Project Ashes Ep 4: Family Planning
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 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 less known names who play crucial roles.
In Episode Four, with the Ashes in doubt due to concerns around quarantine rules for players’ families, Aggers speaks to England bowler Mark Wood and his wife Sarah, to find out what impact being an international cricketer has on a family life.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | The Ashes is the ultimate prize in English cricket. |
| 0:11.0 | Right-Broad, the middle stands out of the ground. England have won. |
| 0:15.0 | Where their swans are on, plunging the air. |
| 0:17.0 | Australia have been pulled out for 60 and Stuart Broad has taken 8 for 15. |
| 0:24.0 | England have only won once in Australia in the last 34 years. |
| 0:28.0 | 8 series, 1 victory. |
| 0:31.0 | And it's all over. England out for just 79. |
| 0:35.0 | They have crashed to an horrendous defeat here. |
| 0:38.0 | It's pushed into the offside by Vince Closin. |
| 0:40.0 | That's a great success. |
| 0:41.0 | Closin starts out. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:43.0 | The director thinks Vince has gone. |
| 0:45.0 | But this Ashes series very nearly didn't happen, |
| 0:48.0 | given that England's players didn't want a tour without their families. |
| 0:51.0 | We're very worked as players that we stand a better chance of winning |
| 0:55.0 | in Australia if our families are allowed to come for a certain period of time without quarantining. |
| 0:59.0 | We've tried to have good honest conversations with the CB |
| 1:03.0 | and have, but if there's no information available to them, |
| 1:06.0 | then it makes things very difficult. |
| 1:08.0 | So what's it like being the other half of an England cricketer? |
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