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July 14, 2026 10 mins

Black Cap fast bowler Jacob Duffy has catch up from Guyaua where he is currently playing with the Blackcaps.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The welcome back to the MUSSA. Jacob Duffy is black
is a fast followed for the black Caps, doing pretty
good things as well. He's Sir Richard Hadley medal winner
for the last season. And we catch in this afternoon
and Guyana over in the Caribbean. Of course, the black
Caps are playing West Indies in an ode I series. Jacob,

(00:27):
good afternoon or good evening is the case for you
over there? Good to catch up once again, hel Siggs.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, good, thanks for having me. Thanks all right, we
know we're one old in a series at the moment
of the West Indies and yeah, and tropical Guyana. I
guess it's not quite the Caribbean you think of when
you think the Caribbean.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
But uh yeah, no, we're having a good time. We've
got a good series on our head.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Caribbeans is made up of all these different islands. Is
that correct?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Uh? It is?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But Guyana, it south is on the continent of South America,
so it's yeah, it's a funny one.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You have to lock up on a metho.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's a little bit different to the rest of the islands,
but it's an interesting place down the less put it
that way.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, I suppose coming from the deep South of down
here to over there. I mean you've been to the
IPL as well. We took a bit shortly, but it's
certainly giving you a worldly perspective on things as well.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, that's one part of the cricket life that I
quite like.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, we've had you go to some crazy places
that you'd probably never ever get to one for cricket,
whether that's whether India or Pakistan or.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Whenever we're in Guyana.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
But I certainly you know all that's not going to
roam and you know, Paris and Edinburgh, we ended up
going to some quite interesting places. That's it's definitely a
bit of a difference for between Rougan cricket. But it's
still I like that aspect that you get to see
things that you wouldn't get see otherwise.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But whether they'd be good or bad, I guess you
could say. But that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
As far as the ODO series over there, were you
playing on the same pitch back to back, Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, we played on a fresh one. They're just they're
not very seemer friendly. Put it that way.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
We bowled seven over the seam up front and then
spinners took all ten wickets, so it's quite different to
Kreuger back home.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
They were just I'll be honest, the pictures look like
roller mud. So yeah, there's not a lot in it
for us over here.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
So you've got to adapt and sort of, I guess,
play the second fiddle to the spinners, who are your
main weapons.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So how do you how do you adapt as a
fast bowler to a spin friendly deck like that, which
is totally different to your head a couple of days ago.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I guess it's just identifying what your actual job and
the attack is. So you know, you come on with
a new ball, you use a tiny bit of swing
for while you've got it, and then effectively the best
time to bat is when on bowling, so in the
power play when the ball's hard, so sort of playing
a little bit of defense early and trying not to
get hit for too many runs and then pass it

(02:53):
over to the spinners who can. Then you tie the
book tiler, tie the batters up and sort of you know,
correct pressure.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
That way, and then you've got your practice pictures again, Jacob,
what's the difference there between what you're practicing on what
the main ground's like.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, No, they're they're very similar.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
We practiced like in the middle, so it's all pretty
good in that regard. But again, that's one one of
the cool things like cricket. You know, we played these
guys in New Zealand sort of November December last year
and I had a really good series and you know,
they looked uncomfortable in our wickets. And now that's how
you know, that's how world cricket is. I guess we
come over here and we play on pictures that they're

(03:30):
used to. This is what they grew up playing on them,
so they're the coumpt ones and then we're the ones
have to adapt and figured it all out. And I
guess that was cool the other days that we we
bounced back from a pretty average loss on the first
game to tie the series up one also, I guess
all we can ask for is that we're figuring things
out and learning along the way and getting better.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Touring in an area like the West Indies, like you say,
you played them last summer down here in New Zealand,
do you get much of a chance to actually make
a few friendships of a team or is it a
case of cricketer's business these days, everybody's moving on quickly.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
You do a little bit.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Definitely had a few beers with the list of these
guys after the T series last year, which is quite cool.
And then obviously, you know, guys play with guys these
days in franchise worlds and stuff, so you get to
know them on like a sort of a personal level
a little bit more than you probably used to with
all the all the franchise crewit going on, so it's
start cool. You don't see them around the hotel a
lot too, and all these listening you guys are quite

(04:29):
nice guys.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So yeah, we're definitely for yarns and stuff here in there.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now the up l's been and gone, but least be
honest with your perspective. You champions your team r C
B Royal Challenges Bingalore, I mean involved with the rat
hole of all people. You just briefly describe what that
was like. There must have been insane.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, it was a it was a crazy experience. Yeah,
I don't know as well. First it was a long time.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Obviously we had the World Cup before that, so that
went for two months and then you know, I went
home for a week and then had another I think
I was eleven weeks the IP I went for, so it's.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
A long time.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
But yeah, you go through some crazy experiences. You know,
you're obviously playing and packed out stadiums. RCB as the
team I played for has because of a rat, we've
got sort of the best following, so no matter where
we play, it felt like a home crowd, which was
pretty surreal. You know, got the all stadiums that are
rooting for you, which is pretty cool. But uh no,

(05:32):
it's just yeah, like I said, there's just some amazing
experiences along the way, you rubbing shoulders with some of
the best crickers in the world, some of them you know,
Rats obviously one, and then some of our other overseas
guys like you know with Josh Hazel, would Wed, Jacob Beffill,
Phil Salt.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, just to name a few.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
There's there's there's a few other guys as well, but
just an awesome experience. Yeah, And in terms of cricket,
it doesn't get any harder than that, Like it's on
path international cricket. They got this bloody impact sub rules
that makes the betting lineups longer, so it makes my
job harder.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
But yeah, i'd definitely be a bit of cricket for it.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Put it that way, Well, you go back to your
IPL debut, getting three wickets on debut and the opening
game of the IPL none less, and the crowd is
changing your name when you walked off the pitch. That
must have been pretty cool from a bloke for a
blake from Lambsdon.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
You just, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
I wonder if I don't appreciate it as much as
I could of, because obviously we come from the World
Cup and you're you're away from a home for so long,
and you just take a little of those things for granted.
But that was pretty buzzy experience. Timoshami Stadium there in Bangalor.
It's a pretty loud place. And you know, I've also
got subbed off that game, so because of the impact rule,
they can sub out one of the bowlers and bring

(06:45):
it better. And so as soon as I've been in bowling,
I got to walk off the pitch to it like
a sort of a standing ovation from a whole crowd
chaining your name, which yeah, like you say, a dude
from Lumson, let's just unheard of.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, it's hard to point the words. It's just a
crazy experience.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
But I think one day I look back on and go, wow,
that was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Now the recent Test series in the UK, you weren't
there because you were home with your wife Taj for
the birth of your first child. Congratulations on that by
the way, mate, But look over in the UK getting
the business done and what was a bit of a
funny series in which we seen the end of basball.
It must have been a bit weird to watch, knowing
that the Fellows were doing such a good job on
the pitch, but it was overshadowed by something else.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, it's a crazy, crazy series, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I guess Yeah, I don't know that English set up.
It just seems like it's a pretty bizarre set up
to me, isn't it? Really?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Not to make it?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think what was cool was that as a New
Zealand team, I think the boys showed that, you know,
you put your head down, your bum up. They just
work hard. We played test career. Some would say as
it should be. You know, when it was hard, we
sort of knuckled down. Like you said that Darryl Mitchell
hundred that day where he was wearing them all over
the body and well, yeah, what I've heard from them
is that they thought that wasn't the way to go play.

(08:00):
They attack tough stuff with they try to attack it
and had balls for sixers and fours instead of trying
to grind it out and grind it out like we did.
And what was cause that we showed them that the
old gutsy New Zealand wave seen to work, you know,
work the best in that situation.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
So yeah, like I said, there's a cool series to watch.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's great, it was a great viewing, but then it
just looked bloody bizarre and yeah, I think that's a
much boys. Yeah, there's obviously a lot of noise over
there with their media and stuff, so it's quite interesting
to follow. And actually playing with a few of those
guys in the IPL and hearing sort of their perspectives
on it was quite interesting. But yeah, I like the
way that we went about it and we just went away.
We went about it and just did our business as

(08:40):
it should be done. And yeah, like I say, series
wins in England are pretty rare to come by, so
not taking that for granted for.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Sure, Jacob. Just finally you're over there playing adi series
at the moment, which seems to be raer and rarer
by the season. How do you find it with all
three games, all three forms of cracket and having to adjust.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, it can be a little bit tricky.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I know. This is actually the first non twenty twenty
I've played this in this calendar year, so it's just
been a heavy diet at twenty twenty with obviously the
series were in India beforehand, and then IPL and World Cup,
so it's quite nice to come in and you know,
I got left in my first over, which felt crazy
because I didn't had that happen to me for a while.
But yeah, I think it's it's not easy. I think

(09:26):
what I appreciate them as I've gotten older, the the
guys who are world class Josh hazel Is, you're desperate,
Boomer has met Henry. You know, those guys are sort
of performing across formats at the highest level possible, which
you know, I appreciate that a lot, like each game
requires different skills and you know, different physical things, but

(09:48):
from a skill point of view, it's incredibly difficult to
sort of be at the top of the top of
the world games.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I guess in all.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Three forms, so it's pretty Yeah, it is hard, but
it's an awesome challenge and especially when you chuck in
like these conditions and and things like that.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's all adapting on the fly a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Hey, good on you, Jacob, thanks for your time once again. Coincidentally,
it was New Zealand's four hundredth od I win and
that game yesterday, so yes, something to be a part of.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, that's cool. I don't know that. That's a that's
a good step. Awesome, thanks Andy, appreciate me.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
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(10:45):
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