Will Jacks

We're going to play Bo Webster at eight.

And then we watched Bo Webster and Will Jacks look like they're Ravi Ashwin and Matai Miralitharan on a wearing pitch on day four and five.

The one that Will Jacks spun through Steve Smith's gate made him look like he's a front line off spinner.

But we decided, no, we don't need that.

We're going to play a batsman, like a batting all-rounder as our spinner at eight.

Uh, and just on the-

What about Will Jacks? Where did Will Jacks get picked from, Monty? I don't remember Will Jacks as making debut.

Yeah, I think Will Jacks was more on potential really.

Yeah.

He was playing on Surrey pitches where the ball bounces a bit more.

And, and not-- la- last but not least, is it attracting the premier domestic talent back to New Zealand to play in New Zealand? And is it attracting comparable overseas talent to the SA20 and the Big Bash? I think that's the pass mark for me, because if you can attract talent that is comparable to or shows a tremendous amount of promise, I think the Big Bash for a number of years looked to young English cricketers, for example, Phil Salt, Tom Banton, to name a few other, to, to name just a couple, to come and play in the Big Bash.

And those guys, Will Jacks, those guys are now household names in English cricket, not because of the Big Bash, but the Big Bash was a stepping stone in their development journey.

And at the very least, I think New Zealand are going to have to attract players like that to grow the standard of the domestic game here locally, to give those young up-and-coming New Zealand players on the cusp of international duty, um, or on the cusp of domestic circuits, great overseas mentorship and competition, and also to attract the numbers in terms of fans across those six markets in totality.

And that's gonna be really the key is, can you pack out not necessarily an Eden Park outer oval, because that was packed out for most of the, um, the domestic T20 series last year from, from reports of, you know, people like yourself who went along to those games and took their families-

... it's, um, like we, like we always used to.

Um, I mean, um, you mentioned Will Jacks there.

He was player of the series, and he's had a, a sort of interesting, uh, journey in, in this white-ball setup where, you know, he's a, he's a guy that opens most franchise tournaments or, you know, uh, plays a lot of, um, white-ball cricket.

He's at the top of the order.

But, uh, yeah.

Let's hear from, uh, Will Jacks now.

He is with Henry Moeran.

Player of the series, Will Jacks, many congratulations.

Uh, you must be delighted with how the last few weeks have gone.

Of course, very happy.

Duckett is now slowly finding his form.

Root, Brook, Butler, Jacks, you have a solid middle order right there, right? Yeah.

And Rahan Ahmed, Jamie Orton, somehow their lower order is a bit weak, interestingly, England.

Which is unusual for an England side, isn't it? But then if you look at it, Gus Atkinson can hit the ball.

Top six, right? Up to Janit Liyanage.

They couldn't and they were dismissed.

And Will Jacks took a 5-4.

And Jamie Overton bowling very defensive these days.

Uh, mate, what's that in your neck of the woods, uh, on Tuesday night in Durham? Was that- ...

prime Will Jacks bowling, or was that prime Shane Warne bowling? I couldn't work out who it was.

I mean, did you see the way that-

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... that fifth wicket ragged from Will Jacks? I mean, pitched what, fifth stump, comes back in, hits off stump.

I mean, hey, may- maybe we finally figured out who our next test bowler-

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... is gonna be.