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Test Match Special

England find form ahead of World Cup defence.

Test Match Special

BBC

News, Cricket, Sports, Sports News

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Agnew is joined by James Anderson and Jeremy Coney to assess how England’s ODI team look ahead of the World Cup.

They review the series win against New Zealand, hear from England captain Jos Buttler, player of the series Dawid Malan and Kiwi captain Tom Latham.

Plus the journalist panel of Stephan Shemilt, John Etheridge and Will Macpherson discuss the Harry Brook conundrum, the ODI return of Ben Stokes and Andrew Flintoff working with the England side.

Transcript

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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.

0:08.4

I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced

0:12.2

pundits and the biggest sport stars.

0:14.3

Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'

0:18.5

mouths.

0:19.5

But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sport world.

0:25.0

What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to

0:28.8

dedicated sports fans across the UK.

0:31.2

So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.

0:58.8

I'm David Belan and get an analysis from Jimmy Anderson and Jeremy Coney and our journalist

1:04.2

panel discuss the Harry Brook Conundrum, the one-day international return of Ben Stokes

1:08.8

and Andrew Flintoff working with the England side.

1:11.2

I'm going to chew over what we've seen here today and over the last week or so in this series

1:20.6

but just to quickly put some detail on today, England chose to bat first.

1:26.6

So they've made some changes including Ben Stokes being rested today and also Chris

1:30.8

Woke.

1:31.8

311 for 9 built spectacularly around that 100 by David Belan.

1:35.6

He made 127, route 29, dropped a couple of times and that Harry Brook made just 10.

1:40.5

Joss Butler made 36, so 311 for 9.

1:44.8

The course of that is you don't just suffer a couple of injuries and actually quite a

1:48.0

potentially serious ones, Tim Southey, who's had a fractured thumb and also dislocated.

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