On Sports Fix with Elliott Smith for 29th June 2026, drama at Trent Bridge overnight as English captain Ben Stokes stunningly announced his retirement from test cricket during day 4 of their 3rd test against New Zealand. Iconic cricket commentator Bryan Waddle offers his thoughts on Stokes's decision.
Elliott contemplates whether another coach could have got more out of the All Whites.
Plus, Dean McLachlan is in the Chamber looking back on the sporting weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to Sports Fix for the twenty ninth of June
twenty twenty six. I'm Elliott Smith. Coming up on today's episode.
The black Caps can almost reach out and touch a
Test match and Test series win over England, and then
Ben Stokes just gets in the way and the science
he's going to retire the black Caps six wickets on victory.
So what will it take to derail the Stokes side
(00:44):
show and claim the victory. Brian Waddle, the voice of
Cricket on the radio in New Zealand, joins us in
a moment or two or jump in the chamber with
news Talk Zibbie sports journalist De McLaughlin as well and
cast our eye over the All Whites FIFA World Cup campaign.
What was it ultimately a success? Let's get into us.
In other news, Ben Stokes will play just one more
(01:08):
day of international cricket, ending a fourteen year career. The
England camptain has announced still retire at the end of
the deciding thirties begins to New Zealand at trent Bridge.
The announcement came while England were in the field on
day four, and Stokes spoke afterwards the scurtacy of our
colleagues at Sky Sports.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
As good as it is, there are bits where it
does get here, it does drain you and it does
effect you in a negative way. But overall it's this
really been, you know, four and a half years or
whatever it has been.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I've loved every single moment of it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Stokes about out at least with the bats worth a
thirty or twenty late in the day my take CATCHU
knows England struggled to one hundred and three for four.
It starts chasing three hundred and seventy three victory. New
Zealands made two hundred and eighty eight for nine after
Derrel Mitchell ground out a two hundred and forty one
boards country. Let's take you to the Ladis NASCAR race
in California on free Now we're.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Racing in one country and Shane van gisberg And is
the top of the town.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He wins again at Sonoma.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Shanevan gisberg And has swept the weekend, holding on for
victory in today's NASCAR Cup Arras twenty four hours after
winning the Division two race. He drove to victory from
sixth on the grid, overcoming late race pressure from rival
Chase Risco. It means he also progresses to round two
of the Million Dollars in Season Challenge Knockout and Canadian
Trium South African Heartbreak at the Football World Cup. On CVNZ,
(02:30):
this is.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
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The third and final Test between the Black Camps and
England turned on its head with the announcement of the
retirement of being Stoked. He will call it quits after
this trent Bridge chest England will go on to the
final day needing two hundred and seventy more to win.
They are one hundred and three for four more. Importantly,
from a New Zealand perspective, the Black Camps need six
wickets to claim the match and the series. Stokes, announcing
(03:05):
his retirement around half past three on day four, elevated
himself to open for good. Meesia had a squashbuckling early
thirty before going back to the pavilion. It's all been about.
Ben Stokes. A man to review and discuss day four
and look ahead to day five, is the voice of
cricket in New Zealand and co host of On the
front Foot podcast. Brian Waddell, joining us, what's good to
(03:28):
catch up.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Nice to be with you again.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, a lot to get through, as I said with
Ben Stokes, et cetera. But let's focus on the black
Caps first and foremost. Six wickets away from winning this match.
Is this now a Test that they should win? From
this point I.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Think they probably should. You look at it, two hundred
and seventy runs require but the English side four wickets down.
In normal circumstances, you would back them even to score
two hundred and seven two hundred and seventy in a
day they scored two ninety nine last time there was
a Test match, due mainly to Johnny Bursto. But this
pitch doesn't look it's an easy one to bat on.
(04:04):
I think that was proven by the way New Zealand
had to fight their way through the afternoon play yesterday.
And it's a Test match that New Zealand have worked
pretty hard at. They've needed to. They've been a little
bit short on resources when you think about the fact
that they didn't have their frontline pace bowlers and two
of them were injured going into the final innings. All
(04:25):
those sorts of things made it difficult. But you've got
to give them credit. They've really worked to a good
plan and it's been enjoyable, might I say, sleeping in
the lounge in the middle of the night watching it all.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, it's been grissy, hasn't It won't be going down
as one of the most pretty New Zealand Test wins
if they get there, but it's been grissy and Mitchell
and revengra really had to dig in during that second innings,
didn't they.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, they did, and it was a good sign from
Ravendra because he has been a little bit inconsistent. In fact,
when you look at it, many of the batsmen have
been inconsistent from both sides. But he played an important
role at an important time and then the century scored
by Mitchell. Sadly, other events have probably got in the
(05:12):
way of him getting the full credit for that hundred
because that was an outstanding Test match innings by anybody's standards,
and to be able to score one hundred in those
conditions and really fight it out taking the blows that
he took and the number of players that got cracked
by the ball from variable bounce just made it an
(05:32):
even better innings and that's what gave New Zealand the
three hundred and eighty odd that they were able to
set England to try and win the Test match.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You look at it, one hundred not out two hundred
and forty one balls. It wasn't pretty, but sometimes those
ugly innings are what you need to win Test matches.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, Test matches are not about pretty. They're about being
able to do the basics well and being able to
stick to a plan, which they were able to do
and do most effectively. And you know, you can look
back on a lot of Test matches they aren't always
that pretty, but that's the balance that you have to
look through to get a Test match side. You know,
(06:13):
there wasn't a lot pretty about the way England went
about their task. It was a real teethquiddy type performance
and if they should get up to win the game
then it will be justified. But I'm afraid I can't
understand why they battered in the way they did. Yes,
I can understand Stokes, he's pulled the plug. But the
other players, to my mind, didn't really give themselves a
(06:33):
chance and offered opportunities to New Zealand to take wickets,
which they did and the catchers that went with it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They did indeed, and Ben Stokes announcing his retirement. So
it came out I think about twenty five past three
in the afternoon local time, deciding to do it in
mid Test. What did you make of that?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, I can't understand it the way I couldn't understand
Cain Williamson deciding in the middle of a series. I mean,
in his situation, he must have known that he was
weighing up his future. The same with Stokes right in
the middle of a Test match. Why couldn't he do
it at the end of the Test match? It seems
(07:12):
so self indulgent to my mind. Rights during the play,
I mean the announcement even came out during the period
of play, not during a break or anything like that.
You know, it just seemed a little bit odd to me.
But you know, you've got to give him credit. He's
made a decision. Only players who've been in his situation,
(07:34):
and every other player at the top level know what
it's like to put their body on the line over
a long period of time. He's been playing for fifteen
years and to know that it's his time and he's
made a decision, good on him. That's fair enough. You'll
take the credits that go with what he's been able
to achieve and deliver for England and for the game
of cricket generally, and he'll be missed along with any
(07:58):
of the other players that have committed themselves to the
various countries that they play for. I mean, he's done
a lot for England cricket. To me, it'll be interesting
to see what happened now. Is he going to be
replaced by a Stokes Like in Harry Brook. There don't
seem to be any other options to captain the side
and therefore McCullum will have his number two men as
(08:21):
the captain. What will it mean for McCullum, how long
will he stay on? Not knowing too much about the
politics of England cricket, but there is always two sides
to every issue over there, and you know Stokes, Key
and McCullum have had as much, you know, lack of
(08:42):
credit for some of the things that were achieved. You know,
Stokes talked about the ghosts of the Ashes coming back
to get him. Well, you know, that's that's what goes
with it. So it'll be interesting to see what happens,
whether it will be just a smooth transition or whether
there will be other changes, because there has been suggestions
(09:04):
that that might be the case in terms of the
England hierarchy Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The All Whites will look back I think at this
World Cup as an opportunity missed. Yes, they were outclassed
and two of the three matches, but there were chances
for them to make the round of thirty two. The
record shows two losses and a drawer and therefore a
long way off advancing with just one point and practicality
though while they were never going to get past Belgium
the way they played on Saturday afternoon, there were chances
(09:31):
to get a point from Egypt having lead one nil
and maybe even a win against a run and that
two will draw. Sadly, defense is what let the All
Whites down at this World Cup visit. After being the
backbone of the twenty ten side. A particular lack of
imagination two from coach Darren Baisley around selection also needs
to be questioned. There was an over reliance so vasapre
(09:52):
seeing who seems to have been found out at the
international level. New Zealand football famously made a mess of
the last coaching search and they need to get it
right this time around. If they decided to take the
job to market, and I believe they should, It's unlikely
that Baisley will win out. The next four years are
crucial for the All Whites. It remains to be seen
there for thirty eight year old Chris Wood will be
(10:13):
at the World Cup in twenty thirty, but he, along
with the likes of Elijah, just needs to be given
the right coaching tools. If they do get there, I
think a different coach could have extracted more out of
this all Whites campaign.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Great pleasure to welcome De McLaughlin into the chamber. Dino,
Thanks for your time, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's you?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Who's that guy?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We don't know I'm doing here. I am a voice
from the void, umm Dino. All Whites out of the
world cub would would you give me the A campaign a
pass mark? Do you think on the fact they managed
to get a point out of that Irun game or
are you going maybe they should have been in the
round of thirty two.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh look, whenever I think about it, I just my
blood boils at that fowl that wasn't cooled when we
were playing Egypt And yeah, it might have been nice,
given we'd gone ahead a couple of times against you know,
the boys from the Middle East to keep that going.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But it's the.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Egyptian game that really gets me. And I look back
on it and I think, why wasn't that fell called
and that could have changed the momentum of the whole
game with us one nill up? And then I go
back to the Darren Baisley, Please, why didn't you put
fresh legs on at various stages? I thought that the
way that he handled his bench was pretty poor. The
(11:39):
likes of Jesse Randall could have been on, Nando Pineke.
There were so many guys that I reckon would have
enhanced that team, particularly when it was so hot and
you could tell that they were struggling, so fresh leagues
could have done the bizzo. So yeah, looking back, I'm like,
I'm proud of them. I think we're all really really
proud of them. But now we're just wondering what might
(12:01):
have been.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, I think exactly the same as you. I think,
you know, this could have been an opportunity. Belgium were
just too good on Saturday though, We're never going to
get past them. But Egypt, they lead Iran. They obviously
took two points. Sorry I point out of with a
tool draw just what might have been with a little
bit more innovation And again, Chris Wood. I don't know
that we made the most of Chris Wood during that
World Cup.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No, the only time that he was really in the
game was first off, when he and Elijah just were
combining really really well. He's another one. I don't know
if it was too many games and too short a
time for an aging body, particularly one that's been injured
through most of the you know, the English Premier League.
So could we have used him more as a strike
(12:45):
weapon rather than asking him to do the high press
and run himself into the ground.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I think you're right. Ben Stokes retiring mid match, I
don't I can't recall anything like this. Cricket's really the
only sport where this could happen, that you retire mid match.
But he's gone out in a blaze of well I
was gonna say, glory enough. It is a blaze of glory.
It's a blaze of something. Dean, what do you make
(13:11):
of it?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think he's gone up yours, England Cricket Board, you know,
take that. I'm resting back my narrative and I'm going
to have more to say after the game, like he
said that to the boys, you know, in the bit
that they taped with him retiring in front of his
team before the start of play, and I just think,
(13:32):
oh my gosh, being no, no, no, whoever's advising you
has done a pretty poor job here because you know
that final, you know, the fourth day became all about
him rather than the team and for a guy that
has put the team first through most of his career,
that was a bit weird. And I can't wait to
see at the same time who he fires the bullets
(13:56):
at when when he finishes, whether it's going to be
in a book or whether it's going to be in
a you know, a paid editorial with one of those
British newspapers. But I think Brenda Mcat and Rob Key
and the England Cricket Board you might not be sleeping
well tonight or tomorrow night. Or the night after.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, look out, I think he's going to load the chamber,
isn't he and fire a few bullets of Ben Stokes.
The black Caps, meanwhile, want those six wickets to claim
a Test victory. Look it's you know, the English are
going to need some reguard action from Joe Roots and
Emilio Gay tonight. But New Zealand should be good enough
to win this Test match, surely, Dino.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You'd think so. And that was the other thing about
Ben Stokes coming out with what he did. It detracted
from the incredible performance of Russian Revengderer and Daryl Mitchell.
I mean Daser Mitchell got hit on the body or
gloves thirteen times. Yeah, and since records were taken started
being taken twenty years ago, that's about the fourth highest
(14:56):
any batsman, any batter, has ever been hit in the
Test innings. And it just goes to show the bravery
and the courage of the New Zealand team. And I
can't see them letting it up now. And that pitch,
it's got such variable bounce. The seamers are still well
in it. And hey, it'd be nice if Match Sentner
actually got a wicked all three to two on that
(15:18):
final day.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, let's hope. So Dean, thank you very much for
your time, and the chamber appreciate it. As always, We'll
let you go and we'll see you back in the
chamber soon.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Brilliant. Thanks Elliot, look forward to seeing you in christ
Church later this week.
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Welcome to Sports Fix for the twenty ninth of June
twenty twenty six. I'm Elliott Smith. Coming up on today's episode.
The black Caps can almost reach out and touch a
Test match and Test series win over England, and then
Ben Stokes just gets in the way and the science
he's going to retire the black Caps six wickets on victory.
So what will it take to derail the Stokes side
(00:44):
show and claim the victory. Brian Waddle, the voice of
Cricket on the radio in New Zealand, joins us in
a moment or two or jump in the chamber with
news Talk Zibbie sports journalist De McLaughlin as well and
cast our eye over the All Whites FIFA World Cup campaign.
What was it ultimately a success? Let's get into us.
In other news, Ben Stokes will play just one more
(01:08):
day of international cricket, ending a fourteen year career. The
England camptain has announced still retire at the end of
the deciding thirties begins to New Zealand at trent Bridge.
The announcement came while England were in the field on
day four, and Stokes spoke afterwards the scurtacy of our
colleagues at Sky Sports.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
As good as it is, there are bits where it
does get here, it does drain you and it does
effect you in a negative way. But overall it's this
really been, you know, four and a half years or
whatever it has been.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I've loved every single moment of it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Stokes about out at least with the bats worth a
thirty or twenty late in the day my take CATCHU
knows England struggled to one hundred and three for four.
It starts chasing three hundred and seventy three victory. New
Zealands made two hundred and eighty eight for nine after
Derrel Mitchell ground out a two hundred and forty one
boards country. Let's take you to the Ladis NASCAR race
in California on free Now we're.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Racing in one country and Shane van gisberg And is
the top of the town.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He wins again at Sonoma.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Shanevan gisberg And has swept the weekend, holding on for
victory in today's NASCAR Cup Arras twenty four hours after
winning the Division two race. He drove to victory from
sixth on the grid, overcoming late race pressure from rival
Chase Risco. It means he also progresses to round two
of the Million Dollars in Season Challenge Knockout and Canadian
Trium South African Heartbreak at the Football World Cup. On CVNZ,
(02:30):
this is.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Dropping Nicety.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Needing a vix. We've got just the ticket. It's Sports
Vix powered by News Talks IVY.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
The third and final Test between the Black Camps and
England turned on its head with the announcement of the
retirement of being Stoked. He will call it quits after
this trent Bridge chest England will go on to the
final day needing two hundred and seventy more to win.
They are one hundred and three for four more. Importantly,
from a New Zealand perspective, the Black Camps need six
wickets to claim the match and the series. Stokes, announcing
(03:05):
his retirement around half past three on day four, elevated
himself to open for good. Meesia had a squashbuckling early
thirty before going back to the pavilion. It's all been about.
Ben Stokes. A man to review and discuss day four
and look ahead to day five, is the voice of
cricket in New Zealand and co host of On the
front Foot podcast. Brian Waddell, joining us, what's good to
(03:28):
catch up.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Nice to be with you again.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, a lot to get through, as I said with
Ben Stokes, et cetera. But let's focus on the black
Caps first and foremost. Six wickets away from winning this match.
Is this now a Test that they should win? From
this point I.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Think they probably should. You look at it, two hundred
and seventy runs require but the English side four wickets down.
In normal circumstances, you would back them even to score
two hundred and seven two hundred and seventy in a
day they scored two ninety nine last time there was
a Test match, due mainly to Johnny Bursto. But this
pitch doesn't look it's an easy one to bat on.
(04:04):
I think that was proven by the way New Zealand
had to fight their way through the afternoon play yesterday.
And it's a Test match that New Zealand have worked
pretty hard at. They've needed to. They've been a little
bit short on resources when you think about the fact
that they didn't have their frontline pace bowlers and two
of them were injured going into the final innings. All
(04:25):
those sorts of things made it difficult. But you've got
to give them credit. They've really worked to a good
plan and it's been enjoyable, might I say, sleeping in
the lounge in the middle of the night watching it all.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, it's been grissy, hasn't It won't be going down
as one of the most pretty New Zealand Test wins
if they get there, but it's been grissy and Mitchell
and revengra really had to dig in during that second innings,
didn't they.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, they did, and it was a good sign from
Ravendra because he has been a little bit inconsistent. In fact,
when you look at it, many of the batsmen have
been inconsistent from both sides. But he played an important
role at an important time and then the century scored
by Mitchell. Sadly, other events have probably got in the
(05:12):
way of him getting the full credit for that hundred
because that was an outstanding Test match innings by anybody's standards,
and to be able to score one hundred in those
conditions and really fight it out taking the blows that
he took and the number of players that got cracked
by the ball from variable bounce just made it an
(05:32):
even better innings and that's what gave New Zealand the
three hundred and eighty odd that they were able to
set England to try and win the Test match.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You look at it, one hundred not out two hundred
and forty one balls. It wasn't pretty, but sometimes those
ugly innings are what you need to win Test matches.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, Test matches are not about pretty. They're about being
able to do the basics well and being able to
stick to a plan, which they were able to do
and do most effectively. And you know, you can look
back on a lot of Test matches they aren't always
that pretty, but that's the balance that you have to
look through to get a Test match side. You know,
(06:13):
there wasn't a lot pretty about the way England went
about their task. It was a real teethquiddy type performance
and if they should get up to win the game
then it will be justified. But I'm afraid I can't
understand why they battered in the way they did. Yes,
I can understand Stokes, he's pulled the plug. But the
other players, to my mind, didn't really give themselves a
(06:33):
chance and offered opportunities to New Zealand to take wickets,
which they did and the catchers that went with it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They did indeed, and Ben Stokes announcing his retirement. So
it came out I think about twenty five past three
in the afternoon local time, deciding to do it in
mid Test. What did you make of that?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, I can't understand it the way I couldn't understand
Cain Williamson deciding in the middle of a series. I mean,
in his situation, he must have known that he was
weighing up his future. The same with Stokes right in
the middle of a Test match. Why couldn't he do
it at the end of the Test match? It seems
(07:12):
so self indulgent to my mind. Rights during the play,
I mean the announcement even came out during the period
of play, not during a break or anything like that.
You know, it just seemed a little bit odd to me.
But you know, you've got to give him credit. He's
made a decision. Only players who've been in his situation,
(07:34):
and every other player at the top level know what
it's like to put their body on the line over
a long period of time. He's been playing for fifteen
years and to know that it's his time and he's
made a decision, good on him. That's fair enough. You'll
take the credits that go with what he's been able
to achieve and deliver for England and for the game
of cricket generally, and he'll be missed along with any
(07:58):
of the other players that have committed themselves to the
various countries that they play for. I mean, he's done
a lot for England cricket. To me, it'll be interesting
to see what happened now. Is he going to be
replaced by a Stokes Like in Harry Brook. There don't
seem to be any other options to captain the side
and therefore McCullum will have his number two men as
(08:21):
the captain. What will it mean for McCullum, how long
will he stay on? Not knowing too much about the
politics of England cricket, but there is always two sides
to every issue over there, and you know Stokes, Key
and McCullum have had as much, you know, lack of
(08:42):
credit for some of the things that were achieved. You know,
Stokes talked about the ghosts of the Ashes coming back
to get him. Well, you know, that's that's what goes
with it. So it'll be interesting to see what happens,
whether it will be just a smooth transition or whether
there will be other changes, because there has been suggestions
(09:04):
that that might be the case in terms of the
England hierarchy Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The All Whites will look back I think at this
World Cup as an opportunity missed. Yes, they were outclassed
and two of the three matches, but there were chances
for them to make the round of thirty two. The
record shows two losses and a drawer and therefore a
long way off advancing with just one point and practicality
though while they were never going to get past Belgium
the way they played on Saturday afternoon, there were chances
(09:31):
to get a point from Egypt having lead one nil
and maybe even a win against a run and that
two will draw. Sadly, defense is what let the All
Whites down at this World Cup visit. After being the
backbone of the twenty ten side. A particular lack of
imagination two from coach Darren Baisley around selection also needs
to be questioned. There was an over reliance so vasapre
(09:52):
seeing who seems to have been found out at the
international level. New Zealand football famously made a mess of
the last coaching search and they need to get it
right this time around. If they decided to take the
job to market, and I believe they should, It's unlikely
that Baisley will win out. The next four years are
crucial for the All Whites. It remains to be seen
there for thirty eight year old Chris Wood will be
(10:13):
at the World Cup in twenty thirty, but he, along
with the likes of Elijah, just needs to be given
the right coaching tools. If they do get there, I
think a different coach could have extracted more out of
this all Whites campaign.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Great pleasure to welcome De McLaughlin into the chamber. Dino,
Thanks for your time, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's you?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Who's that guy?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We don't know I'm doing here. I am a voice
from the void, umm Dino. All Whites out of the
world cub would would you give me the A campaign a
pass mark? Do you think on the fact they managed
to get a point out of that Irun game or
are you going maybe they should have been in the
round of thirty two.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh look, whenever I think about it, I just my
blood boils at that fowl that wasn't cooled when we
were playing Egypt And yeah, it might have been nice,
given we'd gone ahead a couple of times against you know,
the boys from the Middle East to keep that going.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But it's the.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Egyptian game that really gets me. And I look back
on it and I think, why wasn't that fell called
and that could have changed the momentum of the whole
game with us one nill up? And then I go
back to the Darren Baisley, Please, why didn't you put
fresh legs on at various stages? I thought that the
way that he handled his bench was pretty poor. The
(11:39):
likes of Jesse Randall could have been on, Nando Pineke.
There were so many guys that I reckon would have
enhanced that team, particularly when it was so hot and
you could tell that they were struggling, so fresh leagues
could have done the bizzo. So yeah, looking back, I'm like,
I'm proud of them. I think we're all really really
proud of them. But now we're just wondering what might
(12:01):
have been.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, I think exactly the same as you. I think,
you know, this could have been an opportunity. Belgium were
just too good on Saturday though, We're never going to
get past them. But Egypt, they lead Iran. They obviously
took two points. Sorry I point out of with a
tool draw just what might have been with a little
bit more innovation And again, Chris Wood. I don't know
that we made the most of Chris Wood during that
World Cup.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
No, the only time that he was really in the
game was first off, when he and Elijah just were
combining really really well. He's another one. I don't know
if it was too many games and too short a
time for an aging body, particularly one that's been injured
through most of the you know, the English Premier League.
So could we have used him more as a strike
(12:45):
weapon rather than asking him to do the high press
and run himself into the ground.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I think you're right. Ben Stokes retiring mid match, I
don't I can't recall anything like this. Cricket's really the
only sport where this could happen, that you retire mid match.
But he's gone out in a blaze of well I
was gonna say, glory enough. It is a blaze of glory.
It's a blaze of something. Dean, what do you make
(13:11):
of it?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I think he's gone up yours, England Cricket Board, you know,
take that. I'm resting back my narrative and I'm going
to have more to say after the game, like he
said that to the boys, you know, in the bit
that they taped with him retiring in front of his
team before the start of play, and I just think,
(13:32):
oh my gosh, being no, no, no, whoever's advising you
has done a pretty poor job here because you know
that final, you know, the fourth day became all about
him rather than the team and for a guy that
has put the team first through most of his career,
that was a bit weird. And I can't wait to
see at the same time who he fires the bullets
(13:56):
at when when he finishes, whether it's going to be
in a book or whether it's going to be in
a you know, a paid editorial with one of those
British newspapers. But I think Brenda Mcat and Rob Key
and the England Cricket Board you might not be sleeping
well tonight or tomorrow night. Or the night after.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, look out, I think he's going to load the chamber,
isn't he and fire a few bullets of Ben Stokes.
The black Caps, meanwhile, want those six wickets to claim
a Test victory. Look it's you know, the English are
going to need some reguard action from Joe Roots and
Emilio Gay tonight. But New Zealand should be good enough
to win this Test match, surely, Dino.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You'd think so. And that was the other thing about
Ben Stokes coming out with what he did. It detracted
from the incredible performance of Russian Revengderer and Daryl Mitchell.
I mean Daser Mitchell got hit on the body or
gloves thirteen times. Yeah, and since records were taken started
being taken twenty years ago, that's about the fourth highest
(14:56):
any batsman, any batter, has ever been hit in the
Test innings. And it just goes to show the bravery
and the courage of the New Zealand team. And I
can't see them letting it up now. And that pitch,
it's got such variable bounce. The seamers are still well
in it. And hey, it'd be nice if Match Sentner
actually got a wicked all three to two on that
(15:18):
final day.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, let's hope. So Dean, thank you very much for
your time, and the chamber appreciate it. As always, We'll
let you go and we'll see you back in the
chamber soon.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Brilliant. Thanks Elliot, look forward to seeing you in christ
Church later this week.
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