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April 8, 2025 3 mins

New Zealand Cricket admit there's a chance they'll turn Gary Stead down if he decides he wants to continue as Black Caps test coach.

The long-serving mentor has stepped down from the white-ball formats, but is yet to decide whether he wants to continue in the red-ball role.

The governing body is deciding whether to split the coaching role or bring in a new, singular coach.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, Darcy Walter Grave is here, Darcy, good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Greetings young man.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Now Gary Stead he's so he's leaving, but he wants
to kind of come back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hardy hasn't deserted the role as the Red Bull coach,
the Test cricket coach. He's not decided whether he wants
to relinquish that role or not, but he has said,
no more white ball cricket, no more T twenty eyes,
no more One day internationals.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm shot.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
He's been at what seven or eight years, the amount
of travel that these guys have to do. And I
don't know about you, but I thought traveling was really
glamorous when I first started this job. And it's like
I'm going to go here and there and after about
all half an hour's like this is horrible hate.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
But is it a job you can split up?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah? I think it is because it's been done globally.
Whether they want to do it or not's another question.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now. Brian's String from New Zealand Cricket. He said, we.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Don't know yet.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
We know that Gary doesn't want the job as the
Red Bull coach.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Right, might want the job as the Red Bull coach
but not as the white bull coach. So we're going
to find the new white ball coach. I like the
word cartel because it brings up ahold of the really
sinister concepts. But how about a guy like Gary Stead
who's the director of cricket and he sits above a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Lot of other men.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now you're sounding very bureau crash.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And all these minions can run around and coach all that.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
You're sounding really Yeah, I mean I've got to coach
for everything. A coach for your fingernail.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Might be an idea. He might be overseeing. We we
don't know, but it's up for grabs. They're going to
look at people.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
He said this. Gary has come out and said this
is what I would want.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I just said that, right, So how is my idea?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
How have we got here? Then?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
How we got weir?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Gary's tired of he's been doing it for seven or
eight years.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, but he's the one that's come out and said
I would like to do just this batch.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. I don't want to be a white ball coach anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I haven't decided on the red bull but yet, I'll
just need a bit of a breather, cap of tine
to lie down and I'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
When I come open.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
And for a guy that won the World Test Championship
and they managed to be India three times on the
bounce in India's backyard, he.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Can take as long as he wants.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You don't want to throw.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
There's nothing happening in the next ten years. No cricket.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Cody Taylor speaking of doing nothing sabbaticals, Cody Taylor wants
all blacks to have more.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, he's come back from a sabbatic on himself and
he said, oh my god, I feel so much better.
I don't know if he threw God on there, but
anyway said, I feel so much better. And maybe all
players need a bit of a rest like this. The
problem with sabbaticals is that I thought of sabbaticals take
some time off from getting rucked and tackled and your
head caved in. But now it just means I'm going

(02:27):
to go to Japan and make money.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, so I'm not.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Really sure if you're resting from anything at all if
you do that, unless're an active relaxer, in which case
it might be right up your ally. But I understand
what he's saying that you want to keep players here
long enough, keep them from getting smashed to smothereens for
ten consecutive years, let them go for a ondo.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
For six months.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
What's on the show tonight, Darcy?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Who Lauren Lee's going to join us?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
He is the former coach of the Black Caps.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So he's got a few ideas around what happens next
when he's going to cricket go what their drivers behind this?
So we'll talk to him about that and then we'll
take your calls on the possibility of a two to
three headed monster coaching the Black Capes. I look at
could happened. Stranger things have, but that's how Sports News Today.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Look forward to Darcy c at seven for more from
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