Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - Beckham's been at the cricket!

Episode Date: November 17, 2023

Kate Cross and Alex Hartley talk through the Men's World Cup semi-finals in India, including Alex trying her best to go and meet David Beckham at the Wankhede Stadium.

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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 the Cricket podcast with me, Kate Cross, and you, Alex Hartley.

I've just realised we've not checked the microphone, so as hope is... No, check, check one too. Mike, check. One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, ten. Looks good. Wicked one, two, three. Mine's working.

Is yours? I think we're working. Let's just go. Well, because these new microphones are so good, but we just presume they're working all the time. We do sound epic, don't we? I've not listened, I don't know why I'm saying that as if I've listened, but I think we sound great.

I mean, the last episode I did record basically in a cave, so that probably will done the mess. In a cave, out of cricket ground, with a tannoy and music blaring in the background. Yeah, yeah. How are you? I'm good. Thanks Al. I'm good. We're back to me and you on FaceTime. We've not got the big dogs in today. So there's no one muting your microphone or telling us what to do. So it's just, we're just back me and you. We're back to basics. Back to basics. Back to being the shambolic podcast. Yeah, I feel the shambles as well. Like I fall asleep on this. If I shut up my eyes, I feel like I can pause.

She's got her eyes shut. I'll just keep coughing on you. How are you? I am very good I can't believe the World Cup is nearly over and I can't believe I'm flying home So you just said to me It's half 11 in India and you're getting picked up for the airport

645 tomorrow morning So you're coming home So we need to get this podcast done Yeah right that's the end of this week Thanks for listening See you all next week For no good thank you It's flown by which is such a good sign

Like I've worked with the two best people Henry and Dan, like I genuinely I would have want to work with anyone else because we've had the most fun. They're the most caring people and they've just made the trip gosh so quickly and like trips like this when you're following teams that are losing

or like the games haven't been very good could be a bloody long trip but I can't live it's at the end. Let's throw it back. Let's do trough and peak of the week but for the whole tournament for you so I want your worst rowing and I want your best rowman. Okay.

My best moment was we were here in Mumbai and we went to a restaurant called Numa. And this is just a personal ha-ha moment, which is a highlight. But Dan and Henry got a starter and I got a pepperoni pizza. Their starter was Covecce, raw fish. Yep. And then woke up the next day for work and no cross has gone. I can't work today. I can't work today.

It's both ends. I can't work today. So we were taking the mick out of him. We couldn't come to work, so we were manned down. For me and Henry were walking to the ground all smug like, hey, looky down. Like, what a clown eating the raw fish. Afghanistan versus Australia was the game. And just as Glenn Maxwell walked out to the crease, Henry's a-x-went big time.

Oh, please tell me he wasn't on air. So he was dry retching on air and he had the worst food poisoning and he'd have to keep running off. He stayed. He stayed at work God, what a trooper And then everyone else Like, are you okay? I was like, yes, because I had a pepperoni pizza

I didn't have raw fish Still, a pepperoni pizza And your IBS, you never know Yeah, that is true That is true So I've been quite smug about that But also there's nothing worse Yeah

That's your highlight of the whole folk Oh On the same Ha ha smugness Lowlight is we were at a pub the other night And I was wedged in at the end So there was like eight of us all in one row and eight on the other. And I was at the end.

And for me to get out, everyone had to get up. So it was my round. So I got, everyone got up. I went to the bar. Came back. Everyone got up. I sat back down. I was like, everyone get up.

Everyone got up. My ass has gone. Oh, no. I didn't really. I thought there'd be a bit more cricket in these answers. Oh, okay. Cricket, peek and trough of the week. Peak of the tournament.

for me is just Glenn Maxwell. How he can go from scoring a forward ball hundred to scoring 200 to playing the worst shot I've ever seen in my life in the semi-final is just so Glenn. It's the most Glenn thing isn't it? Yeah

Trough I think you're seeing so many bad games of cricket. I was going to touch on that. I didn't know whether it's a strong opinion and I don't have many strong opinions on this podcast but I feel like it's been one of the worst World Cups I've watched

I definitely have from an England point of view well yeah 1,000% that maybe coming in a close second to 2015 but I just feel like there's been don't get me wrong there's been some magic moments obviously Glenn's been a big part of those but it just has felt like really one-sided in every single match that I've watched

there's been no exciting games maybe like a handful but even then the one-sided games that the underdog of this one they've also been easy like Afghanistan beat in England the Netherlands beat in South Africa like you would think they'd be absolute thrillers

and they weren't yeah it's just not good and then the semi the first semi India New Zealand India win the toss and you go well that's game over they score 400 New Zealand aren't going to come close to it

the semi-final just gone now is one of the best games of cricket I've seen yeah that was so much so much better wasn't it so much better low scoring thriller the ball was turning sideways it's played on a used pitch and Australia they nearly lost it difference being the first semi-final played on a used pitch

still had 750 runs scored on it it was an absolutely belter so we go into the day you know used pitch two games on it it's going to be crap flat so flat so flat you don't even look good while you're singing yeah so it's been a So, wait, I thought I was just saying it hasn't been a belter. But it's been a belter in like, it hasn't, it hasn't, I think, do you know what I think?

Teams took the first half of the competition to warm up. It's been a long old tournament though, hasn't it? They've had the time to do that, upset England. Yeah, yeah. But England, if they had won one more game, could have qualified. Really is quite incredible that. And then you think it's been like an abysmal tournament for them and actually it could have been very different

like one game difference it would have been so yeah that was my summary of it I think it's been one of the worst I've watched yeah I don't necessarily disagree because you probably watched the bulk of England's campaign whereas I followed New Zealand

who won the first four lost four then ended up the five I've still watched a lot of the games I've watched because it's on a really good time of course I have a massive cricket badger I'm waiting for the IPL to start like now. So there's cricket on in the afterteens. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Oh, don't worry. Legends League starts on the 18th. Perfect. Just what I want. What I will say is India have had probably the most perfect World Cup campaign you could possibly have. I don't want Australia to win it, but I don't want India to win it either. So I don't know what I'm going to do for the final. If it rains for two days, it's a shared trophy. perfect ballout I love ball out maybe a little bowl out be good how good would that be yeah I know what you mean I think India

honestly cannot cannot tell you how good they are really so me and Lewis our S&C at Thunder just I was putting off doing the gym the other day and he was like right who's beating India like no team could beat India I was like oh maybe we could make a world 11 of the players that are in form at this World Cup and we'll try and get a team that could

beat India. So we did make an 11. I don't know if you want to hear it. Probably not now. But maybe people could send theirs in like their best team from the World Cup. It had to be people in form who weren't injured and stuff. Yeah. I think Australia are the only team that could beat India. I think South Africa on their best day could beat them. But they didn't. But only if they bat first. Yeah, bat first and actually score some runs and aren't 20 for four after 10 overs. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, the crowd's crossier, like something I've never, ever experienced. You look like you have had the best time.

Like, obviously, you've dived so deep into it. You've bought all the shirts. You've been wearing your Glenn Maxwell RCB shirt. You've been to the RCB Cafe. You've been floating around on Instagram. It's almost sticky now, actually. I've written that down. It honestly looks like you've had an incredible seven weeks.

I have. I have. And I've seen some bad cricket. I've seen some awful cricket. I've seen some great cricket. I'm gutted. gutted i'm not doing the final um how are you what have you been up to so much cricket chat what have we just done there nine minutes i've chatted about cricket wow you lot also we should

probably take this time to thank glen maxwell again for being a super sport for us last week although he did go on michael vaughan's podcast an hour before ours but thanks cla thank you no guests this week though um well have i been up to so i've been but i'm on week seven of training Like winter training I'm on week seven already That is horrible It's mad, it's actually mad But I'm good I'm going to Oman tomorrow

Friday We've got a train at Yeath We've got a training camp over there for two weeks I will only be taking my white pads with me Just prepping for a test match Which starts on 14th, that was December Yeah Something like that

So yeah I'm good, I'm busy I'm ready to get in the sunshine I am playing a lot of golf don't know if you've been seeing me on Instagram course you have Yeah golf golf golf stories is such a nick

Yeah I don't care I actually love it so much I just don't care And I've bought I finally got around to buy in my own clubs So I got some fitted They've arrived I'm taking them to Oman

On a little golf trip I mean cricket training camp So yeah Good or good they send If you start playing golf as much as you are you'll be playing in the men's test team in no time I know I'll be invited on those test series away where they go and play golf

you will are you ready to talk about selection yet yeah yeah yeah ready yeah so you've been picked for the test match congratulations proud of you as always for the squad I've not been picked for the test match yet well no

England name they're playing 11 five weeks out good happen you never know It could happen. But you've not made the T-20s? No. How was that phone call and are you okay? The phone call started with a lot of golf chacks.

I picked up my golf clubs that day. And then Lurie was like, right, selection. You throw me off guard. Bad news, unfortunately. But then he ended the conversation with the good news of the test selection and was like, right. Did you think, oh my God, I'm not even in the test squad? I didn't really know what was going on.

I was too giddy farming golf clubs at the time. But then he finished the call being like, right, go and clean your clubs. Go pack them. Let's get to a fan. So, yeah, I'm obviously disappointed, but I'm not surprised. So it's the funny old emotion of professional sport because I've been dropped as a direct result of my performances against Sri Lanka. so that's obviously like the reason and that's what louis said

and I feel like I understand and I was expected it but I still feel like I've waited four years for an opportunity to play T20 cricket and now it's gone and yeah I think that's probably the hard bit and he said the door's not shut on T20 cricket doesn't mean that I'm not going to play in the future but it feels like having had a good couple of hundreds worked my way back didn't go well

thanks Chamari but I don't know it's that's like classic like how much fight have I got to keep trying to get into that team like I genuinely didn't I don't think I'm in the best T20 team for England I don't

I'm like gutted to have been dropped from the squad completely and feel like I've really lost that chance to get another go but it's professional sport isn't it and that's what I keep telling myself Like, you just, you don't get everything that you think you deserve, how much work you put into it. Still, even though you know that's professional sport, it still don't make it easier.

Like, it's still like, like, I've trained so hard for so long, got an opportunity and one woman's ruined my chance. So, yeah, I guess in a way, like, it really narrows my focus now on test cricket, which I've never, I've never been able to prep for a test match like this with just only having to think about. that I don't need to think about white ball cricket till New Zealand in March so yeah that's quite a nice thought and I guess like really specifically I could make Oman into a test prep camp which like I said I've never had before

so it's it's kind of exciting I'm disappointed I'm okay though it's like I said it's professional sport and I'm still I can't just shut the door on T20 cricket because I still think I want to be involved in WPLs and WBBLs and the 100 obviously, so you still got to keep working on your skill set for that. So, yeah, I'm okay.

Good. And you still get to play a test match in India, and very, very few people have ever done that. Very few have, and that is so exciting. And actually, I've got on my sticky note, which I think is about, well, it is about this because it's about the test match. But I wrote down, test match breaking story. And someone tweeted us a couple of weeks ago,

and we did our podcast before Glenn's episode. We actually broke the story that we're playing a test match in India because you can message with something about me doing test patch. Yeah, I was like, oh, you got a red ball. You practice your red bull skills. Sorry, England, sorry. Sorry, Emily Marshall. Sorry about that.

No one told me off, though, but yeah, we did break the story. But, yeah, test match in India. If you go online, all your fixtures and all your games are on there. So I think it's just the people I that googled England women's cricket. I really don't think this test match was on the internet. I think we definitely broke the news. Do you remember when we had Megan shoot? And she was like, yeah, I'm prepping for a test match against the Aussies might. And we were like, exclusive. Yeah, she plays for Australia so she wasn't prepping against the Aussies football. Yeah, we know what you mean. Oh, what you mean.

We know what you mean. Yeah. So you're going to play test cricket in India. And honestly, not very many times in life that I'm jealous of you about. I think I'm jealous of. of you. Yeah, no, I'm actually buzzing. It's four-dayer, so that five-day test match that went really well in the summer, we're back to the four days, but I think I'm going to be glad of that when I get out there, and the air quality is terrible, and the humidity is 95%, and it's 35 degrees, so. Well, obviously, you were here, because I was about saying, I cannot explain to you how hot and humid and Ming in Mumbai has been recently, but you've experienced it as well. Yeah, I was there for that day when England played South Africa, and it was like, I've just never seen

people, sports people, professional sports people react the way that England and South Africa were doing that day. That was the World Cup of Kramp, wasn't it? That's where it all started. So this is how, how hot it's been. The fittest man on cricket, on cricket, in cricket. The fittest man in cricket, Virac Koli. He does, you know, long on to long on, the 50 overs. It'll bat all day. He was batting, by the way, 50 hundreds, we'll get on to that. Oh, my gosh. Every time there was a drinks break, he was sat on a chair. They brought a chair out for him.

I wish I was that good at cricket that someone brought me a chair out when I was tired. And they brought a chair out for him. Love it. But yeah, fift, you were there. And I wasn't on air. He were there, not on there. And so I went and sat in the stands and oh my God, the place erupted. Like, erupted.

was unreal. He was bowing to Sachin Tanzulka which was so like special to see. Did you see Sachin's tweet? Yes I did. He made it about himself. You kissed my feet. Yeah. You kissed my feet

then you kissed my heart or something. Lovely tribute but weird. David Beckham was there to see it, of course. Oh my God, I was out of day of work with David Beckham. Did you meet him? No. I think I'm the only person in that

didn't meet David Beckham so he was at the fore end of the ground and all the ICC lot that I've got to know

this trip I come back and I'm with a guy called Alex and he's like look at this I was like you've met

David Beckham and I haven't oh you messaged me I was like Al you need to meet this guy like whatever you do

today just go and meet him find a way I know I couldn't and then he left early and then there was

an after party which he was going to be at and I was like maybe I'll try to sneak in that um but we didn't finish work till midnight and I thought that he's not going to still be awake no probably not I feel like we're quite off piece today we've gone a bit well we did a lot of cricket um what else is are you sticky now um I've got a lot you know um yeah yeah so you went to the RCB cafe let's keep it cricket for a little bit that was like bucket list thing for you wasn't it you needed to go was it Crossy, crossy, I walked in and all the staff went, Alex, nice to meet you.

Love that. I was mind, it was mind-blown. Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, nice to meet you. Can we do an interview? Like, can we have some pictures? It's so good to see you here. Like, we thought you'd come and I was like, what hell? Love that.

Was that anything to do with the fact that you tagged them 17 times on your Instagram before you went in? And it might be, yeah, might be. on my way love it but did you enjoy it was a good do you watch cricket in there what did really good watch some cricket bangalore by the way i'm not just saying this because of rcb is without a doubt my favorite city in india agree firm agree there's church street is popping off i ended up in a nightclub called kitty co oh it was great it was great Good shopping as well. Some guy in Kitiko came up to me.

It was like, nice to meet you, I'm so-and-so. Who are you? And I went, oh, I'm Sandra. Oh, what do you know? I was like, I'm a plumber. And he went, no, you're like, you're Alex Hartley. I went, oh, for God's sake. Sandra the plumber?

Yeah, but I'll panic. Come on out. Should have said Paula. Paula the plumber. I've also got written down. I did an appearance on Saturday, and it was a wine tasting event. It was amazing. And someone came up to me and said,

Hi. Why do you not have a lamp stand named after you as well? Yeah. A lamp stand. But you have, though. A lap, sorry, I just want to talk about the fact that this guy thought the floodlights were called lampstands, and now I'm going to refer to them as lampstands for the rest of my life. Lampstands.

But you might as well tell everyone what you have got. Yeah, I don't know if this is official yet. I don't think it is, but I'm just going to do it anyway. I got invited to the hotel opening of Old Trafford, the new Hilton at Old Trafford on Monday. And I got invited to stay over and I was like, no, it's okay. Like I live 10 minutes down the road. It's really not an issue.

And our CEO, Daniel, was like, no, please stay. It would be a really nice, you know, stay in the new establishment. I was like, honestly, Daniel, it's really not an issue, but, you know, give it to someone else. He's like, right, I don't want to tell you of what's up, but we've named a suite after you. So I have got the Kate Cross suite in the new. new Hilton Hotel. How amazing is that? It's so cool as well.

That is so cool. When you retire from Lanks, you're going to get so much. They won't forget about you. Well, I had a bit of a cock-up moment on, so I had to do an interview for the evening, like how it had all gone, blah, blah, blah. And Alex, our media guy at Lanks was like, how did it, you know,

how did it feel to have the recognition and get something named after you? And I was like, oh, obviously having the first thing named after you is so special. And then I was like, oh, I don't mean that I'm going to get more all right I don't expect anymore I just I mean the first one's always going to be the nicest and I was like I feel like I'm digging a whole that the interview is the worst thing I've ever done it'll probably put it out now in Alex as well um but yeah I felt like I was being really ungrateful

saying like I'm expecting what do you want to stand do you have a end pavilion? Cape cross pavilion maybe Kate cross bar sounds cool yeah you've always wanted the crossbar but you've got a sweet I asked Daniel I said um so I'm guessing this means you know test matches concerts it's my room to use as I wish because I'm pitch side right in the centre and he was like if you want to stay in the hotel in your room for a night with a concert on

it'll be a thousand pound a night so I was like yeah okay cool okay yeah yeah what else I've got a bit of mine go on then should I do one and throw it back to Taj Mahal

remember when I went there like how long it got does that feel this is how long we've not really podcasted for because I thought that's on my note as well but yeah you've this is what I mean like there's seven weeks that you've done in India you've ticked off and a lot of incredible stuff.

Yeah, 25,000 people visit a day. That is crazy. And we had a chat, didn't we? I was like, what even is the Taj Mahat? Because I know it's famous. Well, you asked, no, no, no, crossy, you didn't. You said, does anybody still live there? Did I?

You went, does anybody live there? I was like, Crossie, it's a grave. Yeah, I don't. See, I don't, I'm not that well travelled, really. So I learnt a lot. You taught me something. Yeah, I did. So no, it's a grave.

Nobody lives there. Someone does live there. Not like Buckingham Palace. But you sent a picture, a wicked picture of you, Dan and Henry, that someone had taken, like, candid from behind. It was really cool. And then you sent one of you on the famous seat. Yeah, do any little pose.

Gun who admit, didn't know that was a famous thing to do. Right, okay, that's... I just thought everyone was commenting on my Instagram post, saying Princess DiHia. I thought they thought I looked like her. Right, yeah. We've already established you look like Gareth Bale, David Beckham, not Princess Diana. I'll do my hair for you so you can see.

I should have worn my Bex hair yesterday then I got to see you. Literally, literally you could have gone up to him and gone, I've modelled my hair from you, Real Madrid era. I can't tell you how much I hate this hair. I look at myself every day in the mirror. I don't know whether it's because I've put on seven kids. But I hate my hair as well, so I hate myself. I keep looking at the mirror every day and go, what did I do?

I actually, when you came on this call, I actually thought your hair looks quite nice. So I don't know if that helps you. Thank you. Thank you. I actually got asked yesterday, have I been for a haircut in India? because it looks so straight and neat and I was like, no, it was just that short before I came. Yeah, well, it's a nice length now.

I think we need to remember this length and make sure it doesn't go shorter than this again. Yeah, me too. I also need to go and get it, don't look how to stay that. Did you see the news about Ramsbottom? No. Ramsbottom Cricket Club are the first team in their league's history

to put a women's only team into the league. Oh, wow. So they'll play in the men's league. I'm using in quotation marks because it obviously was a men's league in the past and they're going to go and play as a women's team. Oh, wow, how good is that? Yeah.

So I did a little interview on it yesterday, actually, and it was with Scott Reed, and he said, how did you feel? And I was like, I actually didn't really know how I felt, but I loved that, I loved and I hated that it was a story. I love that in 30 years time, that won't ever be a story again because there'll be other teams and leagues that do the same thing.

But I was like, I love that Ramsbotton, which is, we're kind of linked with them, obviously, Northwest kind of. and we train there a little bit and stuff but I love that they've got the story and they've got the history made but they'll learn so much from it they'll have good days, they'll have bad days

but hopefully it'll inspire a lot of people to play cricket and realise that it's for everyone and it doesn't matter whether you're male or females so yeah, interesting news story really really random but it popped into my mind about 4 a.m. the other night because I couldn't sleep.

Did John Cena ever reply? No! That came off on my time up as well. It was not that long. Well, it must have been a year ago to the day or two years ago where it was, but never got a reply. That's a shame. I've got written down, so you didn't meet David Beckham,

but I got to meet Mr. Gross from sex education when I went and did tail enders a couple weeks ago. Yeah, you did. And we've become kind of like Instagram friends, so he tagged me in an Instagram, he followed me, I followed him back. Now he's doing loads of content about the new sex education and I feel like I'm one step closer to meeting all the crew from sex education

that's good I don't think I will but he told me well his son actually his actual real life son not his TV show son told me a funny story so there's a in season four

the latest season of sex education Mr. Groff is he's called Alistair is doing a sex scene and you see his bum in the sex scene and his kids printed off a t-shirt with his bum as the t-shirt and they all wore it at a dinner and I just thought it was really funny that his kids had to see him having set

that is very good I got some bad news crossy oh no your old mum and dad moved house oh yeah dad sold his tuck tuck yeah I asked you about this the other day what's sad bit why didn't you tell me that sooner

yeah I forgot Because it's just a Tuck Tuck Tuck. Apparently it doesn't suit Alderly Edge where they live now. That doesn't suffice me. Oh, wow. Sad news for all the Tuck Tuck fans from the podcast. Yeah, so RIP. It was called, I don't know what, it's called Bart or something.

Only your dad could buy a Tuck-tuck to use as somewhere to have beers in the and when he has garden parties. Never have a garden party. Never have a garden party. Move house and then sell the tuck-tuck. Only your dad. He didn't even drive it toward the edge. He had no miles on it, cross it.

Zero miles. It'd never been driven, never been used. He had it for three years. Didn't suit his new house. Sold it. You know what he should have done? He should have gifted that to the podcast. And that could have been our mode of transport.

And that would have been like how we traveled anywhere. If we ever did a tour, we traveled. I've had to talk. I did have visions of me, like, getting rid of my car and just using it to get toward trampled and bike. That would have been very funny. Can you legally drive a tuck-took in the UK? Yeah, it was roadworthy, yeah, yeah. Oh, gosh, we could have really used that then.

Dave. I know. That's it for my sticky notes, though. I think there was a lot on there, but we got through them. One more. So, think of the Wankady Stadium. Is it? And the pitch and how big it is.

That? Quite a large playing surface. And I think of Taunton and how small it is. Yep. The same number of LED screens are used at the Wankady and Taunton. Do you know the ones that go around the boundary? Oh, really? Because it's the same circumference.

Why are you telling me this? Because it blew my mind, because Taunton's tiny. Do I understand what you're telling me here? So the same amount of LED lights that you would use, I'm guessing, for a one day's national game. Screens. You know the screens, yeah? go around the advertising boards. Yeah, a behind a sponge.

Yeah, the same number I used at the Wankady Stadium as Taunton. Right, okay. So you think you then go to Edgebaston, you might need like 70 more. There, blocks of screens. I don't know what I'm going to do with that information. It blew my mind. Bleu my mind. I, um, yeah, I don't have anything else to talk about or anything.

else to add to that particular conversation. I learned another thing today. Go on. Markram's name is spelled the same forwards and backwards. Oh, I like stuff like that. That is cool. Do you remember when you told everyone that the... You gave us a fact about rhino poo,

about it being like the biggest poo or something on the planet? No, the only poo once a week or something. Yeah, and then you message me an hour after we did that podcast saying that it was a load of rubbish that you had the wrong information. So can we really believe the LED fact? Yes, because Dario, the LED man, who is the big boss of the LEDs, I've met him and I've been spending time with Dario the last three days. And he told me that fact and I was like, mind-blot. Right.

Dario probably needs to get a hobby if he's talking to you about this in a bar somewhere. How did you know we're in a bar? Because it's you, Alex Harley. I know where to find you. also you text me the other day you were like I'm home on Friday baby when I'm I seeing you and I was like I'll go to home on Friday so we're literally in the country for an hour and a half at the same time before I get on a plane which is sad

and it's not like I can see you in the airport because you're flying from a different airport you land at Heathrow at 6 I fly from no you land in Manchester at 6 I fly from Heathrow at 8 so no I really I've really missed you as well see you at Christmas I know I've really missed you I know, I've missed you too. Like, I've just mischating shit. We do the podcast.

Oh, we've not, we've not really done the podcast season. No, we've done too. It really cracked me up last week, all the comments that we got about us forgetting to do a podcast during a men's ICC World Cup. And then we just suddenly get the biggest star out there to possibly come on the pot. Oh, no. Mad. That feels like it's it. We're not done our emails because we've not had any.

So, as in we've not had any sent on because we didn't tell Henry we were recording. Yeah, so if you want to email as you can on Noblespodcast at BBC.com.com.com.com.com. It's so good. It's so good. They've said it twice. And good looking on that. Enjoy your golf holiday and a bit of cricket. Thank you. Make sure you get home. Looking forward to you being freezing and moaning about it. Bye. Bye. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Oh, that's...

Holder! I think it's the wobble 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 for cross. My name is Joe Wilkinson, and I'm doing a podcast because I love football. All I love more is the idea of being friends with the...

professional footballer. The football I'd like to be friends with. It's Patrick Banford. Hello, Patrick. Will you be my friend? That's yet to be decided. Okay, not what I was hoping. My Mates of Footballer is a new BBC Sounds podcast with me, Patrick Bancourt and Joe Wilkinson.

Some days he'll hate it, other days he won't, and eventually he will fall in love of me. Search for My Mates of Football on BBC Sounds. Have you ever seen me, Daly Beck and Garfield in the same room? No, absolutely haven't. Orion Bell. That's because it's never happened.