Lord's Day 1: Archer gets his cap & Mitchell Johnson's Ashes memories
Test Match Special
BBC
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🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mitchell Johnson joins the pod to chat about his first experience of playing international cricket at Lord's when he went at more than 6 an over. He talks about dealing with a lack of confidence, hitting his peak after turning 30, and the highs and lows of one of the most exciting careers in the history of Ashes cricket.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.7 | The TMS podcast at the ashes, |
| 0:09.2 | downloading, subscribe via the BBC Sounds app. |
| 0:12.6 | The big girl is gone and Englander won the actress. |
| 0:15.2 | Stress is bold. |
| 0:16.6 | Oh, bold via beauty, pitched in the rough and turned a mile. |
| 0:22.3 | Both of them swings again and hits the... |
| 0:23.6 | It's six runs, it's six runs, that is 100. |
| 0:27.0 | Goff runs away on a hat trick and he bowls two minutes. |
| 0:29.2 | Bowling, daring goff has taken a hat trick. |
| 0:31.8 | No, is it? Is it the ashes? Yes. |
| 0:34.3 | Englander won the ashes. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello, welcome to a very damp lords. |
| 0:42.0 | We said on yesterday's podcast that today's outlook wasn't great |
| 0:45.1 | and in fact, we're hampsing a ball bowl all day. |
| 0:47.5 | We did get within seven minutes of the toss |
| 0:49.6 | when the rain came this afternoon. |
| 0:51.1 | Joffa Archer, presented with his cat by his good friend, Chris Jordan. |
| 0:54.3 | So we can expect him to play tomorrow. |
| 0:56.4 | It looks as if Sam Curran will miss out, |
| 0:58.8 | in which case Leech and Denley would both play. |
| 1:02.2 | Well, tomorrow is the Ruth Strauss Foundation day here at lords |
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