September 23, 2024 • 6 mins
The Black Caps are ruing a first innings collapse after a quick conclusion on the final morning of the first cricket test against Sri Lanka.
The hosts have needed less than four overs to claim the last two Black Caps wickets, and seal a 63-run victory in Galle.
New Zealand started the third day at 269 for 4 - but were bowled out for 340 before lunch, leaving Sri Lanka to quickly eat up their 35-run deficit.
Newstalk ZB cricket reporter Andrew Alderson joined Sportstalk to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Duncy Wildergrave
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Black Caps have wrapped up Test number one with a
loss in Sri Lanka. The hosts needed less than four
overs this morning their time to claim both of the
black Cats final two wickets to wrap up a sixty
three run win in Test one. It's got to Andrew Ordison,
our cricket guru here at Newstalks EDB Allders. Well around now,
we thought we'd be maybe still watching a bit of
(00:34):
a black Caps fight back, but not to be on
this Monday evening.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, that's right, Coves. I think we will probably hope
that we'd be sitting there maybe our feet up in
front of the fire or whatever and munching if you
goodies out of the fridge or something in watching great
competitive Test cricket at the end, but just just supporting.
I suppose that Ravendra was lost so early in the
day really the key to their whole the numa for
(01:00):
one of a better term in you know, we're getting
out for ninety two and at left New Zealand pretty
much sure. I think they're always going to be struggling
there on that Gal wicket on the final day given
its nature for turning, and the Sri Lankan spinners didn't
disappoint in that regard for their fan base. So yeah,
it was a tricky one and I think I think
(01:22):
just in the history with Gaul over time, just two
teams have chased over two hundred in that time. I
think it was the freakish Pakistan performance getting three forty
four and twenty twenty two. I think Sri Lanka against
New Zealand back in twenty nineteen with two sixty eight.
But other than that New Zealand chasing two seventy five,
it was going to be a tough art indeed.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Overall, how do you sort of assess the performance? Though
there obviously some individual moments of brilliance will I Rock
shining again with the ball, Ajasptel's heroics yesterday, and obviously
Rutch and Vender with the bat, But the overall what
kind of assessment do you give the Black Caps for
the fight they put on?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I think it was promising for each of those
three factors that you mentioned there. Of course, Ravender getting
ever so close. New Zealers played five times No One's
in a score of Test century. I've got another opportunity,
of course in the second Test away from Columbo staying
with Gaul. But I thought there was a couple other
elements as well. I mean I thought the batting, for instance,
in the first innings was pretty solid, but just no
(02:20):
one really going on with it and nailing that down.
You think that Tom Aatham top scorer with seventy came
in in some and there on Wich was just getting
over the half century mark. I think Glen Phillips was
forty nine not out, and it just left them that
little bit short. Then they had good partnerships to them
in four partnerships over fifty, but again nothing that really
cemented the game in their favor, and that bat once
(02:43):
and that well type scenario, and of course at a
thirty five a run lead, I think they probably lost
it with I mean Petal Bill them back into it
with that third innings against Sherilanka. But slunka into three
o nine was a fairly effective tally I thought in
the context of things. But as you say, I mean
will I Raw, I thought that was an outstanding display
(03:04):
his opening Test in the Subcontinent. For one hundred and
four of his return, he really is a bowler of
some considerable promise, and you can only just hope that
maybe him and Kyle Jamison will get on the park
at some stage, maybe in the in the not too
distant future. That would be a fairly useful attack to
take over from the Saudi Bolt and the Wagoner years.
(03:26):
So that would be something to perhaps look forward to.
But I thought just that application against spin probably cost
you Zealand as well. On the fourth and things. It
was getting pretty tough there, it was. It was started
to you. It was like facing chainsaws. By the time
they put pictures in that ruff towards the end, you
really didn't know you were fending off, et cetera. And
once again hits you on the back pad. It was
(03:48):
you know, you're flicking those balls up to the close midfielders.
It's it's a tricky proposition.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, And A J. Spttel, his bizarre kind of career
continues more success and great success. It is on overseas pictures.
He just continues to deliver in the subcontinent, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Oh he does. And he's a joy to watch at times,
isn't he? Patel, Just the way he's able to just
nag away and he's he's just got such rhythm and
is just tests bad as the whole time with his
line and length, et cetera. You know, no great pace
or anything like that, just keeps floating it up. Lovely
flight from Patel, and I just I do feel for
(04:28):
him that he hasn't been the New Zealand conditions are
vastly different and you have to pick your players according
to your team. But basically he hasn't had a more
consistent spot in the side as a spinner over over
an old period. When you think, and I think too
that well, the real one that gives me is that
when he was brought back from getting ten wickets in
Mumbai and an everything has got in just the so
(04:51):
a few players that have done that over a period
of time and tests and then wasn't picked for the
next Test at home and even just as a marketing exercise.
It was a bit rotten for him. But yeah, you
just feel like, have we actually seen the best of
him over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Exactly where this result sits now a loss to the
black Caps name obviously on the back of the summer
where they had the struggles against Australia. The success over
this at a South African beat team. What's your expectations
over the next couple of months. Obviously India very much
on the horizon too here.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, well, I think what I love about it, Coops
is that it's in context now is the World Test
Championship effectively, I think they've just got to win this
next Test against Sri Lanka to stay in contention there,
to give themselves a decent change. I think they might
have been pushed back to fourth as a result of
that match. Today they were in the third behind Australia
in India. But then yeah, just again crucial in India.
(05:45):
You've got to make some in roads there. That's going
to be a tricky proposition for the New Zealand. So
I think the spin element to the team, there's a
bit of promise there with the way Sentas developed his
test game. Likewise, Phillips is a real competitor in that
regard as well. To back up AJS Patel and if
a row could hold his fitness, we've still got Sears
(06:07):
and Henry in the ranks as well. If they need
some more pace to be as ammunition for the tests
to come, if they need to rotate, but then of
course you've got the England series at home and there'll
be some musterroom games there as well. If New Zealand
want to maintain their place or at least give themselves
(06:27):
a chance of making that World Test Championship final again,
backing up their achievement in twenty twenty one, be able
to do it at Lauds this time. I think June
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Indeed's all right, we'll play a Test cricket to come.
Thanks very much Andrew Ordison there with his thoughts on
the black Caps first Test defeat and gaul as Orders
mentioned another chance for them to get that long awaited
first ever when at the same venue when Test two
gets underway next week.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Duncy Wildergrave
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Black Caps have wrapped up Test number one with a
loss in Sri Lanka. The hosts needed less than four
overs this morning their time to claim both of the
black Cats final two wickets to wrap up a sixty
three run win in Test one. It's got to Andrew Ordison,
our cricket guru here at Newstalks EDB Allders. Well around now,
we thought we'd be maybe still watching a bit of
(00:34):
a black Caps fight back, but not to be on
this Monday evening.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, that's right, Coves. I think we will probably hope
that we'd be sitting there maybe our feet up in
front of the fire or whatever and munching if you
goodies out of the fridge or something in watching great
competitive Test cricket at the end, but just just supporting.
I suppose that Ravendra was lost so early in the
day really the key to their whole the numa for
(01:00):
one of a better term in you know, we're getting
out for ninety two and at left New Zealand pretty
much sure. I think they're always going to be struggling
there on that Gal wicket on the final day given
its nature for turning, and the Sri Lankan spinners didn't
disappoint in that regard for their fan base. So yeah,
it was a tricky one and I think I think
(01:22):
just in the history with Gaul over time, just two
teams have chased over two hundred in that time. I
think it was the freakish Pakistan performance getting three forty
four and twenty twenty two. I think Sri Lanka against
New Zealand back in twenty nineteen with two sixty eight.
But other than that New Zealand chasing two seventy five,
it was going to be a tough art indeed.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Overall, how do you sort of assess the performance? Though
there obviously some individual moments of brilliance will I Rock
shining again with the ball, Ajasptel's heroics yesterday, and obviously
Rutch and Vender with the bat, But the overall what
kind of assessment do you give the Black Caps for
the fight they put on?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I think it was promising for each of those
three factors that you mentioned there. Of course, Ravender getting
ever so close. New Zealers played five times No One's
in a score of Test century. I've got another opportunity,
of course in the second Test away from Columbo staying
with Gaul. But I thought there was a couple other
elements as well. I mean I thought the batting, for instance,
in the first innings was pretty solid, but just no
(02:20):
one really going on with it and nailing that down.
You think that Tom Aatham top scorer with seventy came
in in some and there on Wich was just getting
over the half century mark. I think Glen Phillips was
forty nine not out, and it just left them that
little bit short. Then they had good partnerships to them
in four partnerships over fifty, but again nothing that really
cemented the game in their favor, and that bat once
(02:43):
and that well type scenario, and of course at a
thirty five a run lead, I think they probably lost
it with I mean Petal Bill them back into it
with that third innings against Sherilanka. But slunka into three
o nine was a fairly effective tally I thought in
the context of things. But as you say, I mean
will I Raw, I thought that was an outstanding display
(03:04):
his opening Test in the Subcontinent. For one hundred and
four of his return, he really is a bowler of
some considerable promise, and you can only just hope that
maybe him and Kyle Jamison will get on the park
at some stage, maybe in the in the not too
distant future. That would be a fairly useful attack to
take over from the Saudi Bolt and the Wagoner years.
(03:26):
So that would be something to perhaps look forward to.
But I thought just that application against spin probably cost
you Zealand as well. On the fourth and things. It
was getting pretty tough there, it was. It was started
to you. It was like facing chainsaws. By the time
they put pictures in that ruff towards the end, you
really didn't know you were fending off, et cetera. And
once again hits you on the back pad. It was
(03:48):
you know, you're flicking those balls up to the close midfielders.
It's it's a tricky proposition.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, And A J. Spttel, his bizarre kind of career
continues more success and great success. It is on overseas pictures.
He just continues to deliver in the subcontinent, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Oh he does. And he's a joy to watch at times,
isn't he? Patel, Just the way he's able to just
nag away and he's he's just got such rhythm and
is just tests bad as the whole time with his
line and length, et cetera. You know, no great pace
or anything like that, just keeps floating it up. Lovely
flight from Patel, and I just I do feel for
(04:28):
him that he hasn't been the New Zealand conditions are
vastly different and you have to pick your players according
to your team. But basically he hasn't had a more
consistent spot in the side as a spinner over over
an old period. When you think, and I think too
that well, the real one that gives me is that
when he was brought back from getting ten wickets in
Mumbai and an everything has got in just the so
(04:51):
a few players that have done that over a period
of time and tests and then wasn't picked for the
next Test at home and even just as a marketing exercise.
It was a bit rotten for him. But yeah, you
just feel like, have we actually seen the best of
him over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Exactly where this result sits now a loss to the
black Caps name obviously on the back of the summer
where they had the struggles against Australia. The success over
this at a South African beat team. What's your expectations
over the next couple of months. Obviously India very much
on the horizon too here.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, well, I think what I love about it, Coops
is that it's in context now is the World Test
Championship effectively, I think they've just got to win this
next Test against Sri Lanka to stay in contention there,
to give themselves a decent change. I think they might
have been pushed back to fourth as a result of
that match. Today they were in the third behind Australia
in India. But then yeah, just again crucial in India.
(05:45):
You've got to make some in roads there. That's going
to be a tricky proposition for the New Zealand. So
I think the spin element to the team, there's a
bit of promise there with the way Sentas developed his
test game. Likewise, Phillips is a real competitor in that
regard as well. To back up AJS Patel and if
a row could hold his fitness, we've still got Sears
(06:07):
and Henry in the ranks as well. If they need
some more pace to be as ammunition for the tests
to come, if they need to rotate, but then of
course you've got the England series at home and there'll
be some musterroom games there as well. If New Zealand
want to maintain their place or at least give themselves
(06:27):
a chance of making that World Test Championship final again,
backing up their achievement in twenty twenty one, be able
to do it at Lauds this time. I think June
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Indeed's all right, we'll play a Test cricket to come.
Thanks very much Andrew Ordison there with his thoughts on
the black Caps first Test defeat and gaul as Orders
mentioned another chance for them to get that long awaited
first ever when at the same venue when Test two
gets underway next week.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
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