Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - Captain Crossy, preparing for The Hundred and melted ice cream

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

As they prepare to become Manchester Originals, Kate and Alex talk ODI catches, who's the better captain and dissect some VERY unusual listener habits.

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Hartley falls. Down the track comes scoring. This time she connects. It's either six or out. It's six. Hello and welcome back to No Balls, the argument podcast with me, Kate Cross. And you Alex Hartley, how are you?

I hate you. Why? We're starting not. argument. I don't know what about, but we're doing it. I actually do have another bone fit in you well. Now that you've mentioned it, might as well. This is where we get it all out. We get the beef out. I've got

one with you as well, so go on. Go on, you can go first then because I've started them all for the last couple weeks. Okay, right. Is this a new section? Now we live together. It's going to have to be, isn't it? So, this is our job. We get paid to do this. Paid to have a professional podcast with the BBC, British

Broadcast, Brog. With the British broadcasting, I'll say it all spray it. And you just said, right, let's just get this done. Yeah, I'm not really in a podcasting mood right now. It's been a long day. I'm sleepy. And here we are. And you just told me I had to do it again because I was flat.

So flat. You don't even look good while you're singing. Name that film, anybody. Is that it? Is that the bone? Right. I have an actual real bones. with you it has actually

I wasn't going to bring this up but it's the argument podcast now I might as well you the other day said that you couldn't afford to go out for dinner with me I'll come out at the bubble you said I can't afford to come out with dinner yeah and I said well it's half-priced food and so come on let's go and we went

and you then a couple of days later made it a massive thing on social media to get an England shirt yeah I did yeah which probably cost you more than it should have done yeah it did yeah so you couldn't afford to go for dinner, but then you bought a shirt that you were going to wear for approximately 90 minutes on Sunday evening. It's funny that though, isn't it? All of this, whilst I still hadn't received one penny of rent. You've had, you had it now? Yeah, you have paid me now. I actually got paid like two days ago. So all this was happening and then I got paid so that I've spent all my money. So you blew all your money

on a Jordan Pickford shirt. Yeah, and then it didn't turn up, did it? So I had to go and get another one. So I've got two England shirts now. Oh, you're going to say you're going to have to sell one because it's not coming home. It's not come home, has it? Oh, gutted. Also, I think my joke on Twitter got a little bit lost yesterday about your shirt. I said, you could have squeezed into a medium. Yeah. And you said, oh, the small wouldn't even fit me these days.

Yeah. And someone replied saying, Ouch, she's still eggy about the mug. But I think the joke must have got lost. So basically, I was saying you had such a big t-shirt on that you probably could have squeezed into a medium. Yeah. And everyone was like, ooh, catty.

Oh, I think it is because, you know, the argument podcast. Yeah, it is the argument. argument podcast now so welcome back to no balls everybody this is alex hartley with kate cross um we've got all our beefs out yeah we don't we are done i've got some really good news actually have you just looking on me sticking out you got a smile on your face now she's ready for the podcast you know why i are because we have waited what 20 months for this podcast to start getting some traction and get going and obviously we're now on the british broadcasting corporation and we have finally got the no-balls, no-context Twitter account.

Oh, my, word. How weird was that? Very weird. We said, oh, God, I wish somebody would make a no-context no-balls. Half an hour later, we get tagged in something. Have you checked? Somebody watching us. Yeah.

Whoever it is, thanks for doing it and stop watching us. Stop watching us because you don't want to see that. How cool. Yeah. How good. And the first one that went out was that I compared my stuff. of to the Jimmy Nisham. Yeah, I enjoyed that.

Obviously, without any contacts, without context, it looks terrible. But you've got to listen to the pod to understand it, so hopefully it might encourage people to come listen to us. I forgot about our no context. It's been very quiet. Yeah, well, we've not had an episode out for a week, so. That makes sense.

It just works. Hopefully there'll be a lot tomorrow. Are you all right? Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm obviously a bit sad that we didn't win the football. You, the most devastated I've ever known. you're having never watched a game of football in your life.

Honestly. Climed in on social media. Gutted, gutted, I am. Actually, I'm all right now. I'm over it. I'm actually really, really annoyed with the England fans. Because now England and Ireland are trying to bid for the next euros against Portugal and Spain,

we're not going to get it because of our bloody fans. Also, all like the racial abuse that went on online. It was just such a shame, isn't it? because it was such an amazing tournament we did so well to get to the finals such a young squad who are probably like so impressionable and then that happens it's just disgusting yeah but yeah i did i did go hard on social media about the loss to the boys because you know pickford's number one fan in pickford we trust goalkeepers union yeah it's just supporting my man he doesn't know it exists no i don't think he probably will but still it's nice to know that you support them

it was good wasn't it it was nice we we weren't allowed to go to the pub to watch it because cricket, bubbles, COVID, all still a thing. So I had to sit in my flat and watch it, it was a bit of a shame. Yeah. I was literally screaming at the telly. It was really kind of sad. I love it. I love it.

Because I feel like your dad, your dad was a professional footballer. I don't feel like it. He was. But you're not a massive football fan. No, I get into the big tournaments. That's when I'll watch England play. Bit like me. Yeah.

I've got a shirt if you want to buy it. No, I'm good, thanks. Although saying that, World Cup next year. Yeah. Coming home. You want one? It's coming home. You're coming home?

It's coming home. It is coming home, isn't it? It's actually coming home. Speaking of stuff coming home, Tom Cruise was at Wembley. What is that got to do with speaking of stuff coming home? And I was about to get into it. And he was at Wimbledon.

He's always tied this one. And he was at Wimbledon. I think if he comes to Chelmsford on Wednesday for England versus India, the final decider, T20, is coming home. Or maybe he needs to not come for it to come home. I was going to say maybe he needs to not go. there because it didn't come home.

The other thing we should probably talk about while we're talking about online abuse and stuff like that. We've got an Instagram account. Yes, we have. In a week, it has gone Mahosive, hasn't it? Right.

Blown away. Blown away. So we had a little bit. How many followers will we have by the end of day one? Because it was classic, actually. Just one person asked us to have an Instagram. A bit like that one person

that asked us to start a podcast. One person asked us, should we do a poll? Yeah, let's do a poll. One person says, yeah, do it. All right. and it was actually me and you voted yes. Literally, the next morning, everyone voted.

It was 80% yes on the poll for whether we start the Instagram account. You were like, right, I'm going to do it. I'll start it now. Within four minutes, I tried to log on and you had forgotten the password. It was the most no-balls introduction to an Instagram account I've ever known. Yeah, I couldn't remember what I put, like, mind-blank. Yeah, so we had to change that. But it's good stuff on there, isn't it?

Because now we can put a lot of our content. are living together content up there. And there is a story that went up there the other day of you coming home with your Pickford shirt. And a few people noticed something underneath the coffee table and I think we need to address it.

We didn't notice they were there. We didn't, did we? So for anyone that didn't see it, me and I have bought a pair of slippers that the, can I say, Dick of the Day? You just did? That we have in the 100. So if someone does something silly,

they fall over, they drop their drink. They drop a really easy catch, blah, blah, blah, blah. So we've bought some slippers. And they are fantastic, aren't they? They are massive. These slippers, they're good. I cannot wait for Harmon Preet Corps to wear these slippers in the hotel bar

and Locky Ferguson be like, what the hell does that go on? But it's a great icebreaker, isn't it? because someone's going to have to wear them in the hotel the first time. Yeah. And then it'll be like, why have you got the dicky slippers on? And then they'll have to tell the story. So that is what they are there for for everyone that did notice them and messages.

And during the 100, we will keep that No-Bow's account on fire. Yeah, we'll be, I reckon we'll be a little bit more lively on when we get into the 100. I do as well. Speaking of, it starts in a week. And we don't know yet whether we're going to be bubbles. We don't know whether it's behind closed doors. Crossy, I don't care about that stuff. I don't know the rules.

Yeah, neither do I. I need to read those. Like, really need to read those soon. Like, this thing's meant to be finished in three hours. The pilot was like three hours, 20. We'll get through it in three hours. Fine. And we're the first team, so if we mess it up, it's not our fault.

It's not our fault. We were the trial. Yeah, we're the trial. Trailblazers. Yeah. Have you got anything else on you're sticking out? I've got two things, actually. Go on then.

One thing is I heard a story the other day that when you were younger, you had rabbits. Yep. And you never really looked after these rabbits. You dad ended up looking after them. Yeah. And feeding them for you. Yeah.

You were about 16 at the time. 14. 15. You didn't notice that your pet rabbits were dead for three weeks. Yep. So one incorrect fact of that story is that there was just one rabbit

Okay, one rabbit But yeah My mates from the cricket club came around to meet Paddy The rabbit And I went into the garage where he lives And he wasn't there I was like oh god he's escaped So I went into the liver room

And I was like mum dad Paddy's not there And they were like yeah he died three weeks ago We're just wondering how long it took you to notice Not good Not really not my best time But the problem was That I didn't feed the rabbit

because my dad got up earlier than me would go and feed it so then by the time I've got up to go to school he's already fed it so and there's no need to feed it twice no and I'm also not setting an alarm at 6am just to beat my dad to feed the rabbit when that's part of his daily routine now

so yeah it was just it was a shame really but yeah thanks for bringing that to everyone's attention I had a friend once I don't know if this is going to be funny or not or people are just going to think it's sick and wrong who had a hamster and he got the hamster out of its cage

and was playing with the hamster and he was like, do you know like when you're on your hands and knees and you're like, probably chasing a baby? Oh my God, no. So he's on his hands and knees and he's playing with this hamster and all of a sudden he hears this,

please tell me. Please don't tell me what I think you're going to tell me. He knelt on the hamster and flattened it. See, mine's not as bad as that. Is it? I don't know. Oh, he's devastated. Bless him. Right.

Moving on from Butchering Rabbits. I had a phone call this week. I'm 50% buzzing about it and 50% mortified by it. Oh, no. For anyone that doesn't know, I sent an application into Naked Attraction on your behalf. I can't remember if this was this season or last. season last season last season so for anyone that's not listening you need to go back and listen

because we had a mild obsession with naked attraction didn't we yeah so I briefly I applied for you to go on it put your name down anyway I got this phone call the other day so I'm like hi yeah is this Kate cross speaking so I said yeah yeah it is and I missed who they said they were but you know when you're just like oh it's a cold call it's probably going to be about P what was it called PPI I was going to say PPEE then but there's something very well you probably get that these days Yeah, nowadays. So I didn't really listen. And he just said, we're just wondering,

are you still keen to be involved? So I said, I'm really sorry. Who am I speaking to? And he was like, oh, it's Daniel here at Naked Attraction. We've had your application, and we want to know if you're still interested in coming on the show. Oh, my word. And obviously, I panicked.

Yeah. Panicked and laughed on the phone to this guy. And he was like, you're right. I was like, I'm so sorry. I'm actually not single anymore. I'm seeing some. I just panic. I'm seeing someone.

in someone, which I'm absolutely not. So naked interaction, I've been back in touch. But you replied for me, so why are they ringing you? I don't know, because they said my name as well. So have you actually applied on my behalf? I wish I was that clever, but no, I haven't. Maybe someone did, maybe a listener did. I don't know.

Well, they wouldn't have had my number. But anyway, I'm not going on it. Neither are you. Yeah. Did say I would go on it for seven grand, which Chris Stark said he'd fund. Get to go fund me page. Oh, right.

We've not talked about cricket. We've been talking for 12 minutes. I have one thing related to cricket sort of to talk about. Okay. From yesterday. I had my first ever commentary disaster yesterday on there. Oh, God. I wasn't listening.

Like, cross-y, a disaster. Like, are you going to get sacked? Like, not going to get sacked, but I didn't get a text saying, well done. So, we're all hooked up to, there's loads of wires and stuff, and you're all plugged in, and everyone's got separate microphones these days, because, COVID, you can't just swap and change. And next to me, on the left-hand side, we were at Hove, is a telly where we can watch the replays and stuff.

The telly kept going off. So I did the whole old-school whack-a-mole, hit it, comes back on. Turn it on and off, comes back on. Kept going off, whacked it, kept going off, whacked it. It went off once, and I pressed this button. It was the button that took us off there. You didn't. That one button that's probably got underneath.

it do not press it's like this he was like this big red button but it looked like it sorry wait no no no no are you a three year old child that thinks a massive big red button that says do not press underneath it is going to be the one that turns the telly on like in a cartoon honestly the line went dead henry looked at me and i was like was that me and he was like you might as well stop talking we're off here he's like you've just you've just taken us off So this is in the middle of the second T20 of the women's T20 series against India you just threw everyone off air.

Just threw us all off air and it was just at the time where things were getting a bit heated and there was a couple of runouts and stuff and honestly it was so funny. You've done well for that to be like your first disaster, let's be honest. Yeah, yeah.

So it's, well, we laughed about it but it was like one of those, you know, like when it's like you've got a hot plate, don't touch it, you touch it. Yeah. Well, I pressed a red button. I've got a hot plate, don't touch it. Yeah, when you go to a restaurant,

I like the plate, it's hot, don't touch it? You touch it, don't you? No, because we've told you, it's hot, so don't touch it. You're telling me you don't touch a hot plate when the waitress says, it's hot, don't touch it. No, I don't. There's something wrong with you. I tell you what, there's something wrong with you

because we were sat in the flat the other night. I was going to wait until the LBW section for this, but I think I should bring it up now because you're a weirdo. You went, right, I'm going to have a bath. So you went and set the taps off. And I'm thinking, right, I've got another 20 minutes with you all the bathrooms. You went and poured yourself a drink and you're like, right, see you in a bit. And you went and got in the bath and it must have been one inch of water in there

and you went and sat in it and waited for it to fill up. Who, other than the most psychotic people on this planet, do that? So we've had this debate at cricket And it's like 50-50, isn't it? No, no, no, no. It's not 50-50 at all. So I don't, I don't, it's not an inch deep. I don't get in when it's an inch deep.

Oh my God, let's move on. I wait until it's like ankle depth. Yeah, that's no. You've got to wait until it's full and then you get in it. Well, you run a full bath then get in it. How do you get in and you're not going, like a normal person. Because I've run it into a normal temperature.

Burn. At least I know... I know the temperature as you go. I know the temperature, but one of our cricket coaches said he gets in, has a bath, chills out. And then he empties it and then sits in it until it's completely empty. I've done that before and it's the weirdest sensation because it feels like... Well, you get your gravity back, don't you? Because you're quite light in the bath.

But then when the water's coming off, you get dead heavy. It's a horrible feeling actually. Yeah. I recommend it. That's all I've got on my sticky note. Well, that's all I've got as well. So... Right, we're 20 minutes in.

We spoke a little bit about the T20 December. We're both down there on Wednesday, aren't we? Oh, we're working together, aren't we? Working together for the British Broadcasting Company. The British Broadcasting Company. Oh, yeah, can we? We hear us both on air on Wednesday, and it is 8-6 in the series. It is indeed.

To England. To England. It's on the BBC 2. It's on TV. TV. Lovely. Shall we? Oh, please, I'm going to go upstairs.

I was just going to say. In light of Sue being back in the fold, third umpire the other day in the second T20. Busy woman. She was a busy woman, aren't she? A lot of going upstairs with Sue, so, shall we? Let's go upstairs with Sue. Although, although, sorry, umpire Chris followed the no-bole's account.

Didn't he? Should we go upstairs for both of them? Hooy. Hi, I hope you are enjoying your time in the Big League as much as I am listening to you on the BBC. I have two questions. Watching Lancashire, the crowd often sing the lyrical impressive chan. Oh, lanky, lanky, lanky, lanky, lanky, lanky, lankish. But what will they sing during the 100?

My suggestion is, oh, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manchester. And originals. Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Originals. Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manky, Manchester. Probably works a bit better. but can the psychos suggest anything better? So basically we haven't got a question

and he's just saying can the nobles fans come up with a better chant? Well we actually need a team song, don't we? We're having a bit of a chat about this as a team the other day in the gym and the only thing that is so cliche but we thought maybe an oasis song. Yeah, we did.

I'm not sure though. Underwall you could maybe fit like after all your original Yeah, question number two, sorry, there is one. Who is the better singer, the specialist mid-off or the new Thunder captain? I can't sing to save my life. No, me neither. Neither of us can. That's that one then?

We're not even going to practice. Keep up the great work, loving the continued banter and interviews, and glad the Bui Bui C, slash Hemeran, stopped you from chucking it all in. Does that mean? Because we were going to give up. Oh, yeah. So, was the last Thunder game the first time, Alex, that you have been captained by Kate? And how would you compare your different styles of captaincy?

Not the first time I've been captain by Kate. Kate actually captained for two seasons when we didn't win a game. One season. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story, Alex. Our captaincy styles, are they different? I would probably say you're more fun than I am. I think I'm probably a bit more serious than you, aren't I? But I think that's where we might work well together.

A little story for everyone that didn't see the game on Friday. We were playing before the men's team at Emirates Old Trafford in a double header. And it was the first time I'd captained this season. So I was a bit nervous about it. And I looked over at you at one point and is it the prodigy song? One of the songs that it's got a real big beat drop. Didn't think that's what you were going to say. Well, we'll talk about that in a minute then.

I don't know what that is, but we'll come back to that. Like, you did a big three, two, one. We were waiting for a thing about it to come in, for the beat to drop, and you, like, jumped on the beat and did a little dance. With MLM. I didn't see MLM doing it. I just saw you at Midon doing this.

And everyone started in the crowd started cheering, and I saw immediately that you were buzzing about it. I was like, yes. Everyone is laughing at me. Got them going. I look over at the scoreboard, and in massive, massive, massive block capital letters, it says make some noise so all the crowd had looked at that and we're cheering and then

when you thought they were all cheering for you yeah that was that was embarrassed that was my low light of the day actually it was my highlight yeah I thought they're not good and I thought you were going to talk about the when you did toss oh god I don't want to talk about that actually I was embarrassed for you well we're going to have to tell them now aren't we so I'm doing the toss doing the interview with Hugh Ferris just before the toss go oh it's just after the toss goes up and he asked me about captaincy and the fact that you're not captain and I am and in the corner of my eye the thunder girls are warming up and you start booing me jumping around in the air and booing me they were like so what's it like taking over

captaincy from your mate Alex and I just went boom honestly anyway also what would you say the difference is for thunder this year than last is it just that everyone game is moving on. Genuinely, I think we've been all training as a squad the whole winter for the first time. Yeah, ever. But we're having fun and people aren't scared of failing.

So, like, that's a big thing that, like, George Boyce actually did a podcast the other day and said, tactically, Alex isn't the best captain, and I know I'm not, but she's created an environment where you can just be yourself. And I think it's really important that you have that in a cricket environment. I think as well when we played in the KSL in the past,

that's been the only like semi-professional cricket that anyone has played properly. Normally we're playing at an outground somewhere on a Sunday morning, no one's watching, just your parents. And it's quite easy to do well, but then you'll just get thrown into playing headingly on Sky Sports in the KSL, whereas now there's a live stream for every game, there's the exposure for,

you know, we're getting match reports, we're getting tweets about, we're getting Instagrammed about. I think there's just a lot more exposure to the game so the girls are getting used to performing under pressure, which I think we've never had in the past and we've just kind of been thrown in at the deep end other than if you play international cricket. Yeah, yeah.

I feel like everything's just more professional, isn't it? And he says, finally, who took the best speckies in a game either of you've been playing in this season? Keep it going and that's from David. David, you know it's me. The best specky that I have seen this season has to be Harleen Dale's catch

from the T20, the first T20 at Northans. Wowy. What a catch. If you've not seen it, it's on the BBC. It's everywhere. It's everywhere on the BBC. Go and check it out because it's the best thing I've seen. And it's the first time that we've had one of those boundary catches

where someone's dived over the edge, thrown it back in and dived back to catch the catch in a women's game. We've never had anything like that. So I'm so glad that it went viral. And we both tweeted, didn't we, saying hashtag speckies only? And so many people bought into it other than one person who replied saying, I'm sorry, but what is speckies only? But what is the thing?

We were saying it on the radio. Becky's only. So much pressure on heart. now she was at mid on yesterday i was like well we've got a front view here she's right in front of us speckies only hello kate and alex good podcast i'm a new listener via the bbc but we'll be going back through the back catalogue honestly you are in for a treat i have a couple of questions that are linked you both have strong opinions about the women's game especially when you are not treated the same as the men's so where would you like to see the state of women's cricket in ten years

time and where do you think women's cricket will be in 10 years time my hope is for more test matches and more women's matches available for the next generation i just sent a question in and answered it themselves yeah they have they have and he says steve from the right side of the penines i would like to see more test matches and more women's cricket i it's an it's asking two female crickers where we want women's cricket to be in 10 years time obviously we want it to keep going the way it is obviously we want more investment I think I want to get to a point where it's not talked about

as women's cricket anymore it's talked about as cricket you know like how we've got the first game of the hundred that's news yeah like I just want that to be normal and we're not having to burn our bras basically to get stuff done I think hopefully in 10 years time will be in a much better position to be a more professional

be earning a lot more money and see not having to deal with all the crap on social media of people laying into us because we play cricket. What she just said, everybody. What she just said. I have one here. A very serious question.

The goodest of mornings to you both. Is this the best or the worst joke in the world? What's blue and not heavy? Don't know. Light blue. You're welcome. Keep up the high quality. podcast.

Wow. Hi Kate and Alex. I hope you're having a good day. I'm from India and I love listening to your No Bowls podcast and I have been binging it since I found it on Spotify. It's helped me massively with my mental health and family problems. I love cricket and football and I aspire to become a cricketer one day but since my family don't want me to play any sports because they think it's just my hobby,

in quote marks, and they hate it when I even practice in our backyard and now I'm forced to study because they want me to become a doctor or an officer, which, which I absolutely hate, by the way. I was mentally struggling a lot, but now I'm in a better place, and all thanks to your podcast and Kate's story about mental health. I'm glad that I found this podcast,

and it never fails to bring a smile to my face. Thank you so much, and I love all of the England women's cricketers along with all of the Indian women's team. You all inspire me a lot. Oh, that's sweet. That's a really lovely email. That is.

We get a lot of that, don't we? We've got a lot of people saying that we've somehow managed to help people's mental health. Honestly, don't know how. I think it's because we're so. bad sometimes that they think oh god at least i'm not one of them too yeah maybe maybe maybe remember though guys if you don't have anyone you have us you've got us hey no balls really good pod last week tammy bowen is such a great listen and it was a treat to hear her journey to this stage the vulnerabilities

doubt change of mindset quite inspiring moments with key people new philosophy and success and so on it just enhances it now but when you see her smashing it out in the park with such a serene expression on her face hearing her story was like a classic movie training mom montage. Also, I would 10 out of 10 watch a reality TV show where Hartley spends three to six months living in every England player's gang, then interviews them about it afterwards on the pod. Insert wincing, insert wincing emoji here. Well, good luck for the hundred. I've got a few questions here, Crossy. Here we go then. Hi, Alex and Kate. I hope you're both well. Keep up the great work on the podcast. I absolutely love it. They didn't add that bit. I just did. Okay, nice. Who is the

Worst person in the England dressing room on a rain delay. Oh, great question. Eccleston's bad? Mm-hmm. She gets bored very easily. Having said this, I actually got a little story for you. When we were rain delayed at Worcester the other day for the third ODI, me and Henry Two Fingers made our very own version of the England women's cricket team top trumps.

Yes, you did. And I feel like I need to talk about it. Okay, you get it off your chest. So it took me the best part of an hour and a half to make everyone a card. And we had six topics on there and they were badgienous. Yep. So how much of a cricket badger they are. Fighting ability.

If you would win a fight. If you'd win a fight. One bounce ability, the game we always play in the warm up. Football. Football. Ultimate frisbee skills. Oh. Glamour and social media.

So like makeup is glamour. Just like Sarah Glenn scored very highly on the glamour scale. Yeah. Michael Bates, who's been on this podcast before, very high on the ultimate Frisbee score. Very good Frisbee player. Is he? Me, very low on the one bounce score.

So I made these cards. Tobler on the toes. Cross. So we made these cards. And then I got booted out of the squad, didn't I? So I've not played them. Had to leave them there. Is everyone else playing?

Yeah, they're all been playing them. Oh, well, that's good. At least they're using that, that he did. So maybe I'm one of the worst on a rainbreak, actually. Although I felt like I put my time to good use. Well, it said second question, what do you do during rain delays? So there you go.

There you go. I remember once during the test match at Taunton in 2019, we actually had a foam roller challenge and we lined up all the foam rollers and dived across them and see you could get the furthest. Nice, that's a good one. There's a lot of cricket gets played or some kind of sport will get played. One bounce gets pulled out.

Puzzles, and you always has a puzzle book, so you'll do a puzzle. Yeah, loves it. Is it a crossword? Crossword, yeah. Clare, very clever. ever go, how does the podcast go down with your teammates

both in England and domestic? We were nervous about this actually, weren't we? Yeah. This was the biggest thing I was worried about was that our teammates would either not like it

or you tell us to remove something, but genuinely, I am blown away by how much they've supported us with it. I am blown away by the amount of people that listen, that we know,

like friends, cricketers, that you'll play against someone and they're like, by the way, I listen to your podcast. Yeah, and I must admit, I thought that the,

England girls wouldn't, but like Georgia Alwish, Dunk, Kirsty Gordon, they all genuinely really appreciated it in lockdown, didn't they? Yeah, the Lanks, Thundergirls, massive fans. Big fans. They all listen, it's great. Big fans, yeah. Love it. Daisy Mullen. Never thought.

Huge fan. Big fan. Has any opposition players that you've ever played against mention the podcast during a game? Yeah, I think they have, haven't they? I don't know. I don't know. Um, yeah, I feel like we have had incidents with, not incidents, but... Have you had it internationally yet?

Shika Pandy. Yeah? Came up to me the other day and said, where's her no-bowls bottle? You got a one, didn't you? I did and it's not turned up. Oh, you're joking. Speaking of it, it's not coming home. Last but not least, can you remember your first ever wicket?

Ever wicket, wow. Yeah. No, because I would have been seven years old playing in the under-11s team, I think. I've got no idea either. Do you remember your first international wicket? Yes. What was it? I was,

the first wicket I was involved in was a direct hit run out in my... I do know this. And then there was a story behind that because Danny Hazel went mad at me for throwing the ball at the stumps. And it was ricocheted off and went for four. And she's like, have I got sick or see you're shouting at me.

I was like, oh, it's my first game. I'm so sorry. I didn't know what to do. And then it was given out on like literally... The barest of margins. The barest of margins. Tiny, tiny, tiny. amount of no bat involved and got given out and she was like oh brilliant crossy

well done mate i like that again but my first wicket was i'm pretty sure it was stephanie taylor caught a extra cover by jenny gun oh nice yeah and a t20 mine was against pakistan 2016 at chelmsford when i made my t20 debut i bowled one over and went for like 15 and came back on for my second over and i ended up two for 19 off three but i can't remember who it was or what happened now but no idea hi kate and Alex I think this is an LBW I eat my pizza crust first it's the best way what yeah because you get the hottest cheesiest bit at the end as a treat my family think I'm weird you are weird as a treat you buy the pizza to eat the cheese why do you

not just eat it first like a naught like also the crust is the filling bit yeah like sometimes I don't even eat, or the crust. That is weird. Would you consider eating a pizza that way? No, but I've just seen the next one. And I'm shocked. Oh no. The wife dips her buttered toast in her brew.

What? Who are these people? What? Why are they admitting to this? Get divorced. Put her in the bin. Put her in the bin, yeah. I eat the skin of kiwi fruit

No Well I think that's furry That got said because Henry tweeted off our nobles account saying Do you eat the skin off a banana And this person has replied Haven't they saying that the kiwi skin It is a thing I do know people who do it

But can you not It'll get all stuck in your tea I don't like kiwi fruit I think of all the fruit The kiwi is one of the worst Because it doesn't taste a bit It just tastes like grass See I think an orange slash tangerine is the worst

Because you can't trust them You can't trust them, and there are a lot of effort, aren't they? You've got to put a lot of time into an orange. And the pith. Yeah, you don't like that. It literally takes the pith. It does take the pith. I both eat the whole apple, including the core, and I use my partner's personalised mug.

You psycho. Ah, good on. Also, I like to run barefoot. What? What? Where? How? Who?

Where do you live, Samuel? Because if I run outside barefoot, but that's it that my feet are shredded. Also, you just stand on a stone and you're how, ow, ow, ow, ow, what happened because I was running outside like a psychopath?

Yeah. You can't do that in England. No, not having that. Pepsi and orange juice, aka muddy water, is a brilliant combination. People used to do that at Mackie's. No.

They used to mix their drinks and everyone, yeah, I think I've tasted it before and it's not bad, you know. No. Nah I can't Oh God

I love how weird All our followers are I can't eat If the serving spoon handles Are facing me On the dinner table What What like they're supposed to

I'm a shit Yeah The handles always face you Don't they think She's got to turn them round You got turn them upside down Weird That is odd

I like spoiling The plot of movies for myself. Example. If I'm going to watch a new series, I watch all of the spoilers on YouTube first, and then I watch the series. What are you doing with your life?

What do you do? How does this person cope with things like the football, not knowing what the result's going to be? Do they just not watch it, do you reckon? Wait till the next day and then watch it. And then watch it. Put the radio and listen to the score and then watch it. Nah, get in the bin.

Literally get in the bin. This is a weird one. I can burp and swear. at the same time. I don't even notice I'm doing it now, which is okay till I'm meeting in a meeting or in polite company. Do they do it on perp?

I can burp and swear at the same time. So do you think they go, Buh. Swear word? Must do, yeah, but as the burp. Because people can burp the alphabet and stuff, aren't they? Strange.

I used to play burp tennis when I was a kid. Me and my brother. It was burp tennis. So, like, I would burp and, like, hit the ball to you. Puck. And you'd like to play it as a game I couldn't be able to do more than one I don't think

We'll have to have a practice go I think we're playing tennis on the podcast I'm so sorry Okay last one I buy ice cream And then wait for it to melt before I eat it So basically I love eating melted ice cream And my mum thinks it's weird

So here you go This is my LBW Buy a yogurt Buy a yogurt by cream literally by cream by yogurt by yogurt

odd we have got some odd listeners but we love you all we love you all so much because you're all our psychopaths

weird wonderful psychopaths thank you everybody for listening today make sure you tune in on Wednesday to the Bui Bui C

the Bui C you're on the radio and I'm on TwiV because we are working at the series decider in the women's T20 and I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. I hope

we can get on air at the same time. And the most exciting part of this week is that by the time our next episode comes out we will be somehow in the 100. We'll be live in the 100. We'll be maybe bubbled, maybe not bubbled. Who knows where we'll be? We don't know but it's going to be time of the 100. We forgot something crossy. We did. You can get in touch with us on. Noblespodcast at BBC.com.com.com.com.com. It's so good. They said it twice.

Also, you can get in touch with us at Nobles TCP on Twitter and Instagram now. We do check our inboxes. So slide in. Slide in if you want to see some dicky slippers. Dickie slippers, yes. Let's go, baby. Guys, that was a shambles of an episode, but we loved it as always. See you soon. Bye. Cross strikes in the first over. It's what England we're looking for.

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