Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - World Cup prep and Danni Wyatt returns for a quiz

Episode Date: February 24, 2022

Kate's preparing to play in her first World Cup and the excitement is building. For Alex, it's quarantine and trying to keep herself entertained. Plus, a return for Danni Wyatt.

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And cross strikes in the first over. It's what England we're looking for. Partly falls down. the track comes scoring this time she connects it's either six or out it's six it's six hello and welcome back to no walls the cricket podcast with me Alex Hartley and you Kate Cross did you forget my name then I wanted to introduce you with a different name but that would be weird because your name's Kate Cross what name were you going to go for?

Catherine, which is your name as well? It is actually technically my name. Yeah, but it doesn't, it's not your name, is it? No one really calls me, Catherine. I upset my dad when I'm in trouble, so am I in trouble? Tell me you're in quarantine without telling me you're in quarantine. How are you? Because you actually are, what, you're day five of quarantine now?

I am day five. I lost the plot day two. It was so sad day two. day three and four good i really enjoyed it and now you're over the hill you're like you're on the way down you're nearly there saturday you get out yeah but i don't feel good today okay i've got like an eyeball headache oh i've got a sore throat which i'm a bit worried about okay so we might not be halfway through oh god fingers crossed this is like this is like day none of 14 oh my god i think i'd cry

No, it's not because I can't have COVID because I've not done anything. Very true. Very true. I'm sure you've not. Like, you're in a room for seven days. You feel gross. The aircon's on. You'll just be overthinking. Because what else is there to do in quarantine than overthink?

I have figured this little quarantine. I'm really glad I've experienced it because now I know what it feels like for you lot. And oh my God, now I know why people take breaks for mental health, don't play, don't decide to go on tours, because this is horrific. I mean you're at the very extreme end of it The quarantine, like hard quarantine Isn't obviously not something that we've done a great deal of But yeah, I'm glad it actually

I'm not glad because it's not nice to experience Because it's not nice during quarantine But I'm glad you've got a feel for the mental health side of it I guess Yeah, it's so up and down And it's the little things Like you delivered me some like little goodies yesterday And like it made my day

And I got so excited I had to have a nap. You text me and were like, have you sent me something? And I was training at the time, so I didn't really reply. And you're like, I got too tired. I was so excited I had to have a sleep. You were like, you sound like an excitable puppy. When a puppy gets a zoomies and then has to just fall down and nap, that was you.

That was literally me. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. A bit of another weird week, but we're just kind of rolling them all into one now. All these weird weeks are just coming and going. but we're nearly at like switch on to World Cup phase which is very exciting I'm really looking forward to it

because when you're in a cricket environment you're so used to structure and then for the last probably 10 days we've had no real structure adding quarantine into that obviously because that's just completely abnormal but we got out of quarantine we had a little three day holiday here in Queensland

which was unbelievable but you're still in a cricket environment so it's all been really hard to fathom and I got really tired yesterday as well and I had to go to bed at 7pm because I was overwhelmed so but no I'm good and I'm really excited for the World Cup to properly start now

it feels like you've been on holiday I say in inverted commas for ages and it's not been ages at all it's been because you had obviously your seven days quarantine and then you've had three days out in the world in the worldwide wide world wide world worldwide I don't know what you're trying to say

in the open out in the world out in the world yeah that one it feels like you've just been on a holiday forever yeah well we've not it was very clear that on Monday when we turned back up to work we got all our England kit back out the coffins

and stuff it was very much like every decision you make now has to be with the World Cup in mind at the forefront which obviously is the case but for anyone wondering the reason why we had this holiday is because we were supposed to have a couple of days off after the ashes but because the ashes got changed and we had to come to New Zealand earlier

the compromise was that we'd have a little bit of a break after our quarantine so that is why so if anyone thinks that we're just out here gallivanting we are but we've also been doing some training as well yeah nice i've seen the Aussie girls are also gallivanting now as well so it just shows that you know you need time away from cricket yeah um we've got some bad news haven't we have we The band's breaking up Oh, crossy This is where we tell everybody That this is the end

This is it now No more No more misses and misses In the Manchester Originals No more dancing in the moonlight And dancing under the floodlights No more praying you get a wicket

For the first four games of the tournament No more Hoping my captain doesn't forget about me at Fine Leg No more watching you Well, actually, I definitely will watch you stop the ball with your foot at fine legs, so that's still going to happen. Hang on, that had never happened. Yes, it did.

I have video evidence of this, so don't you even play this card? Okay, yeah, I remember that now. I do remember that now. But that was just this one time. Just the one time in the Manchester original show. But yeah, you, well, the 100 announced everyone who got retained by their teams. And without stating. Thank you very much.

Outstating the obvious, your name was not on the Manchester original's retention list. And it does mean that we will not be playing in the same team for the 100 next year. No, and everyone's got really sad. This is not the end of the podcast. I saw someone tweet yesterday be like, oh my God, is that the end? I was like, no, no, it's just the end of a four-week block. So we still play Thunder together. Then we split up for a while, and then we'll play Thunder together.

And we will still do the pod through the 100, won't we? I think it might be better. Well, it'll be interesting. I'd be like, what if you've been up to, who's your drinking partner, how many wickets you got, are you playing well? See you on Thursday. Yeah, we're actually going to play against each other as well, which will be fun. That would be weird.

You tweeted being like, I can't wait to get you out or whatever, on Instagram. Crossy, if I'm batting, we're in, there's problems. Well, when we played against last year, we didn't get through any wickets, so, you know, we didn't get down to number six, let alone number 11. So if you are batting, I'll be very happy. You're not allowed to say... Henry, can you beat that bit out, please? So, I'm not allowed to tell you which team I'm playing for,

which you just let slip, so Henry's having to beep it out. But yeah, it's exciting. Is it Trent Rockets? Is it London Spirit? Is it Welsh Fire? I can tell you, it's not. Manchester originals. It's not Manchester Originals. You can confirm that. But you've got to wait until like the end of March to let people know, haven't you? Yeah, honestly, I've told everybody anyway.

Like literally, anyone that asks me, like, I've had loads of messages from players being like, where are you going? I'm like, yeah, I think it's a bit different letting people know within the game because the rumour mill is quite strong in the cricket world, isn't it? So I feel like that's, that's a bit different than letting the general public know. I can't wait to like accidentally let it slip during comms or something. Well, I just let it slip then, and I'm quite good at this sort of stuff. But yeah, no, it's exciting. So, shall we tell the story on how it happened?

I think my lunch has just turned up. So every player gets offered a retention offer. So like a bracket. Everyone's seen the money brackets. They're quite available online. And so you got yours happy with it. I accepted it. How do you feel about that, by the way?

How do you feel about people knowing the money bracket? yeah it's weird isn't it yeah it's a bit of an odd one I think it's because it's new for the women's game as well so it's very well known in the men's game how much people earn and stuff and obviously the draft means that everyone literally sees what you get sold for

but there's no drafting women's cricket and it's very secretive with who you're signing for and who you're chatting to so no one knows who I'm chatting to so no one knows how much money I've gone for but in three weeks everyone will know how much money I've gone for and where I've gone to it's just very strange

Anyway, sorry, carry on. So you got offered your bracket and accepted it, thought, yep, thank you, good offer. I got offered my bracket, had a cry because I wasn't very happy with it, but it was not fair, so said, no, I don't want that. And so what I thought was a draft, so I was waiting for teams to come to me.

And you were like, no, Alice, there's no draft in the women's game, you've got to go to teams yourself. I was like, oh, you kept mentioning this draft, and I thought, oh, she's just talking about the next phase of, like, when players then become available because they, you know,

other teams know they haven't signed for the one that they were playing for. And you're like, yeah, no one's talking to me, and I'm a bit sad about it. I was like, do you know you need to let people know that you've not signed for Manchester originals? And you were like, oh, all right, better start ringing people then.

Yeah, and then I went back and forth, back and forth and spoke to this team. they offered me what they did and then me and you had a chat and we were talking about this could potentially be my last year of playing professional cricket and it would be really nice if we played together so i went back to manchester and said okay i'll like set that offer and they basically were like too late yeah they were like we're talking to other people do you know what so i i haven't been told much about the manchester originals player list like who we've been talking to and who we've signed and who had retained and oh my gosh am i so glad that i did not know because could you imagine right

just paint let me just paint a picture like imagine if me as captain Kate cross the captain knew what you were going to get offered but your best friend is also Kate cross and imagine if i like what i don't know what i would have done in that situation yeah so i got offered the very bottom one um for a number of reasons i don't really know them but that's just where Manchester rated me which is completely fine like everyone's got their opinions but if you'd have known that and didn't tell me I'd have been so upset with you but then you're in a really

sticky position that you can't say anything I do have a bones pick with you though and obviously we pick our bones live on the podcast oh yeah I knew you were talking to another team but I found out through the Manchester Originals WhatsApp group that you had signed for another team and that

was not good yeah that was really bad wasn't it I actually just forgot that I didn't tell you I just thought I'd told you because I said, oh, I'm talking to beep, beep. And you were like, all right, great, let me know how it goes. And I just presumed I'd let you know. Nope, you hadn't. So I found out with Georgie boys, with Cordelia Griffiths, with everyone.

So I was angry at you for that. Yeah, no, I'm really sorry. Do you know what? It turns out I didn't tell anyone. I thought I told everyone. I didn't tell my mum, my dad, Henry. I just thought I had. well you didn't so so i'm really sorry we've got another year of the hundred which will be

exciting it'll be a bit different but it's going to be still exciting and it's another good opportunity and all the kind of talk about it on social media this week has got me so excited for it again same i i thought this would be my last year of playing cricket and i'm really excited to play so maybe i've got a number few years in me yeah don't write it off do not write it off um anyway have you got anything sticking out unsure let me have me have a look because obviously, podcast. The last thing on here was booted out the ground for sitting by a window, said no.

You brought that up on the last four podcasts. Delete that now. Start again. I really need to start writing notes. I've got something I just want to mention. The Briver Scrant. Yes, the Bribes. How amazing was that episode?

Like the feedback. Oh my God. So good. They were great, weren't they? way that they talk so openly and honestly and it's taken us a while to pluck up the courage to ask them to come on the podcast you know it's a good episode when no context no balls are firing out quotes left right and center and they must have given 10 already from last week's episode so if you have not listened to it go back and find it because brunty and that together

well separately they're brilliant together they're amazing but they were just it's the first time I've both heard them talk like that, obviously, because it's probably the first time we've interviewed them. But I don't know, there was just something really special about it, and I really enjoyed it. It was. I felt like they were really open and honest, like, with everything that we asked them. Literally, yeah.

It was a great interview. Every time. If I do, say so ourselves. Yeah. Yeah, you're only as good as your interview either, aren't you? I actually now at training every day when I'm with Brunty, I'm like, Brunty, stay in your lane. Stay in your lane.

Yeah, nice. Stainly and running. Staying in a run too. So yeah, we have lots of fun. Are you excited for the World Cup? Are you nervous? How are you feeling? How many days out are we?

I don't even know. We're about eight days out now. And I only know that because there was a tweet yesterday saying that we were nine days out, which was the number of runs that England women won the 2017 World Cup by, which was information to me because I did not know that. Yeah, neither. Well, I actually asked a group of people I was at lunch with, which included three people that played in.

that game and they didn't know either. Nat did, actually, Siver did. I'll give you the glory for that. Yeah, but it was one of those games that nobody knew how close it was. It was just a weird game. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like, so when we leave Queenstown tomorrow on Friday, we go to Christchurch, we've got two warm-up games then,

and I feel like that is when it's going to, like, Tor Life will set back in because we are doing cricket here and we've kind of eased our way back in because I hadn't bowled for two weeks because of quarantine, holidays, injuries etc so that hit me like a steam train how's the limp wrist you know what the wrist is good except when I bat it's really painful to bat so yeah for two weeks not bald feel like I've been trampled by baby elephants now you know the doms oh no the doms are really set in but it's good because I know that I'm back um I have moments I'll at night where I let myself think about the world

Cup and I get really anxious about it and then there's moments where I'm just like let's go like I want to play now I'm ready to go just want to have some fun enjoy the occasion everything that you girls were saying on the pod last week about what it was like in 2017 like just want to get going yeah so I'm a bit mixed a bit mixed you had a little goodie bag when you rang me the other day that the ICC have given you with some goodies in which got me excited for the World Cup Did you get a towel? We do get a towel. That's like the infamous towel, isn't it?

It's the thing of the World Cup. You get a towel with your name on it. But that hasn't arrived yet. But you do, like, you get a little ICC goody bag, which has got loads of chocolates in it actually this year, which would be nice. And a teddy bear and some other bits and pieces. A cap? Yeah, a nice cap, which I look great in.

I've got a picture for everybody. I look like I volunteered to work at the World Cup. So yeah, it's kind of just like things are starting to leak into the environment now which makes it feel like we're at a World Cup. But I think because we're so far away in Queenstown at the moment, we're not quite there yet. So hopefully next week we'll be like, played some cricket, ready to go. We've not even got our World Cup kit yet. Oh, God.

Yeah, so I feel like that's going to be the day where I'm like, right, I'm playing in a World Cup. And we have got another episode before your first game to do. So that episode will really preview. the World Cup. Yeah. And we'll have played some cricket by then, and hopefully people have got runs, people have got wickets, we're all just a bit more relaxed. Yeah.

So, yeah. I do need some recommendations from you. Okay. Because you're in Queenstown, and I'm going to go to Queensland for two and a half days, so you're going to have to text me and tell me what to do because it looks like you've all had the best time. Yeah, I mean, I've already sent Henry all of the recommendations, so I feel like he'd be the person that'd organise it anyway, so.

Yeah, he's organised the flight. Yeah, I thought so. I do have something that I'm really nervous about, which I might as well talk to you because it's going to happen today. And I can tell you how it goes next week when we record. But I'm opening the salon again today, and I'm really nervous about it. Oh, the crossy cuts. Crossy cuts.

Yeah, I've got two clients this afternoon. Who've you got? I've got Freya and I've got H. So two very contrasting hairstyles are going to happen here. So you've got long blonde locks and shorter. hair shorter yeah and i've got the clippers for h's hair and then i've got some scissors and some clips and stuff for fray and i'm just a bit nervous i'm a bit anxious about it so you've actually had somebody that's taken this job away from you gareth breeze gareth breeze yeah he's been

so he does caribbean cuts so he's in charge of all the men's hair cuts because he's very good he does his own as well he can do a fade on himself it's amazing um so yeah he's been cutting all the boys hair um the girls have been struggling a little bit more because obviously we're not allowed to go and get our hair cut and we've been away for eight weeks now yeah it gets too long yeah we're all really struggling a little bit so i'll let you know how it goes just watch this space i'll do some before and after us and hopefully if you see a bald freya running around then you'll know why things didn't go so well didn't go well so i've got a couple of things on my sticky note that i thought very quickly could just run through seems like you've not been writing anything down now

it's been three weeks um crossy i've been in quarantine for five is like nothing's going on in my life oh have you enjoyed my ticot's i watched one ticot yesterday because it involved me yeah and i wasn't expecting like a tour diary like a two minute 20 second video of what you've been up to that day which wasn't a lot um some bits i enjoyed some bits i was like i'm never getting this time back i knew it's like not up your street whatsoever um yesterday's didn't go down as well as the day before so i might just can them Some people seem to enjoy them, though, each to their own, whatever. Yeah, yeah.

So I've got written down here, trifle. Trifle. It was a trifle. It was a trifle. So you tried to describe a cold custard dessert to me, and I had no idea what you were talking about. But it is a cold custard dessert, isn't it, with cream on and fruit? Yeah.

Now you say it, it makes a lot of sense. But you then rang your mum. as soon as we finished recording because you wanted to let me know what it was because it was annoying us and we had so many people tweet being like trifle like I was shouting trifle at the radio like obviously it was trifle

so you're ringing your mum but it was afternoon in New Zealand and I was like Al you do know it's like 3am wherever your mum is and you're like oh no oh no and bless you mum she got up to ring you back and it was all about a trifle yeah she texts me at 5am being like

just seen this everything you know okay why are you ringing me in the middle of the night i was like yeah what's that cold custard dessert called the um grandma makes dad at christmas she was like are you sure i think because you made it sound like it was a real like family tradition and just like only your family knows about this dessert this cold custard dessert and i was like what could it possibly be it was a trifle the most well-known dessert ever we've had an email here titled trifle so shall we do Should we get into some emails, or you've got more sticky notes? Yeah, let's get into some emails.

My sticky notes are crap. Who would you like to go upstairs with? Well, I did see that Sue's coming over for the World Cup. Is she? Yes, so she was upstairs for Sue. Oh, I cannot wait. Yes, cannot wait to see Sue. Okay, so this one's titled, TRIFEL.

Morning, afternoon, evening people, was driving down to Windsor whilst listening to your last podcast and had to deal with my wife, Nicola, shouting, T trifle! Trifle! You mean trifle? Alex, did you mean trifle while talking about CoulCustard's desserts? I suspect Nick thinks you did. I was less bothered, mind, but she demanded I emailed to ask all the best, Andy.

This one says, I heard you guys say Wendy Woffler about Nat Siver on the last podcast. It's actually, Wendy Woffler is actually Catherine Burnt, not Nat Siver. If you didn't get that from the last episode, you did not listen intently enough. And I had to send you a photo from my yearbook. And there's a picture of a lady called Wendy Waffle. I went to school with Wendy Waffle, not quite Wendy Woffler, but close. Love the pod. And that's from Tim.

So there is a Wendy Waffle out there. Do you reckon? Tim's listed to the pod and gone, I used to know someone, let me try and find my yearbook. There's a picture of the yearbook there. Yeah, I can see it. Wendy Waffle. Well, it's an actual real thing.

Hi, Kate and Alex. We'd just like to say you've been doing a great job with the podcast. The latest episode with Nat and Catherine was one of my all-time favourites. Somebody told us it was boring, didn't they, on the social media? That person's email does as well, saying that H's episode was boring, so I think we can just put them in the bin. Put them in the bin. It was great to hear them talk openly and honestly about their challenges,

and they are an inspiration to all. I have finally come up with a question to ask you both. when going out to play especially batting how do you ensure you are as calm as possible I am more of a bowler and due to some bad injuries when batting I am now quite tense when I go out there any advice would be great

good luck in the World Cup Kate and look forward to hearing Alex on the commentary let me know Leanne I am always at my calmest when I have a really clear plan going out to bat yeah and that often involves me actually watching

the game of cricket that's happening before I go out because sometimes you can sit on the side and have a chat for your mates and I've found that when I'm actually watching and seeing what bowlers are doing and whether it's turning and right that sweep shot looks good today or hitting down the ground looks easy

that's when I'm definitely calmer because I know what skills to put into the game yeah I just think I'm a nervous wreck no matter what I went out to bat last Sunday because I played a game played for Box Hill

which my old club last time I came here in 2012 and I was batted at number 10 and I was so nervous like just as nervous as I was when I was playing for England and I think it's because I love batting I'm just really bad I love batting as well so I feel like you always want to stay out there

as long as you can as well and there's nothing better literally nothing better than scoring runs yeah I wouldn't know you can bat these days though well you say that but I got a promotion and I got a duck well I don't think we spoke about that yet

no we haven't spoke about that yet I sort of didn't want to bring it up because you got mad at me for calling you a tail ender and then you went out about number 10 I was like by the way guys like telling the world thousands of people listening I was like she's not a tailender she got really mad at me she's not a tailender

she got about a seven in this team I don't I get mad at you for calling me a tail ender because I am a tail ender I got mad at you for saying I looked like a tail ender there's a difference there is but when you're swiping at balls outside the hostel Halfollies on fourth stump

If I scored If I hit that for four you're like See I should be back I told you she should be batting up the order I just missed her I was just doing my job okay I was like She's not a tail end guy

It's like everybody This girl can bat And you can Like I'm not taking the piss Like you can And then you got given out LBW for a duck And the ball was going down the leg side

God it was such a bad decision And we had no reviews left Because dunks reviewed one It was at the middle of me middle and she reviewed it. I told her afterwards. I went in the dressing room and she was like, oh, sorry, crossy. I probably wasted a review there. I was like, hmm. I mean, not that I would have gone on to make 100 or anything, but, you know, it would have been nice to have the opportunity. Nice to have the opportunity to get out yourself. Yeah.

Girls, the scrunt episode is pod gold. Not just the best no balls I've heard, but probably the best episode of any podcast I've ever heard. And believe me, me as an elderly adoptive mank with nothing better to do, I've heard a shedload. Don't even try to do better than that one. Declar now while you're ahead. Go into accountancy or basket weaving or emu farming or whatever. And go well, Nigel.

Oh, Nigel. So Nigel wants us to pack it in. I think he means it in a good way, though. He does. It's a massive compliment, but I don't think he's going to be listening to this episode to know that his email got read out. No, because that's it.

He's never listening again. No. Hello, Kate and Alex. No pressure, but your opinion on this may save a relationship. Oh, that sounds like pressure. That sounds a lot like pressure. When I am rinsing my hair after washing it in the shower, I stand facing the tap slash shower and bend forward so that my hair falls down in front of my face.

What? My partner, who also has long hair, stands with her back to the tap slash shower, and arches her back and rinses her hair that way. I really don't mind the fact that we. differ in respect because obviously it doesn't matter as long as the hair gets rinsed. However, my partner insists that the way I rinse my hair means I am a psychopath because all of the blood will rush to my head and I'll get dizzy. She also claims that nobody else washes their hair the way I do, which can't be true, can it? So who here is the

psychopath? The one that bends over and is in fear of slipping and a tap going up their bum. That's the psycho. No one mentioned anything about that all. Yeah, they did. The one that bends forward I have I have a vision of you bending forward slipping right I didn't think about it that way I just thought about all the shampoo going into your eyes yeah that as well you don't want the suds nobody wants shampoo suds in their eyes because that is one of the most painful things up there with a paper cut so I'm sorry um this is Claire Claire, I think you're the psychopath here because you do not wash your hair

like any other person on this planet. Who bends over to wash their hair unless you're not in the shower? Unless you're, do you know, sometimes you just do a hair wash? Well, also the girl, the partner says that she... Arches? As if like, can she not get wet on her back?

Like what? You don't need to arch your back to wash your hair. There's a lot of going on here. You're already both wet. Just get on with it. Anyway, she says, says love the show with katherine and nat so inspiring to hear katherine being so open about challenges a lot of gay people experience but that can make you feel so alone when you're going through keep up the great podcasting good luck in the world cup my partner is visiting her family this weekend so i think i'm going to head off and shuffle my iPod to pass the time

lots of love to you both claire hope you listen to some good tunes oh i love our fans hi kate and I like started listening to the pod after getting hooked on the 100 and listened to every episode since talking sentimental things from childhood when I was a little kid I had a blanket which I took with me everywhere

one day when I was 5 or 6 my mum had washed it not for the first time and hung it out on the line to dry to my utter despair my mum then informed me that the blanket had been blown away in the wind and was nowhere to be found I was absolutely devastated

Fast forward about 15 years When I was home from university I went to the airing cupboard To my utter shock and disbelief There was the blanket Folded up neatly on the top shelf When I confronted her about this She said that she didn't want me

Getting attached to the blanket And it was the only way for me not to have it anymore Yet somehow My younger sister got to keep her elephant Which she still has to this day And she's now 28 How do you feel about this? Aaron

I mean your little sister's clearly the favourite that's it yeah I reckon and I say this to my parents every parent has a favourite child surely

of course they do and everybody knows it's my brother well yeah he's the better Hartley yeah but this is can I say this on the podcast I'm going to say it anyway

he's called the chosen one and golden balls because they chose to keep him well they must have chose to keep you as well but there was a moment where they thought maybe not because they were quite young right so you were a mistake

yeah I was clearly a mistake look at me yeah I was a mistake as well though it doesn't mean we're not people no I'm a nice person but my brother's definitely the favourite yeah yeah I do see that I do I think you you, I don't know, I think you both treated pretty equally. You're the favourite in your family. I'm not actually, Bobby's the favourite in my family.

No, you are. You're the favourite. Yeah, well, I'm the best one, obviously, so. All you have to do is go on your family's Twitter. Kate, Kate this, Kate that, Kate this, Kate that. Yeah, but I'm more active on Twitter, so I've just got more stuff to retweet. It's not my fault. Oh, it would be really sweet if your dad was like, Jen gave a really good massage today.

Jen, he does do that If Jen plays a bit of netball He'll tweet about Jen Yeah Yeah I'm very conscious That we've got a little Added bonus for everyone this week

Forgot about that We do, don't we? So shall we introduce our guest non-guest? Yeah, I think we should So because we We f*** up Obviously we fucked up And we forgot to do Danny Wyatt's special Nobles quiz

with her, we got her back on. She was happy to come back on as well. She's like, get me on. And this is how it went. Crossy, it's by popular demand that this person had to come back on our podcast because we forgot to do the most important quiz with them. So Danny Wyatt, welcome back for 10 minutes only.

I can't believe I've made it twice in the space. six weeks what an honour dan did you listen back to your episode um i listened to the first five minutes that's a know i've had a few messages of people saying um how good it was and how they enjoyed it so thank you dan we uh we were saying that you said you might i'll go on and get a hundred or something and then we were thinking about that first t 20 you were like 70 not out and we're like oh my gosh you're going to do it and then And if so, you'd have had to come back on the podcast every week because we'd be a lucky omen.

When you ran me on a drink in that innings, I think I was on maybe 50 odd. And I actually thought about that. I was like, if I get a hundred here, I'm going to have to come on this podcast. But you didn't. Put you back. I went and I tried to guide McGraw's Yorker to third man for four

and she got me out. Can happen. And then the other two T20s got washed out. What a shab? Yeah, gutted. But you're not here to talk about cricket. You're here for the famous nobles. It doesn't make any sense, quiz.

I'm so excited. So, maybe it's not hard. It will be hard, but we did our research last night, and we've got, I think, ten questions for you. Yep. Nice. I'm going to kick you off, Dan. So question number one.

Also, you can't win anything in this quiz other than eternal no balls. glory so that's all that we've got available to you but question number one in t20s what is higher your highest score or your strike rate um my high score incorrect oh i think my highest score is 124 isn't it yeah and your strike rate is 124.19. Oh, tricky question. Tricky question to start. Now this might be a bit easier.

Which team have you got your most international caps against? Oh gosh. I'm going to say Australia. Yeah. Bonus point. Bonus point, do you know how many? I think I've been a part of five ashes or four. So three ODIs, three T20, probably missed a few ODIs.

Let's say, oh, try series T or, okay. 36. Oh, done. 33. Great effort. No points, though, unfortunately. Right. Right.

And what have you got your best bowling figures in? Is it T20 or ODI? T20. What are they? in the world T20s like my first match in the World Cup and I got 4-4-10? 11?

Correct. I'll give you that. It wasn't your T-20s though. Do you know what your ODI best bowling figures are? ODI best figures. They probably all caught at cow. Oh, I don't know about ODI. Maybe three for 40.

I don't know. Three for seven. than that. Three for seven. I must have come out clean the tail at the end. Damn, you've faced

1,500 balls. How many boundaries have you hit? That's in ODI cricket. Sorry. In ODI, 1,500 balls. Yeah.

Let's go with is that six is Amphorja? Yeah. yeah is a six called a boundary they've hit a boundary you say they've hit a six don't you um okay I'm going to go with oh this is hard

38 Danny oh Dan you've hit 147 oh buzz it 128 4s and 19 6es And about three singles Loads of dots Right, come on Dan

You need a right one here Do you have more followers On Twitter or Instagram Twitter No She's checking I'm checking I think my Twitter

Followers have gone down so yeah 243,000 on insta and 222,000 on Twitter I need to tweet more that's not good right in women's T20 international cricket you hold a record but what for I hold a record in T20 cricket I was the first

English player to a T20 hundred you were that that's a great record that you've got this one's less good you don't want this one oh I know this one are the most ducks do you know how many

I think it's 12 isn't it 13 13 yeah I saw Elisa Healy was next on like 12

I was hoping I was going to get a dog Do you know what, records are records. It doesn't matter if they're good or bad. You're number one in the world for it. So congratulations, Dan. Thanks. All right, question number seven.

According to ESPN Crick Info, how many teams have you played for? Is that including domestic? Yes. So if you want to name them, we do have them written down so we can tick them off with you. Lancashire Thunder.

Yes, correct. Best team? Staff's cricket. Yes. Yep. I said stuff, cricket staff. Not. Oh, we didn't have that down, but we're going to add it because that is right.

That is right? Not. Sussex, is that on there? Should be. We're going to add it. Southern Vipers. Southern Brice. Melbourne Reneges.

Victoria. The one you're travelling with now? England. Yep. two more two more Whitmore doesn't count does it

no two more teams can you remember your Super Force team oh yeah the green team Emeralds yeah

that brings back memories is it from years ago no recent Bipers oh There's so many teams that I play for. Think overseas.

Overseas. Like, it's not international, but you go over for a certain tournament every year. The IPO. What was the team called again? That's your ideas to get that. Fellow City, Velocity. Yes, Danny.

11 teams. 11 teams. You can have 11 points for that. Well done. you actually said it then but do you remember how you actually thought that what that team was called when you first got asked to play for them?

I know, when I first saw it I thought it was Velo City. Velocity. I was walking around Love for a wasn't I? I was playing for Velocity and I was playing for someone else. Yeah, I think it's velocity. Yeah, velocity.

Question number. You've got three more. Three more questions. Questions? Seam well, yeah. You are? How many catches have you taken in international cricket? How many catches?

Hopefully more than I've dropped. Oh, easily. We couldn't count how many have dropped, so it doesn't matter. Good. Let's go with 22. 45. 45? Yeah.

Gosh. You're into selling yourself here, Dan? I haven't called one for a while. Get yourself at cow. No, I am. No one is sick cow. Just boles them off trackers crossing. I'll go at Deep Square.

All right, no. We won't give any plans away, but yeah, we'll do that. Question number nine, how many runs away from 2000 are you in T20 cricket? I've got 1,000 in the Caribbean, and that was years ago. So hopefully I'm only 50 runs away. I think we'll give you that. That's a good effort. I'm going to tick that one.

34. Oh, close. Very close. Very close. And finally, Dan, how many retweets did your Coley Marry Me tweet get? As of last night. As of last night. 10,000

not far up 7,279 oh not too many I was really surprised when I saw that because I thought it would be well it was 2014 wasn't it but it went so viral at the time which obviously 7,000 was a lot for that then

but now if you tweeted that I reckon you'd get that 100,000 retweets yeah I don't do that I won't be at me That concludes the quiz, Danny. Thank you so much for coming back and taking part. I don't know how many you got right. I don't know how many you got wrong, but...

I'll tell you that. You were great, yeah. I'll see you again next week. When you start getting hundreds in the World Cup, you'll have to come on. Yes, things cross. Yeah, legend. Thank you, Tammy.

Thank you so much. She did all right? Yeah, she did all right. to be honest we recorded it a couple of weeks ago i can't remember no neither i was just saying that thinking that that sounds pretty fair on both parts sounds convincing doesn't it she did all right she was very funny though i do remember we came off and we had a little giggle with her yeah yeah she's a funny character though she's one of my favourites and she recognised that if she'd have got 100 in that first t 20 she would have had to come back on every single week yeah

maybe that's why she got out she was like absolutely not absolutely not i don't want to get back on that It's terrible. So by the time we record again, you will be out of quarantine. Fingers crossed, that PCR comes back, and that chesty cough goes away. I'll have played some warm-up games. We should have our World Cup kit by then. Yes. Also, hindsight pod struck again last week, because I was like,

don't know what's going on in the UK, hope everyone's all right. And then people were sending us videos left, right and centre of. like wheelie bins in the air, people getting blown over in the street, so I'm really sorry about that. I can't believe. There was a mini tornado. It was so bad, and it's still bad. It's men of snow all weekend, and it's Laura Jackson's walk for her mum, who's poorly, and it's men of be this weekend, and it's men of snow, so I really hope that goes ahead. Yeah, me too, me too. You got anything else quickly? Yes, if you want to know-ball us, you can get us on. If you want to know paul us.

I like it. If you want to know-ball us, get into it, John. No-balls podcast at BBC.co.com. I don't know-balls podcast at BBC.com.com. It's so good. She actually said it loads. If you want to know-ball us. Guys, if you want to email us, that is.

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