January 31, 2025 • 9 mins
The Central Stags have qualified directly for Sunday's Dream 11 Super Smash final.
Jayden Lennox has played a key role in the Stags' run to the final, as he was the side's most economical bowler, while also picking up 9 wickets.
He catches up with Piney to discuss his season as he awaits the results of the elimination final.
“I think we're, we're probably tracking nicely, and we're probably tracking a little bit more confident confidently than we have in the, I suppose, the past couple of years.”
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Central Stags have qualified directly for tomorrow's Super Smash
Men's final. They finished well clear at the top of
the regular season table six wins, two losses to no results.
They now await the winner of the elimination final this
afternoon between Northern and Canterbury. Jaden Lennox has played a
key role in the Stags run to the final. Yeah,
oh that's brilliant. That is really good from Jaden Lennox,
(00:36):
claims about days.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And that's got to be close that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, everything's coming up roses for Jaden Lennox. Indeed, he
was the side's most economical bowler across the competition, also
picking up nine wickets. He took nine catches as well,
including a Stag's record four and one game against the
Northern Brave. In that same innings, he had his season's
best figures of three for fourteen. Jayden Lenox is with
(01:03):
us Jayden numb, Well, congrats on your season for un
the Stags. What have been the main keys to the
side's success during the round robin segment.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Iose it's pretty hard to put your finger on one thing,
I think where we're probably tracking nicely, and we're probably
tracking a little bit more confidently confidently than we have
in the I suppose the past couple of years. It
feels like when we get ourselves into a little bit
of a tangle, that we're sort of trusting our own
games and trusting each other enough to just kind of
take the games as deep as we need to. We're
in the past, we've kind of panicked a little bit,
(01:34):
and when we've been chasing Nigglie totals, we've kind of
fallen a stepar too short. So I think the fact
that we've kind of grown in confidence and that we're
started to win hard games, it's probably a huge area
of progression for us this season.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Does that confidence you talk about there, does that come
really only with experience?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah. I think if you look through our sort of
eleven as well players that have played the majority of
this campaign, there is a lot of experience there, and
I think the guys that are less experienced are kind
of leaning on the guys with a shipmold of experience.
So yeah, I think it's one of those things that
there's a good balance of experience and a little bit
of youth and an experience there which is kind of
lights the fire and everybody and kind of getting your
(02:13):
arm around some of the guys with less experiences. Cool
when you know that when there's a place that's falling
on good shoulders.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I guess now, even though you didn't actually, as it
turns out, need the win in your last game to
finish top, how much confidence did you take from the
victory over Auckland on Wednesday, especially taking forty five of
the last sixteen balls to win that game.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, we've spoken about momentum a lot this season, and
I think it was really nice to obviously know that
we didn't need to win that game, but the fact
that we sort of pulled that out of the fire
a little bit, and that's kind of the games that
we've been speaking about is in the past, we've done
a way to lose those games. We've had our backs
up against the wall, but we've kind of found a
little bit of a method about taking the game a
little bit deeper than heave in the past, and we're
(02:58):
kind of proving it to ourselves that we can do that.
And you put the last couple of seasons, I say
we've kind of struggled in those situations to win those
games and get a little bit more momentum. I think
before that Auckland game, we hadn't played in nine days
because of two rain So to get on the park
and get a win that's pretty crucial to getting back
on the winner's side of the table was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Let's talk a little bit about your bowling. What's been
the secret or what of being the keys of your
economy in the T twenty comp this season?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't really know. I think it's probably a combination
of experience and sort of I do quite a bit
of work on the analytics of the game and kind
of figure out little niche areas where I can save
one or two runs against most betters, so I kind
of let those one percenters kind of stack up a
little bit. But I think it's just a combination of
(03:52):
being experienced now and working closely with the guys around
me to kind of formulate a plan and figure out
how I can kind of trying and to have my
impact on the game.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you trying to take wickets out there?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Would you be happier with I don't know, would you
be happy with two for thirty or or none for
twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's probably a little bit depends on the game scenario.
But I think kind of my role with it within
our team at the moment is to kind of be
the glue in the middle that can kind of restrict
whatever the situation is. So the fact that I'm going
to less runs and a lot of other people that
that's my avenue and trying to provide a little bit
(04:30):
of control and when there's a big over, Tom can
kind of throw them the ball and he'll know more
or less what he's going to get. And I suppose
knowing that people are allowed to have their day with
the bed as well, So not being too hard on
yourself and you don't have those good days. It's probably
the key to my role. Because you're never going to
bowl none to twenty or two to thirty every day.
There's going to be days where you go for fifty,
(04:53):
So just accepting that's probably a big part of it
as well, and being at ease with knowing that these
days that the betters are going to take you down.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
At the start of a bowling innings, do you have
a general idea of which overs you're likely to bowl?
Or does that very much depend on how the beginnings
pans outside in the power play.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
N I think we're we'd probably like to say that
everybody should have a good idea, but the nature of
twenty twenty cricket, especially in his Zelandic game, the game
progresses pretty quickly. So sometimes you get a little bit
of a right, who shall we bowl here? And then
you haven't bit of a midfield conference with Tom and
you decide, right, it's it's time to try and shut
shutting over down inside the power play, which typically i'd
(05:33):
kind of go sort of maybe seven, oh, like the
seventh over, maybe the eleventh and thirteenth, and then somewhere
around the eighteenth. So yeah, you just got to be
really it's kind of one of those games, and you
have to be prepared to bowl every year over the game.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You mentioned Tom Bruce there before. I mean, he's a
terrific T twenty player, isn't he. How keys has batting
been and the batting of of a guy like Jack
Boyle to your success this season, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's been phenomenal. We've had I suppose we've had one
one guy in the past going well in the tournament
it's kind of and that always contributes to games when
you get somebody that can bridge sort of, I suppose
if you get somebody that can average fifty throughout a tournament,
that's pretty special for somebody to do across sort of
a general eleven game tournament. But to have two or
three guys that are contributing to winning games for us consistently,
(06:18):
it just means that you're not losing wickets at both ends.
And sometimes when you lose, look at both ends and
you you don't really find ways to get momentum through
the middle. So the fact that we've got three or
four guys that are all in a pretty rich veniform
of moments, it's really col and we've got a lot
of confidence in the lower order as well, like when
we saw the other night that Curtis came out in
(06:39):
a different role at number six or seven, got us
across the line with Shawsey, who's a game pretty inexperience.
It's cool to see because we're all backing each other
as well. So the fact that everybody's leaning on each
other within satting unit, it's pretty cool and it's something
that we've kind of tried ourselves on for this campaign especially.
We worked seriously hard and we had some pretty tough
conversations posts Super Smash last year about how we just
(07:01):
didn't quite hit our straps and we weren't prepared to
take the games deep enough. So we've come out Trump's
up to the stages pretty broader.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Absolutely. Have you had a bat yet?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Have you betted? You haven't had one yet?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I haven't. No, I've had to put the pads on twice,
I think, but it wasn't even I wasn't even close
to going out, which is that's pretty cool to know
that sort of thought. I don't even think Blair is
bettered and he's won in front of me, So nineteen
eleven haven't had to bat. It's kind of shown the
prowess of our pop order, which is, Yes, it's an awesome,
awesome thing to be part of it the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yea, it really has. Do you think you're a team
that prefers to chase in T twenty And it's a
very general question, but I mean, you have won a
lot of games chasing the summer? Is that your preference?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Typically I would say no, but I think this season, yeah,
I think we definitely have figured out a little bit
of a GreenPrint to go out there and chase scores.
And I think just because of the nature of the wickets,
the wickets have been a little bit more abrasive, so
I think it has been difficult to to sort of
bat first and know what good scores and if you've
(08:07):
got hard enough or if you've gone too hard, you
can sometimes leave yourself short. So I think going out
there and getting good read We've got a pretty experienced
bowling attack, so we're pretty attuned to giving some pretty
good feedback to the betters and knowing what they can
do in terms of chasing scores down And I think
that's that experience coming to the floor as while everybody's
comfortable chasing scores, and the fact that we're trusting our
own games and each other's means that we're actually chasing
(08:31):
scores pretty comfortably.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And beyond this weekend, Jaden's back to FORLL Trophy and
Planket Shield. You're featured for the Stags and both of
those competitions before Christmas. You're keen to be an all
format player for CD.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of a goal. That's I've worked
worked tirelessly to get my Red Bull game up to
a level where I can come compete for spots of
a second if there's a second spinner. I've kind of
tried to home my craft enough to be I suppose
that second spinner roll and for Ags is away with
the black Caps to be the one that's picked. So
(09:04):
I'm definitely keen to keep on the baggy green and
out there and performing in read ball cricket.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Good Man, well, you've got the white ball stuff to
get out of the way first mate. All the best
tomorrow in the final against whoever it's against either Northern
or Canterbury. Jayden Lennox from the Central Stags, the side
who finished top in the regular season and earned direct
entry into tomorrow's final.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
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the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Central Stags have qualified directly for tomorrow's Super Smash
Men's final. They finished well clear at the top of
the regular season table six wins, two losses to no results.
They now await the winner of the elimination final this
afternoon between Northern and Canterbury. Jaden Lennox has played a
key role in the Stags run to the final. Yeah,
oh that's brilliant. That is really good from Jaden Lennox,
(00:36):
claims about days.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And that's got to be close that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, everything's coming up roses for Jaden Lennox. Indeed, he
was the side's most economical bowler across the competition, also
picking up nine wickets. He took nine catches as well,
including a Stag's record four and one game against the
Northern Brave. In that same innings, he had his season's
best figures of three for fourteen. Jayden Lenox is with
(01:03):
us Jayden numb, Well, congrats on your season for un
the Stags. What have been the main keys to the
side's success during the round robin segment.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Iose it's pretty hard to put your finger on one thing,
I think where we're probably tracking nicely, and we're probably
tracking a little bit more confidently confidently than we have
in the I suppose the past couple of years. It
feels like when we get ourselves into a little bit
of a tangle, that we're sort of trusting our own
games and trusting each other enough to just kind of
take the games as deep as we need to. We're
in the past, we've kind of panicked a little bit,
(01:34):
and when we've been chasing Nigglie totals, we've kind of
fallen a stepar too short. So I think the fact
that we've kind of grown in confidence and that we're
started to win hard games, it's probably a huge area
of progression for us this season.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Does that confidence you talk about there, does that come
really only with experience?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah. I think if you look through our sort of
eleven as well players that have played the majority of
this campaign, there is a lot of experience there, and
I think the guys that are less experienced are kind
of leaning on the guys with a shipmold of experience.
So yeah, I think it's one of those things that
there's a good balance of experience and a little bit
of youth and an experience there which is kind of
lights the fire and everybody and kind of getting your
(02:13):
arm around some of the guys with less experiences. Cool
when you know that when there's a place that's falling
on good shoulders.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I guess now, even though you didn't actually, as it
turns out, need the win in your last game to
finish top, how much confidence did you take from the
victory over Auckland on Wednesday, especially taking forty five of
the last sixteen balls to win that game.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, we've spoken about momentum a lot this season, and
I think it was really nice to obviously know that
we didn't need to win that game, but the fact
that we sort of pulled that out of the fire
a little bit, and that's kind of the games that
we've been speaking about is in the past, we've done
a way to lose those games. We've had our backs
up against the wall, but we've kind of found a
little bit of a method about taking the game a
little bit deeper than heave in the past, and we're
(02:58):
kind of proving it to ourselves that we can do that.
And you put the last couple of seasons, I say
we've kind of struggled in those situations to win those
games and get a little bit more momentum. I think
before that Auckland game, we hadn't played in nine days
because of two rain So to get on the park
and get a win that's pretty crucial to getting back
on the winner's side of the table was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Let's talk a little bit about your bowling. What's been
the secret or what of being the keys of your
economy in the T twenty comp this season?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't really know. I think it's probably a combination
of experience and sort of I do quite a bit
of work on the analytics of the game and kind
of figure out little niche areas where I can save
one or two runs against most betters, so I kind
of let those one percenters kind of stack up a
little bit. But I think it's just a combination of
(03:52):
being experienced now and working closely with the guys around
me to kind of formulate a plan and figure out
how I can kind of trying and to have my
impact on the game.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you trying to take wickets out there?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Would you be happier with I don't know, would you
be happy with two for thirty or or none for
twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It's probably a little bit depends on the game scenario.
But I think kind of my role with it within
our team at the moment is to kind of be
the glue in the middle that can kind of restrict
whatever the situation is. So the fact that I'm going
to less runs and a lot of other people that
that's my avenue and trying to provide a little bit
(04:30):
of control and when there's a big over, Tom can
kind of throw them the ball and he'll know more
or less what he's going to get. And I suppose
knowing that people are allowed to have their day with
the bed as well, So not being too hard on
yourself and you don't have those good days. It's probably
the key to my role. Because you're never going to
bowl none to twenty or two to thirty every day.
There's going to be days where you go for fifty,
(04:53):
So just accepting that's probably a big part of it
as well, and being at ease with knowing that these
days that the betters are going to take you down.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
At the start of a bowling innings, do you have
a general idea of which overs you're likely to bowl?
Or does that very much depend on how the beginnings
pans outside in the power play.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
N I think we're we'd probably like to say that
everybody should have a good idea, but the nature of
twenty twenty cricket, especially in his Zelandic game, the game
progresses pretty quickly. So sometimes you get a little bit
of a right, who shall we bowl here? And then
you haven't bit of a midfield conference with Tom and
you decide, right, it's it's time to try and shut
shutting over down inside the power play, which typically i'd
(05:33):
kind of go sort of maybe seven, oh, like the
seventh over, maybe the eleventh and thirteenth, and then somewhere
around the eighteenth. So yeah, you just got to be
really it's kind of one of those games, and you
have to be prepared to bowl every year over the game.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You mentioned Tom Bruce there before. I mean, he's a
terrific T twenty player, isn't he. How keys has batting
been and the batting of of a guy like Jack
Boyle to your success this season, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's been phenomenal. We've had I suppose we've had one
one guy in the past going well in the tournament
it's kind of and that always contributes to games when
you get somebody that can bridge sort of, I suppose
if you get somebody that can average fifty throughout a tournament,
that's pretty special for somebody to do across sort of
a general eleven game tournament. But to have two or
three guys that are contributing to winning games for us consistently,
(06:18):
it just means that you're not losing wickets at both ends.
And sometimes when you lose, look at both ends and
you you don't really find ways to get momentum through
the middle. So the fact that we've got three or
four guys that are all in a pretty rich veniform
of moments, it's really col and we've got a lot
of confidence in the lower order as well, like when
we saw the other night that Curtis came out in
(06:39):
a different role at number six or seven, got us
across the line with Shawsey, who's a game pretty inexperience.
It's cool to see because we're all backing each other
as well. So the fact that everybody's leaning on each
other within satting unit, it's pretty cool and it's something
that we've kind of tried ourselves on for this campaign especially.
We worked seriously hard and we had some pretty tough
conversations posts Super Smash last year about how we just
(07:01):
didn't quite hit our straps and we weren't prepared to
take the games deep enough. So we've come out Trump's
up to the stages pretty broader.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Absolutely. Have you had a bat yet?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Have you betted? You haven't had one yet?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I haven't. No, I've had to put the pads on twice,
I think, but it wasn't even I wasn't even close
to going out, which is that's pretty cool to know
that sort of thought. I don't even think Blair is
bettered and he's won in front of me, So nineteen
eleven haven't had to bat. It's kind of shown the
prowess of our pop order, which is, Yes, it's an awesome,
awesome thing to be part of it the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yea, it really has. Do you think you're a team
that prefers to chase in T twenty And it's a
very general question, but I mean, you have won a
lot of games chasing the summer? Is that your preference?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Typically I would say no, but I think this season, yeah,
I think we definitely have figured out a little bit
of a GreenPrint to go out there and chase scores.
And I think just because of the nature of the wickets,
the wickets have been a little bit more abrasive, so
I think it has been difficult to to sort of
bat first and know what good scores and if you've
(08:07):
got hard enough or if you've gone too hard, you
can sometimes leave yourself short. So I think going out
there and getting good read We've got a pretty experienced
bowling attack, so we're pretty attuned to giving some pretty
good feedback to the betters and knowing what they can
do in terms of chasing scores down And I think
that's that experience coming to the floor as while everybody's
comfortable chasing scores, and the fact that we're trusting our
own games and each other's means that we're actually chasing
(08:31):
scores pretty comfortably.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And beyond this weekend, Jaden's back to FORLL Trophy and
Planket Shield. You're featured for the Stags and both of
those competitions before Christmas. You're keen to be an all
format player for CD.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of a goal. That's I've worked
worked tirelessly to get my Red Bull game up to
a level where I can come compete for spots of
a second if there's a second spinner. I've kind of
tried to home my craft enough to be I suppose
that second spinner roll and for Ags is away with
the black Caps to be the one that's picked. So
(09:04):
I'm definitely keen to keep on the baggy green and
out there and performing in read ball cricket.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Good Man, well, you've got the white ball stuff to
get out of the way first mate. All the best
tomorrow in the final against whoever it's against either Northern
or Canterbury. Jayden Lennox from the Central Stags, the side
who finished top in the regular season and earned direct
entry into tomorrow's final.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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