Ish Sodhi: Black Caps spinner celebrates his first ever 'first-class century'

Black Caps spinner Ish Sodhi is celebrating his first 'first-class century' after defeating Otago in Dunedin.

Sodhi made an unbeaten 108 as Canterbury racked up 501 for 7, on day two of their Plunket Shield match.

Ish Sodhi joined Jason Pine to review his achievement, and discuss what it means to him and the team.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
But a milestone one hundred and seventy three innings in
the making. Black Caps leg spinner Each Sodi has hit
his maiden first class century, reaching three figures for Canterbury
on day two of their Plunket Shield clash with Otago
in Dunedin. In the week past, Sody finished one hundred
and eight not out in Canterbury's five hundred and one

(00:35):
for seven, declared he joins us now from I think
dunian nepport about to fly back to christ Church. Each,
I thought you already had a first class century. How
did this escape my attention?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, I know that opinion has been shared by a
lot of my peers.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
I think over the years, you know, it's been something
that you know, I've been really searching for for a
really long.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Period of time.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
And that's why I suppose you've obviously seen the celebration.
I suppose it was just a lot of you know,
pined up frustration over years and years of not getting there.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
So it's nice to be able to be able to
have that one.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now loved the celebration. What was your highest score before this.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I had like an eighty two or something, and yeah,
it was you know, like I said, I've got to
fifty quite a lot of times over the last well,
you know, decade or so, and you know, there are
a few opportunities that I lost. So yes, it's nice
to get over the line. And you know, it's so
mean that you can't sort of you can't take away
from me.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's there forever I've looked at crick infoatia, it's there.
They will never take it away. What was it like then,
getting into the eighties, getting into the nineties, they talk
about the nervous nineties. You've you would never have been
there in first class cricket. What was that like?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
It was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I Like I was betting with Sean Davy at the
time and he's, you know, a really nice batsman and
he's you know, not played a heap of first class career,
but always had a lot of potential and he came
out and absolutely started whacking it.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
So it was real nice to sort of have some
pressure taken off at the other end.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
And you know, we had to put on a good
score in the first innings to try to set up
the game really nicely, and so yeah, because because he
was betting so nicely and smoking it, they sort of
had the field spread, which made it a bit.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Easier in the eighties and nineties.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
So it was really down to Sean the way he played,
and he ended up getting his maiden first class hundred
to two.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that was cooled. It must been a nice moment
to share it together so that you get the one hundred.
You're off. Your phone must have blown up, did it? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:20):
I think the real cool thing about it was, you know,
like there were so many people that there's a lot
of interest in you know, more people sort of watching
the plunket chield and perhaps we thought, you know, when
you sort of come off and.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Get all those messages, really nice to receive them all.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
But it's all the sort of close mates of mine
and Cricket always knew that it was a big goal
of mining to get that a hundred, so it was
really nice to be able to share that with them.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Absolutely brilliant. So heading back now, I know that you're
focusing on plunket Chield with Cannabury at the moment, but
if you've got a half a nine white ball stuff
after Christmas and into the new year. You must be
starting to think pretty heavily about that, are you, with
the with the Black Caps.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, definitely, I think, you know, with the T twenty
campaign starting, you know, the Super Smester.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think it's just after Christmas and stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
So yeah, we got two more plunk chill games in
the meantime while we're staying really nicely.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Focused on that.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
It's important, I think to just keep those white ball
skills shaped up because these days I just feel like
red ball cricket and T twenty cricket they're just two
completely different sports being a spin ballist. So yeah, me
and Cole McConkie actually every now and then we'll go
and have a white ball net just to remind.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Ourselves of our white ball skills and so that.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
So, I mean it's really important to keep on top
of when you're playing redbul cricket.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I love it, mate. Well I'm going to change if
it didn't have all rounder alongside you in my contacts,
if it just had each Sody legspin, I'm going to
change it to each Sody all round in our first
class entry. Mate, No one can ever take it away
from you. Congratulations and thanks for the chat.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Thank you, bron.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now you take care of mate. That's Each Sody about
to hop on a plane back to christ Church and
finally the first class century achieved. If you get the
chance to watch us, I'm sure if you just google
Each Sody century. His celebration is so good. You know,
it just takes many forms and clear elation obviously, but

(04:06):
it's a cool celebration and for one of the top
men of first class cricket, elite cricket in our country,
just awesome to see Each Sody do that and finally
chalk up the three figures. He'll clearly be a big
part of our White bull sides in the new year
as well, so looking forward to seeing him back in
the Black cap as well.

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