Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on New Zealand holding onto lead in third test against England

Kane Williamson has been dismissed for 156 - after recording his 33rd test century - as New Zealand build an imposing lead over England on day three of the third test in Hamilton.

Moments ago the Black Caps were 353 for five, leading by 557, with Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell at the crease.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine unpacks the match.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pines with our sports talk host seven pm tonight
on New Talks. He'd be Jason, good afternoon. Geta right.
It looks like we're winning this Test, are we well?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I hesitate slightly to give one hundred percent confirmation of that.
What are we at tea? We lead by four hundred
and seventy eight runs. Now, that seems like a lot
of runs to be ahead. Still quite a bit of
time left in this Test, weather permitting the rest of
today and then two more days. The only little caveat
here is that England have revolutionized the way that Test

(00:29):
cricket has played, so it wouldn't be beyond them under
Brendan McCullum, of course, to go out there and smash
five hundred to win a Test match. Having said that,
no one's ever chased down more than about four hundred
and eighteen in the entire history of Test cricket. So
it feels like in England winners off the table. It's
just where the New Zealand has the wherewithal over the
next couple of days to bowl England out, get a

(00:49):
win in Tim Southay's last Test and salvage a bit
of pride from this Test series.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm just looking at I was wondering who it was
on the telly at the moment. It's Mark Ridginson. He
looks terrible. God his age since I last saw them
go Anyway, let's talk. Let's talk foot fall Auckland. The
Sea have been hit by injuries. Now this is going
to be a bit of a problem for us.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well it could be, yes, it could. I mean they've
been so good to start, haven't they. And they've had
a very consistent team selection to start with. But yeah,
two or three of their big players Dan Hall, they're
center back from Australia, Louis Vastrata, their Belgian midfielder, and
key we midfielder Cam Howison all out for the foreseeable future.
I think for Strata is the one likely to be
back quickest. But Dan Hall's broken his ankle. That's a

(01:30):
three month kind of stint on the sidelines for Howse
and it's sort of four to six weeks. Having said that,
they missed those three guys last night and still got
a drawer coming from one kneel down and two one
down to draw two two in Melbourne against Melbourne Cityh're
a pretty good team. So look it'll test their depth.
But that's what you know, that's what that's what sport's
all about, having the next man up mentality. So yeah,

(01:51):
let's see how how Auckland FC cope with being a
couple of men down were.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
They supposed to? Is this what you would have expected
from them? Performance wise? So far? It's they've done pretty well.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't think anyone expected this at the start of
the season. No, no, I mean the you know to
be I'm beating up to seven games to win six
on the trot, to go so far into their season
without conceding, I don't think even the most optimistic, the
most wildly optimistic of Auckland fans would have expected this.
It's great, it's fantastic. Look, we're only seven games into
a twenty seven game season, but they've started pretty well

(02:23):
so long may continue.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Absolutely, Jason, thank you for that. We'll see tonight Jason Pine,
sports talk host seven o'clock tonight, News Talk ZEBB.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
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