Cole McConchie: Black Caps player on the team's T20 victory over South Africa

The Black Caps have been launched into the T20 World Cup final, and the Kiwi side's thrilled.

New Zealand have thrashed previously unbeaten South Africa by nine wickets in the first semifinal, with Finn Allen smashing 100 not out from 33 balls.

Black Caps player Cole McConchie says Allen gave a 'world-class' performance.

"That was some innings, he had to put out a performance like that in a semi-final from him - that was incredibly special."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now fair to say the black Caps knocked that one
out of the park last night, didn't they They smashed
the previously unbeaten South Africa. They are now in the
T twenty World Cup final. Off spinner Cole mcconki put
on a performance and he's with us now.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey Cole, Hey, Heather, thanks lot for having us.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
You have you you've had a sleep? How are you
feeling about what you did last night?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah? I had a sleep. Yeah, we got together in
the team room last night and had a drink to
kind of reflect on the game. And he'd nice to
wake up this morning and to some good messages and yeah,
looking forward to what the next few days kind of
how that unfolds.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
And have you spotted for now in this morning? Is
he looking like the cat that's got the cream?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I haven't spotted for yet. He's a good sleeper,
so I'm sure he'll be tucked away. But that was
some summonings and he had to put out a performance
like that in a semifinal from him, that was incredibly special.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Cole. You've seen a fair bit of cricket, played a
fair bit of cricket. Have you ever seen anybody do
that with a bat before.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I've seen him do it against Canterbury once or twice
and the domestic stuff. But as I say, like, you know,
that's some world class striking. That's as good as it gets.
And you had to do that on a big stage,
you know, really special for Finn and supported nicely by
Tim Seifert up top and the way that they kind
of set that tone in the run chase. That's as

(01:23):
good a hitting as you ever see.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, Cole, tell you what's amazing. If you you know
probably I mean you you know better than me, but
you you almost weren't there. If it wasn't for Mark
Bracewell's injury, you wouldn't have been there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it's been a pretty well win few weeks to
be fair. I was, yeah, sat in the hotel room
in the cargo before a Ford Trophy match against Otago
down there, and yeah I got a call unfortunately, Yeah,
Michael Bracewol was ruled out with injury and had to
get on a flight pretty quickly over here to in there.

(01:56):
And yeah, the last couple of weeks have kind of
come and been yeah, very quickly, but yeah, very thankful
for the opportunity and yeah, amazing to be over here
and experiencing this.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, if you have to choose between one of the
two squads you face, either England or India, who would
you rather face?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, this question was getting thrown around a bit last night.
A love to be fair, I think i'd personally, I'd
love to play against India. I think at the stadium
there and I meant about one hundred and twenty thousand
Indians would be pretty special to go about taking them
down and their home home ground. I think they would
be ye pretty special. But both teams obviously very very good,

(02:37):
so we'll see how it unfolds tonight, but that would
be my preference.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Cole, thank you very much, man, look after yourself
and congratulations again. That's Cole Maconnky black Caps off Spinner.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
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