CSB - While you were sleeping

Producer Mark runs you through what you missed while you were sleeping.

• The Springboks' confirmed 2025 test schedule includes two confirmed All Blacks tests in New Zealand on September 6 and 13
• Black Caps v England.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
While you were sleeping. Yes, good morning sports fans and
happy Thursday. The spring Box have confirmed their twenty and
twenty five tests schedule and it includes two confirmed All Black
Tests in New Zealand on September sixth and thirteenth. The
venues have not yet been allocated, but we know at

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least one of them will be at Eden Park, South Africa.
They will also host Italy and Georgia in the July
window before hosting the Wallabies twice Argentina once during the
Rugby Championship. New Zealand Rugby is set to announce that
full All Blacks twenty twenty five test schedule next month.
To Cricket Now and England are prepared to inject another

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dose of Bears Ball against the black Caps and that
first cricket Test and chrashes this morning. The team's last
squared off in the red ball format in February of
twenty twenty three in New Zealand, with the teams splitting
the two test series one all. Obviously, the tourists have
a seven win seven loss record this year and they're
coming off a series defeat by Pakistan. The black Caps

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have named that eleven Bill Young the player of the
Indian series has been dropped for Came Williamson and all
round and Nathan Smith is going to make his debut.
He will be the two hundred and eighty eighth New
Zealander to play Test cricket for the country. First Ball
Live eleven am. If you need that commentary going, iHeartRadio

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ACC is the place for that. And sticking with cricket,
South Africa. They've lived to eighty for four in a
reraigin effected opening day of their first cricket Test against
Sri Lanka and Durbin only twenty point four overs were possible.
Kamara took two for thirty five as the visitors used
the seam friendly conditions to dismiss the South African top

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order in the fixt ure. Both desperate to win to
maintain their chances of reaching June's World Test Championship. For
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