Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - Ireland's Curtis Campher talks about THAT England game

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

Having shocked England at the T20 World Cup, Ireland's Curtis Campher joins Kate Cross and Alex Hartley to discuss the game and reveal what the side did to celebrate the win.

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And cross strikes in the first over. It's Waddingham. looking for partly balls 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 cricket podcast with me kate cross you alex harley and from the very depth of the world cup at the minute we've got Islands, Curtis Camphor who has joined us. Hello, Curtis. Hey guys, how are you guys going?

All right, thank you. The time difference has blown our minds and it's taken us about 15 days to figure out this fucking time difference. I can't lie. Yeah, apparently the clock has gone back there too today too, so we've been walking around our works and stuff like that, but happily we're on now.

So I'm up at 7.30. The clocks went back last night. I text Al as soon as I woke up being like, please tell me it's the right time in Brisbane. because she's in Adelaide, so it was just all a massive mind. Yeah, I was mad. I was actually worried because I saw the link was 5.50 and I was like, right, okay, I thought it was 5.30 and then I was like, right, get back here.

We had a quick training session too, so I was like, right, cool. I've actually got a load of time here. So it worked out perfectly. Oh, right. Okay, that's good. Okay, good. Crossy just got up in the middle of the night, but nothing was fine. No, we were good.

We're here. It's the Shambles podcast. We've already explained that to Curtis. Yeah, yeah, we'll just play it by here. How are you? How's it all going? It's really, it's actually unbelievable. We're in Brisbane now, and the sun has come out. It's the second day in maybe five weeks we've seen the sun.

So it actually feels like Australia now. Yeah, it's been really good. It's been 30 degrees today, so, yeah, I actually can't complain. So we're making you sit inside for half an hour doing this podcast, so we better crack on with it. We better have some good questions. The sun's going down now. anyway so it's okay honestly you're in hobart the same amount of time i was what was it like

ten days two weeks and how disgusting was the weather oh stop even before that we're in melbourne and melbourne was also shocking and then before that was sydney and genuinely we had five training sessions i think in the last three weeks oh my god i've come to adelaide and it's freezing here now as well so i'm going on i wake up every morning thinking brilliant there's going to be cricket on the TV. I checked the cricket app. Raining. No cricket. So I'm just like, right, I'll go back to sleep. So what's going on?

I bought one jumper and I had to buy three more. I just thought, like, it's like, that's going to be cold. I was like, it can't be that cold. It's like Hobart's a little bit cold. That's in code jumper, long as it works. Wow. Yeah, but when you're in a World Cup, you get that little ICC credit card and he just whap it on there. It's fine.

Correct, yeah. That is true, yeah. forgot about that. Do you still get the towels? Oh, actually, yeah, I do. I actually could have my line around. Smaller one today, though this time it's like a gym towel. Nice. Right, Curtis, you're going to have to tell us a little bit about you because there's a lot of accent going on here.

We're expecting this real thick Irish accent, and then we've got a South African accent. What's happening? It's actually really nice to be told I've got a South African accent because whenever I speak to people from South Africa, they say I've got an Irish accent, and it just goes each way. either way.

You're really flitting between the two. I'm hearing twangs of both. Yeah, so I'm originally from South Africa, born then, and then I moved over about three years ago. My grandmother was Irish, so that's where that side comes from. But yeah, I've been pretty much based in Dublin

for the last three years, so hence why I do sound a bit more Irish than I do South African at sometimes. You're like one of those people that goes to do a summer in Australia and comes back with an accent. Like three years. It's not like I've got, I've been gone for like four weeks and I've come back and gone, how's it going, lads?

Yeah, not bad. You'll have an Australian twang by the end of this podcast. Probably, yeah, probably too. So you were brought up in South Africa and did you say you moved over to Ireland three years ago? Yeah, I'd say about, yeah. It could be four maybe, three years, yeah. That explains the accent of four years. I was going to say you're going to say four so that the accent makes sense.

Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah. Was that purely cricket purposes? Yeah, well, I just wanted to come over for a winter and play for a club. And then basically everything took off COVID hit. And then we kind of was, I was training with the men's side, got off with a contract, and then just never came back, just stayed there the whole time. So, yeah. I've never been to Ireland, which is probably a bit mad for, I know, I know.

We need to go well. Curtis, you can take us out now. There's men to be amazing, isn't it? Like, I really need to go. Oh, yeah. So I, my girlfriend and I started this year a lovely apartment together and like pretty close to the city centre

so we love it there and it's like all these cop shops around from us so we most days we're just off there and when she pretends to work I just I just say right come on you're on lunch break and it's 10 o'clock off we go. Al I don't, did you hear that invite for us to stay at Curtis's house then when we go over

and party in Dublin? I don't think so. It's a very, very, very, very big one bed that's got no space for any of my cricket stuff so if you guys can find space you're more than welcome to stay but it could be outside yes we'll find space um so you basically did you get stuck in ireland with covid or did you know that you were going to stay anyway uh i didn't get stuck no so i did the summer and then basically was playing with the men's side and then we did the winter away and then what just happened so that i just carried on staying in island the whole time um so yeah

I went back to Stafford for a week maybe to see my folks. But yeah, it's been on and off for that kind of the whole time is tours through the winter and then there for a week. You said you had to buy, well, you only took one jump over to Australia. How many jumpers did you have to buy when you're in Ireland thinking that it was going to be summer? No, I actually prepared for it to be really cold. I kind of planned for it.

But I'm actually been quite surprised the summers have been very good to us. I don't know if I'm going to jinx it now, but this last summer was really good. The one before also was very good so I had a load of sun, so I can't complain, especially being away all the time in the winter, it breaks it up, so it's not too bad. How long are you in Brisbane for?

We play tomorrow and we leave the following morning at like 6am, so it's hardly like your unpack. It's maybe three days, yeah. Oh, that's like, there's the beauty, but also the hard work of the World Cup, isn't it? You just like hotel hop. You don't really get everywhere. I don't know where you are

and what you're going to be doing. So it's kind of like you're, especially with qualifying stuff, but we didn't really know into the last day. And it's like, well, we could be flying out back to Dublin. And then it's like, well, if you're in this group and then we're waiting for the results of the Zimbabwe game. And it's like if they won,

then we were going to Melbourne for eight days, which is lovely because then you could be there for one place or the families and holidays that way. And it's like if we didn't come, if we came first all of a sudden, then all of a sudden we were going to Perth and then there and then there. So even like now, we'll know by tomorrow

if we do one and we win against Australia, then we can't book our next flight home. So then we're like, right, well, then it's madness. You just wait until half of the games. And then everyone just knows, okay, right? Tomorrow morning, we're either leaving at 6 a.m. or 8 at night. Gosh, that's actually the bit that people don't get from, from like, the outside point of view. Because they just see you playing cricket on TV in Brisbane and then in Adelaide.

And they don't actually see the bits in between that's like manic. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, then the same thing is that batteries are being shipped and driven around on the truck so it's like you finish your game and then it's like right that bag has to be packed that has to be packed and then you're like well I have to go to dinner and like yeah well you have to have your travel stuff and your night out stuff so like putting your jeans in your backpack and stuff like that your back your backpack is big and you can't go anywhere then your man's asking you why is your laptop not pulled out of the bag and it's just the shambles we actually

while you're back we'll go into like the nitty gritty what people really want to know Curtis is how hard did you party after you beat England? I actually hate to say this, but we didn't. Scotland? No. After Scotland? No, because we had a game. West Indies, there was an Irish pub in Hobart that we went down to and the guy was really nice. One of the owners and he gave us a few rounds on the house. But even then, because we had a game in two days' time, we couldn't really go that hard. So sadly, it sounds so boring and I'm very disappointed in it that we actually

we didn't go hard and we were pretty good professionals and we kind of just had one or two and celebrated and that was it all that questions were a bit null and void now are I saw you say that guys were out till four in the morning and one of the only times of Irish team didn't do something that was Irish well I saw you out in that pub because I was in there and when it started closing I saw you putting all the chairs on the table for the owner and I was like that's cute

and then we kicked on and went down the road with the Scotland lads and Zimbabwe lads and you lot have gone home at like 11 o'clock yeah in fairness we did stop for a cheekie mackers so that's just unprofessional I can't believe you did a party

yeah slight smoke bomb too because Zimbabwe lads are saying oh yeah we're going out we'll see you out and I'll be there don't you're getting that taxi I'm calling it Uber now don't you worry and it was just right as you're going to and then home. Well, maybe that's why you're winning games of cricket.

I don't know, because some of the old lads say that they used to win games of cricket because it went on the lash. So it's a bit of old and new traditions mixing together. A hybrid. Bringing it both together, nice. How is this not the Super 12's phase, the qualifying phase? Because we were saying on the pod last week, for a team that gets through that phase, it must actually be quite hard to then, well, we don't know.

Is it easy or hard to carry on because you've got the momentum? or is it really tiring because you've already played a tournament? Like, how does it feel? Yeah, it has its benefits and kind of its cons to. The benefits are that you're proper going, you have the momentum. You don't really have to train that much because you're fully in tournament mode already. You've played four games. So you're pretty much peaking and, like, guys are hitting their straps

and the teams kind of hunker down. But then again, like, when we beat West Indies, you're on such a high. The first game felt like it couldn't really get up again because you're mentally just so, so done. Like, you've invested, especially the way we went and losing our first game and then winning the second and having to beat West Indies the third game to qualify. It was like such a high.

And then it's like, right, well, we've got to go again here and we're on no points again. It's not like you were on, right, we're on six points. We can just crack on and try to make a difference. It's kind of like, oh, we're back to zero again. We just like rock up, hit our straps again. You're not on zero, though, are you? No, not anymore. We're not.

We're on three. Have you got... That game against Scotland before Crossy and Barrisys' mix I know she's written it down was literally the best game of cricket I have ever commentated on. It was unbelievable.

I'm going to jump in. I got a text, Curtis, so I often wake up to a text from Al saying what's happened in the games that she's commentating on. And Al text me saying that she had just witnessed the best thing that she has ever seen on a cricket field and that was your innings.

So... I mean, if that's not high praise, then I don't know what is. Yeah, I actually can't really remember much of it, to be fair. I think just the fact that we needed tens the whole way through was just like, right, hit a boundary every over. And that was kind of it. You didn't need 10. You're 12.

I was like, oh, they're down and out. I was like, they're done. I was like, that win Viz that's giving them 7%. I was like, hardly Viz is giving them nothing. I was like, they're not winning this game. And then in come you, and you just absolutely biffed it. no it was more george to be fair george is a lovely batting partner to have um

yeah george isn't on this podcast so come on yeah let's talk about you but uh we've we've got a wraps committee um so so so self praise gets um gets you find um but um i wouldn't i wouldn't say anything about it but no i really enjoyed it to be honest it was it was nice to that in the fashion that i did especially because we worked so hard throughout the summer for for kind of an opportunity to do that and after we lost the first game

we kind of realized that it's going to have to be something special to beat the West Indies to get us through. And then the Scotland on our walk over either. So it was really nice just to do it and keep us alive kind of another day fighting. I think Ireland is everyone's second team in this World Cup. Because there's been a lot of upsets, hasn't there? Well, for the games that there's been like four games that have been actually played. And they've all seemed to have an upset in them. But I feel like everyone's supporting Ireland.

Yeah, actually there's a lot of Australians that have been supporting us. I think that's just also the anti-England team it's just like anyone but England but yeah I know they've been very good and everyone else has been very supportive so it's very nice apparently there's meant to be a good few down tomorrow for our game, we're looking forward to that

and it's meant to be sunny so at least we'll get a game and cricket in. Yes, yes it's actually meant to rain here in Adelaide tomorrow and it's raining when England are playing apparently as well so yeah yeah it's actually it's madness I've never seen so much rain

and coming from a rainy country like I've never seen so much rain in my whole entire life over this period of what five weeks I feel like this is like karma for all the times that English people get stick from Aussies saying always rains in your country

no well your world cuts being ruined oh stop I mean and everyone always says when we're doing a few like media things or anyone that's ever come all the diplomats are saying oh we see you brought the weather with us and it's just like shut up

Like, no, we haven't. Your country is also shit. Yeah. There it is. That's the quote from the podcast. Correct, yeah. So in the last World Cup, when you were bowling, you got, what did you get, a hat trick or something stupid?

We were watching the highlights on the other day when you were biting against Scotland. What was better, you knock against Scotland or your hat trick? Or was it a double hat trick? Was it a four-ball hat trick, wasn't it? What would you call that? Yeah, yeah, it was one of those things. Yeah, definitely I love batting way more than bowling. Sorry, batting all the way.

Yeah, no. Four and four was different, nice than the first World Cup. But in Australia, it feels like a World Cup. In Hobart, it felt like a World Cup. And to do that for the team, I was just, actually, that was lovely. I think it sums it up that you're talking to two bowlers, Curtis, and we don't know what a four-wicket, four-in-a-row wicket made in a, or whatever it's called.

We don't even know. We've never experienced it. It was, I was absolutely bottling such garbage that day. too. I was just like coming back from, I had some injury on my, my leg, and I was bowling the ball everywhere, genuinely, hardly knew where it was going, and I had played maybe like four or five games, and then it was like dragged down, down the leg, so I had caught behind, and I was like, right, we'll take the wicket. Take it. We knew that Tendo had a bad, bad way of his head falling over, so it was just full and straight, and then I was like, right, well, we'll just

carry out, going full and straight, and sure, I just came off. We, yeah, we've got a saying in cricket. We actually have some people that listen to this podcast that don't watch that much cricket, which is strange. But we've got a saying that shit gets wickets. And it just seems that whatever standard you play, balls get wickets. Genuinely, that is exactly it. To bring it back to the England game, George Docra bowled back of a length at the MCG and it's about 90 metres on the leg side. And Harry Brooke got all of it. The sound made off the bat, I was like, that's six. That is, that was a deep cover

and then I just see the guys Delaney you're running around boundaries just bang it can happen can happen what a bad game that was

what a bad game part of me like when England lost I was like go on Ireland that's class see everyone's second team

yeah yeah exactly everyone's hope someone's first team though there are a few I support

but but yeah we are listen we'll take all the support we can What has been like Have you got a highlight Or is it all just merging at the minute Into this massive

Incredible experience Hmm Jeez that's a tough one I think the West Indies game That has got to be the highlight Like we We played it really well We played full 40 overs

Of good cricket the whole way through Like we bowled well We fielded well Lads with the back Just absolutely busted it. So that was for me, it was just like, right? That was for me so good to see, like, the way the team went about it and the way we played. It was almost like a complete performance

in also a high-pressure situation. Pretty, must be a pretty good feeling knocking the West Indies hat at World Cup as well. Yeah, yeah, it is actually. Yeah, it's, I feel like it's bad because everyone works so hard and everyone wants to get through the whole time. And a team like them that are so good shouldn't actually have to qualify. Same with Sri Lanka Asia Cup champions, like they have to qualify and they get beaten.

So it shows that the gap between all nations is getting smaller and albeit that you do turn up on a good day and you play your best that you may not win because there are some individuals that just have ridiculous days. It's nice to see that we have teams that are doing that regularly, kind of. How do you think we're going to make that gap even smaller? Because obviously we've seen that anyone can beat anyone in this World Cup. How are we going to make the gap even smaller?

So like, you know, you turn up on a day and it's not like, right, this team of favour, it's going to be. a proper contest? I think it's hard. I think franchise cricket has made a big difference because there's a lot of smaller franchise comps which allow guys to go to different conditions and play and train and stuff like that.

So that's big and in those small comps, you still have big guys that are going there to play. So that is a big plus, I would say. But it's hard to say because I can see why ICC want the big games to play all the time because that's where they make their money. But I think the more times the smaller teams can play the bigger nations,

the better the smaller teams will get. Well, there is like a World Cup every four minutes at them. I feel like you just played the one in the UAE and then now we're in Australia. They're coming around so quick. Yeah, that's true. And especially with the qualifiers too. So the qualifiers happen every six months now

because the World Cups are literally being happening every 12 months. So it's quite nice that you're always playing quality opposition and also high pressure situations. So, you know, we were just in January or February we're playing the qualifiers. we're qualifying now. There's 50 of World Cups next year this time, and there's a qualifies in the middle of the year.

So, you mean, it's every six months you're qualifying. We're in high-pressure situations playing top opposition. So I think the more those come around to the more games you play. I think for all the small nations, the biggest fight is trying to play games. England played 50, 60 internationals a year, whereas you'd be lucky to get 20, 25. So I think that's where the big gap is, or where we can get more games in.

And we kind of, they have to play the Division 2 Super League, so we had played a lot of that. So we had three ODIs this year. Well, we'll six in West Indies in January. But in our home summer, we had three ODIs, and in January we played three. So six ODIs in a year for a team that doesn't play test cricket, there's not that many. So we prepped well for E20s and stuff like that, and it was really great. But it was kind of like, well, we pick, we either play ODIs and you don't play T20s or you play loaded T20s and you have good prep. and you give yourself the best chance for the little cup,

and you just kind of have to put the other formats to the back burner. We're really conscious that you've got dinner plans. So we've got a little quiz for you. It's a little silly quiz. Yeah, right. You don't get any points or you don't win anything. It's just we do it with everyone. No free.

We've only got three. No free towels. I'm in an apartment. I've got a hotel towel. I'll write your name on it. Fair enough. is your T20 batting average higher or lower than your age?

I don't think my 220 batting average is very good. I reckon it's lower. Correct. I actually don't know how old you are but it says on here lower 21.33 is your batting average. That's not great. I'm 23. That's not good.

Need to pump those numbers off. At least you can't get a fine for being in the rap committee or whatever it's called. You're not pumping himself up. Yeah, I save myself $2.50 there. Right. Question number two. Have you hit more T-24s than my age? I don't know age, but I don't think I... I reckon I haven't. No, you have. I'm 31, and you've hit 32.

Take that. That's good, that, right. If you said sixes, I definitely say no, because I've hit about three, six. Well, the next question was going to be Have you hit more T-26s than Hartley's mental age But, you know, we thought it was a bit dubious And this will get you $2.50 if you get this right

Because this is a big fine But you've got a world record now What is it? I know they gave you the answer The world record In cricket, obviously By myself or with other people? No, with someone

else? Oh, I think I know, I think I know this. The partnership. Yeah. Yeah, I heard that one like that. So you've got the highest, highest fifth wicket partnership ever in T20 cricket history for men. And that was 119 red with Dockerel. Oh, yeah.

That's, that's $2.50 right there. Yes. Thanks, guys. We'll pay you fine. How about that? Voicing you guys. I will invoice Yeah

I'll just get the World Cup credit card out there And just tap away That's $5, there you go We're going to let you go for dinner now Thank you so much for coming on Amazing, thanks so much for having me guys Curtis before you go We want you to do best, best, best Irish accent

No, no, I'm terrible with accents I can't I can't Hartley's good at the Irish accent but we get told him for doing it. It sounds exactly like how I'm speaking so I can't do it. I involve swearing too, so

I can't go. Want to give it a go? Yes. Go on. I'm under pressure now. What shall I say? Whatever you want. It just needs to be Irish.

See you, Curtis. Have a great evening. I can't do it. I can only say at top of the morning. Oh, that is terrible. That's all right That's right

Right You go and enjoy your dinner Thank you so much Thank you And we wish you Go and beat Australia Well We say it every week

That was a good interview It was a great interview Left very quickly Couldn't have got off there quicker Yeah he went Right guys see you And we couldn't even say good look And he'd gone

Yeah well Good luck I will message him though So we need to explain this Because the episode that didn't air Which was probably one of our best ever My bad It wasn't, it was terrible

You mistakenly had your TV on Because you had a guest in your bedroom Didn't you? Ooi, did I? Georgie Boyce From the pod Was in my room And I'd just put the telly on for it

But really, really quiet like on like a level like three and so she was watching telly in the background and because we've got these like new microphones that i'm not using today because i couldn't figure out how to plug it in um i thought well it's never going to pick up the telly because i'm using a microphone didn't i couldn't hear the telly either so i didn't realize how loud it was um and the BBC said you can't use that rightly so i mean we're we're a shambles at our best but we can't we can't be putting episodes out with like a TV, TV on in the background. I was watching the cricket.

You weren't watching it. You're on the podcast with me. Yeah, all right, but it was the cricket commentary in the background. But what I was going to say is in this episode, you'd not really missed a great deal, actually. We did, in fact, we did Trough and Peak of the week, didn't we went back there? But we were talking about who we wanted to get on and you said, why don't we get Curtis Canfront? And I said, right, you've got to slide into his DMs and you're like, no, no, I'm not doing that.

And I then slid into his DMs and there he is. And now he's been and done, but no one knows why. Well, that's why, because I said, we really need a guest, Curtis, come on. Yeah. And he's here. So that's what you made, basically, that episode. And guys, like, we really do appreciate your emailing us. You can't email us questions.

We just had 45 emails about whether you have a winter dovet or not. Yeah, we did. We've got a lot of ones on Instagram. you know, we didn't in touch them with Curtis, did we? Oh yeah, I forgot. I don't see. I don't even know. Oh, we meant to ask him.

Oh, you didn't write it down, not? No, no, I didn't. Well, it is 7.30 for me, so you know I don't function until at least 10 a.m. Yeah, you're going to go back to bed? Yes. Also, I've just realised that this is in the background of my zoo. It's a teddy bear that says I love Bristol on it. He was probably like, what the heck is that?

What am I speaking to here? This, just a little background story, was we play a lot of cricket in Bristol as an England team, and the hotel we stay at is the same one every time. And then they got us these little teddies that said, I love Bristol on them. Nice.

And I brought mine with me. I'm right. How are you? Should we do some... Oh, I'm good. I'm good, thank you. Yeah, let's do some questions. But are you good of wise?

Yeah, I'm fine, thank you. Let's go on. onto Instagram because they were great. Who are you going upstairs with? Well, again, in the episode that didn't air the famous episode, Georgie Boyce picked our run player and she went upstairs to Anna Harris, so we have to surely honour that.

It was a road choice to say we're in the middle of a World Cup but she went upstairs of Anna Harris, but hey. She said it's got to be Anna Harris. So we're going upstairs with Anna Harris. On upstairs, Anna Harris. She says, on a scale of One to ten. How pissed off with Alex are you right now? You and Henry, no, Henry is like, we'll make it work. It's fine. It'll just take me hours to edit.

And I was like, no, no, no, we'll read it. And you were like, it's fine, we'll just read it. I was really quite chilled, I thought. You were? I was good. I thought I handled it quite well, quite not crossy. I handled it quite well. You did. You did. Oh, for crying out loud, Alexandra. It is very frustrating that you have just done that. Yes, I know, I know.

We're hardly watching anything good. Again, the questions, we kind of, we get a theme going with the questions, don't we? Yeah, who has impressed you so far in the World Cup? Got to say Curtis Can't we? Honestly, I hate if he bids himself up, he's going to get a fine, because I wanted him to big himself up, because that it is, was, oh. Best thing you've ever seen.

Best thing I've ever seen. The best thing you've ever seen on a cricket pitch. How much do you want to put Hartley in the bin right now? No, I don't want to put you in the bin. Someone said, do you have hot or cold custard? On hot pudding. Oh, with a hot pudding. I have cold custard.

I think I'd have hot custard. It's so random. Do either of you hold a bowl in Masterclass? Not often. No. Not very often. couple together, haven't we? Yeah, I don't know if anyone saw my Instagram this week, actually.

I got a lot of stick for this, but I'm like going back to bowling now, so building back up, going back through my basics of my action. And everyone's like, where are you? Yeah, but you also put the worst video on I've ever seen. It was like split second. Yeah, because that's all it is. I can't take people too far into my training regime, otherwise I'll give all my secrets away.

It was very sake of my mood, Jimmy Anderson. It was weird. Yeah. All right. I'm not going to bite. I'm not going to bite. But that's coming from a girl who's got two Instagram accounts at the minute. There it is.

She's not going to bite, but she's going to bite. Shall we wrap this up because it feels terrible and it was a great episode with Curtis. I did rewrite down what my sticky notes were, but we can go through them next week. Yeah. You get yourself back to bed, love Okay dokey I hope everyone enjoyed the extra hour I didn't

Or extra hour in bed appointment of the podcast No extra hour in bed Oh my gosh that is what we spoke about We have to talk about this Al You text me Because you'd bumped into Webby No

Olihan and Dolby Who we just spoke about on the podcast and it was a really small world that you were in Melbourne, Sydney, wherever you were, and you just walked up Ollie Hannan Dolby. Yeah, I did, walked past Honan Halen Dolby, Olly. I walked past Oliver in the street and I was like, whoa. And he went, what are you doing here? I was like, working on the World Cup, what are you doing here?

He's like, I'm on a stag do. I was like, in Australia. And he's like, why did you throw me under the bus on your podcast? Yeah, that was my fault. Good boy, and I saw Haney, and then I went to Manly, this is a good Oliver story, went to Manley the next day with Boisey, and we were meeting all the lads later on at night, but, you know, we haven't made those ponds this time. And I'm sat on the wall, looking out at the surfers on the beach,

and I see this Brit abroad, right, with a cap on, gets his bucket-hauer with his string underneath, he's got his little swimming trunks on, he's got a cricketer's tan. He's like, seven foot two, and like, there's Oliver Hand and Dolby again. He's like a Brit abroad. They're all over on a stag day And someone's getting married, aren't they? Yeah, Josh Poisson didn't got married on Saturday

So you're just, like, it's so random We'd literally just mention him on the podcast And then you bump into him But it's good Good for me because I got to see some friends out here And I had a few nights with that it was amazing Nice Maybe the episode that wasn't to be

Actually did have a bit of good content in it Yeah, maybe it did Oh well, maybe this one's the worst one Well, we've just spieled it in the worst possible way so we're really sorry we're going to go now please emails on noblespodcast at bbc.co. that was noblespodcast at bbc.co.com. If they don't know it by now they're not true fans. Yeah. It's so good. I've said it twice. And lucky, lucky for you guys. We'll probably be doing one on Thursday because this one's a few days late so see you the back end of the week.

Bye everyone. Bye. 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.

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