October 14, 2024 • 39 mins
This week on On The Front Foot, Bryan Waddle and Jeremy Coney were joined by Garth Gallaway to give their predictions on the lineup for the Bengaluru test.
They also pay tribute to Black Cap Brian Hastings who passed away last week, and celebrate the White Ferns’ success in reaching the semifinal of the WT20.
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Hello, we're on the front foot again. Three tests in India.
We haven't won there since nineteen eighty eight on Katie
Yep thirty six years ago. I think we've only ever
won there twice NK Poor and nineteen sixty nine. Bangalore
is first up. We paid tribute to another black bet
who passed away last week and two wins for the
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pos as they I a semi final based at the
World T twenty and Garth Galloway and Jeremy Coney with
me and I got some bewildering yous from Moultan, your
favorite ground at Jeremy as bory as it would have
been watching Pakistan score five fifty six in England eight
hundred and twenty three. Finally, a game of cricket broke out.
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At least Brooke had a strike rate of ninety eight
after scoring three hundred and seventeen. But do you know
what sober wildering they're contemplating playing the second ties on
the same strip, did you believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, actually, Evan Gray sent me a picture I think
on Instagram or something. I don't even have Instagram, but
it showed two old fashioned fans at one at each
end of the pitch that obviously that obviously watered where
all the bowler's footmarks were. And they had a couple
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of people peddling wildly to get these fans going around
to try and dry the pitch. But the Jets it
was a it's an interesting idea. It's an interesting idea.
Let's play another game on it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, Well, when I read that there were fans out
in the middle, I thought there were a couple of
spectators had climbed the fence, but I found out that
they were actually blowing fans. You wouldn't have seen that,
gosh that had whipped their hair off the top of
your head, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It doesn't take much to whip the hair off the
top of my head, but I in fact, there isn't
any hair there. But the thing, yeah, it's if they
were fans, they wouldn't have been people because of when
any fans watching the game. Wise, I don't know if
you tuned in, but the whole thing is covered on YouTube,
which is quite nice. So you get that here Athurs
and Hussein and goers back in the team and I
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watched quite a.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Lot of it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But they were saying and that's why this news comes
as such a surprise, because they during that coverage they
identified the pitch for the new game and it was
a couple of pitches away. It had a bit of
green grass on it. This thing, so it does seem
very strange. Indeed, I think one of the most lifeless
pictures I've ever seen in test cricket. Very strange, I suppose.
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I mean, the other thing I thought was intoing. The
Bamie Army were there in the small number, and I
don't think I saw a Pakistan fan in the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Only those ones gath who usually do that sort of
sipping of the tea, yes, yes, and not knowing quite
what to do for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, and they may be planted. I'm not sure. If
they're cricket fans.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They're looking the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Very very good at drinking tea.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There'll be something for us to watch and I'll pick
it up on YouTube if that's where it can be
picked up. The Black Caps hardly had their feet on
the ground before they were entering a short warm up
phase for the three Test series with India. Such as
International Crickets these days, limited warm up time and for
Garry Stead, limited time to says the pitch in being
Aluru for the first Test, but enough time to make
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crucial decisions.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Going on on past conditions here. I think the decision
for us to make will be whether we play three
seemas or just the two. It's interesting when you look
at the last series that India have just played against Bangladesh,
albeit not at this ground, that they have played three
seemas in their own conditions. So I think once, I mean,
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you've been here before as well.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
You know that.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
It's conditions that will take turn at some stage. It's
just how much support there is I think for the
Seemas in the early stages of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I suppose you've got a lot of players. You've
also played the t turny cricket there IPL, but the
conditions may be just a little bit different from what
you get in those games.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Absolutely, And look, I mean this is a high scoring
ground when you look at the IPL and it's not
a it's not a huge ground. And we played here
twice through the twenty twenty three World Cup as well,
a very high scoring loss to Pakistan and the Duckworth
Lewis game where we scored four hundred. So look, we
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have some experience here recently, but just just really looking
forward to getting getting into training today in the next
three days before we start this match. It's always exciting
to come to India. They are a real challenge. They
have a vast, i think array an experience of cricketers
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now and the IPL has certainly helped to grow that
for them.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What areas do you want to see the most improvement
from the last series.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Look, I think two things stand out for me. One
is if we can get partnerships and we start and
put them under pressure, it's maintaining that for longer. So
I think in three of the fore innings in Sri
Lanka we actually batted very well in difficult conditions and
the pitch can change very very quickly over here, So
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it's about recognizing that and when we do get in
is pushing in for big ones. And with the ball,
it really just comes down to accuracy and consistency. So
whether that's spin or scene, we've seen that the most
successful I think players in these conditions it does come
down to accuracy. And you look at Again and Dere
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and someone like Ashwin and Judasia who just I guess
they survive on their accuracy over here. And it's something
that we keep talking about with our players is our
ability to do that will be very important through this
series as well.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What attitude do you want to take into the test
in terms of on the pack, You really have to
take them on like the old days of when we
played Australia, rather than just looking for survival. You've got
to take them on and make the play.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Yeah, I think that depends a little bit on how
the pitch is playing at the time, but we've certainly
talked about wanting to be a team that plays with
I guess a slightly more aggressive It's it's got to
become what it has to come natural to the players.
We have though as well, so we're asking our players
to play with a style that they're going to walk
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off the park at the end of the day saying, hey,
I can I can live and die by it, by
the way that I've played out there. And and because
ultimately it is their careers, it's the ones that that
they are. They are batting and bowling in their careers,
it's no one else, So we are encouraging them to
play that way, and we certainly know against India to
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beat them, especially if it does start turning, then you
have to take a certain amount of risk and with
the bat to score the runs that you want to score.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Any update on Cain Williamson.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
He certainly won't be here to Test one, but we
just play that by air at the moment and we're
hopeful that he'll be He'll be right for Test too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
When will a decision be made?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Look, I imagine it will be somewhere through that middle
of the first Test, and then I think this still
three or four days in between the two tests, so
it's probably no different to us getting here yesterday and
being ready for a test in four days.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Depending on your selections. Who's going about at number.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Eight someone has to say yeah, look, I mean Matt
Henry's scored runs there before. Tim Soudy's better than that position.
They've both scored fifties and that for New Zealand, So
that's always the balance. I think that possibly in New
Zealand becomes more you think about it more there, especially
if it's going to be like real Seema friendly. I
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think here the first thing you want to do is
make sure you've got the bowl, as you think that
can take twenty wickets as well, and that's certainly part
of the thinking as we go into this first Test.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
What about number three? Will Young?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Yeah, I would imagine so, yeah, I see that Will
Young is likely to slot into that position.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What's the latest situation with Kyle Jamison.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yeah, Kyle's progressing well. I haven't obviously seen him for
a while now being that we've been over here, but
I've seen some video of him and he's tracking along nicely.
I mean the plan is still for him to start
in that super smash type window and he's sent me
on track to be ready for that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There's some quite interesting comments in there. One of those
is south to be considered as a number eight. I
can't believe it. I mean, he struggles to be a
number eleven at Test match level. Batting at number eight. Goodness,
gracious me, is that what Gazilla is reduced to.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It seems incredible, doesn't it. I mean, you know, so
many fans have been so frustrated over the Southy's betting
for such a long time. We all know the contribution
he's made with the ball, you know, I can't remember
the last time that he, in the old fashioned phrase,
got his head done and played a proper cricket knock.
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He is seemingly just constantly trying to hit the ball
over the boundary from his number nine position. You know,
I think his batting, I think he's let himself down
in New Zealand down with his batting over an extended
period of time. And it just shows you the sort
of lack of well, this inability to get out of
the club really that I call this team now, And
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it just seems like I for starters, I didn't think
Saldy would get picked for the Test, and I think
that's the right selection. But then to pick him and
play him at number eight, I just find it extraordinary.
And the whole thing is so sad really seeing a
captain having to stand down as captain during a series
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or before this new series starts going to Sri Lanka
and underperforming having underperformed in series before that. It's very
amusing and I'm sure there will be a lot of
New Zealand fans who are extremely frustrated by what they
hear and see.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Jerry, You've had a look at teams that could be
picked out of the squad that they've got there, and
I don't think any of those teams included Sauvi from
our point of view. Unless Stead is determined to play
three seamers as India have done, as he mentioned, and
that would be Sauve, will I Rourke and Matt Henry,
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then wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It Probably wid I think the underlying issue about the
New Zealand side is and the number eight position you're
talking about, is that none of our main bowl is
bat That's an issue at this level. Now, Why has
that happened? Why has Saudi allowed himself to treat his
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batting in such a frivolous way? But for so long?
I hear Steed said he got a fifty at number
eight or something like that. I had a quick look
in twenty twenty three he got seventy three against England
at the base in reserve. You remember the time they
won by one run in England, you know inserted, and
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you said, well they got to follow on, didn't they?
And they were in the field for so long. And
that was at a strike rate of one hundred and
forty nine, which just highlights Garth's point back promptly. Then
five years before that, twenty eighteen, he got a fifty
that was at christ Church strike rate one hundred and
four versus England again. And four years before that two
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thousand and fourteen, he got a forty at Leeds strike
rate of one hundred and sixty six. So you can
see if Saudi bats at eight, is he going to
smash Ashwyn over five hundred and twenty Test wickets? Now
Jadasia or Boomera around, is he going to smash Sarah
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will simply bounce him. So I think if you look
at past New Zealand sides ninety nine two thousand Flemings
team in India number eight, Chris Keirns, number nine, Dion
Nash number ten, Daniel Vittori, that's an interesting eight nine ten,
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isn't it. And then in nineteen eighty five New Zealand
played Australia. That's our team. We didn't play against India.
Number eight Smith, number nine Braceful, both of those two
dot Test hundreds, Number ten Lance Keirns. And then you
go back to that team you were talking about fifty
five years ago, nineteen sixty nine in India, Number eight
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Wadsworth top score eighty, number nine Dale Hadley top score
fifty six, number ten Bob Curis top score fifty one,
and number eleven Hendley Howard top score sixty one. They
could all hold a bat and you compare it to
the lot that we've got. Now there is an issue,
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isn't it straight away?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And the other thing that you meet you when you
talk about heavy houth and you know in nineteen sixty
nine he took nine wickets in the testments that they
wanted in the eight or nine, so he could bowl
as well.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
When you look at Saudi's last ten innings in this
calendar year, he's faced i think one hundred and two
balls and ten innings. His scores are five to one
seven twenty six, not three two two ten and he's
been promoted.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It just says why we need someone like a Nathan
Smith who can bowl his little seema and swing it
a wee bit. Got the most wickets in the in
the Planket Shield last year. Has been over playing in
England of that sort of player, but he can hold
a bat as well well.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think I think more importantly Jerry, you know I
agree with you completely, but I bit more importantly. It
just cries out for you know, a massive shift in thinking,
and that means a change in personnel in terms of
I think Gary Steden co time for a change. This
sort of thinking as woolly and can't last.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
The other person, of course, that I don't think that
they can include in this Test match is Mitchell Sentner.
Either more from a bowling point of view rather than
a batting point of view.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
He is being picked again as a specialist spinner wads.
I think he's played in twenty eight Tests now. He's
taken his wickets at a cost of forty two runs.
His best bowling figures are three for forty four in
a Test match. He's never taken five wickets. He's never
taken four wickets in a Test innings, and yet he
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has played twenty eight Test matches for New Zealand as
a specialist spin bowler again. You know, I think New
Zealand cricket should that we should hang our heads in
shame that he has picked as a front line spin bowler.
And I think the fact that Sody has been called
in for Tests two and three just as a further
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indictment on the spin bowling ranks in New Zealand. For
him to be traveling over there with the possibility of
playing Test cricket, that simply tells you that we have
very little strength in those numbers. And I have to
say it's something that we've been preaching about for a
number of years.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well he's over there of course because Michael Braceball may
be returning home for the birth of another child, so
he's going to be there as a replacement for Braceball.
We want to pick a side that's going to be aggressive,
that's going to be able to take India on. We're
not going to have Williamson at three. Will Young seems
to be the man. According to Gary Stead, what's our
top five or top six flock?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Like Jerry Colonway lays the young Ravendra Mitchell Phillips, I
don't think there's too much doubt you can change a
few of the numbers around, but those will be the
six players with Williamson absent. So I mean, I think
really we could pick three different sides. I disagree with you,
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but with Garth, I think that Santner is one of
our better number eights, even though it's not particularly strong.
I think he got a thirty and a fifty or
something like that in Sri Lanka. But if I it's
a you know, if if I wanted to pick the
best strongest batting lineup, and that may not be the
way you want to go, I'd have those six that
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I've mentioned blood or would be at seven, and then
you'd have Sentner, Henry, Patel O'Rourke. Now what that leaves
is the best lower order we have at the moment
for batting. You know, mean means you've got two seemas
O'Rourke and Henry. Is that the option you want? It
means you use O'Rourke and Henry and after an initial
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crack with the new ball, you then give them short
two to three over bursts to go with the spinners
Stantner and Patel. Stantner you would have to use as
a holding like a third Seema Wads, as he used
to do when Mike Hessen was the coach, especially in
the fings, so that would be similar to the Sri
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Lankan sides that we saw. Then the strongest bowling option
for me would be Blundle at seven, Henry at eight,
but Tell at nine, Sally it's at number ten and eleven.
Oh Raw, that's the three seamers and one spinner. Totel
with the two part timers, and that, I censor is
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the team that New Zealand will favor. The seamers can
do a better job I think in Asia than a
second spinner. Actually, you can get through your first innings
a lot more by using a seamer at one end
and a spinner at the other. It weakens the New
Zealand batting quite a lot, I think. And then the
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third option I think if you want to pursue you
mentioned was an aggressive lineup and aggressive play. Gary Stead
spoke about that, but to go in tandem with the
batting that they that they use against spin. At the moment,
you have Blundle at seven, Henry at eight, but Tell
at nine, Sears at ten, and Iraq at eleven, So
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you get two pace options that will become our future.
You get Sears and if it swings it will you know,
he'll get a bit of movement, a rurical attack with
the bounce. Henry the most consistent medium fast we have
and that's the way. But there are problems again there
the batting is weakened.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Two good options, though, Garth, I think in terms of
the final makeup, bearing in mind that spinning option that
you talked about as a weak area, no braceful. Would
you play them in one Test match and then have
him come home for the birth of his child?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Well, you see, I probably would if I'd like to
see him packed the head of Satan. But again, what
I would like and what they will do two different things.
And you know, I think when Jerry's right, they will
pick Satner. I think you know that that's against figures
of one none for sixty four, one for fifty one
and none for eighty two in Gaul in Sri Lanka.
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So but they'll pick him, and they'll pick him because
of his batting strength. And you know this is this
is what Jerry's referred to and that's been a constant
theme with this, with this New Zealand setup. I think
though that you know everything that you're hearing from Gary
Stead tells you that they're going to play Saudi. That's
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that's what I think they're going to do, you know,
And that means that they will have to play Henry
and O'Rourke as well. And so it just becomes to
me if that's what they go ahead with, they move
away from what they did in twenty twenty one where
they had Jamison and Saldi and Saldi you remember five
wickets in the first innings in camp or in Bold
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very well, but I can't see him doing that again.
And if they go with that side, then it weakens
the spin bowling option. So it just seems to me
they've got a real problem. But they obviously want to
play Southy and for me, I would be O'Rourke and
Henry and then I'd be looking at my spin bowlers,
Buttel would be the first one i'd pick, and then
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I would be trying to find a way for Bracewell
and Phillips to be doing the rest of it. But
I think they'll go with Santana and that defensive option,
and again, as Jerry says quite rightly, he'll be that
defensive bowler who can hold an end up and they'll
hopefully attack from the other ends. But gee, there's going
to be some work to do.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Bracewell, as far as our spinners are concerned, is by
far the most penetrating in terms of spinning the ball.
He will get the ball to get up in the air,
he'll dip it away. But they've got to give him
some bowling. They must get him. He's very good in
the park and he can get as many runs as
Santla's going to get and he'll be more dangerous with
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the ball so well, I personally, yeah, I personally think
he should certainly play.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
The other thing that was interesting when I asked Gary
Stead about what the things that he would like to
see an improvement, and he mentioned partnerships. We realized that
the batting was substandard in Sri Lanka, but he didn't
mention the fielding. And I think that that was the
lowest quality fielding I have seen from a New Zealand side.
You know, we hear the fact that we've pride ourselves
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on our fielding. We've always worked hard on the fielding.
And I dismissed that no one tries to drop the catch. Well,
of course that's not the case. Then no one ever
tries to drop a catch. But the fact of the
matter are there was some poor attempts at catching during
that series and that's got to be picked up as
well to support those bowlers.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Two key positions for me in that regard once Blundell
behind the stumps for New Zealand is going to be
absolutely critical. I don't think he kept particularly well in
India last time, and I don't think he kept particularly
well in Tri Lanka and he did drop a crucial chance.
And then of course Mitchell at first slip, and we've
said live on here on a number of occasions that
Mitchell does not look like a natural first slipper. Yes
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he does take some good grabs in there, but he's
not consistent enough in my opinion to be a top
class first slip. And it's very hard that those two
positions are absolutely critical. And you know New Zealand are
going to be starting well and truly behind things in
India and they have got to be They've got to
be perfect behind the stumps.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
In my view, if you get in in India, you
get runs and runs, particularly in the first innings. The
best way you know, how Will Young is going to
get four possible innings isn't he at number three? I
would think the way it's looking at the moment, if
Williamson doesn't get back there, maybe six. Actually, if Conway fails,
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who knows, this could be a tough tour India, a
stronger bowling attack New Zealand Boom run Saraj. They like
this fellow a steep not a step seeing akash Deep
as well, they like him. But Ashwand Jadeja, Akshapatel and
Kildep Yadav. That's all good spinners, aren't they over there?
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They've got more experience and they know how to use
the SG bore which is slightly smaller. It's got a higher,
more pronounced scene last longer than the kooker barrow does.
As you pointed out, wads twelve series now in India,
and the best we've done is one all fifty five
years ago. You know, our best batsmen is absent. Our
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batsmen gets sixties and seventies. They got to be one
hundred and fifties over there. And I've highlighted here our
fielding in New Zealand has deteriorated. So I've come in.
But anyway, England, and the last point I would make
is India away in Australia next so they will know
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they want the points against New Zealan and they got
a five Test series in Australia. The incent of is
there for India to play well.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Talking about fielding, one of the great fieldsmen of Black
Cap era has passed away last week. You Garth and
Jerry or Jerry you would have played with him in
a few games. I think your first game featured Brian
Hastings who passed away in christ Church and yet another
farewell to a frontline Black Cap cricketer.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Absolutely and Brian Hastings was a lovely man and as
you mentioned, was a very fine fielder, particularly in the
gully behind the stunts. A yeah, lovely man and a
good player. Played at thirty one matches over a period
of seven years for New Zealand. That was a lot
of Test cricket in those days. He scored four centuries
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which makes him more than useful in those days and
thirty which I ventured to suggested a little bit below part.
But the pictures weren't as they are today. The ball
seemed around a little bit more and Brian Hastings will
be remembered very fondly in d by many New Zealand fans,
and of course he played in a few fascinating series.
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He played, of course in that win against the West Indies,
played in the Test when Rodney Redmond scored his one
hundred in his first Test match, and featured in that
magnificent partnership with the Richard Collins one hundred and fifty
one for the tenth wicket's.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Seventy nine for nine with Hastings on one hundred and
two Collins fifty three one hundred and twenty eight. This
one's the College helps us in a swear another world
with God.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Run through the coother yep, we remember him with a
great deal of affection. Brian Hastings terrific contribution to New
Zealand cricket.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah haste. What a good natured, affable and kind of
popular team man he was. His playing instincts were always assertive.
He liked to set up or attacker targets. You know,
good in the park. You mentioned Gully Garth that certainly
and also cover when I was playing. He was part
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of that team in the late sixties and early seventies
really wasn't he. When you remember players like Burgess and
Hastings and Turner and Congo and Wadsworth, those kinds of
people often scored runs when they were needed. You mentioned
that base in reserve sixty nine. I remember that was
the day when Charlie Griffiths and Prof Edwards, the two
opening bowlers for the West Indies, were left out of
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the touring team to go to England for the West Indies,
and they unleashed their anger on the top order of
New Zealand that time, and the New Zella were only
chasing about one hundred and fifteen hundred and sixty something
like that, and Haster went in and we must have
been two for thirty and then very shortly after three
for forty. Hayster was in, but Brian Yule came to
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join him at number five. They put together a partnership
of about US seventy or eighty runs I think, and
Hayster was not out at the end at oh he
was over sixty anyway, I know that runs, and Ross
Morgan from Auckland was batting with him when they won
that game. There's that famous photo of Graham Dowling wrapping
his arm around Hayster's shoulder as they walked up from
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the base and reserve up to the up to the
changing rooms up there. So yeah, I recall two things
about Hayster. The first was that in seventy four when
we played Australia at Lancaster Park, a very tight match,
both teams scoring about two thirty to two point fifty
in each of their innings, and we were batting last,
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chasing Ida know about two thirty, we lost Dad Parker
in mystery Morrison and Congo. Congo was run out and
so we were suddenly three for sixty after quite a
reasonable start. And then Hayster joined Glenn Turner who had
already got one hundred and the first dig and they
had a partnership of over one hundred. I was next in.
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I knew I was watching every ball, willing it on,
sitting in the tunnel down there at Lancaster Park, and
Hayster actually got out on the second to last ball
of the day. I couldn't believe it. He hit Ashley
Mallet and was caught at long arm, second to last
ball of the day. I could have strangled his neck,
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scrawny neck. Anyway, we needed about sort of fifty and
I went in the next day and played a sort
of a very bad smell innings, you know. I hung
around and got out with about twenty to go and
turned from Ken Wadsworth got those runs and I remember
a big flashing off drive where Words smashed it and
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a spectator stealing the ball trying to run away, but
he was chased by a very resolute Ian redpath from Australia,
and he recovered the ball and gave it back to
Haster actually, who gave it to the Canterbury Association. It
was mounted and in the fiftieth reunion, just that last
game we played Australia down there, and it was actually
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at that reunion, So the last time I saw Paste
actually was in the member's lounge at the pavilion, looking
a bit frail, but still very much as sparkle in
the eye. I do remember my last memory of Haste
as on the ground we were playing in Perth. A
couple of our bowlers we were bowling, had a quick
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rub down prior to going out, and Haste the city
had quite a tight back, so he grabbed the young
jewant that was lying down there and rubbed it on himself.
Vigorously on his back at presumably the right spot, and
during which the bell went for us to get onto
the field. So he raced off to complete a quick
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toilet and then ran out onto the field. And for
the first ten minutes I've never seen him moving so much.
I mean he was at cover and he was saving
one almost at midawn, so he's racing across the pitch
to save. He could not stop moving. And I went
past him after an over or two and I said, Haster,
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that stuff's obviously loosened up your back and he said yeah,
he said, but it was going to the toilet after
that was the problem. He said, I'm scorching and on
fire and mistrides. He forgedt. Do you wash his hands? Yeah,
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he had the DP, but you know, Haste to play
for Burnside. He played for other clubs as well, in
christ A, Burnside West. He was of course of Wellington College,
played for Wellington, played for Wellington, Yeah and CD. When
he lived in Blenham, he was an ICC match referee.
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Love Trotting, loved Trotting, but most of all just a
bloody good mate, you know. Hastere was and very sad.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, pleasant man to talk to when you were in
christ Church, and he spent a lot of time watching
games while he was capable. Towards the end of his
period in christ Church. Sad to see him go, but
lovely memories of Brian Hastings.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
The White films are now starting to show a greater
level of consistency. Three wins from four games at the
Women's T twenty World Cup. That consistency is coming from
the younger players, Georgia Plummer starting to deliver at the
top of the order on the expectations from developing talent
the likes of Eden Carson, fran Jonas gaining the experience
on the international stage. Some tears of delight for the
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Ferns that skip us, Sophie Divine after beating Pakistan without
needing run rate to decide their fate.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Oh lot, we wanted to bat. We thought it was
a good surface. I thought Pakistan were really smart with
how they bowl, taking all the pace off it and
making us have to create power momentum, which is really
hard to do when you're facing that sort of lack
of pace. And yeah, I mean outside the power player
I thought we were sort of talking one thirty one
to forty would have been about par, but as soon
as the field is spread, that pace goes off. It
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was extremely hard work, so we sort of had to reassess.
Obviously we would have liked a few more runs, but
that's the nature of the game. And then I guess
the great thing about it as we knew Pakistan were
going to have to come out swinging, and also we
knew that one hundred and eleven was going to have
to be enough, so that probably galvanized the side a
little bit to know that it's enough runs for us today.
And again, just really proud of the way the group
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pulled together, kept things simple. It would have been easy
to sort of look too far ahead, but to do
the job tonight's you know, really pleasing.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The final pool stage weren't coming on top of what
Divines says were supporting Australia to beat India the previous night.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
I think from about the twelfth over of the Australian
bowling innings, we were clapping every single dot ball and
things like that. So look, it was another great game.
Those two sides seem to have some absolute humdingers in
terms of matches. So yeah, again thanks to oursie mates
across the ditch. Hopefully we'll be seeing them in a
final in a couple of days time. But yeah, again,
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it just shows the strength of women's cricket that, you know,
a side like India has missed out. Yeah, and it
just goes to show you the strength of the woman's
game at the moment. Ah, Yeah, you're right, and it's
really important that we reflect on where we've come from.
In terms of that South Africa World Cup, we're in
an exact same situation as we are in this tournament.
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We knew we'd have to win at least one of
our first two games and obviously the remaining games, and
we learn a lot about ourselves, not only from that
World Cup, but the I guess following twelve eight months.
We obviously brought in a really young squad and to
see them grow and shine like this tournament. You know,
if it's not Georgia Plimmer, it's Eding Casson. If it's
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not eating it's Franjonis. But it's not Franuzzy I thought
was outstanding today. And to be able to see the
growth of those youngsters, it certainly makes me proud, sort
of a bit of a proud mum. I'm sure I'm
not the cool mum that they want me to be.
But to see the growth that they've had from Matt tournament,
it was really hard for them to be thrown into
that and expectations. But for us, you're right, probably no
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one has expected us to be here, and I guess
that's a bit of a key we way though, we
sort of fly under the radar and you know, just
sort of will swift away a little bit. But to
know that when we play our best cricket, we can
win this thing. So we'll certainly, you know, enjoy tonight's
success and what we've been able to achieve, but this
is now. The next focus for us is now we're here,
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we want to win the bloody thing. Yeah, and I
think you look at who's on the bench. I mean,
Molly pen Fold has been outstanding the last twelve month.
She's you know, come on and leap some bounds. And
you've still got players like Jess k hanaho Leak Asprick
you missed out tonight, And it is it's those small
way things where it's going to take time to build depth,
especially in the country as small as New Zealand. It's
not going to happen overnight. So this has been you know,
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even since before the World Cup, common games, you know,
for us to continue to build, and it's going to
be a continual work on for us as given the
same level of depth because we're not India, we don't
have a billion people you know to sort of pick from.
So yeah, again it's really positive signs, but we know
that this is just part of the journey and yeah,
we're moving in the right direction, but there's still a
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long way to go.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And their own victory over India in the opening game
was a key factor in their progress to the Semis.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
You know, it'll probably be something that we reflect back
on once this Toilman's finished, whenever that is. I think
I spoke after that match that we've been planning that
game for a long long time and to see our
plans you know, come to fruition is something that was
really pleasing and to see you know, I guess at
the time, it's always nice to win, but I guess
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the way that we won as well obviously helped our
net run rate, but it also showed a lot in
terms of what our bowlers are capable of against you know,
an absolutely dangerous Indian banning lineup, but also with the
bat that we've got threats throughout our lineup. So yeah,
it certainly was. I guess gave us a bit of
a confidence boost. Everyone knows we haven't had the greatest
results over the last six to nine months, so to
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be able to pull that out it has it's given
this group and even tonight's performance I think as well,
you know, Pakistan are a dangerous team as well. I
think Fatimasana is just the absolute future of the women's
game and just so much respect for her and obviously
condolences to her and her family, but for her to
come out there tonight just blows my mind really to
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show you know, her strength and stuff like that, so
players like her going around. I think the woman's game
is going to be in pretty good hands.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And finally this week domestic cricket starts this weekend the
Ford Trophy. Central Districts playing Auckland Wellington a home against
the Canterbury and Northern Districts have a home game against Otago.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Brings to an end.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Another edition of On the Front Foot will be able
to have a look and review the Test match this
time next week. Hopefully they've taken note of some of
the things we've offered by way of assistance and all
the help.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
We know that's not true, no.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
But you know is that our teams never have to
go on the path.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yep, no worries. Good on your odds all right now,
take care bye.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Summer.
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Yeah, take another pat.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Now we don't get in.
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It is out.
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The test is over.
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Us A beauty it is out and.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hello, we're on the front foot again. Three tests in India.
We haven't won there since nineteen eighty eight on Katie
Yep thirty six years ago. I think we've only ever
won there twice NK Poor and nineteen sixty nine. Bangalore
is first up. We paid tribute to another black bet
who passed away last week and two wins for the
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pos as they I a semi final based at the
World T twenty and Garth Galloway and Jeremy Coney with
me and I got some bewildering yous from Moultan, your
favorite ground at Jeremy as bory as it would have
been watching Pakistan score five fifty six in England eight
hundred and twenty three. Finally, a game of cricket broke out.
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At least Brooke had a strike rate of ninety eight
after scoring three hundred and seventeen. But do you know
what sober wildering they're contemplating playing the second ties on
the same strip, did you believe it?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, actually, Evan Gray sent me a picture I think
on Instagram or something. I don't even have Instagram, but
it showed two old fashioned fans at one at each
end of the pitch that obviously that obviously watered where
all the bowler's footmarks were. And they had a couple
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of people peddling wildly to get these fans going around
to try and dry the pitch. But the Jets it
was a it's an interesting idea. It's an interesting idea.
Let's play another game on it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, Well, when I read that there were fans out
in the middle, I thought there were a couple of
spectators had climbed the fence, but I found out that
they were actually blowing fans. You wouldn't have seen that,
gosh that had whipped their hair off the top of
your head, wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It doesn't take much to whip the hair off the
top of my head, but I in fact, there isn't
any hair there. But the thing, yeah, it's if they
were fans, they wouldn't have been people because of when
any fans watching the game. Wise, I don't know if
you tuned in, but the whole thing is covered on YouTube,
which is quite nice. So you get that here Athurs
and Hussein and goers back in the team and I
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watched quite a.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Lot of it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But they were saying and that's why this news comes
as such a surprise, because they during that coverage they
identified the pitch for the new game and it was
a couple of pitches away. It had a bit of
green grass on it. This thing, so it does seem
very strange. Indeed, I think one of the most lifeless
pictures I've ever seen in test cricket. Very strange, I suppose.
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I mean, the other thing I thought was intoing. The
Bamie Army were there in the small number, and I
don't think I saw a Pakistan fan in the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Only those ones gath who usually do that sort of
sipping of the tea, yes, yes, and not knowing quite
what to do for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, and they may be planted. I'm not sure. If
they're cricket fans.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They're looking the wrong way.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Very very good at drinking tea.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There'll be something for us to watch and I'll pick
it up on YouTube if that's where it can be
picked up. The Black Caps hardly had their feet on
the ground before they were entering a short warm up
phase for the three Test series with India. Such as
International Crickets these days, limited warm up time and for
Garry Stead, limited time to says the pitch in being
Aluru for the first Test, but enough time to make
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crucial decisions.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Going on on past conditions here. I think the decision
for us to make will be whether we play three
seemas or just the two. It's interesting when you look
at the last series that India have just played against Bangladesh,
albeit not at this ground, that they have played three
seemas in their own conditions. So I think once, I mean,
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you've been here before as well.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
You know that.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
It's conditions that will take turn at some stage. It's
just how much support there is I think for the
Seemas in the early stages of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I suppose you've got a lot of players. You've
also played the t turny cricket there IPL, but the
conditions may be just a little bit different from what
you get in those games.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Absolutely, And look, I mean this is a high scoring
ground when you look at the IPL and it's not
a it's not a huge ground. And we played here
twice through the twenty twenty three World Cup as well,
a very high scoring loss to Pakistan and the Duckworth
Lewis game where we scored four hundred. So look, we
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have some experience here recently, but just just really looking
forward to getting getting into training today in the next
three days before we start this match. It's always exciting
to come to India. They are a real challenge. They
have a vast, i think array an experience of cricketers
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now and the IPL has certainly helped to grow that
for them.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What areas do you want to see the most improvement
from the last series.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Look, I think two things stand out for me. One
is if we can get partnerships and we start and
put them under pressure, it's maintaining that for longer. So
I think in three of the fore innings in Sri
Lanka we actually batted very well in difficult conditions and
the pitch can change very very quickly over here, So
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it's about recognizing that and when we do get in
is pushing in for big ones. And with the ball,
it really just comes down to accuracy and consistency. So
whether that's spin or scene, we've seen that the most
successful I think players in these conditions it does come
down to accuracy. And you look at Again and Dere
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and someone like Ashwin and Judasia who just I guess
they survive on their accuracy over here. And it's something
that we keep talking about with our players is our
ability to do that will be very important through this
series as well.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What attitude do you want to take into the test
in terms of on the pack, You really have to
take them on like the old days of when we
played Australia, rather than just looking for survival. You've got
to take them on and make the play.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Yeah, I think that depends a little bit on how
the pitch is playing at the time, but we've certainly
talked about wanting to be a team that plays with
I guess a slightly more aggressive It's it's got to
become what it has to come natural to the players.
We have though as well, so we're asking our players
to play with a style that they're going to walk
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off the park at the end of the day saying, hey,
I can I can live and die by it, by
the way that I've played out there. And and because
ultimately it is their careers, it's the ones that that
they are. They are batting and bowling in their careers,
it's no one else, So we are encouraging them to
play that way, and we certainly know against India to
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beat them, especially if it does start turning, then you
have to take a certain amount of risk and with
the bat to score the runs that you want to score.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Any update on Cain Williamson.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
He certainly won't be here to Test one, but we
just play that by air at the moment and we're
hopeful that he'll be He'll be right for Test too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
When will a decision be made?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Look, I imagine it will be somewhere through that middle
of the first Test, and then I think this still
three or four days in between the two tests, so
it's probably no different to us getting here yesterday and
being ready for a test in four days.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Depending on your selections. Who's going about at number.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Eight someone has to say yeah, look, I mean Matt
Henry's scored runs there before. Tim Soudy's better than that position.
They've both scored fifties and that for New Zealand, So
that's always the balance. I think that possibly in New
Zealand becomes more you think about it more there, especially
if it's going to be like real Seema friendly. I
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think here the first thing you want to do is
make sure you've got the bowl, as you think that
can take twenty wickets as well, and that's certainly part
of the thinking as we go into this first Test.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
What about number three? Will Young?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Yeah, I would imagine so, yeah, I see that Will
Young is likely to slot into that position.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What's the latest situation with Kyle Jamison.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Yeah, Kyle's progressing well. I haven't obviously seen him for
a while now being that we've been over here, but
I've seen some video of him and he's tracking along nicely.
I mean the plan is still for him to start
in that super smash type window and he's sent me
on track to be ready for that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There's some quite interesting comments in there. One of those
is south to be considered as a number eight. I
can't believe it. I mean, he struggles to be a
number eleven at Test match level. Batting at number eight. Goodness,
gracious me, is that what Gazilla is reduced to.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It seems incredible, doesn't it. I mean, you know, so
many fans have been so frustrated over the Southy's betting
for such a long time. We all know the contribution
he's made with the ball, you know, I can't remember
the last time that he, in the old fashioned phrase,
got his head done and played a proper cricket knock.
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He is seemingly just constantly trying to hit the ball
over the boundary from his number nine position. You know,
I think his batting, I think he's let himself down
in New Zealand down with his batting over an extended
period of time. And it just shows you the sort
of lack of well, this inability to get out of
the club really that I call this team now, And
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it just seems like I for starters, I didn't think
Saldy would get picked for the Test, and I think
that's the right selection. But then to pick him and
play him at number eight, I just find it extraordinary.
And the whole thing is so sad really seeing a
captain having to stand down as captain during a series
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or before this new series starts going to Sri Lanka
and underperforming having underperformed in series before that. It's very
amusing and I'm sure there will be a lot of
New Zealand fans who are extremely frustrated by what they
hear and see.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Jerry, You've had a look at teams that could be
picked out of the squad that they've got there, and
I don't think any of those teams included Sauvi from
our point of view. Unless Stead is determined to play
three seamers as India have done, as he mentioned, and
that would be Sauve, will I Rourke and Matt Henry,
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then wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It Probably wid I think the underlying issue about the
New Zealand side is and the number eight position you're
talking about, is that none of our main bowl is
bat That's an issue at this level. Now, Why has
that happened? Why has Saudi allowed himself to treat his
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batting in such a frivolous way? But for so long?
I hear Steed said he got a fifty at number
eight or something like that. I had a quick look
in twenty twenty three he got seventy three against England
at the base in reserve. You remember the time they
won by one run in England, you know inserted, and
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you said, well they got to follow on, didn't they?
And they were in the field for so long. And
that was at a strike rate of one hundred and
forty nine, which just highlights Garth's point back promptly. Then
five years before that, twenty eighteen, he got a fifty
that was at christ Church strike rate one hundred and
four versus England again. And four years before that two
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thousand and fourteen, he got a forty at Leeds strike
rate of one hundred and sixty six. So you can
see if Saudi bats at eight, is he going to
smash Ashwyn over five hundred and twenty Test wickets? Now
Jadasia or Boomera around, is he going to smash Sarah
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will simply bounce him. So I think if you look
at past New Zealand sides ninety nine two thousand Flemings
team in India number eight, Chris Keirns, number nine, Dion
Nash number ten, Daniel Vittori, that's an interesting eight nine ten,
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isn't it. And then in nineteen eighty five New Zealand
played Australia. That's our team. We didn't play against India.
Number eight Smith, number nine Braceful, both of those two
dot Test hundreds, Number ten Lance Keirns. And then you
go back to that team you were talking about fifty
five years ago, nineteen sixty nine in India, Number eight
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Wadsworth top score eighty, number nine Dale Hadley top score
fifty six, number ten Bob Curis top score fifty one,
and number eleven Hendley Howard top score sixty one. They
could all hold a bat and you compare it to
the lot that we've got. Now there is an issue,
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isn't it straight away?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And the other thing that you meet you when you
talk about heavy houth and you know in nineteen sixty
nine he took nine wickets in the testments that they
wanted in the eight or nine, so he could bowl
as well.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
When you look at Saudi's last ten innings in this
calendar year, he's faced i think one hundred and two
balls and ten innings. His scores are five to one
seven twenty six, not three two two ten and he's
been promoted.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It just says why we need someone like a Nathan
Smith who can bowl his little seema and swing it
a wee bit. Got the most wickets in the in
the Planket Shield last year. Has been over playing in
England of that sort of player, but he can hold
a bat as well well.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think I think more importantly Jerry, you know I
agree with you completely, but I bit more importantly. It
just cries out for you know, a massive shift in thinking,
and that means a change in personnel in terms of
I think Gary Steden co time for a change. This
sort of thinking as woolly and can't last.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
The other person, of course, that I don't think that
they can include in this Test match is Mitchell Sentner.
Either more from a bowling point of view rather than
a batting point of view.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
He is being picked again as a specialist spinner wads.
I think he's played in twenty eight Tests now. He's
taken his wickets at a cost of forty two runs.
His best bowling figures are three for forty four in
a Test match. He's never taken five wickets. He's never
taken four wickets in a Test innings, and yet he
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has played twenty eight Test matches for New Zealand as
a specialist spin bowler again. You know, I think New
Zealand cricket should that we should hang our heads in
shame that he has picked as a front line spin bowler.
And I think the fact that Sody has been called
in for Tests two and three just as a further
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indictment on the spin bowling ranks in New Zealand. For
him to be traveling over there with the possibility of
playing Test cricket, that simply tells you that we have
very little strength in those numbers. And I have to
say it's something that we've been preaching about for a
number of years.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well he's over there of course because Michael Braceball may
be returning home for the birth of another child, so
he's going to be there as a replacement for Braceball.
We want to pick a side that's going to be aggressive,
that's going to be able to take India on. We're
not going to have Williamson at three. Will Young seems
to be the man. According to Gary Stead, what's our
top five or top six flock?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Like Jerry Colonway lays the young Ravendra Mitchell Phillips, I
don't think there's too much doubt you can change a
few of the numbers around, but those will be the
six players with Williamson absent. So I mean, I think
really we could pick three different sides. I disagree with you,
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but with Garth, I think that Santner is one of
our better number eights, even though it's not particularly strong.
I think he got a thirty and a fifty or
something like that in Sri Lanka. But if I it's
a you know, if if I wanted to pick the
best strongest batting lineup, and that may not be the
way you want to go, I'd have those six that
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I've mentioned blood or would be at seven, and then
you'd have Sentner, Henry, Patel O'Rourke. Now what that leaves
is the best lower order we have at the moment
for batting. You know, mean means you've got two seemas
O'Rourke and Henry. Is that the option you want? It
means you use O'Rourke and Henry and after an initial
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crack with the new ball, you then give them short
two to three over bursts to go with the spinners
Stantner and Patel. Stantner you would have to use as
a holding like a third Seema Wads, as he used
to do when Mike Hessen was the coach, especially in
the fings, so that would be similar to the Sri
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Lankan sides that we saw. Then the strongest bowling option
for me would be Blundle at seven, Henry at eight,
but Tell at nine, Sally it's at number ten and eleven.
Oh Raw, that's the three seamers and one spinner. Totel
with the two part timers, and that, I censor is
(18:34):
the team that New Zealand will favor. The seamers can
do a better job I think in Asia than a
second spinner. Actually, you can get through your first innings
a lot more by using a seamer at one end
and a spinner at the other. It weakens the New
Zealand batting quite a lot, I think. And then the
(18:57):
third option I think if you want to pursue you
mentioned was an aggressive lineup and aggressive play. Gary Stead
spoke about that, but to go in tandem with the
batting that they that they use against spin. At the moment,
you have Blundle at seven, Henry at eight, but Tell
at nine, Sears at ten, and Iraq at eleven, So
(19:19):
you get two pace options that will become our future.
You get Sears and if it swings it will you know,
he'll get a bit of movement, a rurical attack with
the bounce. Henry the most consistent medium fast we have
and that's the way. But there are problems again there
the batting is weakened.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Two good options, though, Garth, I think in terms of
the final makeup, bearing in mind that spinning option that
you talked about as a weak area, no braceful. Would
you play them in one Test match and then have
him come home for the birth of his child?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Well, you see, I probably would if I'd like to
see him packed the head of Satan. But again, what
I would like and what they will do two different things.
And you know, I think when Jerry's right, they will
pick Satner. I think you know that that's against figures
of one none for sixty four, one for fifty one
and none for eighty two in Gaul in Sri Lanka.
(20:21):
So but they'll pick him, and they'll pick him because
of his batting strength. And you know this is this
is what Jerry's referred to and that's been a constant
theme with this, with this New Zealand setup. I think
though that you know everything that you're hearing from Gary
Stead tells you that they're going to play Saudi. That's
(20:42):
that's what I think they're going to do, you know,
And that means that they will have to play Henry
and O'Rourke as well. And so it just becomes to
me if that's what they go ahead with, they move
away from what they did in twenty twenty one where
they had Jamison and Saldi and Saldi you remember five
wickets in the first innings in camp or in Bold
(21:04):
very well, but I can't see him doing that again.
And if they go with that side, then it weakens
the spin bowling option. So it just seems to me
they've got a real problem. But they obviously want to
play Southy and for me, I would be O'Rourke and
Henry and then I'd be looking at my spin bowlers,
Buttel would be the first one i'd pick, and then
(21:26):
I would be trying to find a way for Bracewell
and Phillips to be doing the rest of it. But
I think they'll go with Santana and that defensive option,
and again, as Jerry says quite rightly, he'll be that
defensive bowler who can hold an end up and they'll
hopefully attack from the other ends. But gee, there's going
to be some work to do.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Bracewell, as far as our spinners are concerned, is by
far the most penetrating in terms of spinning the ball.
He will get the ball to get up in the air,
he'll dip it away. But they've got to give him
some bowling. They must get him. He's very good in
the park and he can get as many runs as
Santla's going to get and he'll be more dangerous with
(22:04):
the ball so well, I personally, yeah, I personally think
he should certainly play.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
The other thing that was interesting when I asked Gary
Stead about what the things that he would like to
see an improvement, and he mentioned partnerships. We realized that
the batting was substandard in Sri Lanka, but he didn't
mention the fielding. And I think that that was the
lowest quality fielding I have seen from a New Zealand side.
You know, we hear the fact that we've pride ourselves
(22:33):
on our fielding. We've always worked hard on the fielding.
And I dismissed that no one tries to drop the catch. Well,
of course that's not the case. Then no one ever
tries to drop a catch. But the fact of the
matter are there was some poor attempts at catching during
that series and that's got to be picked up as
well to support those bowlers.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Two key positions for me in that regard once Blundell
behind the stumps for New Zealand is going to be
absolutely critical. I don't think he kept particularly well in
India last time, and I don't think he kept particularly
well in Tri Lanka and he did drop a crucial chance.
And then of course Mitchell at first slip, and we've
said live on here on a number of occasions that
Mitchell does not look like a natural first slipper. Yes
(23:16):
he does take some good grabs in there, but he's
not consistent enough in my opinion to be a top
class first slip. And it's very hard that those two
positions are absolutely critical. And you know New Zealand are
going to be starting well and truly behind things in
India and they have got to be They've got to
be perfect behind the stumps.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
In my view, if you get in in India, you
get runs and runs, particularly in the first innings. The
best way you know, how Will Young is going to
get four possible innings isn't he at number three? I
would think the way it's looking at the moment, if
Williamson doesn't get back there, maybe six. Actually, if Conway fails,
(24:02):
who knows, this could be a tough tour India, a
stronger bowling attack New Zealand Boom run Saraj. They like
this fellow a steep not a step seeing akash Deep
as well, they like him. But Ashwand Jadeja, Akshapatel and
Kildep Yadav. That's all good spinners, aren't they over there?
(24:22):
They've got more experience and they know how to use
the SG bore which is slightly smaller. It's got a higher,
more pronounced scene last longer than the kooker barrow does.
As you pointed out, wads twelve series now in India,
and the best we've done is one all fifty five
years ago. You know, our best batsmen is absent. Our
(24:44):
batsmen gets sixties and seventies. They got to be one
hundred and fifties over there. And I've highlighted here our
fielding in New Zealand has deteriorated. So I've come in.
But anyway, England, and the last point I would make
is India away in Australia next so they will know
(25:06):
they want the points against New Zealan and they got
a five Test series in Australia. The incent of is
there for India to play well.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Talking about fielding, one of the great fieldsmen of Black
Cap era has passed away last week. You Garth and
Jerry or Jerry you would have played with him in
a few games. I think your first game featured Brian
Hastings who passed away in christ Church and yet another
farewell to a frontline Black Cap cricketer.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Absolutely and Brian Hastings was a lovely man and as
you mentioned, was a very fine fielder, particularly in the
gully behind the stunts. A yeah, lovely man and a
good player. Played at thirty one matches over a period
of seven years for New Zealand. That was a lot
of Test cricket in those days. He scored four centuries
(26:04):
which makes him more than useful in those days and
thirty which I ventured to suggested a little bit below part.
But the pictures weren't as they are today. The ball
seemed around a little bit more and Brian Hastings will
be remembered very fondly in d by many New Zealand fans,
and of course he played in a few fascinating series.
(26:28):
He played, of course in that win against the West Indies,
played in the Test when Rodney Redmond scored his one
hundred in his first Test match, and featured in that
magnificent partnership with the Richard Collins one hundred and fifty
one for the tenth wicket's.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Seventy nine for nine with Hastings on one hundred and
two Collins fifty three one hundred and twenty eight. This
one's the College helps us in a swear another world
with God.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Run through the coother yep, we remember him with a
great deal of affection. Brian Hastings terrific contribution to New
Zealand cricket.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah haste. What a good natured, affable and kind of
popular team man he was. His playing instincts were always assertive.
He liked to set up or attacker targets. You know,
good in the park. You mentioned Gully Garth that certainly
and also cover when I was playing. He was part
(27:30):
of that team in the late sixties and early seventies
really wasn't he. When you remember players like Burgess and
Hastings and Turner and Congo and Wadsworth, those kinds of
people often scored runs when they were needed. You mentioned
that base in reserve sixty nine. I remember that was
the day when Charlie Griffiths and Prof Edwards, the two
opening bowlers for the West Indies, were left out of
(27:53):
the touring team to go to England for the West Indies,
and they unleashed their anger on the top order of
New Zealand that time, and the New Zella were only
chasing about one hundred and fifteen hundred and sixty something
like that, and Haster went in and we must have
been two for thirty and then very shortly after three
for forty. Hayster was in, but Brian Yule came to
(28:16):
join him at number five. They put together a partnership
of about US seventy or eighty runs I think, and
Hayster was not out at the end at oh he
was over sixty anyway, I know that runs, and Ross
Morgan from Auckland was batting with him when they won
that game. There's that famous photo of Graham Dowling wrapping
his arm around Hayster's shoulder as they walked up from
(28:38):
the base and reserve up to the up to the
changing rooms up there. So yeah, I recall two things
about Hayster. The first was that in seventy four when
we played Australia at Lancaster Park, a very tight match,
both teams scoring about two thirty to two point fifty
in each of their innings, and we were batting last,
(29:00):
chasing Ida know about two thirty, we lost Dad Parker
in mystery Morrison and Congo. Congo was run out and
so we were suddenly three for sixty after quite a
reasonable start. And then Hayster joined Glenn Turner who had
already got one hundred and the first dig and they
had a partnership of over one hundred. I was next in.
(29:22):
I knew I was watching every ball, willing it on,
sitting in the tunnel down there at Lancaster Park, and
Hayster actually got out on the second to last ball
of the day. I couldn't believe it. He hit Ashley
Mallet and was caught at long arm, second to last
ball of the day. I could have strangled his neck,
(29:43):
scrawny neck. Anyway, we needed about sort of fifty and
I went in the next day and played a sort
of a very bad smell innings, you know. I hung
around and got out with about twenty to go and
turned from Ken Wadsworth got those runs and I remember
a big flashing off drive where Words smashed it and
(30:06):
a spectator stealing the ball trying to run away, but
he was chased by a very resolute Ian redpath from Australia,
and he recovered the ball and gave it back to
Haster actually, who gave it to the Canterbury Association. It
was mounted and in the fiftieth reunion, just that last
game we played Australia down there, and it was actually
(30:30):
at that reunion, So the last time I saw Paste
actually was in the member's lounge at the pavilion, looking
a bit frail, but still very much as sparkle in
the eye. I do remember my last memory of Haste
as on the ground we were playing in Perth. A
couple of our bowlers we were bowling, had a quick
(30:50):
rub down prior to going out, and Haste the city
had quite a tight back, so he grabbed the young
jewant that was lying down there and rubbed it on himself.
Vigorously on his back at presumably the right spot, and
during which the bell went for us to get onto
the field. So he raced off to complete a quick
(31:12):
toilet and then ran out onto the field. And for
the first ten minutes I've never seen him moving so much.
I mean he was at cover and he was saving
one almost at midawn, so he's racing across the pitch
to save. He could not stop moving. And I went
past him after an over or two and I said, Haster,
(31:36):
that stuff's obviously loosened up your back and he said yeah,
he said, but it was going to the toilet after
that was the problem. He said, I'm scorching and on
fire and mistrides. He forgedt. Do you wash his hands? Yeah,
(31:57):
he had the DP, but you know, Haste to play
for Burnside. He played for other clubs as well, in
christ A, Burnside West. He was of course of Wellington College,
played for Wellington, played for Wellington, Yeah and CD. When
he lived in Blenham, he was an ICC match referee.
(32:17):
Love Trotting, loved Trotting, but most of all just a
bloody good mate, you know. Hastere was and very sad.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, pleasant man to talk to when you were in
christ Church, and he spent a lot of time watching
games while he was capable. Towards the end of his
period in christ Church. Sad to see him go, but
lovely memories of Brian Hastings.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
The White films are now starting to show a greater
level of consistency. Three wins from four games at the
Women's T twenty World Cup. That consistency is coming from
the younger players, Georgia Plummer starting to deliver at the
top of the order on the expectations from developing talent
the likes of Eden Carson, fran Jonas gaining the experience
on the international stage. Some tears of delight for the
(33:12):
Ferns that skip us, Sophie Divine after beating Pakistan without
needing run rate to decide their fate.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Oh lot, we wanted to bat. We thought it was
a good surface. I thought Pakistan were really smart with
how they bowl, taking all the pace off it and
making us have to create power momentum, which is really
hard to do when you're facing that sort of lack
of pace. And yeah, I mean outside the power player
I thought we were sort of talking one thirty one
to forty would have been about par, but as soon
as the field is spread, that pace goes off. It
(33:40):
was extremely hard work, so we sort of had to reassess.
Obviously we would have liked a few more runs, but
that's the nature of the game. And then I guess
the great thing about it as we knew Pakistan were
going to have to come out swinging, and also we
knew that one hundred and eleven was going to have
to be enough, so that probably galvanized the side a
little bit to know that it's enough runs for us today.
And again, just really proud of the way the group
(34:01):
pulled together, kept things simple. It would have been easy
to sort of look too far ahead, but to do
the job tonight's you know, really pleasing.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The final pool stage weren't coming on top of what
Divines says were supporting Australia to beat India the previous night.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
I think from about the twelfth over of the Australian
bowling innings, we were clapping every single dot ball and
things like that. So look, it was another great game.
Those two sides seem to have some absolute humdingers in
terms of matches. So yeah, again thanks to oursie mates
across the ditch. Hopefully we'll be seeing them in a
final in a couple of days time. But yeah, again,
(34:37):
it just shows the strength of women's cricket that, you know,
a side like India has missed out. Yeah, and it
just goes to show you the strength of the woman's
game at the moment. Ah, Yeah, you're right, and it's
really important that we reflect on where we've come from.
In terms of that South Africa World Cup, we're in
an exact same situation as we are in this tournament.
(34:57):
We knew we'd have to win at least one of
our first two games and obviously the remaining games, and
we learn a lot about ourselves, not only from that
World Cup, but the I guess following twelve eight months.
We obviously brought in a really young squad and to
see them grow and shine like this tournament. You know,
if it's not Georgia Plimmer, it's Eding Casson. If it's
(35:17):
not eating it's Franjonis. But it's not Franuzzy I thought
was outstanding today. And to be able to see the
growth of those youngsters, it certainly makes me proud, sort
of a bit of a proud mum. I'm sure I'm
not the cool mum that they want me to be.
But to see the growth that they've had from Matt tournament,
it was really hard for them to be thrown into
that and expectations. But for us, you're right, probably no
(35:39):
one has expected us to be here, and I guess
that's a bit of a key we way though, we
sort of fly under the radar and you know, just
sort of will swift away a little bit. But to
know that when we play our best cricket, we can
win this thing. So we'll certainly, you know, enjoy tonight's
success and what we've been able to achieve, but this
is now. The next focus for us is now we're here,
(36:01):
we want to win the bloody thing. Yeah, and I
think you look at who's on the bench. I mean,
Molly pen Fold has been outstanding the last twelve month.
She's you know, come on and leap some bounds. And
you've still got players like Jess k hanaho Leak Asprick
you missed out tonight, And it is it's those small
way things where it's going to take time to build depth,
especially in the country as small as New Zealand. It's
not going to happen overnight. So this has been you know,
(36:24):
even since before the World Cup, common games, you know,
for us to continue to build, and it's going to
be a continual work on for us as given the
same level of depth because we're not India, we don't
have a billion people you know to sort of pick from.
So yeah, again it's really positive signs, but we know
that this is just part of the journey and yeah,
we're moving in the right direction, but there's still a
(36:45):
long way to go.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And their own victory over India in the opening game
was a key factor in their progress to the Semis.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
You know, it'll probably be something that we reflect back
on once this Toilman's finished, whenever that is. I think
I spoke after that match that we've been planning that
game for a long long time and to see our
plans you know, come to fruition is something that was
really pleasing and to see you know, I guess at
the time, it's always nice to win, but I guess
(37:14):
the way that we won as well obviously helped our
net run rate, but it also showed a lot in
terms of what our bowlers are capable of against you know,
an absolutely dangerous Indian banning lineup, but also with the
bat that we've got threats throughout our lineup. So yeah,
it certainly was. I guess gave us a bit of
a confidence boost. Everyone knows we haven't had the greatest
results over the last six to nine months, so to
(37:36):
be able to pull that out it has it's given
this group and even tonight's performance I think as well,
you know, Pakistan are a dangerous team as well. I
think Fatimasana is just the absolute future of the women's
game and just so much respect for her and obviously
condolences to her and her family, but for her to
come out there tonight just blows my mind really to
(37:59):
show you know, her strength and stuff like that, so
players like her going around. I think the woman's game
is going to be in pretty good hands.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And finally this week domestic cricket starts this weekend the
Ford Trophy. Central Districts playing Auckland Wellington a home against
the Canterbury and Northern Districts have a home game against Otago.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Brings to an end.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Another edition of On the Front Foot will be able
to have a look and review the Test match this
time next week. Hopefully they've taken note of some of
the things we've offered by way of assistance and all
the help.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
We know that's not true, no.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
But you know is that our teams never have to
go on the path.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yep, no worries. Good on your odds all right now,
take care bye.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Summer.
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