D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the Black Caps preparing for tomorrow's T20 World Cup clash with the West Indies

Black Caps coach Gary Stead's hinted at tweaks - rather than wholesale changes - to their team for tomorrow's must-win T20 World Cup clash with the West Indies.

New Zealand were rolled for 75 - their fourth lowest total in the format - during an 84-run drubbing by Afghanistan in their tournament opener.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks the issue further. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave Sports Store coasters with me. Hey Darcy,
greetings Heather. So the IPL is hurting the black Caps.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, no, the black Caps are hurting the black Caps,
but the IPL probably hasn't helped because the Australians had
a number of players involved in the IPL and they
had some warm up games. It doesn't look there.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
So why did we not Why weren't we able to
have some warm up games because of the IPL because they.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Chose not to and some players came back here but
they needed to recuperate, recover.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Blah, are they not taking this tea twists?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
You can roll? Well, we think all this goes away
if tomorrow at what about this time tomorrow they've managed
to beat the West Indies and beat them with conviction
and suddenly the conversation stops. So there's a lot hanging
on this. And of course the net run rates being
destroyed by Afghanistan after they just collapsed in the most
spectacular manner on Saturday. So that's low. But you get

(00:56):
the West Indies, you beat them, so you should be
finishing up to the top. And then you Gander and
Papua New Guinea.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
You need to smash they need absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Blow them out of the water and they have a chance.
So it's all on twelve thirty tomorrow and Trim had
twelve thirty New Zealand time. It's a bit of lunchtime entertainment.
We'll see. Now Gary Stead has said, look, we've had
no net practice because the nets have been flooded, so
we had a bit of a feeling practice outside. You
should see the lock on her face, ladies and gentlemen.
Shock horror. So yeah, underdone. There's an understatement, I suppose,

(01:27):
but that the vagaries of cricket a little far from me. Yeah,
it could be the worst result in probably a decade
for New Zealand cricket. But I emphasize could will Gary
Stead make some huge changes, Will retch In Revenger find
himself in this side? Will anyone get axed? We don't know.

(01:49):
So all on tomorrow for a bit of lunchtime entertainment.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
And so Saudi Arabia now wants to get itself involved
in boxing.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Are they're boxing already? Don't They put a lot of
money in the middle of the table. Remember I talked
to David Higgins Joe Parker's promoto a few months ago.
It was longer than probably six months ago when he
started fighting over there. I said, how how did they
get this out? Is get all these different promoters together
and actually make these fights. It's astonishingly difficult too well, no, Das,
you will fight it very easy. You get all the

(02:16):
promoters around a great, big table and put a huge
sack of money at the middle and say, who what
some of this? It's amazing how many contracts together. And
it's true because look, let's face it, boxing based on greed.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now they want to set up a boxing league, yeah,
they do.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
They want to get boxing organizations like the WBO and
the IBF and the WBA and so on and so
on and all together and try and run boxing. What
I find interesting about this release is details are scarce Reuters,
so they couldn't establish the details about how it would
be structured. You get this. People familiar with the matter

(02:51):
told Reuters about this. The p I is looking to
invest and joint venture with some of the sports stakeholders
that would feature more boxing bouts, the people said, speaking
on condition of animinity. Of course they're not gonna say anything. No,
they get it wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Why not get into boxing?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, you know, if they're getting in everything else,
and they've got plenty of money, and I think of anything.
If this works, if they too actually get some form
of control, we might get more regular bouts with better matchups.
So they take it away from essentially the reasonably shady
confines of international boxing. Promote not saying, soundings a much better,

(03:27):
but there'll be consistency, there'll be money. Could be a
boon for a sport. Yeah, could be a Disaster'd.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Be a boon. Actually, Hey, Darcy, thank you as always,
It's Darcy Water Gravy. You'll be back at seven, but.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
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