February 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Otago's made a nervous start to their run chase in the T20 Super Smash women's final against Wellington at the Basin Reserve.
The Blaze limped to 104 for eight batting first with Felicity Robertson taking three wickets for Otago.
In their chase of 105 for the championship, the Sparks were 28 for three after six overs a short time ago with dangerwoman Suzie Bates gone.
Canterbury cricket coach Peter Fulton joined Piney to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The domestic T twenty silverware handed out to that at
the Basin Otago against Wellington in the women's final Otaga,
I've just started their run chase for one hundred and
five to win the women's trophy. It follows or will
be followed by c D against Canterbury and the men's final.
Canterbury earning their place with a comprehensive seven wicket win
(00:33):
over Northern in the elimination final yesterday. Why here's an
opportunity for med Buell on the rope, takes it cleanly.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Player Mike strikes.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
A fourth one face this time ats'donald Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Matt Henry, he's so for none.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Basically halfway through his third over.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, he's picked up his second worker yet to concede
a run.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It just goes from bad to worse for the Brave.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know what's happening out there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Matt Henry's has folled three overs, he's got eighteen dot balls.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh runs for two records. But more importantly Northern Braves
seven seven for four. It got worse.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They were seven for five a short time later before
somehow getting through to one hundred and ten for nine.
Canterbury chased that down inside fourteen overs to make the finals.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Today. Canterbury coach is Peter Fulton, who joins us.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Now, Peter, what was going through mine yesterday when you
set Northern in and there were seven for five?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty surreal. I suppose the wicket, look,
it was a new surface, plenty of plenty of bounds,
plenty of pace. So probably you know, if you'd if
you'd turned up and you know, got to choose the
sort of surface you'd like to play on with our
with our team and our bowling attack, and then that
would have definitely been in.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I suppose just want to ask about a couple of
year bowlers. Matt Henry four overs, two for two, remarkable.
Can you tell us I can tell us a bit
more about his bowling yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look, he just he just did what he does I
think probably over the last year or so eighteen months. Yeah,
you can really see E's just and complete control of
I guess is bowling, and he knows what to do,
he knows on each surface, against each each you know,
it gets a different batsman where he has to bowl,
(02:17):
and I think he's probably taken a lot of confidence
I suppose, as I say, over the last twelve eighteen months,
he's probably you know, he's taken over that mantle as
the as the leading bowler and all three formats of
New Zealand, you know pretty much. So yeah, at the
at the peak of his powers and hopefully he's got
another good performance list in him today.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Corl Jamison also picked up some willkets three for him
as he back to full fittness.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Now, Peter, will he play a red bull cricket for you?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I don't think you play. I don't think you played
red Bull cricket this season. Yeah, Look, he's fully he's
fully fit, but he's obviously only bowling four overs four
overs in a match at a time at the moment,
so yeah, I think it's I think his plan is
to is to try and sort of keep keep building
up through Ford Trophy and you know, with an eye
on being available for those for those white ball matches
(03:04):
against Pakistan when the Black Cats get back from Champions
Trophy and with.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The bat Matt Boyle top scored for you again yesterday
forty eight off twenty five, closing in on four hundred
runs for the season. Now top run scorer in the camp.
He striking it up over one point fifty. Why has
he been so effective for you this summer?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh? Look, I mean he's got he's got I guess
a full full of sort of a ray of shots.
He can score off the back foot, he can score
off the front foot. He can you know, he can.
They spin well. So he's always had that talent. He's
a prolific run scorer sort of all through high school
and underage cricket, taking him a couple of years at
this level just to find his feet and work a
(03:44):
few things out. But yeah, he's he's in some great
form at the moment. The confidence is really high, and yeah,
just really pleased for him for the amount of work
he's done in the struggles he's had to go through.
You know, during the initial sort of year or two
of his career.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What were they? What have you helped him with? Particularly?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
What what's you know, as a as a light bulb
turned on, what's happened to him to allow him to
go from struggling to now, you know, thriving.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I think probably just the mental side of the game.
You know, there's there's different pressures that I guess are
put on you externally and also that you put on
yourself when you first I suppose, you know, become a
contracted player and you know you sort of have that
label of a professional cricketer. So yeah, he's probably just
growing up a little bit. Over the last couple of years.
(04:29):
He's matured, he's worked out, you know, how he wants
to play, you know, and also the tempo at which
he needs to back. So yeah, like I said, the
mental side of the game, he's made some big improvements,
and like I said, I'm sure he's going to have
a really big future in the game.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's his brother Jack in the CD side, isn't it.
Who do you think his parents or their parents support
on a day like today?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure. I
mean the dad Justin played for he played first class
cricket for Cannery and Wellington. Yeah, and their uncle David
played for Canabary as well. So I mean you're just
I suppose you put two and two together and say
I'd have to be supporting Canary, wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well I presume, So look I presume. So let's look
at the season as a whole. You lost four of
your first five T twenty games. What was the problem
early on?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Look, I think the first two games in particular, we
were we were in winning positions to win both, and
you know, we threw it away probably in the last
five or six overs, you know of our betting, and
so yeah, at one stage there was the back end
it looked like those those games, we're gonna we're gonna
probably come back to buy this, you know. But we
started playing some really good cricket at the back end.
(05:38):
And look, we had some weird a little bit of
good fortune with with CD beating Auckland and then the
rain out. So look, I suppose that's the swings and
roundabout to cricket last year at this time of the season.
You know, we we got, you know, we got we
got the rough end of the stick with the weather
and with the final at Eaton Park. So yeah, like
(05:58):
I said, hopefully, hopefully we'll do a little bit of luck,
and we've managed to. I suppose this far, you know,
take take it with both hands.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Something you've had to deal with, and in fact, a
lot of coaches have to have to deal with is
the reintegration of your black Caps players back into your side.
How do you go about that, Peter in terms of
you know, I guess guys who have been there for you,
but but no that they're probably going to drop out
when when somebody from the black Caps comes back in.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, look, it's not easy. I suppose you know, for us,
we sort of talk about it at the start of
each season, and that's just the reality. I mean, the guys,
the guys are not silly. They can they can look
at the domestic schedule, they can look at the international schedule,
and they can work it out for themselves, you know
when certain guys might be available. So look at philosophy
(06:48):
here is obviously, when the black Cap guys come back,
they play. That's just even if it's for one game,
that's you know, that's just that's just how it is.
And we're just I suppose we're lucky that the guys
that do come back from international cricket. You know, when
they come back, they are normally really keen to play
and to try and you know, at sen and do
their bit.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I couldn't believe this. I checked this this morning. The
last time Canibry won the domestic T twenty men's camp
was the summer of five six you were on the team.
Then has this piece of silver. We're been a target
for you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh, I think they're all They're all a target. Yeah,
I suppose the T twenty one is probably in some
ways as the it's the possibly the hardest to win
because it's the most the games, the most fickle, you know,
and a couple of good overs here or there, or
a couple of good balls here or they can decide
can decide the game. Yeah, we've we've done really well
(07:40):
the last few years. We've we've made finals and you know,
we've either been beaten on the day by an individual
innings or like I said, last year, the weather sort
of you know, caused us to come unstuck. So yeah,
looking it be obviously nice to want to be twenty
comp and sort of get that monkey off the back,
But yeah, I sort of feel like we're we're coming
(08:03):
into this one out of all of them, probably with
the least amount of pressure because yeah, ten days ago,
probably no one thought we were going to be in
the Semis, and probably some of the other teams. We're
probably pretty pretty glad about that. Given the given the
side we were going to.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Have come this time of the competition, did you reckon
your favorites for this game?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh? I don't know. I mean CD CD have had
a really good season. I've they've won, had two run
outs and won six of the eight games. So you're
playing some really good cricket and they've got they've got,
you know, plenty of guys in their team that have
you know, played a high level cricket too. So yeah,
I mean it doesn't It doesn't really make any difference
to us. I said, we know that, you know, we
(08:42):
know that most of the country probably don't want us
to win, so we're we're hoping to disappoint a few people.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh, I'm sure that's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Fault, That's definitely true. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, as you mentioned a couple of times I made
the final last year, abandoned due to rain Auklamanic because
they finished top.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
How's the forecasting in Wellington today?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It looks okay, it looks okay. Yesterday there was walk
of a few showers in the afternoon but they never materialized.
So yeah, I think I think we should be okay though.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Good man, Hey, all the best better great to chat
to you as always.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Cheers, Biddy, Thanks no, thank you, Mane.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's Peter Fulton, coach of Canterbury. Apparently everybody wants Central
to win. Well, like I said, I'm not sure that's true.
I think Cannaburry our favorite. You look at their team,
they're stacked, absolutely stacked full of black Caps players, you know.
But CD have been very, very good right across the season,
some excellent players. Jack Boyle's been terrific for them, Tom
Bruce as well. We spoke to Jayden Lennox yesterday has
(09:41):
been excellent with the ball. Well yeah, oh well it
was because they put up a fight. It'll be a
great scrap between those two. Four twenty five this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk said Be weekends from mid day, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The domestic T twenty silverware handed out to that at
the Basin Otago against Wellington in the women's final Otaga,
I've just started their run chase for one hundred and
five to win the women's trophy. It follows or will
be followed by c D against Canterbury and the men's final.
Canterbury earning their place with a comprehensive seven wicket win
(00:33):
over Northern in the elimination final yesterday. Why here's an
opportunity for med Buell on the rope, takes it cleanly.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Player Mike strikes.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
A fourth one face this time ats'donald Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Matt Henry, he's so for none.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Basically halfway through his third over.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, he's picked up his second worker yet to concede
a run.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It just goes from bad to worse for the Brave.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know what's happening out there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Matt Henry's has folled three overs, he's got eighteen dot balls.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh runs for two records. But more importantly Northern Braves
seven seven for four. It got worse.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They were seven for five a short time later before
somehow getting through to one hundred and ten for nine.
Canterbury chased that down inside fourteen overs to make the finals.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Today. Canterbury coach is Peter Fulton, who joins us.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Now, Peter, what was going through mine yesterday when you
set Northern in and there were seven for five?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty surreal. I suppose the wicket, look,
it was a new surface, plenty of plenty of bounds,
plenty of pace. So probably you know, if you'd if
you'd turned up and you know, got to choose the
sort of surface you'd like to play on with our
with our team and our bowling attack, and then that
would have definitely been in.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I suppose just want to ask about a couple of
year bowlers. Matt Henry four overs, two for two, remarkable.
Can you tell us I can tell us a bit
more about his bowling yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Look, he just he just did what he does I
think probably over the last year or so eighteen months. Yeah,
you can really see E's just and complete control of
I guess is bowling, and he knows what to do,
he knows on each surface, against each each you know,
it gets a different batsman where he has to bowl,
(02:17):
and I think he's probably taken a lot of confidence
I suppose, as I say, over the last twelve eighteen months,
he's probably you know, he's taken over that mantle as
the as the leading bowler and all three formats of
New Zealand, you know pretty much. So yeah, at the
at the peak of his powers and hopefully he's got
another good performance list in him today.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Corl Jamison also picked up some willkets three for him
as he back to full fittness.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Now, Peter, will he play a red bull cricket for you?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I don't think you play. I don't think you played
red Bull cricket this season. Yeah, Look, he's fully he's
fully fit, but he's obviously only bowling four overs four
overs in a match at a time at the moment,
so yeah, I think it's I think his plan is
to is to try and sort of keep keep building
up through Ford Trophy and you know, with an eye
on being available for those for those white ball matches
(03:04):
against Pakistan when the Black Cats get back from Champions
Trophy and with.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The bat Matt Boyle top scored for you again yesterday
forty eight off twenty five, closing in on four hundred
runs for the season. Now top run scorer in the camp.
He striking it up over one point fifty. Why has
he been so effective for you this summer?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh? Look, I mean he's got he's got I guess
a full full of sort of a ray of shots.
He can score off the back foot, he can score
off the front foot. He can you know, he can.
They spin well. So he's always had that talent. He's
a prolific run scorer sort of all through high school
and underage cricket, taking him a couple of years at
this level just to find his feet and work a
(03:44):
few things out. But yeah, he's he's in some great
form at the moment. The confidence is really high, and yeah,
just really pleased for him for the amount of work
he's done in the struggles he's had to go through.
You know, during the initial sort of year or two
of his career.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
What were they? What have you helped him with? Particularly?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
What what's you know, as a as a light bulb
turned on, what's happened to him to allow him to
go from struggling to now, you know, thriving.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I think probably just the mental side of the game.
You know, there's there's different pressures that I guess are
put on you externally and also that you put on
yourself when you first I suppose, you know, become a
contracted player and you know you sort of have that
label of a professional cricketer. So yeah, he's probably just
growing up a little bit. Over the last couple of years.
(04:29):
He's matured, he's worked out, you know, how he wants
to play, you know, and also the tempo at which
he needs to back. So yeah, like I said, the
mental side of the game, he's made some big improvements,
and like I said, I'm sure he's going to have
a really big future in the game.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's his brother Jack in the CD side, isn't it.
Who do you think his parents or their parents support
on a day like today?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure. I
mean the dad Justin played for he played first class
cricket for Cannery and Wellington. Yeah, and their uncle David
played for Canabary as well. So I mean you're just
I suppose you put two and two together and say
I'd have to be supporting Canary, wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well I presume, So look I presume. So let's look
at the season as a whole. You lost four of
your first five T twenty games. What was the problem
early on?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Look, I think the first two games in particular, we
were we were in winning positions to win both, and
you know, we threw it away probably in the last
five or six overs, you know of our betting, and
so yeah, at one stage there was the back end
it looked like those those games, we're gonna we're gonna
probably come back to buy this, you know. But we
started playing some really good cricket at the back end.
(05:38):
And look, we had some weird a little bit of
good fortune with with CD beating Auckland and then the
rain out. So look, I suppose that's the swings and
roundabout to cricket last year at this time of the season.
You know, we we got, you know, we got we
got the rough end of the stick with the weather
and with the final at Eaton Park. So yeah, like
(05:58):
I said, hopefully, hopefully we'll do a little bit of luck,
and we've managed to. I suppose this far, you know,
take take it with both hands.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Something you've had to deal with, and in fact, a
lot of coaches have to have to deal with is
the reintegration of your black Caps players back into your side.
How do you go about that, Peter in terms of
you know, I guess guys who have been there for you,
but but no that they're probably going to drop out
when when somebody from the black Caps comes back in.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, look, it's not easy. I suppose you know, for us,
we sort of talk about it at the start of
each season, and that's just the reality. I mean, the guys,
the guys are not silly. They can they can look
at the domestic schedule, they can look at the international schedule,
and they can work it out for themselves, you know
when certain guys might be available. So look at philosophy
(06:48):
here is obviously, when the black Cap guys come back,
they play. That's just even if it's for one game,
that's you know, that's just that's just how it is.
And we're just I suppose we're lucky that the guys
that do come back from international cricket. You know, when
they come back, they are normally really keen to play
and to try and you know, at sen and do
their bit.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I couldn't believe this. I checked this this morning. The
last time Canibry won the domestic T twenty men's camp
was the summer of five six you were on the team.
Then has this piece of silver. We're been a target
for you.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oh, I think they're all They're all a target. Yeah,
I suppose the T twenty one is probably in some
ways as the it's the possibly the hardest to win
because it's the most the games, the most fickle, you know,
and a couple of good overs here or there, or
a couple of good balls here or they can decide
can decide the game. Yeah, we've we've done really well
(07:40):
the last few years. We've we've made finals and you know,
we've either been beaten on the day by an individual
innings or like I said, last year, the weather sort
of you know, caused us to come unstuck. So yeah,
looking it be obviously nice to want to be twenty
comp and sort of get that monkey off the back,
But yeah, I sort of feel like we're we're coming
(08:03):
into this one out of all of them, probably with
the least amount of pressure because yeah, ten days ago,
probably no one thought we were going to be in
the Semis, and probably some of the other teams. We're
probably pretty pretty glad about that. Given the given the
side we were going to.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Have come this time of the competition, did you reckon
your favorites for this game?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh? I don't know. I mean CD CD have had
a really good season. I've they've won, had two run
outs and won six of the eight games. So you're
playing some really good cricket and they've got they've got,
you know, plenty of guys in their team that have
you know, played a high level cricket too. So yeah,
I mean it doesn't It doesn't really make any difference
to us. I said, we know that, you know, we
(08:42):
know that most of the country probably don't want us
to win, so we're we're hoping to disappoint a few people.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh, I'm sure that's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Fault, That's definitely true. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, as you mentioned a couple of times I made
the final last year, abandoned due to rain Auklamanic because
they finished top.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
How's the forecasting in Wellington today?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It looks okay, it looks okay. Yesterday there was walk
of a few showers in the afternoon but they never materialized.
So yeah, I think I think we should be okay though.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Good man, Hey, all the best better great to chat
to you as always.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Cheers, Biddy, Thanks no, thank you, Mane.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That's Peter Fulton, coach of Canterbury. Apparently everybody wants Central
to win. Well, like I said, I'm not sure that's true.
I think Cannaburry our favorite. You look at their team,
they're stacked, absolutely stacked full of black Caps players, you know.
But CD have been very, very good right across the season,
some excellent players. Jack Boyle's been terrific for them, Tom
Bruce as well. We spoke to Jayden Lennox yesterday has
(09:41):
been excellent with the ball. Well yeah, oh well it
was because they put up a fight. It'll be a
great scrap between those two. Four twenty five this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk said Be weekends from mid day, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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