Jason Pine: Weekend Sport Host on the ICC Champions Trophy, Super Rugby round 4

Can the Black Caps beat India on Sunday night to with the ICC Champions Trophy?

The teams will come up against each other in Dubai at 10pm NZ time.

The final follows a record-breaking victory against South Africa in the semi-final of the tournament.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason planes here. Hey Jason, Hello Ryan, So you'll be
excited about this weekend? Do you think we can do it?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I think we can. I think we can. It's getting
to ten o'clock on Sunday night to start with without
too much anticipation, and then getting through the night on
Sunday night into Monday morning, you know, seven or eight
hours of cricket in the wee small hours. But I
feel like it's one worth staying up for. You know,
the black Caps are on a roll in fifty over cricket.
They've won their last five or six games in a row.

(00:25):
Semi final went over South Africa was about as perfect
as they could possibly have imagined. All of the players
seem to be in good form with the bat, with
the ball. The only thing I guess that sits in
the front of your mind probably is the fact that
this is India. They are themselves a very good team.
They haven't had to travel at all during this tournament.

(00:45):
This has been spoken about a lot. They've just stayed
put in Dubai while every other team has traveled around
Pakistan and to do buy back out again, whereas India
have been the same place the whole time. Take away
all of that, though, I think we're a real chance.
I really think we're a great chance of winning this
game on Sunday night into Monday morning.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Round for a Super Rugby this weekend. Before we chat
about this, I'm now understanding why the Hurricanes won that
one game settle Down. The Fiji and Drew was stuck
stuck in some truck being shipped from the airport. I mean, yes,
hardly seems fair, Sabota. It's not the ideal preparation. It's
not what you chart out if you were planning the

(01:24):
perfect preparation. I shouldn't laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a it's obviously a you know, a really really
unfortunate set of circumstances that the Fiji and Drew found themselves.
And I know more is going to come out. In fact,
if I can just plug my show tomorrow. Jack Mesley,
head of Super Rugbies, on the show just after midday
tomorrow to answer this question and a few others as well.
But look, I don't know who's fault it is, because
if the Hurricanes get a late checkout from their hotel

(01:48):
on the day of the game, why don't the Fiji
and drewer get a late checkout as well. Surely the
two bookings are being made by the same person if
Super Rugby is doing a block booking, I don't understand
how the this has happened. I think the bus company
have said, look, we stuffed up, we got the booking wrong,
so you can place the blame for the ride in

(02:08):
the back of the luggage truck at their door. But
there seems to be a bit too much that's not
quite you know, become apparent yet. I need to know
more about how this happened.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, all a bit weird, isn't it. Jason, You're big
Round four for Super Rugby this weekend. We'll be looking
forward to that too. Jason Pine Weekend Sports host midday
to three pm tomorrow and Sunday.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
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