Test Match Special - No Balls: Ponytails, World Cups and Grandma Kate

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

Alex is heading to the men’s T20 World Cup and tells us all about where she’ll be heading in the coming weeks.Kate gives us the lowdown on England’s ODI series win against Pakistan. And we find out how the England squad keep themselves entertained during rain delays.

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We've got to let you know that we do sometimes swear on this podcast. But don't let that put you off because Henry beeps them out but we might sometimes say shish kebab flippin' heck. That's a swear word.

Cross. I'm doing round a wicket. Holder, Boulder, leaving a ball alone, Litchfield. Think it's the wobble. ball and it just nips back it jags back it's the nipbacker that is a beauty from kate cross an absolute seed that is a beautiful cross hello and welcome back to nobles the shambles podcast with v kate cross you alex hartley and you've just managed to stop yourself from being

upside down on face time which is what we were looking at for the first 30 seconds yeah and also i've got no headphones so we couldn't do it with producer chris sykes um and i've just traveled I've had a long day, no sleep, and I'm tired. It's going to be a belter, guys. But I'm in Barbados. Yay! So, right, I've not spoken to you for approximately four months now. You've just flown today.

How long's the flight? How long are you in Barbados for? How was Florida? What have you been up to? Tell me all. I'm having a bloody wonderful time, cross it. It's been so good. So, yeah, I've done nine games in 10 days.

We were in New York. then we were in Florida for three days it rained it was a right rigmaral to get there but I'll go into that when we like properly go into it and now I've just flown to Barbados took three hours and I'm hungry so we could is that 30 minutes yet can we call it off so just to clarify you've had

you're having a great time you're loving it and then with 40 minutes that we've got to do this podcasting you're in the foulest mood of the whole two months yeah nice nice but I was worried because it's it's 9pm at home now, isn't it? So I was like, we don't want to just be like, oh, well, we're going to pod at 10 p.m. Because that's really disrespectful. Yeah, I would have gone to bed. So it would have just been you on your own. But at least you would have been happy. So, you know, it's the toss-up. How are you? Yeah, I'm fine, thank you. I've not traveled anywhere today except to

train in and back. I've eaten. I had a little nap this afternoon as well. So I'm really podcast ready, I'll. Yes, okay, right. Well, I'll be happy in like 12 minutes when you cheer me up, no doubt. Twelve minutes, it didn't take that long. I cheered you up yesterday. when I said that's going holiday. Oh my God, I'm back. We're back. We can go on holiday. This is so good.

I've been looking at Airbnbs all afternoon, so I'll send you them after we've done this pod. Get it. I cannot wait. We're going on holiday, guys. We've got three days before the 100 starts, and we've just decided we're going to go on holiday. We need some ideas of where to go,

because I've been looking at Italy, but it's really hard to get the kind of villa that I want with a pool in Italy, because everything's kind of like vineyardy, beachy. Yeah. I was looking at the Amalfi Coast. and maybe Lake Garda. Anyway, this feels like conversations have afterwards.

We're not going back to Lake Garder. We've both done that together before. We didn't go to Lake Garda. Yes, we did. No, we didn't. We went to a different lake. It wasn't Lake Garda. We were in Lake Garda.

Are you sure? Yeah, because I got ice cream. We've got that massive ice cream in Lake Garda. I don't think that was Lake Garda, but anyway, are you well? I'm well. I am well. I've been unwell. So I've had a right wing.

You have been unwell? Yeah, I've had a right way. week so bad starts of the week last week and then I was just ill I had the lurgy because you know candle both ends burning it I've like actually just set it on fire from the middle and let it explode so okay I've like not like you all my mouth is like my jaw and stuff is like really saw my teeth and my throat and I had a cold and I'm just through the other side of it and I was in Florida and I went out really like three nights in a row and now I feel poorly again. I think what I've always admired about you, Al, is how you managed to, like, balance everything

so well. You've always, you've always, like, been my inspiration for that about just, you know, how to cope with the work and life balance and how to get it right more often than not. Yeah, but to be fair, we've just arrived to the hotel and they're having a beer and I was like, nah, I can't, I've got the podcast, I need a day off, so no beers for me today. No, you can't use the podcast as your excuse. no it's my help technically yeah I'm working yeah yeah that's more like it

um what have I got to you not much as oh right okay go on no go on you go what have you got for me well I've not got I was just going to say I've not got much for you that's going on over here other than thunder haven't made shell at Edwards Cup finals day so we've played a bit of cricket we've played some really good cricket we've played some really bad cricket but that was basically all I've got for you in terms of an

update other than I'm meeting up with England on Saturday so next time we do a podcast I'll be back in the England set up for the ODIs against New Zealand. Congratulations, she's in the squad. Thank you. So that's my update, so over to you. That's gone really quick, actually, hasn't it, between series? Yeah, well, it feels like it has, but also hasn't,

because I feel like I've turned out for Thunder a lot. We had a random bit of fitness testing halfway through our time at home, which was obviously unpleasant. Yeah, but you got quicker. Got quicker, got fitter, got skinnier, well, leaner. and that's like midway through a season so that feels real good proud of you

I do have some cricket stuff on my sticky note though you've been travelling so you might not have seen it today but World Cup let's go into the World Cup Lucky Ferguson did you see his figures today because I am a badger

and I've seen all of the games he's just in a World Cup just bought four overs four maidens and got three wickets he didn't concede a single run four maidens I was watching it

because I've had it on all afternoon and I was nervous for him going into his last over because I was like, I really want him to get this record and all the commentators are talking about it and then he bowls a bouncer so he's not like trying to not concede runs, he's trying to get wickets and still doesn't have a run conceded off him it was mental. So he didn't bowl a wire or anything?

No, because he went for no runs. But that's, like, if you're bowling bouncers then there's a high chance you're going to go over the head, isn't there? Yeah, potentially, but he didn't. So no runs, for over over it was ludicrous. little bit too late though bit too late so it's mental i don't know where we've been up to with this but new zealand are out pakistan are out england were nearly out u s a through

yeah india are through um it's been i i think i'd text at you this week it's been one of the worst world cups i've ever seen but also one of the best i've ever seen it's it's actually it's been so so weird hasn't it like i mean i'm going through my notebook now Florida, for a start, didn't have a game until the very last day because it was so wet. I feel like Florida's probably not going to host cricket again anytime soon. Not at this time of year, no. But I've written down some of the ludicrous results.

Go on them. Pakistan nearly lost to Ireland, again, shock. They've had an awful tournament. Pakistan and New Zealand are going home. It just blows my mind. It is mad, isn't it? But I think that's what I've loved so much about it, It's not been a typical World Cup

where your standard eight teams have got through at this stage and it's been a runs fest. Yeah. It's been the complete opposite of that. It's been really tricky. People have had to work really hard for runs and less so for wickets, but I'm a bowler, so like that.

I like it's really weird that in a men's World Cup, 150's a good score. I think, again, did I text it to you? I can't remember, but it feels a little bit like some games have been like watching women's cricket, like slow pitches, slow bowling, really difficult to like hit boundaries hit sixes so it's been the team that's been the smartest on the day that's won most of the games yeah like so England did everything

they needed to do to qualify and then then they had just had to watch the Scotland game and Scotland whacked it like they did they and they bold so well as well I only caught it on the highlights but it was I didn't realize how close the game it was I just woke up look at the scorecard and like Australia won by five wickets so I thought it was close but it would sorry I thought it wasn't close and then I watched the highlights and it was so close like ridiculously close we were like oh my god England are actually going home so the games have been have they been at a bad time for you uh some have some start like one in the morning but the good ones well I'll say the good ones the ones that I've wanted to watch have been

like 3 p.m oh okay okay yeah nice well we're into super eights now and I can't I cannot wait so which game have you got next my first game is India-Afghanistan on Thursday. Nice. That could be a great game. It could be a great game. Like, Afghanistan, the bowlers, doing it both ways. It's going to be tough on these pitches.

I was with the umpires yesterday and it was like a, that's a tough game. But the pitches have generally been a bit better in the West Indies, haven't they? Yeah, I think so. So hopefully they're a bit better for the Super 8th's bit. Have you got anything on your sticking out? Probably. I'd say probably. I must be honest, probably not.

Absolutely not. No, I've got nothing on my sticking out this week. Have you got anything on yours? Yeah, I've got one really random thing. I've got two things, actually. So Taylor Swift is in England at the minute, isn't she? She's doing a tour. Yeah.

I saw her in a news clip that people were wearing adult nappies at her concert so that they didn't have to leave the venue at any point, miss any music, so that they could just... No. ...themselves. in their nappies? No. And my question to you is,

is there anyone on this earth that you would wear an adult nappy for so that you didn't miss any of their entertainment? What? No, they didn't. No, they haven't. Oh, what is wrong with the people of this earth? I mean, you would hope, you'd hope you could time it

so you didn't need to go for a poo at any point during that concert. Like, you should be able to... Yeah, you go in the morning. You saw that out. Yeah. or afternoon if she starts at 7pm but nobody should be wetting themselves

over Taylor Swift I'm just really I was shocked and appalled to be honest with you there are some cycles in this world they probably all listen to our podcast and they're all Taylor Swift fans which I've said before I'm not a Swifty I don't really get it I certainly wouldn't be wearing an adult nappy so is there anyone you would wear one for

I don't think I don't think I like music enough to wear an adult nappy No, I really don't think I would I just, it's not worth it. And he's also, if you're doing that, why are you admitting it? Like, literally, I'm actually, it's annoyed me. The other thing I must think, no, which won't annoy you, I think this will put you in a very good mood.

Anna and Sue answered the umpire call. Yes, we're going for a golf day. And I've planned it already, Rossi. Anna and Sue but you know we said we were going to film it for socials my brother's a videographer

yes perfect he can come around with all these camera equipment and we'll do it properly do it properly

people have asked to buy tickets to this one of the other umpires I think it was Charlotte tweeted us as well saying could she

come and drive the buggy no no I did think it'd be a flat narrow but you know people want to get involved this is the event of the year

forget the World Cup this is it Golf Day with Anna and Sue. Oh, buzzing. When are we going to do it though? Like during the 100? Yeah, I don't know really because no, I've got zero days off in the 100.

Our schedule's crazy. Maybe when they're doing one of the T20 games you could come down, stay with me and then we'll do a round of golf between the T20s. Yeah, I do have cricket to play then. I will try and fit this. This is a big day. It is a big day. We will try.

If we don't get it in in the season, we'll just have to do it after the season. season's finished. So I woke up and I've not actually been on like my socials all that much while I've been here because of like it sounds like I've just like been gallivany I have actually been quite busy working quite hard

and I've just not been great on my phone but I was like in the car and I was like oh go on Twitter I've not been on for a few days and it was just you Anna and Sue bantering for about five minutes and I was like oh I've missed out yeah you missed it all

but it was just because Sue was it was Rainy Day, shock in England, it's not, stop raining now, it's been terrible. Rainy Day, Sue's catching up on a podcast, hears us ask for the golf day, so then she tweets with Anna and Anna's like, yeah, as long as Crossy's wearing the low pony, then I'm in. Amazing, buzzing, can't wait. Not play golf a while though, but I guess we don't have to be good. Well, we do. We're competitive. Well, Sue's good. So are we going to have a four ball? Are we going to have two, two balls? Like, what are we going to do? I don't know. I guess this is where

maybe someone else can design the day for us. Or do we like, do like a two ball, a two ball and then swap halfway, so it's like real podcast purposes. So I'll do Anna for nine and then Sue and vice versa. Or do we

go us versus them and it's real umpires versus no balls? Feels less sexy. I don't think any of the day is going to be sexy. I'm going to be honest with you. It's us and umpire's smooth. and Anna. Yeah.

It's the dream football. It's the dream football. Oh, it's the one that everyone wants. Get it. Also, Anna's coming on the podcast. Oh, when? She's coming on. Well, I feel like throwing her into a World Cup.

When you asked her. Yeah. Yeah, she did. She said, when you're coming on, she said, whenever you invite me. So I was like, please you're on the podcast. But maybe New Zealand series when she's doing a bit of umpiring. Don't know. I don't know.

Legally, we'll have to check what she's. all I had to do. Yeah, we'll figure it out. Have you got anything else for me? No, that was it. Nappies and Anna and Sue. Oh, my God. Also, if anyone's ever in Fort Lauderdale, go to Elbow, great place. You can buy a brick to put in the floor. Okay, should you go upstairs? Yes, you should go upstairs with. You've been making friends with all the umpires, why don't we? You, you choose this for you, Carl, because you've been making new friends. Yeah, uh, we could go outside of any of them. Right, all of them. Did we go upstairs of all of them last week?

Yeah, probably. We can't make a name for ourselves. No. We could go upstairs with Richard. Kets? We're going upstairs with Kets. Not James Kettlebra. That's your sister's husband. Yeah, that's my brother-in-law.

That would be weird, so let's not do that. Yeah, we'll go up with Richard. Okay, hi, first-time emailer from India. This is from Rahul. Hi, Kate and Alex. It's my first time emailing. I started listening to your podcast around six months ago, and it's so lovely and warm.

That's a little bit like the people who are wearing the nappies. It feels so lovely and warm. Lovely and warm. I listened to Alex's commentary properly for the first time as the World Cup commentary is available here in India. The combination of her and Dan Norcross is my favourite. They are like a father-daughter, geo-1-coms talking about the game as well as random things like the food that they've

bought do you both think that the regional team names like thunder the blaze should stay after the revamp of the domestic structure next year i personally like them a lot it gives the women's team a different identity than their male counterparts and that's from raoul i think they should disappear but i think i've heard a couple of teams of keeping theirs aren't they yeah i've heard that as well but i do think there should be like if it is blaze it should be like nottingham blaze Yeah, yeah, I agree I think I think having the blaze

The Thunder, the Vipers, the Western Storm It's so confusing But if you had Lancashire, Warwickshire, Surrey Blah, blah blah blah What did I say the other year Vicer versa versa Or we could do what Ellie Threlkold said this week

And the Vipers were playing the diamonds And she called them the diapers So we could have a team called the diapers Taylor Swift Diapers diapers. I often do, like, the orange team versus the blue team. Yeah, and you're in cricket, so you shouldn't do that, but people probably have to do that if they're not in cricket.

Yeah, yeah. Like the 100 I always use the colours. I'm like, Oval Invincibles, duck egg blue. Duck egg blues, yeah. That's easier to say than Oval Invincibles. Yeah, I think they should stay. Okay. Do you?

Thanks for all. Hi, Kate and Alex. I know you both have tattoos. How do you know? Tim in Florida. That's a great question because mine is hidden. Yeah. Oh, your bikini picks are probably on the internet.

I know you both have tattoos and I know many of your colleagues are also inked. In most cases, I reckon you can probably predict who sports a tattoo based on their personality. So I'm curious as to who has a tattoo that you would not expect. For example, I'd be surprised if producer Henry had a tattoo

even though he is a rock god in the manner of Eddie Van Halen. Can you confirm who else? Is this just from the commentary team? Because I'm guessing Dan Norcross doesn't. No, this is like, let's do the England team. Who has tattoos that you wouldn't expect? Like, Amy Jones doesn't have tattoos, surely. No, Amy Jones doesn't have a tattoo.

A lot of people do, though. Yeah, like, Glennie's going to have one. Glennie's got a few. Siverbrun's not got any. Yes, she does. She's got a matching one with Catherine Siverbrun. Front. OBE, by the way. Yes, Kathy. Oh, yes. Frontie, finally. Yeah, she's thoroughly deserved. We love you, Kathy. Well done. I need to text her, actually. I'll do that after this podcast.

I've blown my mind with not. Tammy's got one? Yeah. Who else does? I've got. Dunks doesn't, I don't think. You've got one. Two? I've got one. You've got two. I've got three. Do you think Andy Zaltzman's got any? No, surely not. No. Henry Moran doesn't, as far as I'm aware. oh we don't know well enough but I'll be surprised if he has. It's funny this because now I'm thinking about everyone's bodies which I don't often do but I'm not I've never thought about Dan Norcross's body but now I'm thinking like if he did have a tattoo

where would it be? I have to see it every day we're about to go lie on the beach right so you can do some tattoo hunting for us he doesn't have any tattoos not that you know of Al that you can't see I've seen him in his bikini before we can't be sure right next question this one says sorry it's a cricket

test question. Don't know what that means. Hi Alex and Kate. I've been enjoying the pod and you ask for emails and I thought well I have a cricket question so who better to ask? This is really like get into the mind of this person. This person is Toby by the way. I've got back into bowling, seam and swing and I'm a fair bit slower than I used to be. I wondered if both of you have ever tried to increase the pace you bowled and what were the steps you took to do it and did it affect you in any negative ways? Really enjoyed the pods and the insight. Cheers. Toby. I was constantly, constantly trying to increase my pace with my bowling. I was such a slow bowler that I was always, always trying to get stronger at a little bit more pace.

And it always affected my action, because my arm came lower, didn't it? Yeah, I came back from, I can't remember where I'd been, but Thunder had been training most of the winter and I came back into training and you had a Seema's follow-through. I know. I don't know what was going on there. Yeah, that was like, oh, what's happening here? I don't know. You're running through. I'm just doing what I'm told.

You're just like squaring up to the batter. It was wild. Yeah, I'd do that anyway. It does affect you, doesn't it? Because bowling, unless you're a bowler, you won't understand this. But bowlers will know, it's so intricate the action. And everything relies on timing. So, like, if your arm is in a slightly different place,

it just throws you, like, kilter off a little bit and throws you momentum somewhere else. And so I don't actually, I think we spoke about this, but I don't use my front arm. it's a very lazy straight front arm. And before the 2015 ashes, I tried to do some work on like jamming it into my ribcage like you see all fast bowlers do.

And that just threw my timing out so badly that I didn't know where I was pitching the ball. So I'd just knock that on the head straight away. Well, that's good that you knew that because I've done so many drills where I trust the coaches more than I trust myself. And if I was to do my career again, I wouldn't. Oh, no, it took six months of me being like,

why can't I pitch the ball where I want to? and I think for the sake of it I might have gained like two mile an hour so I thought if I'm not adding 7 or 8 mile an hour on here I don't know whether it's worth losing my consistency for it

so that's always my toss up with it never lose what you do best very true very true so Toby maybe it's not worth it and also slow bowling we've seen it in the World Cup it's well effective

get yourself over there mate go play in Florida and New York and Guyana you'll clean up evening ladies this is from angry Phil. Not so angry today. Oh, gosh.

You asked for silly questions, so here goes. With the ongoing success of task master, with the ongoing success of task mask. It's well hard to say. Go again. With the ongoing success of task mask. I've malfunctioned. Go again, you can do there.

With the ongoing success of task master. Yay. Just. Taskmaster, which five of the current England women's team do you think would make the best contestants on the show and why? Thanks again for helping, making the week a more bearable experience and looking forward to Alex's tales from the US and the Caribbean. Maybe some of them about cricket.

All the best. Angry, angry. Angry Phil. Golly Hill. Charlie Dean and win it. I don't know what it is. you've never seen taskmaster taskmaster have you seen task have you seen task masker

so it's it's rogue it's rogue but they basically get like celebrities to do random tasks and it could be like you've got to make up a song about someone that you've just met so you get all this information

in four minutes from them and then you've got to write them a song or you've got to count the amount of tidily winks but you've got like Mickey Mouse gloves on or something Like, just stupid stuff like that. But it's somehow really funny. They have, like, Bob Mortimer,

those kind of comedians on it who just make it very, very funny. I need to watch it. I've no seen it. I've never heard of it. I think you'd like it. I think you'd like it. You will have seen it. It's classic Dave TV channel show.

Yeah, I don't really watch much live TV, though, anymore. I will now. Yeah, okay. Charlie would be good. You'd be terrible, but I think you'd be comedy value, so I think we should just throw you on there anyway. Therefore, that would make me good. Yeah, yeah, you'd be a valuable watch, but you wouldn't win much, I don't think.

I wouldn't, it can't even pronounce the show's name. That's true. Would you go on House of Games? I don't know what that is either. With Richard Osman on BBC One. I haven't watched House of Games. But you really don't watch TV, dear this is a terrible conversation because it's just me telling you what TV shows are.

Me and you used to watch a lot of daytime TV where we'd go, like, we'd start with Tenable, and then we'd do the chase, and then we'd do Eggheads, and then we do something else. But I've just not, you know, life gets in the way these days. If anyone, you know, we get those emails in where people are like, you two have got a really good friendship, I really want to be involved in it. That's the truth. We sit and watch daytime TV and it's really boring.

Will we don't anymore? Yeah. Anyway, should we do another one? Yeah, because I can't answer these questions. This one's called More Great Cricket Names. Oh yeah, we're talking about cricket names last week, weren't we? Yes. Hi, Kate and Alex.

Thanks for a great podcast. discussions in the last episode regarding great names in cricket, I'm sure it's been said before, but I really enjoy hearing about Cory Anderson playing for the USA in this tournament in the men's T20 World Cup, thanks for the clarity. Corey Anderson. I'm a Corey Anderson, but he's wrote it as Cori Anderson, as in like Cori Anderson. I'm a psychiatry registrar, and we were doing some teaching with students to give them experience of talking to people about their mental health. We were in one of those boxes

We were in one of the boxes at Durham and I had to keep my back to the window to stop myself from being distracted by the training and then match that was going on outside. What is the most distracting thing that you have had to try to ignore at work all the best out from backwards? So obviously you use your phone when you're commentating

to get stats up and find your notes and stuff like that and I get really distracted if someone texts me who shouldn't text me as in like if my dad knows I'm on air and my dad then suddenly text me and I'm like oh my god something really bad's happened oh okay yeah I've mastered the texting texting while working I've got that down to a tea oh I'll tell you what was quite distracting the other day actually I went on the outfield to see if it was still wet and like all the Pakistan lads were warming up so like I was like waving and talking to them and then I went back

in and they were like is it wet I was like I don't know I didn't check oh brilliant it's also really distracting I'm really bad when I hear it so when we do the podcast if I hear noise yeah Like last week I found it really difficult because there was some sort of like radioactivity going on in my head. What about that cafe that we go to Blanche Flower and it's always really loud at the back? Yeah. Yeah, we're not great with loud noises, are we? Anyway, I get distracted a lot, Al. Yeah, you do.

You do. Last one. Last one. This is called LBW. This could be a throwback. Throwback. Absolutely throwback. This is from Gary.

So for anyone that doesn't know, or it's just tuning in, We've got a little section, or we had a little section called the LBW section, which was something that you do, or a friend quotes, that is a little bit weird, that they don't think's weird. So it was the LBW's little bit weird. We're very clever like that. Hello, Alex and Kate. I'm loving...

Hello. I don't know as well, seedy. I don't know why I presume that Gary was a seedy man, but I did. Hello, Alex and Kate. I'm loving the common... from New York and looking forward to those in Florida the games were rained off only did one out of three anyway also distractive again but I went out to the middle when it rained and I was like shin high in water the ground I can't

believe we played it was mad well okay and Kate I'm looking forward to the series against New Zealand I have a possible LBW when talking to my wife and mother-in-law I was describing how when I jam the fingers of one hand together that there's still gaps between them. That might be an OBW in itself, but not the one I was talking about. What? Right, so I've just jammed all my fingers together

and I don't have gaps. I do, but I've got rings on. Right, well that doesn't count, but take your rings off, you've got no gaps. So my mother-in-law said, oh, that means you can't cup your hands to get water into your mouth when you're cleaning your teeth. It turns out that both my wife and mother-in-law

use this method to clean their teeth, and they thought it was really funny that I'd just bend down and put my mouth under the tap. Which one of these is the LBW? Well, you're not actually men of rinse your mouth out when you brush your teeth, are you? All right, Dr. Al. You're not?

Dentist Al. I'm looking at my hands now, and I would never cut water afterwards. I always just spit. You'd just get rid of it that way. But I would wash, I'm assuming Gary can't wash his face. That's what I'm thinking I'm using my hands for. I would use my hands to wash my face.

But toothpaste, when you, when you're finished, I, as I'm doing it, it comes out. I, like, bend over the sink. Oh, yeah, you're the, you're the worst toothbrusher I've ever met. Like, you can't be anywhere that isn't, you have to be above a sink. I do, because when it, like, all just falls out. You couldn't commute as a tooth, as a toothbrusher. You have to stand still.

But you, like, roam the house, and that's weird in itself. Yeah, I'll be like, oh, I can do, I've got two minutes worth of tasks that I can clear up now because I'm brushing my teeth for two minutes. Don't have to be by the sink. I do. Um, yeah, gaps in hands. Right, so the question is, is it weird that he puts his mouth under the tap

to drink the water after he's brushed his teeth? You could just get a little cup and just leave it by the sink. I don't think you need to be like going under the tap like a four-year-old might drink out of a sink. Yeah. I just don't rinse my mouth out. Not everyone has to, I guess Do you rinse yours? Dentist

I don't think I do No, I just spit it out You're not meant to rinse it It gets rid of all the good stuff I'm really glad the LBW sections come back I'd love to see and hear more of them If anyone's got any of them Please, please get in touch

You can email us on No Bowlspodcast at BBC.co.com. Noblespodcast at BBC.com.com. It's so good. They've said it twice. I would like to put a public apology out there wasn't my best performance today not in the right head space

it's been a long week it's okay that you can go and get some food now go and get a nice burger sit by the pool or beach tell us if Dan's got any tattoos remind me what game you're doing next Afghanistan India on Thursday it's going to be a better Will there be any distractions at that work venue or no

no I don't think so I think they've all gone lovely we'll have a great day I hope you don't get distracted bye everyone Bye. Cross comes in round, the wicket. Oh, that's... Boulder!

Lover, leaving a ball alone, Litchfield. Think it's the wobble ball, and it just nips back, it jags back, it's the nipbacker. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty from Cross. is able to chest it down.

Welcome to You'll Never Be Carl Walker. Walker is in on the challenge with him, shoulder to shoulder. Walker starts us brilliantly. I'm Carl Walker, Man City and England right back. And I'm Chris Hughes, and each week Carl and I are going to kick back and talk football. We'll tell stories of the beautiful game, dig through Carl's footballing journey and find out what it takes to win. A lot. He's past.

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