Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - What's that? TWO awards?!

Episode Date: April 16, 2023

Celebration time for cricketers Kate Cross and Alex Hartley after No Balls picked up two awards! Plus, all the reaction to last week's special interview with Dane van Niekerk.

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Yeah, baby. I'm Kate Cross. You're Alex Hartley. We've got no guests this week. We're not going to be around the bush. Because we just want to talk about the fact that all you lovely people are so amazing.

We ask you to vote for us and you did. And we've bloody won. I can't believe it. I can't believe you all actually voted. Do you remember that one time we entered a podcast award and we got like three votes

and it was me and you and my mum? My dad didn't know how to do it so we couldn't get that fourth vote. And now we've just won two awards. And this is no word of a lie crossy. I've just been in a bar in Hong Kong. And someone there was like, have you ever heard of Middle Stump, please, by Mark Wood?

I was like, yeah, I've just beat him in the forecast awards, right? Do you mean that Runners Up award that they won? Sorry, no, no, not, well done, guys. It's really good to come second, well done. I have read every single message that people have tweeted us, DM does, and it's been overwhelming. We had a billion to go through about the Darnay episode, which we'll go about back to in a minute.

But someone tweeted us saying, I'm basically, they were saying there were a day one listener and they were like two friends, you know, in a bedroom with a phone between them, uploading silent episodes and now they're double award winners. And it really caught me up. And we're still, still recording with our phones. We've gone back to it. It sounds good though, doesn't it?

The episode with Darnay actually sounded one of our best. Yeah, it did. but thank you so much for voting like do you know what the best cricket podcast award is like amazing right we've got the best cricket podcast in the country that's ludicrous all because we don't talk about cricket we've got cricket in our title for me we've got that inclusivity and diversity one yeah that that that's the one that to me is the the shit yeah that's the one that we should be really proud of and I think that's where a lot of people's messages, kind of, they were alluding to that, weren't they? Because we, a lot of people said about

Dine's episode that we made her feel safe to be able to talk so openly and candidly. And, you know, we, I don't think we did anything special. We just know these people and we're, you know, you've made friends with Dine this week and people feel comfortable. But I think that was, yeah, that was the award that I was like, if we win that, that's actually really special. Are we, are we fucking won? My mum message me, and she's like, do you win anything? Have you got, do you get like a trophy or do you get anything? I was like, I think, I think we just get a bit more credibility now.

Like we're not just two girls dicking about. People actually think we're all right. My mum said, oh my God, can you believe it? Well done, Flossie. And I said, how? So good. And she said, this is really, really sweet. Because you are both authentic and it comes across normal women

who have reached the top of their professions in sport who still have everyday worries. Oh, that's really cute How cute is that? It is true, we do have everyday worries. Yeah, we really do. Speaking of everyday worries, how are you? Yeah, I can talk about it now.

I didn't really want to talk about this for a darn eight last week, but you asked me twice how I am and I couldn't go into it. I know. I was like, come on, come on. Tell her you've been really ill. Tell her you've been really ill.

Yeah, so it's not a nice story actually, but basically went travelling for the last couple of months that I've been away, did India, Dubai, India, picked up a really nasty bug, been really poorly since, lost quite a bit of weight, didn't know what it was, had loads of tests done, we couldn't find it. When we say lost quite a bit of weight, like you've lost half your body. Basically, yeah, I got on the scales. I was like, oh, I don't normally have a six in my number on that kilo thing.

So I'm like mid-60s now in the key, and I'm like, that is not my finding weight. So I've lost a lot of weight. To put it into context, I've put weight on and I'm now in the 60s. So yeah, it started to get a bit of a worry because I couldn't get this diagnosis. Anyway, we finally got to the bottom of it. Five weeks later, I've got a really nasty parasite living in my intestine, which is disgusting. Sorry everyone that's eating breakfast, lunch or dinner right now.

But anyway, I'm on to my antibiotics. I'm feeling more myself because I was really quite flat about that. the whole thing because basically I've got nothing in my body had no energy to just expel on anything other than just trying to sleep and you know survive well yeah well we've we've barely spoken since I've been in Hong Kong like compared to normal and I'm like well she's just sleeping in being sick and crying basically yeah so it's been like a baby I am I am like there has been days where I might have thought about needing the nappy as well because it's been yeah Anyway, remember when we spoke about winning that award for that podcast

because we talk about anything and everything and we've got everyday worries, this is it. This is what you get in people. Well, I googled said Parasite that you've got, and it's really cute. It's purple. It's not. It is not. It looks, its face looks like a little monster munch.

No, not a monster munch. Those alien crisps you used to be able to get. That's what I'm thinking of, not the monster lunch. Aliens. Yeah, monster munches are just hands. Yeah. Yeah, not a monster. Yeah, when you said that to me earlier,

I did ignore it. Yeah, you did ignore it. And I was like, it's quite a good analogy. But anyway, I'm on the up. Cricket season starts in a week. You come back on Monday. We've not seen each other for like, feels like four months.

It's been about four minutes. Yeah. We're going to go for burger and chips. I'll have a salad. And you have, you have cheese because you need to put weight on. When did we arrange this? Is this now?

I'm saying like when I see, you need to eat, I need to eat less. So we'll arrange something. Okay. Well, I thought we might be able to. I'm going to say it on the podcast now because then it might put a bit of pressure on Henry. He could just edit it out if we want to do though. But we have been promised going to Media City and actually going into a studio and recording this podcast from now on. And obviously we need you to be back in the country to do that. So maybe next episode we'll actually be in a studio. Oh my God. Let's do it. And then we'll go Fernandez. All right. Yeah. How are you?

I'm good. Thank you. I'm good. I'm good. I. I'm so, so ready to come home. I've had really up and down tournaments. I'm at Fair Break. We described it last week. Really good opportunity. I've been presenting for like the first time ever. I've learned a lot.

I've messed up quite a lot. Toying costs is. Yeah, twice, three times, four times. I've said, hello and welcome to Fair Break. It's a sunny day here in Hong Kong. I've got the two captains alongside me. It's time for the towing course. Nice.

Nice. And then I'm thinking in my brain, that you start again it's live like you can't start again maybe that's just going to become your thing now it's a bit like park arc it doesn't sometimes in your head it sounds normal but you know it's not quite right so toying costs might become a thing what are you trying to say car park i've never heard that do you not sometimes say park park by mistake oh well you're probably saying it and you don't even notice yeah true true um so i've learned a lot i've been away for well like you said it feels like four months but it hasn't been it's been two and a half weeks so you fly home

sunday night you home monday back training probably monday afternoon knowing you uh nah i'll probably have a day off um big day monday crossy big big big day me and harry start our living together you're moving in together congratulations does this mean i've got to get rid of all my other boyfriends yeah you got to close those dms up now i'll poor harry he's got to put up with me now for the rest of his Yeah, that's it. Official. Congrats, though. And, but also,

Fee's still going to be there. Yeah, there's the three of us, you know, with a thruple. Yeah, nice. Nice, a nice loose thruple. They do keep telling me that they're going to rent out the spare room and when I'm away

and they'll just share a bed. Do you know what? That wouldn't surprise me. No, so I don't know if I need to be worried about that, but as long as he's happy. I wouldn't be worried about it if I was you. I think of all the people, Fee's not the one to worry about.

I think you'll be all right. I think it'll be all right. This is meant to be an emergency pod. It's actually just a weekly podcast because we did Darnay's episode last Saturday. Can we just touch on Darnay's episode? Because I don't think we'll just touch on it, actually. I think we should speak about it

because the feedback we got was like nothing else we've ever had, bar possibly Hens episode. Yeah, I couldn't believe it, to be honest, because obviously it came out overnight so I was asleep and you well like you text me overnight about a winning award I can't wait to see the messages you're like we've had so many messages

and then so I'm reading through them all and I can't believe how many we've had and like it's all down to Darnay like a load of people said well done to us but we did nothing we planned some questions but it was all Darnay just being able to speak so so so well about

what she's been through because honestly let me tell me tell everyone, when you go through something like that, a month to process it is not a long time. She will still be dealing with the emotion of it all, the complexity of it, because let's be honest, she's not going to have told us absolutely everything that got said. She didn't. She said that, didn't she? There was conversations behind closed doors. But she probably won't get over this ever in her life because her career has ended the complete opposite to how she wanted it to. And she's been able to come on this pod and so eloquently like discuss

it with us and it was just unbelievable i actually listened back to it yesterday and i was like yeah go on gal that was amazing yeah it was i saw a message saying um love no balls like it's it's lighthearted it's fun but congratulations on just letting dana talk yeah well we didn't need to do anything did we we like steered her a tiny bit but basically she knew what she needed to say she knew how she wanted to say it she came across so well there was no point her coming on this podcast and being bitter and and saying, you know, things were really crap. Everyone probably knows they were really crap. I just thought she was, like, brilliant.

And testament to her, and, you know, she'll be able to hold her head high coming out of it because, you know, I think she just did a really good job. Yeah, it was great. And she also apologised for talking too much because afterwards we were like, we didn't even ask you all the questions. She was like, should have just told me to stop talking?

I was like, I was really interested in listening. Absolutely not. So we don't have any sticky notes, because... Well, well, well, well. Oh. I've not checked mine for a while. All right, okay.

I don't have any on this photo. Maybe I do. Let me look. I have a few, Crossy. In fact, I've got a few. Okay. So, number one... Yep.

Famous in the USA. You were spotted in the USA. Hell yeah. So, do you remember I went to Cyprus and really randomly got spotted? So I was in the... queue for Thunder Mountain at Disney World and this guy was like are you Kate Cross? I was like yeah he's like oh my God can I get a picture so I was just in the queue at Thunder Mountain it's like an hour long

queue and this guy asked me for a picture I was like what on earth is going on did you have to have small talk no but he did I said to mum because I was with my mum at the time and she was like this is getting ridiculous now and he did have a Liverpool top on so I was like they're from near us it's just a huge coincidence that there's someone from near us around here is in America at the same time and happens to be a cricket fan so it's just a very small world I think yeah but famous in the US

of A do you want all my sticky notes yeah I've got nothing I've just got my wine list that I've been making about what I like and what I don't like and what I may be like oh yeah nice so there's one here which is a proper throwback

you got told on an aeroplane that your label was hanging out your shorts Oh my god I forgot about that do you know I forgot about this I text you about it

and I was mortified so it was when I was flying back from South Africa so this was like two months ago and for me to get home earlier I had to do one of the legs in economy class and I was like

I know I know sub story Kate I was like I need to get home So I did, they took the early flight, but it meant that I did the economy class flight. And as I was put in my bag in the overhead locker, some woman then, when I've sat down, comes over to me. She's like, taps me on the shoulders. So I've taken my headphone out. She's like, your shorts, she didn't speak, like, fluent English. She was like, they're from Zara.

So I was like, yeah, yeah, they are. And she was like, yeah, they're the Zara label. So I was like, yeah, okay. and I just didn't get what she was saying to me at all and then she just left I was like thanks I can imagine you being like quite rude as well I wasn't no I wasn't rude I said thanks for noticing my shorts and from Zara but I was just like okay

didn't really know what you should get in at and then as I was like in this flight I was like wriggling around my seat and something was digging into me and I feel like I still have my label in them and it was hanging out the whole time so that was embarrassing yeah like the one that's attached it's like Zara 34 pounds yeah How embarrassing.

So yeah. Two more things on my sticking out. We've got a new name for this podcast and it's not going to be called No Balls anymore. It's going to briefly be called the Nighthawkers because you slid into Stuart Broad's DMs about 10 years ago and you only just told me last week.

Why is this the most embarrassing podcast for me? Gosh, yeah, another story to tell there, isn't there? So we've obviously really, really, really got stuck into you for tweeting him, openly... You slid into his DMs. Openly tweeting him. So there is two stories about me sliding into his DMs, aren't there? Because one of them was a mistake.

Do you remember? I tried to reply to your story, replied to his by mistake. That was embarrassing. Yeah, I mean, you might as well just read it out because you're going to. But I found it. It came up on my story. a time hop, which is an app that basically shows you what you did on this day, one year

ago, two year ago, three year ago, and probably, well, it was 2000 and, what year is it? Seven. Seven. So that is now 16 years ago. You messaged in the 30th of August 2007 at 14 minutes past 11 at night. Hey, you probes think I'm a right, geek dot, dot, dot. But I had a picture with you today. at Old Trafford. I play at Lanks and was just watching the game today.

Didn't stay till the end, but you... Didn't stay till the end, but obviously, no, you did really, really well. Well done. Oh, God. I also met your sister on Monday at Blackpool. She was doing the stats for the England women's team. Full stop. Kiss. Did I send a kiss?

You put a kiss. Now, there's no question on that. there's no wonder he didn't reply. No, no, no. The fact that there's no question isn't the reason that he didn't reply to that. That is mortifying. Right, let's just throw some context around this. So 2007, I was 16, 15, 16.

There's the picture. We'll have to put the picture up on social media because look at his kid. What is that? Look at you. Oh, I think I look. I look not too dissimilar to how I look now. I think I'm, I would say I'm doing okay, but yeah, so I'm 16 years old there.

I must have really liked him and thought, I'll just see if he'll, you know, chat to me on Facebook. But if I've slid into his DMs, does that not mean that we must have been Facebook friends? Could you slide into just random as DMs? Yeah, you can, you can. I like the fact that you obviously didn't stay till the end of the game,

but saw you do really well. Well done. Well done. What am I? Like, between us, we should have a restraining order or he should have a restraining order on us because what on earth? No wonder he doesn't like speak to us ever

because we are the weird kids that slid in and tweeted him. We're like the Haley Bieber of the cricket world. Is that how she got Justin? Yeah. So it does work. Yeah, it worked for her. Keep going, girl. Keep going.

All right. Do you know what's going to be really embarrassing as well? Because I know what the BBC are going to do. And they'll quote this because they did this with you because you tweeted him saying that, oh, I saw you hurt yourself, hope you're okay, baby. Let me know if I can look after you. And they quote, tweeted that and put it all over the website.

So they'll probably do the same with this with the photo and he'll see it. And then I'll have to work with him at Sky and it'll be horrendous. He'll be a match made in heaven. Congratulations on your new child with Molly. by the way, Stuart. So we are the Nighthawkers award-winning pod stalkers.

The Nighthawker Stalkers. I'm going to get you one of those t-shirts that his dad was wearing the other week that's got Nighthawk on it. And then just write on it with Sharpie Stalker. Stuart, I'm so sorry. I am really sorry. That was really embarrassing.

But thanks for getting back to me. It's not rude at all. And there is only one umpire we go upstairs with this week, Crossie, because your mate who you chase down the street asking for a selfie. God, I'm terrible. Some people might be listening to this for the first time because they've seen that we've won an award and they might want to see what it's about.

And I'm just coming across like an absolute weirdo. But if you ever feel nervous to ask Crossie for a selfie, just know she does it to other people. It doesn't matter. For anyone that doesn't know, again, I'll tell the story and context for you. My friend in Australia, we were in a bar and he spotted that Alim Dar was in the bar and he was like, oh, I really like Alim Dar, I think he's a great umpire, wouldn't mind a picture with him.

So I was like, come on, we'll go and ask him. And as we go to ask him, Alim Dar gets up and leaves the venue. So I just really, like, not embarrassed at all. chased him down the street and shouted, Alim, Alim, can we get a photo? My mate did get the photo, but yeah, I did, I chased him down the street, so, gosh, I'm not well, really, really not well. So this has been a span of selfies over the past 17 years. Gosh. Anyway, he's done his last ever test match, so we're going upstairs with him because congratulations on a wonderful career.

Yes, we're going to miss seeing you, Alim, especially my friend who really like. you and, you know, I've got that photo. BBC 5 Live. Cammy and Ben's proper football podcast is back for a brand new season. I can't believe. How can they give us a second series? What was the off-season like for you as a player?

How long would you have before you started getting really annoying for Anne? A day. To be fair, that's longer than I thought. We've had a bit of downtime, but we've also been recording a load of fantastic podcasts. Yeah, we have indeed. BBC Sounds is the best. place to listen with new episodes available first a month before anywhere else you don't want to miss it cammy and ben's proper football podcast listen on BBC sounds question number one how much

did you laugh when you won the awards so Henry put in our group we've got a WhatsApp group called the Shambles podcast which is me you and Henry obviously and then Charlotte's in it who did a little bit of producing for us but doesn't produce anymore but still stays in the group lover for that she's there for the bans she's just there for the bans there for the bans and henry just put the bits that i then put up on instagram so it was like one two three of who'd won the award so i was like oh like is this the final vote and henry was like yeah you've won it so we actually got sent a really nice little graphic saying that we are the winners of the award which our other big producer adam emailed to me and i put the really crappy ones

on Instagram that it's just basically a list of who entered the awards so she'll probably put the nice ones up as well yeah we probably should i reckon we'll milk it for a while yeah literally how many times can we say that we're award-winning podcasters i don't know but we have just want two awards um i'm actually on our emails you're on instagram aren't you because i put something out today but anyway hi Alex and kate's in brackets which is a bit of a kick in the teeth actually. Anyway, it is titled question for Alex. Do you use fake tan?

If so, what brand do you use, please? You always have a lovely colour and glow, hoping it's a fake tan and not a natural tan from tour in the world, as I can't really afford that. Cheers, Gemma. Gemma, yeah, it's not Bondi Sands. It's unnatural.

Other fake tams are available, but you're annoying. You have one day of being in the sun and you're just so brown the next day. Yeah, yeah, I am. And it's really weird because my dad is so pale and ginger. Yeah, but your milkman's not. Comes around a lot, actually.

Even your mum always got on well, didn't they? Yeah, honestly. Who gets milk every day? Man, look, Shig brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours. Oh, gosh. Would you consider going into schools and talking to girls about sport?

Yeah, I used to do that with chance to shine. Do you know what? This is going to sound a bit pathetic, but we don't really have time, do we? Honestly, I barely have time to breathe. Do you know when we went to that Ed Shearing Day with the Ruth Strauss Foundation? Yeah.

I said it well, I've got to do a video for them soon and I'm dreading it because I keep forgetting, or I just can't say it, can I? Can't say the name of the charity? We got auctioned off and someone won us to do a, what do you call it, like a training session with them down at Lords. And that was nearly a year ago and we've still not been able to find a day to do it because we're just so busy. So we would come into schools, but could they listen to the podcast instead?

Unless you're going to pay well. Love the show. Your talk of mixing inappropriate foods reminded me of a guy I used to work with who always ate a Mars bar and a pack of cheese on a new criss at the same time. He swore by it. Also, is there any chance of a live show?

I saw you with the tail enders up in Manchester a couple of years back. Must be time. You're on your own live show. Bye now. Keep up the good work. Cheers. Tom Willett.

And they've sent us his number. Should we text him? We are going to do a live show. I'm just going to tell you now. Oh, we? Summer set. Somerset have been in contact, Somerset have said you want to come to Porton. We've told them this.

Oh. Well, yeah, we're doing one in Somerset. We're doing it. And also, there might be something on the cards, which is exciting, but I'm not going to give anything away yet because it's not been confirmed. I don't think I know that. You do know. I texted you about it the other day.

I probably didn't read. You did because you replied to me. You're a fan of chocolate and Chris, so aren't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm very good at Chris. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I love chocolate.

In fact, this is how, right, do you know how I've just been telling you off air that I've put loads of weight on, right? Yeah. But I don't understand how when my Easter egg has lasted me two weeks. That is a funny one. What are you eating around that, though? Are you too full to be able to finish the Easter egg? Is that the problem? Yeah. I'm full of dumplings. You are a little dumpling now. You know? I am. You look great. Thank you. I really don't.

Any mental, my dress is tight, any mental advice for my daughter who is injured with an ACL? Oh no. Hence just in their ACL as well. Well, the only thing I will say about is that injuries are really tough. Listen to the physios, they know what they're doing, they'll guide you in the right direction, but also remember that Beth Mead, Lioness winner, Lioness winner, Euro's winner from the Lioness team also has done her, so you're not fighting a battle on your own. And her misses did it exactly the same time.

That is weird, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, we've got an LBW. Throw back. And it says LBW, I get a lot of stick for this. Dear Alex and Kate, I've got an LBW to share with you, and I've been getting so much stick, odd looks and comments for after I've been revealing it to people.

I don't like milk with cereal and still don't. That's not the weird bit, though. When I was a kid, I'd regularly put orange juice in with my Cheerios to help make them softer. My parents thought I was mad, and even people now think it's. really weird and disgusting. But six to eight year old me would strongly disagree. Don't worry. I haven't done it since then. I'm 25 now and I have my cereal bone dry or just have toast. Keep up the good work on the pod. Go well with the ashes and the hundred. George.

George, I don't think you're well. No, George. I can understand why you get in the funny looks. But who's giving you the funny looks really? Because where are you eating your cereal? Because you shouldn't be doing, certainly should be doing this in a public place. No, I have to admit, I sometimes eat cereal dry when, do you know, like if you're at a hotel and you don't want breakfast because I'd rather the 15 minutes in bed, I take one of the little boxes of cereal and just eat them at the ground. That's very different than, like, if you had a choice,

you would put milk on your cereal. George had a choice and he was using orange juice to soften off his Cheerios. That just makes me feel a bit funny. We've got a friend, haven't we, who uses formula milk instead of normal milk. I've done this. We do. I'll tell you who it is off of her. You know who you are

and I know you listen to this podcast so I'm not sorry that I've brought it up again. Grassey, what's your dream pre-season tour? Tour. My dream pre-season tour gosh, anywhere that's hot. Dubai was great, wasn't it?

Dubai was great. India was actually great, but just not for you. Not me, because I was living with that little parasite, so do you know what? We've not spoke about. We've not really gone into the depth of what tour was up to, what we got up to on tour, sorry. And we've got a few new sayings that came out of it, haven't we? Yeah, we have. And we've got a saying that we've, well, I want to share with you all because I think it's a great saying.

And anyone that plays cricket will understand this. Anyone that doesn't play cricket, it doesn't matter. Winners have parties. Losers have meetings. Yeah. Think about it. Make it fit into your world. It doesn't matter whether you work in Tesco, whether you're a cricketer, whether you're a CEO at a really big important building.

Winners have parties. Losers have meetings. Yeah, that's not the one I thought you were going to say. There was so many. I don't know what you're going to say. Right, should we do one more to finish? Yes, yes. Hi, Kate and Alex.

Long-time listener. time email are here for your information bread knife gets cleaned every other time toaster lives out on the kitchen counter every other time that's interesting bit of a hybrid congratulations both of you on being picked in the hundred draft i hope kate has got over the shock of heading over to the other side of the pennines and i'm looking forward to the next round in the battle of the spuds i'll be very grateful if you could please share the fundraising campaign for my friend's son teddy who's three years old he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma last year which is an aggressive childhood cancer

and has just completed two grueling rounds of high-dose chemotherapy. The NHS has been amazing, but unfortunately his parents have been advised that his frontline treatment may not be enough. Friends and family are now rallying around to fundraise for further treatment abroad. The more kids we get into these trials,

the more data we gather, and the more likely we can find a treatment to help more children in the future. If at all possible, could you please share his fundraising campaign webpage on your social media platforms? I understand you may not be able to, but if you can, every little bit does help.

A huge thank you from myself and Teddy's family. And that's from a lady called Lucy. And she says, P.S., I hope to see you both at the county ground in Hove for England's second ODI against Sri Lanka in September. I know it's a long trek down here for you, but I can assure you, we are not in France. You are very, very close to France, though. You're closer to France than you are to Manchester. Of course we will share that. Of course we will.

Yeah, and sending all of our love to Teddy and his family because there's just, just no justice in the world, is there? So we will do everything that we can to make sure that that raises a bit more awareness. We will. I don't know if you remember this, but we've won two awards. Oh my gosh, we're award winners.

Double award winners. Yeah, we've won the best cricket podcast and the other one. The Diversity and Equity Award. You made it something else earlier. Yeah, I did. Guys, honestly, from the bottom of our hearts, Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I said it on our Instagram post because Alex would have posted something going, now we won, and that would have been the content of it. But I literally said, we do not have a show without you because you send us the emails, you make us talk about bread knives and everything in between.

Thank you so much. We genuinely do love you all, not in a weird way. I love you in a weird way. I think, you know, you keep this podcast alive. So thank you so much. Thanks for voting. Next year, we want to win more than two. want to win four we want to double it do play it up and also we might be live by next year so

we might win awards for like live shows or something if that's the thing oh yeah like we'll be that good next year crossy we'll be winning the football award for a cricket podcast yeah why not the possibilities are endless now i know now that we've not well maybe we thought we'd hit our ceiling and actually we've realized that we can be better so we're going to have to be better we can there's always room for improvement if you want to get in touch with us you can email us on. No ballspodcast at BBC.co.com. Nobolls podcast award winners at BBC.co.com. It's so good.

They won two awards. Twice. Yes. Bye everyone. Bye. Thanks for voting. You can't vote anymore. We've already won.

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. The attacker had very good knowledge of banking systems. $2.1 billion in stolen funds. It was a cybercriminal group. It was the Lazarus group again.

These are smart dice. The Lazarus Heist is back for a brand new season. We're following the latest twists and turns. in the incredible story of the Lazarus Group Hackers. The Lazarus Heist, season two from the BBC World Service. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Someone's tried breast milk in their cereal, I'm telling you now. I'll definitely try mine.

What? Yeah, definitely. Well, actually, that's not that weird. That reminds me of the episode of Friends. You don't watch Friends, so it's really difficult to talk to you about Friends, but there is an episode where they all try Phoebe's Breast Milk. Will you try mine? It's not Phoebe's breast milk, actually.

I'll get a stick for that. I'm not trying your breast milk, I'll know, like that time that I didn't let you borrow my underwear. Such a shitmate sometimes. Oh, I'm awful, aren't I? Awful.