“Brutal” decision to drop Roy for the World Cup
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As England drop Jason Roy from their World Cup squad in favour of Harry Brook, Henry Moeran speaks to record breaking England bowler James Anderson, World Cup winner Ebony Rainford-Brent, BBC Sport Chief Cricket Writer Stephan Shemilt and TMS statistician Andy Zaltzman.
Plus we hear from England national selector Luke Wright.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself. |
| 0:03.7 | My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts. |
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| 0:12.2 | pundits and the biggest sport stars. |
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| 0:28.8 | dedicated sports fans across the UK. |
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| 0:40.2 | The TMS Podcast. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh! |
| 0:43.2 | Meshder! |
| 0:44.2 | From BBC Radio 5 Lies. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello, I'm Henry Moran and welcome to the Test Match Special podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | We'll building up to our coverage of the 50 over World Cup starting on October 5th and |
| 0:57.2 | England have made the decision to select Harry Brook over Jason Roy, something that has |
| 1:01.3 | sparked plenty of discussion. |
| 1:03.2 | Here's a thoughts first of England's record wicket-taker, James Addison, with Simon Matt. |
| 1:08.0 | Obviously a difficult decision for the selectors, but I don't know, they've gone with what |
| 1:15.7 | they feel is their best sort of squad, a stronger squad and Harry Brook is in that and Jason |
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