"36 Years In The Making"

bet my house on it. Fortunately I didn't, or I might have woken up today in a tin Tinranui. It truly boggles the mind and reminds us all of the beautiful, unpredictable nature of sport. So let's get to it, but it with a little bit of a twist, as our correspondents are currently scattered around the world. But I believe we have a bit of check from our one and only Dylan Kleaver.

It's unlikely that the cricinfo dot com live storing has ever been refreshed as often from the Greatest Saigon area as it was in those twenty four hours where I was trying to catch, desperately trying to catch the results from Bengalaru and Dubai. Have we now returned to the land of along white cloud. I'm still working my way through the highlights packages and we'll watch the full final

of the World T twenty. But I do have some top of the head thoughts, so I'd like to share before a return to the show properly following the second test in Pune, first from BEng Laru. Look, I'm not telling you anything you don't know here. Barachin Ravendra has the tools to be a multi format superstar. Some of his shot making and difficult conditions is breathtaking. That guy's

ceiling would appear to be limitless. And I know it's very early and it's test career to be talking like that, but the guy just has something special and watching him go about his work has become one of the great cricket watching pleasures. Now, I thought New Zealand even in even in spinning conditions, although you know there wasn't so

much spinning conditions in Benglaru all. Obviously it wasn't particularly on that first morning, but I just think they look a better balanced team with a three man seam attack.

All were very good, even Jim Sounder, who again just couldn't get that kind of clutch of wickets that he said desperately needs to convince people that he belongs there and who was actually there's facing a controversial selection beforehand, and I'm sure if Ben Sears hadn't been injured that many of us would have been calling for him to play rather than Sali. But I thought Saudi was very good, whereas Matt Henry and Willow Rock just had moments of

brilliance in as I said, admdtly helpful conditions. But I just think the whole thing is held better together, is more glue to that attack. When they do have the three seamers, Pune will almost certainly offer a totally different surface that I mean ready reports, so that it looks like a very bare black soil wicket that's going to spin from day one. So there must be a temptation, I guess, to bring a Santana back into the fold,

but I'm not sure i'd change anything at all. I'd be very tempted to run out that same bowling attack. Another thought that I had, And look, I don't think it's been mentioned many places, and perhaps my cd CAN connection has been a lot for this a little bit more. But I thought it was a quite important job that was done by will Young, who was under immense pressure to provide just a semblance of the ballast that came.

Williamson gives it. Three came. Williams is not going to be there again in poone, and I guess it's probably looking more and more unlike as each day passes, and you'll get to India at all for the Tests, with the third and final one to be played at wan K Stadium, so Will Young will get at least one more run at number three. The forty Old Night Out and turned what could have been a treacherous chase into a formality. So well done there, and because I guess

it's cricket and things just changed so quickly. We now find that Given Conway is no longer on the run scoring hot seat, but Tom Latham certainly still is. You know again probably difficult conditions to throw too much heat his way out. He desperately needs the score and just quietly.

I don't think General Richell would say no to one either at the moment, but anyway, it was just, you know, it's an amazing result to win a Test in India, to do it in those circumstances, to running for losing the toss and then running through them on the well. It was the second morning, but the first day of

any action was amazing. And then to fight back after India pretty much put themselves in a position where it looked like they might steal it with the sensational third innings betting effort was really good bad you know, if anything, it paled to what happened and do by going into this tournament, if you had told me that the White Ferns would end up winning it, I would have thought you were smoking something. A lot of things had to

go their way and they did. They didn't face Australia or England to have been the twin nemeses in the knockouts, which was obviously advantageous for them, but you know that doesn't really matter. You play who you play. And in the semi final, in the final, they were wonderful. And I say that in a slightly compromised position, and that I haven't seen any other than the highlights at this point. But you know, they did what they needed to do.

They did it in the way that we've been asking for a long time, which was from contributions from people other than Susie Bates and Safety Divine and Amedia Occur. I mean, Amenia cur had at a magnificent final with bat and ball and in fact you're bowling probably made a dominant figure of the tournament as a whole. But they got contributions from players who have been straggling big time.

They got contributions from Rasmie Meyer, who is superb. They got really telling contributions with the bat from Georgia Plymouth, who has spent a long time being labeled the most promising young woman's batter in the country. But it just hasn't been able to put the runs on the board. She said they did that at the right time. There was a physic and energy clearly to the way they

went about their work. And I pondered in the bounce with this sort of deep philosophical question, whether all the pain of the past couple of years, and remember they came into this tournament having lost ten, ten, twenty eyes in a row, which is really hard to do for a competitive team, is it worth it to get a

result like this? And it clearly is worth it to get a result like this, But at the same time, they cannot fall back into those patterns that enabled them to or not enabled them, which sort of saw such a string of poor results. This is going to be a catalyst for so real dynamic White Ferns cricket over the next couple of years. Sure, they've got a couple of other veterans who are still very important, who ain't getting any younger, But I see this as a real

opportunity for a springboard. Not only that, I think if you look at the bigger picture, a women's cricket in New Zealand has struggled to get the cream of the best athletic talent, and I think this could be a catalyst for New Zealand cricket to be more proactive in that space, because if I'm looking.