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Test Match Special

Men's T20 World Cup: England and Scotland prepare for opener

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Commentator Henry Moeran, former England fast bowler Steven Finn and BBC Cricket journalist Matt Henry look ahead to England and Scotland's T20 World Cup opener in Barbados. We hear from England captain Jos Buttler, who was in spiky form ahead of the game. Scotland batter Michael Leask tells of his excitement about facing England once again.

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0:00.0

My name is Joe Wilkinson and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a

0:05.4

podcast of me and he's going to slowly fall in love with me. Do you go to the tip?

0:09.2

Believe we're not, yeah, I do. Do you go to the supermarket? No. You know when all the shirts started getting

0:15.5

tie on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public?

0:20.1

Yeah yeah and everyone looked like sausages.

0:23.0

My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson.

0:27.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:41.0

Hello and welcome to the First Test Match Special Podcast from Barbados at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup

0:49.1

ahead of England against Scotland a tournament open up for both sides in group B.

0:54.0

We're here in the stands of the Kensington Oval

0:57.0

getting set for a tournament opener for the two home nation sides.

1:01.0

From 5 Live Sports, this is the CMS podcast.

1:06.5

Well out in the middle there's work being done on a surface that we've seen already in this

1:11.2

competition, has plenty of life in it plenty of unexpected

1:14.5

treats for the fast bowlers and we can expect I think plenty of exciting cricket

1:19.0

here at this famous old ground as well to my left the Warwicks and Walcott Stan towers high and over to our right the media center bearing the name of a TMS great Tony Koesia as well so much to look forward to ahead of the tournament opener for England and

1:34.8

Scotland. Joining me to talk through it all is Ash's winning Fast Boulder Stephen Finn

1:39.4

and Matt Henry for the BBC Sport website and app.

1:44.0

Finney, first of all, England will look at this game, let's be honest,

1:47.0

as a game they've got to win.

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