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so it was 13 years ago that you were
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nine and you were watching the white F
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how how were you watching the white
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friends on TV was it even televised it
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was like there was one game that was
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televised that I watched um and I'd been
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to a couple home matches so I'd seen a
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handful of games but I knew the players
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um because I'd watch the Wellington
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Blaze play as well so they'd played like
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you know I'd see Sophie play and then
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they play otago see Suzie play but yeah
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that's I guess how I knew but it was
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there was one game on TV that I remember
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vividly
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it's so cool that you've um you've got
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these memories and these role models
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that are that are now your friends cuz
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it's I mean it would have been just as
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easy or even easier for Your Role Models
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to be like I don't know like Martin
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gaple or Kane Williamson or you know
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whoever was Bing the men's game at the
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time yeah there definitely men's players
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too I looked up to but yeah I was
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fortunate that I got those one or two
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games I watched on TV to have those Role
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Models um which now you know it's
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televised more so you can have those
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Role Models but I probably only got to
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watch because I come from a cricketing
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family and my dad would have known that
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they were playing on TV otherwise yeah
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you know you'd have no idea yeah so if I
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mean if you're around long enough
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there's every likelihood that there's
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going to be some 9-year-old kid now
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that's at the Nets with her dad dad
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commentating maybe maybe maybe being you
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yeah and that's the cool thing and I
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think that's now like when you're
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signing kid
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stuff after games and whatnot it's
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taking the time um but also when you
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chat to them when they tell you they
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love cricket and whatnot you say I'll be
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playing with you in 5 10 years time and
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their face just like lights up but
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that's you know that I was at the Nets
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and saw Sophie and suie and they said
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that that's what happened to me there's
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a dream come
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true that's amazing and then and then
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you um you play rep Cricket for
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Wellington when you're what like 13 14
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yeah 14 14 that's crazy like for me I
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wanted to play so I was like got to give
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everything and training like you got to
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be again the best you can be to make
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sure you get on that Park um and it was
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kind of like yeah just the mentality I
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had probably from a young age to just
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not much phas me with not getting
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nervous and whatnot and I just wanted to
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be out there I I wanted to be that
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person in those moments it's like me at
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the Nets with my dad commentating and
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I'd go to school and would do creative
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writing and I'd talk about heading the
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winning runs in a World Cup final and
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and all of that it was just like I D it
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yeah it's almost like visualizing it or
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manifesting it or something it is kind
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of like manifesting and yeah this yeah
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and Vis Vis Vis wow I can't speak
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visualization yes that's the word yeah
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that's crazy and so and it was around
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this time so I think when you were 17
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you were playing um Ireland and you got
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232 232 runs not out which is [ __ ]
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insane but I've seen video footage of
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that it looks like it's on like a school
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field or something it was on a club
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ground right there's houses in the back
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houses just that old Irish Irish kind of
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kind of ground it was a cool little
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ground but yeah it's amazing now where
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we're playing from where where it's come
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but yeah yeah it is it's it's remarkable
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yeah it like so that's like 5 years ago
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and um so it's such a short passage of
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time but so much has changed yeah
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ridiculous amount and yeah like the
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footage I've seen looks like it's
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recorded on someone's handicam phone or
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something I think it
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was so what what are your Recollections
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of that was it just a just a day or a
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game where just everything went right
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you're in that flow State what happened
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I think so so I wasn't it's like people
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like what are you thinking about well I
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wasn't thinking and I think that
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sometimes when you're in your best form
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as a better in in cricket you just are
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so your mind's so clear um but yeah I
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started my career as a bowler but I
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always beted growing up and always have
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been pretty technically technically good
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and it was kind of a strength thing with
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betting and um yeah I got the
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opportunity to open the betting that
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game and I didn't bet much for New
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Zealand um so I just wanted to kind of
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make the most of it and I've been
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working really hard on my betting and
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yeah just you know had a bit of luck
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along the way but things just kind of
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fell into place and it was just playing
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I guess a strength strength based
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approach playing my game but not
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premeditating not overthinking and yeah
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it's everyone asked about it and I don't
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really know what to say ever but I think
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it was just I loved betting and I wasn't
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a better at that point in my career um
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and I wasn't after that either but I
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just wanted to make the most of that
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opportunity yeah 232 not out it's insane
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it's crazy he yeah I mean you look back
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now you're still in the in the early
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stages of your career but you're an
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established player like you you look
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back now and what do you think like
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you're a you're a kid basically yeah I
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mean I haven't thought about it too much
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but yeah when you think when as you get
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older and you think about it I was 17
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still in school
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and yeah I but it was yeah crazy really
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