No Balls: The Cricket Podcast – The Emergency Post Test Episode
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
England bowler Kate Cross and World Cup winner Alex Hartley reflect on the near miracle of Manuka. Kate has the inside story of one of the most dramatic Tests of all time and Alex explains how she coped with the tension in the TMS commentary box. Kate talks us through how she ended up saving the game in the middle and what the dressing room was like at the end of the match. And Kate and Alex even have time to answer some of your e-mails.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Guys, this is you warning. |
| 0:07.7 | We do swear occasionally. |
| 0:09.6 | Every now and then, we'll say the word. |
| 0:13.3 | Sometimes, sometimes, and even maybe. |
| 0:18.8 | But don't let that put you off with nice people. |
| 0:21.2 | We beep them out. |
| 0:22.8 | Where your kids can listen. |
| 0:23.8 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:29.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:32.0 | And cross strikes in the first over. |
| 0:34.0 | It's one in and we're looking for. |
| 0:35.6 | Partly falls down. The track comes going this time. |
| 0:38.4 | She connects. |
| 0:39.4 | It's either six or out. It's six. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello and welcome back to Nobles. |
| 0:52.8 | A cricket podcast with me, Kate Cross, you out there, Tartley, |
| 0:55.8 | and we're back in the wilderness. |
| 0:57.6 | We're back in the wilderness, and this is take two, |
| 0:59.3 | because the last one was, couldn't have been more shambolic if we tried. |
| 1:03.3 | We have high levels of expectation of shambolic, and it exceeded them. |
| 1:07.7 | There was three bin men. Not men. Three bin trucks. |
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