No Balls: Headingley, happiness on-field & a Hartley head injury

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Kate Cross & Alex Hartley convene in a hotel room the morning after Kate’s winning start in The Hundred with the Northern Superchargers. Should there be substitutes in cricket, what would Alex call a pub if she opened one, and what loud bang what Crossy up in the middle of the night?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Al, we've got to issue a swear warning because you are an absolute potty mouth.
0:08.9	Not another one.
0:10.3	And you need to remember that your grandma listens to this.
0:12.8	She does. She also abuses me on social media.
0:15.2	But don't worry, we beep it out.
0:16.6	See your kids can listen.
0:17.8	And Grandma Jean.
0:20.4	Cross. I'm doing, the wicket.
0:23.3	Boulder, Boulder, leaving a ball alone, Litchfield.
0:27.1	I think it's the wobble ball.
0:28.7	And it just nips back.
0:29.7	It jags back.
0:30.6	It's the nipbacker.
0:31.6	That is a beauty from Kate Cross.
0:33.5	An absolute seed.
0:35.6	That is a beautiful cross.
0:41.0	Hello? Cross, an absolute seed. That is a beautiful cross. Hello and welcome back to No Bulls of Cricket Podcast.
0:43.5	For me, Kate Cross, you're Alex Hartley.
0:46.2	And we're together.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:48.6	We're in person.
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