First week of The Hundred, Chris Woakes and Ashes Preparation
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Sir Alastair Cook and Southern Brave’s Tymal Mills react to a blistering opening week of The Hundred. Grace Harris and London’s Spirit’s strong start and some of the top performers in the men's competition. We also hear from Chris Woakes following his shoulder injury and one-armed batting stand against India, discuss men's Ashes preparation and England's potential bowling attack.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Terlenders! |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Greg James. He's Felix White. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello. And that is England's greatest ever bowler, Jimmy Anderson. Hello. He was getting runs. He was slogging me over, like slogging me everywhere, basically, hitting sixes and stuff. So I started getting angry and started having to go at him. And he was like, why don't you just retire? You're way too old. Arthur told you to retire. What happened? Oh, the very next ball up, got him out. |
| 0:03.0 | So then, like, a month later, I was retired. Oh. Close one, in a way. The Knight of the Realm. Jimmy, come on. What? What do you mean what? What's the World? What are you saying? Tail Enders. Listen now on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:43.5 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:48.9 | Welcome to Five Live cricket. |
| 0:50.3 | We're joined by Alex Hartley at Old Trafford, Sir Alistair Cook and Southern Braves Tamal Mills. We'll hear from Chris Wokes, discuss the first week of the 100, and look ahead to the next men's ashes. Tamal, I thought Manchester Ridgels were going to beat the Brave last week and you went and ruined it. Yeah, for the first time in my career, I actually contributed to winning something with the bat. So yeah, sorry. Sorry about that, Manchester fans. |
| 1:12.2 | It's really uncomfortable to be actually at a game, |
| 1:14.9 | cursing someone and then have to do a show with them |
| 1:17.2 | just a few days later. |
| 1:19.4 | But at least I did it on a WhatsApp message to you as well. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, exactly. All good. No stress. |
| 1:26.7 | Alistair, how are you? Very well chappas, very one, alister how are you very well chappas very well indeed |
| 1:29.9 | are you are you enjoying the hundred are you having a break where are you |
| 1:35.7 | no i am well actually i'm in the studio in dunstable at the minute but i was at cardiff for the |
| 1:40.7 | welsh fires games and then i'm at Edge for them tomorrow so yeah I'm doing a |
| 1:44.8 | couple of them it was good good Tamal your your men's team the Southern Brave men's team are just one |
| 1:49.8 | of two teams to have won both matches so far I mean like like any of these competitions and |
| 1:56.7 | you will have you have experienced them all around the world. It is fine margins, isn't it? |
| 2:01.9 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:02.7 | And I've certainly been in teams and played in competitions |
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