County Cricket: Elgar on Essex & Durham eye Stokes’ return
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Howells, Tymal Mills & Emily Windsor talk to Essex & South Africa batter Dean Elgar, Durham head coach Ryan Campbell, and South East Stars all-rounder Ryana MacDonald-Gay.
Elgar talks about settling into this season with Essex, whilst Campbell talks about what he’s seen from Ben Stokes in training and updates us on the England men’s captain’s bowling.
MacDonald-Gay talks about her incredible start to the season with South East Stars.
Plus, the drive for modern day cricket to attract the best athletes.
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| 0:40.0 | This is the CMS County Championship Podcast with Kevin Hows. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to the Test Match Special County Cricket Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | We have a brilliant lineup of guests for you this week joining myself along with |
| 0:53.9 | Tamal Mills and Emily Windsor with the former South African test captain |
| 0:57.7 | now after a really good start in his time with Essex in Dean Elgar |
| 1:02.0 | Ryan Campbell Durham's head coach, first season back in Division |
| 1:05.7 | 1 after a month, how's it going, and Riana McDonnell Gaye on leading from the front, taking |
| 1:11.3 | wickets in the Rachel Hayoflin trophy. |
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| 1:20.0 | I don't want to sound too random at the start of our little chat this week, but I'm told |
| 1:24.8 | that there was a little period of play between Durham and Essex in the last round |
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