So, fittingly and deservedly they won the WTC final by a comfortable margin.

This actually made me a little emotional to watch and hear a student of the game provide a fair and balanced appraisal of the NZ cricket team. Thank you.

Simply brilliant

happy for NZ for winning the championship congrats !! they are able to make finals of many of the ICC championships which speaks for itself.

Big praise for Ian McKendry, NZ cricket head curator !,

This is so meta: the nicest weirdguy in cricket punditry, on the nicest weirdguys in cricket. All our eternal heroworship JROD - your fans since the Age of #CricketWithBalls :)

Loved the analysis, Jarod. NZ have surely done enough to warrant a place in the WTC final and my respect for them have increased manifold.

What went right, was the kiwis played the game how it should be played! With the highest possible level of sportsmanship, total commitment to the TEAM, outstanding and selfless leadership, great coaching and support staff, and lastly, the admiration of the entire country for representing us as we would like ourselves to be showcased to the rest of the sporting world. We love to win, but we don’t do it by cheating, by sledging the man at the crease, by intimidating the umpires or insulting the viewers perception of sport. We enjoy a great game, be it cricket, rugby, netball, sailing, rowing or whatever, and when the game is over, we don’t sulk if we lose, or gloat if we win, …. New Zealanders just want to enjoy the moment, commiserate with the losing team, or congratulate the winners, get along with everyone and look forward to the next contest! And most of all we celebrate living and playing sport, doing business or enjoying our quality of life in the happiest country on earth - bar none! Pretty straight forward, honest and straight - simple really! Oh and every now and then we win the big ones - World Cup of Test Cricket, Olympic medals, Rugby World Cups, Americas Cup etc and DON’T we celebrate with everyone when do do enjoy success!!! Easy as bro’ …

New Zealand: Small, yet perfectly formidable. No wonder they call their Captain "steady the ship".

Great video....after the heartbreak that NZ suffered in 2019 world cup final, they deserve this luck. Being an Indian fan even if NZ wins the WTC, I will be happy for them.

This dude makes content worth GOLD. I cannot understand how is he not more popular, I don't know anyone who makes so much sense when talking about cricket!!!

ICC have immediately taken note and changed to all tests having the same points. Another note is that Australia making the final would've been even more farcical; one overseas series and lost a series at home

Everything around the WTC over the last 2 years and also emphasizing the rise of New Zealand Cricket summarized in the best way. M so sharing this everywhere among those who are even mild fans of test cricket. Thanks Jarrod for this, Really finding your Channel was the best cricketing thing happened to me this year :)

Compared to the NBA and the way Football leagues are governed around the globe, Cricket has been very poorly managed and governed with the ICC being a sycophant to the Big 3. It's disappointing that with so many countries playing the sport, the CWC is still restricted to 10-14 teams. . . Meanwhile I adore the way NZ board manages their players and allows their players to play in overseas tournaments especially when they are not required for national duty. In last 3 WC, they have punched above their weights when it mattered the most by knocking out the favourites in SA and India in 2011,2015 and 2019 WC.

This is one of the best videos on this channel! I really want India to win but if India loses in the WTC finals, it'll be one hell of a story. New ICC cup holders, who aren't among the Big Three and aren't defending champions of another ICC trophy. Ofc on the day of the potential loss, I'll be pissed in that moment, but once the dust settles, I'll definitely give a round of applause to NZ.

NZ deserved some good luck I reckon after 2019 WC.

Great video Jarrod, Thanks for making it!

Wow. Great summary. Thanks& one extra sub.

Fantastic walkthrough. Appreciate all the effort you put into this.

Loving the NZ love from an Aussie at the moment.

What a remarkable journey and achievement, on ya boys you have done us proud

This is good stuff. Great video.

Excellent analysis

Great video, especially the bit on NZ domestic set up.

Oh wow, my man has uploaded! Time for 22 minutes of educational entertainment, exactly what I was looking for while I begin doing my dishes.

Your analysing stuff and the stats you show all are amazing to watch plz doing the good job for us the KIWI fans ❤️

All Indians I talk to get really angry at 'Ind has 1 billion population talk' and even at the Idea of Ind having better resources because they don't want any caveats in regards to Ind's success... Really lovely vid jarrod always waiting for more.

NZ though being a part of cricket setup for this long is a small cricketing nation makes me think if my country ( an associate) would fit into the "micro" cricketing nation. If NZ had such difficultly to make their way to challenge the top countries, there is no way an associate nation can challenge the established nations with the limited funds. And because they can't challenge, ICC limits finance even more and the cycle continues. Great video as always.

Excellent analysis, Jarrod. World cricket looks like an oligarchy serving interests of India, England and Australia. The 10-team world cup with round robin format only helped these 3 earn big chunk of money. And NZ spoiled this revenue party by knocking out India in semis. Similarly, World Test Championship Final was supposed to feature 2 out of the big 3. At least that is what ICC would have hoped for. NZ had no business to be in the finals before covid. But due to all the weird things that have happened, NZ have reached there. ICC have also ensured that there will be one ICC tournament each year till 2031. Wonder what lies ahead for bilateral series, when every year 2 months will go into IPL and 1-1.5 month into ICC tournament.

Great video

loved your coverage here jarrod. would have loved to know your opinion on the pundits blaming the county cricket system for england's loss but the same county system transformed an average marnus labuschagne into australia's backbone in just one or two season.

The system may have favoured the small teams but personally I don't think many can argue that the two teams in WTC Final are not the best two sides (Coming from an England fan, but I can admit we're pretty rubbish atm)

Nice video Jarrod, one thing I do find funny as a kiwi is the amount of scrutiny about us only doing well at home etc. I still remember the last 20 years we spent down at 7-8 in the rankings and regularly getting rolled for 100 in home tests.

The best intro!!

While you can pick up a lot of points quickly from shorter series, I do think you fail to mention that a bad day at the office can be extremely costly ... and this did arguably happen to NZ in Sri Lanka in the first test of their series. Played exactly a month after the 2019 World Cup final, understandably they didn't look in the right frame of mind to be playing test cricket - I remember Trent Boult dropping the most ridiculously easy caught and bowled of all time. And from that - boom, half the series points gone. If it was a 3, 4 or 5 test series, they could have come back and still got a big haul of points from the series. So I think in a way the shorter series can also add a lot of pressure - you have to be up for it from ball one. Apart from that, another great video! :D

Let's go New Zealand!!!!!

A lot of this 'luck' coming our way actually favored Australia more, so it's interesting that they are the loudest when it comes to us being lucky to be there. When you look at the table and how things have panned out, we actually fully deserved to be there being comfortably the second best team, so the only thing that went right really was that we won tests, something completely in our control. Also the 4 points docked from Aussie for a slow over rate, so cheers Tim Paine.

New Zealand don't tour away enough, they last toured south Africa in 2016, last toured india in 2016, their tour of Australia last year was after five years, Australia hasn't toured new zealand since 2016, the ICC world test championship should actually have teams be tested home and away (away victories should ideally count for more points) against quality opposition, if it cant be done in 2 years take 3 years, but there needs to be a proper test of ur skills across conditions in relatively equal manner between the teams to decide the finalists

We did it!!!!!!!!

Brilliant

Hi Jarrod, do you think anything will change much now Greg Barclay is in charge who is from NZ so he may try and give more support to smaller nations?

I always find it surprising how SL often plays some of the most international cricket a year...

Wow...good channel

This is most underrated sports channel , sorry Jarrod :(

Way to rub it in Jarrod, Congo to your team, much deserved.

You forgot about the 4 points penalty Aus got for slow over rate at MCG. Without penalty Aus would have qualified - for having more wins at same pct points.

ICC has failed to increase reach of cricket to more nations. Look at other sports like football, basketball. So many countries play it whereas cricket has always revolved around 3-4 teams who play quality one. Had more focus gone into the associate countries, cricket could have developed much more than what it has.

There's another angle that is entirely neglected, a little money goes a long way in NZ. They have the population of one fifth of Mumbai, and the BCCI has a population of 1.3 billion to administer over. The scale of cricket in India is vast compared to tiny nations, and the budget they need to provide resources to administer and operate cricket in a vast country like India, not just population but also geographic scale, is proportionally greater.

World test championship will benefit smaller team. What I feel big 3 will play each other in test match more often and they weir off there own points and as a result there will be most probably only one among big 3 will be in final in coming year for WTC in coming years just like WTC2021...

@jk when are we seeing an epic vid on the kiwi WTC win ...

Even Australia dropping 4 points for slow over rate helped NZ. Otherwise Australia would have had higher percentage of points. Fair play to NZ though. They made the best of their opportunities.

Amazing man....really wish the Kiwis rough up the big threes a little more....would be poetic

Are the big 3 preventing cricket on reforming cricket tournaments to make them more standardised, like the NHL/NFL etc..?

Interesting

And now they’re world champions

Hi Jarrod. Great stuff. Fantastic data. Couple of observations: 1. You posited about the value of the tests that are played after the series has been decided. I think the dead rubber syndrome is relevant in white ball cricket. Since white ball cricket is seldom as memorable as Tests, the dead rubbers are excruciatingly boring the moment they lose the only context they have: deciding the winner of the series. On the other hand each Test is an event all by itself. Yes series wins are precious. But ‘dead rubbers’ are far more meaningful in Tests. And that is because a Test match performance is still the gold standard of a cricketer’s quality and is a primary measure of his/her worth as a cricketer for posterity. So even for WTC, the ‘dead’ matches cannot be looked with the same lens as one might a 5050/2020. Second, methinks BCCI has concluded that they will treat Tests as the instrument to perpetuate cricketing prowess and legacy; and have white ball as the cash generator. We will see more steps taken in this regard once we come to grips with the pandemic. What do you think? Cheers! Pat

For Test cricket There should be 3 divisions.(A, B, C) Each division should have 5 teams. Division A Team will play against their division team 2 home and 2 away series of 3 matches. (process same for division B and division C as well) Then after this, division A teams will play 2 series one home and one away with division B teams according to ranking (team standing no 1 in division B will get to play series with team standing at 1 and 2 division A) and same with division C will also get 2 series with division A and Division B teams. So this way accordingly after completing this whole cycle the standing teams in each cycle will be promoted and relegated. Division B no 1 team will directly be promoted and 5 th team on division A will be relegated and team standing at 2nd in division B will play series of three matches with team standing at 4th in division A, neutral venue to decide their division. (I know it is little bit complicated but I am also seeing commercial angle because there will be some intensity among A and B division teams to be in top of the is table so that they get to play series with big teams which will help them to find sponser.) According to this. Every team will play total 8 series of 3 matches each. (4 among there division and 2 in both divisions each). This should be done in 3 yrs time After this top two teams of division A should play a 3 match series for world test championship at one venue and winner will be crowned as champion. @jarrodkimber

Maybe the *last* two tests of every series, be it two, three or five-long, should count (and others shouldn't)? It would help with "dead rubber" matches. I'm also in favour of away teams automatically winning the toss, so tosses only happen in neutral venues. And speaking as an NZer, some form of revenue sharing from overseas series would be incredibly helpful. NZ Cricket loses a serious chunk of money for each home test. That's a major reason test series in NZ tend to be so short. :(

Perhaps if everyone played 3-test series instead of 5-test series we would all get to play each other more.

What happened to the concept of the FTP? Wasnt that something decided amongst all the countries in a fair way to cover all teams playing each other?

I know New Zealand cant really afford more than two tests a series at home. Does that include series against the "big three" or is it just that those countries don't really want to play more than a two match series against the Kiwis home or away?

I agree in order to make cricket global game we need to be more inclusive

New Zealand also beat England 2/0 at home during this period but the points didn’t go to NZ because the series was announced after the WTC started...also NZ missed the chance to beat Bangladesh at home because of the shootings in Christchurch....deserved finalists......😎

omg ur son grew so much at the blink of an eye

And NZ didn’t need sandpaper and still 🏆 🏆 won

World Champs baby

Today,I found that Nz are unlucky and due to the greed of the big three,they haven't won any icc tournament in recent times

What good is the Big 3 if the rest are uncompetitive? There's a huge risk that the rest of us never become competitive with the Big 3 in future (apart from South Africa) because the rest of us just don't have the financial resources to thrive; survival is the name of the game. So if the Big 3 get too cocky, then have fun playing a 3 team sport. Can hardly sustain 10 nations as it is despite the huge number of collective money in cricket.

New Zealand is defined as a State of Australia in Australia's constitution... so technically another win for Australia! (and the big 3)

What a sporting nation NZL is.

I am in a conundrum, I want India to win but I also don't want NZ to lose. Maybe a draw?

2011 worldcup venues (india,srilanka& Bangladesh) not just india 2015 worldcup venues. ( Australia & Newzealand) not just Australia

All are good points, but one thing remains unchanged, cricket is a business and the money ICC makes outside of your so called "Big three" is minimal. So to develop the sport they have to do which earns more money. ICC does fund smaller teams, smaller than Zimbabwe, the funds come from major tournaments happening in the big three location. Because anywhere else, you won't get the that much revenue to help the system.

I found it weird how we played and bet England in two series home and away and neither counted do the whole thing is a bit weird like that 🤷‍♂️ At the end of the day they may have lost to Sri Lanka and Australia away but they best a hell of a lot of good teams along the way. It sucks being a black caps fan and knowing that this golden generation of players aren’t playing as many tests as they deserve to be , and after 2019 which we lost due to an acknowledged umpiring error, it was just time something fell their way

Tbh Wtc shouldn't be held among 9 teams, 5 teams at the most keeps the intensity and suspense to a decent level. I don't know if the Big 3 will accept this, as it risks one of them being left out if a string of poor performances plummets their position, but ideally after the conclusion of the championship season, the top 3 teams automatically qualify for the next season, and the bottom 2 teams have to partake in a window of qualification. The idea I came up with, for this is: The two teams will play a home test match against the two highest ranked/best performing teams who failed to qualify for the previous championship. So if England finishes at 4th they will play the second best team who did not play in the championship, while the 5th team will play against the first. It would be an exciting scenario, as the teams who did not qualify for the previous season, can earn their spot for the next, by defeating the current occupants in the latter's home ground. Of course that would be very challenging, and that's the beauty of this model. With the intensity and standards contrived by this structure to be at a high level, the competition can earn a reputation of being one of the most hard fought, perhaps even the most prized trophy in cricket. Of course this side lines the smaller teams, but let's accept one central fact- cricket has already over extented itself, first of by introducing new and shorter formats, that are designed to allow for frequent upsets and exciting results, and secondly by establishing these invented formats into leagues and hot-cash events. These are popular among the general public, and the sport's best shot of increasing it's international spheres is through these formats. Now while all of these innovations and market-researched additions are diluting the true nature and spirit of the sport, wouldn't it be refreshing to see test matches in it's pristine form, between capable teams, taking on each other, with very little room to breathe. Just Imagine Australia first playing England in the ashes series, than say a team like Pakistan in away matches, later taking on India in the subcontinent, and then finally inviting their tasman neighbours into a 4 match series. Though, the Big 3 here will be the favourites to prevail, the other two teams are quite formidable in their own respect. It would be a serious hit, and in my humble opinion, this is the direction Test cricket and World Test championship should head at.

Look at the number of tests Sri Lanka played though - 1:08. And Australia only play the Ashes now : p

So, NZ was able to go to England and beat them 1-0 (and probably would have been 2-0 if it wasn't for rain), and yet you are worried about NZ playing Bangladesh who are really struggling at the moment? That doesn't really stack up, sorry.

As a kiwi The test championship system is perfect and theirs nothing wrong with it

I wouldn’t over stress luck. Sport is sport. Things go in your favour. And sometimes they don’t. You must look at things in the long run. And not only look at all the things that went right when you’ve won, but all the things that went right, when you still lost. The reality is as professional sportsmen you accept these things. I have never heard of good pros making excuses one way or the other. They accept things that are in front of them (I.e the given schedule) and get on with it. After the tournament then they can make suggestions to modifications etc but during a given tournament, they accept the conditions and the best team wins. That’s how pros play sport. And is the difference, in my opinion between, fans/players who play for leisure on the weekend, and professionals. The amount of excuses I hear on the weekend playing club cricket vs the changing room at the professional level is remarkable.

From NZ: I can’t forget the boundary countback!.

The only reason we loss to aus was because we did not have jamieson,mitchell or conway and we dropped our balls,does not help having jeet raval

Short series aren't necessarily an advantage. If India v Aus and Ind v Eng were 2 test series, they would've both finished 1-1. It's not easy, even for the big teams, to start a series at 100%. At least India didn't lose many points from one game and had time in the series to make a comeback and earn the necessary points to qualify. So in a short series, one bad game or even one bad session or 2 can cost 60 points. Even a draw means a team loses 40 points. India getting 36 all out only cost them 30 points. New Zealand went into their last summer knowing they had to win all their matches. They couldn't even let one game go to a draw. Game 1 vs Pakistan goes to the last session and you can see how badly NZ wanted to win that one.

This video aged well.

New Zealand also beat covid. So we could play all our home games.

Every big 3/4/5 team should have to adopt a lower ranked team according to the geography/logistics and improve them.....india/Afghanistan, west indies/Namibia, s.a./Zimbabwe, Australia/whatever they choose, england/Ireland or Scotland (if they agree)

Short series != more points. as much as I've always disliked 2 match series, which is an annoyance to many, many NZ fans. But I don't understand the small series argument. With same points per series, a 2 match series or a five match series against weaker opponents would yield the same result. And almost all teams have a better record home than away, not to forget the two series NZ won vs England, neither of which counted for WTC points. The teams are both in the final on merit, which given self-interested governance of the game is a genuine surprise.

Australia has hosted 1 international tournament this century....

If Australia played half the tests that they do and still didn't make it to the final would they still be saying that playing shorter series is a "massive advantage"?

NZ might not be able to beat Australia, but we can beat teams that beat Australia. More proof that its not a lack of skill, but a choking/little brother complex. But one thing that people always forget is that while 1 win in a 2 match series is worth 60 points, a loss grants 60 points to another team. Which then means you have to win a match from a 2 match series just to counter act that, or more than 1 test in a 3+ series. It is greater reward, but also greater risk. Australia might win the first test of the Ashes for only points. But then England have 4 more matches to undo that. NZ lost the first test to Sri Lanka. Now they have one test to undo that.

Waiting for virat 💯 today

So why can't the other Test nations get together, pool their money and resources and challenge the Big Three?

at 10:28 ur wrong.. Bangladesh have never beaten India in any test..infact they have lost all tests by big margins..and two were drawn just cz of rain..otherwise BD would have lost them too

Makes sense they make the most money....

They had to beat India 3 times. They should have won the one day final against England.

Good content but can you please speak a bit slowly? It’s hard to keep up at times 😂

Really happy for nz , once again exposing the those fraudulent overrated flat track bullies top order of india who have not shown up in any icc final since 2011 , remember 2013 champions trophy , indian bowlers defended 132 in the final , this top order will only turn up for paytm trophies.

When india toured new Zealand , pitches were as green as outfield . Just saying.

At this point, South Africa and NZ should just join hands and combine teams to destroy all of the big 3. I mean sure Australia, England and India may win most tournaments, but when we see SA or NZ succeding, we all want them to win even if its against our own teams. That’s what sport is all about isn’t it? Unpredictability.

All I know is that NZ returned home with the Mace.....

I think its the country's political set up that is shown through the cricket administration. Sri Lankan cricket's rapid slippery slope is coinsided with the rapid political, financial and social decline of the country as a whole