The Definitive Ashes Preview
Tailenders
BBC
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The Ashes are nearly here and it’s time to officially get excited. Jimmy gives us the lowdown on the challenge England’s men will face in Australia and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the Aussies.
Plus need some ‘Ashes conversation starters’? Don’t panic, Mattchin is here with some Perth related facts - some of which might actually be true- to make sure all Tailenders are fully prepped for the biggest show in cricket.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited. |
| 0:15.0 | England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes. |
| 0:20.8 | That is extraordinary. |
| 0:23.1 | Hear live ball by ball commentary on Fife Sports Extra. |
| 0:27.4 | And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | The Stamps out of the ground. |
| 0:34.4 | Test match special at the Ashes. |
| 0:37.3 | Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to Tail Enders. Hello and thank you for having us on Tail Enders. This is Greg James, aka G-Forse for regular listeners. We have Jimmy Anderson. Go well. Hello. We have Felix White. Go, cheers. Later on, we'll have matching Tendorka. If you're new to Tail Enders, where have you been? We've been going for seven years. Seven years. Seven years. So, Count them. And we've finally got our break on BBC iPlayer. And it's lovely to be here. And I've been told by the Paymaster's BBC Sport. Gorgeous. That usually we are a loosely cricket-based podcast. |
| 1:12.7 | Today, we are a cricket-based podcast. |
| 1:15.1 | All right. |
| 1:15.5 | I was going to say less loosely, but it's very cricket-specific, is it? |
| 1:19.7 | It's less loosely or it's sort of not loosely. |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm confused with that with Jimmy, because Jimmy, would you prefer telling us to be even less loosely cricket based or as we are getting up for the ashes would you rather we |
| 1:33.8 | talk about cricket today well i i like the looser parts of it but my job is in cricket so i feel |
| 1:44.0 | like i'm a spare part if we're not talking about it. No, that's not true at all. But you have a love of music, and you like silly stuff as well as cricket. Yeah, I think you're coming to your own in the non-cricot stuff. Absolutely. But today, don't worry, this is cricket and it's serious. And we'll take it seriously because BBC Sport are paying for this. It's very hot on that. and this is cricket and it's serious and we'll take it seriously because BBC Sport are paying for this |
| 2:02.0 | is very hot on that and this is an Ash's preview show that is exciting look yeah we only we're |
| 2:07.7 | loosely cricket based when there's not really any good cricket going on agree and so there |
| 2:12.0 | there is good cricket going on now it's about to happen Ash's preview show Jimmy where should |
| 2:17.4 | we begin you've been doing a lot |
| 2:18.7 | of press doing a lot of social media stuff I know you hate this question because you |
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