December 17, 2025 • 7 mins
The third and final test match of the summer of cricket begins tomorrow with the Black Caps taking on the West Indies.
The Black Caps will be hoping to end the test summer with a win and to win the series they currently lead 1-0.
Zac Foulkes is a bowler for the Black Caps and he joined D'Arcy to talk about the upcoming test match.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk ZEDB on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
To the Summer of cricket. We're looking toward the third
and final Test match of the home at Summer Bay Oval.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is on a.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Zack Folks joins us now we expect he'll be playing
in the Test match against the Windys. He also picked
up a bit of cash last night in the IPL auction.
Good a, Zach, are you not bad?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How closely did you watch that auction or did you
just find out in the morning like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Me and Duff watched him get sold and then I
was a bit later. I think I was like four am.
So I went off to bed and yeah, woke up
to the news.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right. So I'm presuming when you say Duff, you're talking
about Jacob Duffy, who's rapidly becoming my new favorite player
or interview. That's the case, you good mates?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's really looked after me since coming
into the environment. Has been really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So we came into the environment and you came in
and suddenly you played a handful of tees and t
twenties and one day internationals. Did it happen a little
bit too quick for you?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, it's all happened pretty quickly. Yeah, lot's been going
on in the cricket landscape, and yeah, it's all happened
very very quickly for myself, which is obviously a bit
of a pinch me moment a lot of the time.
But no, very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
When I speak with Jacob Duffy, I asked him about
he's coming back to the crease as a much older guy,
not ancient, but just older, and he said, yeah, really
difficult when you get to a high level very very early,
because you don't quite know your own game. But you've
been playing domestic cricket for Canterbury at a high level
since you're How old were you when you're debuted? So
(01:49):
you know your game by now, right?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I like to think I know my game. I'm always
trying to trying to learn and pick the brains of
like the Matt Henry Kyle Jamison Duffy. Yeah, just trying
to trying to expand my game and yeah, look to
look to develop and always get better.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
When you started for Canterbury, tell us what it was like.
Were you just overwhelmed? Where did you play. Did you
remember the moment?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, it's obviously something that you really look forward to.
Is obviously pretty cool to make my debut for Canterbury. Yeah,
it was awesome. We actually got a bit of a
hiding that game, but no, it was cool to put
on the put on the red for the first time
and yeah, represent my family and yeah it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What about your club when do you actually play most
of your cricket? I mean you're a Saint Andrew's boy,
aren't you? Said? I played a wee bit there, But
where else did you play?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Played my cricket my club group for Darfield and then
play for Canary Country as well, and the Hook Cup
and stuff like that, which has been really cool and
very influential on my development as a cricketer.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
On the IPL situation, you put your name up there,
I don't know how high your expectations were around us,
but you've walked away one hundred and forty and fifty
thousand bucks. Did you genuinely think you might have it shot? No?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Not really. I thought I was definitely a long shot
to get picked up. But yeah, just been talking to
the guys and they sort of see, just check your
name in you've got to be in it to win it, essentially,
which was the coms I got. And yeah, thankfully it's nice,
nice waking up to that news this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
How are you going carrying? It's not you alone, but
carrying the weight of being one of the few seam
bowls still fit left in New Zealand Because you've had
a bit of a load to carry, haven't you, Zach.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, me and Jacob have had a lot of load.
There's recent recent couple of weeks, but no, it's always
a privileged to strap on the fern and yeah, go
about your work, so your fingers crossed. I get the
nod tomorrow and we can do it all the game
for the next five days.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What did you learn about yourself in that time with
all that pressure on you, because plainly you've been completely gassed.
I mean it's very very difficult to do what you do.
But when you look back at that time, is there
anything that really stood out to you about your development
as an international player in that time? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think that was the most most of us by
far that I've bold in a Yeah, four day, five
day cricket games, so yeah, it was obviously, yeah, hard work,
but It's nice knowing that Jacob was going through all
the same as well. And yeah, just trying to run
on each ball and try to put as much effort
(04:34):
and as possible and your fingers crossed we could get
the result. But yeah, obviously they betted really well in
that drawn game, and yeah, it wasn't to be that day,
but yeah it was. It was cool. It was cool.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You're twenty three years old, still got time to develop
and work through your game. Where are the areas you
need to lift? You think? Have you've been overly critical
of your own performance with the boy and the bat?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of there's a lot
of a lot of room to improve. Yeah, obviously my
main main skill is swinging the ball in and then
just trying to add from that. Yeah, there's a lot
of a lot of a lot of room for improvement,
I know, any of the finished product. And yeah, just
trying to get better each and every day. And yeah,
(05:21):
just learn as much as possible from the guys around me.
I'm in a very fortunate situation playing for Canterbury and
playing for Black Caps. There's likes of Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson,
Darryl Mitchell, Jacob Duffy, just to learn off and try
and grow my game, and they they're very very helpful
in that way. Ye're always free for a chat, free
(05:43):
to yeah just cook cook talk cricket, which is cool
and yeah, I really appreciate all that they do for me.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
When you're growing up, was there a player that you
look toward. I'm not saying poster on the wall, but
somebody thought, you know what, I'm taking his boots that
I want to do this. How old were you when
you decided you wanted to go further as you can
in cricket? And who was you target? Who was your
man of the hour?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's hard to look past one of our greatest king Williamson.
It's awesome to be able to share addressing room with
him at the moment. Yeah, he's Yeah, he's been awesome
for a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Feels it feels surreal actually to sit next to him
in the changing room now and actually be able to
talk to him and you get to know him, which
is really cool.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Do you feel like you belong the group's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Very inviting, which is awesome. Yeah, it's obviously a little
bit of yea punched me, like pinch me. Moments happened,
happened a lot. Even yesterday at training trot Bolt turned
up that which was pretty cool. He bowled in the
nets and he was It was seriously cool to watch
him go about his work and see what he's doing
and shoot shoot the breeze with him, and yeah, try
(06:56):
try spoke up as much as possible from him, because yeah,
I haven't had much to do with him, which was
it was cool to to see what he how he
goes about his work.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Not sure if you're a cricket nafy or not, but
I'm hoping that you've got life outside of cricket. What
else amuses you? Zach? How do you actually turn off?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I try to play a little bit of golf pretty poorly,
but you enjoy walking around the golf course with my
mates and yeah, just trying to switch off.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I guess, well, switch on tomorrow. I'm pretty sure you're
going to get packed. Well, we'll see. I could be
made a liar off. It's not the first time that's happened,
and we look forward to us seeing you get up
there and strut your stuff after a bit of a
rest mate. You deserve it. Zach Folks, thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Awesome. Thanks heeps.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
For more from sports talk, listen live to news talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk ZEDB on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
To the Summer of cricket. We're looking toward the third
and final Test match of the home at Summer Bay Oval.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is on a.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Zack Folks joins us now we expect he'll be playing
in the Test match against the Windys. He also picked
up a bit of cash last night in the IPL auction.
Good a, Zach, are you not bad?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
How closely did you watch that auction or did you
just find out in the morning like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Me and Duff watched him get sold and then I
was a bit later. I think I was like four am.
So I went off to bed and yeah, woke up
to the news.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right. So I'm presuming when you say Duff, you're talking
about Jacob Duffy, who's rapidly becoming my new favorite player
or interview. That's the case, you good mates?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's really looked after me since coming
into the environment. Has been really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So we came into the environment and you came in
and suddenly you played a handful of tees and t
twenties and one day internationals. Did it happen a little
bit too quick for you?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, it's all happened pretty quickly. Yeah, lot's been going
on in the cricket landscape, and yeah, it's all happened
very very quickly for myself, which is obviously a bit
of a pinch me moment a lot of the time.
But no, very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
When I speak with Jacob Duffy, I asked him about
he's coming back to the crease as a much older guy,
not ancient, but just older, and he said, yeah, really
difficult when you get to a high level very very early,
because you don't quite know your own game. But you've
been playing domestic cricket for Canterbury at a high level
since you're How old were you when you're debuted? So
(01:49):
you know your game by now, right?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I like to think I know my game. I'm always
trying to trying to learn and pick the brains of
like the Matt Henry Kyle Jamison Duffy. Yeah, just trying
to trying to expand my game and yeah, look to
look to develop and always get better.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
When you started for Canterbury, tell us what it was like.
Were you just overwhelmed? Where did you play. Did you
remember the moment?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, it's obviously something that you really look forward to.
Is obviously pretty cool to make my debut for Canterbury. Yeah,
it was awesome. We actually got a bit of a
hiding that game, but no, it was cool to put
on the put on the red for the first time
and yeah, represent my family and yeah it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What about your club when do you actually play most
of your cricket? I mean you're a Saint Andrew's boy,
aren't you? Said? I played a wee bit there, But
where else did you play?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Played my cricket my club group for Darfield and then
play for Canary Country as well, and the Hook Cup
and stuff like that, which has been really cool and
very influential on my development as a cricketer.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
On the IPL situation, you put your name up there,
I don't know how high your expectations were around us,
but you've walked away one hundred and forty and fifty
thousand bucks. Did you genuinely think you might have it shot? No?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Not really. I thought I was definitely a long shot
to get picked up. But yeah, just been talking to
the guys and they sort of see, just check your
name in you've got to be in it to win it, essentially,
which was the coms I got. And yeah, thankfully it's nice,
nice waking up to that news this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
How are you going carrying? It's not you alone, but
carrying the weight of being one of the few seam
bowls still fit left in New Zealand Because you've had
a bit of a load to carry, haven't you, Zach.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, me and Jacob have had a lot of load.
There's recent recent couple of weeks, but no, it's always
a privileged to strap on the fern and yeah, go
about your work, so your fingers crossed. I get the
nod tomorrow and we can do it all the game
for the next five days.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What did you learn about yourself in that time with
all that pressure on you, because plainly you've been completely gassed.
I mean it's very very difficult to do what you do.
But when you look back at that time, is there
anything that really stood out to you about your development
as an international player in that time? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think that was the most most of us by
far that I've bold in a Yeah, four day, five
day cricket games, so yeah, it was obviously, yeah, hard work,
but It's nice knowing that Jacob was going through all
the same as well. And yeah, just trying to run
on each ball and try to put as much effort
(04:34):
and as possible and your fingers crossed we could get
the result. But yeah, obviously they betted really well in
that drawn game, and yeah, it wasn't to be that day,
but yeah it was. It was cool. It was cool.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You're twenty three years old, still got time to develop
and work through your game. Where are the areas you
need to lift? You think? Have you've been overly critical
of your own performance with the boy and the bat?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of there's a lot
of a lot of room to improve. Yeah, obviously my
main main skill is swinging the ball in and then
just trying to add from that. Yeah, there's a lot
of a lot of a lot of room for improvement,
I know, any of the finished product. And yeah, just
trying to get better each and every day. And yeah,
(05:21):
just learn as much as possible from the guys around me.
I'm in a very fortunate situation playing for Canterbury and
playing for Black Caps. There's likes of Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson,
Darryl Mitchell, Jacob Duffy, just to learn off and try
and grow my game, and they they're very very helpful
in that way. Ye're always free for a chat, free
(05:43):
to yeah just cook cook talk cricket, which is cool
and yeah, I really appreciate all that they do for me.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
When you're growing up, was there a player that you
look toward. I'm not saying poster on the wall, but
somebody thought, you know what, I'm taking his boots that
I want to do this. How old were you when
you decided you wanted to go further as you can
in cricket? And who was you target? Who was your
man of the hour?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's hard to look past one of our greatest king Williamson.
It's awesome to be able to share addressing room with
him at the moment. Yeah, he's Yeah, he's been awesome
for a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Feels it feels surreal actually to sit next to him
in the changing room now and actually be able to
talk to him and you get to know him, which
is really cool.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Do you feel like you belong the group's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Very inviting, which is awesome. Yeah, it's obviously a little
bit of yea punched me, like pinch me. Moments happened,
happened a lot. Even yesterday at training trot Bolt turned
up that which was pretty cool. He bowled in the
nets and he was It was seriously cool to watch
him go about his work and see what he's doing
and shoot shoot the breeze with him, and yeah, try
(06:56):
try spoke up as much as possible from him, because yeah,
I haven't had much to do with him, which was
it was cool to to see what he how he
goes about his work.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Not sure if you're a cricket nafy or not, but
I'm hoping that you've got life outside of cricket. What
else amuses you? Zach? How do you actually turn off?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I try to play a little bit of golf pretty poorly,
but you enjoy walking around the golf course with my
mates and yeah, just trying to switch off.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I guess, well, switch on tomorrow. I'm pretty sure you're
going to get packed. Well, we'll see. I could be
made a liar off. It's not the first time that's happened,
and we look forward to us seeing you get up
there and strut your stuff after a bit of a
rest mate. You deserve it. Zach Folks, thanks for your time.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Awesome. Thanks heeps.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
For more from sports talk, listen live to news talks
it'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
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