Review, Revelations and Relief

Tailenders

BBC

Comedy, Sports, Cricket

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

No more sleepless nights, no more doom scrolling and no more ‘it’s the hope that kills you’, The Ashes are over and like the England team The Tailenders are limping to the end of the series.

Felix is ill and can only join us ‘down the line’ from his Doctors, so the ex England wicketkeeper Matt Prior is our 12th Man.

While Mattchin, to the dismay of the footballing world, has done his hamstring and is on crutches, yet despite this he manages one more round of his classic ‘Am I lying or am I Nathan Lyon?’.

We review the series, look to the future of English cricket and try to work out what the hell happened in Australia over the winter. Plus we have an 'exclusive'…albeit from 2007 and would Jimmy fancy being the England coach?

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.1	The Traitors Uncloaked is the only place you'll see players react as they find out who's been deceiving them.
0:12.6	That is brilliant.
0:14.9	It's the only place for official behind the scenes deep dives into the latest plot twists.
0:19.3	And it's the only place where we chat to
0:21.1	famous fans and players from series gone by. I wouldn't want to be a traitor. Oh, it's the best
0:25.9	part of course. That's what a traitor would say. Yeah. The traitors uncloked, the official
0:29.9	visualised companion podcast with me, Ed Gamble. Watch on Eye Player, listen for more on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to Tell enders. This is Greg
0:38.5	James. That is Sir Jimmy Anderson. Hello. And no Felix White today, he's ill. We'll get to him
0:44.1	in a second. We are very excited to welcome Matt Pryor though. Thank you for having me, guys. Matt.
0:48.7	It's an honour to be here. I feel like Matt is a tail ender, spiritually. Not skill level.
0:55.0	I was.
0:55.5	No, that's not true, actually.
0:57.3	Loved batting with the tail enders.
0:59.2	That's good.
1:00.1	You are comfortable with tail enders.
1:02.8	Very.
1:03.2	That's what I should have said because it made it sound like you couldn't bat.
1:06.0	Whereas the opposite is true.
1:07.2	In fact, we need to get into your career a little bit because we want to talk about so much stuff about this series. Hey, we lost the ashes. We knew that anyway. It was 4-1. If you're new to Tail Lenders, then welcome. Please come back after the ashes. Please, we won't dwell on the cricket too much. There's so much moaning about it. I don't even want to, I don't want to even contribute to the moaning. So we're going to try and keep things lightish today. But yeah,
1:33.2	tell end this is a Lucy cricket-based podcast. We're going for about a thousand years. So please
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