D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the Black Caps advancing to the final of the T20 World Cup

The Black Caps have reaped the rewards of preparation at cricket's T20 World Cup, reaching their second final at the tournament.

That came courtesy of the fastest century in the tournament's history.

Finn Allen's 100 not out off 33 balls resulted after an opening stand of 117 in 9.1 overs with Tim Seifert, who also took 33 deliveries to make 58.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave recapped the action.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hey hit a bird? How good was Finellen?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh lord? I got up at two thirty, did you
because I'm a tragic and I watched the first half
and I thought they bowled particularly well, which sat and
strangled them and the only person got a bit of
tap was Tom Nishan, But the rest of them amazing. Look,
Ferguson was incredible and ratch and got a whole lot
of wickets. Maybe they got away wee bit toward the end,

(00:27):
and I thought, well, maybe this might come back to bite.
Then I went to sleep, and then I woke up
at seven o'clock and I hit go on the second
innings and I watched that this morning over many many coffees. Wow,
I mean wow, it's hard to describe what I just saw.
It was a phenomenal display from not only fan Allen
with that one hundred counting it down and say, hold on,

(00:49):
two Sex is in a ford. He's got himself a
ton here Sex Sex no fort. Yes, that was astonishing.
But I think you've got a credit to Tim Sitheon
because the way those guys played off each other or
that innings and then no much and Revenger come and
say don't forget me, And there's all these other guys
sitting in the camp going well, maybe next time you
guys fall over and ratching and Phillips can stand up.

(01:12):
Blah blah. I thought that Cole McConkie's fantastic. He he
comes in, he gets the over, the second over, It's like,
what are you doing opening taking two wickets? What do
you think? Astonishing? It really was something else and you
can feel the air go out of the stadium. So
tonight we'll find out our opposition, be it dreaded England,

(01:32):
who we are a couple when it comes to one
day International finals, well not one day but short version
or India who we appear to be their bogie team.
And when they India, can they dig? Can they dig
knuckle deep and actually pick us from the bogey or not?
And will the pressure crush the com me am amazing
on Monday morning.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So Jamie Joseph, I mean credit to him for tough.
Tough Obviously sounds quite bummed out, doesn't he. But I
thought it was interesting that he's not ruling it out
in the future, did you.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, I like that. I don't think in this age,
you can't say no interest.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
What do you know the theory? You know the theory
that the conspiracy theory is that Dave Rennie's got the
job until the end of next year while they wait
for Tony Brown to free up, and then it's then
it's Tony and Jamie from twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
What if Dave Rennie ends up beating up on the
South Africans, winning the nation's championships, doesn't smoking at the
World Cup and ring the he keeps it and that'd
be insane to make decisions although those ends are you
talking about insanity and who's actually running that we.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Don't know, but I mean it does go to show
like Dave Rennie has got to perform in the space
that he's got to the end of his contract or
there are two people sitting there waiting for their TI
over his head.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Like with Foster, there was always that errorton of Scott
Robertson in the background.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
There is an iritance for Rennie, but.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
They're not doing that. That was very active with Scott Robertson,
the way they were playing undermining. Yeah, and I don't
think that was particularly classy. But in ZI are welcomed
that and essentially the way they engaged, they made it
okay in fair ground. So I thought that Jamie Joseph
was great. Look, he said he was disappointed, but he's
happy with the process and he got a huge amount

(03:22):
of respect for Dave Rennie. He said, he got feedback,
but he's not going to tell you what that is
because that is private. Would he work with Dave Rennie said, honestly,
I haven't even thought about that yet. And you know,
the first message that he got, he got so much
message of support from his big final and the like
the first person to message him, Dave Rennie.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Good stuff, Hey, Darcy, thank you as always.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Hey, Eddie Jones is on the show tonight. Oh my god,
because Dave Rennie got gas and Eddie Jones pinched his job.
So we're going to talk to Eddie about that and
also building up to World Cup eighteen month runway. Can
it be done? Can it be done?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
You need to talk to Russy about Yeah, And then
we talked.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
To Slave Griffin as well, assistant coach for Darcy.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Watograph back at seven for Sports Talk.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
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