Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - Crossy at the IPL Challenge, weddings and ticket prices

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

Kate Cross and Alex Hartley have plenty to chat about including the Sciver-Brunt wedding, the cost of Lord's tickets and whether you thought the people on TV were watching back...

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we beep them out but your kids can listen enjoy and cross strikes in the first over it's what England we're looking for 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 great podcast

with me Alex Hartley and you Kate Cross Hello how are you? I'm good thank you I've got to giggle already haven't we? We have. We sat at Old Trafford. We are. There's just been an public announcement over the Tannoy, so we're really sorry. We're really sorry if you hear anything about how to evacuate Old Trafford. Yeah, and then we were going to film the podcast, like genuinely film it, not record it, but it looked a bit odd, so we'll do it later.

Yeah, so how are you doing? I'm all right, thank you. What's this on your wrist? Want me through that? This is the bit we should film, really. This is the bit we should film, right? I'll film it. Right. So, I did like a bit of a, I did like a bit of a online shopping hall, you know, like, anyway, but loads of T-shirts for Summer Crossy.

We've got so many T-shirts now, because I know we share them. Okay, so many. And I bought some new hair clips. Yep, nice. Yeah, nice. I bought some scrunchies. They turned up yesterday and they're fluffy. It looks like a cat toy.

Yeah, doesn't look like it's going to hold my hair together for today's game, does it? No, not at all. Do you remember when you told me that over the age of 30 I'm not allowed to wear as crunchy? Yeah. So now I'm just getting them in. Two more years. I should have really said over the age of 12, but anyway.

Anyway, how are you? I'm good, thanks, I'm good. It's nice to be home. Yes, oh my God. Very nice to be home. So nice to have you home. I feel like we kind of brushed over the fact that I went to India. Yeah, I mean, let's be honest, it was a bit of a shocker for you, wasn't it?

So, I mean, we'd have been in one podcast episode or two? You didn't enjoy it. I did. I found the bubble really hard. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, but the thing wasn't a shocker for me. I mean, we've nearly won. I was in the team of the tournament.

It wasn't a clocker. Were you? Yes. It was just hard because it was a bubble and I wasn't ready for the bubble again. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what? Is a shocker. What?

That's grinchy. As a real shocker. Do you know what is a shocker? I paid to get my eyelashes permed and tinted, right? one you can't tell and two they've been curled so much that irritate the inside of my eye 24-7 so my eye keeps watering

what a start what a start but otherwise it's going well it's going well so right okay you went to the India for the women's T20 Challenger Cup yes I went to the India

went to the India I did the women's is it called that challenge you call it something else Anyway, it's the Women's T20 Challenge. Cup. No, you call it the Cup, but it's not the Cup.

There is a Cup. You play for a Cup, but yeah. And I played for Velo City. And you didn't even tell anyone. I don't know. Well, everyone knew who listened to the podcast, and Danny Wyatt texts me saying hello to everyone, make sure you say hi to everyone at Velo City for me.

Yes. Couldn't take that joke over there because the Indians didn't pick up on the difference. And they were like, yeah, they said, no, the team is called Velo City. So anyway, it was good. Good, it was hard, bubble, no good, but cricket good. You were very good at the cricket.

Did okay. I don't care about the cricket. Yep. You landed and you couldn't find your cricket bag. Right? You didn't tell me this story until yesterday, and I cannot stop laughing about it. So I would like you to tell each and every one of our listeners the story about your cricket bag. I feel like this story, for anyone who hasn't travelled to India, will get a real sense of what traveling to India is like.

So basically I had like five days of getting my visa sorted, getting a flight booked. It was all very manic. I didn't know if I was going. Then I'm going and I fly and I go there. Been on the plane, cued up for like two hours to get my visa sorted, was panicking a little bit because my visa had been processed even though it wasn't quite correct. And it was just all a rush job. So I'm panicking that I'm going to get turned around and have to come straight back home.

Anyway, I finally get through. But because I'd been in the customs queue for like two hours, there was like one bag. You're not really not good. She's not good at all. I don't know how I'm going to play, I can't see. You'll have to take your eye open. I'm going to have to chop my eyelashes off. Right, go on, I'm sorry.

No, it's okay. So because I've been in the customs line for so long, there was literally no bags left on the carousels except for my one suitcase. So I was like, okay, my suitcase is there. Can't see my cricket bag anywhere. I'm going to need that. Yeah.

So I'm looking around, where's the, because it's a large bag, stop it. She can't stop touching her eye. Can you see? Can you see? Your bags, you have to drop your cricket bag off at a separate place because it's a large bag. Oversized baggage.

I'm just going to carry on. I've got it. Oh, lovely. Well done. Make a wish. Wish it'd stop irritating me eye. Can't now. It's on the floor.

So you put your bags through oversized baggage. So they sometimes come out in a different place. Yeah, the oversized baggage place. So I'm looking around for the oversized baggage place. There's no signs for it. I see a man. I said, excuse me, I'm looking for a cricket bag. It's not on the carousel.

And he just pointed me towards three other men. So I'll go to these three other men, and they're, like, sat in front of this room. So I said, excuse me, I'm looking for a cricket bag. And they just pointed at the door behind them. So I was like, all right, okay. Should I go in? And the man's like, yeah, yeah, you just go. So this guy sent me into a cupboard on my own with my, well, with my suitcase,

to look for my cricket bag. It was in there. But it was in a cupboard? It was in a cupboard, yeah, just in a cupboard in the back. But three men whose job it was to man that cupboard didn't let me, it didn't help me go get my bag, they sent me in. Do you think they put that in the cupboard

hoping you wouldn't remember you took your cricket bag? No, I think that's just where they put the bags that aren't collected. It was just in a cupboard. It's really weird. Yeah. But your cricket bag ended up in the cupboard. So you got your bag out of the cupboard?

Yeah, all good. You went and got in a random man's taxi. you just trusted this man yeah drove four hours with him four hours was it four hours yeah was he chatty no he didn't speak much english and and he is my favorite human being in the world because i don't think i told you this no i had my air pods in for the whole journey and i got to the airport sorry i got to the hotel he dropped me off and i couldn't find my case for the airports so that's a shocker you know it was just a series of shockers this isn't it anyway three days later he turns back up and he's got my case He found it in his car

and he brought it back for me. Should up he's driven all the way back? Yeah. What a man. What a man? What a man? Yeah. You'd just presume that it'd be gone, wouldn't you?

I did. And I was charging my AirPods up on Laura Wolfart's little case when she had her AirPods in. So every night and I was like, I can't worry a case. So I'd get like 20 minutes of listening to music for the first four days. Oh, my God. So yeah. And then you played a bit of cricket.

Played a bit of cricket. You got through to the final. Yeah. Played against Eccleston. We've all seen the picture that the BBC put out there. It's a lovely photo. Yeah. but on the way to the game

wasn't all playing sailing, was it? No, we, so we had a police court, a police court, a police escort every time we went to the game because the ground was an hour away from our hotel and with traffic, that's an hour and a half. So we have this police escort, which doesn't really do a lot in India, they just make more noise because of the sirens.

Because when people don't get out of the way for police cars in India. And beeping in India means that you're there. It doesn't mean get out of the way, it just means I am here, don't crash into me. Oh, okay. Speaking of crashing into me, our police escort crashed into a car. It's not funny, in front of them.

And we, because we were following the police escort, crashed into the police escort. So the bus crashed into the police escort on the way to the final. And then everyone just drove off and pretended that it didn't happen. Well, did you have both teams on the bus? No. Okay, just your team? Just ours.

Shocker, really? Another shocker. Meanwhile, I've just been losing. games of cricket for likes thunday yeah what happened what which one well i'm i'm worried that we didn't chase down 120 oh we said we always turn up against yorkshire well we did turn up we really did turn up we bowled them out for 120 and then went home and then we got bored out for 99 yeah i went out at 11 i've been demoted from 9 i'm not the captain back to 11 um and i went out and hannah jones was bat and she went let's just have some fun so I ran her out right and then laughed and she went

I didn't mean that much fun oh good god did you think you were going to get it at that point do you not think you could see us home god see only like 28 off the over oh one over left oh right okay yeah I back you to get 28 so there's seven balls left so I'm facing Katie levick's bowling and knock it up past extra cover if we'd have gone straight away there's one I went wait wait oh well go on then oh jonesy was literally like if she'd have died she'd got in but two meters out yeah not good so we've got a game tonight at old Trafford we're the headline out we're headlining glastonbury tonight how how are the fans men are come and watch the boys did you see that someone length tweeted it's the first time

this has ever happened everyone's like well what do I'm at work I can't watch the guys if I'm at work that's the point the point is you come and watch us yeah anyway this will go out tomorrow so you'll have missed yeah that's true we'll be probably lost by then no we're not no we've got you in They're custom back. We're going to win tonight. Got a good feeling. Yeah. Good feeling.

Because if you just look over there towards the point, you'll be able to see Danny Wyatt sat on a balcony. Yeah, you actually can. Danny, Georgia and Georgia Adams. Shout out. Yeah, just sat over there. While we're shouting out, let's do a huge shout out and massive congratulations

to the new married couple, Mrs. and Mrs. Siverbrun. Yes. Is that what they're called the Siverbrunz? The Siverbrunts. Love that. Congratulations. Congratulations.

They got married on Saturday. It looked an amazing do. How beautiful did they look? They look gorgeous. And everybody look. Amazing, yeah. Not started the timer. She's got one job.

Three weeks we'd be doing this timer. How long we've been doing now? 11 minutes. Right, I'll start 25 then. Yeah. We've got a slight problem though this week because I'm recording it on my phone. How am I going to get the questions up? You're going to have to do all the questions.

That's all right. Do a little interview. Right, what else you got for me? Johnny Depp call, by the way, he wants his earrings back. What are those? I've had them for ages. You're not going to be in the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean.

You can hear them. Well, it's on your sticky note. I didn't do anything this week. Okay. Well, I want to just nip into our DMs on Instagram because we opened it up to the things that you, you thought were done when you were a kid, no, dumb things you thought were a thing

when you were a kid but aren't a thing? Yes. We need to tighten that name up a bit, don't we? Things you thought were real as a kid, but aren't, they were dumb. That's the made it longer. Right, well I put it on Instagram as dumb things you thought were a thing

when you were a kid. And some of the answers are outstanding. Okay, so I'm just going to go through a few of them with you. Right. I thought people in the TV could see me. That was a good one, isn't it? Do you remember those old school TVs?

They were like, so they're not flat. Like a box. They were like a box, right? And if you went over to them and stuck your tongue out, it'd like fizz. Get static. Yeah. That's what sparkling water tastes like. What?

Do you know what I said to Al before we started with podcast, I was like, this is going to unlock some core memories for us because. Like, like, licking a TV screen. just brought up the fact that you used to lick a TV screen and you agreed with me you're like yeah yeah exactly i didn't know where you were going with it um i genuinely believe my mom had to lick our ice cream to prevent it dripping oh the mom just wanted some ice cream did um did you have that mate at school whose mom told them that when the ice cream van played the music it meant they're out of ice cream no no but i do remember the ice cream van used to

come down our estate and be like mom the ice cream van she'd like got chalk ice in the freezer Chok ice. Do you remember chock ice? Brilliant. They were like 3P, weren't they? And you got 47 of them in one go. My mum used to buy, you know, the rocket lollies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You used to buy those in, like, you get them in, like a pack of 25 or something, didn't you? And they were like a tenor or something. Well, my brother loved them. So one day, he hid them all. So he took them out of the freezer and hid them around the back of the house. Like a dog. And they melted. Yeah, they were ruined.

And dumb thing your brother thought was a thing when I, yeah. I used to think that your shoes shrunk, not that your feet grew. Oh, interesting. Yeah. That's stupid, though. That is very stupid, yeah. I used to think that the world was once in black and white. It wasn't just TV.

Is he colourblind? No, because they used to watch, because TV was in black and white. So, all in times, they used to think that it was... But did they not, like, look outside and it be colour? Yeah, but he's watching TV from times gone. by oh they thought color developed yeah the color became invented just sparkle a bit of red there a bit of green there i used to think that the moon and clouds followed me around technically they kind of do um there's a few more here i used to think that a hoover was an indoor lawnmower

and cut the carpet when it grew too long wow wow wow he's a brilliant honestly there's loads Arsenal FC was named after Arson-Bengar. I used to think that as well. To be fair, I can see that. I used to think that they hired him because his name nearly had Arsenal in it. Do you know, Looknow Super Giants? Yeah.

They're called Looknow Super Giants because they're L-SG. That's right, in it. Yeah. It's the same initials as the owner. So he's called L-S-G. I don't know his name. But Look-Now is a place?

Yeah, but then Super Giants. Oh, right. Okay, so he's L-S-G. Yeah, yeah, get it. There's one earlier, let me just see if I can quickly find it. I can't find it, but it was the, you know, the farmers, when they used to put all the hay into a massive big black, bin bag, that they were marshmallows.

I used to think that they were elephant poo. Yeah, I did. I didn't know what they were, but why would I know what they were? Because how would I know that a farm were? When have you ever walked past a farm in England, there's been an elephant? When have I ever seen a man inside a lamp post? This is the point of the whole thing. I used to think it was illegal to fall asleep

in the passenger seat of a car. To be fair, it is? It's illegal to turn the light on in the car while driving. Everyone says that. Because your mum and dad used to be like, turn that light off. Or you can't have the back window down. Yeah.

But actually now I know now I'm an adult, it does that do... It's horrible, isn't it? It's horrible. Yeah. If you sucked your thumb too much, it'd fall off. Yeah, it does discontinue.

Distraighten your teeth though. Distraighten. Yeah. I used to think distraighten was a word. Anyway, there's loads, but you get the gif, so we're brilliant. Thank you for entertaining us, everyone. Keep them coming. Things you thought were a thing when you're a kid.

Dumb things you thought were a thing when you're a kid. Yeah, but they're not. They're not, no. Now what do we do? Should we go upstairs? Yes. Who do you want to go upstairs with? I think there can be only one.

hire we go upstairs with Anna Harris. Shall we? Yeah. It's been a while. It's been a while and she umpired our game at Headingley. Also, you know that Henry didn't edit our podcast last week because it kept the bit in about Sue breaking your back. Yeah.

So now Anna Harris is your turn with Crossy. Yep, looking forward to it. Oh, there is something, right. We're upstairs of Anna Harris. The first thing people want to talk about. Mark Crossy. The test match starts tomorrow. England versus New Zealand.

Exciting. New coach, Brendan McCollum. I've just done an interview of the BBC. You called him Graham, though. Graham McCollum. Yeah. I didn't correct him either. I'm hoping they re-record it.

Good start. New coach, new captain. Ticket prices. Oh my gosh. I cannot believe what I've seen on the internet this week. 100 to 160 pounds a ticket. For under 16s. What?

Yeah. I can't afford that. Well, honestly, no one should have to pay that much money to watch cricket. What, my opinion, what they should do. They wake up tomorrow, the seats left, they go, oh, let's just make it 20 quid for the day. So people actually turn up. Yeah. You want the first day of the test match in the, like, the opening day of our summer to be a sellout.

Yeah. They've not even given it the opportunity. I can't, I cannot. This is, oh, this is where I get wound up with cricket because who makes these decisions. Stupid, isn't it? Yeah. Silly, silly, silly, but for me, this is like Christmas Eve. Yeah, I love the first day of the summer.

And anyone that goes to watch the test match tomorrow, and I'm going to sit on my sofa, I'm going to watch it on the telly all there. We've got a day off. I'm going to judge each and every one of you that are there because you've got money. You got cash? I'm going. You're going? Yeah.

Why? I got a free ticket. Why? The MCC invited me because I'm an MCC member, so they've invited me in a guest. Oh, they invited me on the... Friday, but we got a game. Yeah, well, they invited me on Thursday. We don't have a game.

Oh, well, enjoy. Thanks. You don't have money, you go it for free. Yeah, I'm taking my mum as well, sorry. I didn't check that you were free, but I'd take my mum. Yeah, I've got a question here. Dear Alex and Kate, in recent IPL commentary, Ravi Bapara mentioned that he did not know where any of his cricket trophies

and awards apart from a T20 medal which was hanging on the door of his toilet. Lies. I was therefore wondering what you did with your cricket awards. Well, you've not got any, so I'm joking. You got the big one. I got what you happened. I can tell you exactly what Alex has done with her medal. She has hung it in a nice frame with a shirt that's signed with a couple of pictures of the day in 2017.

Don't know if anyone knows. She doesn't bring it up often because she's real grounded and real humble about it. And I'll won the World Cup in 2017. She doesn't often mention it. But yeah, it's in a nice frame, isn't it? Just as you come into your flat, just right there. So everyone can see it as soon as they can. Yeah.

And then I've got one. So if I have anyone stay over in my house, in my bedroom, it's on the roof. Yeah, on the ceiling of the... And they'll be reminded of that. And then there's also one in the spare room for any guests that might not stay in my bed. Yeah, they get the same. Yeah, just next to that big picture of you. Yeah, I've got a sketch that someone drew of myself, just also in the living room.

The shrine you've got of yourself, like that life-size portrait with you in the corner. Do you know, this is really bad? I ain't got anything in my new house, like literally nothing. You are rubbish. I do like you woke up for any of that. That's a great piece of memorabilia. That's on the floor. Well, you've just not a time to pop that up.

Yeah, have you? I don't often win anything, so I don't have much to keep. But I keep my series winners medals around my mirror. What did you do with your second place World Cup medal? That's on my bedside table, actually. You should actually keep that. I heard that a few people got rid of theirs, like on the day.

Oh. Like, it was like, I don't want that. You've still come seconded in a World Cup. I did think that. As soon as I picked it up, I was like, I don't want this. And then I thought, actually, it might be the best, the closest I get to win in the World Cup, so I need to keep it. Do you remember? You might not remember this.

But in 2017, one of... You won a World Cup? Yeah, yeah, I did win the World Cup. One of the medals ended up on eBay. Really? Yeah, and we still don't know to this day who it was. My guess is Sarah Taylor. That's random.

Yeah. I'm joking about Sarah, by the way. No, yeah. Danny Hazel. Crossy. We need an update on the condition of the tree. Oh, no. No, we don't. So my mum dropped the other plant off, which was thriving before I left,

and then nearly died just as I got on the plane to Australia. And she was like, it looks loads better. I said, Mum, it's lost three leaves since I've last seen it. So that one's gone. I told her to put it in the bin. Yeah. And she's not even shown me the tree. Oh, no.

She said that the top of it got chopped off. And I said, well, I know that was me when I took it. When I transited it to rehab, I knocked off the top, didn't I? It's not recovered since then. so I think it's just going to have to go in the bin. Maybe if she plants it in the back garden for a bit. Do you know what? Anyone that has plants and does well with them,

it blows my mind because so many of them say that they're like low maintenance. No, they're not. I've got one of them low maintenance ones that you bought me. Or the orchid? Well, I left it when I moved out thinking it was dead and now it's thriving again. It looks great. Yeah, you just feed it an ice cube, don't you? Yeah.

I've got one in my new house and I was like, why is it dying? I took it out the pot. and there's so much water in the pot the poor thing's drowning. Oh, that's why. Someone's just said Thunder not being able to chase 125 and 120 balls.

Not being able to chase a runner ball in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. Loll. Thank you. Is that Ellie Thrill Cold? Captive. Hi Kate and Alex. I hope you had a nice few weeks off after the intensity of the World Cup.

I'm wondering what your take is on the Fair Break tournament in Dubai. I'd only seen snippets on social media but maybe that's because it's a privately funded tournament so it's not been hyped all that much to my knowledge. Anyway, I'd be interested here what you think about it and what your mates who are participating think of it too. Think about the World Cup.

Fair Break. Sorry. Sorry. I think I love about you is how much you listen to me when we do this podcast. I was actually just watching the lads play one bounce. Brilliant. I loved the idea of Fair Break,

and it was just invented by a man. We loads of cash. He's probably going to Lords tomorrow. probably he's probably bought the rest of the tickets the girls that were at the IPL that went to fair break all loved it like they said it was two amazing weeks they got to explore Dubai as well they said the cricket was tough because you literally had people who hadn't played international cricket playing against people who had played international cricket so the matchups sometimes were a bit difficult but otherwise they all seemed to really enjoy it yeah and it was on telly it was great yeah as one here Alex nearly falling off the gate at head of while having pictures taken. That did happen, so I'm walking back around after we've lost our game.

A couple of fans wanted photos. I always love it when that happened, you know? Alex, Alex, love the podcast, can we ever thought? I'm like, absolutely. Yep. So this woman, she's like, run down. Alex, can I have a photo? Like, she's like 30, I want to say.

She's run at me. I've listened to the pod and this is the first ever live cricket game I've come to. Like, thank you. Got into cricket because of you and Crossie. Love that. Right. She leans against the gate and it opens.

Oh, no. But I'm on the other side and I nearly fall off. I was like, what a disaster. Oh, dear. Do you know what? That reminds me, and probably the podcast highlight of my career so far slash our career, I was in the airport in Mumbai and some guy came up to me and he was like, please can I have a photo, I'll listen to the podcast. Yeah, see, that is amazing.

And he was like, a middle-aged man, him and his dad listen, and he told me to pass on his, sorry, I forgot, he told me to pass on his best to you. Thank you. But yeah, so cool. So cool. Oh, this one's titled Grumpy Pants Sophie. Oh. Shall we? Dear Nobles Ladies.

I'm another Australian who fell in love with Alex Hartley's commentary during the Washes. So I started listening to the podcast and now it's my favourite thing to listen to while I'm out the back with the chucks and the possums having an evening beverage. Very Australian. With another shrimp on the Barbie. But dot, dot, dot. I was at the Junction Over watching the last Washes game. When walking to my seat, I saw Sophie Ackleston's seat, I saw Sophie Ackleston. sitting watching the English opening batters with the other players.

I went up to the white picket fence and politely said, excuse me, Sophie, and she turned around and glared at me like a fierce, deranged safari animal. I was a bit scared, but I went on to say to her, if it's possible, mate, can you tell Kate and Alex that I love their podcast? Still glaring at me. She waved me off, like, you would apply as the other English girls had a bit of a giggle. I had no choice, but for the rest of the game to politely heckle every time she bowled.

In my defence, though, what was up with Sophie that day? Is she jealous of the podcast? I'm not going to say anything except major grump. Many thanks. Pete, rampant. Pete, they're playing their last game in an Ashley's series where they've not yet won a game. I think they were all pretty miserable.

Except for everyone that was giggling by the sound. Yeah. Sov can be a bit like that, though. Knowing Sov, and I've just spent two weeks out in India with her, she probably wasn't listening. Yeah. She does that. kind of just looks at you and then

then she's like, oh, did you say something and you have to repeat, no, you have to repeat yourself. But I'm sure it was nothing personal. No, just a bad day. Just a bad day. Maybe she is jealous of the podcast. She shouldn't be, she's on it more than us.

Yeah, fact. Have you become more recognisable since starting the podcast and how has it affected you both? Well, some guy in Mumbai airport wanted her picture. I genuinely think we get recognised more now because of the podcast.

Yeah, I do think, yeah, especially during the 100, that seemed to really get going and kind of, we got more listeners through that, didn't we? We had a really lovely tweet the other day about someone who was just starting their cricket journey and they then found us and that really helped them as well with their cricket journey, which is really sweet. Love messages like that.

Yeah, and just keep bigging us up. Yeah, keep going. We'd love it. We've had so many people wanting to know about the Siverbrunt wedding, but we spoke about it. Yeah. Have you seen this Binley mega chippy on TikTok? The what? Is it called Binley mega chippy?

I don't have TikTok. Right. Oh my God, it's like this. This rundown chippy. Bynley? Binley. Anyway, mega chippy. Basically, it's just gone viral on TikTok

and now people cross here flying from different countries to come to this chippy. What is it? Peter Andre was there yesterday. Why is it? I don't understand. It's like in Southampton or something. Right.

Why are you talking about it? Someone's mentioned it here. Speaking of, what's your favourite potato? Ooh. As in like not formed into anything? Like a new jersey or like a royal or like a jacket or are they saying like I'm mashed? You can be anything. This is where I say I'm an avocado.

You did that once, didn't you? What's your favourite type of carb avocado? I think I prefer roast potatoes. Oh, yeah. It's only £12 for two likes games today, Crossie. That's brilliant, isn't it? Not 160 quid. Yeah.

What is your advice to a 43-year-old about to play her first ever cricket match in a men's team on Saturday? Pretty sure we've missed that, but... No, this is from yesterday. Oh, good. My first bit of advice. is do not, under any circumstances, turn up with a fluffy, scrunchy on your wrist. Don't be, oh, bit of advice,

already turn up with your skins on, in your sports bra. Don't be getting your knackers out in the dressing room. Knackers? You know what I mean? They'll be getting their knackers out in the dressing room. Just go out and enjoy it. You've been picked for a reason. Yeah.

Just go out there, head held high, 43 and what? And don't be, standoffish just get stuck in literally attack the ball if you're a bowler bowl what you've been doing to get in the team and if you're about to whack it nice do you have any plans for the jubilee weekend yep so we play wednesday and friday and then i've got the weekend off what are you doing yeah i've got the weekend off well we've got a birthday party on friday night haven't we we have so we're going having a nice little bevarajino with the team after the game on Friday which would be really nice. I'm looking forward to that. I'm not. I went out Sunday. I've

not recovered. Georgia always asked if I wanted to come out today which is Wednesday and I said yes and I've purposely not brought any stuff. Yeah that's good. Oh we just read the same one no because I've gone you've gone oh sad and I've gone excited so you go first. What about Leah and Amy to hoohoo? Madness. Like actually gutted. I'm really gutted for Amy. Because she's been forced into retirement. Basically, yeah. And then I messaged Amy, and I was like, I'm really sorry, mate, gutted for you,

but congratulations, hold your head high. You've had an incredible career, blah, blah, blah. And she just replied saying, thanks, mate. Wait until you see who else hasn't got a contract. And then the contract list came out, and Leah's name's not on there. I can't believe that. I can't believe Leah to hoo-hoo.

I mean, the only thing I can think is the fact that she's a bit injury-prone. But then I don't think that's a good in effect. used to not have one of your premier fast bowlers there. Very strange. It'll be interesting to see in three years time where New Zealand are as a team. Well, in that next World Cup, it'll be interesting to see.

Maybe that's what they've gone for, a new cycle for that World Cup. It seems that way. Yeah, who knows. Mine is another tie in the men's T20 Rose's Clash. Oh my God. Did you watch?

The third tie or something? Crazy. What a game. What a game of cricket it was. What a game. The thing that I've got out of that, now is three lengths players because they wear this like salmon pink red future pink thing three players are now lost their trousers I saw that I actually laughed

out loud quite a lot when Dane's trousers fell down it was unfortunate for him because he dropped a catch at the same time so that is definitely going to get replayed you know over time but yeah what's that about yeah I'm not sure it's happened to Tim David did you see him throw the ball in from the boundary with his neckers out and it happened to cross yesterday as well yeah maybe they're not tying their trousers so i did ask dayne about it and he said what happened with his was they're not very good quality trouser okay so they have to really tie the waistband and as he's gone to tie it the strings snapped and his so they're really so he had no waistband yeah right that is a shame but it was it really did because it was 3 a m for me

in india when i was watching this game and it really did your sleeping pattern was all over the place by the way. I just kept my jet lag. I just thought I'll keep it. They don't do anything in the morning over there. So they just like you basically don't do anything until 4pm. So you slept from like 4 a.m to 12? Pretty much most days yeah. Well half 10 was our breakfast date with dunks and eckles. We'd always go for brecky at half 10 but otherwise yeah. Let's go back to sleep. Yep. What's the best game that you've come up with during a long rain delay? Oh, it's a good question. You had a really good one last summer. You did top trumps for all the team.

Yep. I've lost them. I don't know who picked them up because I got booted out the squad. I didn't get in the T20s, so I left them at Worcester. Maybe Hens got them. Yeah.

I always like the simple yet effective foam roller game. Line the foam rollers up and dive across them. You always bring this up because you've had this question a few times and I've never seen you play that game. Yeah, because I did get a told-off taunton test match. Did you injure yourself? No, but Amy Jones was the wicketkeeper and she was playing.

Right. Right. Yeah. That makes sense. And then Catherine Brunt was like, can I be going? The SAC is like, absolutely not. No, don't you dare. I've got a good one, Chrissy. Right. How does it feel that we, me and you, have got our face printed on the T20 pints at Old Trafford? I forgot about that.

Yeah. We noticed that in 100, didn't we? It's cool. Yeah. Pretty cool. People are drinking out of us. Yeah, they are. I said the other one.

I went out to someone. I was like, who's, she's fit? Who's that? And they were like, go away. Yeah, I think that's pretty cool. I've never had one. I've never bought one. Maybe we should try and get one

and then you've got one in your flat. Yeah. Put it. Right then you two, you're banging on. That is the alarm that tells us that we're heading towards our time limit. People have things to do and people to see?

Or is it the other way around? Love you. So that's it. We forgot to actually ask for our emails as if you have not noticed this podcast has been very... Shocker. We've just made it all up as we've gone.

This is the shocker episode. So, Crossie, it is so good to have you back and we are playing in our first... game this year together today. Before we go, it's come up a few times on here now. Do you want to explain why you're imitating an aeroplane? Yeah, so Hannah Jones bowling. She bowed all right. But I said to Ellie, I said, let Jonesy bowl the last over. So Joneses gets the ball last over of the first innings. And I'm like, bet she gets three-for. Bet you she gets a three-fer ends up with the best bowling figures. She gets three-fer. She takes the last wicket. I get my

arms out straight and I'm running and going, Jonesy got a three-fer. Johnson got a three-fer. three fur while you were doing the airplane yeah right don't know yeah it was random I think I just I think you've actually lost the plot

I actually think you've gone what you've got a cat cat toy on your wrist meow I think we need to go maybe we should put this timer on like 20 minutes from now and make these episodes even shorter

oh right let's go watch some cricket Let's go play some cricket. Let's go play, the headliner. We'll be back next week. We'll have finished a Charlotte Edwards cook. We can't qualify for finals because we've been shit. And keep an eye out for Johnny Depp on the pitch tonight.

Johnny Depp, Depp, Depp, Depp. Okay. See you, everybody. Bye. And cross strikes in the first over. It's what England we're looking for. Partly balls. on the track comes scoring, this time she connects.

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