JESSOP - STILL THE FASTEST ENGLISHMAN

The Analyst Inside Cricket

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Cricket, Sports

4.5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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A preview of the fifth and final test at the Oval, scene also of Gilbert Jessop's fastest hundred for England in a Test match in 1902, a 76-ball record that still stands. Simon Hughes discusses the prospects of a Stokes-less England and a rebuilt bowling attack with Sunday Times cricket correspondent Simon Wilde who has written a new book - Chasing Jessop. It reveals much about the man who could be considered the original Bazballer and also makes claims that his hundred may have been even quicker than 76 balls, therefore laying down an intriguing challenge for Baz McCullum's men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, late swing for Anderson now. Was that out? It is out. Stokes flashes it away, through the covers for four, and England have won the match.
0:19.3	Hello, welcome to the analyst inside cricket with me, Simon Hughes, and I'm pleased to say a special guest on the podcast today, someone who's been on it before, Simon Wilde, the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times and also regular author as well. In fact, I'm annoyed because you've beaten me. You've written more books than I have. You've written 13 and I're only written 10. And your latest book
0:39.4	about Gilbert Jessop, the 1902 star of the England team, scored this amazing 100, 76 ball 100,
0:47.7	allegedly, which the basballers have been trying to chase inadvertently over the last few years and still his record stands
0:56.8	as allegedly the 76 ball 100 the fastest 100 ever scored by an England batsman you've done
1:02.4	some research to show that perhaps it was even quicker than that in your book we'll come to that
1:07.7	because clearly Gilbert jessup was the original basballer.
1:12.4	So we'll talk about that, but we should just talk first about the prospects for the fifth test here at the Oval.
1:18.5	Part of the reason why we're talking about Jessup, because his great hundred was here, wasn't it, behind us in 1902.
1:24.8	But looking ahead to the fifth test against India, the big news, Ben
1:28.8	Stokes is out, that will surely have been circulated around the news channels now.
1:34.2	How does that affect England, do you think?
1:36.0	I mean, that's a sort of, I suppose, a rather sort of basic question.
1:40.3	But I mean, it's a big issue, isn't it?
1:42.3	It's a big issue.
1:43.3	We have been here before last year against Sri Lanka.
1:46.0	He was out of the whole series.
1:48.0	Olli Pope stepped in and England won 2-1.
1:50.0	They did make a bit of a mess of the match here, actually, the final test and lost it.
1:54.0	And then they went to Pakistan and Pope stood in again for the first test in Maltaan,
1:58.0	where England actually got 800 and achieved one of the most
2:02.1	famous celebrated wins but he Stokes is a huge loss as a leader he is going to be here at the game
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