Moeen Ali on Test retirement
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
England all-rounder Moeen Ali joins TMS commentator Aatif Nawaz to discuss his retirement from Tests. Moeen explains his decision, goes through the highlights of his Test career and chats about the challenges of playing all formats in Covid times. Moeen also discusses his love of boxing and how Call of Duty helped him cope with quarantine.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm London Dois and welcome to a bonus test match special podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | This week England will round and mind other announced different climate for test cricket. |
| 0:13.2 | Moe played 64 games since making his debut. |
| 0:16.0 | 2014, it took 195 test wickets and scored 5 tests centuries. |
| 0:21.3 | He's ranked only behind Derek Underwood and Graham Swan in another test wicket taken by a spinner. |
| 0:27.1 | And in 2017 it became the fifth fastest in terms of matches to achieve the double of 2,000 tests from unsuitable and 100 test wickets. |
| 0:36.1 | Yet has Moe really received the praise he's deserved for that record of test. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, I've been speaking to Moe from the UAE where he's currently playing for the KELAY Supercinct and the I.D.L. |
| 0:46.1 | Moe, how are you? |
| 0:57.2 | I'm very well, thank you. Not too bad. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. Thanks for asking. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm well. I got to be honest. |
| 1:04.2 | I was slightly taken aback when I heard about your retirement. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, is this something you've been thinking about for a long time and forgive me for asking it. |
| 1:11.0 | I know you've talked about this a long recently. |
| 1:12.6 | But was there something that was bubbling away in the back of your mind or something to trigger it? |
| 1:17.3 | Like give us a little insight into what made that decision. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, I think it's been a bubble over for a little bit of time. |
| 1:24.6 | Not too long to mentally. |
| 1:26.0 | I mean, I was still keen to play and do well and stuff like that. |
| 1:30.2 | But I just, I think the break between 2019 when I got dropped and two when I played recently in |
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