TOM LATHAM On The BLACK CAPS Golden Era: TRENT BRIDGE Triumph, 100TH TEST At MCG | The BYC Podcast

On this special episode of The BYC Podcast, Dylan Cleaver, Paul Ford and ACC Head G Lane are joined by Black Caps Test Skipper and Great New Zealander Tom Latham (00:00)!

Tom Latham is potentially just five Tests away from becoming one of only a handful of New Zealand cricketers to reach the 100-Test milestone, and if it all goes to plan, that hundredth cap will come at the MCG on Boxing Day against Australia.

The fellas also get into the historic Test series win in England, the remarkable opening partnership with Devon Conway at Trent Bridge, the emerging generation of NZ pace bowlers, the huge summer of cricket ahead (India at home, four Tests in Australia, Sri Lanka at home), and everything in between.

Plus the essential dressing-room banter: who would be the worst Black Cap to be on the tunes (Daryl Mitchell, apparently, his daughters have ruined the algorithm), which Black Cap Tom least wants to run it straight with (spoiler: 6-foot-plenty Will O'Rourke), Tom's rugby career as a former hooker who "retired" at 15, his first ever cricket bat (cut down by "Barry the Batman"), his 20-year Kookaburra journey, and why a player with one of the finest straight drives in world cricket can't hit a golf drive down the middle to save himself.

Tickets are on sale now for the summer of cricket at the New Zealand Cricket website.

🕐 TIMESTAMPS
00:00 — Introduction + Rachin's "Who's A Good Skipper?" moment
00:30 — The stats: 95 Tests, 17 hundreds, closing on 100 caps
02:15 — 100th Test at the MCG on Boxing Day + who presents the cap?
03:30 — The huge summer of cricket ahead: India, Australia, Sri Lanka
06:25 — The Trent Bridge partnership with Devon Conway
09:00 — England tour reflection: the whole squad contributed
11:15 — The next generation of Black Caps pace: O'Rourke, Henry, KJ
14:00 — Changing the mindset of a whole generation of Kiwi kids
15:30 — Milo Cup at intermediate: first time seeing Kane Williamson + Corey Anderson
17:00 — Favourite Test century
17:45 — The Ben Stokes / Ben Duckett England off-field circus
19:00 — Kane Williamson's "I'm retiring questions" press conference
20:55 — Tom's rugby career: hooker until age 15
22:15 — Which Black Cap he'd least like to run it straight with
23:37 — Bat Chat: first bat, Barry the Batman, and the Kahuna
26:26 — The golf drive that needs serious work
27:52 — Tickets on sale for the summer of cricket

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