Summary
On day one of the County Championship we were invited into the boardroom at Lord's to sit down with ECB Chair, Richard Thompson, the boss of English Cricket. Topics included cricket in state schools, TV deals, The Hundred, racism and cricket, the development of the women's wame and THAT presentation to Jimmy in India.
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| 0:41.0 | Time for a big guest on the podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Richard Thompson, welcome to Tear Lenders. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you for having me, Craig. |
| 0:47.0 | Um, thank you for having, thank you for being here, the chair of the ECB on your home turf? |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, in the boardroom. |
| 0:54.2 | What sort of stuff goes down in this boardroom? |
| 0:58.2 | Lots of very big decisions are made in this room. |
| 1:01.0 | Lots of very serious things are debated. We use this room a lot |
| 1:04.3 | that the other walls are demountable so you can actually get all the counties in here. |
| 1:08.4 | It's a bit cozy but with good Zoom technology and other things you can get people coming in from all over the world |
| 1:15.2 | so yeah this is the room where the decisions are made. Sorry when you say you can get all the |
| 1:20.0 | counties in here so you have every single county |
| 1:22.8 | all the chairs and see chairs come down here yes and you have succession |
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