Project Ashes Ep 3: The Backroom
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
For the last 12 months, Jonathan Agnew has been given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the England men’s cricket team’s planning to win back the Ashes. Throughout the year, Aggers has spoken to key players, including Joe Root, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson, but also those lesser-known names who play crucial roles.
In Episode Three, we meet the backroom staff – the Performance Director who has to work out how many cricket balls the team will need throughout the tour, the nutritionist who hides Frosties at the breakfast buffet, and then the Strength and Conditioning coach who puts players through their paces on the first day of the summer.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | The Ashes is the ultimate prize in English cricket. |
| 0:11.0 | That comes birth of my verse to Alderman. |
| 0:13.5 | And Alderman England of One. |
| 0:15.7 | Here's Broad, coming in and boating to Vogue's eyes. |
| 0:17.8 | Britain of One. |
| 0:18.9 | Britain of One. |
| 0:19.9 | They call. |
| 0:21.3 | That is an outrageous cast by Ben Scopes. |
| 0:25.1 | Good people, but it's going to be called |
| 0:27.0 | and England of One, the action. |
| 0:28.6 | England of Only One, once in Australia in the last 34 years. |
| 0:33.0 | Eight series, one victory. |
| 0:35.1 | Dawson comes up and boasts to war who drives through the |
| 0:38.4 | off-sides for his hundred. |
| 0:40.0 | That is extraordinary. |
| 0:44.2 | Ponding pulls that away to square leg as he'll be caught. |
| 0:46.6 | He's dropped it. |
| 0:47.9 | Giles at square leg is top-ricky Ponding. |
| 0:50.9 | This will be my ninth Ashes tour for the BBC. |
| 0:54.0 | But I've never really found out just what goes on |
| 0:56.2 | behind the scenes to prepare a team for the ultimate test. |
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