Spankers and Dirty Balls
Tailenders
BBC
4.9 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Greg James, Jimmy Anderson and Felix White discuss all things cricket (and much more besides) including the second test in New Zealand and a unique solution to the recent Aussie ball tampering scandal from our regular caller Mattchin Tendulkar. Plus Breakfast TV interviews, what is B.J Watling’s real name and a song to cheer everyone up.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC 5 live. We're recording this on a gloomy Tuesday morning in London. This is Greg James. |
| 0:09.4 | That is Felix White over there. Hi. And we should now cross to, well, I suppose, an equally gloomy New Zealand. |
| 0:16.0 | Uh, Jimmy. Hello. Hi, mate. Hi, Jim. Oh, he must be knackered. So the situation is this. |
| 0:23.6 | They've just come off the field after time and overs have run out on the test match. And the match |
| 0:28.7 | was drawn and you see them hanging on at the end there. And Jimmy, how are you feeling? |
| 0:32.5 | This is very raw. Imagine what hour ago you walked off the field. |
| 0:35.9 | It was about, yeah, less than an hour ago. We'll count the fields for straighting, yeah, |
| 0:40.0 | because we had a great start to the day. We got two of us. It's the first two balls, which is unusual. |
| 0:45.5 | But then, you know, the pitch just got a bit dead this afternoon. It's really everything. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm tried everything. Drops of your catches. It's obviously doesn't help. And they bet it's really |
| 0:54.4 | well and might actually get through to the end. The tail essentially bated 60 overs, |
| 0:58.6 | as here in this morning. Yeah. Like I said, we had it. We had a soldy drop |
| 1:03.3 | to early on. At 30 point off dinner. So that makes it difficult. You went on a place about 160 balls. |
| 1:10.6 | So that's obviously a costly mess. And you need to take half chances when your final |
| 1:15.2 | pitch is pretty flat. You need to take these half chances. And unfortunately, we didn't do that. |
| 1:19.0 | I was listening to TMS this morning. Um, Jonathan Agnew was, was mentioning it was like a, |
| 1:23.6 | look like a village scene at the end of it with a light fading ever around the back. Only the |
| 1:28.0 | spinners are allowed to ball and everything. Was there a moment where you, you thought you could |
| 1:33.1 | still do that in the last sort of five hours or so? Yeah, we kept, we kept going and we kept |
| 1:38.1 | believing till the end, you know, it's just frustrating the way it had way ended was |
| 1:42.4 | Routey actually got all the kit and then the batsmen obviously took a took their time come into |
| 1:46.8 | the crease to try and waste a bit of time. It was about five minutes less. By the time he, |
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