Shane Bond: On the Blackcaps first day performance against England

England have brought themselves back into the game late on day one of the first cricket test against New Zealand in Christchurch.

Soon after removing Kane Williamson for 93 - the visitors have taken the wicket of Tom Blundell for 17 - bringing debutant Nathan Smith to the crease who departed for just 3. 

Former Blackcap Shane Bond joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to review day 1 of the test.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Let's get away, oh incident. He was three hundred
and nineteen for eight the end of the day's play
three nineteen for eight. They were one hundred ninety nine
four three at one stage, so you go, well, could
have done better anyway. Not about me, It's about Shane Bond.
He knows more than a few things about the wonderful
game of cricket and we'll join him now with a

(00:32):
summary of the day's play through the eyes of an
international cricketer and a former fast bowler. Shane Hallo to you, So,
how did you find Day one?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I loved it.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
It was a great day's cricket. I think we got
what was expected to. Whoever was one of the toss
is going to have a bowl, you know, average score
in the day at Eggley. So I think the first
day's three oh nine for eight. You know, New Zealand
are sitting around there somewhere and you know ebbed and flowed.
Williamson got runs, the spinner got wickets, which was a
little bit strange, but all in all from a viewer's perspective,

(01:05):
you know, the day went really fast. I think the
only disappointing factor for me is there's there only eighty
three overs bowld even though we had twenty overs spin.
So I'm really excited about the Test match tomorrow, the
day leading in tomorrow, and I think it's going to
be a continuous even flow Test series. I think these
two teams are really easily matched.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Mindy, let's look at that over ay, because this is
a source of constant annoyance to spectators, to broadcast to
pretty much everyone except the guys bowling. What happens now?
Do they get a slap around the knuckles? Do they
get a well what happens? Because I get a feeling
they're gonna get away with it and do we know punishment?
This is wrong, right, that's mate?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think you know, I think you look at Australia
in the first cycle of the World Test Championship. It's
customer spot. In the final they got doped points. I mean,
England are out of the running, so they're not going
to have that problem. What they may have is they're
kept and suspended. If you know, if this is a
pattern through the through the through the series, it's really

(02:09):
hard the drs and the review slows it down. We had,
you know, foot mark issues in the morning and then
when you watch a drinks break and there you know,
there are three and three in a day. They seem
to take five to seven minutes, so you're you're always
going to have a six and a half our day.
So I don't know what the thing is. I think
the fines and the points production to final I think
you'd have to think about removing the drinks break perhaps,

(02:31):
if you know, you just got to go with with
people running out drinks to the players. That will probably
save three overs. But the pace of play is probably
one of the things that's really letting Test cricket down.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Shane Bond joining us, Let's take a look at what
happened actually on the day as far as the cricket
is concerned. Did did Basha really take all those wickets
or was he just gifted them?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I think it was a combination of some some loose
shop plays, some good bowling, some good field and good
captaincy from from Stoke. So I thought, you know, he
was a little bit inconsistent to start with the share
and I think you got the sense that Revenger In
particularly wanted to get after him to try and put
pressure on, understanding that if Shaw didn't bowl twenty overs

(03:14):
now the England bowlers would have been seeners would have
been pretty cooked. But then the end he sort of
gifted as wicked away and I thought as the day
wore on, the sheer got better and Stokes switched the
ends to Matt Henry at the end to have him
hitting into the wind to get that last time. So
I thought, Stokes, you know, there's a lot of talk
about Ben and his proactiveness and I think he did
that and it's one of the traits of the McCullum

(03:36):
Stokes eras to back young players. You know, it's twenty one.
I think they see him as having a huge amount
of upside and the only way he's going to get
better is to continue to play him in different conditions.
And you know, I think they reaped a little bit
of that reward today. I thought, you know, for a
spinner to get four work at stay one on Hagley
was a pretty good effort.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
When you look at what the English seamers presented. Is
there anything that the New Zealand seemers can take from
that when they eventually get the ball whenever that may be.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, I think tomorrow when New zell And get
the new ball, it's going to seem around. So they
do a lot of talk about a new ball. It's
a new ball wicket and I definitely feel it there's
opportunities in the first twenty over as if you bowl
well to have a team three or four wickets down,
New Zealand won't have to deal with the footmark, so
that'll make a difference. I think then what they did
is they used the wind smartly. They had sort of

(04:29):
a seama or the spinner like Wokes, and the spinner's
running into the wind, just going into sort of more
of a holding pattern, semi defensive fields looking to go
two or three and over and then down when they
use the short ball effectively after tea and it's not
an easy wicket to play the short ball on. There's
big boundaries, it's a little bit tennis ball bounce, so
even though you could still go up four and over,

(04:49):
it feels like you're taking risks to do it. So
I think you'll see those tactics employed by New Zealand tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Should anyone with the bat be disappointed at their contribution
there are plenty of starts and you know, just sort
of a thefty for the cat then just sort of
a ton would have been what thirty third ton for
Caine Williamson. They could probably be slightly aggrieved that out
of the rest of them who cover themselves in glory,
you didn't.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
I think there was enough in the wicket that you
probably never really in. I thought Latham would have been disappointed.
He seemed to rattle along to forty seven and it's
sort of almost felt like he was getting a batting
at a tempo that was not that he had to
because they were dissing some stuff up, but he'll be
disappointed with that. I think he was set for a
huge score. And I say that's the thing with all

(05:36):
the New New Zealand batsman. They got starts, but that's
the way of Test crickett. There is that tendency to
want to put pressure on bowlers to score at a
high tempo and with that comes a little bit of
risk and you saw that with Mitchell. You know, he's
a good player of the short ball, but with the
field that was set, now he's prepared to play the
shot and get out. And I suppose it's New Zealand

(05:57):
looked through that that batting card. They'll see a whole
lot of starts. They'll see partnerships between sort of forty
and seventy, but nothing that was a real game changer.
But the tempo of the you know, touch three hundred
and twenty runs. If New Zealand can clock on another
fifty tomorrow, you would say that three seventies, you know,
not a bad first epict when you've been put in.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, being critical because we're the media. We can't help ourselves.
Why one hundred and ninety nine for three to be
three nineteen for eights that had sticking your crawl? Wouldn't
it overnight before you went to sleep?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah? I think New Zealand or will feel like they've
missed an opportunity. I think that they would have felt
like that the three twenty runs, which was probably fair,
but they'd love to be five down and feeling that
they could kick on to four to twenty maybe four
point thirty, you know tomorrow with that new ball, you
would expect some movement. So I don't know how long
the New Zealand line up will hang around for. And

(06:47):
then that first out for New Zealand with that Bull's
key because you know, England score fast and if New
Zealand can't make in roads, they can also be challenging
through sort of overs number thirty to eighty. And there's
no doubt England will play at a high temper. That's
generally how they do it. So yeah, even though sometimes
you go, oh, we lost the task and we you know,
he got three twenty, it's more like he said they

(07:10):
had an opportunity to really put the foot on the
throat and they missed out on that.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
We'll let you go shortly, Shane Bond. Just one last thing, Blundle.
We know he's great behind the stumps, he keeps very
very well. Does he still have a place sitting where
he does in the batting line up? Surely Phillips should
be jumping a position, surely.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I don't mind
Philip's betting one up. You know, Blundle obviously has opened
the batting for New Zealand, so it sort of makes
sense that you'd use them when when the ball is
new and the second new ball if he came in.
And I also think for Glenn Phillips to have someone
batting behind him too, wouldn't be a bad thing. You know,
he's going to play aggressively, so look that you could

(07:53):
make an argument either way. I think he Saill. I'll
be happy that Glenn Phillips is still there because he's
the sort of player who can score so quickly. At
the end of the day, both of them have just
got to score runs, and I think that's the one
thing that Tommy Blundele. He'll know that, like Devin Conway,
that he's under a little bit of press, but I'm
sure the quality applied that he is he will score
runs in the series.

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