January 15, 2026 • 10 mins
Blackcap Jacob Duffy has a chat before he heads off to the T20 cricket World Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
That to Nate's gotta be a good night.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's to Night's gotta be a good night. This is
a muster on Hakanui.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Jacob Duffy, black Caps bowler, about to head over.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
To India for a few months. That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But of the truth snow and he's got the black
Caps T twenty World Cup campaign and then the OPL
following not long after. He's had a bit of a
breakover summer and joins us once again for a chat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Jacob, good afternoon, goodaya, here are we going?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well? Good?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, pretty good. We'd just like to sort the weather out.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean you're a cricketer, you know what it's like
when you're board there waiting for the sun to come out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, CREA's a funny one. It sometimes you want their
end sometimes as the worst trainers. I don't know if
you saw the game yesterday, we had this mizzly crep
that just hang around. We're on and off and deciding
what to do. So either pissed down or the sunshine,
that's how I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So what's it like though, if you're a bowler and
the weather's doing what it does when it's not playing
bawlers such does it does? It just guts frustrating. You
just want the umpires to make a call one way
or the other so you can just get on with stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, it is, especially you know, like you're warming up
warming down. We had a lot of that at the
start of at the well in the Springtimes for October November,
so that Australia England series has a lot on off
and just it's no, it's not good for anyone, like
you lose your rhythm as a bowl though the betters
don't like it. It's just frustrating. But that's the weather, mate.
I know you're on a farming show, so I think
(01:29):
you probably talk weather quite a bit. But yeah, it's
just yeah, something you can't control the credit, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, it's fair to say whether's a bit of a
conversation started down here mate. Now we talk about the
Stelley year you had last season, especially your breakout season
with the Black Caps as such, especially in the Test Arena.
Did you manage to get a bit of a rest
over summer because you must have been sick of the
side of a red ball.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, that's good. The whole year really, there was no
real gaps in the calendar. So after that test, sarious
sort of Rob just said you just go chill for
a lot a bit, which was quite nice. So the
boys left for the twenty ODI series on. I think
it was the fourth of January. So I've been lucky
enough to have I got that series off, which you know,
I never thought I'd be choosing to rest, you know,
(02:14):
international cricket, but I guess I just without how everything
is going and the time a whay I got coming up,
it just kind of made sense. So have that time
off and just you know, I had a Christmas at home,
which for a cricket is pretty radic at that time.
Just chill them with family, which was cool. And then
yeah it's just gear enough and spend some time with
the wife and an hour off today and read to
go again for a big shift over in India.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And of course you've got to play a couple of
games for your beloved vaults.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, it was cool. There was more. Yeah, it
was just I feel like I'd get rusty quite quick,
so just to blow some cobwebs out and get the
feel for you know, twenty twenty again. So you're buying
your change ups in new Yorker's which obviously, after a
month of test cricket haven't had much to do. I
haven't had been able to do much of that, so
just to get a bit of game, bit of game time,
(02:57):
and and then hopefully had a grand running in India
in a few days time.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of course, the vaults are the vaults now, not the
Otago Vaults as they have been for white form White
Bull cricket. That is, you are one of the main
drivers for this, along the log and Savory and the like,
so you'll be pretty chaffed with the outcome.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The change of the name.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, man, I'm super proud of that. I guess there's
the conversation for south of that's growing up down there,
and you know you're planning to the arch nemesis to
Tago team is the pinnacle of the area, which yeah,
I doesn't quite sit well for me and a few
of the other kids down there. I know that for sure.
So it is it's a it's a starting point, I guess.
I guess there's only the twenty twenty teams dropped the
(03:36):
Targo tag down to the vaults, and yeah, even that
I don't think capsulates what the region represents. I guess
my my end goal would be to like maybe a
Southern or something for across the board in terms of
you know, your age group cricket. You've got your under
svent teams, you're under nineteens, girls and boys growing up
in South I'm trying to make the Southern team instead
of the Otargo teams. So that's my pipe dream and
(03:58):
that's my that's where I want the thing to get to.
But I guess it's one step at a time and
it's a starting point that I guess the associations realized.
I realized, you know, the Otago thing is a thing.
I guess for Southernders it is.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
A big thing to have a name change, to suppose
and you think of the history that goes back in time.
But I mean you look at the Highlanders and Super
Ruggy franchises and such. To get more engagement with the franchises,
that's why they did it. So arguably the case is
there for the Vaults. If you're going through to Dunedin,
you want to be part of a team that encumbents
as a year. You're not just the province right exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I know the Handers did it. Yeah, A few years
back their song and everything changed. But you're right around
the history and tradition cricket obviously goes along a lot
further back than the Hinds compted, So you know there's
I guess when the when the Otago first class team
first started playing. I think a Southern didn't even exist
at the time, so that actually was the Attago region.
(04:52):
So there is history, and you know there's talks about
maybe the Italia. The first class team remains a Tago,
but there everything else changes to Southern or or whatever
it might be. I guess we're open to the suggestions
and ideas, but like I said, it's a starting point,
so we'll go from there and figure it out as
we go, I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So as far as preparing to go over to India,
how long did you actually get off about touching a
cricket battle ball.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's the thing as a bowler, you can't stop. So
even though you know I had had a break, I'm
still bowling through that break, albeit just probably a little
bit half ast if monus, So just you know, taking
a ball by the lads that were rough and Central
Targo for the twenty twenties. So when it popped on
to a couple of training for beers and just didn't
do it, you know, it didn't take it too seriously.
(05:37):
Just keep the body ticking over, you know, bowling loads.
And I'm sure you've heard about injuries and stuff that's
happened in the in the black kIPS environments. The bowling
loads are a hot topic at the moment. Even if
you get through a truck kind of work, you've still
got to sit sort of keep ticking over, so you
can't exactly go cold turkey. So I sort of bowling
once or twice a week. And then trainer also likes
(05:58):
a seek view that time as a nice wee window
to get some listening and running into. So it was
a working hole they put it that way.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No backyard cricket. Through the Christmas season they wore there.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So yeah, there was the brothers and nephews and nieces
chanted to drag us out there. So we did. That's
always good fund on at Christmas Day out in the
beck lall and that was yeah, that was good fun.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Ugh And utually, well, let's be honest, you're able to
bring the check because.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You can, okay, so through brothers they hands really yeah, yeah,
they brought. They brought some good injury to.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Its Okay, so you're going to India for quite a while,
truth to be known. How do you prepare for something
like that. It's almost a case into the unknown, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, it is a little. But we're going some
You got five twenty twenties before the World cufs, and
they're all pretty random places that I'll be honest, I've
never heard before. So I've got no idea what we're
walking into. Net Regardo. I know it'll be India, so
it won't be too seen their friendly. But yeah, I've
played a couple games to the Vaults obviously, which is good,
just to blow some cobbles out and get a bit
(07:03):
of that game time back and feel the rhythm again.
Any I guess it's a it's a twenty twenty series,
but I guess there's an element of sort of, you know,
gearing up for the World Cup, which is the main goal.
So I got five internationals to compete and try a win.
But I guess in the back of your head was
sort of preparing and getting ready for a World Cup.
So in India against India, you can't get better prepped
(07:25):
in that when I thought.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, and Darryl Mitchell getting there and things the other day,
do you get actual feet when you're watching the black
Caps on Telly at the moment considering you're part of
the setup?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Sitting there home with my wife the other day and
obviously happy to be home and she's happy to hit
me there, but the little part of me it feels
like they're missing out. You know, the boys are steaming
and falling over and Undia and some cool crowds and
stuff that look like so, yeah, it doesn't feel right.
I guess I had the option to be there and
not to be there, and to choose not to be
(07:55):
I didn't. Yeah, it's a funny one, Like I guess
I've never thought that situation would occur to me, but
I guess with what's coming out that sort of just
meet and what'sap and it sort of just made sense.
So but there's definitely part of me sat there and man,
I wish I was there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now going over to India is Shane Warren infamously Onces
got to heave a baked beans shipped over there because
he wasn't a fan of the calinary delights locally how
are you going to go with for the food situation
because it is different to what will be used to
being Westerners obviously, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I've been here a few times now and you
can sort of get what you want to be fear
the foods. It's amazing food experiences over there. I ratchan
Revenge seems to have a lot of contacts, so I
think we get looked after pretty well, and a lot
of the places that he's been to before in the
recould and stuff. So that's always fun to get to
experience and try some of that stuff. But I have also,
(08:45):
you know, whether it's Sri Lanka or Pakistan or India,
I do it seem to get sick every time, so
I'm sure there'll be one time over the next four
months I'll be I'll be hugging a toilet bowl. But yeah,
I don't know. You you've got to You've got to
take the good of the boat, I guess, because there
are some blood goods stuff there too.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Absolutely, Hey, Jacob, will let you carry on. You're traveling today,
so thanks very much for your time. All the best
going over there. The T twenty Cricket World Cup Cricket
World Cup coming up ipl It's all happening over the
next six months to coin Bill Lourie will be in
touch again.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Always great to chat any thanks mate, Laugh out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Loud with ag Proud because life on the land can
be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer Well
Data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I saw a piece of toast at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
The zoo keeper said it was breeding captivity.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Is that more acceptable, Jamie King. That's us for the afternoon.
Great to catch up with Jacob the black Cats.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think we're playing this evening or the next day,
so when youway the last game and that ODI series
over in India, enjoy the weekend, Stay dry. I'm Andy Muir.
This has been the Muster on Hocke and New Hey
think so Peterson Ddix the best of the Muster five
am tomorrow and as well the podcast for today going
up shortly.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
See your Mandate
That to Nate's gotta be a good night.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's to Night's gotta be a good night. This is
a muster on Hakanui.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Jacob Duffy, black Caps bowler, about to head over.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
To India for a few months. That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But of the truth snow and he's got the black
Caps T twenty World Cup campaign and then the OPL
following not long after. He's had a bit of a
breakover summer and joins us once again for a chat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Jacob, good afternoon, goodaya, here are we going?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well? Good?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, pretty good. We'd just like to sort the weather out.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean you're a cricketer, you know what it's like
when you're board there waiting for the sun to come out.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, CREA's a funny one. It sometimes you want their
end sometimes as the worst trainers. I don't know if
you saw the game yesterday, we had this mizzly crep
that just hang around. We're on and off and deciding
what to do. So either pissed down or the sunshine,
that's how I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So what's it like though, if you're a bowler and
the weather's doing what it does when it's not playing
bawlers such does it does? It just guts frustrating. You
just want the umpires to make a call one way
or the other so you can just get on with stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, it is, especially you know, like you're warming up
warming down. We had a lot of that at the
start of at the well in the Springtimes for October November,
so that Australia England series has a lot on off
and just it's no, it's not good for anyone, like
you lose your rhythm as a bowl though the betters
don't like it. It's just frustrating. But that's the weather, mate.
I know you're on a farming show, so I think
(01:29):
you probably talk weather quite a bit. But yeah, it's
just yeah, something you can't control the credit, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, it's fair to say whether's a bit of a
conversation started down here mate. Now we talk about the
Stelley year you had last season, especially your breakout season
with the Black Caps as such, especially in the Test Arena.
Did you manage to get a bit of a rest
over summer because you must have been sick of the
side of a red ball.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, that's good. The whole year really, there was no
real gaps in the calendar. So after that test, sarious
sort of Rob just said you just go chill for
a lot a bit, which was quite nice. So the
boys left for the twenty ODI series on. I think
it was the fourth of January. So I've been lucky
enough to have I got that series off, which you know,
I never thought I'd be choosing to rest, you know,
(02:14):
international cricket, but I guess I just without how everything
is going and the time a whay I got coming up,
it just kind of made sense. So have that time
off and just you know, I had a Christmas at home,
which for a cricket is pretty radic at that time.
Just chill them with family, which was cool. And then
yeah it's just gear enough and spend some time with
the wife and an hour off today and read to
go again for a big shift over in India.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And of course you've got to play a couple of
games for your beloved vaults.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, it was cool. There was more. Yeah, it
was just I feel like I'd get rusty quite quick,
so just to blow some cobwebs out and get the
feel for you know, twenty twenty again. So you're buying
your change ups in new Yorker's which obviously, after a
month of test cricket haven't had much to do. I
haven't had been able to do much of that, so
just to get a bit of game, bit of game time,
(02:57):
and and then hopefully had a grand running in India
in a few days time.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of course, the vaults are the vaults now, not the
Otago Vaults as they have been for white form White
Bull cricket. That is, you are one of the main
drivers for this, along the log and Savory and the like,
so you'll be pretty chaffed with the outcome.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The change of the name.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, man, I'm super proud of that. I guess there's
the conversation for south of that's growing up down there,
and you know you're planning to the arch nemesis to
Tago team is the pinnacle of the area, which yeah,
I doesn't quite sit well for me and a few
of the other kids down there. I know that for sure.
So it is it's a it's a starting point, I guess.
I guess there's only the twenty twenty teams dropped the
(03:36):
Targo tag down to the vaults, and yeah, even that
I don't think capsulates what the region represents. I guess
my my end goal would be to like maybe a
Southern or something for across the board in terms of
you know, your age group cricket. You've got your under
svent teams, you're under nineteens, girls and boys growing up
in South I'm trying to make the Southern team instead
of the Otargo teams. So that's my pipe dream and
(03:58):
that's my that's where I want the thing to get to.
But I guess it's one step at a time and
it's a starting point that I guess the associations realized.
I realized, you know, the Otago thing is a thing.
I guess for Southernders it is.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
A big thing to have a name change, to suppose
and you think of the history that goes back in time.
But I mean you look at the Highlanders and Super
Ruggy franchises and such. To get more engagement with the franchises,
that's why they did it. So arguably the case is
there for the Vaults. If you're going through to Dunedin,
you want to be part of a team that encumbents
as a year. You're not just the province right exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I know the Handers did it. Yeah, A few years
back their song and everything changed. But you're right around
the history and tradition cricket obviously goes along a lot
further back than the Hinds compted, So you know there's
I guess when the when the Otago first class team
first started playing. I think a Southern didn't even exist
at the time, so that actually was the Attago region.
(04:52):
So there is history, and you know there's talks about
maybe the Italia. The first class team remains a Tago,
but there everything else changes to Southern or or whatever
it might be. I guess we're open to the suggestions
and ideas, but like I said, it's a starting point,
so we'll go from there and figure it out as
we go, I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So as far as preparing to go over to India,
how long did you actually get off about touching a
cricket battle ball.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's the thing as a bowler, you can't stop. So
even though you know I had had a break, I'm
still bowling through that break, albeit just probably a little
bit half ast if monus, So just you know, taking
a ball by the lads that were rough and Central
Targo for the twenty twenties. So when it popped on
to a couple of training for beers and just didn't
do it, you know, it didn't take it too seriously.
(05:37):
Just keep the body ticking over, you know, bowling loads.
And I'm sure you've heard about injuries and stuff that's
happened in the in the black kIPS environments. The bowling
loads are a hot topic at the moment. Even if
you get through a truck kind of work, you've still
got to sit sort of keep ticking over, so you
can't exactly go cold turkey. So I sort of bowling
once or twice a week. And then trainer also likes
(05:58):
a seek view that time as a nice wee window
to get some listening and running into. So it was
a working hole they put it that way.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No backyard cricket. Through the Christmas season they wore there.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So yeah, there was the brothers and nephews and nieces
chanted to drag us out there. So we did. That's
always good fund on at Christmas Day out in the
beck lall and that was yeah, that was good fun.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Ugh And utually, well, let's be honest, you're able to
bring the check because.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You can, okay, so through brothers they hands really yeah, yeah,
they brought. They brought some good injury to.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Its Okay, so you're going to India for quite a while,
truth to be known. How do you prepare for something
like that. It's almost a case into the unknown, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, it is a little. But we're going some
You got five twenty twenties before the World cufs, and
they're all pretty random places that I'll be honest, I've
never heard before. So I've got no idea what we're
walking into. Net Regardo. I know it'll be India, so
it won't be too seen their friendly. But yeah, I've
played a couple games to the Vaults obviously, which is good,
just to blow some cobbles out and get a bit
(07:03):
of that game time back and feel the rhythm again.
Any I guess it's a it's a twenty twenty series,
but I guess there's an element of sort of, you know,
gearing up for the World Cup, which is the main goal.
So I got five internationals to compete and try a win.
But I guess in the back of your head was
sort of preparing and getting ready for a World Cup.
So in India against India, you can't get better prepped
(07:25):
in that when I thought.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, and Darryl Mitchell getting there and things the other day,
do you get actual feet when you're watching the black
Caps on Telly at the moment considering you're part of
the setup?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Sitting there home with my wife the other day and
obviously happy to be home and she's happy to hit
me there, but the little part of me it feels
like they're missing out. You know, the boys are steaming
and falling over and Undia and some cool crowds and
stuff that look like so, yeah, it doesn't feel right.
I guess I had the option to be there and
not to be there, and to choose not to be
(07:55):
I didn't. Yeah, it's a funny one, Like I guess
I've never thought that situation would occur to me, but
I guess with what's coming out that sort of just
meet and what'sap and it sort of just made sense.
So but there's definitely part of me sat there and man,
I wish I was there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now going over to India is Shane Warren infamously Onces
got to heave a baked beans shipped over there because
he wasn't a fan of the calinary delights locally how
are you going to go with for the food situation
because it is different to what will be used to
being Westerners obviously, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I've been here a few times now and you
can sort of get what you want to be fear
the foods. It's amazing food experiences over there. I ratchan
Revenge seems to have a lot of contacts, so I
think we get looked after pretty well, and a lot
of the places that he's been to before in the
recould and stuff. So that's always fun to get to
experience and try some of that stuff. But I have also,
(08:45):
you know, whether it's Sri Lanka or Pakistan or India,
I do it seem to get sick every time, so
I'm sure there'll be one time over the next four
months I'll be I'll be hugging a toilet bowl. But yeah,
I don't know. You you've got to You've got to
take the good of the boat, I guess, because there
are some blood goods stuff there too.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Absolutely, Hey, Jacob, will let you carry on. You're traveling today,
so thanks very much for your time. All the best
going over there. The T twenty Cricket World Cup Cricket
World Cup coming up ipl It's all happening over the
next six months to coin Bill Lourie will be in
touch again.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Always great to chat any thanks mate, Laugh out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Loud with ag Proud because life on the land can
be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer Well
Data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I saw a piece of toast at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
The zoo keeper said it was breeding captivity.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Is that more acceptable, Jamie King. That's us for the afternoon.
Great to catch up with Jacob the black Cats.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think we're playing this evening or the next day,
so when youway the last game and that ODI series
over in India, enjoy the weekend, Stay dry. I'm Andy Muir.
This has been the Muster on Hocke and New Hey
think so Peterson Ddix the best of the Muster five
am tomorrow and as well the podcast for today going
up shortly.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
See your Mandate
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