Mike Lane: ACC head ahead of the Black Caps v India T20 World Cup final

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Very well in an attempt to boost the ratings of this show. I've gone to the alternative commentary collective

They head of the ACC Mike Lane who has gone to India to watch the final remarkable

dedication. When did you arrive?

I actually arrived and I'm about about 12 hours ago plenty. I must admit given current geopolitical issues going on

elsewhere in the world it's been quite hard to get here given the two biggest

kind of ports to go through is Doha and Dubai

So I had to get a little bit creative went through Singapore Singapore then over to India. Got air eventually

It's a little bit weary, but it's both final stay mate. It's all go here. They're pretty pumped here

I can tell you that and

130,000 people are going to be rammed into the stadium. I actually don't know what to expect to be honest

That is one massive humanity. That absolutely is. It's an enormous venue and as you say

99.9% of them are going to be wanting India to want. Do you have you got it? Have you got a ticket or at least a media pass of some sort?

Look I've left everything very late. It's plenty. I must admit my visa came through at hour before I got on the plane

So that was that was cutting it fine managed to get a ticket

I did manage to get no media pass though. I mean myself and the ICC. I've got a bit of history

Piney. I don't know. I won't go into it now, but I don't imagine they'll be giving me in the accreditation anytime soon

So I'm just going I'm just going in with the with the punters

Jeez, I don't I actually don't I like I said. I don't know what to expect

This is the biggest sports stadium in the world, which I've just read. I'm like oh my god

So I don't know how early to get there Ricky Martin's playing tonight in the closing ceremony

So that's something to look forward to forever. I

Oh joy. Oh, that's yeah, that'll be absolutely absolutely

How do you even find yet? How do you even find your seats at a hundred and thirty thousand seat stadium?

I don't even know what gates are going for goodness sake. Oh, I just I mean just that all these things are stretching me out Piney

Is that and the fact that Gujarat is a dry state as well?

That is stretching me out too because any stress I can't relieve by just having my usual stress reliever

So that can be interesting as well

Have you ever been just smuggling a bottle of gin? I just need me out to find basically some tonic and some ice

It's not going to make me go out the eye of a needle at some stage. So I don't know

I'll let you know when I get back pioneer about what happens

But it's it's all new to me. How are you feeling about our chances?

Oh, look I reckon it's good. We

I'm quietly confident. Look, I've got a reputation a little bit pioneer done if you know. I've been to

Three cricket World Cups and I've watched using a loser three

So I need one. I need one here

And I think India is the team that we

That we want to play because it's you don't really want a World Cup until you've beaten India in the final

And they don't have our measure a lot of teams are intimidated by India

We seem to be the one one team that's not we up we tip them up in a lot of competitions when their bogie team

Pull forward from the BIC podcast describes it quite well. We're master is master of the underdoggery

We go we take that underdog tag and we we use it to our best abilities and I think

If we win the toss solve first

And then get them out for under 200

Game on Piny. Absolutely game on game on

Game on and if if the stuck of yours was to be broken and and the blackcaps do

win the t-20 cricket World Cup sometime in the next 15-16 hours or so surely you'll be invited along as one of the very few

Kiwis on the ground there to celebrate with the team

Well, yeah, we'll look up hopefully I didn't cover myself in glory back in

2017 at Melbourne at a team after function. I'll talk about your latest party. Can't talk about that on a year

It then involved some it then involved some savouries being thrown around a room and one certain member of the museum board got hit

Anyway, that's another story for another time

There is a few Kiwis over here bumped into you on the plane um, so there's a there's a small contingent when I say small contingent

I don't think it'll break three figures

Um, but there's throughout the kind of um kind of Southeast Asia and Singapore. I saw loads of people kind of um get

desperately get last minute visas

Uh and get over here, so um

Hopefully we can break that dark and interestingly if we win this t-20 World Cup

We're going to have basically our woman's and men's team will be t-20 World Cup champions

And potentially neither of them will be at the Olympics next year in LA

So get think about that for a bit. I am I'm going to think about it

But also if I look if I had to send any one of our five and a half million over there to to to be

To get in the faces of the one point four billion Indians

Who are going to be paying for our blood. I would choose

Well, I think I would choose you. It's only been my top three anyway

Oh, thanks pointy. That means that means a lot um

I'll leave I'll let you know if I perform up to my ability to come Monday

But um, I'm definitely looking forward to it and um before to catch up all the Kiwis out

That have made the effort because it certainly is an effort um even getting out of here

It's proving quite an issue because the ICC obviously sponsored by Emirates and they will go via Dubai

Obviously that corridor is pretty much shut off

So everyone's going back by seeing the board for getting getting home with the issue

I've got here

Getting home might be an issue

All right, well it's good to know that the weekend sport and ACC audience is intersect because there's a text here

Who the hell let G-lane go to the final man? He is the worst like ever. It's time to break the duck

It's time to break the duck

Yeah, I am known as Grimlane um to to a few of the ACC audience

But I need I need to break it piney and anyway I can do it is by watching us

Barn storm to victory in the early hours of tomorrow morning and breaking home the tea to any will cut

Love it mate. Love it. Thanks so much for joining us Mike Mike Lane there

Alternative commentary collective there hosting a watch along just a search for them on socials

You'll find it. It's going to be an absolute cracker

230 tomorrow morning blackcaps v india t20 cricket world cup

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