September 21, 2024 • 10 mins
Mitch McClenaghan joins Jason Pine to discuss the first test between Black Caps and Sri Lanka so far, the first rest day in a test in 16 years, and how the final days of the test will shape up.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The black Caps, I think you'd say, on the back
foot after three days of the opening cricket Test against
Sri Lanka in Gaul, Sri Lanka two hundred and thirty
seven for four in their second innings. That's a lead
of two hundred and two runs with two days to play.
Will O'Rourke, has mentioned before, has been the best of
the New Zealand bowlers by quite some distance.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Gone brilliant, Oh good, it was a delayed decision to.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get that leg slip in place.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
He's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a big.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
One New Zealand. Gor bang, bang and bang yeah. Will
I Rock taking three of the four second innings wickets
to fall to have eight for the match so far.
Yesterday was a rest day for the Sri Lankan presidential elections.
Day four is underway in just over a couple of
hours time. Former black Caps placement Mitch mcclenahan is part
(01:05):
of the commentary team in Gaul and he joins us,
now let's start with a positive Mitchen, Well, WILLO Rock's
the obvious one. What has impressed you most about Willow
rourks bowling in this Test match so far.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh Betty Sagan wickets first and foremost, it's sensational for
a fastballer to do what he's done in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I know that they tried to make this wicket a.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Little bit flatten than they usually would here in Gaul
because they've just come back from England, that three match
series against England where they won that last Test, and
they're a little bit concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
From a Schlankan point of view, that they weren't going to.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Be used to their own conditions and that aided will
There was a little bit extra bounds, particularly from the
four tend on day one. But what was amazing to
see was the amount of late movement he got off
the surface as well, just a little bit of swing
and when it swings laid into the surface, it keeps
on going.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It reminds me a bit of Lockey.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ferguson with the white ball when he gets that new
ball that always keeps on coming back at the right
hand and you know players like Angelo Matthews don't like
it on the back foot and he dominated straight away.
So that was impressive to see and I guess throughout.
It's just the intent to keep on coming back. Look,
he's not going to hit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The same spot all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's only young in his cricketing career and there's going
to be a few way with deliveries. But in between
that there's some seriously, seriously good cricketing deliveries at this level.
So the skills he's possessed and his ability to also
just have those conversations with Tim Saudi and you can
see how they're working together to try and figure guys
out and set fields as we saw late last night
(02:38):
with that catch Tom Latham at leg Gully. Just little
plans like that. It looks like he's learning very quickly
on the job.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He's bold just twelve overs in the second innings. The
second innings has had seventy two overs so far. Is
this good management of Willow Rourke or is this under
use of Willow Rourke?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah? It's difficult, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because he is only three Test matches into his career,
He's coming back from an injury. We know Paul up
in their last Test against All that Test in Wellington
against Australia. So you're obviously concerned that the workload at
this level, maybe a little bit step too far, particularly
in these conditions hot. It's hot out there, the grounds soft,
(03:20):
so it is difficult for fast bowlers. Look, I think
they probably used them pretty well. There was a period
yesterday in particular where the game just started to meander
along and go at the pace that the Schlankans like
to play their Test cricket. They don't want to be rush,
they just want to knock it around and take it
pretty cruisy. And there might have been an argument to
(03:40):
bring him back maybe five or six overs earlier, to
try and spark the New Zealand bowling and things into
a bit of light because at the moment he's the
only one who really seems to lift the energy on
the park.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So yeah, it's a difficult.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
One because you've also got to remember how he's gone
in this Test match in particular.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You are probably going to want him to.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Be playing almost all of those Test matches against India
as well, so it might be a little of a
look to the future, but you've got to win this
teach match right now, so at the moment he's probably
your biggest threat.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Between lunch and tea on Day three, Sri Lanka added
one hundred and two runs and thirty one overs, didn't
lose a wicket. How crucial a session might might that be?
And was that a session perhaps the black Caps could
have done more in.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, it probably comes back to exactly that they probably
didn't need to use Will O'Rourke and a couple of
extra spells, whether it's two overs, just to try and
increase that intensity. Yep Erani and Chundermel better beautifully didn't
they So they weren't put under a lot of pressure.
Maybe because they were actually on the aggressive side. They
actually didn't let the lights of Glenn Phillips or Ajs
(04:51):
Bertel really settle and they really put them under pressure
knowing that spin was going to be a threat.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I thought a Rudner.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was exceptional the way he reverse swept out of the
rough and was able then to rock back and had
against the spin to to those gaps and also use
the sweep shot effectively. So yeah, it's one of those
things if you're trying to bowl in an area and
the batsman doesn't let you, and they have the skills
to be able to negate your plans, it can be
of a challenging to find the hole in the armory
(05:22):
and for Schlanka, yeah, I think that session has put
them in a really good position.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But before that, I think New Zealand let themselves down.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
They had a really, really good opportunity overnight to come
out and put.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
A massive lead on the board.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And they just looked like they were getting some momentum
and then Tom Blundell got caught on the gloves and
then Darryl Mitchell was so slow off the mark.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't know if it looked like that on the TV, but.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Was standing on his bat and it was really slow
off the mark and it was an unnecessary runout In
all honesty should have been an easy single. So that
was probably the turning points. And once you get a
couple of spinners who are very good in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They seem to be able to mop up the tail
real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah. You look at New Zealand's first thing scorecard match.
Everybody in the top seven got to a figures to
varying degrees. They all look good, but all failed to
kick on Tom Latham's seventy the top score. How much
do you reckon? That's going to hurt New Zealand. They
as they try to seek victory in this Test match
or even now try to make sure that they're not
on the losing end of it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, look, I think they really they're With the conditions
the way they were, they should have been able to
push for four hundred plus. And you know, you saw
how Glen Phillips came out and batter it at the end.
If he had a batting partner there with him, you know,
it could have been a massive score. And I think
Tom Latham and Kane will be particularly disappointed with themselves.
They've done all the hard work and at that point
(06:45):
their partnership that they had, they were dominating and the
same kind of.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Energy we saw from New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Late last night where they just didn't look like that
felt that they were in the game.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Slanka had lost all hope when they were batting together.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So yeah, they probably a couple of missed opportunities. I mean,
Cain Williamson's been so great lately, hasn't he. I think
that's the time he's gone past fifty since December twenty
twenty two, and it's only only the second time he's
failed to convert.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It to one hundred. And I mean we have high,
high expectations of.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Him only indeed indeed, and he continues to deliver on them.
What about days four and five? Much? How much is
this wicket turning? And the second part is how much
is chaseable in the fourth innings?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, really good question.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The wicket's definitely turning far more out of Willow Rourke's footmarks,
so you would have seen the degree of turn yesterday
was another degree in half more than it was on
Day one and Day two, but that was mainly due
to the fact that New Zealand bowlers A and Tell
in particular was trying to get it out of the footmarks.
So that's going to be challenging the score runs. If
they really try and and dry up the score in
(07:55):
the last innings, I think day four it would be
really interesting to see how New Zealand come out.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
A really positive thing about this.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Test match is that Day four is actually going to
be on Day five and it's going to give our
bowl it's an extra day to have a bit of
a rest and come out far and then the new
balls not far away.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So that's that's going to be huge as well.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The new balls only ate overs away, so I'm hoping
with the day off a new ball.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Early in the session on.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Day four, effectively day five, that New Zealand will be
able to break open this partnership.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
And to be honest from all, from all.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The numbers that they throw out in the combox, the
Sri Lankan commentators are on Worth said that schlank has
probably almost got enough, so they're going.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To have to make quick work of trying to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Get those wickets early because on Gall what they say
is that on day four there's okay up until lunch
to bat, but once after.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
That day four and day five it really.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Does start to crumble intoteriorate and it's very difficult to
score runs.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, challenging a couple of days ahead for the
black Caps. Much great to get your analysis, Loving your
commentary over there, mate, Thanks for taking the time for
a chat.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Not a problem.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's Mitchell mcclenahan, part of the commentary team that's bringing
coverage of this Test match from Gaul. Day four after
the rest day yesterday underway at four thirty this afternoon
New Zealand Times, Sri Lanka resumed two thirty seven for
four in their second innings. That is a lead of
two hundred and two at the crease. Angelo Matthew's unbeaten
(09:29):
on thirty four and Danajea de Silva the captain, also
there on thirty four, not out a lead of two
hundred and two. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see Shri
Lanka's approach. I guess they'll obviously want to win the
Test match. How long do they need to leave themselves
it'll continue to turn. As you heard Mitchell mclenahan say,
I guess New Zealand can take the decision out of
(09:50):
Shri Lanka's hands by just running through them and trying
to bowl them out for you know, for not too
many more. Yeah, what I say. A lot of Shri
Lankan commentators believe they have enough already that two hundred's
too much to chase. But I think you'd be pretty
gutsy to pull out with six sessions of cricket left
and only two hundred runs to defend. Get the feelings
(10:11):
Lanka will try at least to get through to lunch
and then probably the middle part of the second session
and maybe then think about pulling pin, give themselves four
in a bit sessions to bowl New Zealand out and
take a one mill lead in this two match series.
We wait and see updating Live Sport from Hamilton where
White cut to are twenty to ten ahead of Tasman
with twenty minutes to go. In there Bunning's MPC match
(10:34):
that was a one to oh five kickoff. The games
which kicked off just after two about fifteen twenty minutes
in Auckland seven mill ahead of Southland at Eden Park
and Otago seven milla ahead of Mother We two at
Central Energy Trust Arena in Palmerston North.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk zed B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The black Caps, I think you'd say, on the back
foot after three days of the opening cricket Test against
Sri Lanka in Gaul, Sri Lanka two hundred and thirty
seven for four in their second innings. That's a lead
of two hundred and two runs with two days to play.
Will O'Rourke, has mentioned before, has been the best of
the New Zealand bowlers by quite some distance.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Gone brilliant, Oh good, it was a delayed decision to.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Get that leg slip in place.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
He's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's a big.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
One New Zealand. Gor bang, bang and bang yeah. Will
I Rock taking three of the four second innings wickets
to fall to have eight for the match so far.
Yesterday was a rest day for the Sri Lankan presidential elections.
Day four is underway in just over a couple of
hours time. Former black Caps placement Mitch mcclenahan is part
(01:05):
of the commentary team in Gaul and he joins us,
now let's start with a positive Mitchen, Well, WILLO Rock's
the obvious one. What has impressed you most about Willow
rourks bowling in this Test match so far.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh Betty Sagan wickets first and foremost, it's sensational for
a fastballer to do what he's done in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I know that they tried to make this wicket a.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Little bit flatten than they usually would here in Gaul
because they've just come back from England, that three match
series against England where they won that last Test, and
they're a little bit concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
From a Schlankan point of view, that they weren't going to.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Be used to their own conditions and that aided will
There was a little bit extra bounds, particularly from the
four tend on day one. But what was amazing to
see was the amount of late movement he got off
the surface as well, just a little bit of swing
and when it swings laid into the surface, it keeps
on going.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It reminds me a bit of Lockey.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ferguson with the white ball when he gets that new
ball that always keeps on coming back at the right
hand and you know players like Angelo Matthews don't like
it on the back foot and he dominated straight away.
So that was impressive to see and I guess throughout.
It's just the intent to keep on coming back. Look,
he's not going to hit.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The same spot all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's only young in his cricketing career and there's going
to be a few way with deliveries. But in between
that there's some seriously, seriously good cricketing deliveries at this level.
So the skills he's possessed and his ability to also
just have those conversations with Tim Saudi and you can
see how they're working together to try and figure guys
out and set fields as we saw late last night
(02:38):
with that catch Tom Latham at leg Gully. Just little
plans like that. It looks like he's learning very quickly
on the job.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He's bold just twelve overs in the second innings. The
second innings has had seventy two overs so far. Is
this good management of Willow Rourke or is this under
use of Willow Rourke?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah? It's difficult, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because he is only three Test matches into his career,
He's coming back from an injury. We know Paul up
in their last Test against All that Test in Wellington
against Australia. So you're obviously concerned that the workload at
this level, maybe a little bit step too far, particularly
in these conditions hot. It's hot out there, the grounds soft,
(03:20):
so it is difficult for fast bowlers. Look, I think
they probably used them pretty well. There was a period
yesterday in particular where the game just started to meander
along and go at the pace that the Schlankans like
to play their Test cricket. They don't want to be rush,
they just want to knock it around and take it
pretty cruisy. And there might have been an argument to
(03:40):
bring him back maybe five or six overs earlier, to
try and spark the New Zealand bowling and things into
a bit of light because at the moment he's the
only one who really seems to lift the energy on
the park.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
So yeah, it's a difficult.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
One because you've also got to remember how he's gone
in this Test match in particular.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You are probably going to want him to.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Be playing almost all of those Test matches against India
as well, so it might be a little of a
look to the future, but you've got to win this
teach match right now, so at the moment he's probably
your biggest threat.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Between lunch and tea on Day three, Sri Lanka added
one hundred and two runs and thirty one overs, didn't
lose a wicket. How crucial a session might might that be?
And was that a session perhaps the black Caps could
have done more in.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, it probably comes back to exactly that they probably
didn't need to use Will O'Rourke and a couple of
extra spells, whether it's two overs, just to try and
increase that intensity. Yep Erani and Chundermel better beautifully didn't
they So they weren't put under a lot of pressure.
Maybe because they were actually on the aggressive side. They
actually didn't let the lights of Glenn Phillips or Ajs
(04:51):
Bertel really settle and they really put them under pressure
knowing that spin was going to be a threat.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I thought a Rudner.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was exceptional the way he reverse swept out of the
rough and was able then to rock back and had
against the spin to to those gaps and also use
the sweep shot effectively. So yeah, it's one of those
things if you're trying to bowl in an area and
the batsman doesn't let you, and they have the skills
to be able to negate your plans, it can be
of a challenging to find the hole in the armory
(05:22):
and for Schlanka, yeah, I think that session has put
them in a really good position.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But before that, I think New Zealand let themselves down.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
They had a really, really good opportunity overnight to come
out and put.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
A massive lead on the board.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And they just looked like they were getting some momentum
and then Tom Blundell got caught on the gloves and
then Darryl Mitchell was so slow off the mark.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't know if it looked like that on the TV, but.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Was standing on his bat and it was really slow
off the mark and it was an unnecessary runout In
all honesty should have been an easy single. So that
was probably the turning points. And once you get a
couple of spinners who are very good in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They seem to be able to mop up the tail
real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah. You look at New Zealand's first thing scorecard match.
Everybody in the top seven got to a figures to
varying degrees. They all look good, but all failed to
kick on Tom Latham's seventy the top score. How much
do you reckon? That's going to hurt New Zealand. They
as they try to seek victory in this Test match
or even now try to make sure that they're not
on the losing end of it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, look, I think they really they're With the conditions
the way they were, they should have been able to
push for four hundred plus. And you know, you saw
how Glen Phillips came out and batter it at the end.
If he had a batting partner there with him, you know,
it could have been a massive score. And I think
Tom Latham and Kane will be particularly disappointed with themselves.
They've done all the hard work and at that point
(06:45):
their partnership that they had, they were dominating and the
same kind of.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Energy we saw from New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Late last night where they just didn't look like that
felt that they were in the game.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Slanka had lost all hope when they were batting together.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So yeah, they probably a couple of missed opportunities. I mean,
Cain Williamson's been so great lately, hasn't he. I think
that's the time he's gone past fifty since December twenty
twenty two, and it's only only the second time he's
failed to convert.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It to one hundred. And I mean we have high,
high expectations of.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Him only indeed indeed, and he continues to deliver on them.
What about days four and five? Much? How much is
this wicket turning? And the second part is how much
is chaseable in the fourth innings?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, really good question.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The wicket's definitely turning far more out of Willow Rourke's footmarks,
so you would have seen the degree of turn yesterday
was another degree in half more than it was on
Day one and Day two, but that was mainly due
to the fact that New Zealand bowlers A and Tell
in particular was trying to get it out of the footmarks.
So that's going to be challenging the score runs. If
they really try and and dry up the score in
(07:55):
the last innings, I think day four it would be
really interesting to see how New Zealand come out.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
A really positive thing about this.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Test match is that Day four is actually going to
be on Day five and it's going to give our
bowl it's an extra day to have a bit of
a rest and come out far and then the new
balls not far away.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So that's that's going to be huge as well.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The new balls only ate overs away, so I'm hoping
with the day off a new ball.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Early in the session on.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Day four, effectively day five, that New Zealand will be
able to break open this partnership.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
And to be honest from all, from all.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The numbers that they throw out in the combox, the
Sri Lankan commentators are on Worth said that schlank has
probably almost got enough, so they're going.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To have to make quick work of trying to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Get those wickets early because on Gall what they say
is that on day four there's okay up until lunch
to bat, but once after.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
That day four and day five it really.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Does start to crumble intoteriorate and it's very difficult to
score runs.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, challenging a couple of days ahead for the
black Caps. Much great to get your analysis, Loving your
commentary over there, mate, Thanks for taking the time for
a chat.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Not a problem.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's Mitchell mcclenahan, part of the commentary team that's bringing
coverage of this Test match from Gaul. Day four after
the rest day yesterday underway at four thirty this afternoon
New Zealand Times, Sri Lanka resumed two thirty seven for
four in their second innings. That is a lead of
two hundred and two at the crease. Angelo Matthew's unbeaten
(09:29):
on thirty four and Danajea de Silva the captain, also
there on thirty four, not out a lead of two
hundred and two. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see Shri
Lanka's approach. I guess they'll obviously want to win the
Test match. How long do they need to leave themselves
it'll continue to turn. As you heard Mitchell mclenahan say,
I guess New Zealand can take the decision out of
(09:50):
Shri Lanka's hands by just running through them and trying
to bowl them out for you know, for not too
many more. Yeah, what I say. A lot of Shri
Lankan commentators believe they have enough already that two hundred's
too much to chase. But I think you'd be pretty
gutsy to pull out with six sessions of cricket left
and only two hundred runs to defend. Get the feelings
(10:11):
Lanka will try at least to get through to lunch
and then probably the middle part of the second session
and maybe then think about pulling pin, give themselves four
in a bit sessions to bowl New Zealand out and
take a one mill lead in this two match series.
We wait and see updating Live Sport from Hamilton where
White cut to are twenty to ten ahead of Tasman
with twenty minutes to go. In there Bunning's MPC match
(10:34):
that was a one to oh five kickoff. The games
which kicked off just after two about fifteen twenty minutes
in Auckland seven mill ahead of Southland at Eden Park
and Otago seven milla ahead of Mother We two at
Central Energy Trust Arena in Palmerston North.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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