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On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Tuesday 17 December 2024 - Former Black Cap Peter McGlashan talks about New Zealand's win in Hamilton and how Tim Southee will be remembered.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello there, and welcome on in to today's edition of
the Sports Fix. My name is Darcy waldergrave A. It's Tuesday,
seventeenth of December twenty twenty four. Coming up in this
edition we'll talk cricket of course, after the success, the
huge success of the black Caps in the third and
final Test versus England. Form a wiki keeper for the
(00:43):
black Caps, Pete McGlashan joins us to discuss I've got
some opinion on the next big thing. Well not at
the moment, it must be getting close. That's within the
Octagon's name is Navajost. Sterling debut over the weekend looked
pretty good as well. In News Talk ZB sports director
Clay Wilson joins us in the chamber to toss around
(01:04):
some sporting issues. That's our master plans. So without further ado,
let's go in other news and around the traps in
sports Today. New Zealand Nam won the third and final
cricket Test against England by four hundred and twenty three
runs in Hamilton still lost the Series two one, though
(01:26):
Andrew Ordison reports from Seddon Park.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The visitors resorted to swinging the vat and hoping after
lunch or in the case of Olipope surrendering to a
reverse scoop off Matt Henry which hit the top of
the stumps at fascical stroke, suggested Heathrow was front of mind.
The flaccid finish shouldn't take away from the convincing Black
Caps showing to end their Test somemer before Christmas. The
four hundred and twenty three run margin equals New Zealand's
(01:51):
largest win by runs in Martin appropriate farewell to Tim
Southy after a sixteen year one hundred and seven Test career.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Tim Payne's acknowledging the Phoenix coaching staff for bringing out
his best in the A League. The All Whites Fallback
has a three year contract extension with the Feet next
through until a ninth campaign in twenty twenty seven twenty eight.
Pain says he's thrived on the chance to play consistently
at right back. That Billy and the trust who play
(02:21):
in one position and prominently there has really helped me
kind of progress, and I think perform at the level
I've been performing and Silver Ferns defender Kelly Jackson's been
recognized as New Zealand's best netballer across all competitions in
a calendar year. She's told Sky Sport her career to
this point hasn't been without adversity.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Two shoulder reconstructions and Accoli's rupture, so my fair ship injuries.
But since then I've been feeling really strong, confident, and
I guess with maturity, you know your role a little
bit more leading of VEX.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We've got just the ticket. It's sports X how my
News talks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Evy and it's a big Welcome to the Sports Fix
podcast to New Zealand, to player Peter mcglash and Peter, Hi,
how are you. I'm very well good to have you
on again after a strange old summer because it's the
end of the Test season, even though the season hasn't
really started. It's been an odd one but a great
(03:24):
way to end right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
New Zealand will be pleased with that performance, particularly with
it being such a big deal for Tim Saudi. Obviously,
the series was lost earlier in the year. Earlier in
the summer. But a nice way to finish off the
Test series. But as you said, it is a bit
odd that we're finished the Tests for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
This is the modern era though we'll talk more about
that later, but just back to the performances. How much
of this was New Zealand really putting their foot down
to send Salvy off in the right manner. How much
of it was England with a foot on the plane
after winning the series.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Do you think, look, there might be an element of that.
I mean, I guess anytime you've already won a series
to kind of, you know, take your foot off the
throat a little bit. Bretnda McCullum and Ben Stokes are
competitive guys, don't get me wrong. They will have wanted
to win this. But at the same time, Stokes picking
(04:20):
up that injury, in New Zealand putting in a good performance,
you know they'll be happy to head home with a
two to one victory.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's shame that they couldn't make it down to the
last Test match. New Zealand just weren't there in the
first couple of tests. Is that a fair reflection of
the season. Do you think the result the two to
one result here This is across the other Test, the
Indian series and of course the Sri Lankan mess.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, it's it's hard to believe that this is the
same team that obviously beat India and India for the
first time. It tends to be the nature of the
game at the moment. I think, you know, the teacho
any format has meant that there is a little bit
less resilience in test lineups. No one's really willing to
guts it out for a boring draw, and you do
end up with these you know, these results. You can
(05:07):
get pretty good odds at the tea for a drawn
Test match these days. So it is the way that
it is. It makes a very entertaining cricket, but as
you say, it ends up and you can end end
up knowing quite early in the series as to which
way it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tokeny zellm dominated they were in by Fourier and twenty
three runs and they also dominated the Indian series three ZIP,
but they were completely dominated in Sri Lanka. This is
very up and down. This is Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It is a little bit, I mean, very very different
conditions across the series, and as we've seen quite a
change in players as well. You know, we've had a
handful of fast ballers who've been injured in that time,
a couple of different spin options. It was interesting to
see Each Sody in the TV commentary box during this
Test match, which was a nice voice. Each is a
very thoughtful man. But it's a shame that, you know,
(05:57):
we can't play two spinners at home, because you know,
that's that's the type of combination that's needed to win
over in Asia and other parts of the world. So
I think, you know, we're in a bit of a
rebuilding with New Zealand guys like trem Bolt and see
how they're on the way out. Williamson not available as
often as we'd like, so it's a chance for other
people to step up.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This series is a standalone Peter McGlashan, When you look
at that, people would stand there with pride. People that
go could have done better just across the entire series,
of course, culminating in this success.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean, I think Mitch Center obviously was a
star in this final Test. I mean both with bat
and ball, he performed really, really well. I think, you know,
Ravender was a guy who we had high hopes for,
and obviously you know it'd been a little bit of
a quiet period for him. I think Tom Blundell as
a wiki keeper, you know you're only competing against yourself,
(06:54):
and it's been a little bit quiet for him. Obviously
one hundred and the last match helps, but under conditions
which you know probably wasn't It wasn't as testing as
it could be. So yeah, I think there's still a
few players here who will be wanting to step up.
Young had the opportunity while Conway was away, got a
few runs under the belt, but there'll be still assumption
(07:14):
made that when Conway comes back he'll slot straight in.
So I think we've seen players step up, but no
one's really grabbed the series of by the scruff of
the neck and said that they're head to stay. So
still some questions to be asked. But as you said,
the whites will go away and we'll be playing with
colored clothing and a white ball for the rest of
the summer now, so completely different focus.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You mentioned sat Naton really coming of age as a
test player, which he will downplay because that's the way
flat line goes. Another player that's really stood up and
this is through the whole year and you've got a
look to will I Rourk. We're always having trouble with
pacement because they break all the time. But here's a
guy who touch wood, hasn't snapped in half and has
been really quite the find of the entire season, right
(07:56):
the way back to the start of the year.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, he's got all the natural attributes, doesn't he He's
got that physique which means that he's got something a
little bit different with the way he delivers the ball.
It's a shame that guys like him and Jameson aren't
all at the same time because obviously they have that
point of difference with the high delivery point. But yeah,
he's got an energy about him and the fact that
he hasn't been injured so far is a really good sign.
(08:20):
And the way that he was angling the ball back
in makes him a little bit unorthodox, so good good signs.
Because we're looking for replacements, as mentioned with you know
the likes of Bolt and Saudi coming towards the end
of their careers.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Peter McGlashan joins us Tim Souvey. Plainly, it was about
Tim Souvey this last Test match the tour has been
as well, he's gone out on a high. Looking back
at his career, if you can look that far back, Peter,
you were playing way back then. What kind of contribution
he has had to New Zealand cricket, the good and
the bad, let's go both ways.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I mean Tim's been a talent right from the beginning.
I remember when him and Trim Bolt came through it
about the same sort of time into Northern District's cricket
as young fast bowlers, very different bowlers that complemented them
each other very very well. Tim obviously right armor swinging
the ball away from the bad, Trent being a left
armor bringing it back in. There was a little bit
of envy between the two with Tim getting I think
(09:14):
from memory, Tim got a bit of a looking with
the New Zealand team a little bit earlier than Trent,
and Trent to him was a bit resentful of that.
But they've made such a great peering over the years.
And you know Tim's batting has been frustrating for New
Zealand Test fans. But I mentioned on another show this morning,
you know, Northern Districts for a little while tried to
get him to bat sensibly and it didn't really go
(09:36):
that well. So as frustrating as it is, when he
does swing the bat and get out in some colorful ways,
that's definitely his best way of playing. He does have
the ability to get a quick thirty or forty and
change the momentum of a match. So I think he's
enjoyed playing the game. I think he's one of those
players where it's never really been a chore for him.
He's a leader in that team. He's gone from being
(09:58):
sort of the mischief maker with Scott Styris as a
youngster too later on in his career, really being the
senior statesman who's led that bowling lineup. He had, you know,
leadership roles as well within the side. So he'll leave
a big hole in that change room, that's for sure.
And you know, I guess the question is who will
step up, and Matt Henry's done a very good job,
(10:20):
but there's a few other guys in there who will
be looking to, I guess, fill in the big hole.
At tim, We'll leave them the team.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Ben mcglass and thanks so much for your time and
already helped so far throughout twenty twenty four. Have a
very happy holiday season.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
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Speaker 3 (10:43):
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Speaker 2 (10:55):
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(11:17):
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unanimous points victory. Although you'd suggest that Stirling maybe would
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and leave him there, but he did enough to secure
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(11:42):
over extend himself in the face of his very first
opponent in UFC, and it showed Navajo as a fighter
that understands where he is going in the fight game.
Now he's never really fought in the octagon before. He's
still a relative newcomer to this kind of confrontation, but
he showed great distance, he showed great space, He didn't
(12:05):
appear to be rushed, and when he was dragged down
in the grapple, he had enough to get up and
get out of a situation that some fighters find themselves
in a pile of trouble. Look, he had a huge advantage.
He had a superior reach, superior height, and it looks
like a superior outside game as well. It is only
early days in his career, but with the coaching team
(12:28):
he has got behind him with fighters like Israel, like
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looks like New Zealand's place, and the wonderful wide world
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(12:50):
is coming back into the octagon next year. A solid
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to the top in the UFC.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Big welcome into the Chamber to Wilson News Talks. He
be Sport Director for the last time in twenty twenty four,
I would say, Clay, and we look back today at
the end of the Test season, even though the cricket
season at homes only just started.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Only seventeen days into summer. Diceyon, Wow, and it's gone already.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We've probably made enough of a song and dance about there.
We understand why it's done like this. It's all about
prepping for big tournaments and we've got the champions Trophy
coming up. So let's forget about the pajamas. Let's look
back at this Test match and then the previous two
series and what that says about the black Caps season.
It's been quite berserk, hasn't It.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Has been kind of crazy and unpredictable in terms of
the black Caps and their results. You know, we've had
numerous conversations about this team, going back to the Sri
Lanka series and where they've kind of been at and
was it the changing of a guard, was at the
end of an era. There was discussion about the team,
but also about players. You know, I'm sure we'll get
(14:13):
into Tim Sourthy in a moment, but just so hard
to predict. Like the Sri Lanka series. They obviously lost
that and sort of played okay not great, but not terrible.
The India series was obviously a complete bolt out of
the blue, no one expected it. And then we came
into this England series thinking, well, based on that, you know,
we should be slight favorites against an England team that
(14:35):
just lost in Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And there's still a remote chance for World Test Championship finals.
That was burning out.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
It wasn't it. And then yeah, really just didn't perform
up to up to that kind of level. I mean
obviously different conditions, completely different opponent, but just had performed
so well consistently in India to come here and then
just not have that. And perhaps that's what the England
team did in terms of the way they play the game,
just challenged the black Caps team a bit differently. But really,
(15:02):
to sum it up, just unpredictable is the word for
the black Caps in terms of the summer and me
where they're at as a team, as a Test team.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Where are they at right now? Because you said we've
had some some changing in the guard. Obviously Tim Southy
has gone. Now from the Test side, you've had a
rack turn up to well, some success has got to
be said. Where else do you think this team has
developed or maybe gone backwards.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Well, I mean you look at players that are sort
of going to be leaving now, Tim Soury. You know,
there's even talk now around Kane Williamson and how many
more tests he's going to play. And I think the
players like Latham Conway, who I'm sure will come back
into the fold.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So it's not curtains for Conway.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
No, I don't think so, not for me at all.
I'm not not into this. You know, just drop drop
proven test players. The Tom Blundell discussion has been had
ad nauseum in our officers in the last.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He's had a slight time, they all have. But this's
the nature of what Steed does if he carries on
test coaching, is of what June next year. Hard to
get in, hard to get out, and that what you need,
that stable base for success.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And you know what's our proven ground for Test cricketers.
It's the plunket shield. I mean, I'll ask you can
can you name me players in the planket shield that
you think, hey, they deserve a crack in Test cricket.
These are players that I look at what Devin Conway
did before he came into the Test team and he
bashed the door down. He was averaging sixty or seventy
(16:33):
across two three seasons. Right, can you name me anyone
in the plunket shield? And not that there hasn't been
performers this year in the plunket shield. There has there
is every season. But are there any players there really
bashing the door down?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, you just look to that next level that's had
one day experience. Mark Chapman said, not a bad planket
shield so far for Aucklam. But these are cusp players
that have already been involved in your zeeland. So I
think that's the way it operates. You leak someone in
for T twenty, you leak them in for one day Internationals,
and when they're part of the setup, slowly but surely,
(17:05):
they then go to the next level. I think that's
the way it operates, and it's the path.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, we don't have a lot of players that come
in like a Conway did, like even a Will Young
kind of has and sort of get a shot in
test cricket without having played a bit of white ball
cricket and proven himself at that level first, because of
course test specialist, the likes of a you know, I
go back to the likes of Jet Raval maybe you know,
these players that were really kind of red Bull specialist,
(17:32):
especially at international level. So yeah, obviously a few players
floating around. I mean Will O'Rourke has really been since
he came into the side for what that South African
series or was it the Australian series before that, and
has proven himself, I think to be a real find
and someone who's you know, touch would cross your.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Fingers and hasn't broken down yet.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He's a fast bowler, so there's always that caveat against him,
but I mean today was immense in this final day
of this third Test match bob with real heat sometimes
up above one fifty. So if he can stay fit,
you know, we're you know, we're seeing Tim Soudy bow out.
Different kind of bowler, but still someone who can be
part of a three or four man seen bowling group
(18:15):
in a Test match team. So and in terms of
the batting, you know, I think Will Young is someone
really the only obvious one I would say, you know,
he's he's proven it at Test level. Still No hundred
has been elusive, but I think he's shine enough to
show that he's he's good enough so if you you know,
if you lose a Williamson or a Conway's form slump
goes on. But the reality was that team that won
(18:37):
the World teesch Championship that they were players really a
lot of them that had been together for you know,
a number of years and had really built that that
kind of consistency and success together. So I guess, you know,
in around about way, what I'm saying is it's quite
kind of hard to see where the Test team goes.
There's potential there and some of those senior players, you know,
Tom Latham's obviously the captain now has got a few
(19:00):
years left in him. So there's potential for them to
have success, whether they're going to go on and challenge.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
For Phillipson a Russian Avenger there, they're players for the future.
They'll establish them. Can't wait till stops playing this aerial
shots square, But so be it. That's the way it goes.
It's going to happen that there is a wonderful sense
of a carry on a few what's the word I'm
trying to find there's.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Yeah, Well, I guess you don't you don't want to lose,
you don't want to become.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The Sessions a succession plan. We know that.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
You know, you don't want to. We don't want to.
You don't want to fool. You've built up so much
momentum and you know, I guess an expectation of success
within the team that wasn't there for so long for
the black Caps as a test team. You don't want
to go back to kind of point ay again, do
you You want to be able to kind of okay?
You're not always going to stay at that level, but
(19:52):
you fall off a bit, but then you pick it
up and you keep going with some of those same players.
So that's kind of where they're at for me, that
they are perhaps not a top team like they were
for those couple of years, but there's potential there and
you know, who knows what comes out of the out
of the domestic system. There's certainly players putting their hand up.
You look at the likes of Res Mario and Canterbury
(20:13):
has scored big runs. People have chucked around Mitch Hayes's
name as a you know, Tom Blundell's been having his struggle.
So there's players there. The problem is is that the
plunket shield, but the jump from plunket shield to Test
match cricket. It is so high, so it's so hard
to know if these players are going to translate that
form across.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's been a marvelous last Test for Mitchell Santner. In fact,
Santa's really confirmed his role, hasn't he He is a
guy who can bat down the tail. He can also
take a pile of wickets. I don't say it's come
out of nowhere because we know how class he is,
but suddenly red ball, he's found his rhythm. He knows
what he's doing now and it's great to have him.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And when you throw in what he can offer with
the bat, yeah, I think even based on what he's
done in India and just here in this Test match,
you look at him and you say, is he someone
you really consider in most of your Test match teams
because as a spinner he can he can take you
four or five wickets and down the order he's you know,
you wouldn't perhaps say he's a genuine beat, but when
(21:12):
he gets going, the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Tory wasn't for a long time and suddenly he became
ridiculously reliable down the tail there. I mean it's a
different form, sure, but I think more some one days
wasn't as opposed to Test but that's the kind of character.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Just wants to see us New Zealand's a spinner taking
seven wickets in New Zealand in a Test match. I
mean that doesn't those those kind of numbers don't happen
very often. So he's proven that he's certainly with consideration
going forward as a as a Test match player and
not just not just a whiteball gun.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Mery Christmas Clay Wilson News Talks, he'd be sporting director.
Thanks for all of your help throughout twenty twenty four,
most appreciated. You want to do it again next year? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Why not? It's been so much fun. I'm going to
miss miss you over the breakdowns and then we'll stop him.
We'll write back into it for twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello there, and welcome on in to today's edition of
the Sports Fix. My name is Darcy waldergrave A. It's Tuesday,
seventeenth of December twenty twenty four. Coming up in this
edition we'll talk cricket of course, after the success, the
huge success of the black Caps in the third and
final Test versus England. Form a wiki keeper for the
(00:43):
black Caps, Pete McGlashan joins us to discuss I've got
some opinion on the next big thing. Well not at
the moment, it must be getting close. That's within the
Octagon's name is Navajost. Sterling debut over the weekend looked
pretty good as well. In News Talk ZB sports director
Clay Wilson joins us in the chamber to toss around
(01:04):
some sporting issues. That's our master plans. So without further ado,
let's go in other news and around the traps in
sports Today. New Zealand Nam won the third and final
cricket Test against England by four hundred and twenty three
runs in Hamilton still lost the Series two one, though
(01:26):
Andrew Ordison reports from Seddon Park.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The visitors resorted to swinging the vat and hoping after
lunch or in the case of Olipope surrendering to a
reverse scoop off Matt Henry which hit the top of
the stumps at fascical stroke, suggested Heathrow was front of mind.
The flaccid finish shouldn't take away from the convincing Black
Caps showing to end their Test somemer before Christmas. The
four hundred and twenty three run margin equals New Zealand's
(01:51):
largest win by runs in Martin appropriate farewell to Tim
Southy after a sixteen year one hundred and seven Test career.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Tim Payne's acknowledging the Phoenix coaching staff for bringing out
his best in the A League. The All Whites Fallback
has a three year contract extension with the Feet next
through until a ninth campaign in twenty twenty seven twenty eight.
Pain says he's thrived on the chance to play consistently
at right back. That Billy and the trust who play
(02:21):
in one position and prominently there has really helped me
kind of progress, and I think perform at the level
I've been performing and Silver Ferns defender Kelly Jackson's been
recognized as New Zealand's best netballer across all competitions in
a calendar year. She's told Sky Sport her career to
this point hasn't been without adversity.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Two shoulder reconstructions and Accoli's rupture, so my fair ship injuries.
But since then I've been feeling really strong, confident, and
I guess with maturity, you know your role a little
bit more leading of VEX.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We've got just the ticket. It's sports X how my
News talks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Evy and it's a big Welcome to the Sports Fix
podcast to New Zealand, to player Peter mcglash and Peter, Hi,
how are you. I'm very well good to have you
on again after a strange old summer because it's the
end of the Test season, even though the season hasn't
really started. It's been an odd one but a great
(03:24):
way to end right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
New Zealand will be pleased with that performance, particularly with
it being such a big deal for Tim Saudi. Obviously,
the series was lost earlier in the year. Earlier in
the summer. But a nice way to finish off the
Test series. But as you said, it is a bit
odd that we're finished the Tests for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
This is the modern era though we'll talk more about
that later, but just back to the performances. How much
of this was New Zealand really putting their foot down
to send Salvy off in the right manner. How much
of it was England with a foot on the plane
after winning the series.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Do you think, look, there might be an element of that.
I mean, I guess anytime you've already won a series
to kind of, you know, take your foot off the
throat a little bit. Bretnda McCullum and Ben Stokes are
competitive guys, don't get me wrong. They will have wanted
to win this. But at the same time, Stokes picking
(04:20):
up that injury, in New Zealand putting in a good performance,
you know they'll be happy to head home with a
two to one victory.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's shame that they couldn't make it down to the
last Test match. New Zealand just weren't there in the
first couple of tests. Is that a fair reflection of
the season. Do you think the result the two to
one result here This is across the other Test, the
Indian series and of course the Sri Lankan mess.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, it's it's hard to believe that this is the
same team that obviously beat India and India for the
first time. It tends to be the nature of the
game at the moment. I think, you know, the teacho
any format has meant that there is a little bit
less resilience in test lineups. No one's really willing to
guts it out for a boring draw, and you do
end up with these you know, these results. You can
(05:07):
get pretty good odds at the tea for a drawn
Test match these days. So it is the way that
it is. It makes a very entertaining cricket, but as
you say, it ends up and you can end end
up knowing quite early in the series as to which
way it's going to go.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tokeny zellm dominated they were in by Fourier and twenty
three runs and they also dominated the Indian series three ZIP,
but they were completely dominated in Sri Lanka. This is
very up and down. This is Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It is a little bit, I mean, very very different
conditions across the series, and as we've seen quite a
change in players as well. You know, we've had a
handful of fast ballers who've been injured in that time,
a couple of different spin options. It was interesting to
see Each Sody in the TV commentary box during this
Test match, which was a nice voice. Each is a
very thoughtful man. But it's a shame that, you know,
(05:57):
we can't play two spinners at home, because you know,
that's that's the type of combination that's needed to win
over in Asia and other parts of the world. So
I think, you know, we're in a bit of a
rebuilding with New Zealand guys like trem Bolt and see
how they're on the way out. Williamson not available as
often as we'd like, so it's a chance for other
people to step up.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
This series is a standalone Peter McGlashan, When you look
at that, people would stand there with pride. People that
go could have done better just across the entire series,
of course, culminating in this success.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean, I think Mitch Center obviously was a
star in this final Test. I mean both with bat
and ball, he performed really, really well. I think, you know,
Ravender was a guy who we had high hopes for,
and obviously you know it'd been a little bit of
a quiet period for him. I think Tom Blundell as
a wiki keeper, you know you're only competing against yourself,
(06:54):
and it's been a little bit quiet for him. Obviously
one hundred and the last match helps, but under conditions
which you know probably wasn't It wasn't as testing as
it could be. So yeah, I think there's still a
few players here who will be wanting to step up.
Young had the opportunity while Conway was away, got a
few runs under the belt, but there'll be still assumption
(07:14):
made that when Conway comes back he'll slot straight in.
So I think we've seen players step up, but no
one's really grabbed the series of by the scruff of
the neck and said that they're head to stay. So
still some questions to be asked. But as you said,
the whites will go away and we'll be playing with
colored clothing and a white ball for the rest of
the summer now, so completely different focus.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You mentioned sat Naton really coming of age as a
test player, which he will downplay because that's the way
flat line goes. Another player that's really stood up and
this is through the whole year and you've got a
look to will I Rourk. We're always having trouble with
pacement because they break all the time. But here's a
guy who touch wood, hasn't snapped in half and has
been really quite the find of the entire season, right
(07:56):
the way back to the start of the year.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, he's got all the natural attributes, doesn't he He's
got that physique which means that he's got something a
little bit different with the way he delivers the ball.
It's a shame that guys like him and Jameson aren't
all at the same time because obviously they have that
point of difference with the high delivery point. But yeah,
he's got an energy about him and the fact that
he hasn't been injured so far is a really good sign.
(08:20):
And the way that he was angling the ball back
in makes him a little bit unorthodox, so good good signs.
Because we're looking for replacements, as mentioned with you know
the likes of Bolt and Saudi coming towards the end
of their careers.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Peter McGlashan joins us Tim Souvey. Plainly, it was about
Tim Souvey this last Test match the tour has been
as well, he's gone out on a high. Looking back
at his career, if you can look that far back, Peter,
you were playing way back then. What kind of contribution
he has had to New Zealand cricket, the good and
the bad, let's go both ways.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I mean Tim's been a talent right from the beginning.
I remember when him and Trim Bolt came through it
about the same sort of time into Northern District's cricket
as young fast bowlers, very different bowlers that complemented them
each other very very well. Tim obviously right armor swinging
the ball away from the bad, Trent being a left
armor bringing it back in. There was a little bit
of envy between the two with Tim getting I think
(09:14):
from memory, Tim got a bit of a looking with
the New Zealand team a little bit earlier than Trent,
and Trent to him was a bit resentful of that.
But they've made such a great peering over the years.
And you know Tim's batting has been frustrating for New
Zealand Test fans. But I mentioned on another show this morning,
you know, Northern Districts for a little while tried to
get him to bat sensibly and it didn't really go
(09:36):
that well. So as frustrating as it is, when he
does swing the bat and get out in some colorful ways,
that's definitely his best way of playing. He does have
the ability to get a quick thirty or forty and
change the momentum of a match. So I think he's
enjoyed playing the game. I think he's one of those
players where it's never really been a chore for him.
He's a leader in that team. He's gone from being
(09:58):
sort of the mischief maker with Scott Styris as a
youngster too later on in his career, really being the
senior statesman who's led that bowling lineup. He had, you know,
leadership roles as well within the side. So he'll leave
a big hole in that change room, that's for sure.
And you know, I guess the question is who will
step up, and Matt Henry's done a very good job,
(10:20):
but there's a few other guys in there who will
be looking to, I guess, fill in the big hole.
At tim, We'll leave them the team.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Ben mcglass and thanks so much for your time and
already helped so far throughout twenty twenty four. Have a
very happy holiday season.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Likewise, this is Sportsfix, your daily dose of sports news
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Speaker 3 (10:43):
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Speaker 2 (10:55):
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(11:17):
away the Palm Tuco Tucos in the light heavyweight division
unanimous points victory. Although you'd suggest that Stirling maybe would
have liked to have sent the British to the canvas
and leave him there, but he did enough to secure
a victory. The most impressive thing in my eyes about
this victory is it was patient, considered, accurate, and didn't
(11:42):
over extend himself in the face of his very first
opponent in UFC, and it showed Navajo as a fighter
that understands where he is going in the fight game.
Now he's never really fought in the octagon before. He's
still a relative newcomer to this kind of confrontation, but
he showed great distance, he showed great space, He didn't
(12:05):
appear to be rushed, and when he was dragged down
in the grapple, he had enough to get up and
get out of a situation that some fighters find themselves
in a pile of trouble. Look, he had a huge advantage.
He had a superior reach, superior height, and it looks
like a superior outside game as well. It is only
early days in his career, but with the coaching team
(12:28):
he has got behind him with fighters like Israel, like
Dan Hooker, like the slow burning but recently exploded Carlos Auberg,
looks like New Zealand's place, and the wonderful wide world
of the UFC is secure for at least a few
more years. And of course, the granddaddy of them all, Israel,
(12:50):
is coming back into the octagon next year. A solid
start for Navajost Sterling looking forward to seeing his road
to the top in the UFC.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Big welcome into the Chamber to Wilson News Talks. He
be Sport Director for the last time in twenty twenty four,
I would say, Clay, and we look back today at
the end of the Test season, even though the cricket
season at homes only just started.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Only seventeen days into summer. Diceyon, Wow, and it's gone already.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We've probably made enough of a song and dance about there.
We understand why it's done like this. It's all about
prepping for big tournaments and we've got the champions Trophy
coming up. So let's forget about the pajamas. Let's look
back at this Test match and then the previous two
series and what that says about the black Caps season.
It's been quite berserk, hasn't It.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Has been kind of crazy and unpredictable in terms of
the black Caps and their results. You know, we've had
numerous conversations about this team, going back to the Sri
Lanka series and where they've kind of been at and
was it the changing of a guard, was at the
end of an era. There was discussion about the team,
but also about players. You know, I'm sure we'll get
(14:13):
into Tim Sourthy in a moment, but just so hard
to predict. Like the Sri Lanka series. They obviously lost
that and sort of played okay not great, but not terrible.
The India series was obviously a complete bolt out of
the blue, no one expected it. And then we came
into this England series thinking, well, based on that, you know,
we should be slight favorites against an England team that
(14:35):
just lost in Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And there's still a remote chance for World Test Championship finals.
That was burning out.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
It wasn't it. And then yeah, really just didn't perform
up to up to that kind of level. I mean
obviously different conditions, completely different opponent, but just had performed
so well consistently in India to come here and then
just not have that. And perhaps that's what the England
team did in terms of the way they play the game,
just challenged the black Caps team a bit differently. But really,
(15:02):
to sum it up, just unpredictable is the word for
the black Caps in terms of the summer and me
where they're at as a team, as a Test team.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Where are they at right now? Because you said we've
had some some changing in the guard. Obviously Tim Southy
has gone. Now from the Test side, you've had a
rack turn up to well, some success has got to
be said. Where else do you think this team has
developed or maybe gone backwards.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Well, I mean you look at players that are sort
of going to be leaving now, Tim Soury. You know,
there's even talk now around Kane Williamson and how many
more tests he's going to play. And I think the
players like Latham Conway, who I'm sure will come back
into the fold.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So it's not curtains for Conway.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
No, I don't think so, not for me at all.
I'm not not into this. You know, just drop drop
proven test players. The Tom Blundell discussion has been had
ad nauseum in our officers in the last.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
He's had a slight time, they all have. But this's
the nature of what Steed does if he carries on
test coaching, is of what June next year. Hard to
get in, hard to get out, and that what you need,
that stable base for success.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And you know what's our proven ground for Test cricketers.
It's the plunket shield. I mean, I'll ask you can
can you name me players in the planket shield that
you think, hey, they deserve a crack in Test cricket.
These are players that I look at what Devin Conway
did before he came into the Test team and he
bashed the door down. He was averaging sixty or seventy
(16:33):
across two three seasons. Right, can you name me anyone
in the plunket shield? And not that there hasn't been
performers this year in the plunket shield. There has there
is every season. But are there any players there really
bashing the door down?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, you just look to that next level that's had
one day experience. Mark Chapman said, not a bad planket
shield so far for Aucklam. But these are cusp players
that have already been involved in your zeeland. So I
think that's the way it operates. You leak someone in
for T twenty, you leak them in for one day Internationals,
and when they're part of the setup, slowly but surely,
(17:05):
they then go to the next level. I think that's
the way it operates, and it's the path.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, we don't have a lot of players that come
in like a Conway did, like even a Will Young
kind of has and sort of get a shot in
test cricket without having played a bit of white ball
cricket and proven himself at that level first, because of
course test specialist, the likes of a you know, I
go back to the likes of Jet Raval maybe you know,
these players that were really kind of red Bull specialist,
(17:32):
especially at international level. So yeah, obviously a few players
floating around. I mean Will O'Rourke has really been since
he came into the side for what that South African
series or was it the Australian series before that, and
has proven himself, I think to be a real find
and someone who's you know, touch would cross your.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Fingers and hasn't broken down yet.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He's a fast bowler, so there's always that caveat against him,
but I mean today was immense in this final day
of this third Test match bob with real heat sometimes
up above one fifty. So if he can stay fit,
you know, we're you know, we're seeing Tim Soudy bow out.
Different kind of bowler, but still someone who can be
part of a three or four man seen bowling group
(18:15):
in a Test match team. So and in terms of
the batting, you know, I think Will Young is someone
really the only obvious one I would say, you know,
he's he's proven it at Test level. Still No hundred
has been elusive, but I think he's shine enough to
show that he's he's good enough so if you you know,
if you lose a Williamson or a Conway's form slump
goes on. But the reality was that team that won
(18:37):
the World teesch Championship that they were players really a
lot of them that had been together for you know,
a number of years and had really built that that
kind of consistency and success together. So I guess, you know,
in around about way, what I'm saying is it's quite
kind of hard to see where the Test team goes.
There's potential there and some of those senior players, you know,
Tom Latham's obviously the captain now has got a few
(19:00):
years left in him. So there's potential for them to
have success, whether they're going to go on and challenge.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
For Phillipson a Russian Avenger there, they're players for the future.
They'll establish them. Can't wait till stops playing this aerial
shots square, But so be it. That's the way it goes.
It's going to happen that there is a wonderful sense
of a carry on a few what's the word I'm
trying to find there's.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Yeah, Well, I guess you don't you don't want to lose,
you don't want to become.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The Sessions a succession plan. We know that.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
You know, you don't want to. We don't want to.
You don't want to fool. You've built up so much
momentum and you know, I guess an expectation of success
within the team that wasn't there for so long for
the black Caps as a test team. You don't want
to go back to kind of point ay again, do
you You want to be able to kind of okay?
You're not always going to stay at that level, but
(19:52):
you fall off a bit, but then you pick it
up and you keep going with some of those same players.
So that's kind of where they're at for me, that
they are perhaps not a top team like they were
for those couple of years, but there's potential there and
you know, who knows what comes out of the out
of the domestic system. There's certainly players putting their hand up.
You look at the likes of Res Mario and Canterbury
(20:13):
has scored big runs. People have chucked around Mitch Hayes's
name as a you know, Tom Blundell's been having his struggle.
So there's players there. The problem is is that the
plunket shield, but the jump from plunket shield to Test
match cricket. It is so high, so it's so hard
to know if these players are going to translate that
form across.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's been a marvelous last Test for Mitchell Santner. In fact,
Santa's really confirmed his role, hasn't he He is a
guy who can bat down the tail. He can also
take a pile of wickets. I don't say it's come
out of nowhere because we know how class he is,
but suddenly red ball, he's found his rhythm. He knows
what he's doing now and it's great to have him.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And when you throw in what he can offer with
the bat, yeah, I think even based on what he's
done in India and just here in this Test match,
you look at him and you say, is he someone
you really consider in most of your Test match teams
because as a spinner he can he can take you
four or five wickets and down the order he's you know,
you wouldn't perhaps say he's a genuine beat, but when
(21:12):
he gets going, the.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Tory wasn't for a long time and suddenly he became
ridiculously reliable down the tail there. I mean it's a
different form, sure, but I think more some one days
wasn't as opposed to Test but that's the kind of character.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Just wants to see us New Zealand's a spinner taking
seven wickets in New Zealand in a Test match. I
mean that doesn't those those kind of numbers don't happen
very often. So he's proven that he's certainly with consideration
going forward as a as a Test match player and
not just not just a whiteball gun.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Mery Christmas Clay Wilson News Talks, he'd be sporting director.
Thanks for all of your help throughout twenty twenty four,
most appreciated. You want to do it again next year? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Why not? It's been so much fun. I'm going to
miss miss you over the breakdowns and then we'll stop him.
We'll write back into it for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sports Fix with Jason Fine
and Darcy Waldgrave.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
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Another podcast. Asked seventeenth of December twenty twenty four. There's
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(22:26):
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