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Classic View From The Boundary On BBC Sounds

Hello, this is Jonathan Agnew with the Test Match Special Podcast on BBC Sounds.

We're going through the archive of our favourite view from the boundary interviews from the

last 40 years, hearing from actors, musicians, politicians and all sorts of others who've

joined us on the programme to discuss their lives and their love of cricket.

Today, we're rewinding to June 2007 at the test between England and West Indies at Old

Trafford.

Freshmer disasterous turtweather in the winter, Michael Vaughn sighed on their way to a thrilling

60-run win, aided by young centurion Aleister Cook, as well as Marty Panasar, who took ten

wickets in the match.

In the commentary box, we're joined by one of the more controversial figures in British

life.

Tabloid editor, talent judge, and now TV host, Piers Morgan.

At 28, Morgan became the youngest editor of the news of the world, before moving to

the Daily Mirror, but was famously sacked in 2004 over the authenticity of photos relating

to the war in Iraq.

He's been described as ambitious and supremely self-confident, and joined Simon Mann for what

was at times a rather spiky chat.

Since the age of about five, I've lived cricket, played it, watched it religiously, and

to be honest, to be sitting here at Old Trafford in the middle of a test match doing this

with you is a dream come true, actually.

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