D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host ahead of the third Ashes cricket test

A painful wait could be worthwhile for Nathan Lyon, if he rediscovers his form in the third Ashes cricket test starting tomorrow.

The veteran off-spinner's been sitting on 562 test wickets for five months, one short of equalling Glenn McGrath as Australia's second highest wicket taker.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Responsibly afternoons, Good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
The third Ashes Test tomorrow, isn't it now? England gonna
lose this one too?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah? Highly likely, ha ha.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
They're not being practicing, They're not being they just don't
look like they want to be there. You know, it's
summer to away from the freezing cold of Britain beaches.
Are there all the fun.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
A bit of golf.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
They're going to get hammered. I hope they don't have
that attitude. I think we all want to see a
proper Test match, whether we will or not, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Do you know Piers Morgan?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, Ye're not a big fan of Piers Morgan's to
be fair, but he did come out and start up
and seeing England and to roll in five no.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Shame. It's interesting they keep talking about how they're overpreparing
or underpreparing. I think they're trying to play the media
with it. But you know, are we overtrained and then
we undertrained? And it's like, well maybe you just they.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Even know what they're saying, They didn't believe what they're saying.
It's the cricketing gods. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
They've looked down upon England.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
You can't take a hold of the New Zealanders and
put them in your team, not playing or kind of,
but mostly in the coaching the management.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Soe they got Nana. This is not happening. So they've
cursed them.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, Well we'll wait and see what happens with that,
even though we know what's probably going to happen with that.
What's what with this new golf event in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
There's a three golf there's actually four events, back on
back on back, on back, on back and back.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
There's three of.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Them and this one is part of the ice PS
hundred Japanese and Australasian.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's a championship. So what they've got is they've got
three on the bounce, which is just fantastic. We've got that,
which is the last one one point three seven million
dollars up for grabs. You've got the New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
PGA Pata part of UMU two weeks before and the
New Zealand Open a week after that down in Queenstown,
and then the week after that you've got this, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
There's also under twenty one stamps going on as.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, Golf coming out our ears.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Absolutely it is, and we're talking about how the CEO
of Golf and New Zealand's Jeff Latch. She'll be joining
us later on in the program, and I'll catch up
with Tim Seifert who smashed a ton for the Renegades
last night, having a great time first game back after
breaking his finger, which means he couldn't be involved with
the black Caps and the T twenty up against the
West Indians, but he didn't forget how to play, seeing

(02:20):
it like a pumpkin, so we'll let him tonight as well.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Brilliant looking forward to it. Dars Darcy Valdergrave, sports talk
host seven o'clock tonight news Talks.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
He'd be for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
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