Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - EMERGENCY! CROSSY'S AN RCB PLAYER!

Episode Date: December 9, 2023

Immediate reaction from Kate Cross who has been picked up in the Women's Premier League draft to play for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Alex Hartley, RCB's biggest fan, is excited!

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Henry does beep it out for us because he's a good man. It is actually so that your family can all listen. Your kids can listen. But we will say... Sugar. Sugar. I nearly said a really bad one. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Boulder. Boulder. Laving a ball alone. Litchfield. I think it's the wobble ball. And it just nips back. It jags back. It's the nipbacker. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty from Cross. Hello. Welcome to the emergency podcast. It's No Balls a Cricket podcast with me.

Cross, you Alex Hartley and you've got your hands in the air and you're cheering. I am so happy. I think I'm happier than you. I've got tears of my eyes. Crossie. Welcome to Royal Challenger's Bangalore. Thank you very much. We were just tweeting. We were just messaging each of the like. Should we pod on Monday when the T20 series he's done and dusted just before the test match? Yeah, sounds good. IPL, WPL auction happens and we need to an emergency podcast. emergency pod because it's a good job you don't support RCB but welcome to the team my Twitter has blown up and my historic tweets slating RCB because obviously I support CSK and the men's team and they are the big rivals of RCB all my tweets are now coming up on

my timeline and I'm very sorry for everything I've said in the past RCB I've just had a message from like the owner of the RCB cafe saying is she going to burn a CSK shirt now I know. No, I'm definitely not doing that. I still support CSK in the men's. Let me put that out there now. I will always support CSK in the men's. However, CSK don't have a women's team. So I'm game, I'm free meat. Is that the right saying? You're not. You're not free mate now. I'm not free meat now. How do you feel? Oh, you know what I'm like when things like this happen? It takes me a little while to process it. But I am buzzing, obviously, to play in the, well, to be part of the WPL. You're obviously. not guaranteed to play and we've got some pretty good overseas at us tb so um don't know whether i'll play or not probably won't but it's pretty cool to be part of you've just become 30 grand richer congratulations thank you we're actually shaking hands over face time um yeah gosh crossy like i'm like a

kid at christmas i can't it's been the best start to the day so i texted you being like i want to watch the whipple auction are you watching you're like no i'm not going to watch and then you kept to me about players. I was like, okay, so she's sort of keeping an eye on it. I was watching in the car, and they brought up Connell from the West Indies, and I thought, how weird that they're not brought Crossie up next? And then they brought you up. It's like, Kay, Chris, I've got the screenshot of you on the auction, and it went silent. I was like, okay, I'll have to delete that screenshot. I can't do anything with that. And then, and then RCB came through, and I was like, oh my God, she's not watching it. So I take you. I take

she said are you watching you like my phone's going mad i was like she knows yeah i found out basically because Kirsty gordon messaged me to basically let me know louis messaged me you then messaged me heather then messaged me so i was like oh i think i'm going to the w p l i can't believe it and i can't believe how like just chilled you are about it well it's just it's just a strange feeling isn't it like you basically you are a piece of meat you get bought you get a price tag put in your head and a team wants you or they don't want you. So I had a tiny, tiny, tiny inkling, tiny. Because I'd had a chat with Smithy Mandana after the 100 final. And she said that they needed a seamer and would I be going in the draft? So I thought, it's three months away.

It's a long time. A lot happens. A lot changes. Who knows? You bowled yourself out of the England team between now. Bolled myself out of the England team. Thanks, Chamari. And I was like, right well that's that dead in the waters and then Kirsty God messages me and I'm off to India so it just odd it is odd and it just shows that like one door closes you're not in the T20 squad for the series going up right now which is actually happening today there's the second game so you're at the hotel you're going to go and watch or you're just going to

stay at the hotel today yeah I'll meet all my new RCB fans now so you're not yeah it's so you're not so you're that door closes It's not locked, but it's closed. And then an IPO franchise team has gone, now we believe in her. She's got it. She's done so well in the 100 of the last three years. Like, three games don't matter.

I know. I know it is, and that's what, like, I think I've always said this to you, haven't I, but I always believe the negative things that you hear about yourself. And it's very easy when you keep hearing those negative things to believe them. And then I remember saying, I suppose, speaking to one of the coaches about the T20 selection, and I was like I was good enough after the 100 to be in the England team and then I wasn't good enough after those three games

so you've just got to remind yourself what you are good at and I've been doing a lot of bowling with a red ball or else I need to pick the white ball back on. Don't worry about that. Do not worry about that. I have bad news though because I have people on my Twitter are like surely you're going to fly over and obviously I would because I'd come and stay with you. I'd fly over and come and watch.

I'm at the PSL. Oh, wow. I know. Can I cancel? Do the dates clash? Is it proper clash? I think so, yeah. I'm going to message Luke, my agent now

because if there's a spare weekend, I will come over. Yeah, come over. That'll be great. I will, like 100%. I want to throw it back to last year, the last year's auction. When me and you got ourselves so hyped up,

we put our names in it. And then you were playing, or England were playing a World Cup game and you didn't get picked. How did you feel last year when you didn't get picked? Were you disappointed? I think you were always disappointed when you put yourself in for something like that because there's always a tiny bit of hope. Like you'll have felt the same, wouldn't you? Like, realistically, you know you're probably not going to get picked up. I'm talking about it was, not you. No, I thought I was going.

But everyone's the same. Like, Danny Wyatt, realistically, like, you want to go and you hope you go. but then it's we speak about this all the time it's just a matter of opinion and what people think of you and what money teams have to spend etc so I was I was actually a lot more chilled this year I think that's why I wasn't that bothered about watching it because I thought if I go it's a bonus if not I'm in no worse or better position than I was 10 minutes before the auction started so yeah it's I mean the RCB are on it all like the managers message me rung me can you get a video can you do this can you fill this for me we need to know you

kit sizes and I'm like whoa this is overwhelming I was just in bed watching TikToks and now I'm bright okay yeah hi RCB fans it's Kate Cross can't wait to to play the red and the gold but I'm excited to play for the team that you support

that's what I'm really excited for and can we share what we had in our group chat with Glenn do you think yeah that was really sweet yeah so we've got a group chat with Glenn Maxwell and it's called old units and Al goes crossy He's an RCB player in capital letters.

And he goes, you, you f***, beauty, we're all going to look so cute in our matching tops. And you said, I can't wait for my cross top too. Honestly, I've got my Maxwell top, and I wear it all the time. Every game that I watch, I put it on. And now, crossy, we're going to have a cross top. Cross 16. Oh, I'm so excited. I feel like a kid with loads of energy.

And I'm like, oh, my God. You've given me the energy, I think. Crossie, you're playing in the WPL? That it's like, do you know when we first started watching the IPL? It was like, I imagine if there was a women's com. Like, how amazing would that be? Just to even like watch it, let alone be a part of it. It is cool.

And if you don't play, Crossie, you're there? Yeah, I know, I thought that. Like, it's still an amazing experience whether you play or not. And also, you get to, like, like, Nat has NSB on her shirt, so what should I have? Ah, H. Alexa K-C-A-H No balls

This is where no balls This is where we get no balls big in India This is So I'll fly over for a couple of days We'll do some live podcasting in India Yeah, we'll do live We'll do our first live in Mumbai Oh my God

I'm so, so I cannot You probably realise But I cannot tell you how proud I am of you And how happy I am for you Do you know what This is proof that you're a very good friend because good friends are happy for other friends when things happen. And that's very sweet.

I've got like tears in my hand. Oh gosh. Manic, my phone is blown up, Al. Twitter has gone mad. Well, I'm not surprised because you're not a fan of RCB. Do you know what? I've actually got a photo from one of the first men's IPL games that I went to and it's an RCB shirt.

It's me in an RCB shirt. And I've had to hide it from you at this. whole time and i'm going to put it out on twitter today okay do it i'm about 12 years old wearing perfect perfect um crossy i don't think there's much more to add but i'm hoping i've given you some energy and i'm hoping you're now you've got a smile on your face she started this call like morning well i just let me just say to it i am i am happy because obviously i don't want anyone to think that i'm sad that i've been picked up in the d p i'm not it just i'm a processor it takes me a little while to get this information and obviously

someone is telling me what I'm doing I've not necessarily made the decision should I put this into context so when Crossy got picked for the Northern Superchargers in the 100 we watched it together and she was the top pick big money maker Kate Cross and I whacked her with the

pillow I was like get it running around the roof and Crosses just went no now I'll you're the emotion everyone sees the emotion and I'm the thinking I think yeah I reckon that That's how I could sum on the phone up. But one thing before I'd go, we had a little task last week in the last episode,

and it was the test for John Lewis. And we said, if John Lewis, if you're listening, then you need to say the word purple to me at training. Yeah. Didn't say anything to me for like 10 days, and then he sent me a text with all the purple emojis that he could find on his phone,

so he does listen. So, hello, John Lewis. Hello, Louis. Why didn't you pick Crossy up for the WPL? Do you know who I'm buzzing for, Danny Wyatt? So happy for Danny Wyatt. Wild done, gal. Her dream to play in the WPL. She's playing for the UP Warriors. John Lewis picked her up. She's going to be playing with Belly and Sofe. Healy. She's going to have an amazing time. So well done, Danny Wyatt. I'm buzzing for Wyatt. I've texted her again already. I'm just a fan. I'm a fan. I'm actually fat. I'm a big fan. I'm just a loser. You're a belter. Thank you. No, honestly, I am so, so proud of you. Like, I'm so buzzing. Like, one door closes, another opens, go out there, smash it.

We'll do 15 podcasts before the IPL and I'll be like a kid at Christmas every time we do one. You're a belter. You're actually in London right now. Busy weekend ahead. Busy weekend. We'll be back on Monday. We're going to do Monday. We're going to round up the T20s, preview the test match and talk about anything and everything.

Yeah, crossy, hashtag R-CB tweets Hashtag play bold Hashtag play bold Proud of you I'm going to have to go because I need to message new balancers So I need some gold pads Yeah, nice All right, good look

Thank you, see you Bye Cross I'm doing round the wicket Oh, that's Boulder, Boulder Leaving a ball alone, Litchfield I think it's the wobble ball

And it just nips back It jags back It's the nipbacker That is a beauty from Kate Cross It's an absolute seed. That is a beautiful cross. My name's Joe Wilkinson, and I'm doing a podcast because I love football. But what I love more is the idea of being friends with a professional footballer.

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