Kieran Read

At our club, that would do like the Wednesdays or whatever.

I want to say Ovaa.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good mates of him.

Me and him would compete and then there's two other guys who were pretty, yeah, pretty good.

We were all pretty fast.

We all could kind of do things.

So when we went up and did like the Auckland competitions on the weekends, yeah,

We competed all right, eh?

So that was fun, but it got to the point, yeah, it must have been about 12, 13 or so, and Dad said, oh, you can either get a new cricket bat or spikes.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And so I chose the cricket bat.

Yeah.

And so that kind of put into my athletics because we were just bare feet.

yeah you know we were the pub guys we were coming in to you know these Auckland comps we're in bare feet on the track and everyone else was in spikes we're in bare feet yeah so I never had spikes so yeah so I chose the cricket bat and

Cricket was a big part of our life, I think.

It was just an awesome game.

We played at Karaka Cricket Club.

Played there since I was little.

And then when I was 12, 13, we moved out that way as well onto a little bit of land.