Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - PSL and WPL time baby!

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

The India and Pakistan adventures have begun for Kate and Alex, and they’ve got the latest from the PSL and WPL camps.Including team songs, learning Hindi and nocturnal Alex.Look out for some special emails, too!

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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 beautiful from cross. Hello and welcome back to No Balls Cricket Podcast with me, Alex Hartley, in Pakistan, and you, Kate Cross in India.

Lovely, hello, everyone. Hope you're all well. Hope you all well, Al. You look like you've just woken up. That's because I have, and that's because I always have before this podcast that gets in the way of my life. Should we get it out of the way now, Al? How are you feeling?

My alarm's going off, sorry, I need to wake up. One second. How am I feeling? I'm feeling really good. I know for the last six weeks I've been tired. I probably say I'm tired. I've just woken up. I'm waiting for you to say,

I'm really tired. I'm not. I'm fine. Once I'm up in this place, I'm fine. It's just getting up that's been the problem, crossy. And my sleep schedule has been 4 a.m. till 1pm. The other day I woke up at 3pm

and didn't think anything of it. I was like, oh well. That's life now. Should you give people a bit of context? So obviously, anyone that does it, know Al's over in the PSL coaching with the Moulton, sultans, who are currently two from two. Winners baby. It's game day today. It's game day today. We play back to back.

Oh. This is our third. We're playing Lahore. God, I just want to be three from three. So that's your context. My context is I'm in Bangalore with RCB. We joined, well, I joined the team last Wednesday, Thursday, whatever day it was. And we thought we're going to be in the subcontinent together. Time zones aren't going to be an issue. We're going to be fine. nailing this podcast, everyone who listens to the pod knows that we're really bad at time zones. Yeah. And this has probably

been the hardest podcast to nail down, hasn't it? It is easier, I swear, when you're in New Zealand and I'm in England, yes, we might get the time wrong. Yes, one of us might wake up at the wrong time, but we know what time we're doing. This, this has been another level. Henry's not even on the call because it's, what, 4 a.m. in England right now? Who knows? Yeah, ridiculous. Well, it feels 4 a.m.

I'd say it does it. 4 a.m.m.m. So yeah, your game's finished dead late, don't they? So you're basically nocturnal at the moment. You're like a vampire. Yeah. Yeah, so we get home from the game and have a team meal and we get home from the game at 1.30am and have a team meal. I've never experienced anything like it.

It's incredible. It's really nice. It's really amazing that we all sit together and do it together. So, yeah, therefore sleep schedules are just completely off. So when you're getting up and going training in the morning and coming back in the afternoon I'm just getting going you're waking up

yeah so our like team meetings and staff meetings on a game day they will start at 2 o'clock and we leave at half past 3 and we get back at half past 1 in the morning mental we've actually not spoken so I don't I know you're having a good time

but I don't really know how it's going so we're genuinely catching up right now aren't we this is we've not spoke on the face time beforehand like this is it I was like crossy I need to to catch up with you, you literally said, I'll just do it on the pot. I was like, oh yeah, that makes sense as well. Our weekly counselling session.

Yeah. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, thanks. I'm good. I'm really genuinely, really enjoying it over here. And you know what I can sometimes be like with being away and being in India. I was worried. Bangalore is such a good city. I genuinely think it's my favourite in India. The girls are great. RCB is just another level.

like I've done franchise cricket but I've not done this kind of franchise cricket and you know I've been a big fan bless you you muted yourself then didn't you she just sneezed um I've always been a big fan of the IPL everyone knows that and obviously got to commentate on the WPL last year so kind of saw it from a distance but being involved is just another level is it bless you thanks I'm trying to hold them in because I normally do about four sneezes tell me all about it

because I mean obviously I've seen the stuff you put on social media and actually if I'm being honest most of the time I miss it because my social media is really weird at the minute it doesn't show me any of my friends' content so I have to search for it so I know that you've got like a credit card

with your name on it or some like you've got loads of little cards of your name on yeah so they're obviously you're not going to be able to see these because we're on a podcast but they're like luggage tags but you know when they're hologed

They're holograms. What, you know, those things when you look at one way, it says one thing, and then you look at the other. So they're all our luggage tags. So sadly, it's not a credit card. I would have loved a nasty B credit card. Well, no, it's not a credit card. So, yeah, when I got here on, I think it was really early Thursday morning,

I landed at like 3 a.m. Had to, well, I got to the hotel at like 4 a.m. And then I had to do... Stop. Have you muted yourself? No. Okay. Do you want to do another one dead quick?

There she goes. Right, I'm done. There's a virus going around. I have not got it. So, yeah, I landed up like four, well, I got to the hotel at like 4 a.m. And I just thought to myself, I've seen, obviously, everyone's content when they've arrived. There's pictures in the hotel lobby. I was like, no one's going to be awake at 4 a.m.

So I'll just be able to sneak in and go to bed. No, no. cameraman there, photographer there one of the media guys was there and got this video of me coming in and checking into the hotel and then I had to do a video, I think you've seen it, with the yellow drink and the red drink.

So straight away, like 4.30am. First thing I have to do is have a little dig at CSK and RCB. And then I got to my room and I had this welcome pack that's got like a drinks bottle, a coffee cup, a book, everything with my name and number on it, some shirts. One of them obviously

I'm going to give to you. I'm so excited. So yeah, it's so excited. Like I said, I've done a franchise cricket before, but this just feels another level. It's like everything that you can think about has already been done. Please can you also bring some training kit home. Yeah, yeah, don't worry.

I actually got my training kit today. That's what I had to move because it would have rustled because it arrived outside my door last night at like 11pm. Yeah, nice. I thought you'd still be up when I text you last night and it was like, nah, she's dead to the world. Yeah. our days are quite long we're training quite far away

and apparently bangalore's the worst for traffic so it takes us like an hour and a half to get home and an hour to get to the game because it's busy to get to the ground sorry so training days are actually really long like we leave at 11 and get back at 7.30 yeah okay how long are you all have to go together obviously

yeah yeah we all go on the bus but yeah loving it our first game is Saturday it's now currently Wednesday yeah yeah so um oh and the other thing we've had the rcb hq built for us and yeah tell me all about it so i tried to describe this to you on text but we're in a hotel it's the hotel that the men the rcb men use when we're here so you can imagine it's a really lush nice hotel and it's really

green it feels like we're in the middle of a city and obviously india's really loud and the traffic's noisy but then we're just in this like garden basically it's feels like we're not in the city, it's like a little haven. And when I say they've built us a HQ, they've not renovated a room. They have built another area that is just for RCB. So you walk in down this like, almost like a gangway kind of thing, walk into a team room where there's a pool table, playstation, coffee station, setes, like you can just chill, you know, relax, do whatever you want to do.

then you go into this state-of-the-art gym like one of the best gyms that I've been in and they've just built it in 10 days and then you go up these stairs into our team room and they've got like RCB plastered everywhere photos of all the girls it's what the men will use when they get here as well so again like you imagine it's a gym

that Virat Coli is going to use so it's an unbelievable gym but they've just built it in 10 days congratulations Virat congratulations Virat it's honestly sounds sounds so good Sounds so good

And we've not even started the actual cricket yet Yeah so you start Saturday But you had a practice match yesterday How did they come out? Yeah, all right actually Nice, me and Renuka got to open the bowling I was saying to one of the girls as well

It's so nice to be able to actually admire Smitty rather than playing against her And hating when she scores runs against our team It's so good to have her on our team And just be like, shut up Oh, you can hit me over extra because no one else is going. Honestly, it's just, she's, she looked great at the minute.

It looks, and again, like, I've never been able to say that and smile about it, but she looks in great form. Oh, glad. I was so excited for your comp to start, like, I feel like, because we've been on different time zones in the same time zone, but we've not managed to speak. I'm like, oh God, are we not speaking because she's hating it? Or, like, do you know, I'm like, I hope she's getting on all right.

because literally everybody that's listening, this has been the least me and Crossy have spoken for like 10 years. Yeah, literally, other than that time that you blocked me on Twitter. Yeah, well, that was podcast purposes. But yeah, so, yeah, happy, enjoying it, and looking forward to it starting.

So happy Crossy. Yes, happy Crossy, happy Hartley, PSL were two from two. Yeah, so come on, what's it like over there? you're a coach now how's it gone incredible crossy it is it is incredible like the first couple of days i was like real bad imposter syndrome like why am i here yeah and obviously it's like i'm coaching in the PSL um but uh abdul remand the head coach and and ali the owner they sat down they said look these girls belong they're here you're here to learn off them use their experience

Alex has played a lot of whiteball cricket, so use her tactics and things like that. And as soon as that was said, like, everybody was so like, okay, the introductions have been done, we can relax. We went to training. Everyone's asking a thousand questions. I'm like, whoa, slow down one at a time, but they're just so eager to learn. Then we've got the academy who are there exactly the same. So, like, everyone's been really welcoming, and it's just been the most incredible experience.

the crowd's been really good. Like you, we've got our own team room. We've got our own staff room, which is odd because obviously I'm going to the staff room. But I always used to think when I was a kid at school that the staff room was like this unbelievable place where I know you're not at school, but like this unbelievable place that was obviously forbidden

for any of the students. And then I remember when I was working Chance de Chansani used to go into the school staff rooms, like get bruising stuff when I was coaching. And it's just a really crappy room. where you can get a brew basically well ours isn't I was going to say I bet yours isn't actually

we got there day one and Ali said come to the team room I got some diet cokes and things all in the team room for you so you can come and have a drink so we went up and they are building a pool table from scratch and we're only here two weeks like from the ground up and I said

where's that going afterwards they're oh they'll just dismantle it and then build it in Karachi where we go next obviously so you're in Multan at the minute, aren't you? You're at home. So you're playing for the home crowds. Our schedule's really good.

So we've got five home games before we go on the road. And then our next five games are away. So do you stay in another city? Do you move to another city and stay there? Or do you like travel around Pakistan completely? Travel around. So you're going to see Pakistan as well? Yeah.

Well, sort of because we're not allowed out. But yeah. Are the spinners taking wickets? Are they? Are they? Are they? You're doing well. Asama.

Asama Mia. What a man. What a man. He played for Manchester Originals last year. And I was like, I recognised you from somewhere. Did you play in the 100?

He's like, yeah, for Manchester. I was like, I thought you did. Bowling so well. David Parsons is trying to take credit for him, but no, it's me. You don't have it. Claim it.

And there's a young lad called Faisal, sorry, and he's a left arm, leg spinner. Yeah. And I've never seen talent like it in my life for us. 20 year old. Oh, God, I bet they're all, that's this thing over here, isn't it?

In the subcontinent, you get these young spinners, and they're just unbelievable at their craft, and they're still, like, not good enough to play for their country. But if, like, that person was an English player, they'd be straight in. Me and David yesterday were like, reckon if we could convince him to come home, he could play for England in four years. I was like, he'd play next year.

I was like, let alone in four years. Amazing. I was like, we need to find him a wife. an English wife, and then he could play for England. Love that. Love that. So it's good. It's all good. When's your next game today? Yeah, so weirdly, we played Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Sunday, I think. So you got a few days off after this. You text me and you're like, there are no days off here. No, there aren't. They're on. They're on. So when the players have a day off, Miss Hartley, the coach, has to go coach the Academy, which is obviously amazing. Is that what they call you? No, they call me sister.

Oh, it's really cute Cute Sister Hartley So they all call everyone Brother and bro So I've got like The team manager being like All right bro

And then the lads That don't speak English too well I walk past them I'm like all going okay And they just say yes sister Nice Nice Have you learned

Have you learned any Yeah Well I have In context of I know our team anthem I don't know what means or what it says. Do you want to do it? Do you want to do the anthophoris?

That I'm panicking. Come on. Give us a little taste. I'll send a clip to Henry, not of me singing, but I'll have the anthem. Okay. Right. Okay. Yeah. It's a banger. Absolutely banger. Is it? What do you sing after you've won? No, that's just played on repeat, 27 hours a day in this place. Because you're awake, 27 hours.

It's honestly, it's on when you get up in the morning in reception. It's on when you go to the ground. It's on when you come back. It's on between every ball, every over of the game. It's on in my head when I'm trying to sleep. Nice, nice. Yeah. Have you got a team song yet?

Not that I've heard of, no. But I am learning Hindi. So a lot of the girls, they understand English, but they're not all that confident speaking English. So I'm trying to learn some Hindi. So far I've learnt Choka is four o'er. a six, like a boundary. Shukhya is thank you.

Cello means let's go, let's go. So I'm trying to learn a few words, but I can't obviously have a conversation with anyone in Hindi, but I'm trying. Yeah, okay, you're trying. Trying. I'm practicing my mitt in for next year, so I can mit. Nice. You'll break your wrist. Honestly, I was meeting to the spinners, which was fine, and I was doing the classic standing in front of the stumps, and it was really scary.

and then the Seema started bowling. I was like, nah, you're bowling 90 miles an hour. Absolutely not. No, thank you. Al, this is nearly 16 minutes already. Okay. Can we talk about, before we go upstairs, can we talk about how good last week's episode was? Yes.

Right, the, and what do you call it, the feedback that we've had, it was like pre-BBC kind of feedback that we used to get where everyone was like, I'm on the train, I'm laughing out loud, People think that I'm strange. We haven't had that for such a long time. We've not had it for ages. It was chaos. It was absolute madness.

But thanks so much to Greg and Matching for making it hilarious because it was just exactly that. I laughed so, so much and the stories were about us. I know. There's someone message saying whoever is sent in these stories about Alex and Kate deserves a medal, right, stitch up. And then you text me. I was like, loll, imagine if we told our own stories on our podcast.

Imagine how bad that would be and how silly we'd look. I rang my dad the other day and he was like, I've just caught up on your podcast. I was like, oh, no. I forgot that my family listened to you. My mom and dad found it so funny,

they listen twice. You know what? I've been naughty. I've only listened to the first 20 minutes and then for whatever reason I had to turn it off and I've not gone back to it because I know how cringe it is. It's cringe but hilarious, obviously it's our embarrassment.

so I'm happy, I'm fine with that. And we always joke, don't we always say hashtag podcast purposes. Like if it makes us laugh, it's going to make other people that. But it was just so rogue, so not cricket. And then we threw in the tiniest bit about cricket at the end to make it fit into the cricket podcast title. Yeah, and that went well because England got absolutely hammered. Years, years. But to put into context how those stories came about, you were sat with housemate Phoebe and you said,

do that voice note about the meal deal. No, she did. To be fair, she did. She was like, I'm going to send the voice note, but I sat next to her when she did it. So I have got a little video of her filming it in my own living room. Then I message Harry saying, send that voice not in of when we first met, will you?

Oh, that's so funny. I will. I'll go back and listen to it. So me and Harry need to break up because we need more podcast stories for next year. Well, let's be honest. Let's be really truly honest here, Al, if you wanted to, we could get a lot more stories about you and Harry. You don't need to break up.

There's been a lot, a lot of content in there. I'm glad you said of me and Harry, thank you. Yes. Yes. The rest of the stories, I could keep you all going for a month anyway. Anyway, I don't have much on my sticky note, I don't think. Let me check. Oh, yes, I do.

but it's more around who we're going to go upstairs with so save that one. The other thing I just wanted to mention was obviously I had to do that video of the CSK RCB drink when I got in someone messaged me saying you are a chameleon and it

really made me laugh because I think I am a chameleon. Yeah I made me laugh once I understood it yeah you didn't get it. You were like why have you caught a tan already but no I think it means because I change allegiances really quickly because I've gone from Manchester to Supercharges

and then CSK to our CB in this piece of a night. I just thought you'd been sat by the pool. No, but yeah, that made me laugh. I'm a chameleon. You are a chameleon, but you're a good one. That's why you're fluttering round. Yeah, floating, floating just between the teams. Have you got anything on your sticking out? No, but.

I know who I want to go upstairs with if that's okay right well I know who I want to go upstairs with do you want to share you go first and then see if we might see if we've actually picked up on the same news this week oh mine's not news mine's um purely for their hospitality okay so the changing room cross it's a whole new level when you work with the men's game oh yeah you know you've got to

can't go in the changing room when they're getting a knock? Well, you can't knock. Glass windows I can see right through. Right, okay. So I have to pretend that I can't see in and say, is it all right if I come in, even though I can see that someone's getting changed?

And I'm not allowed to see them getting changed because of religious reasons and things like that. So they've got to be really, really careful. And because there are some players that you don't shake hands with, there are some that you can and vice versa. We're using the umpires rooms instead. Therefore, I have to knock on the umpire's door and say, anyone getting changed

so I just go and hide in the umpire's room where they're not getting changed so they've been really hospital hospital hospital they've been really hospital nice hospitable

hospitable so who we're going upstairs with another names right okay right well in that case my umpiring story this week is you might have seen it well you've not seen it on the news obviously because you don't know what I'm going to talk about

but Taylor Swift did a concert at the MCG the other day. I have seen this. Oh, he's eating it? And she did this shout-out to Maria Rasmus saying that she knows one of the people who, I think she said, referee the games or fly the games. I can't remember what she said. I can't remember exactly what she said.

I might have thrown her under the bus here, but... It's not real life, you know that. She doesn't know Maria Rasmus? No. It was someone taking the Mick on social media. It was a quote, wasn't it? It was somebody making up a quote. Oh.

All right. Well, I really like it and I want to believe it. Okay, you believe it. You believe it. I didn't wonder how they would have crossed past. You had to know that day and having a drink. No, it's because during the NFL final, she celebrated by just putting her finger.

up like giving it out and then so on was like imagine that's for maria azma so she didn't did she play at the mcg she did play at the mcg yes but she doesn't know maria rasmus no okay so why do we go step for taylor swift we might as well okay let's go all of them all together we tell the stories of how billionaires made them money. And we decide if they are good or bad. Our latest episode is probably the most famous person in the world right now. Yes, it's the record-breaking, industry-shaping Taylor Swift. You know her music, but do you know how she became the first ever billionaire musician?

It involves some huge public feuds. And some messy legal battles. So is Taylor Swift good or bad? Listen to good-bad billionaire to find out. If she's bad, the swifties are going to come for us. right i'm going to start us off it is a long one so i need you to bear with me and i need you to concentrate and not just go wow wow okay it's a really nice story al you ready ready ready hi kate and a long time listener first time emailer loved your valentine's podcast i was cringing

and laughing the whole way through whilst driving home god knows what the people in the other car thought i'm taking you back to august the 27th 2013. Apart from being my 49th birthday, it turned out to be a very special day. My then 14-year-old niece had recently moved in with my partner and myself and she was going through a really hard time at home. She was being bullied at school and had started to seek escape in alcohol and exotic cigarettes. So the family felt a change of scene might help. As a hugely talented cricket myself, I once helped my team win the Mid-Ssex Division 8 title. We were demoted the next season and never reached those Heady Heights again? Well, that's another story. My sister bought me

tickets to watch the England versus Australia T20 at Chelmsford as a birthday treat, and I literally dragged my niece and her best friend along to watch with me. Despite their reservations, they seemed to enjoy the experience, and England win helped, and after the match, they went down to the boundary fence to try and get a few selfies with some players. As you ladies always do, both teams spent a long time talking to the fans after the match, and my niece had a particularly long chat with Danny Wyatt. I wasn't party to what was said. I chose to stand back and give them space, although I did photo bomb one selfie. Whilst we've talked about it many times, I still don't know exactly what Danny said, but the ladies' performance and their willingness to chat after

had a massive effect. I drove home with two different girls that day. They seemed inspired by what they had witnessed. Not so much the game, but it opened their eyes to what women can achieve and the possibilities open to them. Since then, it was my niece that asked me to come watch the ladies play and is now a huge cricket badger. So cut to July 2023 and she graduates from Bathy University with BSC in sports science and a whole world of opportunity at her feet. She has worked damn hard to achieve that but admits that day was the spark that started her thinking. I'm sure you get loads of stories telling you how you both and the

other ladies in the game play a much bigger role in people's lives than you'll ever realise. Sharing your highs and lows on the podcast is a fantastic way to entertain as well as help people and I hope when you're having one of the lows that you can think of all the life-changing things that you've achieved, most of them without even realising it, and it'll give you a little lift. 11 years on, and I still haven't managed to get a proper selfie with Danny, but I'm determined to one day, and now, thanks to you two, I have the perfect line of, where's your nearest beating you?

I purposely haven't named my niece. Oh, what's your favourite meal deal? Yeah. I purposely haven't named my niece as she's an avid listening to your podcast and will know that she will know that this is about her. if she wishes to tell her friends that's her choice but please keep up the amazing work kindish regards Glenn oh that is so sweet how good is that story often forget like when people meet athletes how it can be life changing yeah I'm going to send that on to Danny as

well because like unknowingly Dan and obviously without this podcast we wouldn't know that story and Dan's never going to hear that story so I'm going to send that on to her and let I know that she changed one's life. Yes, Dan. Hi, Kate and Alex. Many time listener, first time email. Email, I know. Here we go.

I haven't read for a long time. I started writing, but I can't read. I have a great story for both of you growing. I have a great story of both a growing and new love of cricket and my own special Katie. Thank you. Back in 2022, I thought of four was exclusively reserved for golf, no longer. I have since been introduced to the sport by my special someone that is extremely passionate about it. Cricket is definitely a way of life.

I am very lucky to have met Katie and I have consequently had a wonderful time including going to see plenty of cricket, including the Washes, and Tammy's 200, and much more of the 100 games. This is open an entire new world that I never knew existed. Cricket is an incredible sport and an amazing community. The best way I can think to describe is like going to a festival with none of the mud or dodgy facilities. I'm hugely grateful for meeting Katie because of the fun we have together. It would absolutely make her valentines by getting a mention on the podcast. Unfortunately, I couldn't be with Katie for valentines as I'm away with work,

so please, please, please make this happen. otherwise she might not take me to see any more cricket games. A big thank you to you both. Keep up the good work. P.S. When is the next Nobles Live? Alex. It's a week late, but happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day, Katie and Alex.

Nice story, another lovely, wonderful MetMod partner, now love cricket story. When is the next Nobles Live? We've not got anything in the diary, but we've definitely asked the BBC to do a few more, haven't we? yeah yeah um i love that they refer to cricket as going like going to a festival but without the mud or the dodgy facilities yeah i mean cricket can't be quite viby do you like festivals never been to one view no neither actually but i can't imagine it's something i'd enjoy

i think we could do it if we can't prevent it rather than stay in a tent yeah yeah that i'd yeah I would need I would need the ability to get clean you missed it I can't see you on the email so I've just got your face in the corner yeah hi Kate and Alex

listed alphabetically and in descending order of World Cup winners medals so far so far exactly so far question if you're at a cricket match and you're not working and you're not playing, you're just watching.

Which cricketer would you want to sit with all day for good chat about the game and random other chats that naturally occurred during the day? That's from Mike. Mike Kelsey in Romania. Okay, so until this week, my answer probably would have been Catherine Brunt,

Siver Brunt for entertainment purposes, maybe. Someone like that, but are you, obviously? Yeah. I have met a young lad called Daharney and he is like Mark Wood Catherine Siver Brunt on steroids

Oh wow Okay He is an incredible human He's so funny He just about speaks English enough That you can just laugh with him Right okay Yesterday it was our S&C's birthday

And he basically just went and put his face in the cake Okay, Dahani. So I want to see, like, you know, like in his bedroom, like, when he's no one else around, does he lie there? Like, oh, where are you going? Where are you going? That's used all my energy. That's used all my energy. Or is he like a hamster on a hamster wheel and just keeps going?

Keeps going. How old is he? It'll be about 20 or younger. Okay, so he's young lad. So he's got the energy. He has got the ability to be energized. but maybe you need to ask him so I'm going to sit with DeHarnie

okay I would sit with two people I would sit with hen cowen hand two fingers H2 fingers if you're playing the drinking game what a throwback oh wow oh wow and Glenn Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell is so funny to watch cricket with why you've been there you've been When he's just like, he commentates and he just... Oh, because he's like, calls everyone rubbish because they can't do what he does because he's so good. Yeah, because he's so good of what he does.

Also, he just scored another 100 last week, but we didn't even mention. I've lost count. I keep thinking it's the replay is coming up, but it's not, he just scored another 100 in a T20 game. I do. I do as well. I'm like, I'm thinking like the World Cup content of putting another replay out and no, he's scored another 100.

But yeah, Hen and Glenn. Hen and Glenn. Glenn and Glenn. Hello, Kate and Alex, a long-time listener and a fan of both the podcast and the bowling. On hearing about so many things about your personal lives, it was pretty funny for me to notice how much I have in common with Kate, especially around being more of an indoors person, unless, of course, I misheard stuff, and about taking time to process every single little thing. Nothing more.

Cheers. And good luck for the WPL. Amand. That makes me sound like I need professional health. help. Well. I mean, I do. Let's be honest. We've known that for a long time. Hi, Alex and Kate. Kate and Alex, and not forgetting Henry too. Henry's not here today, but we'll still shout him out. Long time listener, first time emailer. Just heard your Valentine's Day special podcast with the Tail Enders. It was absolutely brilliant, had me laughing out loud. And yes, it was more than the usual shambles, but all the better for it. I also listening to Tail Enders podcast, but the Find episode was so much more than the sum of the individual parts. Thank you all for brightening up a very wet and cold Tuesday morning. Best of luck for your adventures in India and Pakistan.

Take care, Val. Hey up, sausages. Just listen to the... Sausages. Griff? Is this... Oh, is Griff? This is your dad?

I think this is Griff's dad. Phil Gris. Hey up, sorry. Just like... This could be... Griff's dad. Hey up, sausages. Listen to it, the pancake day special today, and I thought it was brilliant.

Admittedly, you didn't cover much cricket, but that's not a bad thing when you consider how often you make me chuckle. Thank you so much. We'll be a regular listener from now on. If Alex gets to hear, it is Griff's dad. Alice goes to hear about this email. Consider the weight loss thing accepted. Wait.

My head's been all over the place for the last. 14 months and I need to lose two stone as a result. Not sure how much that is in KG but willing to share updates as I get fit again. Frustration will be provided by the current tennis elbow that prevents things such as gym, press-ups or even running but I'm determined to get back to where I was in November 22. Keep doing what you're doing. Good look in the PSL, the WIPL now I don't know if that's Griff's dad but it just makes me laugh that it could be Griff's dad. the old weight loss going out? Good.

Don't me to stand? Oh my God. Why don't we do live weight? A live way on the podcast. Here we go. So I love the fact that you've dragged a few people along with you here. She's getting on the scales.

62.5. Yes. So is that 3KG down already? Something like that. I'm fully clothed. I imagine. See, that's just what a good, healthy week does for you. yeah I only ate half my chips yesterday

and you'd I think what it is is when you're asleep for most of the day and you don't need to eat then you're going to lose some weight yeah honestly we're laughing so David Willie's like big into his like fitness and things and he was educate

that's me choking on my own voice who's educating me about his diet and things and I was like oh I'm on a diet while I was here while I'm here and he was like all right I've got to lose weight so what are you doing I was like I ate half my chips and he was like you'd be serious

I was like yeah I only ate half the chips that were on my plate normally I would eat them all so therefore in my mind half the calories surely it works in some some warped universe

but yeah you're eating half your calories there you go you're on your feet more though you're going to be burning more calories yeah I've gymmed a few times I'm coaching I'm just active. You're on your feet, you're active, you've got active job now.

Although you were a professional athlete in your previous life, so. I got doms from playing football. Oh, good God. Good God. Yeah. Right, last one. Go on then. Were you going to say something?

No, I was going to say, is that it? No, last one. So, I'm writing to let you know about the other exciting cricket event taking place in India this month. England seniors, fresh from their ashes victory in 2000. or one of the 14 national teams competing over the next few weeks for the over 60s World Cup taking place in Chennai.

Come on England. Best wishes from Denise. Yes. Come on the over 60s. I want to hear about that. Keep us updated, Denise. Is it walking cricket? Is it still running cricket? I think it'll still be running cricket. No, I'm joking. 60's not that old. My dad will kill me if I say that because he's 60 next year. Yeah, well, he might get a game.

Well, how do you qualify to play for England and over 60s, do you think? Well, you've got to be over 60, I'm guessing. You've got to be English. See, this is what I need professional help. I think that that's the only qualifications you need, and you need to be able to play cricket. And over 60. Well, good luck to them.

I hope they go well. More test match cricket starting on Friday in Ranchi Crossy I haven't got time to open my eyes let alone watch cricket Yes but Alex

we are the cricket No Ball's the Cricket podcast So we need to talk about the cricket I'll bring you all the PSL action Well I'll bring you the Whipple action But we do need to talk about The small matter of the fact That there is a test match series

Going on in India We are 2-1 down in the series And we lost To India by the biggest margin in history, I think it was. Or it was India's biggest win margin ever. What did you think about England coming out and saying that JSWalt has learnt from them?

Yeah, was that Ben Duckett's quote? Yeah. Yeah, I see what he's saying. I can see that, I think, well, I'm hoping what he meant was that teams are having to play a little bit differently because of the way that England are playing. However, I do not believe that Basbel

era has created a test match team that can strike over six, seven runs and over, because it would have happened in the past before. But they're just confident. They're a confident group of people. I'd love to be in that dressing room and just never feel self-doubt. So we needed to chase like 600, didn't we, in the last innings? And I was waiting... And we were four down and we're still trying to do it.

And, well, I was just waiting for them to come out saying we're going to try and do it in this session or something like that. Because that's the kind of chat that they held with the media, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Jimmy, we don't need 180 of us. We'll do it in 60. You lost in 60, but you did it in 60, I suppose. Are we entertained?

I think we are. I am entertained. Crossie, good luck in your first game with the Whipple. By the time we do another pod, I'll be halfway through the PSL. You've played a couple of games. let's be completely honest out by the time we do a next podcast they at all could be over that's true i i i am we are contracted for once a week but i'm promising you now we're struggling we are struggling we had to wake our up at 10 30 today to do this podcast

and it's been a real effort for us so we're struggling that's so embarrassing i'm basically on england time harry goes to bed and gets up before i do how weird is that and he yeah Yeah, that is. But you're having a meal at 1.30 in the morning, so I don't know what we're expecting. Yeah, that's true. That is true. And then last night they were like, you're going to the team room. I was like, got a game tomorrow, lads.

I was like, go to bed. Go to bed. One of the young lads to do. One of the young lads, right, sorry to interrupt you, came to a team meeting and he's like, I'm tired. I was like, oh, did you not sleep well? He went, I went to bed at 6.30 in the morning. I was like the sun was up, part. we've got a game today

wow this is just this is what franchise cricket is though isn't it you just you're in your own bubble and life makes sense when you're in your bubble but when you get out that bubble you're like what was I doing what was I doing what was I doing

going to sleep at 4 a.m and getting up at midday but it's okay because it makes sense in your lifestyle you basically do it night shifts out always been a grafter okay If you want to get in touch with us, you can do it on No Ball's the Cricket Podcast at BBC.com.

That's not our email address, Alex. Is it not? Nope. What's our email? Nobles podcast at BBC.com.com. I don't even know what you just said. Nobles the cricket podcast. something.

No Bulls podcast at VVC.com. com. Wow. I can't believe I forgot. I've been away one week. I forgot our email address. See you next week, everybody. Might be the week after.

Might be the week after. Who knows? Bye. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Oh, that's... Boulder! Laving a ball alone, Litchfield.

Think it's the wobble ball. And it just nips back. It jags back. It's the nip back. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty from Cross. On the Football Daily podcast.

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