IPL suspended, India's captaincy changes & the history of Test cricket with Tim Wigmore
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
Sky Sports
4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Michael and Nasser are joined by author and journalist Tim Wigmore on this week's episode of the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast.
They discuss how cricket is being affected by the ongoing tensions in India and Pakistan, and chat about Rohit Sharma's decision to retire from Test cricket.
Plus, Tim tells us about his now book, "Test Cricket - A History" and picks out some of the most significant teams and players the sport has ever seen.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to celebrate. |
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| 0:30.0 | yeah gone gone he gets his fairy tale ending anpit way to go to a test match 100. |
| 0:39.3 | The London sphere the first time win is the most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket. |
| 0:45.3 | Six hundred and four and final test wicket that's new a ball. |
| 0:49.3 | It's ended when the T20 World Cup. |
| 0:53.3 | England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there, England have hope. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome for the Sky Sports Cricket podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | I am hosting this week because Michael Atherton has had an unsuccessful fishing trip up in Scotland. |
| 1:12.4 | J.R. Hartley, he definitely isn't. So we may chat fishing at some stage, but there's |
| 1:17.5 | plenty going on in the cricketing world. We have a guest with us again this week. Tim Wigmore, |
| 1:22.0 | slightly better cricket journalist than Michael Atherton writes for the telegraph and is also |
| 1:26.5 | the author of an excellent book. |
| 1:28.4 | It's excellent because I got a freebie copy, Test Cricket, a history of men's test cricket, |
| 1:34.7 | which is dating back 148 years. |
| 1:37.4 | Before we come on to that, breaking news as we start this podcast, the PSL has been moved to Dubai, will hopefully be completed in Dubai, |
| 1:48.9 | and the IPL, Michael Atherton, has been suspended and with everything that's going on in India, Pakistan, |
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