Test Match Special - No Balls: Richmond chairman reveals all after THAT 2 all out

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Alex Hartley & Kate Cross speak to Richmond Cricket Club chairman Chris Goldie after THAT viral innings which saw his side bowled all out for two. Exclusively to No Balls, he reveals all that went on during the game, the circumstances behind the result, and the media attention the club received after it.Plus, they discuss Crossy reaching 100 ODI wickets in her 100th England appearance - becoming the second fastest England woman to do so. And, does Kate still have her appendix?Email us at: [e-mail]

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She does. She also abuses me on social media. But don't worry, we beep it out. See your kids can listen. And Grandma Jean. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Oh, that's...

Boulder! Folder! Leaving a ball alone, Litchfield. I 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. Hello and welcome back to No Balls, a Grigate podcast with me, Alex Hartley, and you freshly cut cake cross. Fresh trim. You're looking great, sweetie. Got it done especially for the podcast. No, you actually did, though. You finished your hair cut about four minutes ago.

Literally, straight him. I did do loads for this podcast. It's a shame you still like it. I do. I feel awful. I feel terrible. I got the lurgy. I was about to ask how you are, but you were poorly.

I'm a bit poorly, yeah. It's the end of the tour, isn't it? I always get the tour blues post come down, whatever you want to call it. Not good. There must be a bit of stuff flying around, though, because Tammy mentioned she wasn't unwell. Did she mention it? She was unwell, yeah.

Did she? I didn't know if she'd mentioned it. But yeah, so what happened was a little bit, we're calling it the FA Cup itis because Phoebe Graham got quite poorly after the FA Cup day in Taunton. It was a wet day, a few rain delays, probably caught something. And then Emma Lamb went, what did she do? She caught it off Phoebe.

No, Phoebe caught it off Meeks. Meeks gave it to Lammy. Lammy gave it to Dino. Dino gave it to Tammy. Tammy scored 100 and told the world. So it was just, just been through the group. So you've got a bit of Tammyitis. A bit of Tammy FACOPitis.

Yeah, okay. But other than that, you good? Yeah, good. Good. Just got back from Taunton and I'm going back to Taunton. I can't believe how many games you've got in bloody Taunton. I've played more at Taunton this summer than Altafford. Yeah, no, because we were texting when you were leaving Taunton.

Like, well done, see ya. Are you back home? Yeah, when's your next game, Friday, where Taunton? Taunton. Just all roads lead to the holiday in Taunton. It's a great night. Great night. Got some great nights in there.

Great night. How are you? I'm really good, thank you. good i well i've not really been on to anything but you've been on the road you've been away i've not seen you yeah i've not seen you through the series yeah well we did have one night we had thank you when we went for dinner with hair yeah yeah but i had to drag you down to lester earlier derby earlier did it you didn't tell we told the podcast this no because we were going for you were traveling down to derby the day that we did the pot right so everybody

listening crossy me and hen have organized dinner and amazing the game starts at 11 o'clock perfect i'm obviously going to be down there the next day go for dinner perfect crossy's going to want an early night go for wagamamas going home we're all walking to the car and i was like oh you're going to want an early night you're playing tomorrow you went no it's a one o'clock start i just knew if i told you you wouldn't come good i've not seen you otherwise i have to lie to you now to see you i was like oh you know me so well, I definitely would have just come in the morning. So the thing is I have been obviously doing men's and women's cricket.

I've been doing a few hospitality days. I've been here there and everywhere. So I've been on the road for two weeks, but actually have been coming in to do your day's games and then popping out again. Yeah. I chatted to you the morning of one game. Was that Leicester? We had a little chat at Leicester.

Yeah. With Anna and Sue. Yeah, that was nice. Yeah. It's a summer, isn't it? Yeah, busy, busy, busy girl. It's a summer of fun as well I'm having so much fun

Good, that's all that matters I've been at the World Test Championship final today and everyone's like Oh, you're here working? I'm like, no I've just slightly You've actually watched more games in London than you've commented on, commentated on this summer

because you went to watch the Oval you went to watch Surrey Play randomly Yeah, went to watch Surrey Hampshire and today I'm watching the World Test Championship I am working tomorrow on Friday So I was a little bit of excuse No, no, no, I'm not commentating Oh, right

I'm hosting PCA boxes God, this is how much we're not chatting at the minute I don't even know what you're doing and I'm not even putting this on for the podcast I don't even know what day it is or where I am all annoyed

I get told to go to one hotel if it wasn't for my manager Luke I think I would just be at home and expect to be told where to go well it's good job he's good he texts me every day going you need to check out

at this hotel and check into this one oh I'll be that person come on you better than that no I am it's not quite that literally but he puts it in my calendar for me Right. Yeah. But honestly, I'm fine. I'm real good. Good. We've got an exciting day coming up actually, haven't we?

It's the Ed Shear and repeat day without Ed Shear and being there. Yes, it is. It's a Ruth Strauss Foundation Day. Yeah, rock for Ruth. So we can do it again this year. It's next week. I'm on time off because we've got no cricket randomly for 10 days. You're on time off? Time off. Yeah. Time off. So what is the chances that in the middle of the year, we're both off on the 20th of June? to the 25th of June, 26th of June, I decide before we've communicated that I'm going to play on the 23rd and the 25th.

Yeah. I would just like to say because actually squads, we've not done squads yet and I'm presuming I'm on time off. But if I'm selected in the T20 stuff then I can't play in the Ruth's dress day.

Right. Well, I really hope you don't get picked because I don't want to do it on my own. I've not planned to be picked because it's not, I'm not been in the T20 So it would be unusual to put me in now, but yeah, just assumptions, as assumptions go. I didn't even think of that, Crossy.

But it's Katie Tunstall, Raise a Light. We're going to have a great day. Joel Domit's there. Harry Judd, our mate, Harry. Have you, well, I was going to say if you got anything on you're sticking up, but we've got a series to talk about. Yeah, Crossy, congratulations. Sixth, no. Yeah.

And welcome back. Yeah, nice. It was nice. It was a strange week and I couldn't quite get my head around it but I guess it's just because it all is new ODI cricket's not new for you No but like Lottie's in charge

Nat's captain Heather wasn't there through injury so it wasn't even like there was familiarity with having Heather on the pitch so it was just different but we played pretty good cricket to be fair so could you have played any better

we actually could have done we were really quite annoyed with ourselves in Derby you know because we didn't bowl very well you didn't ball very well for the last 15 overs other than that it was great

no in Derby we didn't ball very well for the first 15 and then Lindsay came on and bowled and Dino and Lindsay bowled really well and then we bought them out but the power play wasn't good but it was bizarre because I was bowling

power play standard bog standard plans to Haley with normal fields and then I was bowling T20 death with death fields to Joseph so it's it was wild to get your head around and that was my first game back and it was all just a bit wow wow yeah but you're opening the volume for england baby she's so back it was and it was there was a really lovely moment when at that derby game so Tammy had scored her 11th hundred Amy had scored her first 100 Lindsay and

em both debuted em took two wickets and Lindsay took a five and he's only the second person to ever take a five-front debut and whoever normally has the best day gets to start the team song and then Nat was like so this person it's a bit Love Island it was like so this person hasn't played cricket for England since December and come back from an injury so it was great to have a back so I got to start the team song which I just thought was so special because there was a lot going on that day and Nat recognised that it was quite a big day for me as well in a very small way. No, but it's still a big day. And then, not only that, you've got a hundred ODI wickets. Yeah, did it. I did it. And 100 games for England. Like, what is going on? All in

one day? Yeah. Yeah, it was nice, actually, because mum and dad came to Lester that day as well. So I knew it was my 100th appearance. So I was like, it'd be really nice if mum and dad were there. Did you know you're on 99 wickets too? I knew because Bobby keeps tabs on stuff like that. So he was like, if you could get 100 on 100. And I was like, what do you mean? He was like, well, you're on your 100th appearance and you're on 99 wickets so I thought I had a chance but also the way I bowled at Derby I was like maybe I won't well I've had it written in my notebook for months have you cross needs two wickets yeah and then you only got one I was like and then I got

injured yeah so I actually went on I was being a bit of a podcast recently well I've not I've been on a different podcast I've been on under the lid the PCA podcast with Catherine and Jack what hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on because Catherine is our only guest ever that we've had to pay to come on the pod. So did you get anything for going on hers? I didn't dare. I didn't dare ask. We paid her in gift, didn't we got her of some wine?

And then Tammy found out, I was fuming. Sorry, not only have you been on her podcast, but you've been on it for free? For free, yeah. Love the game, I love giving back to the game. Just giving back to the game that's giving you so much. But we chatted about, so when Catherine was on 98 or 99 wickets, she got injured in South Africa and then it took her ages

to get her 100th wicket and she got it at Leicester and then I got injured in South Africa on 98 and then took ages to come back and play and got my 100th wicket at Leicester which I've just found really bizarre that is but congratulations yeah thank you

how did you celebrate we all had a soft drink at the Leicester Marriott okay how did you celebrate the series win we had a little night out in Taunton yeah little, well you can only go to one place in Taunton can't you? Mambos. Mambos, yeah, so had a little night out in there

and now subsequently feel like not very well so can happen Mambos is one of those places where I've been, obviously, I've never been a lot of shop at, I've been a few times and there is anyone that is trying to get in illegally to anyone

that has been there since, I don't know, 10 a.m. Like, you know, like the old men that drink at bars. Yeah, that was exactly what it is. It felt like there was underage people there or severely overage people there. And then the Somerset cricket team. Oh, right. Okay. So, which I feel like probably is what happens most Saturdays. Yeah, there's nowhere else to go.

Yeah. So, yeah. So a nice week. Looking forward to being back with Lange for a little bit, and then playing a bit of Vitality Blast because I'm not played in the Vitality Blast yet. and then hopefully selected for the India stuff and then it's the hundred like where's this summer going it's June

honestly I don't even know this was going to be my week off and I've just planned it like loads of plans yeah that's not like you though is it you said you text me the other day saying like I need to realise that when I'm at home on my own for four hours then I just get really bored yeah well even today I was like you know what I'm going to get to the hotel I'm going to check in I'm going to have a day in the pit it's going to be great I'm going to shut the curtains lights off got to the hotel

room's not ready yet for another two hours fine I'll go to the cricket and drink all day yeah it's the happy medium isn't it it's that you've always been good at finding the balance yeah yeah well we shall see what happens tonight you actually said you were glad we were doing this at 8pm because it meant that you had to stay in

yeah I think my rubber on might have been rubbered nice do you have anything on your sticking out I've got one thing on my sticking out crossing Okay. What about you? I've got a few things actually. Well, go on then.

You kick us off. So we might need producer Jack for this, but I've just got written down. Someone called you Haley on emails. What? Someone sent in an email saying, Hi, Kate and Haley. Hi, Kate and Haley.

And we've been doing this podcast for seven years now, and someone out there thinks she called Haley. I'm sorry. Obviously it was meant to say Hartley. Oh, okay. They've called you Haley. Oh, that's really sad. Yeah, it's tragic that.

So with me, Kate Crossing, you, Haley. Haley's got a ring to it. It asks, actually. Sounds like a bald star name. That's my only fan's name. Nice. What else you got? I've got a moan, obviously, because it's me.

Can people, please. please stop adding me on Strava go away stop adding me on Strava I don't want to be your friend I don't want you to see where I live I don't want you see how fast I run I don't want you see how often I run

Leave me alone Well you've given me the feel with Strava Yeah because you're an open Open profile You had 400 people following you But now crossy I can't get rid of them So I think I'm going to have to delete Strava And start again

No you can I'll sort it out for you You can remove people Yeah yeah But I tried to do it the other day But I had to go on everyone's profile individually and then accidentally clicked follow so I followed 17 people thinking I was getting rid of them

oh but yeah honestly it's a different kind of weird being a Strava you're not my friend like stop adding me on Strava well I've gone down the route if I don't you've put me off right I don't want people to know where I live and where I'm running so I've stopped running Ah that's the best way to do it yeah just stop running all together

yeah no one knows where I am at any time and this was only because me and Lauren Bell did a nice little running Leicester and I put the Strava thing on Instagram and then like 40 40 people added me. I was like, why? Yeah, no, thank you. I've got one thing on mine. Okay. And you've been gifted something.

I know exactly what this is going to be because I have it written on mine as well. It's really annoying that you've seen it because I didn't want you to see it and I've hidden it from you because I actually wanted to do the podcast intro in front of said thing. Yeah. But you have your face plastered on a portrait. Lou at Oldram. Yeah, and someone, how did you think I wouldn't see that when people have been messaging us about it?

Because sometimes we don't go on Instagram enough to see it. When we cancelled the podcast, we didn't go on, but now we do. So, yeah, so again, context is key. So you have, someone tagged us in an Instagram

that was you on the floodlight. So it's like, Alex has got her own floodlight, Kate has got our own portally. So I'm just basically the, me and Sakeeb. And Ellie, possibly. There's quite a few of you, actually. On the front of the Portaloo. So it's a nice gesture.

And my response to the person on the Instagram was, who are you going to want to see in an emergency? Not you, Alex. Which was so good. It piqued me off because it was, oh, I knew you've been so witty. And I was like, this is great. Crossie's got a fog. And I've got a bloodline.

And you were like, yeah, but everyone needs me. Everybody needs me, yeah. Oh, people of cricketers need you. Yeah, but in the context, like, you are way more important, which actually sums our friendship up really well. It sums his podcast up. Yeah. I do have one more thing as well before we jump into a very special guest that we've got today.

I have a gift for you that was gifted to me at Derby by a loving fan. She's called Fern. She's 11 years old, and she's had these made for us. Oh, we've got a coaster. We've got a coaster. she's got one herself which I've signed here and you need to sign here but you disappeared so that's why I was texting you saying can you come back you could have signed it for me it's just I did say that I do say that to a lot of

people but to this one in particular it did feel like it should be you so oh Fern thank you so thank you very much Fern and also thank you so much to everyone who's talking to me about the podcast at Games because there's so many people. That's good to know because all I do is like go and sit in the commentary box and then leave because obviously I'm not going to just stand outside going to anybody want my signature. It is so sweet though everyone's like so glad that you're back. Oh that's so sweet. So sweet so sweet. So thank you to everyone who's been amazing.

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Plan your detour at go-turkotr.com. Crossie? Yep. We've actually... Sorry, but we've actually got a guest. Whisper it. We've got a guest. This is Nobles, the podcast, ASM-A-R,

or whatever it's called. What? A-S-M-A-R, what's it called when we will whispers? A-S-A-S-A-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-A-W-S-A-S-A-S-A-S-M-R what you're doing. What you're doing? It's a thing like, when you make, like, noises on TikTok and so, what's it called A-S-G, Jack, help me out, you know what it's called? A-A-S-M-R. A-S-M-R.

I don't know what that is. Sounded like you're having a stroke. As-M-M-R. Oh, A-S-M-M-R. Oh, no, it is. So if you remember in our last episode, which was a long time ago now, we asked to get in touch with the people who were involved in the game that went viral. So it was Richmond Cricket Club playing against North London.

And if you remember, North London scored 426 off their 45 overs. And Richmond Cricket Club were bowled out for two. And producer Jack has somehow managed to get us some inside information because we've not only got someone from the cricket club. We've got the chairman of Richmond Cricket Club. Chris Goldie, Chris, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Nice to be.

Can I just say it was our fourth 11 against North London's third 11? Right. That explains it all. Right, that's all we need. In a context, just to start off with. Well, I'm glad we've set the record straight because there's me thinking it was your first 11 versus their first 11. No.

No. Our first 11 is playing different league. We play in the Premier League. They're one or two. lowest. I always think with games like that that get published on the internet, there's just no context behind it. So, Chris, you're here to give us the context. What happened? Were you there? I wasn't at the game. I was at our home ground, old dear park in Richmond, watching our second 11th, and I was watching our first 11 on the live stream that all Premier League

games now have. And my great assistant, Steve Deakin, who runs most of the cricket these days, because I've been chairman for far too long, he came in and said, our fours aren't doing very, you're like this so he said well yeah we were weak and i'll come on to why we're weak he said we're weak but anyway they got 120 and we're seven for two so i went oh what the hell twos are winning one's a competitive you know whatever he came back in about two minutes later he came back in and said you know i said we were seven for two and i went yeah he said i think it might be two for seven because he's just sent me another text to say that we're for ten and I don't think he'd be messaging me if we'd scored a single.

He'd get back in two minutes later and went, yeah, two all out. Two all out. What do you do? You know, I mean, I wasn't at the game. I knew that we weren't strong. But, yeah, it was one of those moments, do you laugh, do you cry? You make it on the chin, you know, as chairman, you sort of think about the club's reputation and you sort of, anyway, it is what it is. It's one of those things.

and the beauty of league structures you play everybody twice so we play them again in seven weeks time and we'll see what then you get to get your own back do you think North London

have finished that game and gone we should have bowl first I hope they didn't I mean you're all cricketers aren't we? Club cricket you're playing for a Saturday afternoon

the last thing anybody would want to do I think is knocked over the opposition in 10 minutes knock it off in 10 minutes and I'll start these games at 12.30, 1 o'clock. You know, by 1.30, you're done. There's no fun in that.

I've started to that equation over the years, and it's not a lot of fun to finish the game. So I think actually, there are guys playing for North London, the guy got 100. You know, he's got 100. Great. He's walked off at the end of the day. He's got 100.

You know, the bowl, I suspect they were a bit, they didn't quite know whether to laugh or cry or sympathetic or arrogant or arrogant. I don't know. I wasn't there. I think they were fine about it. Our lads, you know, those that I spoke to, we had one very young lad playing,

14 year old, 15 year old, here and his dad. And they were just, well, it happens, isn't it? It's the game. It definitely does happen. A little bit more context, so I've got a few of the details here. So Richmond, we're all out for two, as you said, but it took 34 balls to bowl your team out. But you conceded 92 extras, and 63 of them were wide.

That's tough. And also, one of your, two runs that you did score was a wide. So only one run was scored off the back. And and the other one I gather was a nick to slip which was dropped

and the non-striker who didn't we hadn't faced very much and thought he was the man to take it on. He wanted to get down to face the music, face the bowler and got run out in the process. And again the only other thing to say is that one of our I'll come back to the background of it but one of our players got injured fielding and had to go to hospitals so we actually only had 10

and i will say in defense of so it was a very much a scratch side it was a back holiday weekend availability was poor we probably went into selection with 30 if not 40 players unavailable back holiday weekend for any club as you guys will know holiday weekends are very difficult and you know we had a lot of pleasure missing and then having managed to scrape together five sides, because we have five sides on a Saturday, we then had seven dropouts through the club. So we were

literally, you're in face with a choice, aren't you? Do you concede the game and nobody likes conceding a game? Or do you go viral on the internet? Yeah, you try and find players and you're going to get beaten. You don't expect to get ball back. It's go viral.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting to wake up on a Sunday morning and have messages from Australia and South Africa and the Caribbean. And Ellie, any old droid, obviously, going, any comment? Yeah, thanks, you know. Yeah. It is what he. Okay, so you said you had so many dropouts.

So who was actually playing for your fours? So it was a, there were about four guys who'd played in the fours the week before. There were a couple of guys who'd played in the fives the week before. And then there were probably six guys, five guys who were helping us out, basically. nice yeah and and you know to give you one example there was one lad who played the week before who had batted at number nine will he open the batting in this game because okay um he went well then he's a bowler who bats a bit three weeks later he played in our cup side because we was bit short and got out a premier league captain as a bowler so you know it's cricket it's cricket

The lad who kept in the fourth team game on that day and got Nort, played for our threes. So that's a league above where our fours are playing against north mid-threes. They're a good side. And he got 60. Okay. You know, it's cricket, isn't it?

You miss a straight one early on. We all do it. Seems like there was quite a lot of missed straight ones, though. That's true. There's quite a lot of missed straight ones, yeah. I think that's probably fair. What about the lads? Have they come back and played again since,

or have we completely put them off from cricket now? No, no, no. The ones who were regulars are playing, and that's going to happen. I think, yes, there were maybe one or two who were literally helping us out, who may not be as keen to play again in the future. They'd rather sit and watch,

drinking the beer. They'd rather sit and watch, or we'll never see them again. Who knows? It's not pretty, isn't it? At fourth team level, and we're very lucky our fourth team play in effect in the second division

of the third tier in the Middlesex League. I mean, our threes are in the Premier League, fours are in division one, fires are in division two. So no club has a higher standing than that. So our fours are playing mostly third elevens. Yep. And you're going to come, you're going to have croppers.

And, you know, on that particular day, North London, North London were meant to ones and twosmen who have been playing Austerly, ostily folded before the season started. Now, the league were very strict and said, look, guys, you can't fiddle teams if you haven't got a first team. And they didn't. And there's no accusation at North London, say they did. But the lad who got five wickets for no runs was just coming back from injury, I think. I hadn't been available, I hadn't played this season, having been the leading bowler in their tools for 10 years.

So it's all context. It's all relative. It's all relative. It's all right. And all lads missed it. You know, the ones who hope might get a few runs missed it early on. And the rest, I mean, who knows? It must have been carnage.

It must have been, yeah. I laugh at them now. Dust is settled. But it is what it is. Okay. The dust is settled. The lads have finished the game. They've got to come back to the home club because they were playing away.

What was the chat in the clubhouse? And how big was the bar bill? Well, most of the lads, to be honest, didn't come back because North London and Richmond's a bit of a journey. A number of these lads were not necessarily regulars. The ones that did come back, particularly young Jamie, who was 15 or 14, you know, he shrugged his shoulders and said it's the game.

You know, he's a very bright young lad. He was part of our boys under 13s who won the National ECB National Competition last year. He's been around the block. He's played cricket. And he sort of said, well, you know, it happens. We weren't very good and they were better. So, so generally speaking, I think we were in a position, you know, the sense around the rest of the club was, let's say, part, it's very funny.

And then it sort of kicks in. Somebody said, this is going to go viral. And we all went, yeah, well, what the hell? I don't think any of us expected it to be quite as viral as it became. Well, Times India, San Francisco Chronicles. Oh, wow. Well, Chris, we appreciate you coming on our podcast. because we know that you've had a lot of people asking you for the inside scoop.

So we do really appreciate you coming on Nobles and talking to us about it. My pleasure. It's nice to slightly set the record straight. All I want to know is, Chris, as chairman, did you put your card behind the bar for anybody that was there and felt side of themselves? The two young, Al. The ones that came back are too young to drink, and I couldn't possibly buy an under 18 a drink because that's illegal. Jay to Ours, yeah. No, the chairman's card did not go behind the bar.

It has gone behind the bar occasionally over the year. I always promise the lad, if we win all five games, I might be tempted. And we haven't done that yet this year, but you never know. Okay, well, actually... We'll have done it next time, hopefully, we'll. Yeah, well, you might have got a new couple of sponsorships from going viral, you know? You never know. Well, we've got new sponsors this year, main sponsors.

It's hard to know whether they see that as being a good thing or a bad thing. All news is good news. Well, that's ultimately, here we are two and a half weeks on, and you think, well, we've got more publicity from that. I was told, Eleanor Aldroyd told me it's, you know, the most viewed Instagram post on the BBC's Instagram. That's the one you're after. Yeah, you know, and anyway, so it is what it is.

It's a bit of fun. It's a game of cricket, and we'll see what happens in the future. Amazing. Chris, thank you so much for being a great sport. We really appreciate you coming on. My pleasure. Take care, guys. $10 to the lads as well, to all the 40s.

See you later. Chris. Good on him. Can I just say good on him and Chris, thank you so, so much for coming on because he's refused on the podcast. He doesn't want to talk about it. He's come on no balls because of an old droid. Ellie, thank you.

He was giving excuses, but in hindsight his team got bored out too. Two. And one of them was a wide and the other was because of a runout. Amazing. I want to see the scorecard. You know what? It must have looked like just nort, no, no, no, no, no. one, no, not, no, not, no, no, one wide.

So funny, so funny. And do you know what, there's a big part of it that does feel sorry for those 14-year-old kids that have been brought in. It sounds like they all dealt with it really well, though. Yeah, I mean. Look, we've all, we've all been part of that game where you lose a couple of wickets, no, you lose a couple of wickets and you just can't stop it happening.

It happened to us in Canterbury, at least Perry went through us. Yeah, it did, but you at least you got 36. Is that what we got? No, we got more than that, didn't we? I don't know, it was 76. 70-od or something, yeah. Yeah, but it wasn't two. It wasn't two. Well, what sport?

But do you know what I loved as well? He was reping his little Richmond CCT shirt. Yeah. Club top on it was cute. Yeah, it was, it was cute. You probably put that on for the occasion as well. He did. Shall we dip into some emails?

I actually think we should. I really, really think we should. I've got a new candidate for who I want to go upstairs with. Interesting. He made his international debut last week. Jack Shantry Unplayer Jack He did really well

Great job Really really good job You were bowled from his end And he didn't give you an LB Which you thought was really out And turns out he was right Yeah Well I said to Nat

Because we'd had one Someone had bowled one similarly A couple of overs before And Jack had said no Not out And then I was coming round the wicket To a lefty Hit her on the pad

I was like it's got to be out Bold and offcutter So it's got to have spun because that ball that Sue Redfern's gone viral for because that ball spun out of nowhere. I was like, the ball's spinning, bowling off. He was going to be out, wasn't out. So he had a great day, I thought.

Great debut. Good debut. So Jack Chantry. Up we go. Bernard and Henry have congratulated Crossy on 100 ODI wickets, but they have both picked up on something else from the game. Crossy, this could be absolutely anything. Could be. I'm nervous.

Henry says, at Leicester, I notice you and a few other players were trying on Sue's sunglasses and we're laughing. So I was just curious what that was about. Bernard says just before Kate took the wicket, she was trying on Sue Redfern's orange-tinted glasses slash sunglasses. This made me wonder whether they are special glasses to assist her or just ordinary sunglasses.

I'm glad this has been brought up, you know, because I forgot to put it on my sticky note. Really interesting way that Henry and Bernard have put their own little spin on the email about what they witnessed. but some emailing together. But you also text me saying, did you see me trying on Sue's sunglasses? Yes.

Yes. So I think a wicket had fallen and you just naturally have a bit of chat while batters are coming in and I often get the ball back from the umpire for whoever's bowling and then just have a chat with whoever it is. So Sue's got these gigs on

and I'm like Sue, what are these? They're like, it's like Perspex glass, like yellow orange perspex glass and they're like frame a face. So they're not like a typical sunglasses and it was also six people. at night. So I was like, are these for the lights? What's going on here? She was like, Crossy, try these on. So I was like, all right, okay. So I put them on. And I was like,

wow, I've never seen the world looking as crystal clear as when I had those glasses on. So I was like, Sue, what are these prescriptions? She was like, no, they're shooting glasses. Shooting glasses? Yeah. So I think they're Claire's, Claire Polisack, brought them in. I don't know where she's got them from or whether she's endorsed or sponsored or whatever. well she may be wish she was a shooter in the days before umpiring but um honestly i've never seen or i didn't know my vision could get any clearer than what it is right now what i i don't understand like you don't need glasses no i well i know but we're going to have to get the details from sue properly but then these glasses became the

thing so then sue was everyone was trying them on and she's like adr get a look at these get them on try these on amazing I used to do very, very similar but slight difference I wasn't trying on Sue's glasses I would sleep in my contact lenses and wake up and be like oh my God I've woken up I can see the world

Oh right Okay I wondered where on earth you were going there Yeah and then it wouldn't be till I'd put on I'd get up put in my contact lenses And be like well the world looked weird today Because I had two pairs in Did it all the time You ever got one stuck behind your eye

because that always freaks me out about contact lenses. No, I did. I got three quarters of one out once and obviously a bit of disappeared and broken off and like literally four days later it was in the corner of my eye. Oh, God. Yeah. Right, we've had another email from David

and producer-chapter says it's quite left field, so let's give it a go. Okay. Hi there, Kate and Alex. I was at Grace Road yesterday with my lovely wife Fickey watching the ODI against the West Indies and I told her how I had seen Kate's dad play for West Ham back in the day.

This seemed to trigger a memory, but it's hopefully not a false one. Okay. She used to work in the operating theatres at Glenfield Hospital, Lester, and recalls wheeling a young woman into the theatre for an emergency appendectomy and was chatting to her. This young woman said that she was at Loughborough.

Oh, so you're a student then, replied Vicky. No, I'm a cricketer, came the reply, and the young woman then mentioned that her dad had been a pro footballer. Oh. On this pretty sketchy circumstantial evidence, put it to you that my wife was instrumental in making you play for England and probably saved your life. If not, sorry for bothering you. If so, she sends her best, David.

Have you got your appendix? I do. Okay, I wonder who that was. So that wasn't me, Vicky, and David. That wasn't you, but you did once end up in hospital post cricket. I've ended up in hospital post cricket many times. No, but you thought you were dying and you just got given some gavisone. That was after training and I thought I was having a heart attack and it turned out I had indigestion after I ate my Sunday dinner through fast.

And they gave me gaviscon and let me go. But no, that wasn't an appendectomy. Okay, I got this... Who could this be? Yeah, I don't know. I got this, Jack showed me this the other day and I said, I've been on many, many, many holidays across and I've not noticed any scars

and she's never mentioned having her appendix out. Yeah, not me. You're the type of person that would gloat about not having an appendix as well. Yeah. Yeah, I don't need one. You'd be like, yeah, exactly, don't need one. Don't need one. I'm so good, I don't need one.

Well, you've got one, a week. Exactly. Not me, but I don't know, obviously I'm not the only cricketer out there who has a dad that plays football. Who does, though, and who would be the person that goes, no, I'm a cricketer. the only person I could think and wires maybe got crossed could be Jenny Gunn because Jenny Gunn's uncle used to play

and she was Loughborough area she was but Jenny Gunn doesn't strike me as the person to be like no I'm a cricketer but she also wouldn't want to be labelled as a student that's true because she'd a bit out of 45 yeah so who knows

we'll try and get to the bottom of that but yeah not me no not you you're very much intact I am fully appendicised Does nothing though Does it like digests grass That's what it's for And we don't eat grass No

Well I think Are you sure I'm not confident on that I'm gonna hear you or what is it That's what a cow's appendix does Well that's because they eat grass Alex

Yeah but I think that's why we've got them And then we don't eat grass So they're not needed The exact function of the appendix in humans Isn't fully understood but its thoughts to play a role in the immune system and potentially act as a safe house for beneficial gut bacteria.

Oh. Yeah, I think you've probably just googled what a cow's appendix does and that is digest grass. Cows probably don't even have them. Or maybe I ate grass once and my mum said, it's all right, your appendix. I'll sort it out.

I'm going to say, do cows have an appendix? No, cows don't have an appendix. No. Oh, interesting. So don't believe everything you hear on podcast kids because we make it all up. But if you say it with enough conviction, people will believe you. People believe you. Mental.

That is it for this week. We hope you've enjoyed the episode. We will be back for the India series. Yeah, whenever you're free, I'm free. Yeah, so we'll be back for them, which is not that long, actually. It's probably in a week or so's time. Maybe a bit longer, actually. 28th it starts.

Yeah, okay. And we've got, hopefully, a very, very special guest. If not, we don't have a guest. It's the North London chairman. You can email us on. Noblespodcast at bbc.c.com.com.com.com.com.com. It's so good. They've said it twice. Please email us because, like, we're running out of material.

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