This week on On The Front Foot, Bryan Waddle and Jeremy Coney pay tribute to one of the greats – Sir Garfield Sobers, who passed away at age 89.
They also discuss a series win in the West Indies, the ICC’s recognition of Black Caps all-rounder Nathan Smith, and the continued absence of a new test coach for England.
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Hello, welcome to on the Front Foot. And again there's
the heap of cricket, some of it not of the
greatest quality, but never to mind, that's still cricket. The
black Caps have settled the series of the Western He's
decided on an emotional day in Barbados, as that country,
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in the Westernies in general, along with the rest of
the world, celebrated the life of one of their national treasures,
the great cigar Field Saber as he died eleven days
shorts of his ninetieth birthday. And with us Jeremy Coney
as ever, and Peter Holland has joined us. And interesting
news coming out of the ICC Sembalt. Nathan Smith was
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on Monday name the ICC Player of the Month of June,
following superb performances in the Test series in England. He
played a key role in New Zealand's two to one
series win in England and won the award ahead of
Indian captain submun Gill and the Bangladesh all round Masadeka Sain.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's a pretty good personal achievement.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I suppose Jerry a number of New Zealanders could have
come under store for that, but Nathan Smith recognized for
his performance of sixteen wickets at an average of twenty
three in that Test series.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He's improved a great deal wards over the last couple
of years. I think we've all seen his ability. The
first thing that caught myo was his fielding, actually catching.
He was so so athletic and so quick across the
ground and accurate with his hands. And he also hits
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the stumps, doesn't he. We don't see quite so many
New Zealanders doing that nowadays. But he's changed that a
little bit. From that perspective, he's added to that. Now
he's bowling, and I mean he's bowling at a decent clip,
isn't he. He's low to the ground, he gets good
momentum through his run up. He uses his run up
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the same as Marshall used to to supply pace to
his bowling. And he's now also certainly with the Duke's ball,
he's getting it to swing away. So those elements and
then we started to see I've always had a hope
that he can hold a bat and that really adds
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to that all rounder kind of thing going on at
number eight or nine for New Zealand, and he's he's
better than he's showing, I think, and he started he
got a thirty in the Test series. So but it
was for his bowling that he got that award, and
he thoroughly deserved it. You know, he uses the crease well,
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nips it back and then can run it away so
he can get people caught in the cordon. He can
get it caught you know keeper and he can also
get lbw's and he got sixteen wickets in those three Tests.
Pretty good effort.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, indeed, and mostly he's a worthy winner. But you know,
there were a few candidates, particularly amongst the New Zealand
side in that series it could have taken. But it's
a great recognition for a young guy who's not had
an easy time of it in recent years with injuries
and non selection to some.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Extent, thrilled for him. He's now, you know, one of
north Otago's finests, such as Richard mccaor and probably Northataga's
finest cricketer, noting that Walter Hadley was actually born in Amaru.
Did we know that? My research revealed that. But along
with Richard mccauw and Phil Gard, he's right up there now.
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But I just think it's wonderful that a player like
him can come up to Wellington find his way around
a good team, because clearly Ottaga wasn't doing that. And
this is not Christen Ottarga, but he's he's he's grown,
has grown real momentum in the ways he's playing. And
you're right about him, Jerry. He's sneaky quick and yet
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he's very accurate, just as Henry is. He allowed Blundle
to stand up to me at the at the wicket
and that was a critical part of that series, wasn't it.
He's accurate, he darts at it in about no. I'm
thrilled from and fielding's fantastic and I think his batting
will come be become even better. Particularly you know, when
you're all round and you're getting wickets, you feel better
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about yourself. So I think he's bouting well. Will prove
to be what we believe it can be.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, it'll come with confidence, won't it. The confidence he's
going to get from performing. I remember him saying when
he came to Wellington a couple of seasons Agoad, when
he came back into form after injury, that he said,
I think I can bowl quicker, but it's the ability
to do something of the board too, Jerry. Isn't it
that makes him apart from other bowlers. You can be
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as quick as you like, but you've got to be
able to do something, don't you, and have a special skill.
He uses the crease world, doesn't he.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, he runs certainly. In that third test Wadds. I
noticed at knots he was running a little bit wider
and the pitch was helping him a little bit, but
nevertheless he got the angles right. And Moose is absolutely right,
you know, in terms of you know, just he will
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get confidence and that will that will slide across to
other skills that he's already possessed possesses. So I'm I'm
quite hopeful that he will add He'll be a really
important addition to that lower ruder as well as his bowling.
But he's right, is right about the about standing up
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to You've got to be quite accurate to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And he was, Yeah, and he's done his research, Moose,
isn't he? I mean, boy, you know, I knew, I
knew there was something we were lacking in this program
and it's and it's research and Moose has done it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
He's picked Hadley. I didn't know Walter was born down there,
but that's yeah, you know, I will pick it out.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
You do remember the great film Guard One Test in
nineteen seventy one for the All Blacks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
He's an opening better, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
It for the bout? No?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, anyway, Richid mccaul's the greatest. We're slightly off topic
here but and it's great.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Where was Foxy born?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, the Australians are trying to claim him. At the moment,
Australian golfer Ryan Fox geared off the grass.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Never mind.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The Black Cats squeezed out a one wicket went over
the West Indies, a match they should have lost if
the West Indies could catch. But again one individual stood
out to sneer the victory. From this time it was
Mark Chapman. He helped them to the modest target they
needed to win. Yeah, we've seen Nathan Smith. He had
a bit of a break, so too do Daryl Mitchell.
I don't know why he was left out of the
last game, but he's coming home early with some kind
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of injury. But the guy that's hitting me between the
eyes is a guy called Jaden Lennox moose eleven wickets,
it's something like sixteen I think he's got and he
took a five for nineteen. Isn't that justifying this series
to some extent?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Very much, very much? And apologies stool listeners about my
weather predictions at being ay season, Guyana. They've played three
games all on rather average, very bad wickets, which was
more the pity putting that on one side. We didn't
talk about Lenox. I'm thinking about a year ago when
he came into the side and looked looked to be
something of promise, and I think we're just seeing that
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while other selectors the guy seems to have got his
head around his game. He's quite a tall bottler, but
just like Satner. Satner, my god, has he improved his
game on every level. But Lenox, I think has been
influenced a lot by those guys around him. It's great
that he's got the support of people like Bracewill at
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the other end, who spins it heavy whipth off spin.
I think this is a pretty interesting side that we're
developing with more depth with players to come in on
my ad. So when you've got Lenox there doing what
he's done, brace will as well getting runs as well.
I liked a lot of I saw in this on
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did conditions as well. That wasn't easy out there.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm going to say Jerry that the West Indies are
doing themselves no favors. Are they playing on pitchers like
that square teners, slow, low bounce if they want to
get points to qualify for the World Cup, which is
going to be in doubt because they're going to make
changes to the World Cup qualification now. They're not doing
themselves any favors by some of the pitchers they're playing another.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
No, it's not, it's it's not Your game doesn't improve.
It forces you to block slog doesn't it. As a batsman,
you either defend it. You can't get that middle game
where you're knocking it for ones and twos and threes
and use you know, the pace of the ball to
try and access behind the behind the stumps. So and
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you've got to really kind of wait for a bad
ball either width or length and then smash it, you know,
because you're you're you're having the block so often, aren't you,
And so your run rates dropping a little bit. And yeah,
it's not a way to play, and it gives false
sometimes false records for the bowlers who just can kind
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of roll the arm over if you're consistent enough. And
that's certainly one thing that stands out about Lennox, isn't
He's very consistent, a repeatable action and when the ball
is doing something, I mean, what did he get in
that five wickets he got? I think he got Hope out,
he was bold, he got Rutherford out, chaffin relevant he
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was bold, he got Moti bold, he got Fod lbw,
Laws LBW. So all of those wickets, five of them,
says he's bringing the stumps into play, And that's one
of his real strengths, isn't it. It turns a little
bit more, it beats the outside edge of a right hander.
If it slides on, then he's into the pads. So
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and he's accurate enough and he's smart enough that he's
studying to do it. What is he's about thirty years older, fellow,
he's not young. Yeah, So he's had a bit of
experience behind him in first class cricket. You know, he's
done the hard Hawks Bay CD man so that he's
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playing on good pictures and so he's got a custom.
He has to bowl well, he has to do a
good job for CD. He has to bowl a lot
of overs and so that has all helped him, I think,
and he's been noticed in lower levels. He's into the
A side and now he's playing and showing that he's
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not overawed, which is a enough shigne as well.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And he's a front line spinner too, not just a
spare part, not just someday to make up the numbers.
He's actually there as an attacking weapon and doing that job. Center,
of course, is doing an outstanding job, and we've also
seen Bracewell doing his part. We haven't seen a lot
of batting that you would call world class quality. Most
of some of the chases have been modest, and they
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managed to squeak home in that last game in in Barbados,
but boy it was it was tight.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
But but what I'm seeing though is that we well,
this is what I like. And it's the same thing
in the in the in the in the English series,
we're getting contributions throughout the team. Someone fails one time
Match three and Guyana and Chappington get many comes out
in Barbados goes out and gets eighty and that's probably
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the winning winning the winning innings putting, putting aside Satan's
very fine effort. Just back on that wicket, the wickets there.
It really is the shame because one of the strongest
elements of the West Indian team, they've got some very
handy quicks and bring us a play into their strengths.
You know, you to be thinking you'd be wanting nice
and quick, bouncy wickets for for their better players, and
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it's just it's hit scratcher. I don't know. Is it money,
is it cash spending time on the roller? I don't know, Joey.
You've played in those places, but I'm sure they weren't
like what you've got now because they had all the
quickstin and they had they were fast and bouncy.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You enjoyed Barbados when you were there, jury didn't you?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I didn't really enjoy I didn't mind down south for
the Wads, no, but yeah, yeah, but but the other
ones were a little bit up and down, I've got
to say. And look, al Zari Joseph got four wickets,
didn't he, And he he was the one who caused
the New Zealanders to sort of collapse a little bit
in game one, and so he showed that he had
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the skills to handle towards the death part of a
one day game. So yeah, it doesn't make sense Moost.
That's that's a good point. But winning close games like
the last ones good and important signs, aren't they that
you have the confidence in each other even though you're
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batting with lower player, you know, lower than the order players.
And Santner was the one who's obviously sort of saw
us home in that way as well, but I mean
after Chapman, But I mean, I just feel they are
very important signs for a side and their development that
when the pressure comes on, someone is able to put
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in a little performance and it might be only three
not out, but it's facing fifteen balls and it's seeing
giving a chance to the batsman at the other end
to score some runs. So those are important points and
just showing the way the team is developing. Yep.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
We'll have a look and see after the last game
two when they return home and how things have shape.
But I think they can come away with a series victory.
The West Indies will be still struggling to reach that
qualification level for World Cup qualification. But it was supposed
to be a day to celebrate the life of one
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of the greats, one of the greats of the game.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Garfield sobers.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
An emotional time and even with the emotion that was
shun from the grounds, that was interesting to see. Just
before we talk about Sabers, remember this, this is something
out of his past that well we played a couple
of months ago.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
That's she's got to kick perhaps the right distance. He's
at that out of the ground. That's another one witness
curations for me and that papp at the top. You
see the chat claiming up there to have a look
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over the while that's to two and sent to nine minutes.
That's another one up for the enclose up. Three balls,
three sixes, fifty eight. Had an incredible bit of hitting.
Oh he's got that short run.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
What's up again?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They're they're bouncing on the bouncing on the concrete.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Four sixes in four balls.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
This makes him sixty four four sixes underwear. Nash is
going to bowl this morn are that well just carrying
now he's going to be out, go down as propsing
is over the boundary Sex. It is five on the trout.
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I know this is incredible. Now this is six on
the Trot's a world record been done before, but seventy
on the board and he's done it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And my goodness, it's.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Gone way down to Sunday.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Six on the truck.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Up just six on one other good nurstraces.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Six six is off Malcolm Nash. And we remembered that
a couple of months ago, Jerry. But that was just
one of a number of highlights in a career from
Garfield Sabers. Remember he scored that three sixty five not
out against Pakistan in nineteen fifty eight and that stood
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as a Test record for thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That was quite incredible, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I think that was his first hundred, wasn't it was?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That was yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, Look he's one of sports towering icons, isn't he
Just a truly great And I don't use those words
too often. I think they're thrown about it, but these
days but a grays all round here, you know, gifted.
I watched him score thirty nine at the base in
reserve when they came out in sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Interesting you should say that, Jerry, because that was one
thing that came across to me. I remember that game too.
There were nine fours in that and it was an
amazing innings of thirty nine in a Test match they lost,
wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That's correct, and one that New Zealand won actually, But
the quality the time he had not a big driver
off the front foot, more of a big backlift and
waiting for the ball to come to him. If there
was decent pace on the ball, he could just use
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his hands so well to maneuver the ball through the
off side particularly, But excel as a I mean Chapel
spoke about. You always listen a bit when he and
Chapel says a few things and you can just remove
other things as well. But you know, he said he
was the best batsman in the world when he played,
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best batsman and you know the fact that he could
bowl left arm pace and swing, he could orthodox spinnaker,
bowl wrist spin. He was a great fieldsman and close particularly.
Wasn't it Bradman who called him a five and one cricketer?
I think it was. And you know I met Gary
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a few times. He loved a drink, loved a good
time in Lords. I think was at Lord's last one hundred.
I vaguely recall it was because it was in seventy
three when I started. He had a raging hangover and
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he used to go out during the game. And it
was a three Test series. He had been left out
a bit because he stood at that time and he'd
had knee problems and so on playing for Nottinghamshire. He
hadn't really had a super season, but there was a
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whole lot of injuries to the Westernish touring team and
they asked him to help out, and so he got
a fifty I think at edge Biston, and he got
three wickets with the new ball, and so they were
leading one mill going to the last Test at Lord's
And as I say, he liked a party and he
rarely went to bed. This is his quote. Actually I
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really went to bed at normal time because I was
one of those who could four and five hours. I
was still fresh. You know. It was well known I
like a drink after play. Life is for living. I
played and had a drink and on occasion I had
to make sure. He says that those late nights could
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continue by maintaining a high level of performance. So he
heads out. He heads out with Clive Lloyd actually and
he's he's gone to meet a former West Indian spinner,
a guy called Ridge Scarlett, and they have a knight
on the town. They have a nightclub. They go back
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to the bar at the hotel at the Clarendon where
they're staying to reminisce, and he has a cold shower.
He walks from Lord's, walks to Lord's from the Clarendon,
gets the pads on, sees Bob Willis coming into bowl,
misses the first five completely and he could hear Rowan Kenny,
the captain and up in the pavilion laughing, and then
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he's slowly as his head cleared and he goes on
to make a hundred and he says to Charlie Elliott,
the umpire from England who's umpiring in the game, I'm
not well. I got to go off. No, says Charlie,
I haven't seen anything to indicate you not well, and
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he said, I've been holding this down in my stomach,
he said, for fifty minutes. So I got to go off,
and so he does, and next batsman comes and can
I see it? Goes up to him when he gets
off in the changing room, says what's wrong. He says,
my stomach it's giving me GiB. I need a port
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and a brandy mixed. So down goes that and he
calls out to bring him another. Make it a big one.
So Shauber's in the end, he gets a couple of
hours off, goes out to bat again and gets to
one hundred and fifty in the west and he's declared
six fifty for seven or eight something like that, and
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they blow England away. But that was Gary, you know.
Gary of course was driving the car when Collie Smith died.
I don't know whether you guys remember that, but it
was often said that he was playing for two men
and he was a very close mate Collie Smith of hers.
We should remember wards. Cricket was at the heart of
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the West Indian cultural identity, you know, more than a game,
more than a job, and to have someone like Gary playing,
you know, meant a great deal, a great deal.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He's regarded as a national Treasury's having a state funeral,
and you know those memories live on, don't they.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Moose.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I don't know if you've got any specific memories of
Gary Sobers, but I mean his career has dotted with
wonderful achievements. I mean eight and thirty two runs at
fifty seven and Test cricket.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
To Wickett, Oh yeah, thirty five. Yeah yeah, I mean
I too, as a young Moose, came down from from
the Wai Rapper as we all did, to come and
watch guys like Gary Sober's play. And I remember that
sitting up on the bank there and he caught Glenn
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Turner in short off large gibbs and turn it just
clipped to the eyes of on seventy on and he
caught and thought, ye, that's good catch. And yet and
then earlier in the day he wandered in failing quite
slippery left arm quicks. You look like the guy just
had it all. And at the same time I'm watching
him in second slip there practicing his golf swing, so
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he was very very We've got you, oh yeah, And
and and I've gotta I've gotta make in England, I'll mate,
where's Simon Hall his name is, who's actually played golf
with them from Barbados and said, he's just the most lovely,
lovely man and the greatest, greatest company you can imagine.
So ballet Uh, Sir Garfield. I think every one of
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us who's ever watched the game and saw him will
remember him.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Indeed, Yeah, some wonderful memories and I I'm sure we
can look over those over a period of time to come.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The other thing going on in the world of cricket
at the moment is they're looking for a replacement for
Bas McCollum. Jerry, you followed us closely, and Nick Coleton
the Telegraph said, well, it could either be Handy Flower,
Richard Dawson, Stephen Fleming or Kumar Sanga Kara. Well, Andy
Flower has said, no, I don't know what the current talkers, Jerry,
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What are they What are they suggesting at the moment
over there?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Oh? What? I don't know. To be honest, I don't
think they're filling. They're filling a lot of inches and
columns of the paper. That the word is that that
Langer is looking like an outsider. How how he would
get on with McCullum as the white ball coach. I
don't know whether those two personalities would work together quite
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so well. Well, players, well exactly that's it's going to be.
I mean, he's regarded as a kind of a no nonsense,
pretty intense fella, isn't he And the McCullum persuasiveness, it
will be very different for the players. But players have
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just got to get on with with coaches. They're always
subject to other people's opinions as as they as they play,
and you've just got to keep going and make sure
that you find a method to get on with them,
make it work for both of you and hopefully, you know,
you become you know, indispensable to them.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So well, they've talked about Mike Hessen, but that's like
having McCullum back again, doesn't it be put?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I mean, he was.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Propped up by McCallum when he was coach of the
New Zealand side.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
The one I think that he's my tip someone who's
played for ENGLM was a good player. Hastudson coaching seems
to be somewhat uncontroversial Jonathan Trott.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
He's one of the names. Jonathan Trotter's around. Yes, they're
interested in Sanga Kara. They're still looking there. What about
measures as well? He's got iv L measures as well,
hasn't he.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Who's Richard Dawson, He's another name mentioned.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Richard Dawson is a guy who was an off spinner
where when Brace's was playing at Gloucester, you know, sorry,
when Brace's was coach at Gloucester. He naturally gravitated into
coaching when he wasn't going to be selected as he
got a little bit older than he went to uh
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he went up to Yorkshire and was the coach up
there for the second side and then got pulled back
into Gloucester as the main coach as well. He then
joined the white ball team for England as a coach,
and so he's he's been round. And the interesting thing
is that he was the coach that were one of
the coaches that McCullum got rid of at the start
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of his tenure to make the rumor but less tenanted
by all the coaches. So that would be interesting if
that happened. I'm not sure whether he would make it once.
I mean, people even they're talking about Fleming as well,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So there are.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
What we're saying is that there's a load number of names.
I think if you if you're going to be the coach,
surely you've got to be in in position a couple
of weeks before now. August the eighteenth is the next
Test match against Pakistan.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
So I haven't got a captain.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It's got to be pretty soon, doesn't it. It's got
to be within a week or so. They're obviously talking
to certain people, but as I say, at the moment,
the inside running, whether that means anything at all, is langer.
But that to me is not necessarily one that would work.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Brian Waddell Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
An issue that's creating some consternation in the cricket world
is a proposal to change the structure of the men's
World Cups in both formats. A proposal on the table
to reduce the fifty over World Cup from fourteen teams
to twelve, along with the addition of a Super seven stage.
This could even be in place by the twenty twenty
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seven event being hosted in Africa. To achieve it, the
ICC is likely to only allow two teams to progress
from a global qualifying tournament rather than four as originally planned.
A tweak to the T twenty World Cup is also
said to be under review, with a Super eight stage
increasing to a Super ten phase. The World Cricketers Association
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says it's concerned by how the twenty twenty seven men's
event will be structured. It is worn that the format,
which eliminates two of the three lowest ranked teams early
raises questions about transparency, consultation and the game's long.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Term commitment to global growth.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's going to be interesting when we see the final
results from the ICC, but it's going to create some
comment and could be far reaching changes to the white
ball World Cups. Most I'm looking forward to dinner with
you on the weekend.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well's the same here once the eightieth anniversary of the
Wellington Wanderers Cricket Club. Wonderful things that they're doing for
community cricket and Wellington and for cricket in general. So
it's a worthy, worthy occasion and I shall be festooned
in colorful stripy blazers and ties. I cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
So Jerry, you'll have your feed up on the sand
and sitting in a deck chair on the beach somewhere.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I will, mate, Yes, I will. I've invested in a
new pair of time. That's a bit frightening for the
people nearby. And oh yeah, well I've got to I've
got to get the pins out and show them the
sun occasionally. So that's all good. So you guys are
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going to enjoy a bit of a on the on
the LAWA pare you?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Oh no, no, this is a this is a mature at.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Obstinate right with those blazers. It's impossible to be mature
and a blazer like that.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yeah, but we will meet the curfew.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well yeah, well that's another thing, isn't it? How long
is key there? They are saying that they want him
to stay. But you know he didn't write the Kurchy
curfew down on the contracts the players contracts, did he?
And he's made lots of it right throughout. So keep
watching this space. It's a bit to go over here.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Well we'll we'll have a look at that and we'll
we'll just continue this discussion.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Moose over a nice little.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Red or we'll have a we'll have a shardi for
for JC.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
We will, indeed, we will indeed, and there was that
question that you were going to posit about the Mets
as regards to email from Phil.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, unfortunately, we've run out of time, so we're going
to have to push that off till next week.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
That's because that was that was to be somewhat great
interest from someone who really was good at dropping catches
and someone who was really good at catching them.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
That was Jarry.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
We can provide both sides of the spectrum there.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Well, there's a little tea.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
There's a little teaser for the next on the Front Foot,
and we'll be talking about the method of catching, which
is what Phil wanted to know. Why are they using
the reverse cup and other such ways of going about
catching in the outfield. So just hold that in your
mind and we'll talk about that next time we meet
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on the Front Foot.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Enjoy the beach, Jerry.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I could love to see those talks they round you
or round your ankles.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Thanks once, Thank you very much. I'll clear I stink.
I'll probably clear a few beaches.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I can imagine. Never mind, we shouldn't be negative about
these sorts of things. I'm sure you look pretty good
in a pair of.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
We don't need to go into this any longer. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Get dressed up for the weekend mate.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Take the jury alivery to.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks Jeers.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hello, welcome to on the Front Foot. And again there's
the heap of cricket, some of it not of the
greatest quality, but never to mind, that's still cricket. The
black Caps have settled the series of the Western He's
decided on an emotional day in Barbados, as that country,
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in the Westernies in general, along with the rest of
the world, celebrated the life of one of their national treasures,
the great cigar Field Saber as he died eleven days
shorts of his ninetieth birthday. And with us Jeremy Coney
as ever, and Peter Holland has joined us. And interesting
news coming out of the ICC Sembalt. Nathan Smith was
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on Monday name the ICC Player of the Month of June,
following superb performances in the Test series in England. He
played a key role in New Zealand's two to one
series win in England and won the award ahead of
Indian captain submun Gill and the Bangladesh all round Masadeka Sain.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That's a pretty good personal achievement.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I suppose Jerry a number of New Zealanders could have
come under store for that, but Nathan Smith recognized for
his performance of sixteen wickets at an average of twenty
three in that Test series.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
He's improved a great deal wards over the last couple
of years. I think we've all seen his ability. The
first thing that caught myo was his fielding, actually catching.
He was so so athletic and so quick across the
ground and accurate with his hands. And he also hits
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the stumps, doesn't he. We don't see quite so many
New Zealanders doing that nowadays. But he's changed that a
little bit. From that perspective, he's added to that. Now
he's bowling, and I mean he's bowling at a decent clip,
isn't he. He's low to the ground, he gets good
momentum through his run up. He uses his run up
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the same as Marshall used to to supply pace to
his bowling. And he's now also certainly with the Duke's ball,
he's getting it to swing away. So those elements and
then we started to see I've always had a hope
that he can hold a bat and that really adds
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to that all rounder kind of thing going on at
number eight or nine for New Zealand, and he's he's
better than he's showing, I think, and he started he
got a thirty in the Test series. So but it
was for his bowling that he got that award, and
he thoroughly deserved it. You know, he uses the crease well,
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nips it back and then can run it away so
he can get people caught in the cordon. He can
get it caught you know keeper and he can also
get lbw's and he got sixteen wickets in those three Tests.
Pretty good effort.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, indeed, and mostly he's a worthy winner. But you know,
there were a few candidates, particularly amongst the New Zealand
side in that series it could have taken. But it's
a great recognition for a young guy who's not had
an easy time of it in recent years with injuries
and non selection to some.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Extent, thrilled for him. He's now, you know, one of
north Otago's finests, such as Richard mccaor and probably Northataga's
finest cricketer, noting that Walter Hadley was actually born in Amaru.
Did we know that? My research revealed that. But along
with Richard mccauw and Phil Gard, he's right up there now.
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But I just think it's wonderful that a player like
him can come up to Wellington find his way around
a good team, because clearly Ottaga wasn't doing that. And
this is not Christen Ottarga, but he's he's he's grown,
has grown real momentum in the ways he's playing. And
you're right about him, Jerry. He's sneaky quick and yet
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he's very accurate, just as Henry is. He allowed Blundle
to stand up to me at the at the wicket
and that was a critical part of that series, wasn't it.
He's accurate, he darts at it in about no. I'm
thrilled from and fielding's fantastic and I think his batting
will come be become even better. Particularly you know, when
you're all round and you're getting wickets, you feel better
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about yourself. So I think he's bouting well. Will prove
to be what we believe it can be.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, it'll come with confidence, won't it. The confidence he's
going to get from performing. I remember him saying when
he came to Wellington a couple of seasons Agoad, when
he came back into form after injury, that he said,
I think I can bowl quicker, but it's the ability
to do something of the board too, Jerry. Isn't it
that makes him apart from other bowlers. You can be
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as quick as you like, but you've got to be
able to do something, don't you, and have a special skill.
He uses the crease world, doesn't he.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, he runs certainly. In that third test Wadds. I
noticed at knots he was running a little bit wider
and the pitch was helping him a little bit, but
nevertheless he got the angles right. And Moose is absolutely right,
you know, in terms of you know, just he will
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get confidence and that will that will slide across to
other skills that he's already possessed possesses. So I'm I'm
quite hopeful that he will add He'll be a really
important addition to that lower ruder as well as his bowling.
But he's right, is right about the about standing up
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to You've got to be quite accurate to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And he was, Yeah, and he's done his research, Moose,
isn't he? I mean, boy, you know, I knew, I
knew there was something we were lacking in this program
and it's and it's research and Moose has done it.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
He's picked Hadley. I didn't know Walter was born down there,
but that's yeah, you know, I will pick it out.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
You do remember the great film Guard One Test in
nineteen seventy one for the All Blacks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
He's an opening better, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
It for the bout? No?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, anyway, Richid mccaul's the greatest. We're slightly off topic
here but and it's great.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Where was Foxy born?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, the Australians are trying to claim him. At the moment,
Australian golfer Ryan Fox geared off the grass.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Never mind.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The Black Cats squeezed out a one wicket went over
the West Indies, a match they should have lost if
the West Indies could catch. But again one individual stood
out to sneer the victory. From this time it was
Mark Chapman. He helped them to the modest target they
needed to win. Yeah, we've seen Nathan Smith. He had
a bit of a break, so too do Daryl Mitchell.
I don't know why he was left out of the
last game, but he's coming home early with some kind
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of injury. But the guy that's hitting me between the
eyes is a guy called Jaden Lennox moose eleven wickets,
it's something like sixteen I think he's got and he
took a five for nineteen. Isn't that justifying this series
to some extent?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Very much, very much? And apologies stool listeners about my
weather predictions at being ay season, Guyana. They've played three
games all on rather average, very bad wickets, which was
more the pity putting that on one side. We didn't
talk about Lenox. I'm thinking about a year ago when
he came into the side and looked looked to be
something of promise, and I think we're just seeing that
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while other selectors the guy seems to have got his
head around his game. He's quite a tall bottler, but
just like Satner. Satner, my god, has he improved his
game on every level. But Lenox, I think has been
influenced a lot by those guys around him. It's great
that he's got the support of people like Bracewill at
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the other end, who spins it heavy whipth off spin.
I think this is a pretty interesting side that we're
developing with more depth with players to come in on
my ad. So when you've got Lenox there doing what
he's done, brace will as well getting runs as well.
I liked a lot of I saw in this on
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did conditions as well. That wasn't easy out there.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm going to say Jerry that the West Indies are
doing themselves no favors. Are they playing on pitchers like
that square teners, slow, low bounce if they want to
get points to qualify for the World Cup, which is
going to be in doubt because they're going to make
changes to the World Cup qualification now. They're not doing
themselves any favors by some of the pitchers they're playing another.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
No, it's not, it's it's not Your game doesn't improve.
It forces you to block slog doesn't it. As a batsman,
you either defend it. You can't get that middle game
where you're knocking it for ones and twos and threes
and use you know, the pace of the ball to
try and access behind the behind the stumps. So and
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you've got to really kind of wait for a bad
ball either width or length and then smash it, you know,
because you're you're you're having the block so often, aren't you,
And so your run rates dropping a little bit. And yeah,
it's not a way to play, and it gives false
sometimes false records for the bowlers who just can kind
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of roll the arm over if you're consistent enough. And
that's certainly one thing that stands out about Lennox, isn't
He's very consistent, a repeatable action and when the ball
is doing something, I mean, what did he get in
that five wickets he got? I think he got Hope out,
he was bold, he got Rutherford out, chaffin relevant he
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was bold, he got Moti bold, he got Fod lbw,
Laws LBW. So all of those wickets, five of them,
says he's bringing the stumps into play, And that's one
of his real strengths, isn't it. It turns a little
bit more, it beats the outside edge of a right hander.
If it slides on, then he's into the pads. So
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and he's accurate enough and he's smart enough that he's
studying to do it. What is he's about thirty years older, fellow,
he's not young. Yeah, So he's had a bit of
experience behind him in first class cricket. You know, he's
done the hard Hawks Bay CD man so that he's
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playing on good pictures and so he's got a custom.
He has to bowl well, he has to do a
good job for CD. He has to bowl a lot
of overs and so that has all helped him, I think,
and he's been noticed in lower levels. He's into the
A side and now he's playing and showing that he's
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not overawed, which is a enough shigne as well.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And he's a front line spinner too, not just a
spare part, not just someday to make up the numbers.
He's actually there as an attacking weapon and doing that job. Center,
of course, is doing an outstanding job, and we've also
seen Bracewell doing his part. We haven't seen a lot
of batting that you would call world class quality. Most
of some of the chases have been modest, and they
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managed to squeak home in that last game in in Barbados,
but boy it was it was tight.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
But but what I'm seeing though is that we well,
this is what I like. And it's the same thing
in the in the in the in the English series,
we're getting contributions throughout the team. Someone fails one time
Match three and Guyana and Chappington get many comes out
in Barbados goes out and gets eighty and that's probably
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the winning winning the winning innings putting, putting aside Satan's
very fine effort. Just back on that wicket, the wickets there.
It really is the shame because one of the strongest
elements of the West Indian team, they've got some very
handy quicks and bring us a play into their strengths.
You know, you to be thinking you'd be wanting nice
and quick, bouncy wickets for for their better players, and
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it's just it's hit scratcher. I don't know. Is it money,
is it cash spending time on the roller? I don't know, Joey.
You've played in those places, but I'm sure they weren't
like what you've got now because they had all the
quickstin and they had they were fast and bouncy.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You enjoyed Barbados when you were there, jury didn't you?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I didn't really enjoy I didn't mind down south for
the Wads, no, but yeah, yeah, but but the other
ones were a little bit up and down, I've got
to say. And look, al Zari Joseph got four wickets,
didn't he, And he he was the one who caused
the New Zealanders to sort of collapse a little bit
in game one, and so he showed that he had
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the skills to handle towards the death part of a
one day game. So yeah, it doesn't make sense Moost.
That's that's a good point. But winning close games like
the last ones good and important signs, aren't they that
you have the confidence in each other even though you're
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batting with lower player, you know, lower than the order players.
And Santner was the one who's obviously sort of saw
us home in that way as well, but I mean
after Chapman, But I mean, I just feel they are
very important signs for a side and their development that
when the pressure comes on, someone is able to put
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in a little performance and it might be only three
not out, but it's facing fifteen balls and it's seeing
giving a chance to the batsman at the other end
to score some runs. So those are important points and
just showing the way the team is developing. Yep.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
We'll have a look and see after the last game
two when they return home and how things have shape.
But I think they can come away with a series victory.
The West Indies will be still struggling to reach that
qualification level for World Cup qualification. But it was supposed
to be a day to celebrate the life of one
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of the greats, one of the greats of the game.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Garfield sobers.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
An emotional time and even with the emotion that was
shun from the grounds, that was interesting to see. Just
before we talk about Sabers, remember this, this is something
out of his past that well we played a couple
of months ago.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
That's she's got to kick perhaps the right distance. He's
at that out of the ground. That's another one witness
curations for me and that papp at the top. You
see the chat claiming up there to have a look
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over the while that's to two and sent to nine minutes.
That's another one up for the enclose up. Three balls,
three sixes, fifty eight. Had an incredible bit of hitting.
Oh he's got that short run.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
What's up again?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
They're they're bouncing on the bouncing on the concrete.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Four sixes in four balls.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
This makes him sixty four four sixes underwear. Nash is
going to bowl this morn are that well just carrying
now he's going to be out, go down as propsing
is over the boundary Sex. It is five on the trout.
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I know this is incredible. Now this is six on
the Trot's a world record been done before, but seventy
on the board and he's done it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And my goodness, it's.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Gone way down to Sunday.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Six on the truck.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Up just six on one other good nurstraces.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Six six is off Malcolm Nash. And we remembered that
a couple of months ago, Jerry. But that was just
one of a number of highlights in a career from
Garfield Sabers. Remember he scored that three sixty five not
out against Pakistan in nineteen fifty eight and that stood
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as a Test record for thirty six years.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That was quite incredible, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I think that was his first hundred, wasn't it was?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That was yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yeah, Look he's one of sports towering icons, isn't he
Just a truly great And I don't use those words
too often. I think they're thrown about it, but these
days but a grays all round here, you know, gifted.
I watched him score thirty nine at the base in
reserve when they came out in sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Interesting you should say that, Jerry, because that was one
thing that came across to me. I remember that game too.
There were nine fours in that and it was an
amazing innings of thirty nine in a Test match they lost,
wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That's correct, and one that New Zealand won actually, But
the quality the time he had not a big driver
off the front foot, more of a big backlift and
waiting for the ball to come to him. If there
was decent pace on the ball, he could just use
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his hands so well to maneuver the ball through the
off side particularly, But excel as a I mean Chapel
spoke about. You always listen a bit when he and
Chapel says a few things and you can just remove
other things as well. But you know, he said he
was the best batsman in the world when he played,
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best batsman and you know the fact that he could
bowl left arm pace and swing, he could orthodox spinnaker,
bowl wrist spin. He was a great fieldsman and close particularly.
Wasn't it Bradman who called him a five and one cricketer?
I think it was. And you know I met Gary
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a few times. He loved a drink, loved a good
time in Lords. I think was at Lord's last one hundred.
I vaguely recall it was because it was in seventy
three when I started. He had a raging hangover and
(19:59):
he used to go out during the game. And it
was a three Test series. He had been left out
a bit because he stood at that time and he'd
had knee problems and so on playing for Nottinghamshire. He
hadn't really had a super season, but there was a
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whole lot of injuries to the Westernish touring team and
they asked him to help out, and so he got
a fifty I think at edge Biston, and he got
three wickets with the new ball, and so they were
leading one mill going to the last Test at Lord's
And as I say, he liked a party and he
rarely went to bed. This is his quote. Actually I
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really went to bed at normal time because I was
one of those who could four and five hours. I
was still fresh. You know. It was well known I
like a drink after play. Life is for living. I
played and had a drink and on occasion I had
to make sure. He says that those late nights could
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continue by maintaining a high level of performance. So he
heads out. He heads out with Clive Lloyd actually and
he's he's gone to meet a former West Indian spinner,
a guy called Ridge Scarlett, and they have a knight
on the town. They have a nightclub. They go back
(21:22):
to the bar at the hotel at the Clarendon where
they're staying to reminisce, and he has a cold shower.
He walks from Lord's, walks to Lord's from the Clarendon,
gets the pads on, sees Bob Willis coming into bowl,
misses the first five completely and he could hear Rowan Kenny,
the captain and up in the pavilion laughing, and then
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he's slowly as his head cleared and he goes on
to make a hundred and he says to Charlie Elliott,
the umpire from England who's umpiring in the game, I'm
not well. I got to go off. No, says Charlie,
I haven't seen anything to indicate you not well, and
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he said, I've been holding this down in my stomach,
he said, for fifty minutes. So I got to go off,
and so he does, and next batsman comes and can
I see it? Goes up to him when he gets
off in the changing room, says what's wrong. He says,
my stomach it's giving me GiB. I need a port
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and a brandy mixed. So down goes that and he
calls out to bring him another. Make it a big one.
So Shauber's in the end, he gets a couple of
hours off, goes out to bat again and gets to
one hundred and fifty in the west and he's declared
six fifty for seven or eight something like that, and
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they blow England away. But that was Gary, you know.
Gary of course was driving the car when Collie Smith died.
I don't know whether you guys remember that, but it
was often said that he was playing for two men
and he was a very close mate Collie Smith of hers.
We should remember wards. Cricket was at the heart of
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the West Indian cultural identity, you know, more than a game,
more than a job, and to have someone like Gary playing,
you know, meant a great deal, a great deal.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He's regarded as a national Treasury's having a state funeral,
and you know those memories live on, don't they.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Moose.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I don't know if you've got any specific memories of
Gary Sobers, but I mean his career has dotted with
wonderful achievements. I mean eight and thirty two runs at
fifty seven and Test cricket.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
To Wickett, Oh yeah, thirty five. Yeah yeah, I mean
I too, as a young Moose, came down from from
the Wai Rapper as we all did, to come and
watch guys like Gary Sober's play. And I remember that
sitting up on the bank there and he caught Glenn
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Turner in short off large gibbs and turn it just
clipped to the eyes of on seventy on and he
caught and thought, ye, that's good catch. And yet and
then earlier in the day he wandered in failing quite
slippery left arm quicks. You look like the guy just
had it all. And at the same time I'm watching
him in second slip there practicing his golf swing, so
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he was very very We've got you, oh yeah, And
and and I've gotta I've gotta make in England, I'll mate,
where's Simon Hall his name is, who's actually played golf
with them from Barbados and said, he's just the most lovely,
lovely man and the greatest, greatest company you can imagine.
So ballet Uh, Sir Garfield. I think every one of
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us who's ever watched the game and saw him will
remember him.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Indeed, Yeah, some wonderful memories and I I'm sure we
can look over those over a period of time to come.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The other thing going on in the world of cricket
at the moment is they're looking for a replacement for
Bas McCollum. Jerry, you followed us closely, and Nick Coleton
the Telegraph said, well, it could either be Handy Flower,
Richard Dawson, Stephen Fleming or Kumar Sanga Kara. Well, Andy
Flower has said, no, I don't know what the current talkers, Jerry,
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What are they What are they suggesting at the moment
over there?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Oh? What? I don't know. To be honest, I don't
think they're filling. They're filling a lot of inches and
columns of the paper. That the word is that that
Langer is looking like an outsider. How how he would
get on with McCullum as the white ball coach. I
don't know whether those two personalities would work together quite
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so well. Well, players, well exactly that's it's going to be.
I mean, he's regarded as a kind of a no nonsense,
pretty intense fella, isn't he And the McCullum persuasiveness, it
will be very different for the players. But players have
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just got to get on with with coaches. They're always
subject to other people's opinions as as they as they play,
and you've just got to keep going and make sure
that you find a method to get on with them,
make it work for both of you and hopefully, you know,
you become you know, indispensable to them.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
So well, they've talked about Mike Hessen, but that's like
having McCullum back again, doesn't it be put?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I mean, he was.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Propped up by McCallum when he was coach of the
New Zealand side.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
The one I think that he's my tip someone who's
played for ENGLM was a good player. Hastudson coaching seems
to be somewhat uncontroversial Jonathan Trott.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
He's one of the names. Jonathan Trotter's around. Yes, they're
interested in Sanga Kara. They're still looking there. What about
measures as well? He's got iv L measures as well,
hasn't he.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Who's Richard Dawson, He's another name mentioned.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Richard Dawson is a guy who was an off spinner
where when Brace's was playing at Gloucester, you know, sorry,
when Brace's was coach at Gloucester. He naturally gravitated into
coaching when he wasn't going to be selected as he
got a little bit older than he went to uh
(27:54):
he went up to Yorkshire and was the coach up
there for the second side and then got pulled back
into Gloucester as the main coach as well. He then
joined the white ball team for England as a coach,
and so he's he's been round. And the interesting thing
is that he was the coach that were one of
the coaches that McCullum got rid of at the start
(28:17):
of his tenure to make the rumor but less tenanted
by all the coaches. So that would be interesting if
that happened. I'm not sure whether he would make it once.
I mean, people even they're talking about Fleming as well,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So there are.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
What we're saying is that there's a load number of names.
I think if you if you're going to be the coach,
surely you've got to be in in position a couple
of weeks before now. August the eighteenth is the next
Test match against Pakistan.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
So I haven't got a captain.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It's got to be pretty soon, doesn't it. It's got
to be within a week or so. They're obviously talking
to certain people, but as I say, at the moment,
the inside running, whether that means anything at all, is langer.
But that to me is not necessarily one that would work.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Brian Waddell Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
An issue that's creating some consternation in the cricket world
is a proposal to change the structure of the men's
World Cups in both formats. A proposal on the table
to reduce the fifty over World Cup from fourteen teams
to twelve, along with the addition of a Super seven stage.
This could even be in place by the twenty twenty
(29:36):
seven event being hosted in Africa. To achieve it, the
ICC is likely to only allow two teams to progress
from a global qualifying tournament rather than four as originally planned.
A tweak to the T twenty World Cup is also
said to be under review, with a Super eight stage
increasing to a Super ten phase. The World Cricketers Association
(29:58):
says it's concerned by how the twenty twenty seven men's
event will be structured. It is worn that the format,
which eliminates two of the three lowest ranked teams early
raises questions about transparency, consultation and the game's long.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Term commitment to global growth.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's going to be interesting when we see the final
results from the ICC, but it's going to create some
comment and could be far reaching changes to the white
ball World Cups. Most I'm looking forward to dinner with
you on the weekend.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well's the same here once the eightieth anniversary of the
Wellington Wanderers Cricket Club. Wonderful things that they're doing for
community cricket and Wellington and for cricket in general. So
it's a worthy, worthy occasion and I shall be festooned
in colorful stripy blazers and ties. I cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
So Jerry, you'll have your feed up on the sand
and sitting in a deck chair on the beach somewhere.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I will, mate, Yes, I will. I've invested in a
new pair of time. That's a bit frightening for the
people nearby. And oh yeah, well I've got to I've
got to get the pins out and show them the
sun occasionally. So that's all good. So you guys are
(31:26):
going to enjoy a bit of a on the on
the LAWA pare you?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Oh no, no, this is a this is a mature at.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Obstinate right with those blazers. It's impossible to be mature
and a blazer like that.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Yeah, but we will meet the curfew.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well yeah, well that's another thing, isn't it? How long
is key there? They are saying that they want him
to stay. But you know he didn't write the Kurchy
curfew down on the contracts the players contracts, did he?
And he's made lots of it right throughout. So keep
watching this space. It's a bit to go over here.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Well we'll we'll have a look at that and we'll
we'll just continue this discussion.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Moose over a nice little.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Red or we'll have a we'll have a shardi for
for JC.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
We will, indeed, we will indeed, and there was that
question that you were going to posit about the Mets
as regards to email from Phil.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yeah, unfortunately, we've run out of time, so we're going
to have to push that off till next week.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
That's because that was that was to be somewhat great
interest from someone who really was good at dropping catches
and someone who was really good at catching them.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
That was Jarry.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
We can provide both sides of the spectrum there.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Well, there's a little tea.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
There's a little teaser for the next on the Front Foot,
and we'll be talking about the method of catching, which
is what Phil wanted to know. Why are they using
the reverse cup and other such ways of going about
catching in the outfield. So just hold that in your
mind and we'll talk about that next time we meet
(33:10):
on the Front Foot.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Enjoy the beach, Jerry.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I could love to see those talks they round you
or round your ankles.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Thanks once, Thank you very much. I'll clear I stink.
I'll probably clear a few beaches.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I can imagine. Never mind, we shouldn't be negative about
these sorts of things. I'm sure you look pretty good
in a pair of.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
We don't need to go into this any longer. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Get dressed up for the weekend mate.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Take the jury alivery to.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks Jeers.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
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