Test Match Special - No Balls: South Africa awaits

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

Alex Hartley & Kate Cross talk about how Kate’s preparation has gone as she gets ready to head to South Africa for England’s ODIs and Test. They discuss the tent which has been built at England’s High Performance Centre to help players acclimatise to pitch conditions around the world, as well as more of your stories on naming pets after sport stars. Plus, they play a game to get Kate ready for her trip.Listen to every game of England's tour of South Africa on BBC Sounds, with the first T20 starting at 12pm on Sunday 24th November.

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Anyway, if you don't like it, don't listen, but we beep them out. So your kids can listen. Cross. I'm doing round of wicket. Boulder! Boulder! 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 Nobles, The Consistent Podcast, with me, Kate Cross, and you, Alex Hartley. Two weeks running. Two weeks in a row, how lucky are you lot? How lucky are you lot? How lucky is new producer Jack? I think this is Jack's fault, actually, because Jack texts quite consistently and says, Should we record an episode? And we're like, oh, yeah, yeah, let's do it.

So well done, Jack. Little no-balls round of applause for Jack. The group chat is popping. It's good. It's good fun, isn't it? I am enjoying it. So much better than it's ever been. So for anyone who isn't part of the group chat, which is everyone, bar, me, Alex, Jack and Henry Moran.

Henry Moran's an OG because obviously when we jumped over to the BBC, he produced us. He's also a silent assassin. He is, isn't he? And we have noticed, we pop an idea in that group, Jack. at a neck minute, Henry's on Instagram doing our idea. Snake. Jack asked me for a little bit of footage of the tent, the gazebo last week while I was in Luthbro.

Go on the old Twitter slash X. There's a three-minute video that Henry was there. And he did it wrong. Did he? Why? Well, he said we like to do the conditions for New Zealand and South Africa. Actually, those tents turn square. They do at the minute because they're quite old and it has snowed this week.

so I don't know how you prepare a cricket pitch whilst there's snow on the ground. You don't? You don't really. So, yeah, I've bowled at Tammy basically for a week now and so is Kirsty Gordon and Kirsty Gordon just gets Tammy out quite as consistently because the ball's raggedoishing.

How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good, thank you. I'm good. Have you popped that plant there for a little bit of... Amiance? On the old videos because now this goes out on socials quite consistently as well.

It's a big one. look. It is, isn't it? Speaking of plants, Sal, I've brought one back to life. Don't if you saw on the socials. Yeah, I'm worried for it. No, don't be. It's driving. You go away for three weeks. I've never been happier though, seeing those two little green shoes. Honestly, I feel like I've really achieved something now. So you know what I did the other day and I encourage everybody that listen to this podcast and has Instagram, not only to follow us on Instagram, but to watch our highlights. Because we are funny.

We think we're funny. We might not be. But we've got a section on there called Plant Mum's, because we are probably the two worst plant mums that has ever been, ever. And the history of the plant story, it's quite boring, but we just kill all our plants. Anyway, I killed another one. Yeah, I've killed three here.

Mine's come back to live. so I'm going to document it. Someone actually replied to the story that I did about the plant, saying this is the most nobles content I've ever seen. So I think people like it. I'll add a plant content to our plant content because there's one that we've had to take out the plant pot. There's one that's dead, one that's dead.

Yeah, but you don't live there, Al. No, I know, but I have been here for a month and they're all day. Yeah, but you go in soon. So people need consistency. Anyway, what you've been up to? Same as last week Nice, good Good stuff for the

Good for the listeners You go into the gym a lot You think you've lost it away Twice a day I know what's wrong with you Are you okay? Is it cry for help? Blink twice if you need help

No I'm good Do you know what There's nothing to do But I sit by the pool Obviously I cannot complain Everyone's telling me It's snowing at home So I'm sitting by the pool

I'm gymming twice a day Stood on the scales I wear the f*** in Yeah but you know that doesn't matter you you literally come on this podcast and tell people not to look at the scales so then why you're mowing about the scales because i thought i might be less than 60 kilos now and i'm not oh god maybe it's because i was 78 when i started that might be it what have you been up to cricket cricket running gym i'm a celebrity sorry no it's not bbcc't but it's great um what else

i've been doing not much really snowing it's awful it's cold i'm in inside all the time. I want to know how your last week of prep's been? Last week of prep, what have I done? I've been down in Loughborough twice to use the tent to prep for the specific South African conditions. But actually, selfishly, it's really good for me because I get to bowl outdoors in November when it is actually snowing.

So it's good for my physical preparation. Going back to Lanks, Lancashire cricket now, not Thunder. Has it been announced that you've signed for them? Officially, yeah. I'm in the list. Thanks. Thank you. So we'll continue to play for Lancashire next year. The fixtures have been announced today. Vitality Blast. We've got double headers. Lancashire Thunder, Lancashire Lightning. It works. It works, isn't it? Yeah. So yeah, it's a bit boring really, but I'm in that final week now. So I fly on Tuesday night. Me and Tammy, meet at Heathrow Tuesday. Fly overnight. Land in Joburg. We go and meet the team who have got a T20 that day. So we'll go watch them play. And then we'll do kind of our own little ODI prep. but kind of with the team, even though they've still got T-20s.

How's Pratt being with the team not there? Well, we've only done one week. And even when we then had everyone together, there was six players at the Big Bash. So it's kind of always going to be like this now, a bit bit bit bit, players off doing their own thing. Okay, how was it when you woke up, I don't know what day it is, Monday morning, Tuesday morning, it'd been snowing,

you're in the tent, you've got a walk from the changing room, to the tent it's freezing outside is it cold in the tent freezing you could see your breath oh good i had a bad day actually on tuesday because we've got a bit of an ongoing back issue where sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad didn't know if you wanted to talk about this or not so i wasn't going to bring it up yeah well i think i'm old i was actually talking to tell me about this no don't laugh it's happening now don't laugh it's not funny jack stop laughing so i was talking to tell me about this and i was talking to tell me about this and I've had six weeks off as everyone knows and I'm really struggling to work out now what is time off and coming back into consistent training and your body getting back into

the flow of putting it through the ringer a little bit what is injury and what is old age so now I have to do a pre warm up warm up for my warm up I have three warm ups I have to go in and stretch, then I have to do my Pilates, then if I've got access to a reformer, I have to get on a reformer, and then I have to wall up. I think you're old. I think it's age, isn't it? But in the grand scheme of things, you're not old? You're just old in athlete life? I am old in athlete life. This sums it up. So we're in the tent last week. This was before the men had flown out to New Zealand. And Gus Atkinson, who's called Angus, you know?

What? He's A. Atkinson, so he's Angus, but people call him Gus. So I want to refer to him as Angus from now on. Angus? So Angus Atkinson, Ollie Stone, is he called Oliver, Oliver or? I presume he's an Oliver. Olive?

Olive. Olive. Olive, could be an olive. And Olive Stone. And Christopher Wokes are in the tent. They're all prepping to go to New Zealand. And the first question, Chris asked me, is, how's the body holding up?

So it's just, I think it's like an over 30 thing. I think that's how you greet people now. How's the body holding up? We did decide a few months ago, you're at that age where the younger girls in the group go, why on earth is she still playing cricket? Yeah, why? But when I asked that question at their age, there was no money in the game. So now it's a bit more sense, surely, that, oh, she's clinging on for the paycheck.

Ever enough, she's off to the WPL. Yeah. But yeah, old age, snow, bowling, in a tent, outside in November, do not mix well together. Okay, so the series starts. That's when? Great question. Let me get my day-by-day schedule up. So the first T-20 is Sunday, the 24th.

That's in East London. Then there's a game on Wednesday and a game on Saturday. East London? Yeah, not England, not the UK. Really threw me. Yeah, they've actually just moved one of the games to East London, UK. So I thought it was in South Africa. Goodness, mate.

You're one of those people who, when I say, oh, we've got a series against Australia in January, they go, where is it? Obviously, it's in Australia because we're not playing cricket in the UK in January. No, I know because I'll be it. You'll beat. Oh, that's the only reason you know. Anyway, so Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, T-20s.

Then Wednesday, Sunday, Wednesday, ODIs. Father's Day. Father's Day. That's the fourth, the eighth, the 11th. And then we start the test match on the 15th. Sunday and 15th. Because I'm working in the test match, right? Why are you in East London and know that there's going to be a few...

I'm going to go in the train. But yeah, it'd be hard to park at that time out. It would be well busy. Got a bit of a dilemma though, crassie. It's obviously got to have to come today on the test match. I'm privileged to do so. I got a wedding Saturday night. Okay.

Could be a ropey first session. So you're going to turn up struggling. Maybe. Do you think people will notice? They did last time it happened. Oh, did they? Like Alex sounds a bit hoarse. Just make sure you have your barocca night of.

Get a barocca in the night of it fixes everything. Maybe I want to drink. Okay. Right, I've just got one thing on my sticky note that is also crickety, so I thought let's get it in. Sarah Taylor has joined the Lions as we think the first official female coach to be part of the England men's. side.

Yeah. Is that right? I texted this morning and she was like, I'm sh-h-h-in it, but really excited. Oh, well, she's done with Manchester, hasn't she? So she's done a little bit with the Manchester originals. Everyone loved her there. She's an unbelievable wicket-keeper, obviously, exceptional batter. So I think they're all lucky to have her.

I honestly do. I text her saying they all that will respect you. She works with Jess Butler. She works Phil Salt. They've obviously put in a good word. She's a brilliant coach. I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah, see how she gets on.

So, I mean, what a coaching line up, by the way. You've got Andrew Flintsoff and Sarah Taylor as your two coaches. How good. Perfect. So good. I've not got anything on Stignaut. No, I've gone through a lot of my stuff. Other than we put a plea out on social media, didn't we?

Yeah. About, well, we spoke last week. The puppies came on. Puppies were named after famous cricketers. And we asked people what they name their pets, if they've named them after anyone famous. And we got a lot of replies that had zero context. behind it.

So let's look at some of these answers on social media. Some good ones actually. Okay, so Sarah, who is actually my brother-in-law's sister, she's got alpacas, as you do. And they're named John Paul, George and Ringo. Right, what are the cricketers? Do you know who they are? No, they're not cricketers.

John Paul was an actor in Holyoaks. No, John is one. Paul is another. George is another and Ringo's another. Who are they, Alex? They are the Beatles. They're the Beatles. Well done.

So she's named her alpacas after the Beatles. And she's got some chickens called Anne, Diana, Elizabeth and Margaret. Royals. My family Doberman, he's named Coley, obviously after the king. Yeah, obviously. Our old dog was called Monty, kind of after Montepanisar. More to it, but won't fit in this box. Okay, there was no follow up to that.

Fair enough. I was thinking Monty Python. Birdie. Barry, again, where's the context? Barry, who's Barry? Who was the birdie guy that did the long jump on the skis? What was he called? Barry the Bird.

Eddie the Eagle. Yeah, Barry the Bird. Do you think Sophie's named her, I don't even know what, it just says Barry. Sophie, where's the context? Who's Barry, who's the famous Barry? Barry Manilough. No, Barry the Bird's not a real person. You've made him up.

Grossie named three. famous Barry's go? Barry Manolo. Barry from EastEnders? Barry... Barry... It's hard. White.

Barry White. Right, a few more. My brother had a gerbil called Jimmy, after Anderson. It died after eating varnished wood. Oh. Took a turn, that one. Hagrid. Meg, who's Hagrid?

Well, I know who Hagrid is. but what for you is it a dog is it a cat bird snake i'll be big whatever it is i specifically ask for context i ask for context name my tortoise after alex hartley as it looked like she had a heart on her shell cute that's a good one that's cute and that's from hartley dot tiana you related to anyone called tiana not what i was expected though someone's going to name a turtle after it i thought it's going to be slow as in the field well there could be that maybe she's too you polite to say it. But I do wear my heart on my shell.

Oh, sorry. Friend of mine has a tough toys named Alex Hartley, as she has a heart on her shell. So, May? May's also got in touch to tell you about Tiana's tall toys. Two of them. Right, Helen's been in touch. She says,

My history of naming pets after cricketers names dates back to the late 1970s with my first boxer dog named Boff in both of them. and Old English rabbit, Dusty. Who do you think Dusty was named after? Springsteen. Jeffrey Miller. Yep, that was my next guess.

More recently, we had a black lab name called Freddie. Flint off. My sons are now in their 20s. I've been brought up to be not cricket obsessed, so have rabbits hails, broad and titch. But most importantly, I also have three cricketing Highland Car. Enoch Bakewell, Luke Fletcher and Stephen Mullaney. Photos have been attached.

I love your podcast. I've been with you since the beginning, Helen. So these are the Highland cows. Here's one. They are gorgeous. They're babies. They're puppies. I think calves, I think.

Yeah. That's why the baby cows are you called. What? What? And someone goes, how your baby cows? Oh, when they're asking about your calves? Your calves. Yeah, stupid.

Have you only just realised that? No, I had a mind blank. Okay. Someone has named their animals Al because of Alec Tartley and Kate because of Kate Cross. So we've got, I don't know what they are, it's just, that's from Tenoringa on Instagram. Did you, oh, you didn't have pets, did you? Actually, we had guinea pigs and my family didn't like them

so they left the cage open I already knew that was going to be a tragic story they went into the field mum and dad let them roam free and don't come back guinea pigs aren't meant to be in fields no they came back two weeks later we found them again

are they just on the doorstep yeah what I'm there so mum and dad let them run around free in the field and they came back to it's there what were they called boy and girl i think oh for god's sake i had um i had quite a lot of pets i was a very pet child and i had two rabbits called dick dastardly and mutley after the wacky racer's duo i had a rabbit and a hamster the rabbit was called bart and the hamster was called lisa simpson simpsons yep and

And I then had two more hamsters. They all obviously passed away. Did you live in a zoo? No, not at the same time. Right. I had all this at one time. This was all like throughout my childhood. And I had two more hamsters called Liam and Noel.

And then we got a goldfish at the same time. So I called that Bonehead because he was the drummer. Right. And Ollie the Dog, what was he named after? He was, no one famous. We just like the name Ollie. But my mum actually, when naming Ollie, she wanted a really like strong name because he was a big, strong dog.

And she said, what's that famous dog called in Scooby-Doo? Scooby, yeah. Well, Betty Glover's been in touch with me. Hey, guys, it's Betty Glover here. I think I can join in on this conversation. So basically, I really wanted a dog, and my boyfriend only agreed to getting a dog

if he could name it. I was like, yeah, go on, name it whatever you want. He comes up with McGinn, because he is obsessed with John McGinn. And my boyfriend's a Hibbs fan. John McGinn now obviously plays for Aston Villa. So our dog is called McGinn. And it is starting to get so annoying when I'm walking around the park and people are like,

oh, what's your dog's name? And I'm like, McGinn. And they're like, what? This honestly happens all the time. And neither of us are Estabilla fans either. So the ones that do get it are like, oh, Villa fan. I'm like, no, no, don't support Aston Villa. But I've just got a dog named after their best player in this.

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I have got one other thing on my sticky note. Go on then. Right, what What annoys you about life that shouldn't annoy you? Have you got anything? Yeah, I've got so many.

Like so many. I hate people. People that eat in front of me. Okay. And I know you need to eat to function but the thought and the look of people putting things in their mouth.

Nope. Let's feel ill. Does it bother you that when you have to eat? Yeah, I, yeah, I can't hear myself eat, I have to put the telly on. Is this new? No. So you can't, what do you do when you go to like a dinner or Christmas Day? What do you do?

It's loud, isn't it? There's music playing, there's all mules. Oh, so you actually just sitting in a silent room with loads of people eating at the worst nightmare? I think I'd vomit. What's that about? But we ever watched August because I once watched someone, like, eat an egg, like a whole boiled egg. This went, oh, they just, did they not chew it? Slotted it in.

Stay down? Without a chew? Who was that? That's a skill. That's a party trick that. So mine is people in the middle lane on a moment. I think I've thought about this before. Why are people incapable of learning how to drive on a motorway?

Yeah, it's fair. And it's also illegal. I don't think it's illegal to drive in the middle lane. Is it? It is. It's illegal to drive in the middle lane. Yeah. Maybe if you don't need to.

Can't be illegal to drive in the middle lane. You can go in the left-hand lane, you can go on the right-hand lane, but it's illegal to go in the middle lane. If the left-hand lane is clear, or the right-hand lane, which side of the road? Do I drive on the right-hand lane. You can't be in the middle lane So I've done loads of driving recently because I've been back and forth to Loughborough

and it's just really come to my attention that no one knows how to drive and we need to put an intervention into place or teach people how to do it maybe if you listen to this podcast let's really make a conscious effort to not hog the middle lane I also hate to make you walking down the street

people don't pick their feet up and they slide their feet on floor pick your f***er feet up who does that that's not a common thing it is you'll notice it now that isn't common Jack have you got any

there's anything to know you that shouldn't do other than people not being able to do a podcast I've got one okay on my breaks at work I'll go to a shop and get myself a meal deal I'm thinking oh I'm gonna have a really plain day I'm gonna have a cheese sandwich

but then I read that there's mayo on the cheese sandwich oh so it's not plain that really really gets to me big time like Is that because the advertising is not what it said it is. It's just like if when you think of a plain cheese sandwich, you think of butter and cheese.

Why are we overcomplicating it with mayo? You could make your own. I could. I've got another one. Really, really, really, really, really bugging of this. And I get really irate. And I'm not an angry person. But when you let someone through, say like on a road where there's parked cars

and you let someone through and they don't thank you. Yeah. I've just stopped my day for you. You go, what do you do? You're welcome, you p. And give them the middle finger. I can do that now because I used to be in a sponsored car that had cinch plastered all over it.

So I couldn't really do it. Whereas now I'm in my own car. I'm like this. Do what half has right with me across. I used to drive a lot together. And she is a sucker for it. So I'd be driving her car or vice versa. We're both our sponsored cars.

A big cinch down the side. or whatever, or we had the keyers. She'd knock on the window of her own car. Get off your phone. Cross, they've got your own name on your car. Yeah, but people shouldn't. That is illegal. That is definitely illegal.

Crossie, do you know we've got a new producer? Yeah, I think he's going to leave us out. Yeah, I do. But he's pulled his finger out and he's got a game for us. Henry never had a game for us. Anyway, right. So, we are going to play a game of... Yes, yes.

We're going to call it rubbish because you're on the BBC. Why don't call it shambles? Or shambles, yes, then we go. See, you don't need a producer. You don't need me out. No, we do, we do, we do. So if you guys or people listening are unfamiliar, I'd give you a category and you each go into kind of back yourself and say how many things in that category you can say in 60 seconds. I'll tell it 30 seconds because this podcast has a bit of shambles already, so let's keep it.

Yeah, it's terrible. So, for example, I'd say how much? many brands of car can you name in 30 seconds. So Al, you'd say, oh, I think I can say seven. Oh, eight. All right. Adventurous. Then crosser, you'd go, oh, well, I think I can say nine. And then Al, you go, now that's shambles. You can't say nine in 30 seconds. And then cross, you'd have to say nine. Have to say it. Okay. If you don't say nine, Al gets the point. Kia, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, BMW, Audi, Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki, Suzuki, Hyundai. Toyota. That's nine.

Yeah, okay. That's cool. That was a practice. I didn't even start a timer, but thanks for that, Chrissy. Very good. What do we win? Can tell she's been doing a lot of driving. That was in order of who's annoyed her the most in what a brand of time. It's actually pronounced Hyundai as well. I've not been listening to the advert enough on the radio recently. Right, so we're going to do best of three. And the categories might have a South African twist to get you ready for South Africa. This is the prep. How should you decide who goes first? Al, I'm thinking of a number. Is it odd or even?

It is even. It is not. It is odd. Crossy, do you want to go first or do you want to go second? I'll go first, please. Okay, so your first category is hopefully a relatively easy one. To get your mind back in the right space for cricket and to get your mind working for this game. So in 30 seconds, how many fielding positions do you think you can name? Oh, good one

12 In 30 seconds, 12 Yeah How? Shambles Oh, she's got early So you don't think I can say 12 in 30 seconds Well

And I also don't think I know 13 So do you have to say more than me to beat me? Yeah I do know 13 Oh, I've just gone through mad So Crossie, are you ready? Ready, I'm nervous

I feel sick. So you've got 12 in 30 seconds. You ready? Yep. Three, two, one, go. Wicketkeeper, slip, gully, leg slip. Mid on, mid off, cover, extra cover, point, third, fine leg, deep square, deep midwicket, cow corner.

Catching mid off. first slip second slip third slip fourth slit leg slip well done leg gully yes I think you did

about 20 in about 15 seconds well done see that's that's an England captain right there yes yes it is she has to know them right Al so I come to you for the second category

and you've got to win this one okay to take it to the third round and this one was a little bit more across your mind but you know you're working in the game you should be across these things so the second category is in 30 seconds how many South African players

in the squad for the upcoming tour can you name four four crossy I have to say five don't I oh four's low wait you can't change yeah you can this is what you do

you said five so yeah Oh, right, okay. We're in now. Oh, you've said six. Get off your phone. Get off your phone. I saw that. Right.

Guilty. Right. So, right, can she name six? Can she name six? I think she probably can, but I don't know if I'll name seven. I'm going to just call shambles to the game's sake. Six, Alex. Let me get the squad list.

Oh, do you have the squad list there? I've got the squad list. If you also want to get the squad list up so we can have some kind of and a verification. That's up to you. How am I said six? Six. Okay.

In 30 seconds, Alex Hartley, are you ready? Yep. Three, two, one, go. Kakar. Kapp. Chloe Tryon. Bosch. Wolf are soon, Elie's.

Wow. Well done. 13 seconds. Well done. Well done, Alex. So it's 1-1. So for the production of the game, I'm buzzing because it goes to The Decider. Yeah.

So, Crossey, we come back to you for the third category, The Decider. You'd make such a good game show host. Stop it. Animals you will find on a typical safari in South Africa. Ooh, good one. We're doing a safari, actually. But that doesn't help me right now. I'm going to say

I could name Duk 11 11 11 12 Cross if like to you Shambles

Okay Right So I have a list of 15 animals that you would typically find Alex Hartley Can you name 12 of them in 30 seconds. Can we just say before she does this that she did a week-long

safari in South Africa just 14 months ago so if she doesn't get this, what a waste of money that was? Yeah, I was camping in the wild. Alex Hartley, are you ready? Yep. Three, two, one, go. Lion, tiger, elephant, cheetah, jaguar, hippo, crocodile, bird. Bird. There's birds everywhere in the world. That's 15 seconds and you've got three. Giraff. What? That's four.

Rhino. Black rhino, white rhino. That's 12. And that's time. And that's time. That was 12. Yes. On the list in front of me that I've verified on a website online, there's 15, you said five of which. You said, right, I give you six, black and white

rhino, giraffe, cheetah, elephant and lion. Yeah. I got all them. Yeah. The rest of them that you didn't get, got leopard, you've got buffalo, you've got the wild dog, hyena, zebra, Impala, a kudu? Kudu. Right, I'm not being funny. I saw all those animals I said. Warhog, may cat and gems box. If anyone goes on a safari and doesn't see a bird, let me know. Let me know. Let me know. If you'd have said a specific bird, I might have been inclined to say, you know what, yeah, I'd give you that. Crow. Pigeon. A crow. Who is? Well, that's in Ditzbury. That's not on Safari in South Africa. So, Kate Cross, you are the winner of Shambles. Yes. Nobles before you go to South Africa. You are now prepared.

You are now prepared and ready to go on tour. Loser. I'm going to the pub. Email is on. Noblespodcast.bcbc.bcbc.com.com.com.com. It's so good. They said it twice. Crossie, fly safe.

Next time I speak to you'll be there. I saw a meme about that actually when people tell you to fly safe as if I'm in charge of the plane. Yeah. Go well. Thank you. I'm sure you will. You'll have your feet up in business. Oh, boo-hoo. Enjoy the pub.

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