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Richard Tendorka, Felix White and me Greg

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James. It's the BBC's loosely cricket

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based podcast, Tailenders. And you're all very

1:36

welcome to it. James, hello. Hello. Where

1:39

have you just jetted in from? Jetted

1:41

in from Canterbury. Ah.

1:43

How was your week? Good.

1:45

I only had a couple of days

1:48

there. I heard some commentary in

1:50

between all the T20 World Cup matches.

1:53

Kevin Howells was on during the

1:55

County Championship Roundup. Oh yeah. And I heard

1:57

that I turned on at this... It

2:00

was almost meant to be at this specific moment he

2:02

turned on and it was just

2:04

after the lunch break and he was

2:06

talking about the crowds dispersing but there

2:08

was a huge crowd of people around

2:11

you bowling at Craig White in the

2:13

net in Canterbury and he said that

2:15

you were stopped for about 30 minutes afterwards

2:18

because everyone was crying around wanting to get selfies and

2:20

I thought he'll be so pissed off at that. Was

2:23

that an accurate account? Not quite accurate. I

2:25

wasn't bowling at Craig White in the net

2:27

so I was bowling. He was catching a

2:29

mitt, he's a bowling coach. I

2:31

know but you're worried about him. On

2:34

the square on the middle. Kevin Howes

2:36

reported and we trust everything Kevin Howes

2:38

says, he reported that Craig

2:40

White didn't drop a single one. No

2:43

but he had to be on top form

2:45

because there were a few people behind him.

2:48

Oh really? That's jeopardy. Saved

2:50

he there. I was trying all

2:52

sorts, I was bowling in swing out swing trying to make him...

2:55

Come on. You love

2:57

that. How are you feeling? How's the

2:59

body? Yeah good. All

3:02

going well with him. Is Craig White still good at cricket? If

3:04

he batted would he be really good? He's

3:06

probably still quick isn't he? He used to be well

3:09

quick. He's very much down to it. Oh really? Okay.

3:13

He's 50. Is he 50? I don't know. I

3:15

mean he wouldn't have played for years. He retired

3:17

at the start of my career. Love

3:20

Craig White. It was 20 years that he's not played

3:22

for. Rapid. That was

3:24

such a good team with him and Dominic Court for the first

3:26

change wasn't it? I modelled

3:29

myself my action on Dominic Court's

3:31

action but Craig White's speed and

3:33

I nailed neither of those things.

3:36

He used to have a short run up and then

3:38

be like didn't he bowl at 90? Quite

3:41

a short man isn't he? For a fast bowler he's

3:43

not that tall. Similar height to me.

3:45

Oh is he? I always thought he was quite squat. No

3:47

you mean I imagine he needs to be small as well.

3:49

In my head he's like a Darren Gough height but he's

3:51

not. No I think he's been taller. Alright. And I've just

3:53

been told by Sharkey he's 54. Oh

3:57

he's older than Sharkey. Something

4:01

to think about. Go

4:03

on. Four

4:06

years old and you're sharky. So you're feeling good.

4:08

Can I probe a little bit about how you're

4:10

feeling about Lords? I'm

4:13

not really giving it much thought or

4:15

any more thought really. I'm just playing

4:17

for lengths on Sunday Southport. Come on.

4:20

So I'll throw myself into that and then see what

4:23

happens at Lords. Great. Nice. Imagine

4:25

how you're feeling about Lords. I'm

4:28

excited. Are we allowed to tease the

4:31

interview that will be coming out in a couple of weeks? I went

4:33

up to Jimmy's to talk about a bit

4:35

of the Lords test. It was me versus Jimmy. One on

4:37

one. Frost versus Nixon. How

4:40

did you find that Jimmy? Well,

4:42

when you walked through the front door fully suited

4:44

and booted, I was a bit intimidated.

4:47

So it was actually Michael Park in person.

4:51

Yeah. But it was

4:53

good. In terms of all the other interviews

4:55

you've done in your career, where does it stand? I hate

4:57

it. League table wise. It's tricky because

4:59

I've obviously not listened to it back yet. But at

5:01

the time, you made me feel comfortable. I

5:04

feel like you loved. Help

5:06

me open up. Nice.

5:10

I was a fair interview. Hang

5:12

on. You did the interview at Jimmy's house. Did you

5:14

go to Manchester in a tuxedo on the train? I

5:18

didn't go to tuxedo. I went suit. I was

5:20

thinking more Graham Norton. Yeah,

5:23

colorful, like a purple suit or something. Do you have a glass of

5:25

white wine in your hand as well? No, I

5:27

should have. It was in the morning. I didn't quite start there.

5:31

I did get changed in Jimmy's bar. I was

5:33

going to help myself. Your glass room ticket has just

5:35

arrived outside. Can I go and get it? I should go and

5:37

get it. Greg, that is

5:39

unbelievable service. Not only is he sorted matching to

5:41

no glass room ticket, he's going to get it

5:43

in the Uber outside. Can

5:46

I quickly say while Greg's out retrieving

5:48

your glass room ticket, your disservice, isn't

5:50

it? What Jimmy has

5:52

just described about your interview technique, I

5:55

was actually expecting the exact opposite. I

5:57

thought you were aiming for no glass

5:59

room ticket. not chaos but probing

6:03

you know what I mean like kind of

6:05

high intensity it's very difficult to interview someone

6:07

that's been interviewed so many times because you

6:09

want to ask original questions yep so I

6:11

delved into his friends and family and got

6:13

some got some information there and

6:15

that is Greg James with my glestering ticket thank

6:17

you very much I'll see you on the farm

6:19

yeah on the farm got what you came for

6:22

you're living the dream aren't you close to come

6:24

look at the ticket you won't like it you

6:26

won't like the price oh really

6:28

that's what I will say where does it say the

6:30

price of a few shit I actually cannot

6:32

believe what I just seen how

6:35

much that's how

6:37

much a grass music across bloody hell

6:40

anyway just for clarity these tickets

6:42

have been paid for yes okay

6:44

these aren't freebies yeah of course

6:47

no no you make it sounds like

6:49

astute now it is paid for Phoenix

6:51

go yeah of course that's the silence

6:53

of sincerity in the sound of

6:56

silence ever since there at a anyway what

6:58

we're talking about um so yeah my interview

7:00

with Jimmy well I think it went well

7:03

yeah okay I can't wait to hear it

7:05

and see it was it visualized I think

7:07

it was visualized by Josh Shinner yeah I'm

7:09

sure no Joshua but sorry the royal photographer

7:11

photographer came in and shot it

7:14

and yeah I really enjoy it it's my first ever in

7:16

you what I was gonna ask you you were on holiday

7:19

what what advice would you give when you have you got

7:21

a delay yeah if I get

7:23

another one I'm like yeah you know if I get

7:25

up into you you see my see this and think

7:27

this could be the start of a series

7:29

worry about it you're fine I called it pads off the

7:33

interview is called pads off I don't

7:35

know some first bit of advice again get a

7:37

different name I love I

7:40

love magic cricket do you have

7:42

people for people that

7:45

are you know once breaking yeah

7:49

what advice would you give them for it you I mean you

7:51

both interview people don't you oh all

7:53

right the main bit of advice that actually a lot

7:55

of people try out is you should all wait you

7:57

should listen more than you talk yeah that's great advice

8:00

That was good advice. Yeah. That's...

8:03

What's him actually... Get a f***ing word out. I don't. That's

8:06

true. Ask me a question halfway

8:08

through the answer. Ask the next question. Yeah. That's

8:11

the thing, because if you're listening, then you pick up on

8:13

something they say and then

8:17

you run with that. I was... Then

8:20

what I probably did wrong there was I was trying to

8:22

relate to him. So he was telling me about the time

8:24

he was injured and I told him about the time I

8:26

had sciatica. So I was

8:28

trying to make him feel... Common

8:30

ground. Yeah. So when I

8:32

was going through one of the most... Also making it like you. Yeah. The

8:35

most traumatic moments of my sporting career. Breaking

8:38

my back and having to not wear a corset

8:41

for six weeks. And being out of the game

8:43

for six months, he related it to his sciatica.

8:46

Which flares up when he lies down for two.

8:50

I can't wait to see this. It's a fine line

8:53

because you want to relate to the person. You

8:55

do want to find some common ground. But

8:58

the other thing is if you're interviewing extraordinary

9:00

people like you have been, there might not

9:02

be any common ground and that's fine. Yeah.

9:05

Yeah. Okay. Maybe

9:07

you don't need to be tying into your life of roller

9:10

soles, shoes. Okay. Interesting.

9:14

Yeah. Interesting. Let me do

9:16

it again. Let me do it again. And

9:19

that'll be the real interview. That's from now. From

9:22

now. From now. Oh my

9:24

God. That is funny. That's from the

9:26

end of the year. So that's coming up. But also what's

9:28

just happened recently, the McLaren Technology Center

9:30

episode is up and about on the feed

9:32

if you haven't heard it. FTC.

9:36

F1's Oscar Piastri was on that one. There

9:38

is a Michael Palin special as well which you might

9:40

have missed. A couple of big

9:42

interview podcasts. And also an

9:45

emergency podcast when Jimmy announced his

9:47

retirement. Also my favorite emergency

9:49

podcast which was the one we did where

9:51

we were just laughing at... It's

9:54

time, it's time, it's timeless. About that

9:56

one, the emergency one where we were

9:58

laughing at the USA Pakistan game. Oh

10:00

right, yes, yes, yes, yes. But also,

10:03

speaking of Timeless, Timeless, Timeless, that is

10:05

one of the best episodes I think we've ever done.

10:07

Timeless, Timeless, Timeless, what? That's to listen to on the

10:09

feed if you want to. Yeah. I'm

10:12

ashamed to say that I did listen to that on

10:14

my holiday, because I am pathetic, but I thought it

10:16

was amazing when Sharky interrupted

10:19

the Timeless episode by telling you not to talk about

10:21

the kind of championship, because it's so much timeless, so

10:23

much timeless, so much timeless. You laughing and just swearing

10:25

at him is one of the funniest

10:27

things ever. Well, yeah, it just spoke to

10:29

a sense of, well, lack of perspective really,

10:31

but we've all got in doing this loosely

10:33

cricket-based podcast that Sharky's shouting down here like

10:35

it's an emergency for the worldview

10:37

of the present United States of America. Anyway,

10:41

do listen back to that. And

10:44

if you would like to hear some more matching

10:46

quizzes, then there are some mini

10:49

pods that have been put up on BBC

10:51

Sounds, which are sort of

10:53

loosely based cricket explainers,

10:55

aren't they? He learned something and then you'll

10:57

learn something as a result. Is that right,

10:59

matching? That's exactly right. We learn together. Are

11:02

those the ones where you're the quizzical butler?

11:04

I think so. Is that the one where

11:06

you dressed as... Oh, they're

11:08

starting to come out. They're starting to come out. There are

11:10

a few episodes in the can, as

11:13

they say in the business, of

11:15

matching being the quizzical butler in a

11:17

game he likes to call County House,

11:19

but it's dressed as... Paul

11:22

Weller. Oh, well, I can't say what

11:24

I was going to say. No, he said Paul Weller. Oh,

11:27

OK. I was going to say somebody that would

11:29

appear on a list. Oh, right. OK, no, definitely

11:32

not that thing because Weller is a legend and

11:34

a hero. Only on the coolest. Someone

11:39

on the coolest. Sure. We

11:43

talk about the men's T20 workout. It's going to

11:45

be coolest, haven't I? Have you ever gone that?

11:47

I've never gone the coolest, no. You're not? No,

11:49

Land was on it, I think, a couple of

11:51

times. I've got on that. Or maybe... I

11:53

was on the Bristol coolest actually, now I

11:56

remember. Oh, were you? Long time ago. We

11:58

still got most influential people, like 100 most...

12:00

influential in cricket. Oh yeah,

12:02

yeah. Do you reckon

12:05

they still do that? They did do that at one point. It was 100.

12:08

I think we were on it. Were

12:10

we? Maybe I was on it. Yeah I think you

12:12

were definitely on it at one point. I don't think

12:14

that might be pre-tale enders even. I can't

12:17

have been. This man

12:19

likes cricket. Yeah I think you were on it.

12:21

I don't think they do that anymore unless

12:23

we're just all dropped off. No, no, no. They,

12:25

no, yeah. Well, okay,

12:28

let's stop gazing at our navels and continue

12:30

on this podcast and let's talk about the

12:32

Men's T20 World Cup. So

12:34

the last time we did a proper podcast

12:36

we were saying how boring

12:38

it was and

12:40

no one was watching. Nothing good

12:43

was happening. They went to immediately

12:45

run and do an extra

12:47

bit of the podcast to say, oh my

12:49

god, it ignited with the USA Pakistan game.

12:51

Yep. Which put USA cricket on the map.

12:54

And then since then we've had some amazing games. How

12:57

much have you managed to watch of it? Very

12:59

little unfortunately. All right. Tried to keep up with

13:02

highlights and checking the scores.

13:05

There's been a few games like Middle of the Night.

13:07

I wake up and there's been

13:09

a game. Yeah, 1.30am is probably the

13:11

worst time you can ever start a

13:13

cricket game for this. Like last night

13:15

as we record Afghanistan beat Bangladesh, the

13:17

auditors cement their semifinal place

13:19

which is pretty incredible. I'll

13:22

quickly say though, but I was happened to

13:25

be doing the baseball that weekend when USA

13:27

beat Pakistan and it did engage

13:30

all the baseball players were asking me about it. Oh,

13:32

that's good. And pundits and stuff like that. Like people

13:34

were really locked in on it and they were getting

13:37

asked questions about cricket and all the press conferences and

13:39

stuff like that. So it was very like in focus.

13:41

Yeah, for Mets and Phillies.

13:44

I don't know if it's remained that way because

13:46

we made quite a light work of USA, didn't

13:48

we? They sort of drifted off slightly at the

13:50

end of the tournament. But yeah, but

13:52

that's no, you know, it's not a huge

13:54

surprise. I think the surprise was that they

13:56

even showed up and did it. Totally. Put

13:59

on a performance like that. You're right. Pretty

14:01

astounding. And I don't know

14:03

if it's sent huge shockwaves, it's probably

14:05

a bit over the top, but it's a

14:07

great start. And Fazir Mohammed was on TMS

14:10

yesterday or the day before, talking about the

14:12

impacts of one

14:16

of the lesser known nations in a new

14:18

sport. He used the example

14:20

of the USA in the football World

14:22

Cup in 1994, which was

14:24

a long time ago where they were sort of a

14:26

ramshackle bunch and then suddenly, his point was it might

14:29

take a long time for them to

14:31

really establish themselves in cricket in the world

14:34

game. But it's a great start and could

14:36

be really exciting. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The USA,

14:38

my God, they love their soccer now, don't

14:40

they? With the MLS. Alexey

14:42

Lallis. Hello. So

14:44

that was quite exciting just to have different players and

14:47

new stuff. We did say this at the start, didn't

14:49

we, to be fair to us. We said there'd always

14:51

be these little stories that come up with the T20

14:53

World Cup or any World Cup and we've really enjoyed

14:55

that. So England are through to the semi-finals. Hey.

15:02

Do you think Australia would be quite annoyed

15:04

at the relative ease of the journey compared

15:06

to what they had to do? Yeah,

15:10

because we haven't really beaten West

15:13

Indies, isn't we? Which is a big one. And

15:16

the U.S.A. and Namibia, the Randolph Scotland game.

15:18

It doesn't really, there isn't a back catalogue

15:20

of beating big teams really in that. Lost

15:22

to South Africa. Oh, we lost to

15:24

South Africa. And then Australia were

15:26

sort of pasted by India. Yes. Which

15:29

could have, you know, could have, any other

15:31

day or tournament could have been a final.

15:34

I'll tell you what though, Josh Butler's hitting. Are

15:38

you mad? I mean, is

15:40

it actually insane when he's seeing a ball

15:42

like that? Or better. There actually

15:44

isn't, is it? It's really beautiful and sort

15:46

of almost superhuman the way he hits the

15:48

ball, like quick hand speed. What

15:50

would be my favourite ever batter? He, it's really, do

15:52

you think so? I do not, I do know

15:54

what you mean. I do know what you mean. But

15:57

he's got everything at once. Is that a big shout? Huge.

16:02

Tell me why I'm wrong. I'm not saying you're

16:04

wrong. No, I'm just trying to think. My

16:07

opinion is wrong. No, no. Okay,

16:10

tell me who someone else is.

16:12

I was just going to say about Phil Salt,

16:14

the game before. He's had a pretty good tournament.

16:18

Yeah. I just think

16:20

he's really exciting to watch. And the two of them, the

16:22

way they seem to be playing well together. Yeah,

16:25

they do. All in a nice partnership.

16:28

Salt took a backseat the other day when Joss was

16:30

going mental. Yeah. You've

16:33

got to think they've got a chance. Yeah. Joss

16:36

Butler hit 5-6, he's a nova off a

16:38

poor American off-spinner. His name escapes

16:41

me now, but it was just one of

16:43

those where, you know, when someone's bowling a spin at someone,

16:45

they're just like, well, they just get resorts like mentality. I'm

16:48

just going to plonk it here a little bit now because he's just clearly

16:50

going to hit whatever I serve up for 6. It

16:53

was like a little bit of that, definitely.

16:55

It was incredible. Shout out to Chris Jordan,

16:57

who took four wickets in his last over

16:59

and a hat trick in his hometown of

17:01

Barbados, which is incredible. And

17:03

nice to see someone running away, having taken

17:05

a hat trick with pure joy to any

17:07

innings. Yeah. I think the reason he celebrated

17:10

it was because it was a

17:12

proper hat trick. Bold, LBWE, bold. Yes. Come

17:15

on. The Pat Cummins hat trick. I

17:18

wasn't. I wasn't. Well, caught

17:20

in a boundary, da, da, da, da, da. There's a lot of this.

17:22

It's a rag on. I don't think that even counts. It's a rag

17:24

on. Caught third man, was it?

17:26

And then caught on the ring. Embarrassing. Trying

17:28

to sweep him. To be fair, fair play

17:30

to the bat. I'm trying to ramp Pat

17:32

Cummins when he's on a hat trick. Yeah.

17:36

Oh, I sent it to the

17:38

group yesterday, but Roacham was 6

17:40

of Pat Cummins' first ball.

17:42

100 meters. It

17:45

was outside. I guess it

17:47

was a sort of loosener. Outside the

17:49

off stump, a little bit back of a

17:51

length, but dispatched over the roof

17:53

of the stadium. It was a

17:55

sweep shot. He swept it outside off stump

17:58

100 meters away. I

18:00

can't remember if it's a Harsh or Bodhay, I lit

18:02

a bit later on that inning, because you messaged that

18:04

on a clip, and I ran home to watch it.

18:06

He said that all of Rohit Sharma's bat is in

18:09

the middle of his bat, which

18:12

I thought was extremely well put. He's

18:14

had good energy this tournament, I feel like they

18:17

might win it India, they just seem quite relaxed

18:19

and sort of like, but his energy has been

18:21

very tiny to Pranav, especially to the point that

18:24

Mitch Marsh dropped a sitter

18:27

at sort of backward point yesterday. He

18:30

had about four attempts to catch it and dropped it, and

18:32

it cut to the dugout, and Rohit

18:35

Sharma was just giggling. They

18:38

just made me think, oh India was so

18:41

relaxed, they might win it, especially given the

18:43

last disappointment. Yeah. Was it Mitch

18:45

Marsh who got caught by that absolute worldy

18:47

on the boundary by Aksar Patel? Oh

18:50

yes. One hander, right. Unbelievable. Wrong

18:52

hand. Unbelievable. However, we do need

18:54

to talk about the Labashane catch.

18:56

I know it's a different,

18:59

it was in the blast. Let's talk about

19:01

that. Just quickly, while we're here on catches.

19:03

Yeah. Jimmy, you posted saying

19:06

you don't think you've ever seen a better

19:08

catch. Yeah. You

19:10

still feel that way? I think so. Yeah.

19:12

I think the amount of ground he's got

19:14

covers, he's got full tilt, I don't know,

19:16

I'm guessing about 20 metres,

19:18

maybe a bit more, and

19:21

flung himself and caught it inches off

19:23

the ground. It is incredible. Millimetres off

19:26

the ground, one handed. Yeah. I

19:29

just think that's the hardest

19:31

skill, having tried to do that. Yeah.

19:34

Is it really the hardest skill? Because as

19:36

a novice cricketer, sometimes I think those

19:38

might be because there's nothing to lose

19:40

in that situation, rather than it being

19:43

hit flat at you, do you know what I mean? Or

19:46

it just is impossible, basically, to get to

19:48

that ball, really. But it's

19:50

just, a lot of it's sort of, there's

19:53

a lot of timing and technique involved in that.

19:56

Yeah. It's not just flinging yourself out,

19:58

it's like trying to keep. your

20:00

head still, keep your eye on the ball as you're sprinting

20:02

full tilt and then

20:04

getting the timing of the jump right to

20:07

then get your hand underneath it just before

20:09

it touches the ground. You're a

20:11

great fielder, aren't you Jimmy? People say you're

20:13

a good fielder. So great. Yeah,

20:15

I'd say great fielder. Yeah, we can say

20:17

it's great fielder. I can feel it. Yeah.

20:21

Unlike somebody, and a shout out to

20:23

whoever did this on Tedden's social, it

20:25

was probably you Greg, or was it

20:27

you Jim, who brought up Labishein's unbelievable

20:29

feats of fielding against match ins. It's

20:31

for Jimmy. It's against match

20:33

ins. That was Jimmy. A couple

20:36

of years ago when we were advertising 100

20:38

wearing Chris Packets on the shirts, when Jimmy

20:40

sent the ball into the atmosphere and backed down from match

20:43

ins to catch. I don't realise how hard that is when

20:45

it's coming that high. I think they've now

20:47

seen this footage. What happens when

20:49

people haven't seen that match in? Basically,

20:51

I caught three I think. Yeah, but

20:53

what happened? You know, one, it slipped

20:55

through and me and the

20:57

Bails. Your hands

20:59

are actually miles away, aren't they? Your

21:01

hands for cricket and fanatics are in

21:03

sort of Australian catching position over your

21:06

shoulders and the ball hits. I just

21:08

say it's really, it really hurts sometimes.

21:10

I don't know how you catch

21:12

a ball. It's horrible. It really

21:14

stings, especially on the end of your penis. There

21:19

were a few comments saying that video will

21:22

never get old. No, it's better. It won't.

21:25

It won't over time. Yeah. It was

21:27

a great day because I was watching that video for

21:29

ages and then if I got bored of that I'd

21:31

watch the matching one. I'd go, oh, I'll

21:33

watch the Labashane one again now and I'll watch the matching

21:35

one now. I watch match ins way more than the Labashane

21:38

one. Yeah, yeah. The end of our lives would have watched

21:40

the matching one, what do you reckon, half a million times?

21:42

I've wasted so much of my life seeing that. It's okay

21:44

though? No, actually it's not a waste. Worst ways to waste

21:46

your life? Entertainment. But that catch

21:48

was amazing. If you haven't seen it, you

21:51

should. It was the anticipation. Immediately,

21:53

as soon as the guy hit it, he was

21:55

off. So good. Anyway,

21:58

oh, I want to see that. Let's talk to you about the

22:00

hat trick thing. I know you brought it up. There's

22:03

always, and we do mention it on the podcast,

22:05

in a series or a tournament, there tends to

22:07

be a thing that all the commentators talk about.

22:09

Go on. Remember the 50 over World

22:11

Cup? And it was all they talked about was

22:13

the dew. Yes. It's like the dew

22:15

on the ground is sort of missed in the air, that was the

22:17

thing. This one, it does seem to be

22:20

what is a real hat trick. That

22:23

seems to be talked about quite a lot. Right. It's

22:25

like a little, well of course, Pat Cummins' one wasn't

22:27

a real, wasn't a proper hat trick. So

22:30

I've not really heard that. It was a discussion before

22:32

really. Yeah, and he sort of popularized it. Do you

22:34

feel like there should be a distinction, Jimmy, between a

22:36

proper hat trick and then just like one that's caught

22:38

on the boundary? No, a hat trick's a hat trick.

22:40

Right, okay. But I'm just saying, well, I'm not saying

22:42

Pat Cummins did celebrate it, but as a

22:45

bowler, you obviously want the

22:47

Chris Jordan one above the... Yes. You're

22:49

not going to be down the pub bragging to your mates about

22:51

a hat trick you got. Yeah, yeah. You

22:53

see, I think in village cricket, particularly, you do.

22:56

You take whatever you want. Yeah, we'll call it. But

23:00

that's probably about explosion of joy you saw when Chris

23:02

Jordan was probably from the fact that like you said,

23:04

it's bold, W.W. bold. He probably wouldn't have that same

23:06

response to... It's like stumps out the ground as well.

23:09

Beautiful. Art. Really nice.

23:12

And also, I mean, so useful

23:15

in terms of the game. Yeah, yeah,

23:17

yeah. They lost the last five wickets

23:19

for no runs. America did, yeah, yeah.

23:21

We looked strong, man, and Adil's bowling.

23:23

Fantasticy bold. I might be wrong

23:25

from memory, but I think four overs for 13 runs.

23:29

Flipper, one that goes away, one that comes back

23:32

in. Variations of flight and

23:34

speed. I said it to you

23:36

guys on WhatsApp, but watching him bowl like

23:38

that makes me feel so sad. He

23:40

hasn't had more of a test career, Adil, because I

23:42

think as the leg spinner, he could have just

23:45

been one of those historically talked

23:47

about test leg spinners really, if

23:49

you had the time, because he's got every single delivery

23:51

now, hasn't he? And he seems so mature now, Jim.

23:53

He seems like a really, like when he speaks and

23:56

stuff, he's got real composure. You know, you used

23:58

to always think about him as someone that might get it. like

26:00

we could be just peaking at the

26:02

right time. Come on. England-Afghanistan final. Could

26:05

I imagine? I don't know your sport. It's

26:09

a great story. Rashid Khan has

26:11

called it a dream. Let's

26:13

just talk about when they became

26:15

an affiliate ICC member, 2001. It's

26:20

an amazing story. They only

26:22

gained full member status in 2017. They

26:26

have the top wicket taker in the tournament,

26:28

Fazal Haq Farooqi, 16 wickets. Oh,

26:30

really? I didn't know that. Top batter, Ramanullah

26:33

Gurbaz, with 281 runs in the tournament. I

26:36

love him. It's just it's. Fairy

26:39

tale stuff. This could be, would you

26:41

mind if Afghanistan beat England in the final if

26:43

England got to the final? Especially from an English

26:45

perspective, we wouldn't because Jonathan Trott is master minding

26:47

the whole thing, which is fantastic. That's

26:50

a great sort of retribution story, especially in

26:52

short form cricket, for he's like toughened

26:54

up his team. I mean, I

26:56

don't think anyone thinks of Afghanistan as

26:59

a small nation now. I think all the big

27:01

teams are as aware as anyone else, Jim, when

27:03

you say like you're not like taking them lightly,

27:05

are you? Like whoever you are. No, not at

27:07

all. I think when you see a few

27:10

of their players now playing the IPL

27:12

and the franchises around the world, I

27:14

think that's going to help them improve

27:16

as a team, as individuals as well. But

27:19

yeah, they've got some fantastic players. I think that

27:21

opening partnership, I really love watching them. I think

27:23

yes, Gurbaz and Zadran, I think, it's

27:25

really exciting to watch. I

27:28

think they do maybe do rely on

27:30

them quite a lot, but they're generally

27:32

just they're put in performances. I think, you

27:35

know, we saw the Bangladesh game. They don't

27:37

need to get a massive total with the

27:39

bowlers. They've got leading, we got Rashi Khan,

27:41

all the other spinners as well. They've got

27:44

so many options. And it's a cricketing cliche,

27:46

but South Africa in a semifinal. Oh

27:49

God, we know what they're like. We know what

27:51

they're like. They've actually had a

27:53

few scares this tournament against some lesser teams as

27:56

well. Well, the USA nearly got them. Yeah. I

27:59

really thought at one. because I was messaging everyone

28:01

going, oh my God, this could happen here. This

28:03

actually could, and then someone came in bold and

28:05

unbelievable over, Rabada, in bold and unbelievable

28:07

over like two. Over 19 went

28:09

for two or something. I thought, oh. Well don't ruin

28:11

the fun. Could be really good game. If you fancy

28:13

matching, you're gonna stay up and watch that, 1.30 AM.

28:16

It'll be a Glastonbury. Oh, I'll be a Glastonbury. You can stay up

28:18

there if you want. Go. You can stay

28:21

up and watch it. We will be up then. I

28:23

wonder if it's being screened anywhere. Will

28:25

it be screened? Will Afghanistan,

28:27

South Africa be screened at Worthy Farm

28:29

at 1 AM? I mean,

28:31

maybe. I never know. It will be in my tent. Let

28:33

me tell you that. Can I just say, as much as

28:36

I am supporting Afghanistan, I do not endorse the Taliban. Well,

28:39

that's, you know what? I'm pleased that you've

28:41

jokingly brought that up because I do think

28:43

you have to talk about that side of

28:45

things if you're talking about the Afghanistan men's

28:47

team. Something that Isha Guha talked

28:49

about passionately at our Cowdry lecture a few

28:52

months ago. He did, yeah. The huge dilemma

28:54

for, well, cricket

28:56

on a small scale, but the world at

28:58

large is that the men's team,

29:00

we should celebrate them for getting through to the

29:02

semi-finals of the team. But the women's team are

29:04

banned from playing at the moment. Punishable

29:07

by death. Which is awful,

29:09

obviously, unbelievably awful. People want to

29:11

flee to Australia. Have they really?

29:13

Yeah. What of the female crickets

29:15

is? Afghanistan women's cricket team, yeah. So

29:20

complicated, isn't it? Because you want to open

29:22

up, we're desperate with that with cricket, to

29:24

open it up beyond those eight countries and

29:26

everyone be playing men's cricket and be more

29:28

competitive. But that does

29:30

rear quite a lot of questions. So

29:33

obviously a dilemma for cricket, but a

29:36

huge dilemma and issue for the rest

29:38

of the world as well. Isha

29:40

Guha talks about it amazingly on the Cowdry lecture, which you

29:42

can listen to on

29:44

BBC Sounds. Full

29:46

coverage, by the way, of the

29:49

semi-finals will be on

29:51

Test Match Special. There

29:54

you go, Thursday. I think it's been sounding great. I think it's

29:56

such a great mix of everyone on TMS. I've

29:58

been really enjoying it. Have you? Yeah, yeah. because I've been away.

30:02

They haven't you've been logging in

30:04

with my VPN. Great. Had all the games.

30:06

Listening to it all to sit in the

30:08

sunshine. It's been nice. What's extra? Big up

30:10

the team. Yeah. Matching.

30:12

Hello. Hello. I know you've got a

30:14

bit on USA cricket. Oh,

30:17

yeah. We're all excited by

30:19

it. You've been excited by it. You've

30:21

been activated by this, haven't you? I

30:23

have been activated. Activated, turned on, switched

30:25

on. I want to teach you a

30:27

little bit about the relationship between cricket

30:30

and the USA. Yes. Short, short lectures.

30:32

Felix, I hope you could accompany me

30:34

on guitar. You're in luck because I

30:36

happen to have it right next to

30:38

me. Can I put into a metaphor

30:40

so it's easier, palatable? OK.

30:42

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to give you... Oh, could

30:44

you do some kind of romantic music stuff? Romantic. OK.

30:46

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to give you

30:49

a short and enlightening eye-opening plot of history

30:51

about the little known love affair between cricket

30:53

and the good old USA. They

30:56

have significant relationship history.

30:59

Can I shock you? Cricket

31:01

was America's first love. They

31:05

began dating in the 18th century when

31:07

cricket was introduced to America by their

31:09

mutual friend, the British Colunius.

31:12

Oh, them again. It was

31:14

a tale as old as time, isn't it? It was

31:17

the start. What were those guys like, they nice or?

31:19

Well, we'll get into that. It was

31:21

the start of a deep and burning love affair. A mixed bag,

31:23

I'd say. It was the start of

31:25

a deep and burning love affair. Who

31:27

did USA lose their sporting virginity with? That's

31:30

right, cricket. The first American

31:32

international sporting event in the

31:34

modern world was a game in 1844 between

31:36

USA and Canada, predating

31:41

even the revival of the Olympic

31:43

Games. Cricket and USA

31:45

were falling in love. George

31:47

Washington was a massive cricket badger and

31:49

encouraged his troops to play cricket. It

31:52

exploded in the state with over 1,000 teams across

31:54

22 states. A

31:56

thousand. A thousand teams. Wow,

31:59

it was huge. which in the 19th

32:01

century, that is huge. That's enormous, a

32:03

thousand teams. Across 22 states. The

32:06

19th century, cricket was hugely popular. Philadelphia was

32:08

the epicenter. Philly cricketers were so good that

32:11

they regularly beat English teams. Cricket

32:14

and USA couldn't be going better. What could go wrong?

32:17

Sad music. Bad

32:19

news for cricket. A new man

32:21

came on the scene for America. He was

32:23

shorter. Shiner.

32:26

Shorter. And he wasn't nearly as high

32:28

maintenance. America got their head

32:30

turned in a big way. His

32:32

name was Barry Baseball. Sorry,

32:34

can I just stop? Is that,

32:37

were you just extending the joke, or

32:39

is that a person? No, Barry Baseball.

32:41

But it's a metaphor for a new man. But

32:44

there's not a man who isn't a man. No,

32:46

just to make that. And I'm not a short,

32:48

shiny man called Barry Baseball. He was, he was

32:50

shiny. Because I think, I'm sorry,

32:52

I just wanted to clarify for those who don't know your

32:54

writing, like we know your writing. People will be thinking, oh,

32:57

I've never heard of Barry Baseball, what's he like? But could

32:59

you do the next bit in the voice of Barry Baseball,

33:01

please? Doesn't

33:05

really, okay. What sort of thing did he say when

33:07

he burst onto the scene? Well, okay,

33:10

okay, it's that. Cricket. We'll start with a howdy,

33:12

I imagine. Howdy. Cricket was asked

33:14

to move out. America wanted

33:16

to redecorate. The once

33:19

thriving cricket grounds slowly turned

33:21

into baseball diamonds. Nice.

33:24

Cricket that once captivated so many

33:27

could only look on from afar as

33:29

America began a new love affair with

33:31

his arch nemesis. Sorry, that's an amazing

33:33

voice. That's the best accent you've

33:35

ever done. That's, Barry Baseball's

33:38

here to stay. No wonder

33:40

he took over the country. So

33:42

baseball took over largely down to

33:44

three factors. Difficult, now

33:46

how difficult it was to prepare a pitch. Fast,

33:51

the baseball was more appealing. They

33:54

wanted sexy, cheap thrills. Don't

33:57

we all? Ultimately, it was

33:59

because America. want to break away from

34:01

a game that they associated with their

34:03

colonial masters. Cricket

34:05

was hanging around with the wrong crowd and

34:08

the USA wanted to distance himself from that.

34:11

Anyway, so, go

34:14

on. Basically, fast forward to

34:16

the present day. Basically, the

34:18

lecture just goes, and so

34:20

on. Fast forward to the

34:23

present day, Cricket has been away and has

34:25

been working on himself. He

34:27

doesn't take himself so seriously anymore. Oh,

34:29

I see. Yeah. He's got some

34:32

new rules to live by. 20

34:34

overs, 10 overs, whatever. Whatever makes you

34:36

happy, baby. Yeah. As long as you're

34:38

happy. Yeah. He's got some very rich

34:41

friends. In May 2019,

34:43

USA Cricket accepted a bid of

34:45

American Cricket Enterprise for a

34:47

billion pound investment. Yeah, big. Cricket

34:50

has got a new social circle. Pat Cummins

34:52

has signed a four-year deal with the

34:55

San Francisco Unicorns. Glenn

34:58

Maxwell, Travis Head and numerous big names

35:00

have all signed contracts with the US

35:02

Franchise League. So, Cricket

35:04

is sliding back into the DMs

35:07

of American sports fans. This

35:10

time with a billion pounds and Steve Smith

35:12

as a chaperone for their first date. Nice.

35:16

Cricket wants you back, America, but

35:19

will America sweep right? Swipe

35:22

right. Sweep

35:26

right. Yeah. Yeah.

35:29

It sort of works, isn't it? I've got to say

35:31

that. I loved that. That

35:33

was so good. It's a beautiful bit of writing.

35:36

Love that. What was a bit of

35:38

Cricket is sliding back into America's DMs.

35:40

Yeah. It's

35:43

really nice. You should be in love. I get it.

35:45

I understand what you're saying. Don't explain it. I

35:48

was just saying he was good. So,

35:50

Barry baseball's on, are you saying he's on the way out and

35:52

Colin Cricket's on the way in? We

35:55

don't know. I don't think they seem

35:57

quite in love with each other.

36:00

or Barry baseball. But,

36:02

you know, maybe they'd maybe get out of three

36:04

up. With

36:07

Barry and Colin. What else? Well,

36:11

America. And America. And America. And

36:13

America. Try

36:15

anything once. I

36:19

think... Not that you're

36:21

not, you know, glued

36:23

up on it all. And this is not a diss. I'd

36:25

like to get some American cricket stars

36:28

on. Right. That'd be nice. Definitely. Also,

36:31

Geoff McNeil of the New York Mets was talking

36:33

about, he, as I've aforementioned, when they were all

36:35

in London, they were watching the World

36:37

Cup, and he was saying how

36:40

he would fancy himself. And he really loves cricket.

36:42

He would love watching it

36:44

with curiosity. Kyle Schwabber,

36:46

I spoke to in the Cubs dressing room, he

36:48

was asking me questions about cricket. I

36:51

think there's a deep fascination there. There seems to

36:53

be putting a lot of money into it. Yeah,

36:56

yeah, yeah. I think, I'd show what, I do

36:58

baseball hitters, especially their eyes light up, because

37:00

you can only hit illegally into a specific

37:02

arc in baseball, but obviously you've been able

37:04

to hit 360 in cricket. It's

37:07

like an element of freedom to that for them. They're

37:09

like, oh, wow, yeah, I want to try that. I

37:11

was reading about it, it's a really interesting story about

37:13

in 1995, there was a

37:15

cricket program set up in Compton in LA, and

37:18

all these ex-GAM members joined this cricket club,

37:20

and then they took off, and they start

37:22

a tour, and then they go do like

37:24

a Disney documentary about it. Oh, nice. Nice.

37:27

Because all the ethos of cricket is good to... Didn't

37:29

you send something, Jim, about... Yeah, sorry. There

37:32

was an old someone from back

37:34

in the day talking about taking cricket to America.

37:37

You sent it to the group, didn't you? And I was

37:39

like, oh, it would be quite good rewinder material for Craig. Oh, yeah. What

37:42

else? I sent a clip of someone talking about

37:44

it in the 70s, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

37:46

so people have been talking about this for a

37:48

long time, it's just sort of like, yeah. Strangely,

37:51

they dovetail it in and out of each

37:54

other's lives. Yeah, this is the thing that

37:56

Jimmy sent around. In 1973, Morley Safer set

37:58

out to understand the game of cricket. He

38:00

chatted to... English satirist, Woody Ruchton, about

38:02

whether the sport could ever catch on in America. Here

38:04

we go. Do you think there's

38:06

any chance that a game like cricket could surpass

38:09

baseball and catch on in the United States? No,

38:11

I don't think so.

38:13

You're more instant than we are. You're more

38:15

sort of instant coffee and instant this and

38:17

instant that. I don't think

38:19

you could sit there for five days. An English team

38:21

has just been out to play a series of internationals

38:23

against Pakistan. They must have traveled some

38:25

20,000 miles. They have played three

38:27

five-day games. Fifteen days have been spent from 11.30

38:30

in the morning to 7.30 at night. No

38:33

result whatsoever. Nobody won, nobody lost. A

38:35

crime is a frenzy. Why on earth play it? No

38:42

one seems particularly surprised if it's a draw

38:44

or a tie. People

38:47

have been asking that question for hundreds of years.

38:49

I don't think I'm going to get an answer.

38:53

Great. Especially what you were saying. You're

38:56

the new Willie Rushton. So anyway, watch this

38:58

space. We're going to get some American cricketers on. Aaron Jones,

39:00

I guess, is number one on the list, isn't he? Oh,

39:03

right. Sorry. I misinterpreted

39:05

that as American baseball players on cricket. But yes,

39:08

we should definitely get Aaron Jones on. Yeah, yeah,

39:10

yeah. Absolutely. That

39:12

would be really great. And also, Monanc,

39:15

who injured himself on the

39:17

bus celebrating the Pakistan win. Oh,

39:19

really? Which kind of set him

39:21

out for the rest of the tournament. Really? What

39:24

was he doing on the bus? I don't

39:26

know. He went a bit too hard. Yeah, I've actually

39:29

done that. Understandable, right? Yeah, I know that feeling. Celebrating

39:31

on a bus. All life. Yeah.

39:34

Anyway, as it's Glastonbury this

39:36

weekend, let's have some cricket

39:38

camping things. Okay. Or

39:41

as we're calling it, camp cricket. Adam

39:46

Zampervan. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah,

39:49

yeah, yeah. Very good. Such

39:51

intent, Dorker. Can Michael Toilet-Clark? No.

39:55

No. Michael Clark. I don't even

39:57

understand what happened. What

40:00

chemical toilet? Oh nice nice nice okay.

40:02

Okay Michael toilet Clark. Ricky

40:04

Awning? What

40:07

about Jamie Porter Lou? Oh that's good. Can

40:09

I have yurtly Ambrose? Oh! Oh,

40:12

we've got a winner! Yurtly

40:15

Ambrose. That's really great. The

40:17

rest of them are pitchmarsh.

40:22

No nothing better than

40:24

that. Yurtly Ambrose. He's

40:28

thinking of a song. I'm just trying to think of...

40:32

Let's give ourselves 30 seconds. Unless

40:35

you've got one that you think is

40:37

better than the yurtly Ambrose, stay silent.

40:39

And we are going to keep the

40:41

silence in the podcast. Okay. It's important.

40:43

30 seconds starting now.

40:52

15

40:59

seconds remaining. I've got

41:01

nothing. I've just got Jamie Porter who

41:03

got on my head again and again. You

41:11

might have them but they're not better. I don't know

41:13

better. Time

41:16

is up. I don't want to lose this. I like Zampavan. Zampavan

41:18

is good. Yeah Adam Zampavan. Yurtly

41:21

Ambrose is. Hence Dawkins or is it?

41:24

Yeah the Ambrose comes along. I say

41:26

hell. I haven't got anything. Exactly.

41:29

Mushtent. Not

41:36

as good. Okay moving on. Gladstone

41:40

Brie Small. Gladstone

41:43

Brie Small is quite good. I

41:45

don't mind Gladstone Brie Small. That'll

41:51

be loads. Pyramid

41:53

Off stage. Pyramid

41:55

Off. Pyramid

41:57

Off. Pyramid Off. Pyramid

42:00

off. You stand at Pyramid off,

42:02

please mate. Yeah, no, no, no time to

42:04

get a helmet. We haven't got time to get a helmet. We

42:07

haven't got time. We haven't got time. Do

42:09

you remember that at the village cricket? Yeah, no time, just stand. No, there's

42:11

no time. We haven't got time to get

42:13

a helmet because we're in the middle of an over. Just

42:15

stand there while this massive guy smashes that ball at you.

42:18

Speaking of helmets in village cricket. Okay. Sharknado,

42:20

please enter the recording booth. Sharknado,

42:23

take my seat. Yesterday,

42:28

when I was talking to Sharknado in the movie, he

42:30

told me two things. And

42:32

I suggested that they might be good for the podcast

42:34

and he wasn't sure, but I do think they are

42:37

good. Firstly, can you tell us the tight finish? You're

42:42

a village. Ah! I'm a

42:44

fade-out. Yes, you're faded. You're

42:47

a comedy finish to

42:49

the match I played at the weekend on Sunday.

42:53

We needed five to win. Most

42:56

you can get. Most you can get. Four to

42:58

obviously draw. All it comes in. Balls,

43:02

our guy hits it. Runs one, comes

43:04

back for the second, thinks why not. Tight

43:06

second. I feel like it could

43:09

have just held onto the ball. Yeah, win the game. Yeah.

43:11

I feel the decisive to try and run out. That's

43:14

it. Hings it, misses the stunts.

43:17

No backing up. Awful. So

43:19

it goes to sort of mid-wicket area. They

43:22

run back for a third. As

43:24

they were running back for a third, Fielder

43:26

decided to try and do a jaunty race. You know when

43:28

jaunty runs with the ball and kind of leaps to get

43:30

run out. Realizes

43:34

about two yards out, he's not gonna

43:36

make it. Right. So again, could hang

43:38

onto the ball to win the match.

43:40

Decided to throw it. Throw it? Throw

43:42

it. Why throw it? Okay. Glory. Misses,

43:45

no backing up. So we

43:47

then run for a fourth to

43:50

draw the match. Wow. A

43:52

shot which probably should have only got one, ended up

43:55

getting four. That's a pressure, that's two. How

43:57

many calls for a super over? How

44:00

long was that? No, it was really hot and we

44:02

were like, why don't you go to the pub instead? Brilliant. There's

44:04

no time, there's no time, there's no time. No

44:06

time. How long that passage of play sounds quite

44:08

long? Was it like a minute? It lasted about 30

44:10

seconds. OK, part

44:13

two of the story involves something that's currently

44:15

on your chin. Er,

44:18

because I'm old, I don't wear a

44:20

helmet when I bat. Oh,

44:22

because it wasn't fashionable? No, you didn't have to

44:25

wear one, which is really silly and I top-edged.

44:28

Oh. Into my

44:31

chin. Oops. My

44:33

red bruised chin. Blood

44:37

down the top. And it's

44:39

a lesson learnt because it could have been my

44:41

teeth or my nose, which would have been horrific.

44:44

From now on, I shall wear a

44:46

helmet. Yes,

44:52

you've faded up. Can I

44:54

go now? No, while you're here, can I quickly

44:56

say, I'm very happy 50th to Sharkey, who's

44:59

staged his own Sharkston Breeze, shall

45:01

we call it? Sharkade. Sharkade,

45:03

shall we call it? Sharkade. Sharkade.

45:06

In Bishop's Stortford. And it

45:08

was easily the best 50th I've ever been to. Matt did

45:10

a quiz. I did a quiz. When you

45:12

gave? Sharky Bingo. Sharky

45:15

Bingo, in which he distributed cards

45:17

of Sharky settings to the entire party.

45:20

100 people, 100 people? Yeah.

45:22

Felt like that. It was a good quiz,

45:24

good quiz. And then he did the gig, didn't you? Did the gig. Yeah.

45:28

Thank you for playing. Sharky, pleasure. You

45:30

both played, thank you very much. It

45:32

was very good. Very brilliant. Yeah, they

45:34

were very good. Yeah. And they played, I

45:36

don't know, 12 songs? Classics.

45:39

Purple Rain. Jump. Van

45:41

Halen. It ended, of course, leading the

45:44

show. Matching came on, so he

45:46

focused the end. And he had done

45:48

his own version, completely unrehearsed, of

45:51

common people by pulp. And that the

45:53

general shtick of the story was that

45:55

it was actually being sung from the

45:57

position of Sharky's wife to

45:59

Sharky. I thought I want to

46:01

be like shaman people. No, it was Sharkey to

46:03

Melissa. Oh, you want to be like Sharkey changed

46:05

it to shaman people Right. I wanna be with

46:07

people Like you

46:09

know, yeah Anyway, it was a bit

46:12

odd, but he did very well the

46:14

general stick was that was that Sharkey

46:16

was the common people and she wanted

46:18

to She came

46:20

you check but the but Jarvis was singing

46:23

But you changed the perspective of the

46:25

song But you're

46:27

singing it wrong. Hang on. Oh

46:29

you were singing it from Melissa's perspective. Oh,

46:32

yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing it from shark

46:34

his wife's perspective to as he there shark.

46:37

Yeah So she

46:39

was like I wanna live with shaman

46:41

shaman people. I wanna do Shaman

46:44

people do wanna sleep with shaman

46:46

people. So you're well, I'm Melissa

46:50

I want to sleep with shaman people like

46:52

you but she didn't. Oh,

46:54

no. I've got it wrong I think it

46:56

was from it didn't it doesn't scan completely but No,

47:00

I know that anyway, so they can we

47:02

gathered the sentiment was that Tell

47:06

us what it misses shark Did

47:08

she have a review of it afterwards? She really

47:11

enjoyed herself. Yeah, she was no no. No, did you enjoy

47:13

that song? We

47:15

kind of just glossed over Do

47:18

the go wells? Yeah, come on sharky. All right, go

47:20

wells and get wells is Get

47:23

well, so go well to Henry who's had

47:25

his ACL surgery for love Engagements

47:29

human being engagements Toby and cat

47:32

Kate and Liam Jen and Kano

47:34

Beth and Josh Will and

47:36

Louisa George and Abby who met matching in Italy

47:38

when he was on his holidays. I did

47:42

Met him at the airport of them Jordan. No,

47:44

they're all there. Yeah, was it a matching tour

47:46

that you were doing? Yeah Yeah, I might do

47:48

that now No, George and

47:50

Abby who I met on the I think on the as

47:53

I got to Italy just saw wandering around They

47:55

can we said hello, which is weird because you

47:57

know, they wouldn't think bump into telling but there

47:59

are quite a few. Lovely.

48:02

I went to Capri, bumped into another

48:04

Te Lendre. Lovely. I felt

48:06

like Bono. Yeah, Te Lendro, you're not in Cova.

48:09

I felt like Bono. Then

48:11

I saw, I didn't

48:14

expect to be spotted here in Capri.

48:16

Bono does. Exactly. I

48:19

was loving it. He's always expecting, do you think

48:21

he's always expecting spotted at that level of fame?

48:24

Funny that, I bumped into two

48:27

Te Lendres Lord's Cricket

48:29

Ground. What an edge. Weird. I

48:32

was playing a charity, not a charity, like a

48:34

corporate day. Oh, yeah. I'm not actually

48:36

talking about Mona's. Lavashane played in

48:38

it, Brody played in it. Oh, no way. That's

48:41

funny. But yeah, met two young lads, Rufus

48:43

and Johnny, from Roehampton and Fulham CC. Don't

48:45

know if it's the same club or if

48:47

it's two seprons. Brilliant,

48:49

yeah, go well. Cheers.

48:52

Play with you. No, they were sort of

48:54

watching. So, like, it was all

48:58

older people playing the cricket, but there was loads of

49:00

kids there playing on the outfield

49:02

at Lord's, which was pretty good. Amazing.

49:04

How did you go? I got some runs to do. Did

49:06

you? How did you run to get? I

49:09

reckon I got like 30 odd

49:12

in the day, not out. That's good. Not out.

49:15

They were like six over games. You're Brody bowl

49:17

against you. Yeah, over games. No. What

49:20

are your scoring areas down the ground? I

49:22

whipped a few through mid-week, actually. I

49:25

got off the mark with a cut shot. And

49:29

then a couple of clips through mid-week.

49:31

Lovely. Nice. Lovely.

49:34

Well, go well to those two. Sorry, just

49:36

a massive go well to Sean

49:38

Masood, who lent me his kit. No

49:42

way. That's great. Did

49:44

he have his name on your back? Did he?

49:47

No, did you have his name on your back? Oh, no. Just

49:49

his batting kit. Oh, I see. His

49:52

pads and his bat, which

49:54

was unbelievable. Was it? Yeah.

49:56

Gray Nichols bat. I love Sean Masood. Yeah,

50:00

fun. Move

50:03

well. Cheers. Sally, who's off to London

50:05

for a laugh, and Jamie's got a new house. Go

50:07

well. Move well. Cheers. Birthdays.

50:10

Human being birthdays. Ian's 50, not out. John's

50:12

listening in New Zealand. Sam, Jack, Soph, Boopy,

50:14

Margaret as well, who's 90, not out, and

50:17

is a big Langs fan. So, Jimmy, can

50:19

you give Margaret a big shout out for

50:21

her birthday? Go well, Margaret. Cheers.

50:24

Cheers. Also, Jack took a five

50:27

for his first one ever. What a bold.

50:29

Human being cricket clubs. Dalton home

50:32

cricket club. Crew vagrants cricket club.

50:34

Sportsman legend, Cece. Perrin Porth girls

50:36

under 15s. York

50:39

under 13s. Letchworth, Lioness

50:41

is under 13 girls. The

50:43

WA whackers. A big

50:45

shout out to Aaron, who recently hit 135 off 56 balls. Wow.

50:51

Awful. God, just put people in

50:53

the car park for that. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Oof.

50:57

Did you see Dan Lawrence hitting bash for 38 off

50:59

and over? That's another one

51:01

of those, like, oh, I'm just plunking it here, and he's gonna

51:03

hit me everywhere type vibe. Yeah, I

51:05

felt really sorry for bash on that.

51:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because what you're supposed

51:10

to do, just fire it down the leg side, isn't it? I

51:13

mean, easier said than done. It's hard, isn't it? Because

51:15

that's what I'd think, just bowl as fast as you

51:17

can. Yeah,

51:19

that doesn't work. Yeah, sometimes not. Fast and

51:21

the better, if you'll speak. Oh

51:24

my God. Read it, yeah. Nightmare.

51:27

Oh, good shots, though. Oddfellows Cricket Club as

51:29

well. Go well. I've gotta go

51:31

well. Please. Barney Douglas,

51:34

and Tamsin Douglas got married

51:36

this weekend. Barney, who obviously

51:38

directed The Edge, Star

51:40

and Jimmy, which I made a

51:42

music for, and a legend in the cricket world, the

51:45

lovely marriage. Did you play it that way, then, as

51:47

well? I didn't actually know there was talk about it,

51:50

but it got pulled last minute, but I'll tell

51:52

you, you did play there. Beatles tribute band. Oh,

51:54

not about like Beatles. No,

51:57

it just is good. Weddings?

52:01

I was going to say he also

52:03

co-wrote and directed Graham Swan. Exactly,

52:07

yeah, which was brilliant to be fair.

52:09

Fantastic TV that was. It actually

52:11

was great television. And

52:13

that was right at the start of social media really, wasn't it? Yeah.

52:17

Right at the start. Yeah. Jimmy

52:19

and Graham Swan in the 10-11 Ashes series. You

52:21

could have been... I missed those days. You could have been

52:23

YouTubers. Because you were winning, you just

52:25

had free reign to sort of just be as silly as

52:27

you wanted really in the videos, wasn't it? Yeah.

52:32

Well, we started it before we won a game, I think.

52:34

Right, okay, yeah. But, yeah. Joe, I

52:36

always think about that one, a really good scene is

52:38

when one of you's done a

52:40

press conference and you feel like the words have been

52:42

taken out of context. So you

52:44

do a video where you show how easy it is

52:47

to clip up a conversation and things to, like, be

52:49

taken out of context and it's like you come out

52:51

of a shower in the background and stuff like that,

52:53

like, and the words are clipped up. I've never seen

52:55

it. It's really good. It's all

52:57

up on YouTube, isn't it? All the

52:59

thoughts, though. Fine, I'll follow you. It's

53:02

one of Ash's diaries. It's

53:04

good. I was a treasure trove for you, matching

53:06

you and I. Let's play some of the best bits on the

53:08

next episode. Can I do a review on it? Yes.

53:10

Yeah. Let's do that.

53:12

And Jimmy, it made me feel sad saying he misses those days. I

53:15

know. They were great days, though. We still have fun.

53:18

I saw them. We can still have a laugh here. We can do a little

53:20

video. We can do some videos with you if you want. Okay.

53:24

How much of a laugh do you think we are? Go on. What's

53:27

so good about Swindon? Anyway,

53:30

congratulations, Barn and Tam. Love

53:33

you. Go well. Cheers.

53:36

Weddings. Speaking of weddings. Oh, sorry. Jenny

53:39

and Cameron, Gemma and James, Esther and Michael,

53:41

Ravi and Jahan, James

53:44

and Lauren. Go well. Cheers. Told

53:47

you. Joy has started All Stars Cricket.

53:49

We have some anniversaries, Joy Z and

53:51

Mia. Three teachers and 40

53:53

students from Birkdale High School are off to watch Jimmy

53:55

play at Southport next week. 40 students. That's

53:58

basically, that's a sound. sell out, innit?

54:04

Ted is playing for Tiffin under 12 bees

54:06

and got six for 15 or four overs

54:08

including a hat trick in

54:10

a quadruple wicket maiden. Wow,

54:13

Chris Jordan stuff. Go well. Nice

54:16

work Ted. Big up Tiffin under 12

54:18

bees. Ewan

54:20

got a wicket on Debbie for Eastwood under

54:22

9s. We have some new tail enders. You

54:24

and me and babies. That is Asa and

54:27

Willow. Lovely cricketing name. Yeah. Go well. And

54:30

finally, Snipwell, Googling News,

54:32

Matt. Oh,

54:34

no, not you. Go well Matt.

54:36

Cheerio. Matt. Cheerio. No, no, it's

54:38

a man called Matt. Okay, but,

54:41

yeah, go well to him. Snipwell.

54:44

But, not you. No news on that

54:46

yet. Do you know what I mean? You can

54:48

reverse if a sex me. Can, yeah. I didn't know

54:50

that. A reverse sweep. Yeah. You

54:52

can reverse it. Innovative. God,

54:55

pre-emptive. Premeditated.

54:57

Yeah. Okay, anyway.

54:59

Thanks for listening. It's time to

55:01

wrap this up, definitely. Please, it

55:04

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55:09

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55:11

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55:13

content. Go well. Cheers. Cheers.

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