CWC 6 days to go: The captains' podcast
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
With six days to go, Mark Chapman is joined by all ten of the captains at the Cricket World Cup in front of a live audience of journalists and local school children.
The captains talk India vs Pakistan, expectations, excitement and whether we will see the first ever side to score 500 in an innings.
Don't forget, there's a new episode available every day throughout the tournament, so make sure you subscribe via BBC Sounds or your usual podcast app.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.2 | Available every day during the Cricket World Cup. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the CMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:12.0 | And it makes up all the copyrights that will be read out. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, hi Australia is in the final. |
| 0:19.0 | Kevin O'Brien from nowhere has scored the fastest hundred in World Cup history. |
| 0:23.9 | He's more than that's it. |
| 0:24.9 | The West Indies have retained the title. |
| 0:26.4 | And India have caused one of the greatest upsets in the history of all sport. |
| 0:30.4 | Oh, I think they're out of the world cup. |
| 0:34.4 | That is absolutely amazing. |
| 0:39.4 | Hello, welcome to the CMS podcast at the Cricket World Cup. |
| 0:42.4 | Just six days to go. |
| 0:44.4 | My name is Mark Chapman. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm in what you would call, I suppose, a hipster venue in East London. |
| 0:51.4 | Certainly, tough as in Vaughan would feel very out of place. |
| 0:55.4 | If they were in here. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm about to go on stage and interview the captains of all ten teams at the men's Cricket World Cup in front of the world's media. |
| 1:04.4 | And there are also some local school children as well who will ask some questions throughout the course of the event. |
| 1:10.4 | We're sitting on a big stage. |
| 1:13.4 | Massive led the sofas there ready for the captains to sit on. |
| 1:17.4 | All of us wearing those Madonna-style microphones, the World Cup trophy is here. |
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