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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
At B coming up in nine after seven on a
Saturday morning at Mitch Hey, the man with the gloves
for the black Cats or short version anyway, I'm going
to be along before he takes that role.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
All due respect to the current black Caps working keeper.
Has been a horrible time with the bat, but we
will see. His name is Mitch Hey, he joins us. Now,
Good morning, Mitch.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Good morning. Have are we going?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah? Good, great to have you on board. You'd be
looking forward to tomorrow, presuming you get selected taking on
Sri Lanka in the first one day international. Do you
put much into that worrying about whether they're going to
get picked or not? Because there's other other glove men
hanging around now, aren't there?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Yeah, thank you, And I'm very excited for the upcoming
ODI series coming off a pretty cool teacher, so now
definitely looking forward to that. And yeah, not too sure
about selection and stuff, but that's all good. I'll just
played as it comes, really gone.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You must have an idea, surely gone spill the bean?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Nah, no beans to be spilled. Still not sure? I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
T twenty series didn't finished long ago and we're still
waiting for a couple. A couple of guys played last night,
so yes, team's just together today.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah. So on that you said it was a pretty
cool series. Could have been a bit better. But that
chase for that last game, nearest a tech pulling off
the biggest run chase in New Zealand T twenty history,
I believe, so a lot of energy behind that side
with a huge total. You still back yourselves, Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It was a pretty goodffict with the chase.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I think Rutching and Term obviously got us off to
a great start and dar all through the middle there
provide a lot of a lot of power. So yeah,
we're there or thereabouts, and there's a couple of key
moments which we slipped up a little bit, but that's
cricket and yeah, Shrilnkin's played really well, so they definitely
deserved the one.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So what are your mid twenties at the moment, Mitch,
so relatively young in your career, but I'm presuming you
believe the time is right that you take on the
international role that you've got. You're ready to go. You've
had enough time at the domestic level.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Yeah, it's been a cool few years being a official
cricketer and I think, yeah, have definitely sort of improved
in my years three or four years playing proficional cricket,
so you definitely feel ready for the step to international
cricket and been absolutely loving it so far.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So yeah, and that's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
What's been the biggest surprise This has been anything that's
opened your eyes once you're at that actual level.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
No, nothing that was overly surprising. I guess it's just been.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Pretty cool these last three T twenties playing at home
in front of sold out crowds. The support's been amazing
from the New Zealand public and previously it only played overseas,
so it's been awesome to play in front of home
crowds and the support we year has been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So no, that's been really cool.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
When you're playing at home in front of a big
crowd like that. Is there any particular way to prep
yourself so that doesn't become I'm overwhelming. How do you
go about getting into that rhythm?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah, well, I guess I've done a lot of work
with momental skills coach John Quinn in my few years
with Canterbury, so like, definitely skills and tools I use
to make sure I'm you know, worrying about the right things.
I guess there's a bit more a few more distractions
with international cricket, but in the end it is still
just cricket and.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You're out out in the middle. You know, it's bat
first ball.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
So I think those tools have served me well, and
I feel like, yeah, in a good place to sort
of put the distractions to one side and focusing on
the cricket.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, go and tell me what your hammer is. At
least a couple of your tools, what are.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
They at a lot of just breathing, a lot of
breathing exercises just to bring me into the prison. And
I guess just focus on that ball, which is the
main thing with betting and keeping.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Obviously that's quite new age but very relevant. How long
have you been looking in that space to actually get
yourself calm and focused.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I guess the last few years just been working away
at it.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's just to continual work on I guess obviously haven't
haven't mastered it, but it's definitely getting better and getting
better at sort of putting it into practice.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I guess plainly you're a gloveman match, but also it's
fair to say you like to cause a bit of
chaos with the bat too. Where do you see yourself primarily?
Is it both of those roles?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, I think both those roles pretty pretty crucial.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Can't really have a keeper now that doesn't contribute with
the bat, so I think I hold them equally important.
It's called to be able to contribute with two facets because,
as you know, cricket's pret fickle game and some days
just don't go away. So it's nice to be able
to have a second chance with either the gloves or
the bat.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
When did you start falling into that role as a
young man growing up and playing in Canterbury? Fantastic conditions
to play cricket, Not that I ever played a great level,
but I know what it's like playing there. When did
you think, actually, hold on, I can make a career
out of this. And were you a keeper initially a
bat initially? How did that evolve?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Mitch, Yeah, I've always been a keeper.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I remember my dad coached my older brother growing up,
and he'd bring home the kit bag, the communal kit bag,
and it'd have keeping loves and I'd always chuck them
on and keeping byc and stuff. So I've always loved keeping,
and I think one of my best Christmas presents ever
was a period of keeping gloves. So I think if
you ask my parents, i'd say I was always a
wicket keeper and always wanted to be, and it probably
(05:19):
helped that my bowling wasn't really up to much. And
the betting side you I've always loved betting, probably asked
out as well. He's thrown many a ball to me
in the nets, and I really enjoy both sort of
skill sets, And I guess yeah, probably in going through
high school, I sort of realized it could be a
career option, but I guess you sort of never really know,
(05:41):
un so it becomes your job and it's pretty awesome,
really much.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Being a cantab myself, I've got to ask what school
did you go to? It's a very traditional question, has
to be delivered surely.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, it's very truitional. Crush you boys.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Can't get much more traditional than that. What club did
you play for on the way up? Who's at home
now cheering you on from the clubrooms?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I played for Burnside currit Club growing up, so just
all through my junior stuff at Burnside and then meant
to Crushes Boys for high school and then back to
Burnside once I finished high school.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
So yeah, I've been pretty.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Loyal to Burnside and I've absolutely loved my time there.
And yeah, lots of supporters are from the club, which
is really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Suggest Matchell that you're probably a vocal pest because all
wicked keepers are, and you really want to be involved
in the game. That most wicked keepers, I know, they
do it because they can't stand standing around. They've got
to be constantly involved. They've almost like, I'm not accusing
of this, I've got it myself, a wee bit adhd
around it. You've got to be there doing something.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yet, Yeah, I'm a bit like that. I've got to
be doing something get bored quite quite easily. So it's
nice to be always involved. I wouldn't say I'm too
piesty behind the stumps. I'd probably are quieter than most
as a keeper, but definitely yeah, pretty energized and don't
like sitting around for too long, so it fits my
personality well.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
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