November 21, 2025 • 8 mins
Daryl Mitchell’s seemingly endless good form continues.
After leading the Black Caps to an ODI win over the West Indies with a big century, he moved to #1 in the ODI World Batting Rankings.
He’s just the second New Zealander to top the rankings.
Mitchell told Piney it’s not something you aim for, or think you’ll ever achieve, but it’s very special.
He says it’s something that he’ll probably look back on very fondly at the end of his career, rather than when you’re in the middle of it, trying to do your thing.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Darryl Mitchell is officially the world's best One Day International batsman.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Falls away and he gets it, finds the gap, does
Darryl Mitchell, and it's the raise the bat moment, simply brilliant.
Tra Mitchell on his way to his seventh One Day International.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hundred here wonderful innings one hundred and nineteen against the
West Indies in christ Church last Sunday, moving Daryl Mitchell
to the top of the ICC ODI rankings. It's just
the second time a New Zealander has occupied the top spot,
following Glenn Turner's reign all the way back in nineteen
seventy nine. Others such as Martin Crowe, Nathan Astal Came
(00:57):
Williamson and Ross Taylor have spent time in the top
five of the ODI batting rankings, but have never been
number one. Unfortunately, Darryl Mitchell injured himself during that in
its and was ruled out for the rest of the
three match series, but that has allowed him to join
us for a chat. I want to get to the
number one ranking in a sect. Daryl and congratulate you
on that, but how is the injury and crucially will
(01:20):
you be okay for the West Indies Test matches starting
in around ten days from now?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hey, Panny, yes, Firstley, I've you a nice to catch
up with you. Yeah. Look, obviously Nigglie timing to pick
up a little grond injury. It's not what you want,
but you're aiming to be back for that first Test.
There's obviously some pretty key things with a tick off
over the next sort of ten days or so to
try and get right for that first ball. But you'll
be doing everything I can to try and be there
at Hagley.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Promising news, good stuff. All right, Well, congratulations on being
number one. You've never struck me as a man who's
driven really deeply by milestones. But what doesn't mean to
be just the second New Zealand at atop the icc
ODI rankings.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, look, it's obviously something a year you don't aim
for or even think you'll ever achieve. But I guess yes,
having sitting back the last few days and recognizing that
apart from Glen turn and no one else has done it,
it's very special. It's probably something that will I guess
at the end of your career you probably look back
on very fondly more than I guess when you're in
the in the middle of your trying to do your thing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's a brilliant record you've fashioned in fifty over cricket,
fifty six matches now for New Zealand, nearly two and
a half thousand runs, your average over fifty three, your century.
The other day you're seventh in the format. Why do
you think you've had such good success in fifty over cricket.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Look, I've said it before and I just love playing
for New Zealand and especially across all three formats. You know,
it's a real challenge to be able to keep backing
up over the three formats day after day. So yeah, look,
I just love I love wearing saw fern. I love
getting stuck into contests and trying to win little moments.
That's kind of what drives me and across all three formats.
So yeah, it's really good funs.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
How much adjustment does it take, because it seems, you know,
as I say, one day you're playing T twenty in
fifty over stuff. We just mention before getting ready for
Red Bull cricket. How does the adjustment work and have
you got better at switching between the formats?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I think it's definitely evolved over my career, and
I guess I'm lucky now I'm a little bit older
and I know how I need to prepare for each format,
and I guess the key letvel things at the two
day out day out trainings that I need to tinkle
with to be ready to go for each format. They
bring different challenges but also good fun trying to chop
and change between them.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How much has the way you batted in fifty over
cricket changed?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I don't think. I think for me, it's just it's
whatever the team needs in that moment. A lot of it.
We talk about partnerships and working together with your mate
down the other end. Obviously, conditions around the world differ
at ground to ground, so it's adapting to what you
see on that surface and what way as a partnership
we can keep trying to find ways to put pressure
on them. One day cricket, you got a little bit
(03:57):
more time than see twenty crickets. You probably don't need
to be as high risk, but you need to build
partnerships for longer periods of time. But I guess my
role in that sort of four spot across both T
twenty and and one day crickets keep trying to find
ways to put pressure on them, and yeah, do that
for as long as they can.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Has playing so much T twenty cricket changed the way
that you bat in fifty over cricket, I think.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It probably gives you more confidence when you want to
want to put someone under pressure and take on different
field settings, you probably got the confidence you can do
it because you've done it in T twenty cricket. But
also I think there's a nature of the Test game
as well, with absorbing spells early on when that new ball,
specially Newsander is doing a bit, and then you can
use your T twenty skills later on in the innings
to try and increase I guess where we want to
(04:43):
be and when you're working.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
On your batting, let's go back to fifty over cricket.
Are you looking for new scoring areas or are you
pretty comfortable in your game now that you've got your
scoring areas and you just work to enhance those as
much as you can.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
No, I think you're always trying to get better. You
always trying to find ways I mean bowlers are adapting
to what you do and trying to find ways to
shut you down. Just that you're trying to find ways
to score against them. Constantly evolving, and that's the cool
thing about the game is you can't still go to
keep trying to get better one hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The other day, as are saying Christ Jitch, there seem
to be a lot of emotion and elation wrapped around
your tongue down there. Was it particularly special for you
that innings?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Look, it's nice, I guess doing at home and at
my home ground where I show up for work each
day and do all the hard stuff that no one sees.
So it's nice that and obviously family as well. The
girls were there, which is always cool, and you're nice
for them, I guess to see dad get one hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Very cool. Tell us about Mitchell Satoner's leadership of our
white ball sides. It's something he's been doing for a
little while. Now, what sort of style is he bringing
as ODI and T twenty captain for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, look, he's obviously done it for a while. He's
a good friend and we've known each other a long time,
so I'm very proud of. I guess what he's achieving
in the game is and he's a great captain. He's
very smart with the game, he sees it and reads
it really well, and he's a very calm influence on
the group. He's sometimes he questioned if he does have
a heart, which is always nice to have when you
have a captain in precious situations like that. Look, he's Yeah,
(06:12):
he's shown both with batan ball, the skills he's got,
but also the leader as well.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The next I see event the T twenty World Cup
early next year. Have you started thinking about that tournament?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, Look, I guess you're always preparing for it and
you're practicing things you know that will hopefully help us
win a World Cup in a few months time. But
that's the nature of the games, you know. We've obviously
got odi eyes today and then the Test match in
a week's time, so you're constantly balancing I guess, yeah,
the future as well as the present.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And we saw you get a bowl and an odio
against Pakistan bay Oval back into last summer four overs
you even got a wicket. Barbara's I'm not a bad scalp.
Do you still get your bowling loads in Do you
still want to bowl a little bit in fifty over cricket?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I definitely consider myself and all around us still
and I guess the nature of our bowling attack at
the moment. The boys are doing a great job, so
I haven't haven't needed to bowl any overs, but I'm
always prepared. I'm always training it, and yeah, I guess
when called upon, I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
To do a job catch any of the ashes. Yesterday,
Yeah I did.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I packed up and watched a little bit on the afternoon.
It's a great watch and obviously with us going there
next summer as well, it's good to see. I guess,
especially how Optus is playing, because yeah, that looked like
tough work.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Indeed, indeed, well, good to hear that you're on track
for the first Test match in ten days or so.
Congrats on being number one of the ODIO rankings. Will
always protet catching up.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Thanks for the time, No nowhere, it's going to catch
up now.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Good to catch up with you too, Darryl Darrell Mitchell.
There are currently just at the back end of his
rehab from that little groin strain he picked up last weekend.
I guess with a couple of ODIs. You probably even
though he is number one in the world, you probably say, okay,
you know, rest from those. We've got test matches coming
up and then the T twenty World Cup, so you
don't want to aggravate it in any way. If it's
(07:53):
just a little niggle one by the sounds of things,
that's what it is. He'll be absolutely okay for the
test matches against the West Indies.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk d BE weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Darryl Mitchell is officially the world's best One Day International batsman.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Falls away and he gets it, finds the gap, does
Darryl Mitchell, and it's the raise the bat moment, simply brilliant.
Tra Mitchell on his way to his seventh One Day International.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hundred here wonderful innings one hundred and nineteen against the
West Indies in christ Church last Sunday, moving Daryl Mitchell
to the top of the ICC ODI rankings. It's just
the second time a New Zealander has occupied the top spot,
following Glenn Turner's reign all the way back in nineteen
seventy nine. Others such as Martin Crowe, Nathan Astal Came
(00:57):
Williamson and Ross Taylor have spent time in the top
five of the ODI batting rankings, but have never been
number one. Unfortunately, Darryl Mitchell injured himself during that in
its and was ruled out for the rest of the
three match series, but that has allowed him to join
us for a chat. I want to get to the
number one ranking in a sect. Daryl and congratulate you
on that, but how is the injury and crucially will
(01:20):
you be okay for the West Indies Test matches starting
in around ten days from now?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hey, Panny, yes, Firstley, I've you a nice to catch
up with you. Yeah. Look, obviously Nigglie timing to pick
up a little grond injury. It's not what you want,
but you're aiming to be back for that first Test.
There's obviously some pretty key things with a tick off
over the next sort of ten days or so to
try and get right for that first ball. But you'll
be doing everything I can to try and be there
at Hagley.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Promising news, good stuff. All right, Well, congratulations on being
number one. You've never struck me as a man who's
driven really deeply by milestones. But what doesn't mean to
be just the second New Zealand at atop the icc
ODI rankings.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, look, it's obviously something a year you don't aim
for or even think you'll ever achieve. But I guess yes,
having sitting back the last few days and recognizing that
apart from Glen turn and no one else has done it,
it's very special. It's probably something that will I guess
at the end of your career you probably look back
on very fondly more than I guess when you're in
the in the middle of your trying to do your thing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's a brilliant record you've fashioned in fifty over cricket,
fifty six matches now for New Zealand, nearly two and
a half thousand runs, your average over fifty three, your century.
The other day you're seventh in the format. Why do
you think you've had such good success in fifty over cricket.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Look, I've said it before and I just love playing
for New Zealand and especially across all three formats. You know,
it's a real challenge to be able to keep backing
up over the three formats day after day. So yeah, look,
I just love I love wearing saw fern. I love
getting stuck into contests and trying to win little moments.
That's kind of what drives me and across all three formats.
So yeah, it's really good funs.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
How much adjustment does it take, because it seems, you know,
as I say, one day you're playing T twenty in
fifty over stuff. We just mention before getting ready for
Red Bull cricket. How does the adjustment work and have
you got better at switching between the formats?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I think it's definitely evolved over my career, and
I guess I'm lucky now I'm a little bit older
and I know how I need to prepare for each format,
and I guess the key letvel things at the two
day out day out trainings that I need to tinkle
with to be ready to go for each format. They
bring different challenges but also good fun trying to chop
and change between them.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How much has the way you batted in fifty over
cricket changed?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I don't think. I think for me, it's just it's
whatever the team needs in that moment. A lot of it.
We talk about partnerships and working together with your mate
down the other end. Obviously, conditions around the world differ
at ground to ground, so it's adapting to what you
see on that surface and what way as a partnership
we can keep trying to find ways to put pressure
on them. One day cricket, you got a little bit
(03:57):
more time than see twenty crickets. You probably don't need
to be as high risk, but you need to build
partnerships for longer periods of time. But I guess my
role in that sort of four spot across both T
twenty and and one day crickets keep trying to find
ways to put pressure on them, and yeah, do that
for as long as they can.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Has playing so much T twenty cricket changed the way
that you bat in fifty over cricket, I think.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It probably gives you more confidence when you want to
want to put someone under pressure and take on different
field settings, you probably got the confidence you can do
it because you've done it in T twenty cricket. But
also I think there's a nature of the Test game
as well, with absorbing spells early on when that new ball,
specially Newsander is doing a bit, and then you can
use your T twenty skills later on in the innings
to try and increase I guess where we want to
(04:43):
be and when you're working.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
On your batting, let's go back to fifty over cricket.
Are you looking for new scoring areas or are you
pretty comfortable in your game now that you've got your
scoring areas and you just work to enhance those as
much as you can.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
No, I think you're always trying to get better. You
always trying to find ways I mean bowlers are adapting
to what you do and trying to find ways to
shut you down. Just that you're trying to find ways
to score against them. Constantly evolving, and that's the cool
thing about the game is you can't still go to
keep trying to get better one hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The other day, as are saying Christ Jitch, there seem
to be a lot of emotion and elation wrapped around
your tongue down there. Was it particularly special for you
that innings?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Look, it's nice, I guess doing at home and at
my home ground where I show up for work each
day and do all the hard stuff that no one sees.
So it's nice that and obviously family as well. The
girls were there, which is always cool, and you're nice
for them, I guess to see dad get one hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Very cool. Tell us about Mitchell Satoner's leadership of our
white ball sides. It's something he's been doing for a
little while. Now, what sort of style is he bringing
as ODI and T twenty captain for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, look, he's obviously done it for a while. He's
a good friend and we've known each other a long time,
so I'm very proud of. I guess what he's achieving
in the game is and he's a great captain. He's
very smart with the game, he sees it and reads
it really well, and he's a very calm influence on
the group. He's sometimes he questioned if he does have
a heart, which is always nice to have when you
have a captain in precious situations like that. Look, he's Yeah,
(06:12):
he's shown both with batan ball, the skills he's got,
but also the leader as well.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The next I see event the T twenty World Cup
early next year. Have you started thinking about that tournament?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, Look, I guess you're always preparing for it and
you're practicing things you know that will hopefully help us
win a World Cup in a few months time. But
that's the nature of the games, you know. We've obviously
got odi eyes today and then the Test match in
a week's time, so you're constantly balancing I guess, yeah,
the future as well as the present.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And we saw you get a bowl and an odio
against Pakistan bay Oval back into last summer four overs
you even got a wicket. Barbara's I'm not a bad scalp.
Do you still get your bowling loads in Do you
still want to bowl a little bit in fifty over cricket?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, I definitely consider myself and all around us still
and I guess the nature of our bowling attack at
the moment. The boys are doing a great job, so
I haven't haven't needed to bowl any overs, but I'm
always prepared. I'm always training it, and yeah, I guess
when called upon, I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
To do a job catch any of the ashes. Yesterday,
Yeah I did.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I packed up and watched a little bit on the afternoon.
It's a great watch and obviously with us going there
next summer as well, it's good to see. I guess,
especially how Optus is playing, because yeah, that looked like
tough work.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Indeed, indeed, well, good to hear that you're on track
for the first Test match in ten days or so.
Congrats on being number one of the ODIO rankings. Will
always protet catching up.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Thanks for the time, No nowhere, it's going to catch
up now.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Good to catch up with you too, Darryl Darrell Mitchell.
There are currently just at the back end of his
rehab from that little groin strain he picked up last weekend.
I guess with a couple of ODIs. You probably even
though he is number one in the world, you probably say, okay,
you know, rest from those. We've got test matches coming
up and then the T twenty World Cup, so you
don't want to aggravate it in any way. If it's
(07:53):
just a little niggle one by the sounds of things,
that's what it is. He'll be absolutely okay for the
test matches against the West Indies.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk d BE weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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