Paul Ford
speaker
197 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Paul Ford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he was also working alongside some of the greats of our game, you know, Salvi, Bolt,
Vittori, McCullum, Taylor, Watling, de Grondholm.
So, you know, they were, as a collective, I think they were epic, and Kane was absolutely the diamond amongst the batters in that line-up.
But, yeah, so I think that's from a New Zealand point of view.
In terms of the world stage, I mean, I think he's got some world-class statistics that
And I think when you've scored more test centuries than Steve Waugh and you're up there with Alistair Cook, you've got a home average that people are comparing.
You're in the same breath as Bradman and Sobers.
You know that you are up in the pantheon of amazing international cricketers.
But look, I think he's probably outside the absolute, absolute greats of the game, but certainly New Zealand's number one contender.
I think this is the thing.
I think it's that world-class cricketing greatness, definitely, but also the almost kind of comical levels of humility.
And I think, you know, scoring all the runs and looking great and playing beautiful shots and all of that good stuff and getting us into tournaments and tournament finals and scoring big runs on big stages and all of that stuff,
That was amazing.
But I think that he did it in that classic Sir Edmund Hillary kind of way.
You know, I'm doing it for everyone else.
It's not about me.
Doing it with poise, doing it with calm, doing it with dignity.
And that is what commanded respect from international people.
It wasn't him going around kind of, I guess, in a world of massive cricketing egos.
He was a bit of an elixir of calm and dignity.
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