Just how good are England?
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Agnew is joined by former England bowler Steven Finn and BBC Chief Cricket Writer Stephan Shemilt, to talk about what we’ve learnt from England’s Test series in Pakistan. There’s also a look ahead to the tour of New Zealand, which starts next month.
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| 0:49.1 | Hello, welcome to Islamabad. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Jonathan Agnew, and it's 24 hours after England's series defeat to Pakistan. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm joined by the former England International Stephen Finn and our chief cricket writer |
| 1:00.0 | Stephen Schemelt talk about what we've learned from this series. |
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| 1:08.8 | Right, so gentlemen, where do we start? |
| 1:11.2 | I guess spin bowling, Finney probably. It always seems to come and bite |
| 1:16.3 | England when we come to this part of the world. I guess how much practice, preparation, that sort of thing is bound to be talked about |
| 1:24.3 | getting England ready to come here in the future. Yeah I think also nod towards |
| 1:28.8 | the fact that one of the spinners was 21 and the other was 20. Jack Leach clearly far more experienced he took a good |
| 1:35.7 | number of wickets in those first couple of test matches. It didn't bowl quite as well. |
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