D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the challenges awaiting the Black Caps in first India test

The Black Caps are aware of the challenge facing them ahead of the first test against India in Bengaluru.

New Zealand have only beaten the hosts on Indian soil twice in 36 tests - with their most recent victory coming 36 years ago.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks the team's odds of winning.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy Wadgrave sports talk hosts me das.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Don's wrong, Mike, do you think Don's playlist is going
to get any traction on Spotify? Sorry, ladies and gentlemen,
we're just talking about Donald Trump's forty minute playlist.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm going to deal with the playlist, yeah, because that
was That was an epic set of bangers, right, I
can listen to black Caps, So they're going to take
on Indian and get us thrashing.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Possibly not because it's raining at the moment thunderstorm's predicted.
The black Caps haven't actually left their hotel yet. They
are still in their room waiting. Although where they're playing
the Chinnswami Stadium it can drain ten thousand liters an

(00:46):
hour or something like that. Yeah, so it will rain
stop raining, Yeah, so unlike what happened when they played
against Afghanistan where they had to swim out to the center.
So we don't know whether they get out today. Who
has any idea? And these thunderstorms are set to hang
around for the next few days, so it may well
end up that the weather saves it and we might

(01:08):
only get walloped to zip.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, sorry, but we are going to get walloped.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
The stats say that the black Caps have won two tests,
they're in thirty six chance.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So yeah, okay, so it doesn't look good.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
But as they always talk about when you read about
people investing that you know past performance is no guarantee
of future performance, so you don't know. Yeah, okay, things
may change.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Trying to be optimistic, Yes, of course I am.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm a New Zealand cricket fan. I've been doing that
for years.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
What's wrong with the loose forwards?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
They're all broken down?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Do we care? We're going to wallop Japan anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well? Yeah, but more importantly after Japan there's a small
matter of a pile of Europeans are going to take
so well, we don't know. Ethan Blackadder is constantly breaking
his Calf's in a bit of trouble, so they're worried
about that. Dalton Papa has an upper what is sure,
I believe, so he's been sat down as well. Peter

(02:04):
Larkey is coming in so and Jacobson is not around
apparently Luke Jacobson broke his thumb in the first twenty
minutes of that game. Over the weekend, he can start
and I get on playing with a programum ah, whether
it heals, whether it means. But Peter Larky, the twenty
one year old rampaging Lucy from Wellington is going to

(02:28):
go over there, which is a shame for Wellington because
they are taking on Wath on Saturday night at ten
past seven for a place in the final of the
NPC and they haven't got Peter Larkey, which is not ideal.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
It has ramifications. All right, Darcy, thank you. That's Darcy.
Are you ready for the Trump playlist?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I don't believe he played Shenado O'Connor. He did well
American right hate it. She ripped up a picture of
the Pope on stage.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, but he did because nothing compares to him. That's
why stand by Darcy.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Walter Grave sports Talk hosts back at seven this evening
and also we're going to keep you up to date
with how the black Cats are going throughout the show
and with.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Warren Wade is going to join us as well to
talk about how you actually beat India and India besides Rain.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
And Peter McGlashan will be with us at quarter past five.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
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