D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host ahead of next week's opening cricket test against the West Indies

Not much changes between formats for Blair Tickner, who's included in the 14-strong Black Caps squad for next week's opening cricket test against the West Indies in Christchurch.

The 32-year-old, who performed well when called on across the white ball fixtures against the Windies, has spent the past two English County seasons playing for Derbyshire.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Sports Talk Coasters with me.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hello, dark A good thing about paying taxes. It means
I have a job.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
This is you know, silver linings. Absolutely, that's cup. That's
glass halful right.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's the beauty of the glass, not half full of
half empty. It's like my power bill. I don't mind
paying the power bill because that's the alternative. It's not
very good. This is the sport of sport, yes, sports
not letting me down a garden?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Have we got? Is Kyle Jamison part of this black hap.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Squad and he's broken, so he's not there initially. They
want to protect them, which is understandable.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hasn't he just been playing in the plunket what's what's
the face the plunket shields?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Does that break?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
No? He's big and frail, and so I don't want
to necessarily breaking himself.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Held bowler's body.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and he's a lump too. Have you ever met
the guys.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's huge.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I don't know why he'd want to do this for himself,
but it's it's a cautionary measure, so maybe later on
in the piece, but they're looking at workload management for
back injury. So you understand when we've got We've got
Tickner's come back again to the side. He wasn't playing.
Then he got back into the white ball version he
played really really well, so he's kind of forced his

(01:32):
way in there. But we've got a number of players
who aren't available as far as the quicks are concerned,
so Matt Fisher, willow' rourke, ben Sears, none of them
are available. But when you look at that and you
look at the nature of our lineup, is it entirely
that bad Zach folks played really well in Zimbabwe? It
was only some barbwe granted. Jacob Duffy is the coming.

(01:53):
He's looking incredible in the whiteboard. He was too, so
you've got some talent in there. Nathan Smith on the
side to Matt Henry will need it all so I'm
not freaking out so much. The fact we've got four
or five six pacement in the environment is a good
thing I suppose the big one out of this New
Zealand squad is that Came Williamson's player. Been so long

(02:17):
since Came Williamson has played any cricket for New Zealand
at any level, so that's wonderful to see him back
in the side. And Darryl Mitchell, who's how basically mister
fix at Superman. He climbs into the phone booth quite
often does he for the black Caps and then wanders
out and a Superman costume and does what he does,
so really good to see him. What I'm filthy about

(02:37):
is it's like it's another week that the test doesn't
start till next Tuesday. What are we supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Why is it not? Oh yeah, that makes sense so well.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I jam with his tests in before Crimble, so that's
not a bad thing too. Tom Latham is the skipper.
Tom Blundle has got the wicked keeping role, good looking team.
Devin Conway always pressure on him, but he did well
too in the white ball version. And let's not underestimate
the threat of the West Indies. Although I'm saying that
I thought in England and Australia we had to crash

(03:07):
hot teams. They lasted two days.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
This is true. It's England's problem though, because I mean, geess,
the English press are climbing into them. It's their arrogance. Well,
it's understand, it's not they didn't do any practice before.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
They played golf. Well, even though it's not moving at them. Yeah,
it's a bit smaller. That's the way they disintegrated after
actually being in a position to maybe start to dominate
or to lead, and then they just threw away wicket
after wicket after wicket. It was like, wow, you guys

(03:40):
really doing this. And then of course Travis Head rolled
in and I'll show you how to do it and
proceed to tan the English all over the part that
was stunning. The worst thing about that is all the
people and the caterers and the concession stands thinking they
were two more days at least that.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Half the income. They would have.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Lost three million in gate receipts. So that's well, let's
hope the next one goes a bit longer. Let's hope
there's a bit of stickability. Sir Jeffrey Boycott a well
known Northern English cricketer former captain who's known as that miserable, miserable.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Show day, which is brilliant them stupid.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, I can't watch this anymore. I'm not doing it.
It's just not cracky far En after you too. So
they're going to be sitting around and if they really
wanted to lay and they could go wow. Most of
the Culture coaching staff are from New Zealand, so you
can blame the key week.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yep, absolutely why not and the Captain Darcy thank you
very much, appreciate it. Darcy water Grave Sports talks a
lot there

Speaker 2 (04:48):
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