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June 25, 2025 8 mins

The Black Caps are in for a massive home spring of cricket.

Yes, spring. South Africa, Australia, England and the West Indies are all on their way, but mostly between October and December.

Black Cap Kyle Jamieson is fizzing already, and he spoke to D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sportstalk.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Duncie Wildergrave
from News Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right, let's move away to the wonderful wide world of
cricket and we're joined now by Kyle Jamison, one of
our weapons in the cricketing franchise, to talk about this
new schedule that's been released today by end ZID Cricket.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Get A.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Kyle, I'm very good looking forward to summer. We all
are through winter, but you guys are on there, you're
up and running. The schedule has been announced. There's some
big teams coming over.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, look, it's nice to look forward to summer and
we're sort of the depths of winter at the moment.
But you, like you said, something to look forward to,
and yeah, I got a pretty pretty exciting schedule to
to sort of lock our eyes onto as well, which
is good.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
It starts off with a Herson and roar. There are
three games at the mount at the start of October.
What do you know about the weather in the Mountain October?
It's got to be better than christ.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yet, well it has to be.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I know that the T twenty truce there is here
a couple of years ago, I think Pakistan and Bangladesh
landed in here and it was snow, and so as
long as it's not snow and I think I think
we're doing better than that. But yeah, obviously like a
really exciting start to the Summit's you know, obviously quite early,
but to have the Aussies over here and to have
those three T twenties in the mat will be a
great way to kick things off for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So what are you going to do in the interim.
I've come back from a bit of a stint in
the IPL. You went to the Pakistan League as well,
and then kind of had to disappear understandably. So now
you're back having a bit of a relax. What kind
of build up do you have to something quite important?
Is it three one days against the Australians.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, we're just kind of I guess it's a good
chance to get a bit of conditioning in and that
sort of thing. Yeah, I think, especially you know, for
someone like myself off the back of the last couple
of years, just to I guess, consolidate the you know,
I guess where your body's at and make sure that's
still on top of things, you know, with the end
of the future, and ye're just trying to give your
body a bit of love and also a bit of
family time too, So that's kind of kind of keeps

(02:04):
you occupied for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
But you're going to have to roll your arm over
at some stage, aren't you. You're going to go and
play club cricket for a bit or something. How does
that work?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, I just just kind of train around home.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
So yeah, like I certainly had a fair bit of
cricket over the last little six months, and yeah, we'll
just kind of keep training and keep trying to I
guess fine tune things a little bit. And I guess
like if there is if there is some cricket towards
I guess the back end of the winter, then might
might have a wead look at that beer. But for now,
it's this kind of you know, big sort of conditioning
block to make sure the body's ready for a big

(02:34):
for a big sort of next twelve months.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, Kyle, you mentioned your body, so I'll carry on
with it. How is it hanging in there? Because like
most big fast ball as you do have our shoes.
Where are we at at the moment? You're hungy on
presuming it feeling good? You've lost some weight, you put
some one. I don't know, how are you floating?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Our body is really good.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Look at a did a lot of work last year,
pretty much had to go back to scratch and rebuild,
rebuild from you know, right from the beginning, found a
whole heap of stuff that needed to be addressed, and
you know we've gone about doing that. So I think
this is, you know, the best place my body's my
body has been in probably at any stage of my career.
And yeah, just you know, obviously mindful that what we

(03:16):
do is not not necessarily easiest on the body, and
you know there's been a bit of history there, but
like certainly in a certainly in a really good place
at the moment what.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
You aredentify as to what you had to change, that
can't be the easiest thing to do. You've got a career,
You've got a wonderful career international cricket, but you've got
to rebuild anything specifically cart.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, pretty much pretty much everything to be fair, which
was which was the kind of I guess in a
way it was. It was kind of good because I
was staring down the barrel of a long of a
long rehab. But I was also like if I can
kind of, I guess be playing international cricket, and you know,
I couldn't have really been any further from being fit
for purpose if I tried, really and I was able
to kind of, I guess compete at an international level.

(03:57):
So now I feel like with those building blocks in place,
it will give me a really good sort of foundation to,
you know, to really attack the stuff moving forward.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
There's only three tests, which to the traditionalists, to miserable
old buggers like me, is a wee bit sad. But
you do have a T twenty World Cup coming up,
so white ball is prevalent been expanded. So three tests
against the West Indy still in December, I think it
is you'd be more than excited about that because this
is this is the peak, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, I think I think just the chance to have
a sort of I guess stretched out test series. How
often often we're playing two tests series, so you know,
to have a three tests series is nice and kind
of gives you a chance to really settle into red
bull cricket. Often it's kind of plugged in amongst the
whole bunch of white ball, and you're kind of trying
to to and throw between the formats, so to kind
of have a you know, really like a month of

(04:47):
December where you can just really focus on red bulls.
Obviously exciting for the guys, and like you said, T
twenty World Cup coming up at the start of next year,
so there is a bit of a white ball focus,
but nice that I guess that month of December can
be just solely on red bull cricket.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
And it's the start of the World Test Championship. Here
we go again, and after success first time around, you
be reasonably keen to get back up the top of
you It's one test at a time, isn't that, kyl?

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, it is, Yeah, I think you know, the Test
cycle with the I guess, trying to get to the
finals a two year process, right, So as much as
you kind of want to be back there, and we
obviously saw source Avka get over the line you know,
the other week, it's actually don't want to get back
and but like you said, it's just about each test
and each series is it, you know, as its own piece.
It's just there's so many moving parts to it, and

(05:33):
you know, and so much can happen that you can't
really afford to look too to look too far ahead.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
As far as the workloaders concern, What are you looking
at carrying because we mentioned before you got to be
careful with yourself. Are you looking at going the whole hog?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Or Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:47):
I think I like I said, my body's in the
best place he's ever been. So I mean, if I
feel like if I was I was able to at
least to some capacity play all three formats in the past,
is I'm an even greater chance of doing that moving forward?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's just I guess having the.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Discussions with the coaches and the powers that powers that beata,
you know, have a really detailed plan around what the
what the schedule kind of looks like, and just be
a little bit more planned out.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
They're reactive as we have been in the past.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
But yeah, like I said, my body is in a
really good place, and yeah, I think all three forms
are certainly still on the table.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, you've got three T twenties to start with against Australia,
then there's another one two three up against England, some
mon Danees nationals in you've got to pile against the
West Indies and then well, look, you're not going to
be sure to practice when it comes to the World Cup, now,
are you No.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
No, it's good, And I think that's what's kind of
nice about the schedules. It does give you a chunk
of time playing the format before the World Cup. I think,
you know, with the nature of it, some schedules nowadays
you sort of to and fro a lot and you
don't get a sort of chunk of time to really dedicate,
you know, to one form of the game. And you know,
it's sort of my experience at the start of the year,
I got to play a whole super Smesha Cannibry and
I just love to being able to string together twelve

(06:59):
T twenty games in a row and kind of reflect
in that space and learn in that space when you
don't really get that.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Opportunity too much.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
So, yeah, have a big chunk of white ball cricket
leading into World Cup is going to be hugely beneficial.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Reckon from the first of October right the way through
and until the thirteenth and November. That's a whole pile
of T twenties through there. There's a couple of odioies
thrown on as well. You're definitely going to be well,
what worked and Kyle, anything else, anything else we needs
now about you looking forward to the season, even though
it's months away. You obviously you're feeling bloody good about yourself.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, yeah, feeling good. Look, I'm really excited about where
I'm going to be.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
It's just kind of about a week and a half
into a bit of a twelve.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Week training block.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
So got some pretty pretty lofty goals around where I
want to get to, you know, come come the first
of October. So I'm just really excited to sort of
to lock into that and to kind of come out
and put the summer running.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
We'll let you go, but one last thing. You've got
to tell us you started it. What are the lofty goals?

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Give us A couple has a little bit of a
little bit of stuff on the on the speed radar,
So hopefully that that ticks.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Up a notch, that'll be that'll be the big one.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
If I don't, If I don't quite get there, then
maybe the ones that hasn't quite worked.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Have you got to figure it? If you've got a
number you want to.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Hurt, well, I think it ideally starts with a one
and a four, like that's that's where I want to go.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I don't want to put so many limits on it.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
But that's that's definitely in the tank, and it's just
going about I guess doing that in a safe manner,
which you know, which I feel like I've got the
right people around me to do that. So that's the
kind of that that's where we're trying to get to
over the next twelve weeks.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, easy now, relax into it, do the mahi wee
you need, don't over extend because this is a huge summer.
Really looking forward to it. Great to catch up again, Kyle,
Thanks very much for your time.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
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