In short
Tailenders “The Little Yearns Special,” a cricket-themed phone-in where guests and listeners share “little” offbeat moments from cricket life (crowd interactions, match-day routines, media/score updates, fines, and equipment rituals). It also includes a segment about Jimmy Anderson’s appearance on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat discussing The Hundred.
Guests (main on-air people)
- Jimmy Anderson: England fast bowler; discusses media duties and match-referee fine processes.
- Felix White: co-host/regular; part of the live recording.
- Greg James: co-host/regular.
- “Matching Tendulco” (Matt): contributor; appears in a Newsbeat clip about The Hundred.
- Callers: Andy (CFAX/Teletext scorecards), Alec (media duties after a disastrous Test day), John (dreaming of being fined for excessive celebrations), Alex (drying sweaty gloves/pads/arm guards; deputy principal in Cape Town), Eleanor (Olly Pope’s subtle crowd gestures at Old Trafford; charity finance head).
Key claims
- Whole Foods ad: bans 300+ ingredients; no hydrogenated fats, high-fructose corn syrup, or synthetic nitrates/nitrites in deli meat.
- The Hundred: “transformational” for women’s cricket; for Matching, it’s “net positive” but he “doesn’t care enough.”
- Match fines: challenging a fine doubles it; fines can be based on law references and footage review.
Notable examples
- Andy seeing his name on CFAX scorecards (page 340/341) and watching live updates.
- Alec imagining a “media duties” interview after a 130–140 all-out day.
- John’s “excessive celebration” fine fantasy (Mohamed Siraj-style).
- Alex’s boundary “glove sign” routine: swapping sweaty gloves/pads/arm guard for dry ones between sessions.
- Eleanor’s story of Olly Pope acknowledging kids with a subtle thumbs-up at Old Trafford.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOExplaining Little Yearns
1:20 to 2:28
Discussion about the concept and origins of Little Yearns in cricket.
“I'm used to seeing you on stage, you on the field, you in my ears.”
Nostalgic Cricket Memories
2:28 to 4:00
Hosts share personal anecdotes and experiences related to cricket.
“You answered that like a GCSE question where you got a vague notion of the answer.”
Listener Call: Andy's Little Yearn
4:00 to 4:26
Andy calls in to share his unique cricket memory involving CFAX.
“I actually want to be here for it today and you can do it.”
CFAX and Early Cricket Experiences
4:26 to 6:40
Discussion about CFAX and how it shaped cricket experiences in the past.
“Let's get some humans on, human being listeners.”
Cricket and Media Evolution
6:40 to 9:40
Hosts reflect on changes in cricket media and the nostalgia for older formats.
“put c facts oh this is it isn't it he's lived your little yet but i just at what age 20 yeah of course Was it a Lank score or an England score?”
Matching's Radio Appearance
9:40 to 14:00
Discussion about Matching's unexpected interview with Newsbeat.
“I remember an entire sort of three days of a summer holiday with my mate, Will, who you know, big Spurs fan.”
Setting the Stage for Cricket Discussion
14:00 to 14:35
Learn about the anticipation surrounding a cricket event and its cultural significance.
“A fair party at Lord's for the finale of the hundred.”
The Impact of The Hundred on Women's Cricket
14:58 to 17:06
Explore the transformative effects of The Hundred cricket format on women's cricket.
“Now, firstly, can you explain, for anyone who's not aware, the nickname, why are we calling you Matchin?”
Debating the Success of The Hundred
17:06 to 19:33
Discuss various perspectives on the success and personal interest in The Hundred format.
“by the time Messi scores his eighth goal, he's desensitized to the thrill of it all.”
Alec's Little Yearn: Media Duties After a Disastrous Day
19:33 to 22:07
Alec shares his desire to be the one to address the media after a poor team performance.
“Before an interview, it's like your people are like, what's the points you want to get across here?”
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Role-Playing a Press Interview
22:07 to 25:01
Engage in a role-playing scenario mimicking a press interview following a cricket match.
“Are you saying, we still think we're in this game and we'll wait and see what happens tomorrow?”
John's Little Yearn: Fining for Passionate Behavior
25:01 to 28:00
John discusses his wish to be fined for his passionate behavior during matches.
“I really like people just acting out press player interviews.”
Navigating Match Referees and Fines
28:00 to 30:45
Learn about the experience of facing match referees and the implications of fines in cricket.
“Because they say the words, they like a bit of needle, that sort of thing.”
John's Cricketing Journey
30:45 to 31:11
Discover John’s current cricket life and his ban from the game.
“John, give us a little potted history of your current cricketing life.”
The Experience of Playing Cricket
31:11 to 37:58
Listen to anecdotes about the nuances of cricket, including gameplay and player interactions.
“I love that they get you to review the footage.”
Eleanor's Little Yearn
38:33 to 42:00
Eleanor shares her experience at Old Trafford and her admiration for cricket players.
“And I believe we've been joined in the immortal words of Derek Thompson.”
The Joy of Cricket
42:00 to 42:38
Exploring the excitement and personal joys found in cricket experiences.
“and then everyone's clapping you as you run towards them and you just sort of tip the cap.”
Parenting and Cricket
42:39 to 43:38
Discussing challenges in introducing children to cricket.
“which speaks so much to the communication between a cricketer and the crowd.”
Memorable Cricket Moments
43:39 to 44:27
Sharing favorite cricket memories and their significance.
“Just because it's, yeah, because it's very idiosyncratic, isn't it?”
Interview with Eleanor
44:28 to 44:51
Discussion with Eleanor about her role and experiences.
“And have you been sort of on work calls or are we just another one of your work calls today?”
Final Go Wells
44:52 to 45:21
Wrapping up with go-well messages and cheers.
“We have got another caller, which we'll do right at the end, but now she'll do the go wells.”
Celebrating Achievements
45:22 to 46:41
Celebrating personal and community achievements in cricket.
“Sam and Jess, Ryan and Lottie, Rachel and Gareth, Lindsay and Daz, Alec and Hannah, James and Harriet.”
Humor and Impressions
46:42 to 47:36
Light-hearted banter and impressions related to cricket.
“He can also, he can also, he also likes doing, I have to edit this whilst.”
Concert Huddles
47:37 to 48:28
Describing the experience of backstage huddles at concerts.
“Okay, so, Jimmy, it's so great that you're here tonight at Wembley.”
Looking Forward to Future Shows
48:29 to 50:22
Discussing ideas for future Tailenders shows and events.
“They wish they could get Eno to produce it.”
Listener Engagement and Calls
50:23 to 53:30
Engaging with listeners through go-well messages and calls.
“Well, I think we need to go off the chemo first.”
Katie's Stretches
53:31 to 56:00
Katie shares her quirky pre-game stretching routine.
“That's his football little yearn before games.”
Cricket Guards and Techniques
56:00 to 58:15
Explore the nuances of taking guard in cricket and its performance aspects.
“was saying which is when batters walk out and they've been in a dark changing room and they look out and they look right up into the sky and they open their eyes really wide.”
Transcript
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0:47BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome to Tailenders. Hello and thank you for having us on Tailenders, your weekly Lucy-based, cricket-based podcast. For the first time in ages, we're all together in real life. Yes. It's G-Force. It's Felix White. Gorgeous. It's Jimmy Anderson. Gorgeous. It's Matching Tendulco. Hello. In a beautiful basement room at London's Somerset House. It's cosy. It's so nice. It's really nice. It's quite weird seeing you all in a different environment. Do you know what I mean? I'm used to seeing you on stage, you on the field, you in my ears. And for the benefit of the tape, you can work out which of us matching was pointing to at which of those moments.
1:32Audio-based podcast. And Sharky is dangerously close to us in here. Nice to have you. Shout it. Shout it. Am I faded up? Yes, you're faded up. Well, welcome to Tailenders. This is a Little Yearns special. For those who don't know what Little Yearns are. it's an indie band about 15 years ago Jimmy would you like to explain Little Yearns considering you will never have them I guess you could now you could miss the sort of weird bits about international cricket but go on what's a Little Yearns well interesting you come to me Greg because the Little Yearns birth was a podcast that I wasn't actually on but from what I can gather it's the little things in cricket that you would love to experience.
2:25Not the big stuff. No. The little stuff. The nuanced stuff. You answered that like a GCSE question where you got a vague notion of the answer. Yeah. And you're just going to waffle. Atticus Finch I think was talking roughly about the tensions between races in that era. There are two sides to that. But that's exactly what it is. So it's not getting a 5-4. It's not getting a 100 on your debut. boring being there done that next in the ashes it's for example felix your one would be well i've got many don't i greg but um the first one the first one off my head which is the first time i ever met you guys was simply inspecting the back of my fingernails while still slip in between balls not the balls themselves but not the glory just the vague notion of being in a gang and just looking at the back of my hands we have a load of amazing tailenders standing by on the phones this is going to turn into LBC leading Britain's conversations whatever it is you weren't there for matching Go Old Cheers at the end but can I just say for the benefit of the tape and the record that we have never ever noticed how much we need you Greg, I mean it's a given but when Matcha was reading the Go Old Cheers it was like when Ben Stokes was injured and the whole England scene was like oh we're f***ed aren't we Who am I in this scenario?
3:47You're Ollie Pope catting and back in three and thinking, actually, I'm way above my head here. Well, that's that's very sweet. That's very sweet. And I will be staying till the end. Yeah, please don't leave. But also, it was a moment. It was a great moment as well. I mean, I'm very excited. Was it good or was it bad? Well, it was bad. Put it this way. He thought Christian Well was a person. So when he said Christian Well. Christian Well. I actually want to be here for it today and you can do it. Anyway, so we've got a load of callers standing by. It's a phone-in. It's a good old-fashioned radio phone-in.
4:20We've not done this for a long time. You don't get enough callers on podcasts. I've always said this. Now it's all voice notes, isn't it? Winds me up. Let's get some humans on, human being listeners. And speaking of radio, we need to talk about your appearance on national radio this week. But that's later. First up, let's welcome Andy. Hello. Hello. Hello. So, Andy, Andy, what's your name? And what's your little yearn? My name is Andy. Oh, yeah. And my little yearn involves going back in time to the 90s or early noughties. Yes, please. And I'd like to finish a day's play, get home, put my feet up on the sofa, reach for the remote flick on cfax and then on my scroll of the day scorecards see my own name on cfax scorecard andy yes yes yes and yes i also know what page you've gone to it's 340 or 341 i've gone to 340 absolutely
5:38I'm really pleased that Sharky's put a CFAX one as the first one, just to entice those new younger listeners in. That's so good. Other tech-based programs exist. Andy, for people under 40, would you like to explain CFAX to newcomers to this? phenomenon and it was a phenomenon yeah basically well a precursor to internet i mean it was a text-based menu on televisions where you know you select cfax like you do now a tv guide and you scroll by typing in numbers the days news and you catch up on your your sporting news your other news um quizzes they did have bamboozle on there if you remember i remember the quiz could you book holidays on there yeah you could do telly text holidays yeah that was the telly text version yeah i don't i don't want this to sound like a brag but i've actually done that what books a holiday or been on some holidays i've not booked a holiday but after a day's play i've put c facts oh this is it isn't it he's lived your little yet but i just at what age 20 yeah of course Was it a Lank score or an England score?
6:53I can't remember. Probably Lanks. That's very cool. It's cool, though. But it's like, I don't know. What's my equivalent? Was seeing my name in the Radio Times for the first time. Yeah. You sort of look. Yeah, of course. NME. Is NME for you? Yeah, NME. Imagine when you were on the New York Stock Exchange. Roll a soul. No, Bristol Coolest. It was Bristol Coolest, wasn't it? That was mine. I've always wanted to be there. You did it. Do you remember what it was? No, I just remember wanting to see the name and then the B next to it. But like when the wickets were put as a scorecard on the thing. That's actually too much for me.
7:30I think you had to wait for the page to turn for the bowling figures. I actually used to watch cricket matches on CFATS because you could watch from live. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there was no televised coverage. You'd just be on page 340 and just watch the ball. It was like the early bits of the NatWest or the Benson Edges. Yeah, just waiting for an update. Yeah, you'd be like, oh, it's interesting. Neil Smith's batting too. Well, I will say, we're sort of laughing at it, but that's what we do on the BBC Sport app. If you can't watch the cricket at work or something, you are just refreshing the same thing.
8:00It's the same thing. Yeah, it's literally the same idea, isn't it? So we've gone nowhere. Okay, Andy. It's on a smaller screen. It's a piece of ****. Andy, let me ask you this, if you know so much about CFAX. What is the number for the football? So the football is 302. Yes, correct. Come on. scrolling the one i remember was because i've always liked watching the subtitles so it was 888 that was subtitles oh yeah yeah it's like myspace i actually miss it yeah yeah it's like the old days i've always like i like watching telly with the subtitles on well and the sound on yeah if you're watching a film or a drama or a comedy or something you can do yeah it's nice to learn the language it's so interesting you said that because i can't work out to get the subtitles off of my now tv so i watch all cricket and the commentary is oh Well, sport is different.
8:49That's annoying because it's slow. Exactly, yeah. So you get all the random splurge. But if you're watching something like Sopranos or Succession or comedy or something, it's nice to see the lines that have been written. No? No, no. Yeah. I've never tried that. But you also listen to the commentary and repeat what they're saying. Well, that's also true, yeah, because I do my own commentary. Andy, what's happened here is that you've done a little yearn that is actually something that a real cricketer has done. So this is perfect. You have tapped into something that I don't think people have really talked about before.
9:24You're unique, Andy. Yeah, but I think maybe after James Anderson, age 20, saw it once or twice, it may be faded in how special it was to see your name on the scorecard. I agree. I think Cifax in general was faded. All joy from cricket. I loved it. I used to love it. Football news. I just, yeah, yeah. Transfer news. You got straight to CFAX for it. I remember an entire sort of three days of a summer holiday with my mate, Will, who you know, big Spurs fan. And he would just be on Teletext or CFAX because Spurs were trying to sign Robbie Keane. And he was just constantly refreshing it. Need to know.
10:04Has it happened yet? Is it still going? So it was a big part of our lives. It really, really was. Jim, also, it gives a picture of your journey that you started doing exactly Andy's little year and putting your name on C-Factor to see your name. And then 20 odd years later, the Anderson Tendulka trophy is unfolding and you can't be bothered to watch it because you're playing Call of Duty. I don't understand what it's got to do with it. That's how much you achieved, but by the end you were like, oh yeah, whatever. Yeah, okay. Sorry to end it on that sour note, Andy, but thank you so much for your call.
10:37Andy, just before you go, are you an active cricketer or are you a passive? I'm a very semi-active cricketer. Okay. Yeah, on the retirement path for sure. We're all on that. What's your club before you go? Give them a shout out. Keyworth Cricket Club. Keyworth Cricket Club in Nottingham. Go well. Go well to Keyworth Cricket Club. Andy, thank you for your little year and it's a brilliant one and go well. Cheers. Love of filming. That was a great play. It was a great start. great start great start page 340 we'll be back after the break oh no it's not LBC well that's a great start lovely Andy high quality from Keyworth Cricket Club and a great shout out to CFAX good areas good shots I do miss it though I'm feeling very nostalgic on the subject of traditional radio Matching Tandulka has been involved in a very high profile entity journalism I couldn't believe this.
11:41So I was doing the radio show the other morning and Matching was on the group saying, Newsbeat have asked me to do an interview with them. And for those who don't know, Newsbeat is Radio 1's news service. Premier news service. Premier news service. Yeah, thank you. And I sort of saw it and I thought you were joking. But someone had got hold of your number. Yeah, how did that happen? I have no idea and it wasn't me. And then I forgot about it. And then at one o 'clock someone messaged me going, sorry, has Matching just been on Newsbeat? Can we get your side of the story here, please? I'm getting a lot of phone calls at the moment from random numbers, mainly selling solar panels.
12:20And I thought, I get 10 a day. And I got another random number. You get 10 a day. And I got another random number call. I was like, hello. And they said, it's Newsbeat here. And I thought, oh, God, this is not good. By the way, are you always saying yes to the solar panels when they offer them? the roof is buckling keep phoning in it's like Fred Flintstone's car when they put the ribs on it it's just buckling under the pressure so far no to the solar panels it's Newsbeat and I thought what could they possibly want with me and I thought Greg must have put them up to it and they said we need to get your opinion on the 100
12:59now I we need I said I'm not the voice for the 100 well according to last week's Monday afternoon's news beat you are the voice but then can I say I rang Sharky to say as my agent Sharky should I do this I don't know much about the hundred and he went no don't do it did you Sharky what is one word content so I have I have shielded all of you from this because I deliberately didn't want to send it to you Fee or Jimmy because I wanted you to hear it now Sharky wants to be faded up do you want to be faded up can I be faded up with a right to reply please yes you could be faded up with a right of reply please i said yeah if they're asking to talk about what it's like as a punter and going and going with families and enjoying it definitely you're the right person yeah but if they want to talk to you about the politics and the investment which they did incorrect etc i said you're probably not the right incorrect advice i would say he is the right man for that either way he's the right man for it okay so it was pretty early on in the news so this would have been about 12 just before 12 50 or something prime time really like news beats big program 15 minute news beat peak listeners at this time this whole segment was the world's listening four and a half minutes this is four and a half minutes such as their squads in another sport clubs were just finishing opening the batting for news beat eleanor doyle with djs perry from little mix headlining food trucks and oh yeah The crickets.
14:30A fair party at Lord's for the finale of the hundred. Right, so that's the first bit and let's scroll forward to when Matching turns up. I actually can't wait. I'm vibrating. I'm looking forward to this so much. Well, with a bit more on this, a podcaster who chats cricket with the legend of the game, England's Jimmy Anderson. Oh, and Radio 1's Greg James is on it too. Hello, my name is Matching and I'm a contributor to the loosely cricket-based podcast, Terrellenders. Now, firstly, can you explain, for anyone who's not aware, the nickname, why are we calling you Matchin? Oh, because my name is Matt, for one, and I am distantly related to Sachin Sindolka, who is widely considered to be the greatest matchman of all time.
15:13How loosely related are we talking here? Well, I still call him Uncle Sach. My granddad remarried his grandma, I think. Now, first up, the hundred of a... To conclusion. Let's just pause there. That's already so... That's already so... Because it's almost like Paxman. It's sort of... The style is quite intense, isn't it? It's already very weird to anyone who's listening to that. And I mean anyone. Okay, I want to hear more. You want some more? Yeah. What did you make of it? I think it has been great for the women's game. It's been transformational for the women's game, I'd say. Personally, I don't really care.
16:04Why is that? The first thing.
16:10Oh my God, that's so good. Oh my God. Keep that in. It's at the end of the... That's it. Thank you, matching. No, no, no. There's more, there's more, there's more. Personally, I don't really care. Personally, I don't really care. Why do you want to... Sorry. For non-cricket fans, I'd say imagine they rebranded... Oh, you're going to love... Right. This, you are going to love this. Ready? I've kept it. So, it's... I think it's already... It's already confusing. And with this comparison, you make it a hundred times more confusing. I don't really care. I don't perform that much. For non-cricket fans, I'd say imagine they rebranded football.
16:53into a five-a-side tournament and Haaland and Salah and Messi and Xhaka are all playing. On paper, that is quite exciting. It's quite titillating. But if the score is like 15-14, by the time Messi scores his eighth goal, he's desensitized to the thrill of it all.
17:16Why did you go? Did you plan that bit? No. No. Did you run that bit through Sharky's filter. No, Sharky just said don't do it. What, the football analogy? No, just don't do the interview full stop. But it's like for those who aren't cricket fans let me confuse you with a football analogy. Sorry, it's 15-14. It's 15-14. Messi scored his eighth goal. What? I'm trying to get that it's shorter. Now the idea that because there's so many sixes that you get decent size and six. I totally agree with you. So if you almost score eight goals yeah you're by the eighth goal you're like yeah yeah it sounds quite titillating titillating it's really we'll come back to the I agree with your point it's just so quickly you're onto your train of thought that's why it's perfect it's the most match that is you your purist yeah it is you didn't put on any news beat airs and graces no no one can accuse you of that could be boring cars in their kitchen they're just suddenly locked into Matt Shin's brain just for a second I like the idea that there's someone listening going, this football thing sounds good.
18:24Where's that on there? Picture this. Oh, God, yeah. That five a side watching Messi score eight goals, all right, yeah. What's better than seeing Messi score once? Seeing him score twice, three times, four times? Eight times better. 14. By the time Messi scores his eighth goal, you desensitize to the thrill of it all. It's dessert for breakfast. It's too much of a good thing. What do we know about his future then? Because there is already talk about what next year might look like. Do you think it's dessert for breakfast? They don't ask about the future of the 100. Yeah, they're asking about the future now.
18:56Yeah. Yeah. You ready? There's a lot of change going around in this particular format of the cricket to describe how new it is, relatively new. Yeah, I don't know really what's going to happen. There is talk of a team coming to the West Country, which would be great. And if that happens, despite what I just said earlier, for the right price, I think I could really learn to love the 100. The 100 is a success. Do you think you can label it as that? No, I think overall it's been net positive. you get to see some of the best players in the world. Don't take it too seriously. I think it's overall net positive.
19:24But for me personally, I don't care enough. Sport is better when it's... Stop saying you don't care. I just don't care enough. Stop saying you don't care. We all know what you think about... Three times. Oh my God. Do you care about it or not? I love you, matching. Amazing. It's brilliant. Before an interview, it's like your people are like, what's the points you want to get across here? Let's get across for you don't care. You need to say it at least three times. But by the third time, unlike Messi's eighth goal, it got better. Yeah, exactly. Who on that team, the Newsbeat team, has gone, who shall we get to talk to about this?
20:00I don't know. Who was it? Anyone but him. Who called you? Was it Pete? I think so, yeah. Pete Allison, the guy who's hosting it. Amazing. I mean, he's nailed it. When the 100 started, they followed you alone. Do you remember that on Twitter? Oh, yeah. but I mean I don't think the organisers of 100 think he's nailed it no I don't
20:24how many times can he say you don't care that is for the lawyers to decide okay we have another call I love you matching yeah that was a brilliant performance and it's great great to great to hear you on Newsbeat it's quite an honour it's quite a badge of honour to get on Newsbeat yeah I know but that's why they won't invite me on to the 100 now is it yeah but you've been on Newsbeat now I think you will but you're speaking the truth the irony being to a mass market the irony is that Newsbeat is sort of the hundred but for BBC News you should have used that what were you hoping to be invited on to in terms of the hundred well you know one of those presenters that walk around the pitch and get the fans in you know that could have been me yeah totally I don't care it would make for better TV do you want a t-shirt I don't care about it do you want one yay London
21:14let's go back to the phones and alex there alex what's your name and what's your little yearn he just said my name it's alex
21:26do the bit what's your name what's your little yearn alec my name's uh alec from edinburgh i'm a little yearn was that i would really love to be the the person put up for media duties at the end of a disastrous day of the first day of the test. So we've won the toss, elected the bat, and we're like 130, 140 all out. And no one's wanted the media duties because they've all let themselves down. And so getting put forward is like a little pat on the back. You're the only one that hasn't had an absolute shocker. I absolutely love it. And also it might be a little pat on the back to say, you're the smartest one.
22:03Get us out of this hole. Can you put a spin on this? Jimmy, you've been thrown to the lines before, haven't you? Yeah. on that many a time many times because the seat the senior pro yeah definitely i quite enjoy it the worst one though was when i was vice captain for england in australia and we lost 4-0 4-1 no 4-0 yeah oh yeah we didn't win and joe root was ill so you couldn't do the the whole the end of series media which is like everyone yeah host broadcasters sky or whatever it was bt whatever it is and then you're doing that and i had to do all of that and i had jeffrey boycott going what are you going to do about english cricket is the right state i do remember that it's nothing to do with me great interview nothing to do with me it's a great interview your face if you glaze over as he's talking to you yeah just look off look i should have just said i don't care let me ask you a question when you are doing this interview are you churning out a lot of stereotypical things to say.
23:04Are you saying, we still think we're in this game and we'll wait and see what happens tomorrow? Should we set it up? I would. So, Jimmy, you're now Jeffrey Boycott. Yeah. So imagine a scenario. Yeah. And Alec has been put up for interview. Love this. Alec, what would you, would you like to be a bowler, all-rounder? Like, lower order batter. Like, he's coming at, like, what, I don't know, 30 for five and Sal was a little bit of pride. I love that. So you've had the best day out of all of them. but you scored 20 okay and Jimmy go at Alec and see if he can cope with it yeah I can't wait for this Alec your captain won the toss and batted first what do you think went wrong with that innings well it's going to be a really difficult pitch to bat on I'd hate to be the team that's batting last so you've never really earned the pitch so I think we've got a really good chance in the session tomorrow if we can get one or two quick wickets the rest will fall and we're right back in it that's the best thing I've ever heard That's so nice.
24:01You got a few runs yourself, which is a bit out of the blue. What was your mindset going out there about him? You know, just play every ball on its merit. Not get too far ahead of myself and just try to put some pressure back on the bowlers, but with that pitch, the pressure's always on the batter. So we're definitely still on this. One more question, please, James. One more question. I've got a question. Go on, Pree. There's a lot of talk, Alec, in the ranks about a mental fallibility in the team and shot selection. Is there anything you tend to say about that? Has there been any chat about that after the first day cricket?
24:36Giving it your 40 all out and you scored 20 of them? Yeah, it's not shot selection. I think we've just got a few... Some of us got... Some of the batters got some balls that were unplayable. Others were trying to put the pressure back on the bowlers. You needed to try and slog. It was difficult to score. That is my best thing you've ever heard. Really nice. You'd pass that interview, wouldn't you? And you'd go, Alec, thanks very much. could go well tomorrow yeah you could have obviously done the classic we just need to execute our skills better yeah I was waiting for execute our skills we just didn't get quite execute our skills the way we wanted to or you could do energy's good the team's good everything's been good and they always do the well you know you don't know until the other side's batted what's a good score on this pitch par the word par gets put around did you have media training as a youngster did they take you to one side what do you think are you asking Alec or Jimmy folks do they not take you to like have a room and say these are all the lines you have to come out with never commit either way you just know just learn on the job don't say you don't care etc alex sorry no no go no there's nothing interesting to say about that question alex i could see i saw a vision of you as a cricketer like we you're not even on the screen so i can't see your face but i could see you sort of half covered in mud mud I think he's dived at one point and so his whites are covered a little bit in mud.
26:02Yeah, nice. Alec, thank you so much. Thanks for being on Tell Anderson. Go well! Cheers. Cheers! Bye. I really like people just acting out press player interviews. That's a good one. That's pressure. Like, we should just interview people. Let's roll straight into another caller. We should have John on the line. John, welcome to Late Night Love Songs. What's your request? What's the name John's it for? John! Hello! Welcome to Tailenders. Hello! John, what's your name? What's your little yearn? My name's John, and my little yearn, Greg, is to be fined somewhere between 15 % and 25 % of my matches.
26:45Oh, yes! For having let my passions get out of control. Yes! Yes! What is your offence? Have you thought about what your ideal offence would be and who would it be aimed at? Umpire or bowler or batter? Thought long and hard. Every time I picture it, I'm unleashing my inner Mohamed Siraj. It's a level one offence. And it's got to be an excessive celebration. A send-off. In the face, yeah. Big, big send-off. Okay, this is it. So good. And who have you got out and how? Have you thought that far through? what's the dream scenario for you? What era, what battle would you love to get out? Would you have to work out?
27:28Still can't get so out of my head. It's duck it. It's duck it. It's duck it. I love that. And when they pulled you into the match office, it's been after the first day to play, I imagine. How do you imagine that conversation's gone with the referee? And have you been accepting of it? Or have you been a little bit sort of like smug and walked away without saying anything? Because you're rich. Is Chris Broad? Of course he is. I don't care about the money. And the best thing about it, probably, the next morning when the news comes out is the ex-pro on co-coms implicitly shows their approval.
28:06Because they say the words, they like a bit of needle, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. It's good for the game, you know. We can't take personality out of the game and we need people like John Siraj in order to make it watchable to make it cinema. Jimmy, you would have been hauled into the match referee's office before. What's it actually like? Just a little bit. So you go into the umpire's room. So you'll have the two umpires, the match ref. The match ref will have the law book in front of him and say it's law 17.3. Oh, wow. Like the Bible. Versus three to the end. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's quite daunting.
28:51And then you can take a representative in with you. So you either take the coach or team manager in with you. Matching. And then you can either accept the fine, whatever that is, or you can challenge it. And if you challenge it and it's not successful, the fine gets doubled. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Like a parking fine. It's a monopoly. It's like a board game. Did you devise the match? It's like snakes and ladders. Wow. So you can challenge it in that moment or you have to... Yes. And you roll up two sixes and you're off. Yeah. You roll a double. That is ridiculous. John, what are you doing in that situation?
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29:30I'm rolling the dice. I'm charming as course of you, John Siraj. I do remember the worst one I had was... So I brushed past a batter as he was running between the wickets. I might have... Which batter? I can't remember. It was a one-day game. He remembers. So I was in there with the match referee. They showed the footage. They often show the footage and say, what do you think about this? This is what we're seeing. Yeah, it's like Call of Duty. And I was like, oh, we just got close. I'm not like drop the shoulder on him or anything. I'm not trying to shoulder barge him. And they were like, we think you've tried to block him, whatever.
30:04That's your progressive. So I've argued my case a little bit. Yeah. And then Nigel Long was the umpire. And he chirped up for no reason whatsoever. I went, what about tell him to f*** off when you got him out? that's not helping is it Nige come on nothing to do with you Nige nothing to do what's that got to do with anything and did they give you an extra percentage for that no no I just took that I accepted the fight did you tell Nigel I'm the f*** off what's Nigel I'm the f*** he's having a go what are you getting involved for swindle like little slugs that's that's amazing what a ridiculous sport we love it's so stupid crazy yeah incredible John John thank you That's a great little yearn.
30:46That's a fantastic little yearn. John, give us a little potted history of your current cricketing life. Have you played this season? Who do you play for, if so? I've not played for a long time. I'm more in charge of the kids around. Oh, yeah, because you're banned. He's been serving a ban. He's a danger. Lifetime ban. Lifetime ban. John, thanks so much for being on TailEnders. Go well. Cheers. John, you're an absolute liability.
31:18I love that they get you to review the footage. Oh, my God. It's so good. I want that so bad. Yeah, we're tempted to do a... Just rock and roll that for me. Let's have a look at that again. Yeah. Rock and roll that again. Have you got a different angle on that, please? Are you in your whites in the chat? Yeah, it's pretty much... They have to do it. They have to do it the day of the incident. They don't wait till the end of the game. They do it at the end of the day's play. Interesting, yeah. In a test match, obviously. but yeah you're often in your whites and they'll like so now you can't swear as well so if you get caught on the stump mic you get done so play that footage from what they hear lip reading as well if you can lip read someone saying something bad then that also gets pulled up you can't swear at all you can only swear on your head now yeah but also you get I remember, I mean it's so silly, you could get fined like 15 % for swearing.
32:18I remember Brodie got fined 10 % of his match fee for wearing the wrong coloured under top What? Underneath his shirt. How much? 10 % of his fee? That's stupid. What, wearing what? So in a one day game you've got, say you've got a blue playing shirt, you're under garment but you see lads wearing under armour tops where they've got like sleeves. if that's not the same colour as your plane top then you so what if Sugarman Gill's wearing black socks which you did in the test series the socks don't get pulled up what well they should be you know metaphorically and physically oh god okay these calls are too much for me they're so good let's have another shall we Alex is waiting Alex welcome to Tailenders hi Greg Felix Jimmy and Manchin hello so Alex what's your name and what's your little yearn what's your name Alex my name is Alex and my little journey is to have that feeling of placing a pair of sweaty gloves, sweaty pads and a sweaty arm guard on the boundary rope as I leave the field of play after a morning session of batting against some searing pace at Newlands in the New Year's test that means that I'm going to come back after lunch and they're going to be dry and crispy and warm and I'll get to put them back on again yeah oh my god i love the specificity of that yeah yeah really nice you've actually explained something to me there because i always wonder why people did that and is it to dry out sweaty pads in the session between that was my assumption wow yeah can we all know maybe well no i've seen other people do it and it looks really it looks really fun but they quite often they they'll the batters will go to the dressing room and take them off and have a 12 man run those down to the boundary and they put them on in the sun and then they bring get them brought back up like 10 minutes before they go back out oh they bring them back into the dressing room yeah oh nice it's like doing your washing outside and it's just like all the fresh airs makes it yeah really nice yeah one of those lovely days where you can hang your washing out yeah pads just on that i'd love I should have been able to do this in a 23 year career but I'd love to do the old glove sign to the top get some new gloves fresh gloves please new pair please yeah I love that yeah fantastic you've never done that?
34:46no I've never batted long enough yeah quite a good move to do it after two balls yeah Zach Cordy did do that didn't he in that last over no was it a bat or something in that last over in India he needed new something when you're trying to kill time Oh yeah, because he got pinned on the thumb didn't he? I was in the farm, I was sorry. I did actually, I had to get new gloves before I'd faced the ball at Cheltenham this year against Gloucester because I walked out with two right handed gloves. That's great. That's really rubbish. I didn't do the sign. I was shouting to the boundary. So your thumb was...
35:21No, I didn't have the gloves on. I was like, how did you work out? So you went, yeah you did have the gloves, okay. You walked out right. I thought something felt weird. I didn't have them on. They just went upside down. My little finger's well protected here.
35:40Alex, that's a really, really good little yearn. So, judging by your accent, I do detect a South African twang there. And you yearn? I'm a half-half. I grew up in England, but I lived here for the last 25 years. Okay. And so have you spent some time watching cricket at New Orleans? I have. I've been very fortunate to watch Jimmy play there. I've been to a number of news test matches. I was there when Jimmy caught the final wicket off-broad down the leg side a couple of years ago. No, more than a couple of years ago. And I was, yeah, it's like you've said a number of times. It's one of the greatest places to watch and play cricket, I'm sure.
36:15Yeah, incredible. Eyes on the SA20 and the golf courses out there and the wine. But mainly the cricket, obviously. There's nothing bad about South Africa in terms of cricket. Historically, but yeah. No, but in terms of experiencing it as a cricketer, the grounds are great. You know, outside of cricket is such a nice place. I would love to go and do a cricket trip out there. Well, Alan Lamb's invited us to a wine tour. Has he? Oh, yeah. Wine tour, cricket tour, whatever you want to do. Alex, thank you so much for being on TailEnders. Thanks for your time today. What have we interrupted? Thanks, Guy.
36:46You've clearly got a grown-up life and a job and stuff. What do you do? What have you interrupted to do this? I'm a teacher. I'm a deputy principal at a high school in Cape Town. Are you? Nice. Oh, you're beaming live from South Africa now? Yes, I am, yeah. Oh, fantastic. Oh, nice one. Is it a cricket-loving school? We're a very academic school, but there is a little cricket team that I was part of starting about 15 years ago that has played a few games. But, yeah, I mean, everyone loves cricket in South Africa, pretty much. But we're not like a big school. We're not like where Jonathan Trott went to school, which is just around the corner from us.
37:20That's a big, fancy school. Right, OK. Great. You can tell by his technique. Alex, thanks so much for being on Tailenders. Go well and enjoy the sunshine at Christmas, you lucky git. Looks like... Thanks, guys. I'll see you here for the 8th day 20 sometime. Yeah, man. We'll be watching Shivering at home in the winter months. Alex, go well. Cheers! Cheers! Go well. Cheers, guys. Cheers. So nice to have an international Tailender. Pop quiz. What's in your kid's lunchbox? At Whole Foods Market, they've already done the studying. Over 300 food ingredients are banned from their shelves. No hydronated fats in the peanut butter and no high fructose corn syrup in the cookies.
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38:45It's a man, actually, Derek. It's not actually a man. It is Eleanor. Eleanor, welcome to Tailenders. Hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome to Little Yearns, Eleanor. What's your name? What's your little Yearn? My name's Eleanor. Oh, yeah. Love you, man. And what I really like, so I went off to Old Trafford this year with my husband and my daughter, who neither of them like cricket, but they came along with me. and when England were in the field, we had Olly Pope up near us in the family stand and the crowd do the thing where they call out to the player near them because we don't get to see these people very often.
39:26We're in awe. But for Olly, he's just doing his job, isn't he? He's just at his day job. He doesn't want people. He can't turn around and wave and whatever people want to do. So he did a really lovely little movement with his hand, just a really casual like yeah yeah i know you're here oh my god respect your you love me i know i'm just gonna do a little like really casual and i was like oh that's good he's dealt with us he's acknowledged everyone he's putting an end to it i loved it oh my god i love it so much great subtlety on that is that your yearn just to be able to do that well then there was um a little kid shouted out again like ollie and it's like oh he's done his little he's done his little gesture yeah we've got what we needed yeah you've got to respect that kid yeah but then he was like ollie you're my favorite player i was like oh no he's just like oh that's it's too much and so then he just did this really little thumbs up but still with his hand down by his thigh just a little thumbs up little look a little look back up your shoulder a little like yeah little smile and i was like oh that's just gonna be so good just that acknowledgement like a young kid like that a thumbs up without really looking at the kids it's melted me it's so good because it's almost more intimate that he's done it in that very gentle subtle way yeah confidence exuding yeah i know exactly the gesture you're thinking of and i know the idea of just of being that person that's like too busy working, but still down to earth enough just to give a little, not nowadays, but like you say, being in control of a situation.
41:05It's like telling kids to calm down as a teacher and just having the power to quieten the class. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. How do you deal with the boundary? I ignore them. I feel like they're all pests.
41:23I'm joking. Go well. He's half joking. No. So what I found in the 100, right? Yeah. It's the loudest place. The speakers face the field. So on the boundary, all I can hear is music. So I'll get the odd one and then you try and wave and stuff. And the guy going, boom. Yeah. That's not working. We need to stop that. Along those lines, my favorite bit of that sort of crowd interaction is when you say you bowl a good over or you take a wicket and then you go down to fine leg and then everyone's clapping you as you run towards them and you just sort of tip the cap. Yes. That's the one I want to do.
42:08Yes. Tip the cap. Just one little. Just a little. Oh, God. When you've just two in and over. Oh, my God. You've just taken two in and over or something. Oh, yeah. Just doing my job. Yeah. Just doing my job. Just part of it. Oh, my God. I knew I'd do that. That's what it says. No biggie. I'll take two more in a minute. That's a really nice one, that, Eleanor. I love that from Olly Pope. I love it so much. It's such a tiny observation which speaks so much to the communication between a cricketer and the crowd. It's beautiful. How has your daughter managed to evade cricket, seeing as you're clearly a huge fan?
42:51Good question. I just haven't, I don't know. I think I just started her too old. She was just on her phone the whole day. She's never going again. Yeah. Unless I've got her on something. I think I took her twice. So the first, yeah, she loved it because it rained half the day. So we spent most of the day in the Trafford Centre buying her things. And she was like, can we go again? I was like, yeah, of course we can. What's the weather doing? It's sunny. It's very matching coded, isn't it? She didn't, she literally didn't care. She didn't care. Thank you for being on TailEnders. What have you enjoyed the most?
43:28One single cricketing memory from this summer. What's been your favourite bit? Apart from Ollypoke's thumb up. Oh, what did, I just, I liked seeing, so since we saw Bumrah, I really just loved his run up. I liked seeing it live. Yes. Loved it. That's a fantastic one. Just because it's, yeah, because it's very idiosyncratic, isn't it? but seeing it in a flesh it's a bit like wildlife spotting isn't it when you see all those motions like oh my god I've seen it in the flesh like a cheetah yeah yeah definitely it does feel quite it does feel it feels threatening to watch I think yeah I think you get quite scared watching it oh this is I'm very pleased I'm sitting 60 metres away anyway Eleanor thanks so much thanks for being on Tailenders and go well thank you actually go well thank you wait wait before you go you're wearing for the benefit of the people who aren't watching you're wearing a very natty headset.
44:22Is this part of your job or what do you do in your life? Are you a gamer? I work for a charity as a head of finance. Do you? And have you been sort of on work calls or are we just another one of your work calls today? I am just skiving, basically. Good. It's the only headset I own that works with, well, what's supposed to be my laptop but somehow I'm on my phone. I don't know what's happened. Eleanor, thank you so much for being on Tailenders and go well. Cheers.
44:55We have got another caller, which we'll do right at the end, but now she'll do the go wells. Yeah. Shall we? I'd love to do the go wells. She's really good at go wells. Can you do it so I can witness it? On this loosely based podcast. I can't believe he said that. I love it. That's it. Give people what they want. Katie is waiting in the wings to give us a final little yearn. But Matching, take it away. Who's on go-wells and who's on cheers? Can I go cheers? Yeah, I'll do go-well. Okay. This is fun, isn't it? Human being weddings. Is that what you say? No, weddings. No, you say weddings. Weddings.
45:33Weddings. Human being weddings, human being ones. Sam and Jess, Ryan and Lottie, Rachel and Gareth, Lindsay and Daz, Alec and Hannah, James and Harriet. Go-well. Cheers. Carney has passed his driving test aged 34 and he's starting a new job as an assistant as an assistant driving instructor as an assistant Travis Head assistant at Travis Head no it would be a head assistant head teacher but he's done a pun as well assistant head teacher it's just a play on on a nose it's a play on words okay I see I know you don't really care but an assistant Travis Head well congratulations on that that was a good job go well cheers cheers James would like to say a go well for all the players, club officials who write up match reports for local papers.
46:20He would especially like to shout out Matt Piller, who writes reports for Lewis St. Michael's Cricket Club. Go well. Cheers. Christian Well. Christian Well. Who's Christian Well? Christian Well. And a big shout out to Christian Well. He's been on again. Alex has emailed in. Can I just say, matson's christian well is one of the funniest things i've ever heard i rewound it five times and it got funnier and funnier every time actual tears whilst driving thank you alex go well cheers human being anniversary's human being once a go well to harry who is 10 and loves cricket Cricket loves, lives, I see trees of green, red roses do, it loves cricket, and he's only ten.
47:13He can also, he can also, he also likes doing, I have to edit this whilst. What are you talking about? Because he's not written it down properly. Sharky edits the podcast. Yeah, but he's not... He also likes doing impressions of me doing impressions of Jules Holland and Donald... Oh, Greg obviously is supposed to be reading this. He also likes it when Greg does impressions of Jules Holland and Donald Trump. Right, okay. Go, Earl! What about... Jules Holland introducing Donald Trump! There you go. And Donald Trump?
47:46I don't... Hang on. Yeah. Yeah. He's got two voices, hasn't he? He's got the... But also the... I can't really do it. It's too hot in here. What about Chris Martin? That's my favourite of yours. Okay, so, Jimmy, it's so great that you're here tonight at Wembley. It's so nice to be here in the... Shall we talk about the huddle? Yes, let's do the huddle. I finally got my go in the huddle. went to Coldplay with Jimmy also Zane Lowe Joe Wiley great gang Freddie Flintoff great gang we got invited into the pre-show huddle behind the stage at Wembley let's not forget Brian Eno I'm about to do the sorry Jesus you never guess who was there as well Brian Eno what's your name Brian Eno what's your little yearn he is actually a little year he's tiny he's a little yearn himself.
48:55Brian Eno and a little yearns. They wish. Very good record. They wish they could get Eno to produce it. Have you heard a new one? Brian Eno and a little yearn. Sorry. So what happens is you're in this huddle, quite a big huddle, and Chris goes, okay, so Freddie, I can't get my arms around you, you're so big. And he's like, I want to say thanks to Brian Eno for saving our band on X and Y. I want to say thanks to Greg and Zane and Joe for playing our songs and making the band big. And thanks to Jimmy for the wickets. oh did he say that he basically said like thanks to jimmy for the cricket and yeah and uh just want to say thanks to everyone and just let's go and have a great show okay let's go and you're like come on yeah let's go i ran on stage and got tackled by a security guard yeah and hands in the middle not literally there was hands in the middle yeah you go go play you called play yeah you go go well yeah we should have given him a go well yeah yeah a big girl was chris martin always always what a great show that is a great show I've got many ideas for the next tailenders yeah it gets you thinking it's going to cost at least it's going to cost 5 mil production we can probably get tickets at 15k it will lose initially but I think Coldplay have done it for 25 years I think they're making money now it feels like it doesn't it I haven't done the maths but it feels like it anyway anniversaries human being anniversaries human being ones Chris and Holly that's it go well cheers cheers I think I've done that one already Maddie and George smashed their exams this summer smashed it go well cheers engagements human being engagements human being ones Colette and Dave Emma and Ed James and Harriet Sophie and Pete go well cheers cheers birthdays human being birthdays human being ones Ellie and Bryony go well cheers Mitch has finished sorry Mitch has finished his chemotherapy Martin and Kate are off to see Jimmy and Fee in Hull.
50:50Go well, Mitch. Well, I think we need to go off the chemo first. Yeah, let's do that. Get well. Mitch has finished chemotherapy. Go well, cheers. Go well, Mitch. Martin and Kate are off to see Jimmy and Fee in Hull. Here comes Hull coming down the motorway. How do I get to Hull then? Go well. I'll travel, boy. Cheers. Move well. Whole city tigers. To Liam. Liam is off to Yorkshire. He's off from Yorkshire to Lincolnshire. That's not that far, is it? Go well. Cheers. It depends where in each county. Can I do a couple of go-wells for first? I want to say go-well to Lola, my eldest daughter, who starts her new school on Saturday.
51:28Huge. Go-well, Lola. She did really well in her exams. And a massive go-well to Dylan, who came to our live show last night, who is a big cricket fan and really sweet meeting him. Yes, Dylan, go-well. Can I ask you, do you help Lola with an exam when she's doing a revision? Lola well. Do you get involved in that? No. I'm not the person to help with exams. And that's why she's done so well. Well done, Lola. Legend. Cricket clubs. Newkey cricket club who just played their first ladies softball match. Okay. Old Nottingham's, Nottingham, Nottingmians, critic clubs. Kids Grove. Cricket clubs. Under 13s and thirds.
52:10Ellsworth cricket club. Overstone Park, under 13 girls who will be playing at Lords. I don't stand the chance with this one. Hibboldstow Cricket Club and Skirmersdale Cricket Club. Under... How do you say that? Skilmersdale. Quite a famous place near Liverpool.
52:28Skirmersdale Cricket Club. Under 15s. Go well to all you. Go well. Cheers. Mutual Edders. Human being babies. Human being ones. Matching goes babies. Babies. Nice. Finlay. Hayley. Daphne. and our friend Jake Massas just had a baby I've got what it's called Mir I think I've got that wrong maybe check otherwise we've just renamed it congratulations Go Well May May good job you checked Go Well Snip Well Googly News Human Being Batext Me to Human Being 1 to Justa James Go Well Cheers lovely Go Well that's it thank you Go Well's for next week tailenders at bbc.co.uk thank you everybody let's call Katie I've been told to call her on speakerphone
53:27it's ringing so shonky hello hello pretty good Katie welcome to tailenders your zoom's not working you've said try speakerphone we're doing speakerphone Katie welcome to the podcast what's your name what's your little year what's your name katie i'm katie play for fleetwood cricket club and my little year you know as you're going out the back minute we're starting to pitch right to run into the middle you start doing the silly little stretches like it a bit of a torso to it i'm leaving the background you go onto the knees stretch the back back and then start doing the shadow batting as you go on into the middle Yeah.
54:12Have you just fallen down the stairs? Do you need us to send help? Hello? Are you doing the stretches now, Katie? What are you talking about here? Are you doing... Are you doing anything? Yes, are you okay? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No. We're not... and she's gone she's hung up okay well let's discuss Sharky maybe maybe call her back outside to see if she needs any medical assistance let's get her on next week to see if she's okay to be continued to be continued but that is a good one I like her yearn yeah the gist was yeah the gist is good it's fantastic batter stretches as they walk on let's discuss with her I like the Joe Root one that's really good because he's got different tempos he does a little jog and then he's just head down sprint sprint sprint but then bang bang bang with the bat yeah it's like The running sideways one and the imaginary headers that footballers do.
55:08That's his football little yearn before games. I remember Brodie, halfway through his career, I think, brought in a three bunny hop strategy before he bowled the first ball of a spell. Remember that? He would do three knee tucks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just got to get my knees pumping, guys. Get the knees pumping like the commentator said. I don't know if you know this, but cricket is also theatre. Always. Never not a theatre. It's never not opening night. exactly crowd are there to be entertained remember guys yeah opening night yeah guys switch on yeah opening night tonight Broadway plus the West End equals theatre I'd love to get a batter's thought process of why they would why they play those shots as they go out to bat get the shoulders going maybe a little bit I'll tell you another one that I like which is similar to what Katie was saying which is when batters walk out and they've been in a dark changing room and they look out and they look right up into the sky and they open their eyes really wide.
56:09Oh, I love that. Just to change the dilation of the pupil. I love that one. Get used to the outside light. Let's switch on, switch on. Eyes open. Let's go. I really love that one. Bunny hop, bunny hop, go. Quick one, once you get to the crease, what guard are you taking? Oh, thank you so much for your question, Jimmy. I am taking mid and middle, but if I'm little yearning it, I'm going middle and leg because it just alludes to the fact that I really know what I'm doing. Do you know what I mean? And I know that in my game, I'm just having that little move into the ball with a bowling off stump line that gives me good momentum and rhythm in my shot making.
56:48So thank you for your question. Greg? It was always middle. Yeah. I would quite like to say to an umpire in a professional game, one leg, that'd be good. I'll take two. Yeah, two. I'm not even saying it just I love that Oh don't Just the one finger I love that Here's an embarrassing thing That I definitely did When I was a kid And actually Whenever I bat Which is When you first start Playing cricket You take guard And you use one hand One arm But then it's cooler To use two And so you're a bit more hunched It's much cooler To be in control With both hands Taking a guard Whereas when you're a kid You used to do one And then I And it's like Oh my god I watched everyone and thought yeah it's actually really cool today and even when you're doing it you're like I'm being a pro here they'll be scared of me because I'm using both hands the interesting thing is that there's always a divot there where the guard is you want so you don't really need to do it because there's always middle a big divot where middle is and everyone wants middle so it's all very performative everyone loves middle we know that's the routine it's a bit obvious isn't it middle the mainstream it's interesting because when when I've battered there's quite often been five marks there oh you've got You need to check.
58:01That's maybe quite a higher level. Leg stump for a right-hander, which is left-hand, left-hand, off-stump. Middle, middle and off, middle and leg, and leg stump. I guess that's at lowest level cricket. Everyone's got to know middle. Yeah, probably middle, I think. Yeah. There or thereabouts. That is the end of today's Tailenders podcast. Thank you for having us on the end of today's podcast. You're welcome for being on the end of Tailenders. Thank you to all of our amazing callers on the phone-in, particularly Katie at the end, who was on Sharky's bad phone and also maybe fell down the stairs.
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