#40from40: Hugh Grant and Russell Crowe

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Actors Hugh Grant (in 2005) and Russell Crowe (in 2009) visit the Test Match Special commentary box to discuss their love of cricket.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	The TMS Podcast, classic view from the boundary.
0:10.0	Hello, this is Jonathan Agony with another classic view from the boundary, and this one
0:15.3	brings back so many memories.
0:17.8	September the 12th, 2005, we'll go down as one of the greatest days in the history of
0:22.9	English cricket.
0:24.1	Two and up, and perhaps the greatest Ashes series of them all, England needed a draw
0:28.7	to regain the Ashes for the first time since 1987.
0:32.6	At T, on this final day, there were 221 for 7, a lead of 227, Kevin Peterson, unbeaten
0:39.3	on 105 with Ashley Giles on 6-0 out.
0:43.4	Well, Australian, they could take the final three wickets quickly after T, that have plenty
0:47.2	of time to chase down their target, England, they could bet for perhaps 10 overs, then surely
0:52.4	they wouldn't be caught.
0:54.0	With England dreams and the balance, we welcomed the acting superstar Hugh Grant to the commentary
0:59.6	box.
1:00.6	Auditions, awards ceremonies, Hugh had seen it all, but not sure he'd ever been as nervous
1:06.1	as at that T-break 15 years ago.
1:08.9	Yeah, I'm suffering, I think more than anyone in the whole crowd.
1:12.1	I can barely speak, it's hell.
1:13.9	I just say, yeah, you spend all this money on tickets and in fact then put yourself through
1:17.0	two days of unmissigated misery.
1:18.7	Yeah.
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