And how should we feel about the Blackcaps' record test defeat to India at Mumbai? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The four-time Bathurst winner joins the show to discuss prospects for the 'Great Race' this weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And should we feel just a little sorry for former Aussie cricket captain Tim Paine? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phoenix icon Paul Ifill joins the Big Wraps panel to preview the season that starts this weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And do we love or hate British pitch invader 'Jarvo'? Join Newshub's sporting experts, as they debate the burning issues of the week... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

But is he good enough to guide NZ to victory at the T20 World Cup? Newshub sports reporters Ollie Ritchie and Alex Chapman join host Jimmy Regan to discuss the burning topics of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Or will the understrength Welsh prove another walkover for the touring NZ side? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would Kiwi Ironman champion Braden Currie do for a job, if he wasn't a professional athlete? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And how real are New Zealand's chances of hosting the 2030 Commonwealth Games? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newshub's sporting experts wonder just what was that phantom white substance in the room?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And Newshub's sporting experts reflect on how Wellington Phoenix could have handled Steven Taylor retirement better. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With both teams seemingly on opposite trajectories, Newshub's experts preview this weekend's 100th test between the nations.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of New Zealand's best rugby players - men or women - joins the Newshub all-female line-up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And who was the Newshub experts' unanimous MVP of the week... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And Newshub's sporting experts cast a critical eye over the newlook Super Rugby format. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And has NZ Rugby put the right man in charge of the All Blacks for the next World Cup? Newshub sports reporters Natasha Payne and Gordon Findlater join host Narelle Sindos to discuss the week's burning issues . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Or is the embattled All Blacks coach still to face his acid test... Newshub's sporting experts debate this and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A somber tone to open this week with two stories that rocked New Zealand's sporting landscape. Blackcaps great Chris Cairns is in a fight for his life while Kiwi cyclist Olivia Podmore tragically lost hers.  Can the All Blacks lock up the Bledisloe Cup for another year and should we be worried following their lackluster finish last weekend? Dame Noeline Taurua has turned to youth as the new wave of Silver Ferns presents an exciting change in the world of netball.  And surely not - Can the NZ warriors make a late run at the NRL playoffs?  Newshub online producer Brad Lewis and Newshub sports reporter Lucy Thompson join host James Regan to debate the big sporting issues in Big Wraps.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aussie netball skipper Caitlin Bassett joins Big Wraps to explain why she's crossed the Tasman to keep her job - and so much more. How does Bassett handle the mental and physical pressures of captaining her country? Are rule changes taking too high a toll on Super Rugby and NRL? Less than a hundred days out from the Tokyo Olympics, is it too late to bail? And the team deals out their 'MVP of the Week' awards. Newshub's Lucy Thomson and James Regan join Bassett and host Narelle Sindos to debate these burning issues See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the US Masters in full swing, Big Wraps asks the question is Bryson DeChambeau ruining golf? Who are a couple of smokey tips to walk away with the Green Jacket at Augusta? Is Lydia Ko ready to climb to the top of the golfing world again? Were the Crusaders exposed by the Highlanders and has that result revitalised Super Rugby Aotearoa? Who's to blame for Joe Wheeler's racist mishap? Is the trans-Tasman travel bubble all that it seems for NZ sporting sides in Aussie comps? And the team deals out their 'MVP of the Week' awards. Newshub's Grant Chapman and Luke Robinson join host Narelle Sindos to debate these burning issues and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices