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The Analyst Inside Cricket

BASHIR SAVES THE DAY

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Cricket, Sports

4.5659 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mother cricket decreed that England, after the shenanigans of the last fortnight, would have to field first in baking hot conditions on a flat pitch for the final Test. And for the first two sessions they failed to take a single wicket. But they kept at it, and in the final session got at least a hint of a reward with a couple of late wickets. Simon Hughes, Simon Mann and Matt Prior review a day when the one thing you could not accuse England of was lack of commitment. #cricket #englandcricket Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Andrew Mensa, host of Lions Then Connected by EE, the official England podcast.

0:06.2

I'll be taking you behind the scenes of the three Lions camp where I talk to the lights of Jude Belliname, Harry Kane and Declan Rice, as well as the rest of the squad.

0:14.2

You'll hear how the players are getting ready for the next game, how they unwind in between training sessions and their personal journey to the top.

0:23.6

Get each show first on the official England app or get the podcast on the Sports Social Podcast Network

0:27.3

or wherever you get your favourite show.

0:33.8

Oh, late swing for Anderson now.

0:35.7

Was that out?

0:36.5

It is out.

0:39.2

Stokes flashes it away, through the covers for four, and England have won the match.

0:49.1

Hello, welcome to the analyst inside cricket with me, Simon Hughes.

0:52.8

And I'm Simon Mann.

0:53.9

And we'll hear from Matt Pryor, who's part of our team later as well,

0:57.8

because it's been a lot of hardyacker, hasn't it, today, for the boulders anyway.

1:02.6

Actually, it's a lovely temperature now here, but certainly this morning at Trent Bridge,

1:06.3

it was hot, probably the afternoon as well, made hotter by the fact that England took no wickets

1:12.6

in the first two sessions. I mean, extraordinary, really. There were thoughts of the terrible

1:17.8

experience England had in 1989 against the Australians when they didn't take a wicket in the

1:22.5

entire day, when Jeff Marsh and Mark Taylor put on 320 odd for no wicket.

1:28.0

That was a desperate day in English cricket history.

1:31.4

Of course, here, actually, four years ago, New Zealand got 500 as well.

1:35.2

But maybe we'll come to that later because there was a good ending to that game,

1:39.7

if you were the bowling side, England on that occasion.

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