Inside the Mind of an Ashes Captain

Test Match Special

BBC

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4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Michael Vaughan speaks to Sir Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Allan Border and Ian Chappell about what it's like captaining in cricket's oldest rivalry.

Andrew Strauss reveals how being insulted in a lift by a member of the Barmy Army fuelled his desire to win the Ashes in 2010-11, whilst for Allan Border it was being sledged by the Australian Prime Minister on TV.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.4	The TMS Podcast at the Ashes.
0:08.7	Download and subscribe via the BBC Sounds app.
0:11.7	Hello and welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast.
0:15.5	I'm Eleanor Oldroyd, with me is Michael Vaughn,
0:18.3	and it's two days to go until the start of the Ashes.
0:20.8	Tomorrow on this podcast, Jonathan Agnew,
0:22.9	will be at Edgepiston, ahead of the first test.
0:25.3	We'll hear from Joe Root, as well as Australia Captain Tim Payne.
0:29.0	But today, we're going to take a closer look
0:31.0	at just what it's like to captain in the Ashes.
0:35.9	There's test cricket, and then there's Ashes cricket,
0:38.5	and there are two completely separate things.
0:40.5	But it's going to be caught, and England won the Ashes.
0:43.3	And Australia have regained the Ashes
0:46.5	at the earliest possible opportunity.
0:48.9	Marsh.
0:49.5	Wings it high on the outside,
0:50.7	Randall's underneath it.
0:51.6	This cup of the Ashes for England.
0:53.2	He's caught it, no one.
0:54.6	It's the ultimate opposition.
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