The 2025 TMS Awards

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, News, Sports News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Andy Zaltzman hosts the, now traditional, TMS Awards looking back at 2025’s best (or worst) cricketing moments. As is tradition, TMS commentators Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran are on the adjudication panel to help Andy decide who wins ‘favourite wicket of the year’, ‘worst loss of the year’, and the prize everyone wants to go home with: The Noosa Award for commitment to the cricketing cause.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	It's like going into an ice path with your hands as the ice.
0:10.8	In 2025, we were here for the entertainment.
0:13.8	Ellis and John.
0:14.9	Have you not considered just coffee, which is what I do?
0:17.6	Sightracked with Annie and Nick.
0:19.4	Stevie Wonder, welcome. I'm pleasure. Loyal Carnar is with us. We want to hearract with Annie and Nick. Stevie Wonder, welcome.
0:21.3	My pleasure.
0:22.2	Loyal Carnar is with us.
0:23.3	Want to hear all about Glastonbury.
0:24.5	And Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked.
0:27.1	Welcome to Uncloaked, Ireland.
0:28.8	Oh, thanks for having me, Ed.
0:30.5	The winner.
0:31.2	I know, still hasn't sunk in.
0:32.8	Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:38.0	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:45.0	Hello and welcome to a very special TMS podcast looking back at the cricketing year
0:49.7	via the now traditional TMS annual awards.
0:53.2	It's the second time we've done it, which in this fast-moving world
0:56.0	qualifies this as a much-loved age-old tradition.
1:00.0	I am TMS statistician Andy Zaltzman,
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