April 4, 2025 • 8 mins
Another Canterbury success story is that of Black Cap Mitch Hay.
Hay came out of the highly regarded Christchurch Boys High School and plays club cricket for the Burnside West.
He joined Lesley Murdoch for a chat about what it feels like to play on the international stage with players he idolised when growing up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mitchae joins the program now ninety nine not out for
the black Caps against Pakistan in the latest ODI. Another
one today. When you think where he's come from christ
Church Boys, High Burnside West University Cricket Club, Canterbury, he's
played New Zealand A. He had a tour to Australia
with New Zealand A in twenty twenty three. Mitcha joins US,
(00:21):
good morning, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I went's Australia worth news which was cool tour. Yep.
I guess I think you said NZ in nineteens and
there I actually missed out on that team, but I
guess apart from that, I have sort of ticked off
all the stepping stones coming through. But yeah, I guess
to me, it's always been a golder to play for
New Zealand and represent my country, so it's been pretty
special to be able to do that in the last season.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You always wanted to be a Black Cap right from
when you were little.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I guess I was pretty stereotypical kid. I wanted
to be either an All Black or a Black Cap,
and I played both rugby and cricket growing up, and
then yeah, the decision became pretty easy. I was a
lot a lot cricket than I was at rugby and
absolutely love creat training and everything to do with it.
So yeah, it's evers since, you know, playing career when
(01:06):
I was five or six years old, I always wanted
to be a Black Cat.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And being immersed in it with your family, your dad
Peter and your brother Matt. I mean that's all been
a big part of it too.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, definitely, neither mum or dad actually played cricket, but
I've always sort of been big sports people themselves and
been super supportive of both me and Matt growing up
and obviously having an older brother, he's been a big
motivator for me and a big sort of person to
lean on, I guess throughout my career and it's been
pretty cool to have played a few games for Canterbury
with him, and we've played a lot of creat together,
(01:38):
so it's been really cool.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So when you see about making your debut for the
Black Caps and you think back to November against Sri Lanka,
which were really difficult conditions. Even going back a little
bit further for Canterbury, when you first day booed first class,
whether it be first class, whether it be fifty over
matches or whether it's t twenty you've accelerated your career
you very quickly, from say twenty twenty one to now,
(02:04):
it seems to be quite a meteoric rise for you.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, when you put it like that, it does seem
like it's happened pretty quickly. I guess, Yeah, it does
seem like not that long a I was making my
dabbut Canterbury And yeah, it's been pretty cool. I guess
I'm pretty driven person and works really hard to keep
trying to get better. And that's sort of the main
goal for me, is to keep trying to improve and
it doesn't stop. So it's been really cool, and I've
(02:30):
just enjoyed to be fear all the opportunities I've had
and been pretty lucky with some of the people around
me to obviously the coaches and senior players to lean
on and ask some questions of which had been really helpful.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And always a wicket keeper batsman.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, I've loved wicket keeping since forever. I think when
when I was growing up, you sort of only got
to keep a couple overs or you have to share
them with a few players. So I bowled some leagu
spin as well, but there's probably a reason that I'm
not doing that anymore because it's pretty pretty awful and
luckily yeah, just yeah, I've always enjoyed keeping and and yeah,
thankfully so. I wasn't much of a bowler.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So just going back to that New Zealand A series
to Australia, that was a pretty good team that New
Zealand sent over for that A series.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, a very strong team. We actually ended up
winning the two four hours to l which was pretty
impressive over there, and I actually I broke my wrist
over there and the first boy I faced in the
second fourth hour side did never did never great tour personally,
but managed about on and get to get a few runs,
which is nice. But yeah, a pretty strong team. I'm
just unfortunate personally with an injury.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When you think about how successful Candorby is in all
three formats, I mean, clearly, the teammates, the regime here
has all played a part in helping you get to
where you needed to. Internationally, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think if you look at the Cannery squad, the
amount of Black Caps that's that's sort of produced in
the last few years, and some incredibly good people, so
many guys to to ask question of, ask questions of
and talk to about the game, and they've all been
more than helpful in terms of offering you a few
words here and there or just a bit of advice.
(04:10):
So I definitely think that plays a big factor in it.
But also Faults and Donks coaches at Canterbury have been
awesome as well. So yeah, to be honest, pretty lucky
with the whole environment we've gotten at Canterbury and the
quality players and people.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I guess when you think of those conditions in Sri Lanka,
because it was hard yeko, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It was? Yeah, betting was pretty tough. Keeping was a
lot of fun, but betting was a challenge. I got
forty nine in the second one day, which doesn't sound
like a lot, but it was significant in those scores.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So then you come back here and this twenty four
to twenty five season, well it's just been a purple
petch for you, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's been awesome to represent New Zealand at home
in front of home crowds and have friends and family
and the crowds has been really cool, and yeah, it's
sort of something it's pretty Yeah, surreal really to play
for his own in front of home crowds, and it's
been really cool to do that against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So life is a professional cricketer.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I've absolutely loved
chattling around New Zealand domestically, and it seemed pretty awesome
to play or go on an overseas terror as well
at the Black Caps. So I just laughing it up
at the moment and absolutely loving it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So we too from here.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So we've got the last one there and then got
a couple of weeks off and then head to Bangladesh
with New Zealand A.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, Oh gosh. Yeah, that's certainly seeing the subcontinent and
playing in very hot and human conditions.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah. Yeah, it'd be a good experience and some good learnings,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So what's your overall goal from here?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, a good question. I just want to keep getting better,
keep trying to learn as much as I can, and
I'd love to play all three formats for New Zealand,
so that's the big goal, and to try and play
as much as I can and contribute as much as
I can to play for the Black Capps would be great,
but you never get a chance.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You need to play anymore. Bonside West I've played.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I've played three games this year, managed to play the
finals day for the T twenties, which is really cool,
and got the win there which was great. And I've
heard another fantastic season winning the two day camp as well,
and I think runner up in the one day. So
it's a bit of a purple patch for Burnside at
the moment and it's pretty cool to be a part of.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We've long been admirers of what you've done and what
you've put out on the pitch. You know. The other
thing that I was going to ask, you know, when
you're playing, whether it be T twenty or the fifty
over matches, you could be betting anywhere and you've got
to be prepared to go at any stage at any
time of an innings. You know how hard is that?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, it's definitely it's a challenge sometimes, but it also
keeps the game pretty interesting. Like when I walk out there,
it could be any sort of situation, Like been times
where I've come out in the last of a couple
of balls and just set the swing from bull one.
But there's occasions like the Other night where we're in
a little bit of trouble and you have a bit
of time to building innings and try to take game deep.
So I think it's pretty cool. It sort of allows
(07:03):
you to assess conditions and sort of show off your adaptability,
I guess, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And do you have many instructions?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Every now and then the coach will will have a
few words, you know, whether they just say, you know,
you've got more time you think, or you know, try
to take it to this over or whatever. But to
be honest, all of us have played a lot of cricket,
either you know, internationally or domestically, so it's sort of
the conversations between players mainly, and it's the left lots
to the batsman out in the middle to have those
conversations and make the decisions themselves, which I think is
(07:32):
really good. And it was cool that well the other
Nightmare Mold could do that together. And although we haven't
played much credit together or played much internationally, it was
cool we could sort of still make those decisions and
get the team to a good score. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean that's the other thing, isn't it, With the
way that the player rotations, happen, with injuries, with people
playing IPL or whatever. It's a moveable feast if you like.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's been pretty cool to players. A good
range of players though, and get to know people on
a personal level, which has been which has been great
for share for more
Speaker 1 (08:02):
From News Talk sed B, listen live on air or online,
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
our podcasts on iHeartRadio
Mitchae joins the program now ninety nine not out for
the black Caps against Pakistan in the latest ODI. Another
one today. When you think where he's come from christ
Church Boys, High Burnside West University Cricket Club, Canterbury, he's
played New Zealand A. He had a tour to Australia
with New Zealand A in twenty twenty three. Mitcha joins US,
(00:21):
good morning, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I went's Australia worth news which was cool tour. Yep.
I guess I think you said NZ in nineteens and
there I actually missed out on that team, but I
guess apart from that, I have sort of ticked off
all the stepping stones coming through. But yeah, I guess
to me, it's always been a golder to play for
New Zealand and represent my country, so it's been pretty
special to be able to do that in the last season.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You always wanted to be a Black Cap right from
when you were little.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I guess I was pretty stereotypical kid. I wanted
to be either an All Black or a Black Cap,
and I played both rugby and cricket growing up, and
then yeah, the decision became pretty easy. I was a
lot a lot cricket than I was at rugby and
absolutely love creat training and everything to do with it.
So yeah, it's evers since, you know, playing career when
(01:06):
I was five or six years old, I always wanted
to be a Black Cat.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And being immersed in it with your family, your dad
Peter and your brother Matt. I mean that's all been
a big part of it too.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, definitely, neither mum or dad actually played cricket, but
I've always sort of been big sports people themselves and
been super supportive of both me and Matt growing up
and obviously having an older brother, he's been a big
motivator for me and a big sort of person to
lean on, I guess throughout my career and it's been
pretty cool to have played a few games for Canterbury
with him, and we've played a lot of creat together,
(01:38):
so it's been really cool.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So when you see about making your debut for the
Black Caps and you think back to November against Sri Lanka,
which were really difficult conditions. Even going back a little
bit further for Canterbury, when you first day booed first class,
whether it be first class, whether it be fifty over
matches or whether it's t twenty you've accelerated your career
you very quickly, from say twenty twenty one to now,
(02:04):
it seems to be quite a meteoric rise for you.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, when you put it like that, it does seem
like it's happened pretty quickly. I guess, Yeah, it does
seem like not that long a I was making my
dabbut Canterbury And yeah, it's been pretty cool. I guess
I'm pretty driven person and works really hard to keep
trying to get better. And that's sort of the main
goal for me, is to keep trying to improve and
it doesn't stop. So it's been really cool, and I've
(02:30):
just enjoyed to be fear all the opportunities I've had
and been pretty lucky with some of the people around
me to obviously the coaches and senior players to lean
on and ask some questions of which had been really helpful.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And always a wicket keeper batsman.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, I've loved wicket keeping since forever. I think when
when I was growing up, you sort of only got
to keep a couple overs or you have to share
them with a few players. So I bowled some leagu
spin as well, but there's probably a reason that I'm
not doing that anymore because it's pretty pretty awful and
luckily yeah, just yeah, I've always enjoyed keeping and and yeah,
thankfully so. I wasn't much of a bowler.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So just going back to that New Zealand A series
to Australia, that was a pretty good team that New
Zealand sent over for that A series.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, yeah, a very strong team. We actually ended up
winning the two four hours to l which was pretty
impressive over there, and I actually I broke my wrist
over there and the first boy I faced in the
second fourth hour side did never did never great tour personally,
but managed about on and get to get a few runs,
which is nice. But yeah, a pretty strong team. I'm
just unfortunate personally with an injury.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When you think about how successful Candorby is in all
three formats, I mean, clearly, the teammates, the regime here
has all played a part in helping you get to
where you needed to. Internationally, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think if you look at the Cannery squad, the
amount of Black Caps that's that's sort of produced in
the last few years, and some incredibly good people, so
many guys to to ask question of, ask questions of
and talk to about the game, and they've all been
more than helpful in terms of offering you a few
words here and there or just a bit of advice.
(04:10):
So I definitely think that plays a big factor in it.
But also Faults and Donks coaches at Canterbury have been
awesome as well. So yeah, to be honest, pretty lucky
with the whole environment we've gotten at Canterbury and the
quality players and people.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I guess when you think of those conditions in Sri Lanka,
because it was hard yeko, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It was? Yeah, betting was pretty tough. Keeping was a
lot of fun, but betting was a challenge. I got
forty nine in the second one day, which doesn't sound
like a lot, but it was significant in those scores.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So then you come back here and this twenty four
to twenty five season, well it's just been a purple
petch for you, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, it's been awesome to represent New Zealand at home
in front of home crowds and have friends and family
and the crowds has been really cool, and yeah, it's
sort of something it's pretty Yeah, surreal really to play
for his own in front of home crowds, and it's
been really cool to do that against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So life is a professional cricketer.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I've absolutely loved
chattling around New Zealand domestically, and it seemed pretty awesome
to play or go on an overseas terror as well
at the Black Caps. So I just laughing it up
at the moment and absolutely loving it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So we too from here.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So we've got the last one there and then got
a couple of weeks off and then head to Bangladesh
with New Zealand A.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Right, Oh gosh. Yeah, that's certainly seeing the subcontinent and
playing in very hot and human conditions.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah. Yeah, it'd be a good experience and some good learnings,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So what's your overall goal from here?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, a good question. I just want to keep getting better,
keep trying to learn as much as I can, and
I'd love to play all three formats for New Zealand,
so that's the big goal, and to try and play
as much as I can and contribute as much as
I can to play for the Black Capps would be great,
but you never get a chance.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You need to play anymore. Bonside West I've played.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I've played three games this year, managed to play the
finals day for the T twenties, which is really cool,
and got the win there which was great. And I've
heard another fantastic season winning the two day camp as well,
and I think runner up in the one day. So
it's a bit of a purple patch for Burnside at
the moment and it's pretty cool to be a part of.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We've long been admirers of what you've done and what
you've put out on the pitch. You know. The other
thing that I was going to ask, you know, when
you're playing, whether it be T twenty or the fifty
over matches, you could be betting anywhere and you've got
to be prepared to go at any stage at any
time of an innings. You know how hard is that?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, it's definitely it's a challenge sometimes, but it also
keeps the game pretty interesting. Like when I walk out there,
it could be any sort of situation, Like been times
where I've come out in the last of a couple
of balls and just set the swing from bull one.
But there's occasions like the Other night where we're in
a little bit of trouble and you have a bit
of time to building innings and try to take game deep.
So I think it's pretty cool. It sort of allows
(07:03):
you to assess conditions and sort of show off your adaptability,
I guess, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And do you have many instructions?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Every now and then the coach will will have a
few words, you know, whether they just say, you know,
you've got more time you think, or you know, try
to take it to this over or whatever. But to
be honest, all of us have played a lot of cricket,
either you know, internationally or domestically, so it's sort of
the conversations between players mainly, and it's the left lots
to the batsman out in the middle to have those
conversations and make the decisions themselves, which I think is
(07:32):
really good. And it was cool that well the other
Nightmare Mold could do that together. And although we haven't
played much credit together or played much internationally, it was
cool we could sort of still make those decisions and
get the team to a good score. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean that's the other thing, isn't it, With the
way that the player rotations, happen, with injuries, with people
playing IPL or whatever. It's a moveable feast if you like.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's been pretty cool to players. A good
range of players though, and get to know people on
a personal level, which has been which has been great
for share for more
Speaker 1 (08:02):
From News Talk sed B, listen live on air or online,
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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