November 28, 2025 • 14 mins
Kiwi cricket icon Mark Greatbatch has a new role: President of New Zealand Cricket.
His career in the sport included iconic knocks such as saving a draw against Australia at the WACA in 1989, batting for 11 hours, and pioneering the pinch hitting role at the top of the ODI batting order.
Greatbatch joined Piney to discuss his new role and some of his iconic cricketing moments.
“In this role you’ve got to listen and see what the pulse of the game is. There’s some really exciting and challenging at the same time things happening in world cricket at the moment.”
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
New Zealand Cricket has a new president. Former international batsman
and Black Caps head coach Mark great Batch has succeeded
Leslie Murdoch in the role on a three year term.
Mark great Batch played forty one Test matches and eighty
four One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He scored back
to back ODI centuries on the nineteen ninety two of
(00:33):
England and pioneered the pinch hitting role at the top
of the one day order during the nineteen ninety two
World Cup, scoring three hundred and thirteen runs at an
average of forty four point seven to one during New
Zealand's run to the semifinals. In Test cricket, he scored
a century on debut against England and an iconic unbeaten
(00:54):
one hundred and forty six batting for eleven hours against
Australia in Perth in November of nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
As it is down the ground past it on a
magnificent hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And I'm not even showing a lot of emotion, and
I reckon the reason he's doing.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
That is that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
He doesn't feel as though the job's completed. He wants
to be here for the rest of the afternoon. Showed
very little emotion. Then what a great performance by Mark
great Batch. Four hundred and sixty five minutes, one hundred ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To go off the ground and what a sensational moment
for the New Zealanders. Mark great Batch and Martin Snedden.
The player should be out on the ground. There's a
bit of a discussion there between board and umpive Peter McConnell.
But the game is over and it's a drawer. What
an effort by Mark great Batch, standing ovation from the
small crowd. A wonderful effort, one of the all time
greats as far as saving a match. Congratulations to Mark
(02:05):
and his team as about it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, Mark great Batch also a very handy fieldsman and
later became coach of both Central Districts and New Zealand
make great batches with us on weekend Sport. Mark, congratulations
on this new role. What exactly does the position of
New Zealand Cricket president involve?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Thanks very much, nice to be on your shows. It's
very much an ambassador's role, you know, promoting the game positively,
communicating with our members, you know, having good relations and
having robust discussions about the.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Game and where the game is going to New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
So, you know, I think it's a it's an ambassador's role.
I'm on the board in a non voting capacity, but
part of the board discussions in regard to projects and
things that we think can help New Zealand Cricket go
forward further.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So you sit in on board meetings. Who will you
have the most contact with in this role? Will it
be the board members, the chair of the board, Will
it be Scott Winning, the CEO of New Zealand Cricket.
Who do you think you'll spend most time in conversation with.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
It's pretty early days, Jason, I've only just been appointed.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But you know, I think you know, the board members,
the chair and the CEO.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I mean, I think it's you know, I'll beginning around
the traps across the board, you know, not just going
to the top stuff, but going and watching the boys
and girls that play this great game of ours around
the country and and you know, talking to parents, talking
to coaches. You know, I've got to you know, I've
got to use my experience, Jason, as far as you
know what I did, which was playing and coaching and
(03:48):
you know talent I d. So you know, I'm really
interested in where that's at.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I've had probably ten years out of the game, you know,
without being in.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
There closely, so it'll be really interesting for me to
listen and learn what's going on. And I'm really interested
in how the organization run the business of cricket in
this modern, modern day of ours.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So during that decade when you weren't so closely involved
in the sport, did you always have a hankering to
get back directly involved in cricket.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, I've always been involved in some form. I mean
I ended up full time wise.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I wanted to coach the kids to finish my coaching
sort of career, so I ended up having four or
five years at a school in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So you know, I haven't really been out of it.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I do a little bit part time coaching in Queenstown
where I live now, and and so I've always been
around the game. This came out of the blue, to
be fair, and you know, I had a really good
think about because it's actually a three year term, so
it's not a short term. But you know, when you
I talked to Leslie Murdoch and a couple of other
(04:57):
people that have been in the role, and they know,
they said, it's it's such a rewarding role because you're
seeing the game that we all love, particularly you know,
I'm trying to think when I started playing cricket call
part with you know, Long White Socks, and.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
When we love the game with Martin Crow and co.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
And you know, I think that's what I want to
try and enjoy is going seeing those sorts of games
and just just enjoying it and also listening. You know,
I think you've got to in this role, You've got
to listen and see what the pot of the game is.
You know, there's some really exciting and challenging at the
same things that are happening in will cricket at the moment.
(05:41):
But you know, a little old New Zealand do pretty
well and it would be really important, really important and
really cool of something over the next three or four
years to help grow our game even further.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So what do you perceive to be the biggest issues
and challenges facing the game of cricket in New Zealand
right now?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You know, the calendar, there's only so many days in
the year and you know, I really put my head
off to our people that work full time in the
game regarding scheduling, and you know, there's a lot of
cricket playing. I got a spreadsheet the other day. I
got it in front of me. Now is the amount
of cricket that has played at all the different levels tournaments,
(06:24):
you know, tours, et cetera. So you know, I think
that's always challenging, but it's exciting too because there's different formats.
You know, there's the woman's game which has really taken
on another leg and the girls are you know, the
girls won you know, a world tournament last year in
the twenty twenty, which was just really really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Speaking of the T twenty game, what is your view
on the current conversation which is going on about the
domestic T twenty game here.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Well, what I can say is it's exciting because you know,
New Zealand Cricket are currently looking at options and there's
a few options on the table and they're quite exciting.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So you know, it's early days.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I think there's a lot of d D to be
done over the next few months, which has been done
currently and I think whatever happens, whatever the decision has
made in the best in New Zealand cricket, I think
it will be very very exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You come into the role of president at a very
interesting time. There are a few issues going on at
the moment, being reported that there's tension between the board,
the major associations and usual in cricket CEO Scott Winneck
as president, Mark, how much do you involve yourself in
those conversations.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Really that I mean, that's not my area. You know,
that's a cheer.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
She's in charge of the board and you know, obviously
I might be in conversations, but they're confidential and really
you know, again it's about trying to have the relations
and the great communication between our stakeholders, you know, which
is Major Association, the Players Association, the DA's Club, cricket
(08:17):
across the board. We've got to do as well as
we can and it's challenging at times even in a
little old New Zealand, you know, the communication when people
get busy with the season and preparation during the winter.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
But it's really important part of.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Our organization to you know, be really really clear in
what we're trying to achieve and communicate that and work
with the stakeholders because the are the ones, are the
foot soldiers on the ground in their districts and their majors,
so that's really important to have great relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've been wanting to get you on air for quite
a while actually to talk about a couple of iconic
cricket moments which you were right at the heart of,
So I might take the who opportunity now, Actually that's okay.
The nineteen nine two World Cup was the first one,
that incredible tournament based here and in Australia where the
young guns, as you were termed back then, took us
on a wonderful run to the semi finals. How do
(09:17):
you remember the nineteen ninety two Cricket World Cup.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Well, I think the whole country because the tournament was
in Australia and New Zealand and we played all our
games in New Zealand. You know, we started winning, which helps,
but you know that I remember the public and going
to the different regions. It was a real excitement for
the game and for us, you know, in that tournament particularly.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
So you know that was the helter scalter.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Obviously the eighties with one day cricket started it and
we had a great team there playing competitive cricket against
some effects in the world. And then the ninety two
Worked Cup I think took it again, so you know,
I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
A lot of fun. It was six eight weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I mean it ended tragically like sport does something times
when we lost in the semi to Pokistan.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But you know, I think there was a real excitement
about the game, and you know, in our guys and girls.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Are competing on the world stage now in different formats
and world tournaments and doing us proud.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think if we think back to the way that
One day cricket was played in the early nineties, it
was still very much certainly at the top of the order.
Anyway you'd play yourself in. You might get through the
first ten overs and be thirty without loss and be
quite happy with that. But of course you came in
and started pinch itting at the top of the order,
which had very rarely been seen before, particularly by New
(10:45):
Zealand batsman. Was that an intentional decision? Before the tournament started,
Mark you and Martin Kraud, maybe Warren least the coach
decided that you'd just go for it from ball one.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, I think from memory, which is a long time ago,
so it's probably clouded. But I was playing so badly
they just said to me, go out and play freely,
so they almost gave me, you know, a free sort
of script. And myself and Rod Aatham, who played positively
in that tournament too, that we did start to try
(11:18):
and play a bit differently to just change the you know,
the way the game was played and being a bit
more aggressive. Now now it looks like pretty sedately compared
to the modern game, but you know, scoring at six
or seven and over back then from two or three
was quite a difference. So you know that that was
(11:41):
the transition. And then the Slankins and next World Cup
took it to another level with their openess.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And the other iconic moment, of course is the unbeaten
one hundred and forty six in Perth to save the
Test against Australia in November nineteen eighty nine. In fact,
I've had to point it out to me that is
exactly thirty six years ago today that you played that innings,
or certainly the second day of it, six hundred and
fifty five minutes you're out there four hundred and eighty
(12:08):
five deliveries you faced. When you think back to that innings,
what stands out most about it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I've just come back from Australia and I had the
honor of spending some time with Alan Border, the great
Alan Border, who was captain in that team, and I
do remember him getting quite grumpy at the end of
it because he couldn't get me out, his bowlers couldn't
get me out. And even a few days ago he said,
you were so boring in that Test, but he said
(12:39):
it was amazing defensive display of Test cricket.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
And you know that we were without Richard.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Hadley who was injured unfortunately, Andrew Jones was injured and
John Bracewa was injured. So we went into that Test
without three of our key players and to come out
of that with a draw was pretty remarkable really, and
you know, obviously it was probably you know, unfortunately it
was my highlighted my Test career because you know, I
(13:09):
played at a high level for that game over a
long period of time. I think I spent twenty nine
out of thirty hours.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
On the field.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Because Australia got five fifty, I think Boone got two
hundred so we felt it a long time and then
we bat it then followed on and I think I
only had an hour in both of those innings is
where I actually wasn't on the park, so you.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Know, it was.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You know, it's a great memory and you know the
little months need deny and beat it for three hours
at the end of that test, and he got absolutely
bettered by their quick bowls and he didn't flinch. I
remember Chris Kean's playing his first Test.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He beat it for a couple of hours with me.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
So it was a real team effort to try and
you know, save a Test and obviously winning test matches
what it's all about. But sometimes you know, it can
be as exciting watching a test like that when it's
you know, you know, test cricket is that's what it's about.
You know, it's a test to your character, test to
(14:13):
your skill, test physically, and all I can hope is
that Brisbane in a couple of weeks goes longer than
two days exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, from one extreme to the other. The fact we're
still talking about your inning thirty six years on, I
think shows that it has stood the test of time.
Part in the pun mark great to catch up to
reminisce a bit, but also to chat about your new
role as President of New Zealand Cricket. Thanks for taking
the time this afternoon. Look forward to staying in touch
over the next little while.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Thank you. Take care Jason, Now you take care.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Too, Mark. Thanks indeed, Mark great Batch there, one of
our former greats and now President of New Zealand Cricket,
just freshly elected on a three year term.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
New Zealand Cricket has a new president. Former international batsman
and Black Caps head coach Mark great Batch has succeeded
Leslie Murdoch in the role on a three year term.
Mark great Batch played forty one Test matches and eighty
four One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He scored back
to back ODI centuries on the nineteen ninety two of
(00:33):
England and pioneered the pinch hitting role at the top
of the one day order during the nineteen ninety two
World Cup, scoring three hundred and thirteen runs at an
average of forty four point seven to one during New
Zealand's run to the semifinals. In Test cricket, he scored
a century on debut against England and an iconic unbeaten
(00:54):
one hundred and forty six batting for eleven hours against
Australia in Perth in November of nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
As it is down the ground past it on a
magnificent hundred.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And I'm not even showing a lot of emotion, and
I reckon the reason he's doing.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
That is that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
He doesn't feel as though the job's completed. He wants
to be here for the rest of the afternoon. Showed
very little emotion. Then what a great performance by Mark
great Batch. Four hundred and sixty five minutes, one hundred ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To go off the ground and what a sensational moment
for the New Zealanders. Mark great Batch and Martin Snedden.
The player should be out on the ground. There's a
bit of a discussion there between board and umpive Peter McConnell.
But the game is over and it's a drawer. What
an effort by Mark great Batch, standing ovation from the
small crowd. A wonderful effort, one of the all time
greats as far as saving a match. Congratulations to Mark
(02:05):
and his team as about it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, Mark great Batch also a very handy fieldsman and
later became coach of both Central Districts and New Zealand
make great batches with us on weekend Sport. Mark, congratulations
on this new role. What exactly does the position of
New Zealand Cricket president involve?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Thanks very much, nice to be on your shows. It's
very much an ambassador's role, you know, promoting the game positively,
communicating with our members, you know, having good relations and
having robust discussions about the.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Game and where the game is going to New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
So, you know, I think it's a it's an ambassador's role.
I'm on the board in a non voting capacity, but
part of the board discussions in regard to projects and
things that we think can help New Zealand Cricket go
forward further.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So you sit in on board meetings. Who will you
have the most contact with in this role? Will it
be the board members, the chair of the board, Will
it be Scott Winning, the CEO of New Zealand Cricket.
Who do you think you'll spend most time in conversation with.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
It's pretty early days, Jason, I've only just been appointed.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But you know, I think you know, the board members,
the chair and the CEO.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I mean, I think it's you know, I'll beginning around
the traps across the board, you know, not just going
to the top stuff, but going and watching the boys
and girls that play this great game of ours around
the country and and you know, talking to parents, talking
to coaches. You know, I've got to you know, I've
got to use my experience, Jason, as far as you
know what I did, which was playing and coaching and
(03:48):
you know talent I d. So you know, I'm really
interested in where that's at.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I've had probably ten years out of the game, you know,
without being in.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
There closely, so it'll be really interesting for me to
listen and learn what's going on. And I'm really interested
in how the organization run the business of cricket in
this modern, modern day of ours.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So during that decade when you weren't so closely involved
in the sport, did you always have a hankering to
get back directly involved in cricket.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, I've always been involved in some form. I mean
I ended up full time wise.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I wanted to coach the kids to finish my coaching
sort of career, so I ended up having four or
five years at a school in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So you know, I haven't really been out of it.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I do a little bit part time coaching in Queenstown
where I live now, and and so I've always been
around the game. This came out of the blue, to
be fair, and you know, I had a really good
think about because it's actually a three year term, so
it's not a short term. But you know, when you
I talked to Leslie Murdoch and a couple of other
(04:57):
people that have been in the role, and they know,
they said, it's it's such a rewarding role because you're
seeing the game that we all love, particularly you know,
I'm trying to think when I started playing cricket call
part with you know, Long White Socks, and.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
When we love the game with Martin Crow and co.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
And you know, I think that's what I want to
try and enjoy is going seeing those sorts of games
and just just enjoying it and also listening. You know,
I think you've got to in this role, You've got
to listen and see what the pot of the game is.
You know, there's some really exciting and challenging at the
same things that are happening in will cricket at the moment.
(05:41):
But you know, a little old New Zealand do pretty
well and it would be really important, really important and
really cool of something over the next three or four
years to help grow our game even further.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So what do you perceive to be the biggest issues
and challenges facing the game of cricket in New Zealand
right now?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You know, the calendar, there's only so many days in
the year and you know, I really put my head
off to our people that work full time in the
game regarding scheduling, and you know, there's a lot of
cricket playing. I got a spreadsheet the other day. I
got it in front of me. Now is the amount
of cricket that has played at all the different levels tournaments,
(06:24):
you know, tours, et cetera. So you know, I think
that's always challenging, but it's exciting too because there's different formats.
You know, there's the woman's game which has really taken
on another leg and the girls are you know, the
girls won you know, a world tournament last year in
the twenty twenty, which was just really really cool to see.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Speaking of the T twenty game, what is your view
on the current conversation which is going on about the
domestic T twenty game here.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Well, what I can say is it's exciting because you know,
New Zealand Cricket are currently looking at options and there's
a few options on the table and they're quite exciting.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
So you know, it's early days.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I think there's a lot of d D to be
done over the next few months, which has been done
currently and I think whatever happens, whatever the decision has
made in the best in New Zealand cricket, I think
it will be very very exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You come into the role of president at a very
interesting time. There are a few issues going on at
the moment, being reported that there's tension between the board,
the major associations and usual in cricket CEO Scott Winneck
as president, Mark, how much do you involve yourself in
those conversations.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Really that I mean, that's not my area. You know,
that's a cheer.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
She's in charge of the board and you know, obviously
I might be in conversations, but they're confidential and really
you know, again it's about trying to have the relations
and the great communication between our stakeholders, you know, which
is Major Association, the Players Association, the DA's Club, cricket
(08:17):
across the board. We've got to do as well as
we can and it's challenging at times even in a
little old New Zealand, you know, the communication when people
get busy with the season and preparation during the winter.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
But it's really important part of.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Our organization to you know, be really really clear in
what we're trying to achieve and communicate that and work
with the stakeholders because the are the ones, are the
foot soldiers on the ground in their districts and their majors,
so that's really important to have great relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've been wanting to get you on air for quite
a while actually to talk about a couple of iconic
cricket moments which you were right at the heart of,
So I might take the who opportunity now, Actually that's okay.
The nineteen nine two World Cup was the first one,
that incredible tournament based here and in Australia where the
young guns, as you were termed back then, took us
on a wonderful run to the semi finals. How do
(09:17):
you remember the nineteen ninety two Cricket World Cup.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Well, I think the whole country because the tournament was
in Australia and New Zealand and we played all our
games in New Zealand. You know, we started winning, which helps,
but you know that I remember the public and going
to the different regions. It was a real excitement for
the game and for us, you know, in that tournament particularly.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
So you know that was the helter scalter.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Obviously the eighties with one day cricket started it and
we had a great team there playing competitive cricket against
some effects in the world. And then the ninety two
Worked Cup I think took it again, so you know,
I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
A lot of fun. It was six eight weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I mean it ended tragically like sport does something times
when we lost in the semi to Pokistan.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But you know, I think there was a real excitement
about the game, and you know, in our guys and girls.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Are competing on the world stage now in different formats
and world tournaments and doing us proud.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think if we think back to the way that
One day cricket was played in the early nineties, it
was still very much certainly at the top of the order.
Anyway you'd play yourself in. You might get through the
first ten overs and be thirty without loss and be
quite happy with that. But of course you came in
and started pinch itting at the top of the order,
which had very rarely been seen before, particularly by New
(10:45):
Zealand batsman. Was that an intentional decision? Before the tournament started,
Mark you and Martin Kraud, maybe Warren least the coach
decided that you'd just go for it from ball one.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, I think from memory, which is a long time ago,
so it's probably clouded. But I was playing so badly
they just said to me, go out and play freely,
so they almost gave me, you know, a free sort
of script. And myself and Rod Aatham, who played positively
in that tournament too, that we did start to try
(11:18):
and play a bit differently to just change the you know,
the way the game was played and being a bit
more aggressive. Now now it looks like pretty sedately compared
to the modern game, but you know, scoring at six
or seven and over back then from two or three
was quite a difference. So you know that that was
(11:41):
the transition. And then the Slankins and next World Cup
took it to another level with their openess.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And the other iconic moment, of course is the unbeaten
one hundred and forty six in Perth to save the
Test against Australia in November nineteen eighty nine. In fact,
I've had to point it out to me that is
exactly thirty six years ago today that you played that innings,
or certainly the second day of it, six hundred and
fifty five minutes you're out there four hundred and eighty
(12:08):
five deliveries you faced. When you think back to that innings,
what stands out most about it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I've just come back from Australia and I had the
honor of spending some time with Alan Border, the great
Alan Border, who was captain in that team, and I
do remember him getting quite grumpy at the end of
it because he couldn't get me out, his bowlers couldn't
get me out. And even a few days ago he said,
you were so boring in that Test, but he said
(12:39):
it was amazing defensive display of Test cricket.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
And you know that we were without Richard.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Hadley who was injured unfortunately, Andrew Jones was injured and
John Bracewa was injured. So we went into that Test
without three of our key players and to come out
of that with a draw was pretty remarkable really, and
you know, obviously it was probably you know, unfortunately it
was my highlighted my Test career because you know, I
(13:09):
played at a high level for that game over a
long period of time. I think I spent twenty nine
out of thirty hours.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
On the field.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Because Australia got five fifty, I think Boone got two
hundred so we felt it a long time and then
we bat it then followed on and I think I
only had an hour in both of those innings is
where I actually wasn't on the park, so you.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Know, it was.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You know, it's a great memory and you know the
little months need deny and beat it for three hours
at the end of that test, and he got absolutely
bettered by their quick bowls and he didn't flinch. I
remember Chris Kean's playing his first Test.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He beat it for a couple of hours with me.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
So it was a real team effort to try and
you know, save a Test and obviously winning test matches
what it's all about. But sometimes you know, it can
be as exciting watching a test like that when it's
you know, you know, test cricket is that's what it's about.
You know, it's a test to your character, test to
(14:13):
your skill, test physically, and all I can hope is
that Brisbane in a couple of weeks goes longer than
two days exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yes, from one extreme to the other. The fact we're
still talking about your inning thirty six years on, I
think shows that it has stood the test of time.
Part in the pun mark great to catch up to
reminisce a bit, but also to chat about your new
role as President of New Zealand Cricket. Thanks for taking
the time this afternoon. Look forward to staying in touch
over the next little while.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Thank you. Take care Jason, Now you take care.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Too, Mark. Thanks indeed, Mark great Batch there, one of
our former greats and now President of New Zealand Cricket,
just freshly elected on a three year term.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
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