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Test Match Special

Ask the Umpire.

Test Match Special

BBC

Sports News, Cricket, Sports, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Identical twins, pony tails and rogue terriers. John Holder joins Jonathan Agnew and Vic Marks for “Ask the Umpire”

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcast.

0:04.0

You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:09.0

It's such a popular slot this.

0:12.0

There's a fair amount of imagination used as well as we know.

0:16.0

And I was saying yesterday on the radio that it was because we had it inevitably.

0:21.0

There'll be a question about Beards somewhere coming up.

0:23.0

But because of that one about the Beards touching the boundaries.

0:26.0

In the Commonwealth Games, I was doing a Women's Game.

0:28.0

There's a magnificent dive actually on the boundary edge by a ponytailed filter.

0:34.0

Who did everything right?

0:36.0

Except at the vital moment, a ponytail touched the boundary edge four runs.

0:41.0

On par with a person.

0:42.0

Four runs.

0:43.0

And I thought straight away of you.

0:45.0

I thought straight away of Keith Flett, who's our friend who always said

0:48.0

these ridiculous questions about Beards.

0:49.0

But however, there you go.

0:50.0

And actually, I was on at the time and I knew the rule because of these.

0:54.0

I was immediately able to say, oh no.

0:56.0

The ponytails touched the boundary edge.

0:58.0

The same time that she had the ball in her hand.

1:00.0

Yeah, yeah, boundary.

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