Ask The Umpire - with John Holder
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Former international umpire John Holder joins Jonathan Agnew and Vic Marks for answers to your cricketing predicaments.
What if the ball hits a pigeon? How big does an animal have to be to stop play? And can a question 50 years in the making be answered?
Plus, John has an announcement to make...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew and welcome to a bonus test match special podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | It's that slots we all love, ask the umpire. |
| 0:18.7 | Vic Marks and I asked John Holder, your cricketing quandaries, and there's a special announcement |
| 0:23.4 | from John in here as well. |
| 0:25.4 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:30.7 | Look, we have got a sackful, a sackful of questions here for Ask the Umpire, which I know it's a thing that you've loved doing. |
| 0:41.2 | Are they all serious questions? |
| 0:42.9 | No. |
| 0:44.8 | They're not. |
| 0:45.7 | So we'll have some fun. |
| 0:46.9 | We've got to, exactly, which is what this slot is. |
| 0:49.0 | But it does resolve disputes and so on as well. |
| 0:53.3 | It's not all about trying to, as I say, trying to get you to make a mistake or something or to rule something silly. It's about actually it's about sorting out things that have rumbled on in some cases for years, isn't it? |
| 1:05.9 | And that's what I've enjoyed. I mean, I mean, the laws of cricket can be quite complex. Very. |
| 1:16.4 | And with my experience and I suppose my knowledge of the laws and so on, |
| 1:20.2 | it's been good to come on and explain to people who love the game exactly what the employer can and can't do. I've enjoyed that. |
| 1:23.5 | Yeah, yeah. Good. Right. |
| 1:25.3 | Well, should we start? |
| 1:26.6 | You and James is the first one on. If a batsman |
| 1:28.6 | hits a six or a shot for six, but it hits a passing pigeon and then drops to the fielder |
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