March 9, 2026 • 42 mins
Jason Pine returns to recap a full day in the world of sport! Highlights for tonight include:
Former Black Cap Scott Styris on the side losing to India in the T20 World Cup final.
Central Districts bowler Brett Randell on his cricket hat-trick.
Triathlon NZ CEO Pete de Wet on the hunt for the next generation of para-triathletes.
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Hello, Drekkotic, good evening and welcome in to Monday night
sports talk on News Talks EDB to March the ninth.
I'm Jason Pine Show producer as Andy McDonald. We're here
till eight talking sport with you. India have won the
T twenty Cricket World Cup for a third time, beating
our black Caps convincingly by ninety six runs. This morning,
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New Zealand's bowl has belted all around. I met a
bad stadium to the tune of two fifty five for
five after Mitchell Saton won the toss and sent them
into bat. Sandu Sampson top scoring eighty nine from forty
six deliveries. The black Aps then bowled out for one
hundred and fifty nine from the last ball of the
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nineteenth over. That is five white ball finals in the
last eleven years now and no silverware. How do we
move past this and win one of these things? Former
Black Cap and now cricket commentator Scott Styrus standing by
the chat with us your thoughts as well on what
it'll take to take that final step. Also Tonight's Central
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District Seam Bowl of Brett Randall made global cricket history yesterday.
I'm sure you've caught up with us five wickets and
five balls against Northern in Napier, the first time that
feat has ever been achieved in the two hundred and
fifty four year history of first class cricket globally. Brett
Randall with us to reflect on that, and triethl on
New Zealand on the hunt for the next generation of Paralympians.
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You hear it from the biggest names and sports and
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Speaker 2 (02:28):
Be and do you have won the T twenty Cricket
World Cup beating the Black Caps by ninety six runs
in this morning's final Kerkern and the.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Dinne's wicket goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And it's all done.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Actually it's India Weddler the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
By ninety six runs. Since twenty fifteen, New Zealand has
lost two fifty over World Cup finals, a Champions Trophy
final and now two T twenty World Cup finals. So
how do we go from perennial contenders to champions? Scott
Styrus played two hundred and fifty games of cricket for
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New Zealand across the three formats, more than five hundred
and fifty games of white ball cricket in a career
which stretched over two decades. Since retirement, he's become one
of the most respected cricket analysts and commentators in the
world and he joins us now, Scott, thanks for your time.
New Zealand, as I say, have now lost five white
ball finals in the last eleven years. Is this just
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the nature of white ball cricket or is there something
else stopping the Black caps from getting across the line.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that's a million doll a question, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And look, I think there's an element to that where
everything does happen on the day. But you see that
in a lot of the big sports around the world,
don't you, where it's about turning up and delivering in
the biggest moments, and you know, as individual players setting
their legacy from that and as a team, solidifying your
place in history. And you know, I think what this
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team has achieved all formats since let's say twenty fifteen,
it's been a sustained.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Period of success for this group.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
But that's the one area, isn't it the White Bool
Finals where they haven't been able to quite deliver upon
the skills and abilities that they have. That will probably
be a little disappointing for those players once they finished
and hang them up.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This is another million dollar question. Then why do you
think that is? Why haven't they been able to deliver
those on those or in those big moments.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, that one I'm not quite sure the answer for.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And I say that because I know thinking back on
my career and for us it was semi finals for example,
that we just kept falling short on and by the
time we got to my third World Cup, you know,
it's almost changed attitude and said, right, I'm going to
go after the game.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I'm not going to finish and think what if?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And that's the worst thing I think as a professional
sports person is that you finish a particular event or
your sport what doesn't really matter what it is, and
all of a sudd and you think, if I'd only
just tried whatever it is, you know, I could perhaps
put my But we'll sit back and think, you know,
I gave it everything and I got beaten by.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
A better team or somebody had their date.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But that'll be the one part, particularly from last night
with the way the game ended.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The quality of their performances have.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Been exceptional throughout and it's not the first tournament where
that's happened. And yet they get to the big dance
and all of a sudden, probably sitting in that dressing
room afterwards, thinking well, we weren't at the races.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Today, and that's the part that we'll eat away at them.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
How they fix that, I don't know, because it brings
about more pressure upon yourself. You know, there's a lot
of I guess tongue in cheek is the probably way
I look at it. With South Africa being a side
that never delivers when the pressure is on and the
cricket sense, New Zealand's possibly got that little mantle to
get past now due to the quantity of finals that
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they've been in.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting you talk about that semi final barrier and how
you know it took you tournaments, you know to form
a good strategy. I mean some of our semi final
performances in the last ten years. I've been amazing beating
South Africa twenty fifteen, Grant Elliot hid in that sixth
India twenty nineteen, even South Africa at this T twenty
World Cup Scott, what a performance. Is it possible that
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these players are still, you know, coming along their journey
and their barrier is the final rather than the semi
final that it was when you were playing.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, look, I totally agree with that. The problem they
have is this is an older New Zealand side. How
many more opportunities they will get I don't know, but
you know you don't want to get to the point
where your skills start diminishing and take away from those
quality performance.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But all of a sudden you've got the experience of.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Saying, you know what, I'm going to grab the game
by the scruff of the neck and try and be.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The hero if you like, because that's what white wooll
cricket does.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It allows you to be the hero on the day,
as Fanellen did in that semi final where he just
took the game away. I know he had obviously some
good performances from other players too, but he just said,
jump on back, I'm going to carry the side, and
he did it brilliantly. And you can go out with
best intentions and all of that and keep your head
in those moments and all the cliches you hear about,
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but it's still about making sure that you grab the
game and when you get a chance to make it,
you will make yourself the hero of the day that
you take that. And that's the unfortunate part is I'm
not sure that that's happened with this side, which you know,
I think it would have really cemented their place not
only as our best era of cricket, which I firmly
believe it has been, but also on the world stage,
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just with the consistency and the quality of their performances
which have been so good for ten years.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I heard Simon Dulsain commentary today that sometimes these days
too much stock is placed in data and there's amountain
of it available. I'm sure finding matchups bowling a certain
way based on what the numbers are telling you and
things like that, rather than just doing what you feel
out in the middle. Does Simon Dell have a point there.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm more on the data side, so I'm going to
disagree with the but there's a couple of reasons for that.
I still believe you're right that there is and he's
right that there is a place for feel. You know,
conditions may not be what what they are the game situation,
which is always a big one in cricket where you
have to play to the situation. You cannot simply go
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out and go all guns blazing or be you know,
conservative and try and get a score that you think
on any given day might be might win.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You're the game.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know, there is a place for data, and you
only have to look at other sports. Cricket has been
one that has taken a little longer to perhaps become
fully professional, and you see that in the I p L,
for example. The more money that's involved in a sport,
the more accountability people want.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And the Mumbai.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Indians, for example, in the I p L have a
back room analytics staff of one hundred people.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Wow, and they're codding every game. And you know it may.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Get to the point where you see the captains almost
like the NFL quarterback. They have that little patch on
their arm with all their plays that they want to
run all the matchups or situations of games, and you know,
I know they go down to the detail of for example,
one that we've talked about in commentary over there in
the subcontinent. You know, after three doppules, what does Glenn
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Max will do? And then they try and cut that off.
So you know, they are really diving into the analytics
side of things and trying to find trends amongst players,
whether we battle ball of what they do to try
and give themselves an advantage. And at the end of
the day, that's what analytics analytics is. It's just giving
yourself an advantage, whether it comes off or not.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And so I do believe that there is a place
for that.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So interesting. Our two best performance with the bat at
this tournament by some distance, Tim Seifert and thin Allen
both uncontracted T twenty specialists. Is that part of the
answer moving forward as well? Is that something we're likely
to see more and more of in big tournaments?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I probably think so.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We yet to see what if anything comes of this
NZ twenty, because you know, there's been a lot of
media around that and what place and what that can
do for cricket, whether it keeps some of those players
back in New Zealand, particularly during our summer.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I don't think it's any coincidence that a player's skills
improve when you only practice one version of the game.
You know, you think back to the say the seventies,
really before really one day cricket was around, players only
had to play practice their test skills and it became
a lot easier.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
But when you are chopping and changing every single.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Week between what is required, you can understand why players
perhaps don't master one in particular. And the real king
of that, I think is Chris Gale when he gave
away the other versions of the game and he just
became the premier player in T twenty cricket around the
world because those were the skills that he needed to
practice and master, and he certainly did that, so it
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doesn't surprise me that Tim and for now a dominating
world tournaments and taking that forms through to New Zealm.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Such interesting times, really thought provoking stuff. As always, Scott,
thanks so much for joining us tonight, Jess, thanks no,
thank you. Scott Cyrus there with his thoughts on the
black Caps lost to India this morning in the T
twenty Cricket World Cup Final. Your thoughts are welcome to
how do we turn ourselves from perennial contenders always being
there or thereabouts to actually winning one of these things?
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You'll have your thoughts. Oh eight, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty already a couple of calls waiting to have
a yarn, so I'm not going to hold you up
too long. The last bit, though, they're from Scott Styrus,
is really interesting to me. Specialists and as he said,
when players only had test cricket to practice and prepare for,
players became better at Test cricket with three formats. Now
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players who play all three have their attention and their
preparation time divided. Doesn't it stand to reason that if
you specialize in one format, you're going to be better
at that format in T twenty cricket, where you can
earn a living traveling the world playing franchise cricket, exposing
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yourself to a variety of conditions, and the best T
twenty players. Surely we need to look more and more
at specialists for World Cups in particular. In fact, for
World Cups only, I would say bilateral series. I guess
on a case by case basis, if somebody is available
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to play, they might come and play. But for World
Cups it has to be the way forward. And to
be fair, we did it this time, didn't we. Finellen,
Tim Seifert, neither of them centrally contracted. Lockey Ferguson no
central contract, Devin Conway, no central contract, Jimmy Neisham no
central contract, ish Sody no central contract, all members of
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this T twenty World Cup squad. So this is the
way where head, isn't it? For World Cups? And in
T twenty World Cups, which you hold every two years.
Why is it such an unpalatable idea to say to
guys like Finn Allen, Tim Seifert and the others, go
and play your franchise cricket. Focus only on that Because
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that's your bread and butter. That's now how you are
earning a living by traveling the world and playing T twenty,
and we would love to have you play World Cups
for US. And World Cups always appear in a window
where there's no franchise cricket like this one has, and
then there's centrally contracted players who play test matches and
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fifty over stuff. Some of them might also play T
twenty rightch and Revender a good example. We'll probably continue
to play all three formats, but I think more and
more specialists are the way to go when it comes
to T twenty oh. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is our number. Hello Dallas, Yeah, pie.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, I feel quite frustrated.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Here they said you're a very nice guy, so you're
not going to criticize anyone. But I'm critical of the
fact that we bowled first. I'm old scored. I don't
know about you, but I feel you get runs on
the board in any former cricket and even if that
scored one hundred and eighty, the game's still alive and
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you can put scoreboard pressure on when India come out
to bat and bat in front of one hundred and
for thirty thousand, and there's a better scoreboard pressure you
can sort of get a couple of early workers, you know.
So that's my thinking. I was just I was really
depressed when we decided to bowl first because the game
is over. After sits over, they had ninety ninety on
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the box.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, I know, Dallas, I know, I got up. I
got up this morning as well, and I was quite encouraged.
Actually this sounds so strange, but I was encouraged by
the first three balls all dots, and then then they
got their eye in and the next one went down
the ground for six. I guess if you compare it
to the semi final and look on you know, I'm
not I'm not averse to critiquing, absolutely not. But you
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look at the semi final, and they batted second that day.
They restricted South Africa to one seventy and then got
there with plenty of time to spare. I think I
even saw, you know, Michael Vaughan, one of the one
of the commentators, tweet out that these batting sides are
evenly matched. For me, it's who ever chases who wins,
because bowling conditions or bowling is just a bit more
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difficult later on. I know it's a generalization, but I'm
not sure that it was it was necessarily the howler
of a decision to bowl first.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
I just feel that it's no. I disagree. I think
it's it's it's harder to bat second under the lights.
But that's just my old school way of thinking though.
I was it up in cricket that you you know,
you win the tassle bat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, you know, yeah, And look, dellas you know you're right.
I remember Ian Chappel. You've probably heard this, this quote.
It's a test cricket quote. If you win the task
nine times out of ten, you're bat first. The tenth
time you think about bowling and you're still bat.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's that's that's what I grew, and
that you know, I still think it holds. But as
I say, because you stay Richard have this said this too.
You stay in the game. If you that first year
is still in the game at halftime.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You know, yeah, yeah, no matter how many you've got,
you're right, Dallas. Yet you're right. Look at the game
was gone in the innings break, wasn't it the only
shred of hope I was holding on to him, probably
and you're probably the same. Was the way Alan and
Ciphered batted in the semi final when they got us
through to one seventy for one and about thirteen overs.
I thought, well, if they can do that, then we
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might be a chance. But yeah, what we lost through
bickets in the first five overs and from there it
was never going to happen for us, was it. Thanks ellis,
your hindsight's oneful thing. I think Mitch Senter was asked
about that, asked about whether he considered he considered batting first.
I'm sure both scenarios we were thought about in his
mind and in the minds of the senior leaders. They
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went with sending the Indians in and it was just carnage,
wasn't it? Absolute slaughter. I sat there in the early
hours of this morning and I thought to myself, we're
all up, all of us die hard cricket fans at
you know, approaching three o'clock in the morning, and after
six overs they've already got ninety. It was pretty demoralizing,
was it. Thanks for your callers always, dellis, good to
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chat to you, mate, Hello, Dave oh.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh, Christy told us teams batting always win the game.
As The Australian said, nine teams out of win the game.
And look at the test series South Africa, New Zealand
Spin wins the game for you and why they did
the only Glenn Philip's bowled only one over. It was stupid.
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I wouldn't I wouldn't have pick lucky for you because
I wouldn't have picked Gymnisian. I would have picked Sody
and I would have picked that young spinner that played
them the African game. We've got to work it. I
would have I would have batted first and paid spin
all through. You look at the history and you look
at the test series, Spin wins the game and not Pace.
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They were lucky. Ferguson, I wasn't going to win the
game for you and bad mistake, bad selections for putting
a Yeah, I would have batted first and you look
at history.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, now, Dave, you're right, I mean different game obviously,
test matches as opposed to TEA twenties. I thought the
stranger decision. Actually I didn't mind Ferguson playing. I think
he's had a good tournament up until the final. He
got plenty of tap in the final, we go for
forty eight or two overs. That is that's quite a
quite a toweling he's got. I thought the stranger decision
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was leaving Cole McConkie out and bringing Jacob Duffy back in.
Duffy hasn't played since the Paul game. I don't think
against Canada, he didn't play against Ri Lanka, didn't play
against England, didn't play against South Africa, came back in.
They must have seen something that suggested to them that
they needed the extra seema rather than the spin options.
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But as you say, Dave, you know Glenn Phillips bowled
the one over, only went for five runs. It was
the second over of the innings, I think, so after
the first couple of overs it was looking all right
and then he didn't get another bowl, did he? Nobody
escaped it really who bowled significant overs? Even Mitchell Santon,
who's been our most economical throughout the entire tournament, went
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for thirty three of his four overs. I really don't
know about whether it would have matted had we batted
first or not. If they were going to go for
it like that, We're either going to chase down a
target that we set or they were going to do
what they did. Hindsight's always twenty twenty. Mitchell Santoner went
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out there again, it probably he might think far more
seriously about batting first. But with the South Africa semi
final blueprints, I think he felt confidence going out there
restricting India, you know, keeping them. I think if he
kept them below two hundred, I think we would have
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been in the game. Because it was two fifty five,
we had to go for it from the start basically.
But if we'd done what we did against South Africa,
picked up wickets on a regular basis, restricted them, maybe
you know, maybe the spinners would have had a bit
more say I mean, commaconkie only bowled one over in
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the last in that semi final, so let's not get
two carried away. But he did pick up two wickets
in that and he sort of has has I think,
you know, for a relatively new guy to the international setup,
done pretty well in the three or four games that
he's played. Cole McConkie. I would have kept him there
for the final, given us that Andy stiffens up the
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batting too, because he bats well. But these are all
ifs and butts and maybes and what ifs? Aren't they
Sonny says, yours have to consider it. And there are
the best chasing site out there as well. I mean
they they were. I was gonna say far and away
the best side at the tournament. That's probably not true
because they had a few stumbles early, but certainly the
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back end and in that final and on the big occasion,
and I go back to what Scotty Steyer said, you know,
seizing the moments, the big occasions. They certainly did that.
They had players this morning who who did that and
some Sanju Sampson eighty nine or forty six, Arbishek Shama
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fifty two off twenty one, the opening partnership ninety eight
when Sharma was finally out in the aked over is
Shan Kishar who came in fifty four off twenty five.
So by the time we got our second wicket, they
were two hundred and three for two and there were
still five overs to go. We actually slowed them down
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after that, didn't we We actually managed to keep them
to teens in the last five overs or so, when
they've been going at sort of more like fifteen's up
till then. Either way, it was always going to be
a tough ask and then just Boomra, just for good measure,
four overs, four for fifteen. What a bowler, What a
bowler in all forms of the game. And three of
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those four he knocked the poles over Santna Nisham, Henry
All bowled by Boomra. So if you could have scripted
a perfect World Cup performance in a T twenty final,
I think what India delivered this morning was pretty close
to it. Seven twenty nine. Take a break, come back
and get domestic as far as cricketers concerned. Brett Randall,
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this is a name that maybe hadn't registered too much
with you over the last little while, as far as
domestic cricket was concerned, it does now first player ever
to take five wickets in five deliveries. Brett Randall going
to tell us how he did it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The great call is your call on eight hundred and
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Speaker 2 (23:26):
ZB coming up twenty seven away from eight Central District Seemer.
Brett Randall made global cricket history yesterday, taking five wickets
in five balls against Northern Districts in Napier, the first
time that feat has ever been achieved in the two
hundred and fifty four year history of first class cricket globally.
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He finished with figures of seven for twenty five as
Northern Districts collapsed to be all out for eighty two
and today's CD completed and innings victory in Napier, Brett
Randall is with us five wickets and five balls, the
first time anyone has ever done that in first class cricket.
Has it sunken bread that your name is now going
to be attached to that feat forever?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
No, not at all.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
To put it quite simply.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Talk us through those five deliveries. What do you remember
most about them looking back now.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Ah, just just the moments with the teammates after each
We're getting into the huddle and sort of just looking
at each other saying what's going on? It was pretty unbelievable,
and then getting back to the top of my mark
and thinking I'm just going to try and put the
ball in the same areas. Those are the only sort
of like recollection I have from the moment, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So I'm just going to go through it with you.
You're bold, Henry Cooper with the last ball of your
second over, then got Jeet Varlet with the first ball
of your third of us, so you're on a hat trick.
Hat tricks are pretty special. Have you have you secured
one before?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
No, I can't remember when the last one was. Might
have been, you know, fifteen years ago when I was
in high school of lane junior cricket or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I honestly can't remember. So it was seriously special.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So Joe Carter, Nick's one behind, and then four and
then five. What is the reaction of your teammates when
you're coming together? I mean five times and five balls,
I've got to run to you.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
We were pretty much just laughing, looking at each other,
just saying like what is going on? Because never in obviously,
never in history has happened before, but like to just yeah,
on a day like that quality outfit, everything was just
falling into place for us.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then a couple more wickets in the next over,
so all of a sudden, they're fifteen for seven. You've
got seven for four from four overs. Have you ever
had a spell where you felt like you did yesterday?
Speaker 9 (25:45):
I mean I didn't feel too different to other days
where I felt good. I felt pretty similar in the
last game out here against Wellington, but had just made
little adjustments from that game and it just seemed to
pay off yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Did you start thinking about getting all ten? Had that
started to occur to you that you might get all
ten wickets? Might do an AHS hotel?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (26:06):
It was definitely floating around in the message channels amongst
the lads and obviously on the field amongst us as well.
But at the end of the day, I was just
trying to put the ball in the same year and
if that happened, it happened. If it didn't, it don't.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And I heard you say afterwards as well, it doesn't
actually mean a lot if you don't win the game,
which is a very very humble thing to say. You
went on and won the game, which is nice, But
have you had the chance to reflect on it. Like
you said at the start, it hasn't really sunk in.
Do you think it might take away while until it does,
maybe even once you're finished playing.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Yeah, I think it will. We've got two games left
in the season, so I think I'll try and keep
my focus on those, or definitely our next game against
Canterbury and then yeah, maybe I'll be able to reminis
and celebrate a little bit at the end of the season.
But yeah, I don't think it'll ever thinking, to be honest,
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but it'll be a story that'll be told with my
family for years to come up.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Absolutely, it will, absolutely and rightly. So, you've been playing
Tomester cricket now for over a decade or about a decade,
one hundred and thirty odd games. Does a performance like
this feel like a bit of a reward for that persistence?
I mean it can. I can imagine that domestic cricket
over that length of time can be a bit of
a grind sometimes.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, absolutely, especially four day cricket. But at the end
of the day, we're all individuals out here trying to
be the best cricketers and best people that we can
be and win some games for our respective associations. So
it's definitely a reward and glad that we were able
to get to win over the nd side today.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Did your phone blow up after it?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Yeah, massively. People obviously sending congratulations, family friends all around
the world that have played cricket with and come across
in my travels, and people sending screenshots of media, media
highlights and things like that. It's been pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Very special moment for you, mate. It's something no one
can ever take away from. I guess at some stage
somebody will probably get six and six, won't they. But
it's taken two hundred and fifty four years for you
to want to get five and five, so maybe it's
a way way off. The record might be yours for
a while.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, well we'll have to see.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
I mean, this quality crickets out there, so hopefully it
doesn't stand for too long.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well they can as long as that's not against us.
Well exactly. You don't want to be. You don't want
to be at the receiving end of somebody taking taking
six and six against the Stags. No bugg of that.
Good on your bread. Hey, congratulations again mate, and thanks
for taking the time for a jet Thanks mate, No,
thank you mate. That is Brett Randall, the owner of
the best, well the best five delivery analysis in the
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history of first class cricket, the first player ever to
take five wickets in five balls in first class cricket
in the game's two hundred and fifty four year history.
Astonishing incredible stuff. Twenty two away from eight. Where will
that get them on the power rankings? Well, we'll get to
those in a little while. Before that, though, triathl On
New Zealand on the hunt for the next generation of Paralympians.
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The national body ramping up its effort to identify athletes
with power triathlon potential, particularly at age group level, and
they're using the Auckland Triathlon Festival at the end of
this month as a key opportunity to connect with and
discover new talent. Pete Dewett is the CEO of Triathlon
New Zealand. He joins us now, where has this initiative
(29:26):
and this idea come from?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Pete good to speak to Jason Well, I'd been at
a triathlon conference back in twenty twenty two and got
a fairly solid roasting from our counterparts in Portugal given
how successful we are in triathlon in the able body
side of the sport, and came back and we started
to have a real longehired look at our involvement in
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paratriathlon and have spent the last couple of years developing
a strategy that will allow us to try and identify
a triathlete to go to the Paralympics. In twenty twenty eight,
and so that journey's about to sign in Auckland on
the twenty ninth of March as part of the Auckland
Triathlon Festival. So yes, something that we take really really seriously.
It's something we're pretty committed to trying to do and
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we know that there are a couple of really talented paraathletes,
aren't there, So we're hoping that we can entice them
to come and swim bike round with us.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
What are the key features of the strategy that you
have developed over the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I think the key thing is ensuring that we've got
a decent base at the grassroots level, so ensuring that
our event providers are setup to be able to cater
for paratriathy to come in and race in our events
across the calendar during our summer. So that's been a
really key focus for us at the start. So get
the basics right so that we can offer a good
experience for parathletes to come into the sport in the
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first instance, and I think we've done a great job
alongside our event providers to do that. So we feel
we're at the next level or at the next stage
of that journey to be able to do that. So
working with us Try who've got a really established paratriathlon program,
was to say, hey, give us an opportunity to host
the Oceania Parachat, even though we don't have a significantly
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large paratriathlon team in the elite section. Send your athletes
across to New Zealand. We'll put together a great race
in Auckland. Give them a good opportunity to race. But
also it's a fantastic chance for us to showcase the
sport of para triathlon and try and encourage some para
athletes to come and have a go.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Do Potential Powa triathletes always come from swimming, cycling running backgrounds,
or can they come from from outside of those three disciplines.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
I think they can come from outside of those three disciplines.
I mean, I think the obvious place to look would
be a swim bike run, given that they have the
ability to do one of the three. But certainly you
just need to be reasonably fit. Obviously, swimming is quite important,
and swimming open waters sometimes can be quite daunting, so
(31:58):
you need to be capable of swimming in the ocean
or in an open water environment. But yeah, I think
it's it's not necessarily risk to people who come from swimming,
athletics or from cycling. We're happy to talk to athletes
from across the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
If someone has identified as having some potential and shows
the interest as well, what happens next paid in terms
of development support that sort of thing.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
I think the key thing for us is to identify
where they're at. So another key component of this event
in Auckland on the twenty nine for March is the
ability to be able to classify them. So a key
component of paratriathlon is being classified in the correct classification groups.
So the opportunity for our classifiers to look at the
athletes participating and determining exactly where they fit into the
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parent categories, and then it's working alongside them to ensure
that they've got the support that they need from a
high performance perspective. So what does your coaching look like
and where is the support that we as TRY and
Z could provide you, So whether that's access to sports
science or training facilities or those types of things. So yeah,
(33:05):
it's a fairly broad base that we'd have to cover,
but certainly we'd look at it on a case by
case basis with athletes as they came through.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Have you been able to take lessons from overseas as
to what has worked elsewhere which could could really suitably
apply here in New Zealand.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Yeah, I think the key thing is talking to other
codes and having a conversation with them about athletes who
potentially are on the cusp of not qualifying through the
roots that they may do in their individual sports, and
seeing whether there's an opportunity to bring them across into triapline.
I think that's a tactic that's been deployed really well
in other territories. Certainly from an Australia perspective, they've got
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a really strong power program and we're trying to learn
a lot from them, and we've got a great working
relationship with the Aussies, so they're a great resource to
lean on. But yeah, I think the reality is in
this space is we're at the ground floor, but we've
got a whole heap of ambition and want to ensure
that we can do what we can to get somebody
on the sideline in our.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Eight So in terms of participants later in the month
in Auckland, what sort of support guidance, that sort of
thing will you be making available to them on the day.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
So, like any paratype event, you know, we need to
make sure that the accessibility is well looked after. So
that's a key component of our planning is making sure
that it's easy and accessible for athletes who are coming
in with disabilities to get into the venue. And obviously
that has a significant impact on the course that's selected
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as well, so making sure that the course is safe
and can be navigated carefully and well by paratri athletes.
So those are the types of things we're doing again,
the ability to learn from our mates across the ditch,
that's been really really helpful, and we get really good
support from World Triathlon as well, so I think we're
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pretty well covered.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Fantastic and the goal, as you just mentioned before, is
to have an athlete or athletes plural even on the
start line in La twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
Absolutely and the winning medals in Brisbane in thirty two.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Love it, Love it, Pete. So if someone who's listening,
or or they themselves are interested, or someone they know
might be, what is the next step. I mean we're
in March now, so there's a short window So what
is the next step for anybody who is interested.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
Yeah, I think if you jump onto our website at
www dot triathlon dot Kiwi, information is there, you can
drop an email and reach out to us. I think
another important component of the events on the twenty ninth
is it's also open to able bodied athletes and age
groups and all comers. So we really wanted to be
a festival of triathlon. If you think about it, most
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people in the country are triathletes. They swim, their bike,
and they run. They're just going to all three together.
So we're encouraging you to get down to win your
quarter on the twenty ninth and come and have a go.
So in the first instance, go to the triathlon dot
Kiwi website for more information and we can take it
from there.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Fantastic great information, Pete, great ownership too, Thanks so much
for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Brilliant Thanks Jason.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Thanks Peter Deuet there the CEO of Triathlon New Zealand
seven forty five. Take a break, come back. We'll rate
the weekend Piney's Power rankings after this.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Our rankings.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Okay, let's rate the weekend as we always do on
a Monday night, Piney's power rankings, the best, worst and
in between. Bit's from the Sporting Weekend Lillam Lawson's at ten,
unfortunately stalling on the start line to lose the chance
to challenge for points at the season opening Australian Grand Prix.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
I honestly have no idea.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
I launched and didn't move and the lost all power
and then I couldn't get it back for another five seconds.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
So pretty frustrating is something I review.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But it's definitely not a clean day.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
A quick turnaround before the Chinese Grom Prix this coming weekend.
The black Caps well beaten by India in this morning's
T twenty Cricket World Cup final.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Kerkern And.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Nine's wicket goes down and it's all done. Actually it's
India when the world come. Yeah, the commentator's even losing
counter how many wickets weed lost. India's top three batter
is just too strong, combining for one hundred and ninety
three runs off just ninety two balls, with every New
Zealand bowler feeling their wrath. Sheet Super Rugby hat trick
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scorers Lee Roy Carter.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Puts it out right try, that's a great try for God.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
To get in there.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
He had no right to score that try, had two
defeats in front of Lee Roy Carter.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
He just went a hard and low Billy Proctor from
the kickoff. Bobby's got it.
Speaker 10 (37:44):
Ah, They're running ramparts fine, Victor Morbiker and Proctor's gonna score.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Tried for nine for the Hurricanes and Caleb Clark impart
but by left wing corner.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
It's three three for Caleb Clark hat trick against the
Crusaders seven.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
The Italian rugby team making history in the six Nations.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Have slim flights twel at last sends in shock clits.
I've clutched the rugby universe.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yesterday's twenty three eighteen win in Rome, their first ever
over England.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Six.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Paul Cole at six New Zealand squash champion beating world
number nine Mohammed Zakaria in straight games.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Championship Bowl for the Qui under this Kiwi.
Speaker 11 (38:37):
Crowd, he's not going to get that bar and he's
done it the first time of Askain delights the local
crowd here.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Paul col respect in these two.
Speaker 11 (38:48):
What a moment this is, Oh, what a celebration, What
a moment for coal again, very Special Times.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It is Paul Cole's third New Zealand title. Five into
the top half. Sam Ruth National fifteen one hundred meters
champion with daylight behind him on the home straight on
Saturday nights, he seize them.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
Up tether home straight.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
He doesn't care. He knows he's the best.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
He knows how good he is and he's shown it
again in white sucker et Tonight's sam Ruth.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
National champion before been Wayne at four, the all White striker,
scoring the winner against Premier League side Sunderland to take
his team port Vale into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Wayne didn't get it first time, he did second. It's
that man again in this competition. Ben Wayne won it
on Tuesday and he sat port Vale on the way here.
On Sunday, the bottom side in League One lead Premier
League Sunderland by one goals and.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Elth and finished that way. Port Vale into the FA
Cup quarterfinals for just the second time in their history.
Free the Warriors a scintillating start to their NRL season
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
The Warriors in the opening go of the season for
both these two teams are Warriors have beaten the Sydney
Roosters here at go Media Mount Smart Stadium at Auckland
forty two.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Points to eighty back of go Media on Friday night
to take on the Canberra Raiders. Two White Ferns skipper
Meelee Kerr taking seven for thirty four against Zimbabwe and
Dunedin yesterday.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Kusha on strike, that's up in the air. Opportunity here at.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Kerr going backwards taken she finishes with seven.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
She finishes up.
Speaker 11 (40:41):
Zimbabwe career bests for the captain merely Kerr not just
her career best, but the best ever figures.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
By a White Ferns bowler in a One Day International,
and second only to Tim Southey's seven for thirty three
as the best ever ODII figures by any New Zealand bowler.
One we stay with Cricket Central District's pace bowler Brett Randall,
playing against Northern in Napier yesterday, becoming the first player
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in the entire two hundred and fifty four year history
of first class cricket globally to take five wickets in
five balls.
Speaker 9 (41:18):
Trying to stay pretty calm and put a ball in
the same area, not get too greedy. So thankfully I
was able to do that, and then getting into the
huddle with the boys and just spetually saying what is
going on is a real pinchman moment for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I'm almost certain you can't have an issue with number one.
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Actually, Piney, I do, and I'm disappointed in your lack
of effort to find four better bits of sporting thing
that happen over the weekend to put five wickets and
five balls at number five on the power rankings.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Thank you, Andy six to eight. Back in a second.
Well that hour flew by, didn't it? Seven fifty seven
eight o'clock news coming next to in Marcus lash on
your radio for the rest of this Monday. Thank you
so much for listening in and can thank you to
any McDonald for producing as always. Enjoy a couple of
days off MAPE and we will see you when we
say I'll make you a wait next weekend. I'm not
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doing weekend sports. This is this is good news on
shore for many listeners to ZEDB. I'll see you next
Monday night. Bye for now.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, Drekkotic, good evening and welcome in to Monday night
sports talk on News Talks EDB to March the ninth.
I'm Jason Pine Show producer as Andy McDonald. We're here
till eight talking sport with you. India have won the
T twenty Cricket World Cup for a third time, beating
our black Caps convincingly by ninety six runs. This morning,
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New Zealand's bowl has belted all around. I met a
bad stadium to the tune of two fifty five for
five after Mitchell Saton won the toss and sent them
into bat. Sandu Sampson top scoring eighty nine from forty
six deliveries. The black Aps then bowled out for one
hundred and fifty nine from the last ball of the
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nineteenth over. That is five white ball finals in the
last eleven years now and no silverware. How do we
move past this and win one of these things? Former
Black Cap and now cricket commentator Scott Styrus standing by
the chat with us your thoughts as well on what
it'll take to take that final step. Also Tonight's Central
(01:28):
District Seam Bowl of Brett Randall made global cricket history yesterday.
I'm sure you've caught up with us five wickets and
five balls against Northern in Napier, the first time that
feat has ever been achieved in the two hundred and
fifty four year history of first class cricket globally. Brett
Randall with us to reflect on that, and triethl on
New Zealand on the hunt for the next generation of Paralympians.
(01:51):
CEO Pete Dewet with us tonight on that and on
Monday nights. As always, we rate the weekend Piney's Power
rankings the best, the worst, the end between bits from
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Speaker 1 (02:19):
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Speaker 2 (02:28):
Be and do you have won the T twenty Cricket
World Cup beating the Black Caps by ninety six runs
in this morning's final Kerkern and the.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Dinne's wicket goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And it's all done.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Actually it's India Weddler the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
By ninety six runs. Since twenty fifteen, New Zealand has
lost two fifty over World Cup finals, a Champions Trophy
final and now two T twenty World Cup finals. So
how do we go from perennial contenders to champions? Scott
Styrus played two hundred and fifty games of cricket for
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New Zealand across the three formats, more than five hundred
and fifty games of white ball cricket in a career
which stretched over two decades. Since retirement, he's become one
of the most respected cricket analysts and commentators in the
world and he joins us now, Scott, thanks for your time.
New Zealand, as I say, have now lost five white
ball finals in the last eleven years. Is this just
(03:32):
the nature of white ball cricket or is there something
else stopping the Black caps from getting across the line.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Oh that's a million doll a question, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And look, I think there's an element to that where
everything does happen on the day. But you see that
in a lot of the big sports around the world,
don't you, where it's about turning up and delivering in
the biggest moments, and you know, as individual players setting
their legacy from that and as a team, solidifying your
place in history. And you know, I think what this
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team has achieved all formats since let's say twenty fifteen,
it's been a sustained.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Period of success for this group.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
But that's the one area, isn't it the White Bool
Finals where they haven't been able to quite deliver upon
the skills and abilities that they have. That will probably
be a little disappointing for those players once they finished
and hang them up.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
This is another million dollar question. Then why do you
think that is? Why haven't they been able to deliver
those on those or in those big moments.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, that one I'm not quite sure the answer for.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And I say that because I know thinking back on
my career and for us it was semi finals for example,
that we just kept falling short on and by the
time we got to my third World Cup, you know,
it's almost changed attitude and said, right, I'm going to
go after the game.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I'm not going to finish and think what if?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And that's the worst thing I think as a professional
sports person is that you finish a particular event or
your sport what doesn't really matter what it is, and
all of a sudd and you think, if I'd only
just tried whatever it is, you know, I could perhaps
put my But we'll sit back and think, you know,
I gave it everything and I got beaten by.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
A better team or somebody had their date.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
But that'll be the one part, particularly from last night
with the way the game ended.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The quality of their performances have.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Been exceptional throughout and it's not the first tournament where
that's happened. And yet they get to the big dance
and all of a sudden, probably sitting in that dressing
room afterwards, thinking well, we weren't at the races.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Today, and that's the part that we'll eat away at them.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
How they fix that, I don't know, because it brings
about more pressure upon yourself. You know, there's a lot
of I guess tongue in cheek is the probably way
I look at it. With South Africa being a side
that never delivers when the pressure is on and the
cricket sense, New Zealand's possibly got that little mantle to
get past now due to the quantity of finals that
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they've been in.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting you talk about that semi final barrier and how
you know it took you tournaments, you know to form
a good strategy. I mean some of our semi final
performances in the last ten years. I've been amazing beating
South Africa twenty fifteen, Grant Elliot hid in that sixth
India twenty nineteen, even South Africa at this T twenty
World Cup Scott, what a performance. Is it possible that
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these players are still, you know, coming along their journey
and their barrier is the final rather than the semi
final that it was when you were playing.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, look, I totally agree with that. The problem they
have is this is an older New Zealand side. How
many more opportunities they will get I don't know, but
you know you don't want to get to the point
where your skills start diminishing and take away from those
quality performance.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But all of a sudden you've got the experience of.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Saying, you know what, I'm going to grab the game
by the scruff of the neck and try and be.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The hero if you like, because that's what white wooll
cricket does.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It allows you to be the hero on the day,
as Fanellen did in that semi final where he just
took the game away. I know he had obviously some
good performances from other players too, but he just said,
jump on back, I'm going to carry the side, and
he did it brilliantly. And you can go out with
best intentions and all of that and keep your head
in those moments and all the cliches you hear about,
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but it's still about making sure that you grab the
game and when you get a chance to make it,
you will make yourself the hero of the day that
you take that. And that's the unfortunate part is I'm
not sure that that's happened with this side, which you know,
I think it would have really cemented their place not
only as our best era of cricket, which I firmly
believe it has been, but also on the world stage,
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just with the consistency and the quality of their performances
which have been so good for ten years.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I heard Simon Dulsain commentary today that sometimes these days
too much stock is placed in data and there's amountain
of it available. I'm sure finding matchups bowling a certain
way based on what the numbers are telling you and
things like that, rather than just doing what you feel
out in the middle. Does Simon Dell have a point there.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I'm more on the data side, so I'm going to
disagree with the but there's a couple of reasons for that.
I still believe you're right that there is and he's
right that there is a place for feel. You know,
conditions may not be what what they are the game situation,
which is always a big one in cricket where you
have to play to the situation. You cannot simply go
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out and go all guns blazing or be you know,
conservative and try and get a score that you think
on any given day might be might win.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You're the game.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You know, there is a place for data, and you
only have to look at other sports. Cricket has been
one that has taken a little longer to perhaps become
fully professional, and you see that in the I p L,
for example. The more money that's involved in a sport,
the more accountability people want.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And the Mumbai.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Indians, for example, in the I p L have a
back room analytics staff of one hundred people.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Wow, and they're codding every game. And you know it may.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Get to the point where you see the captains almost
like the NFL quarterback. They have that little patch on
their arm with all their plays that they want to
run all the matchups or situations of games, and you know,
I know they go down to the detail of for example,
one that we've talked about in commentary over there in
the subcontinent. You know, after three doppules, what does Glenn
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Max will do? And then they try and cut that off.
So you know, they are really diving into the analytics
side of things and trying to find trends amongst players,
whether we battle ball of what they do to try
and give themselves an advantage. And at the end of
the day, that's what analytics analytics is. It's just giving
yourself an advantage, whether it comes off or not.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And so I do believe that there is a place
for that.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So interesting. Our two best performance with the bat at
this tournament by some distance, Tim Seifert and thin Allen
both uncontracted T twenty specialists. Is that part of the
answer moving forward as well? Is that something we're likely
to see more and more of in big tournaments?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I probably think so.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
We yet to see what if anything comes of this
NZ twenty, because you know, there's been a lot of
media around that and what place and what that can
do for cricket, whether it keeps some of those players
back in New Zealand, particularly during our summer.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I don't think it's any coincidence that a player's skills
improve when you only practice one version of the game.
You know, you think back to the say the seventies,
really before really one day cricket was around, players only
had to play practice their test skills and it became
a lot easier.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
But when you are chopping and changing every single.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Week between what is required, you can understand why players
perhaps don't master one in particular. And the real king
of that, I think is Chris Gale when he gave
away the other versions of the game and he just
became the premier player in T twenty cricket around the
world because those were the skills that he needed to
practice and master, and he certainly did that, so it
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doesn't surprise me that Tim and for now a dominating
world tournaments and taking that forms through to New Zealm.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Such interesting times, really thought provoking stuff. As always, Scott,
thanks so much for joining us tonight, Jess, thanks no,
thank you. Scott Cyrus there with his thoughts on the
black Caps lost to India this morning in the T
twenty Cricket World Cup Final. Your thoughts are welcome to
how do we turn ourselves from perennial contenders always being
there or thereabouts to actually winning one of these things?
(11:33):
You'll have your thoughts. Oh eight, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty already a couple of calls waiting to have
a yarn, so I'm not going to hold you up
too long. The last bit, though, they're from Scott Styrus,
is really interesting to me. Specialists and as he said,
when players only had test cricket to practice and prepare for,
players became better at Test cricket with three formats. Now
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players who play all three have their attention and their
preparation time divided. Doesn't it stand to reason that if
you specialize in one format, you're going to be better
at that format in T twenty cricket, where you can
earn a living traveling the world playing franchise cricket, exposing
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yourself to a variety of conditions, and the best T
twenty players. Surely we need to look more and more
at specialists for World Cups in particular. In fact, for
World Cups only, I would say bilateral series. I guess
on a case by case basis, if somebody is available
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to play, they might come and play. But for World
Cups it has to be the way forward. And to
be fair, we did it this time, didn't we. Finellen,
Tim Seifert, neither of them centrally contracted. Lockey Ferguson no
central contract, Devin Conway, no central contract, Jimmy Neisham no
central contract, ish Sody no central contract, all members of
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this T twenty World Cup squad. So this is the
way where head, isn't it? For World Cups? And in
T twenty World Cups, which you hold every two years.
Why is it such an unpalatable idea to say to
guys like Finn Allen, Tim Seifert and the others, go
and play your franchise cricket. Focus only on that Because
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that's your bread and butter. That's now how you are
earning a living by traveling the world and playing T twenty,
and we would love to have you play World Cups
for US. And World Cups always appear in a window
where there's no franchise cricket like this one has, and
then there's centrally contracted players who play test matches and
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fifty over stuff. Some of them might also play T
twenty rightch and Revender a good example. We'll probably continue
to play all three formats, but I think more and
more specialists are the way to go when it comes
to T twenty oh. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is our number. Hello Dallas, Yeah, pie.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yeah, I feel quite frustrated.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Here they said you're a very nice guy, so you're
not going to criticize anyone. But I'm critical of the
fact that we bowled first. I'm old scored. I don't
know about you, but I feel you get runs on
the board in any former cricket and even if that
scored one hundred and eighty, the game's still alive and
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you can put scoreboard pressure on when India come out
to bat and bat in front of one hundred and
for thirty thousand, and there's a better scoreboard pressure you
can sort of get a couple of early workers, you know.
So that's my thinking. I was just I was really
depressed when we decided to bowl first because the game
is over. After sits over, they had ninety ninety on
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the box.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, I know, Dallas, I know, I got up. I
got up this morning as well, and I was quite encouraged.
Actually this sounds so strange, but I was encouraged by
the first three balls all dots, and then then they
got their eye in and the next one went down
the ground for six. I guess if you compare it
to the semi final and look on you know, I'm
not I'm not averse to critiquing, absolutely not. But you
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look at the semi final, and they batted second that day.
They restricted South Africa to one seventy and then got
there with plenty of time to spare. I think I
even saw, you know, Michael Vaughan, one of the one
of the commentators, tweet out that these batting sides are
evenly matched. For me, it's who ever chases who wins,
because bowling conditions or bowling is just a bit more
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difficult later on. I know it's a generalization, but I'm
not sure that it was it was necessarily the howler
of a decision to bowl first.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
I just feel that it's no. I disagree. I think
it's it's it's harder to bat second under the lights.
But that's just my old school way of thinking though.
I was it up in cricket that you you know,
you win the tassle bat Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, you know, yeah, And look, dellas you know you're right.
I remember Ian Chappel. You've probably heard this, this quote.
It's a test cricket quote. If you win the task
nine times out of ten, you're bat first. The tenth
time you think about bowling and you're still bat.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's that's that's what I grew, and
that you know, I still think it holds. But as
I say, because you stay Richard have this said this too.
You stay in the game. If you that first year
is still in the game at halftime.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You know, yeah, yeah, no matter how many you've got,
you're right, Dallas. Yet you're right. Look at the game
was gone in the innings break, wasn't it the only
shred of hope I was holding on to him, probably
and you're probably the same. Was the way Alan and
Ciphered batted in the semi final when they got us
through to one seventy for one and about thirteen overs.
I thought, well, if they can do that, then we
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might be a chance. But yeah, what we lost through
bickets in the first five overs and from there it
was never going to happen for us, was it. Thanks ellis,
your hindsight's oneful thing. I think Mitch Senter was asked
about that, asked about whether he considered he considered batting first.
I'm sure both scenarios we were thought about in his
mind and in the minds of the senior leaders. They
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went with sending the Indians in and it was just carnage,
wasn't it? Absolute slaughter. I sat there in the early
hours of this morning and I thought to myself, we're
all up, all of us die hard cricket fans at
you know, approaching three o'clock in the morning, and after
six overs they've already got ninety. It was pretty demoralizing,
was it. Thanks for your callers always, dellis, good to
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chat to you, mate, Hello, Dave oh.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Oh, Christy told us teams batting always win the game.
As The Australian said, nine teams out of win the game.
And look at the test series South Africa, New Zealand
Spin wins the game for you and why they did
the only Glenn Philip's bowled only one over. It was stupid.
(18:12):
I wouldn't I wouldn't have pick lucky for you because
I wouldn't have picked Gymnisian. I would have picked Sody
and I would have picked that young spinner that played
them the African game. We've got to work it. I
would have I would have batted first and paid spin
all through. You look at the history and you look
at the test series, Spin wins the game and not Pace.
(18:36):
They were lucky. Ferguson, I wasn't going to win the
game for you and bad mistake, bad selections for putting
a Yeah, I would have batted first and you look
at history.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, now, Dave, you're right, I mean different game obviously,
test matches as opposed to TEA twenties. I thought the
stranger decision. Actually I didn't mind Ferguson playing. I think
he's had a good tournament up until the final. He
got plenty of tap in the final, we go for
forty eight or two overs. That is that's quite a
quite a toweling he's got. I thought the stranger decision
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was leaving Cole McConkie out and bringing Jacob Duffy back in.
Duffy hasn't played since the Paul game. I don't think
against Canada, he didn't play against Ri Lanka, didn't play
against England, didn't play against South Africa, came back in.
They must have seen something that suggested to them that
they needed the extra seema rather than the spin options.
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But as you say, Dave, you know Glenn Phillips bowled
the one over, only went for five runs. It was
the second over of the innings, I think, so after
the first couple of overs it was looking all right
and then he didn't get another bowl, did he? Nobody
escaped it really who bowled significant overs? Even Mitchell Santon,
who's been our most economical throughout the entire tournament, went
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for thirty three of his four overs. I really don't
know about whether it would have matted had we batted
first or not. If they were going to go for
it like that, We're either going to chase down a
target that we set or they were going to do
what they did. Hindsight's always twenty twenty. Mitchell Santoner went
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out there again, it probably he might think far more
seriously about batting first. But with the South Africa semi
final blueprints, I think he felt confidence going out there
restricting India, you know, keeping them. I think if he
kept them below two hundred, I think we would have
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been in the game. Because it was two fifty five,
we had to go for it from the start basically.
But if we'd done what we did against South Africa,
picked up wickets on a regular basis, restricted them, maybe
you know, maybe the spinners would have had a bit
more say I mean, commaconkie only bowled one over in
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the last in that semi final, so let's not get
two carried away. But he did pick up two wickets
in that and he sort of has has I think,
you know, for a relatively new guy to the international setup,
done pretty well in the three or four games that
he's played. Cole McConkie. I would have kept him there
for the final, given us that Andy stiffens up the
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batting too, because he bats well. But these are all
ifs and butts and maybes and what ifs? Aren't they
Sonny says, yours have to consider it. And there are
the best chasing site out there as well. I mean
they they were. I was gonna say far and away
the best side at the tournament. That's probably not true
because they had a few stumbles early, but certainly the
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back end and in that final and on the big occasion,
and I go back to what Scotty Steyer said, you know,
seizing the moments, the big occasions. They certainly did that.
They had players this morning who who did that and
some Sanju Sampson eighty nine or forty six, Arbishek Shama
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fifty two off twenty one, the opening partnership ninety eight
when Sharma was finally out in the aked over is
Shan Kishar who came in fifty four off twenty five.
So by the time we got our second wicket, they
were two hundred and three for two and there were
still five overs to go. We actually slowed them down
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after that, didn't we We actually managed to keep them
to teens in the last five overs or so, when
they've been going at sort of more like fifteen's up
till then. Either way, it was always going to be
a tough ask and then just Boomra, just for good measure,
four overs, four for fifteen. What a bowler, What a
bowler in all forms of the game. And three of
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those four he knocked the poles over Santna Nisham, Henry
All bowled by Boomra. So if you could have scripted
a perfect World Cup performance in a T twenty final,
I think what India delivered this morning was pretty close
to it. Seven twenty nine. Take a break, come back
and get domestic as far as cricketers concerned. Brett Randall,
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this is a name that maybe hadn't registered too much
with you over the last little while, as far as
domestic cricket was concerned, it does now first player ever
to take five wickets in five deliveries. Brett Randall going
to tell us how he did it when we come back.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The great call is your call on eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Sports Talk Call on your home of
Sports News Talk.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
ZB coming up twenty seven away from eight Central District Seemer.
Brett Randall made global cricket history yesterday, taking five wickets
in five balls against Northern Districts in Napier, the first
time that feat has ever been achieved in the two
hundred and fifty four year history of first class cricket globally.
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He finished with figures of seven for twenty five as
Northern Districts collapsed to be all out for eighty two
and today's CD completed and innings victory in Napier, Brett
Randall is with us five wickets and five balls, the
first time anyone has ever done that in first class cricket.
Has it sunken bread that your name is now going
to be attached to that feat forever?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
No, not at all.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
To put it quite simply.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Talk us through those five deliveries. What do you remember
most about them looking back now.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Ah, just just the moments with the teammates after each
We're getting into the huddle and sort of just looking
at each other saying what's going on? It was pretty unbelievable,
and then getting back to the top of my mark
and thinking I'm just going to try and put the
ball in the same areas. Those are the only sort
of like recollection I have from the moment, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So I'm just going to go through it with you.
You're bold, Henry Cooper with the last ball of your
second over, then got Jeet Varlet with the first ball
of your third of us, so you're on a hat trick.
Hat tricks are pretty special. Have you have you secured
one before?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
No, I can't remember when the last one was. Might
have been, you know, fifteen years ago when I was
in high school of lane junior cricket or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I honestly can't remember. So it was seriously special.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
So Joe Carter, Nick's one behind, and then four and
then five. What is the reaction of your teammates when
you're coming together? I mean five times and five balls,
I've got to run to you.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
We were pretty much just laughing, looking at each other,
just saying like what is going on? Because never in obviously,
never in history has happened before, but like to just yeah,
on a day like that quality outfit, everything was just
falling into place for us.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And then a couple more wickets in the next over,
so all of a sudden, they're fifteen for seven. You've
got seven for four from four overs. Have you ever
had a spell where you felt like you did yesterday?
Speaker 9 (25:45):
I mean I didn't feel too different to other days
where I felt good. I felt pretty similar in the
last game out here against Wellington, but had just made
little adjustments from that game and it just seemed to
pay off yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Did you start thinking about getting all ten? Had that
started to occur to you that you might get all
ten wickets? Might do an AHS hotel?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (26:06):
It was definitely floating around in the message channels amongst
the lads and obviously on the field amongst us as well.
But at the end of the day, I was just
trying to put the ball in the same year and
if that happened, it happened. If it didn't, it don't.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And I heard you say afterwards as well, it doesn't
actually mean a lot if you don't win the game,
which is a very very humble thing to say. You
went on and won the game, which is nice, But
have you had the chance to reflect on it. Like
you said at the start, it hasn't really sunk in.
Do you think it might take away while until it does,
maybe even once you're finished playing.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Yeah, I think it will. We've got two games left
in the season, so I think I'll try and keep
my focus on those, or definitely our next game against
Canterbury and then yeah, maybe I'll be able to reminis
and celebrate a little bit at the end of the season.
But yeah, I don't think it'll ever thinking, to be honest,
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but it'll be a story that'll be told with my
family for years to come up.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Absolutely, it will, absolutely and rightly. So, you've been playing
Tomester cricket now for over a decade or about a decade,
one hundred and thirty odd games. Does a performance like
this feel like a bit of a reward for that persistence?
I mean it can. I can imagine that domestic cricket
over that length of time can be a bit of
a grind sometimes.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, absolutely, especially four day cricket. But at the end
of the day, we're all individuals out here trying to
be the best cricketers and best people that we can
be and win some games for our respective associations. So
it's definitely a reward and glad that we were able
to get to win over the nd side today.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Did your phone blow up after it?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Yeah, massively. People obviously sending congratulations, family friends all around
the world that have played cricket with and come across
in my travels, and people sending screenshots of media, media
highlights and things like that. It's been pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Very special moment for you, mate. It's something no one
can ever take away from. I guess at some stage
somebody will probably get six and six, won't they. But
it's taken two hundred and fifty four years for you
to want to get five and five, so maybe it's
a way way off. The record might be yours for
a while.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, well we'll have to see.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
I mean, this quality crickets out there, so hopefully it
doesn't stand for too long.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well they can as long as that's not against us.
Well exactly. You don't want to be. You don't want
to be at the receiving end of somebody taking taking
six and six against the Stags. No bugg of that.
Good on your bread. Hey, congratulations again mate, and thanks
for taking the time for a jet Thanks mate, No,
thank you mate. That is Brett Randall, the owner of
the best, well the best five delivery analysis in the
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history of first class cricket, the first player ever to
take five wickets in five balls in first class cricket
in the game's two hundred and fifty four year history.
Astonishing incredible stuff. Twenty two away from eight. Where will
that get them on the power rankings? Well, we'll get to
those in a little while. Before that, though, triathl On
New Zealand on the hunt for the next generation of Paralympians.
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The national body ramping up its effort to identify athletes
with power triathlon potential, particularly at age group level, and
they're using the Auckland Triathlon Festival at the end of
this month as a key opportunity to connect with and
discover new talent. Pete Dewett is the CEO of Triathlon
New Zealand. He joins us now, where has this initiative
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and this idea come from?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Pete good to speak to Jason Well, I'd been at
a triathlon conference back in twenty twenty two and got
a fairly solid roasting from our counterparts in Portugal given
how successful we are in triathlon in the able body
side of the sport, and came back and we started
to have a real longehired look at our involvement in
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paratriathlon and have spent the last couple of years developing
a strategy that will allow us to try and identify
a triathlete to go to the Paralympics. In twenty twenty eight,
and so that journey's about to sign in Auckland on
the twenty ninth of March as part of the Auckland
Triathlon Festival. So yes, something that we take really really seriously.
It's something we're pretty committed to trying to do and
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we know that there are a couple of really talented paraathletes,
aren't there, So we're hoping that we can entice them
to come and swim bike round with us.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
What are the key features of the strategy that you
have developed over the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I think the key thing is ensuring that we've got
a decent base at the grassroots level, so ensuring that
our event providers are setup to be able to cater
for paratriathy to come in and race in our events
across the calendar during our summer. So that's been a
really key focus for us at the start. So get
the basics right so that we can offer a good
experience for parathletes to come into the sport in the
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first instance, and I think we've done a great job
alongside our event providers to do that. So we feel
we're at the next level or at the next stage
of that journey to be able to do that. So
working with us Try who've got a really established paratriathlon program,
was to say, hey, give us an opportunity to host
the Oceania Parachat, even though we don't have a significantly
(31:09):
large paratriathlon team in the elite section. Send your athletes
across to New Zealand. We'll put together a great race
in Auckland. Give them a good opportunity to race. But
also it's a fantastic chance for us to showcase the
sport of para triathlon and try and encourage some para
athletes to come and have a go.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Do Potential Powa triathletes always come from swimming, cycling running backgrounds,
or can they come from from outside of those three disciplines.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
I think they can come from outside of those three disciplines.
I mean, I think the obvious place to look would
be a swim bike run, given that they have the
ability to do one of the three. But certainly you
just need to be reasonably fit. Obviously, swimming is quite important,
and swimming open waters sometimes can be quite daunting, so
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you need to be capable of swimming in the ocean
or in an open water environment. But yeah, I think
it's it's not necessarily risk to people who come from swimming,
athletics or from cycling. We're happy to talk to athletes
from across the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
If someone has identified as having some potential and shows
the interest as well, what happens next paid in terms
of development support that sort of thing.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
I think the key thing for us is to identify
where they're at. So another key component of this event
in Auckland on the twenty nine for March is the
ability to be able to classify them. So a key
component of paratriathlon is being classified in the correct classification groups.
So the opportunity for our classifiers to look at the
athletes participating and determining exactly where they fit into the
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parent categories, and then it's working alongside them to ensure
that they've got the support that they need from a
high performance perspective. So what does your coaching look like
and where is the support that we as TRY and
Z could provide you, So whether that's access to sports
science or training facilities or those types of things. So yeah,
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it's a fairly broad base that we'd have to cover,
but certainly we'd look at it on a case by
case basis with athletes as they came through.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Have you been able to take lessons from overseas as
to what has worked elsewhere which could could really suitably
apply here in New Zealand.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Yeah, I think the key thing is talking to other
codes and having a conversation with them about athletes who
potentially are on the cusp of not qualifying through the
roots that they may do in their individual sports, and
seeing whether there's an opportunity to bring them across into triapline.
I think that's a tactic that's been deployed really well
in other territories. Certainly from an Australia perspective, they've got
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a really strong power program and we're trying to learn
a lot from them, and we've got a great working
relationship with the Aussies, so they're a great resource to
lean on. But yeah, I think the reality is in
this space is we're at the ground floor, but we've
got a whole heap of ambition and want to ensure
that we can do what we can to get somebody
on the sideline in our.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Eight So in terms of participants later in the month
in Auckland, what sort of support guidance, that sort of
thing will you be making available to them on the day.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
So, like any paratype event, you know, we need to
make sure that the accessibility is well looked after. So
that's a key component of our planning is making sure
that it's easy and accessible for athletes who are coming
in with disabilities to get into the venue. And obviously
that has a significant impact on the course that's selected
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as well, so making sure that the course is safe
and can be navigated carefully and well by paratri athletes.
So those are the types of things we're doing again,
the ability to learn from our mates across the ditch,
that's been really really helpful, and we get really good
support from World Triathlon as well, so I think we're
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pretty well covered.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Fantastic and the goal, as you just mentioned before, is
to have an athlete or athletes plural even on the
start line in La twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
Absolutely and the winning medals in Brisbane in thirty two.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Love it, Love it, Pete. So if someone who's listening,
or or they themselves are interested, or someone they know
might be, what is the next step. I mean we're
in March now, so there's a short window So what
is the next step for anybody who is interested.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
Yeah, I think if you jump onto our website at
www dot triathlon dot Kiwi, information is there, you can
drop an email and reach out to us. I think
another important component of the events on the twenty ninth
is it's also open to able bodied athletes and age
groups and all comers. So we really wanted to be
a festival of triathlon. If you think about it, most
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people in the country are triathletes. They swim, their bike,
and they run. They're just going to all three together.
So we're encouraging you to get down to win your
quarter on the twenty ninth and come and have a go.
So in the first instance, go to the triathlon dot
Kiwi website for more information and we can take it
from there.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Fantastic great information, Pete, great ownership too, Thanks so much
for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Brilliant Thanks Jason.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Thanks Peter Deuet there the CEO of Triathlon New Zealand
seven forty five. Take a break, come back. We'll rate
the weekend Piney's Power rankings after this.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Our rankings.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Okay, let's rate the weekend as we always do on
a Monday night, Piney's power rankings, the best, worst and
in between. Bit's from the Sporting Weekend Lillam Lawson's at ten,
unfortunately stalling on the start line to lose the chance
to challenge for points at the season opening Australian Grand Prix.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
I honestly have no idea.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
I launched and didn't move and the lost all power
and then I couldn't get it back for another five seconds.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
So pretty frustrating is something I review.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But it's definitely not a clean day.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
A quick turnaround before the Chinese Grom Prix this coming weekend.
The black Caps well beaten by India in this morning's
T twenty Cricket World Cup final.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Kerkern And.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Nine's wicket goes down and it's all done. Actually it's
India when the world come. Yeah, the commentator's even losing
counter how many wickets weed lost. India's top three batter
is just too strong, combining for one hundred and ninety
three runs off just ninety two balls, with every New
Zealand bowler feeling their wrath. Sheet Super Rugby hat trick
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scorers Lee Roy Carter.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Puts it out right try, that's a great try for God.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
To get in there.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
He had no right to score that try, had two
defeats in front of Lee Roy Carter.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
He just went a hard and low Billy Proctor from
the kickoff. Bobby's got it.
Speaker 10 (37:44):
Ah, They're running ramparts fine, Victor Morbiker and Proctor's gonna score.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Tried for nine for the Hurricanes and Caleb Clark impart
but by left wing corner.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
It's three three for Caleb Clark hat trick against the
Crusaders seven.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
The Italian rugby team making history in the six Nations.
Speaker 10 (38:15):
Have slim flights twel at last sends in shock clits.
I've clutched the rugby universe.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yesterday's twenty three eighteen win in Rome, their first ever
over England.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Six.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Paul Cole at six New Zealand squash champion beating world
number nine Mohammed Zakaria in straight games.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Championship Bowl for the Qui under this Kiwi.
Speaker 11 (38:37):
Crowd, he's not going to get that bar and he's
done it the first time of Askain delights the local
crowd here.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Paul col respect in these two.
Speaker 11 (38:48):
What a moment this is, Oh, what a celebration, What
a moment for coal again, very Special Times.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It is Paul Cole's third New Zealand title. Five into
the top half. Sam Ruth National fifteen one hundred meters
champion with daylight behind him on the home straight on
Saturday nights, he seize them.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
Up tether home straight.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
He doesn't care. He knows he's the best.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
He knows how good he is and he's shown it
again in white sucker et Tonight's sam Ruth.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
National champion before been Wayne at four, the all White striker,
scoring the winner against Premier League side Sunderland to take
his team port Vale into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.
Speaker 10 (39:31):
Wayne didn't get it first time, he did second. It's
that man again in this competition. Ben Wayne won it
on Tuesday and he sat port Vale on the way here.
On Sunday, the bottom side in League One lead Premier
League Sunderland by one goals and.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Elth and finished that way. Port Vale into the FA
Cup quarterfinals for just the second time in their history.
Free the Warriors a scintillating start to their NRL season
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
The Warriors in the opening go of the season for
both these two teams are Warriors have beaten the Sydney
Roosters here at go Media Mount Smart Stadium at Auckland
forty two.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Points to eighty back of go Media on Friday night
to take on the Canberra Raiders. Two White Ferns skipper
Meelee Kerr taking seven for thirty four against Zimbabwe and
Dunedin yesterday.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Kusha on strike, that's up in the air. Opportunity here at.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Kerr going backwards taken she finishes with seven.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
She finishes up.
Speaker 11 (40:41):
Zimbabwe career bests for the captain merely Kerr not just
her career best, but the best ever figures.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
By a White Ferns bowler in a One Day International,
and second only to Tim Southey's seven for thirty three
as the best ever ODII figures by any New Zealand bowler.
One we stay with Cricket Central District's pace bowler Brett Randall,
playing against Northern in Napier yesterday, becoming the first player
(41:09):
in the entire two hundred and fifty four year history
of first class cricket globally to take five wickets in
five balls.
Speaker 9 (41:18):
Trying to stay pretty calm and put a ball in
the same area, not get too greedy. So thankfully I
was able to do that, and then getting into the
huddle with the boys and just spetually saying what is
going on is a real pinchman moment for sure.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I'm almost certain you can't have an issue with number one.
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Actually, Piney, I do, and I'm disappointed in your lack
of effort to find four better bits of sporting thing
that happen over the weekend to put five wickets and
five balls at number five on the power rankings.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Thank you, Andy six to eight. Back in a second.
Well that hour flew by, didn't it? Seven fifty seven
eight o'clock news coming next to in Marcus lash on
your radio for the rest of this Monday. Thank you
so much for listening in and can thank you to
any McDonald for producing as always. Enjoy a couple of
days off MAPE and we will see you when we
say I'll make you a wait next weekend. I'm not
(42:15):
doing weekend sports. This is this is good news on
shore for many listeners to ZEDB. I'll see you next
Monday night. Bye for now.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
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