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January 3, 2025 • 11 mins

Auckland Aces batter Bevon Jacobs took a stunning boundary catch against Canterbury King's in the men's Super Smash. 

Canterbury were cruising towards Auckland's total of 185-8, but suffered a remarkable collapse against the competition's defending champions. 

Jacobs' boundary catch was a highlight of the game, diving full stretch to catch Henry Shipley just before the ball it the turf. He joins Jason Pine to discuss his mindset on the field. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fyne
from newstalk zed B speaking.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of astonishing staff remarkable game of TA twenty cricket yesterday
between Auckland and Canterbury at Eden Park's Outer Oval. Auckland
batted first and made one hundred and eighty five for
eight from their twenty overs. Martin gupdel sixty of thirty
five balls and Bevin Jacobs fifty three off thirty three.
Now Canterbury in reply, cruising one hundred and sixty three

(00:34):
for four after seventeen overs, but then lost their last
six wickets for nine runs in the space of fourteen deliveries,
Auckland running out winners by thirteen runs. And amongst the
collapse was an absolutely superb boundary catch from Bevan Jacobs
to get rid of Henry Shipley, whacked. Has he got

(00:57):
enough four catch?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Beja Jacobs takes us screamer.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
So good, absolute screamer running round to us right, a
lot of work to do and he just throws out
in the right hand and it sticks inches, separating him
in the boundary rope. You will not see many better
boundary catches than that, and he is pumped up about
it too.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
He would be, wouldn't you Bevan Jacobs is with us
some congrats on the win yesterday made and that catch
and the part that you played with the bat as well.
Actually can we start with can we start with that catch?
Can you talk us through it?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Thanks? Jason?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, I mean that catch was you know, it was
looking to be able to take that to the boy's
just under the situation that we're in. But you know,
I guess that's that's what I'm trained for, and you know,
I was just happy that I could pull it off.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
As you were sprinting around the boundary, what is going
through you mind? Are you just thinking, actually I need
to stop this going for four? Or was the catch
always on?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
I think I think in that situation when you know
the team needs.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
The wickets, because as you said Cannbury, the run wasn't
the issue for them there, so team need the wickets,
I think you always got to go for the catch
and then you can you know, you can look this
out if you if you don't go, if you don't
take it, you know, as long as you've tried to
go for it when the team needs it, have.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You if you caught that with one hand. Has that
gone into your right hand only a bit of both?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think I think, you know, I can't lie. I
didn't think it was quite you know, the full one hand,
but that left hand definitely did did help me keep
it in my hands, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Brilliant. Well, they need what they need, they needed twenty
three or three overs, six wickets in hand. It kind
of cruising that there it's in hand for them. Right.
Did you think it might not be your day or
did you always think there was you know, another chapter
to be written.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, look, I mean in that situation, Candery obviously has
the upper hand. But you know, cricket the funny game,
and every time you're chasing, no matter how easy it seems,
you know, it can definitely turn any quickly. And I
think the boys just put on an excellent buying performance,
you know, Jocket done at the end taking three apiece
and especially done to three and one over. You know,
so beatpops to them for you know, staying the course.

(03:05):
And I guess it was just a big thing for
us in the acees but was just you know, not
to think the game's over till it's over, so, you know,
big box to them.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
For getting that done.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
And do you get confidence in the game of T
twenty cricket when I hear this so often? You know,
the game can change in the space of just a
few deliveries with bat or ball. So do you actually
always feel as though are games live right until the end?

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You know, it only tacks one over or one a
piece of fielding or bowling or whatever it is, you know,
to then put the momentum back.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
In your side. And I think that's you know, that's
what happened. And the boards were really.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Good at just compiling it and you know, going from
one into the next, and you know it led us
to a pretty special win.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
So let's go back to your batting innings. You guys
for fifty three without loss, and then all of a
sudden you're fifty six for three. When you come out
to join Martin Guptel, you put together fifty nine and
less than six overs. He's been around for a while,
hasn't he, Martin Guptell. How much do you enjoy batting
with him?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's pretty special, you know, to be able to share
the crease with the legend of the game like that.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
I mean there's a lot of wisdom that you can.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
You can share, you can share with you when you're
out in the middle and just having those conversations with them,
figuring out a plan, you know, having a small little
accumulation phase and then really trying to put the foot
down and the pressure app on Canbury. So it's really
nice to have him in the group and have that
experience kind of kind of guide you in those precious situations.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And your numbers, as I say, fifty three off, thirty three, one,
four and five sixes, but all around the place, long
on mid wicket, long off overcover. How much do you
work on being able to play three hundred and sixty
degrees in T twenty cricket?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, I think it's it's it's obviously important to be
able to hit more than one area at the ground,
But I think when you break it down to put
it real simply, it's just about making sure you've got
a clear plane and then just just reacting to the
ball that's coming down and you know, backing that your
skills are going to get you to the right place.
You know, Like I wouldn't necessarily say it's about training.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Three sixty all the time.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's just more about you know, working hard, practicing his
skill and you know, letting your stuff react in the moment.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
How much of you how much of what you do
is premeditated.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Sometimes it's it's more game scenario and field set.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Obviously with five out, you know there's there's there's not
too many gaps all the time for towards the boundary.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
But I guess that's what that reaction piece comes in.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
And you could obviously target a certain zone based on
how someone's bowling if if you feel like it's a
good match up. But then again, I think it comes
back down to reaction and then if you're going to
take it on, you know that you're going to take
it on with one hundred percent and hopefully it clears
the right.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
And now what about Eddie Asholtz reverse ramp for six
at the end? Has he been retelling that story?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I bet he will be, so I haven't talked to
him much about He's a talented he's a talented player
and he's been working hard on those on those shots,
so it's good to see him bring it out in
the game.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
And while you were fielding a nasty collision at one point,
Ben Lister and Sides Dixon were involved. Are they okay?
Relatively okay to your knowledge.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yeah, relatively okay. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I haven't had any confirmed clear comms on what the situation,
as I noticed, went sort of X ray and sided
lest I think hopefully not out for too long, maybe
maybe a couple of weeks worst case scenario, But I
don't have any any hard confirmation on that.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
So yeah, we'll keep that fingers cross all good.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, we'll keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.
As far as you're concerned. You came through the Auckland
pathway system down to Canterbury, of course, where you played
last season. What was behind the return to Walkland the summer.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
There are a lot of factors, but at the end
of the days of a cricket decision, you know, I
just felt that, you know, Canterbury obviously, when they had
their black Cats back quite a strong side, might have
been tough for me to play as much cricket as
I potentially could in awkward and it was that was
mainly the driving factor. And obviously it's good to be
to be back home family and stuff as a bonus

(07:04):
as well, and I grew up playing with a lot
of the boys in Awkland, so the transition was a
smooth one. But at the end of the day, it
was more just just a cricketing decision.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And did it help yesterday knowing a few of the
guys who were bowling at you from having been alongside
them last summer?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, I guess. You know, it goes both ways. I
know them, but they know me too. But it's always
a good contest against them out there, and yeah, it's
just awesome to see both teams put on a good
display and something from the crowd to watch.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Of course, over the last week you had, well you
had the last week in the black Caps environment, despite
not getting a game, did you take some benefits from
the experience.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yes, one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, those are some world class players, and just
to be able to talk to them and listen to
their experiences and try and implement what they've learned into
my own game, I think it's pretty special. And just
being around that, getting a taste for that environment makes
me hungry to get back there. So hopefully I can
keep putting scores on the board and working hard and
you know, get back there when I can do.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
You think you might have gotten a game.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I don't think it's impossible, you know, it's just but
the way the cards filed, you know, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Get the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
But that's all good, you know, It's just how it
works sometimes. But it's just awesome to be around the
around that group and get a taste for it.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah. Well, as you say it, so weet your appetite
and got you're hungry for. I'm sure the opportunity will
come again soon. And of course you're off to the
IPL too with the Mumbai Indians. The story's being told
a bit, but can you catch us up? How did
it all happen?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Where I start put my name in the auction very late?
Woke up at five point thirty two un call from
a coven South Africa saying I got picked. I didn't
believe them at first, and then I got about a
million other messages and checked social.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Media and there it was. So but yeah, that was
pretty epic.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
And then yeah, I got the call up into the
international squad not too long after. So it's been a
bit of a heck a few weeks, but all good
news obviously. But now it so, I guess it's just
about you know, coming back to coming back to the
present and just focusing on how I can do the
best I can for Awkland.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, the fact that you went to bed rather than
sort of you know, stayed up and kept an eye
on the auction would suggest that you weren't supremely confident
of being picked up. So was it actually a surprise
when you got the call from your your South African
cousin and then all the messages started flying in and
you realized, actually, this is true. I have been picked up.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
There was a heck of a surprise.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I mean they're training early the next day and I
thought I should get my rest, so, you know, because
day one of the auction has already been complete sales
that are probably not the biggest chance. But I've got training,
so I got a head to bed and then I
got working up by that at five thirty.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yeah, definitely a huge surprise.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Brilliant stuff. No, what an exciting time for you, mate. Well,
before you can even look at that, you got the
white ball or the remainder of the white ball season
with Auckland. Congrats on a terrific performance from you and
the team yesterday, mate, and thanks for taking the time
for it yet today.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Thanks Jason, appreciate your time now.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I appreciate your Spevin. Thanks. Indeed, Bevin Jacob's there a
name to look out for. I thought they might give
them a game in the T twenties, you know, they
were two up going to Nelson. I get that you
want to reward performance, and that's what Whichill Satan has said. Yeah,
but Bevan Jacobs was in that squad and neither he
or Nathan Smith got a game in the T twenties.

(10:14):
Nathan Smith at least stays in the squad for the
fifty over stuff, and I would hope to see him
at least in one of the games to come, either
tomorrow in Wellington, and that'd be a good place to
play actually in his home home ground in Hamilton and Auckland.
I think it'd be pretty tough on Nathan Smith if
he's with the team for the T twenty and one
day series and doesn't get a game across six. But yeah,

(10:35):
Bevan Jacobs, I would like to see him have a
crack for New Zealand. I don't think that'll be too
far away. Watching him back yesterday and I'm mentioning it
to him there he's got a range of shots. Man.
He was driving, you know, down the ground, he was
going over cover for six. He obviously has got the
natural swing of a right right hander and he's down

(10:56):
the ground and over midwicket, but he's scoring all around
the ground in a terrific fielder as well. If you
haven't seen that catch, just have a look at that.
Find it online Someway. Just type in Jacob's catch. I'm
sure it will pop up there for you. Really really
good stuff from her.

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