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October 2, 2025 11 mins

The New Zealand spring of cricket got underway last night with game one of the Chappell-Hadlee series between the Black Caps and Australia.

The Black Caps were under all sorts of pressure early, slumping to 6-3 within two overs - until Tim Robinson stood up and pushed the Black Caps to a competitive total of 181-6.

Despite the Kiwi side falling short, Tim Robinson joined D'Arcy to discuss the match.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk. Z'd be well.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The spring of Crackhead got underway last night. Came one
of the Chapel Hadley Series with the black Caps and
Australia black Caps under well ridiculous pressure. Early, they slumped.
They collapsed to six for three with the two overs,
and that's when Tim Robinson decided it was his time.
He got his maiden T twenty ice century and got

(00:36):
the black Caps up to well a competitive total of
one hundred and eighty one for the loss of six.
Result didn't go their way, but it was a huge
performance from the young fellow who was only brought him
to the team after Chindra Revendra. There's a standing joke
from a while back. My old producer Andy wrote that
down once. He wrote down literally Rechindra Revendra and didn't

(00:59):
think I'd actually read it out and I did. Let's
just call him Ravishing reck Revenger. He cut his face
during training and he's ruled out of the se Yike.
So we're going to talk about that and introduce the
radio world to mister Tim Robinson. He joins us. Now
good a.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Tim Good a darcy house.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Things very good, not as good as with you you
must be. When you woke up this morning after hitting
that ton last night and securing it with like two
balls to go, what was your first feeling when you
sat bolt right a bolt up rid in bed.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I've got a bold up riding bed for most of
the night, really, because you don't sort of after those
night games with the lights flashing and you've got a
little bit of a buzz going, it feels like you've
heard about four or five coffees.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
And I was sort of struggled to go to sleep
and was really a bit on each most of the night,
to be honest.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
But I no, I woke up pretty excited this morning
and wanted to give give him old Lady mold man
ring for and thank them for coming up all the
way from the farm you so today to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
And yeah, he was pretty stoked.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Did you ring your mate ratching ravishing Rick Ravendra?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Want?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I want to call him because like he's a friend
of yours, right, he cut his face up, so you
got his job?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, well he got Yeah, he gave me a job.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
He gave me a job by my headbutting a fence post,
but no facetimed him this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
He's a he's a real close made of mine.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So so he was I mean I was, yeah, firstly
pretty gutted that that he was going home, but then
also sort of on the back of that, it gave
me an opportunity to check the black jersey on. So
it's been a little bit of a roller coaster, well
big roller coaster, the last twenty four hours. So but
you know, he's tracking along all good, and yeah he's
pretty happy for me, which is good, which is nice
of him.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It doesn't surprise me. He's a great human. When you
tuned up at the crease, well sixs and seven's that's
saying the least. The team was a mess? What about
these emotions when you walked up? So how do I
pull the team out of that? What do I have
to do? It was all on your shoulders, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean it was. It was bloody good having Darrell there.
He took a lot of the pressure off by.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Playing the natural aggressive way that he does and and
kind of kickstarted things off for us after a.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Little bit of a messy power play.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
But yeah, I mean you get that on the big
jobs especially against Dozy, and we just sort of tried
to take every ball as it comes and and and
play the ball on its merret and I thought the
ball was there to hit the six. L mrighty John
try and hit at six. But yeah, Darrell took a
lot of the pressure off and we managed to feed
off that momentum a little bit the as the endings
went on.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, so you you were in because you came in
at first drop and then pretty much as soon as
you're rocked up, the christ didn't Mark Chapman go for
a duck and that's when Daryl came in. So that
just increasing the dramas you already had because they're already
well two for nothing really when you walked up to
the grease.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, it was It's sort of the way that cricket
goes sometimes when it's when it runs against you, it
runs against you, and then when it runs for you,
it's running for you.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean we had dev got bold and then.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
And then Chaffey got straggled down the league side, which
was a bit rough, So there was two and two
balls and then all of a sudden we're.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Six for three or something. So yeah, we were in
a little bit of a hole there.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
A bit of a bine. But Darryl Mitchell one of
the nicest guys in New Zealand cricket, and did the job.
He kind of got away from you. So talk to
us about the way you built your innings, because there
was suddenly a blink of an eye and you disappeared
up up ahead of him. So what triggered that acceleration
and runs?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think, Tim, it's a funny. It's a funny wee game.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I think the longer you the longer you're out of
the crease, the more comfortable you feel, the more you
get a feel of the conditions, the bowlers, all that
kind of stuff. And I've got a few balls that
sort of my eyes lit up at and could put away,
and I suppose was lucky enough to get those away,
which kickstarted me off.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And then you start moving a little bit more freely.
You're a little bit more confident.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
And so it was just all about trying to trying
to maximize the balls that you could score off and
and and yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Try and grab a little momentum back.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Remind me a bit of Martin Gapdor because when he
debuted Ive I'm right with this one. It was up
against the West Indies. He scored a ton, but he
got dropped four or five times. Now you've managed to
ride your luck too, didn't you something rotten?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah? For sure, I think it was.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah. I was talking to Brownie the umpire at one end,
and I said to him I was going to put
it all on black after I'd finished, after I'd finished,
because I couldn't believe how lucky I was.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
During that middle period.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
So I do, oh a few people a beer, I
reckon I Travis had a couple of beers.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tim David and Michael Bracewell.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Tell us about the century because you were looking at
a century and it took what seemed like and determinate
amount of time before you got that opportunity. How did
you manage your stress levels, your pace, your heart during
that time because you knew what was coming, but you
didn't get ahead of yourself. So talk to us about that.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Tim, Yeah, I think that's that's I think probably a
testament to the black CAP's environment. And someone like rutch
And is fantastic playing ball on its mirrants and making
sure that he's reacting every single ball and not premeditating anything.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
That could potentially come down to him.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
So he's a guy that I trained a lot with
and try and emulate, emulate.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Some of his stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
And I suppose making sure that every ball is its
own ball, its own event, and trying to win that
event when it happens.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
So yeah, I think, just trying to stay in the
moment and.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Make sure I was I had had a clear plan
and tried to execute that.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Rather than think too much too much about a milestone.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I suppose Tim Robinson joined the program. Scored a ton
yesterday against Australia. It was a losing effort, and you
did say that double ed scored great, double ed sword
great to score a ton, but you really want your
team to win first and foremost, so it's stuck in
your throat. So it's like when ratch and injured himself
when you got his role, same kind of deal.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean that's just part of the
roller coaster of cricket.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
The last twenty four hours has been.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
But Hector, you know, you're not playing, then you're playing.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
And then you score one hundred and then you lose.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
So it's kind of yeah, it's just one of those
things that you get used to playing this game.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
You just yeah, used to the ups.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
And downs and and trying to do the best that
you can to put as many many of the factors
that in your favor and try and win. But sometimes
it comes off and sometimes it doesn't. Unfortunately, the Aussies
were a bit too good for us the other night.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's great chatting to you because watching you bat yesterday
and the way you calmly went about your business, like, yeah, well,
a couple of balls to go, you hit it for four,
you get a ton, then you smash the six out
of the ground. You remind me of Matt Sandner flatline.
Are you just zero emotion? When you walked off the
It's like, do you know what you've just done? But no,
is this the way you've always been to.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
I think I think you get you get used to
being level when you when you've got you got your old.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Man yelling at you on the farm for not being in.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
The right in the right place, or or you're not
being in the right spot when you're shifting a mob
ashep or something like that.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
So no, I think it's it's sort of some mean
that this game breeds into you, that you've that you
just got to you just got to be. You just
got to be.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
You can't really ride the highs and lows too much
otherwise you get a little bit undone. And and I
find that I enjoy you know, you enjoy your own successes,
that your team and your and your teammate success is
a lot better if you if you're if you're the same,
if you've got to if you've got a duck, or
if the same, you're the same, if you've got one hundred.
So I try and be, Yeah, try and make sure

(08:34):
that you that your level is as much as much
as possible. And yeah, so I was sort of trying
to trying to even though I was obviously pretty excited,
I was trying to make sure I was I was
pretty level.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
What would your mother say about your your your dirty tash?
I mean that's a filthy mo. You're rocking there as well,
and your hair is all over the show as well.
I mean to be going, come on, come on, you're
playing for New Zealand now, mate, have a hair cut
and a show. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, my my mum keeps she still thinks I'm handsome,
but yeah, it's it's the only bit of testoster run
I've got My body is on my apple, so I'm
going to make sure I keep it, keep a hold
of that. And then my hairline is a bit of
a disgrace at the moment, and it's so I'm trying
to make the most of.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It before I before I got baled.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
So that's my that's my excuse for having a bit
of a mop going at the moment.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Would take it. Now as far as playing is concerned,
being in his islander and you start in club cricket,
what in October, you'd be used to this horrible weather.
But what about the Australians? Did you see them suffering
out there?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah? Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
I actually was having a wee young to adam' zampa
when he was coming out to the warm ups and
he had he had what looked like goalkeeping gloves on,
and so that was just the keeper's fingers warm and
I couldn't think of anything worse than trying to bowl
spin ball, trying to spin ball with freezing fingers.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
So I thought he did.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Exceptionally well for how cold and windy and rubbish it was,
which is a bit uncharacteristic of the amount.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
To be honest, I'm said the weather came to the party.
What do you guys need to do to try and
affect the win over these Australians. You must have packed
over the car because of that game last night and
determined we can do better. We you've done really well?
What what what have you assumed out of that fixture?

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, that's an interesting one because the turnarounds are so quick,
so quick, and and you're you're almost forced to reflect
and take your learnings and move on as quick as
you possibly can and look ahead to the to the
next next game. In saying that there were a huge
amount of positive, positive things to come out of to
come out to come out of that game, I think

(10:33):
the you know, to get.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
To we're pretty happy. I think we're pretty happy to
get to one eighty.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
And if I think we stored a little bit in
those middle phases and obviously a little bit of a
shaky power play.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
So if we could, if we could.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Maybe rectify some of those mistakes on Friday, then we
might be looking at a score above two hundred and
then and then I mean all.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Credit to those to those Aussie batters.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
They are strong, they're big, strong fellas, and they can
they can whack the ball.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
So you know another day that one.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Goes to hand there and the momentums halted a little bit.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
But I think it's just making sure that.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
We were really confident in how we want to, how
we want to how we want to bat and bowl,
and buying into to doing those to executing those plans
and then yeah, and then ultimately it does come out
come down to execution on the night.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
And so hopefully we can execute a little bit better
on Friday.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
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