#35 - Peak Times, Chippy Tunes and The Viscount of Value
Elis James and John Robins
Significant Productions
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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In this very special episode, we're joined by a hero in these parts - Martin Lewis! Elsewhere, we enjoy some millennial slang in today's Made Up Game and we learn all about Simon Mayo's repeat fees.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | You could go to South Africa or you could go to Australia to watch... |
| 0:08.8 | What's their vision of country cricket? |
| 0:10.4 | State cricket, yes. |
| 0:12.4 | The reason the South African team was so about it that it's fascinating. |
| 0:16.2 | There's a thing called Colpac Deals. |
| 0:18.5 | In order to play as an overseas player in England, |
| 0:20.8 | you used to only be able to field one overseas player. |
| 0:23.4 | But all you need now is this thing called the Colpac Deal |
| 0:26.7 | where a country has to have a trade agreement with the UK. |
| 0:30.4 | So if you're a South African reaching the end of their test career |
| 0:33.6 | and really good standard, |
| 0:35.7 | you make so much more money in England |
| 0:37.2 | than playing county cricket because of the weakness of the Rand |
| 0:40.1 | that you sign up for an English county. |
| 0:43.1 | You are then... |
| 0:45.4 | Ineligible. |
| 0:46.8 | Ineligible for to play for South Africa. |
| 0:49.9 | So the South Africa have got like an amazing test team |
| 0:52.7 | that can't play for them because they're all in England. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, well, it shouldn't be players. |
| 0:56.0 | Can't play for Wales if they're playing in France. |
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