D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on New Zealand and England's cricket teams being sanctioned by the ICC

Black Caps bowling coach Jacob Oram is questioning the logic behind the ICC's sanctioning of the New Zealand and England cricket teams for their slow over rate in the opening test in Christchurch.

Both teams have been fined 15 percent of their match fee and docked three World Test Championship points, which further dampens the Black Caps' odds of making the final.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Respondent in blue. It's your color, Darcy Waldegrave. Head to
toe today, head to toe and why not blue cap? Blue? Blue?
And then do you call it love? And love?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What do you call your fodunga?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
There we go, Well, it's the summone vision.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It means clothed with pockets.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm considering the heat of the day in this area, yep,
and blue burks and blue burks.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I might do all white tomorrow will grow the next
day all black. Something to entertain myself in the morning,
it in the sun.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are you supporting the English cricket team with this color choice? No,
we're blue?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Why would I do that? Next thing? You know? Well,
no news talks b colors.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
How about that nice black Caps in England find the
lose championship points? That's the champion chances for us over
or because we couldn't pull our finger out and bowl
an extra three overs each? Is this fair?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well we're going to talk about that with Greg Barclay,
former chair of the ic C. He junes us on
the show this evening to talk about how they actually
come to this conclusion around do they find do they
find individuals that they need to find the team, do
they need to take points off and what effect it
has on the crowd because the new term around is
putting the fans at the center of the room, and

(01:09):
this is what they've got to do. How does this
affect the fan base? Anything else? Nothing else is important,
the people at home and the people at the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Did the fans feel ripped off that they didn't get
six people?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Same people don't.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, did they know that they were six overs a
cricket they may or may not have had.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep, Well, they lost a whole lot at the end
because the game stopped.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, this is right. Well that's a very good point.
There's a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's madness. I suppose when you're nuffie like myself and
you really enjoy the game and you know it's being
slow and you know their messing and it's like, oh,
I didn't pay my money to sit here and watch
you scuff the floor. A little bit of a conversation
about you feel do something, don't just do something? Stand there.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's what it's like cricket.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It is cricket and it is slow, but in some
relevant arguments both ways. But what gets me about this
is the black Cats win the final two matches in
Wellington and Hamilton. They will still need a number of
results to go their way to qualify for the World
Chest Final. They mean South Africa needs to lose a
home series to Nila Pakistan, Sri Lanka needs to lose
a home series two to Australia, and Indy need to

(02:13):
win the current series and Aussie four to one or
the hosts win three to two or better. So you're
telling me there's a charge.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
But can I also say how good it is that
the international crickets scene right now any of that could
actually happen.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes, and also let's throw in the Kuld be a
team with loads with slight overrate and they might, which
is what happens to the Australians, which is why we
got onto the final. The first place that we won.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
New Bull World Cup could shift to every two years.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
They're looking at this is only an idea. They throw
it around saying how can we catch up with the Jones.
Everybody has a pinnacle event every couple of years, don't they.
It's always something big to look forward to. So a
Continental Cup to be added to the international calendar possibly,
which is the top five teams from each playing continent
ace if you will, maybe the Fast five World Series

(03:03):
will be more regular and global, the aligned global calendar,
which of course the World Cup coming every ultimate year
between the continental cups. So they're looking at ways again
of gaining eyeballs, and fast fires probably the way because
it's easily digestible. It's quick, as fast as done. And
I think that in order to get more global traction,

(03:23):
you need to attract more teams, more teams playing the
game with something that's slightly more not that netball isn't
dynamic because it hastensions.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Accessible, you know, and I and the example there is
seven's rugby, you know where Spain beat New Zealand twice
in the last tournament.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Stopped there, please to endure that.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I'm sorry, yeah, but there we go. And how good
is that for the game of rugby.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's great for rugby, terrible for us. And then the
Australians managed to wallop not wallet, they managed to squeeze
past the ferns and the final of that too, there
was my weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Thanks, but that's the whole thing. You know, maybe fast
five could do for netball? What's seven?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Time for rugby?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
We want that more eyeballs and it's great that World
netballer going right. They're not I don't think this conceding
that's broken, but they're saying we need change. If we don't,
it will break.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Good stuff does is on from seven.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
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