see Hay in
there in place of Blundell, who's just not given us,
giving us enough, sad to say, compared with a few
years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But I might just point out that he was a
big scorer domestically for Wellington because it's all the cricket
that he's had over the season. So he did win
the Wellington Cricketer of the Year and performed all but yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
There was a lot of competition in the Wellington was there.
They didn't go that good this year.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I didn't. I didn't bring that up.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
There's trading of insults. I love hearing this.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
That's excellent.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Carry on, Moose.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
But I but I do. But I do think Blundell,
that player we had two or three years ago, is
not it doesn't seem to be there, but that they
will go with them. I'm pretty sure because that's that's
that has been their their remo, so to speak, and
and by a large, hey, it's been pretty successful. But
(25:15):
we we're going to be wanting a lot from Mitchell,
Ravendra and and and the likes up the top of
the order there. So Phillips, I just wonder about that
a bit seems to get included anyway. I'm able to
go with in Test cricket with a brace rather than Phillips.
That's me so I yeah, I wait with some interest,
(25:40):
Jerry will will you be over there around that time
when they're playing.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yes, I'm over there, sort of opening my mouth again.
I'm sorry, but you guys easily avoid that by changing
the station and doing something better.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
The best player.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yea, they should play the third Test at Nnville. But look, guys,
I just have the feeling that the wave of England
enthusiasm that swept through the last time I was there
in twenty twenty two when New Zealand played England won
(26:22):
that series three nil and it felt unstoppable, you know.
And now I think supporters turned against them, and we
should be very wary of a wounded team. I think
they've been subjected to a wealth of dislike and criticism
from a lot of quarters, and they've been told that
(26:43):
they're too relaxed and they have no specialists, of they're
playing too much golf. There's incidents off the field as
poor preparation. So on ad nauseum they will be very
keen I think to close ranks and show what they
can do, whether that criticism is founded or otherwise, so
(27:04):
there will be changes in their side. You would expect
to show that they've been listening. I think an opener
is on the cards. I would guess, well, they've got
a keeper who doesn't keep for the county championship, but
he's getting lots of runs.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Will they pick a spinner in June? I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
They'll probably play four seamers, I would have thought, and
it would be Stokes and Tongue and Archer as you mentioned,
Moose and either Pass or Atkinson, and they will be
the main bowlers. I would think with Stokes, as I say,
to back them up. New Zealand I think will go
(27:45):
with an eight to seven split eight batsmen, in other words,
seven bowlers, the batsmen being basically Lathan, Conway, Williams and
Revendra Mitchell, and some of them are a bit more
loose at the start, as you pointed out Moose Ravendra,
but he's so dangerous he's obviously there, Mitchell determined, Blundle Phillips.
(28:06):
Probably they will go with normally He's seven, isn't he?
And Blundle six and it's just a question of that
last position. But I would go with Young because I
think he's going to be the one to take over
at number three from Williamson.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I think to put in a new.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Lad like a Hea for who's good Maria is showing
and our bas and the Robin. We've all talked about
those names. They're the ones that are emerging, the key ones.
But I'm not sure in this particular tour, in these circumstances,
that it's necessarily the best idea Bowlers. Henry Duffy Obviously,
Henry nips it both ways. Duffy swinging it away over
(28:50):
there with the Duke's ball will be handy. Oh Rourke returning,
do you pick a Sears with O Rourt when they
have both had just.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Injury and they are slightly slightly vulnerable?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Jamison the same, you know, so those are interesting. Is
Tichner a possibility certainly, folks, Not quite yet because I
don't think he has kind of shown he can.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Handle the workload.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
He does swing it a different way, which I think
John Bracewell pointed out quite nicely in one of the
podcasts we had him onwards. And then you've got to choose,
as you guys were talking about, do you go Bracewell,
remembering that spinner's like any bowler is there to take
wickets and I think Bracewell is more than Phillip's. And
(29:39):
there's Patel or Santna And those are the questions we
are really the ones around the key parts, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay, just one quick question before we have to move
on because we can look at the England part of
the tour next week. There's plenty of time to talk
about that. Fraser who has been a regular contributor to
our program, has put center forward as the captain rather
than Latham.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Any thoughts, I actually quite like that, I think, and
I may have said have been a much earlier podcast.
I thought Satler was sort of on his way out,
but his progression into being a quality equality bowler with
variations as opposed to just simply darts. But more to
(30:25):
the point, it's his leadership and captaincy, most notably in
the One Day Game, has been nothing but impressive. The
guy never gets ruffled. I mean, as I say, he's
so laid back, he's horizontal. But I rather like that,
and I would I would support that frankly though I
(30:47):
do it, but I would genuinely go that way. I
think he offers a lot. He really does, and he
deserves to be in sight, which is the other first
important thing.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yep, I agree with what most says in terms of
his abilities.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
He seems very relaxed, and that's a good thing to be.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
He also seems well gemmed up with what possibilities there are.
A different man than Latham. Can he help Latham from
the position of being in the side, is my first thought.
Do they need to make a major change like that
(31:30):
when he can be a close Certainly.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
He bats a bit that helps the New Zealand side.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
He captains both the white ball games, which is he's
a little more unconventional I think, and comes up with
perhaps different solutions and Latham might and that might be
a nice combination. Whether that means that he overtakes Latham
and becomes the captain, I think they won't do that.
(31:58):
They won't do that, but it's not a bad sort
to have him, and I think he wouldn't generally be
in the in the picture, wouldn't he.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Guys absolutely agree. Yeah, As I said, I've become quite
afan oftner.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I think we all have, and I mean Latham hasn't
done too much wrong. We'd have to say and corrects.
Got Williamson in the side, Mitchell. If there is a
possibility that, say someone like Nichols or younger, they're both
experienced players and you see them supporting Latham currently on
(32:33):
this tour of Blangladesh, then there's plenty of leadership there.
That's the only question I would ask does he deserve
to go? But I agree with the points that you make.
Center has taken good control of the team and the
decision making.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I look very much. So I think it's it's it's
always a quality problem when you actually when you've got
other contenders, So so you take that and you just
hope that. And they seem to be a pretty pretty
good team. I'm not close to it, I was clearly,
but they don't seem to be into little ructions and
the like. They seem to get on with each other.
(33:12):
So it seems to be a pretty collaborative set up there.
And and you know, no one's no one's the sole
sole owner of the only good ideas. I think I
think they'll be uh, they'll work well together, and I
think SAT there will be will be fabous, which therefore
puts pressure on Agesptel getting in the site. And that's
(33:32):
why I would like to go towards Racewood.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, that's something that we can have a look at.
I don't know when the team is going to be named,
but we might also investigate a little bit about the
English opposition and what's going on in the United Kingdom
in terms of county competition and possible selections, the ructions
that they have had. Jerry will know a bit about
that from his experience of dealing with England and watching
(34:00):
English cricket, and we can perhaps get an English voice
in next week as well, just to put some ideas
forward because we're getting to that stage now where you know,
the Test match series is only about five weeks away,
the one on Ireland twenty seventh of May. They're starting that,
so that's five weeks away. Thanks your time, guys. Good
(34:22):
to talk to you. We've selected as I'm thank you
to all those people who sent them their teams. We
got pretty close to them. It will be interesting to
see now what the brains trusts produce in the end.
Nice to talk guys.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It's all right. I think it's very exciting that we've
got Test cricket of the sort coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Oh wait, that's great.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, great, because it's a change too, hasn't it, fellas
we don't see much of it now.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
All right, There you go, summer.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Do do.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
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