The ever-growing IPL & Bairstow becomes captain

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Chris Woakes and Abhishek Jhunjhunwala join Mark Chapman to discuss the IPL – where does it stand right now? Hear from Australian, Aaron Hardie, as he talks about his experience of playing for Punjab Kings. They also discuss the lack of English involvement – only 10 English players will feature – the lowest since 2020. Jofra Archer has also had an eventful start for the Rajasthan Royals, having taken the first maiden of the tournament, but also scoring a record 76 in four overs. Following Eoin Morgan’s comments on England’s white-ball captaincy, could Ben Stokes take the role? Also, hear from Jonny Bairstow, new captain of Yorkshire as the County Championship returns. And Somerset’s Will Smeed joins the podcast as he comes out of red ball retirement… at the age of 23!

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0:00.0	No, you keep that private.
0:04.1	Find out what made Lily Allen and Mickey to Oliver say this.
0:08.0	It's just so next level what we're talking about.
0:10.9	But you know what I mean?
0:12.4	And this.
0:13.3	I think we should put our phones down and go to the park
0:15.9	and try and remember what was good about the world
0:18.3	and let's try and get back to there.
0:20.2	Sounds good. Join them as they's try and get back to there. Sounds good.
0:21.3	Join them as they talk about pretty much everything.
0:24.8	Yes, we do go to all sorts of places, happy, sad and everything in between.
0:29.7	Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.
0:32.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.0	The TMS podcast with Mark Chapman.
0:44.6	Evening, welcome.
0:45.4	The new county championship season starts this week.
0:48.9	We're just out of Mark, so good luck to everybody getting involved in that.
0:53.3	The IPL is into its second week coming
0:56.7	up. We'll look at both competitions. We'll hear from Yorkshire's new Red Bull Captain Johnny
1:01.3	Birstow and Somersets Will Smead, who will join us to talk about his decision to not now just
1:07.8	play whiteball cricket, but to play Red Bull as well. And the first half half hour we will look at the behemoth that is the IPL and why it continues to dominate franchise cricket we'll do so with the england all rounder chris wokes evening good evening thanks for having me have you have you bought your batch of hand warmers for the start of the season to go in the pockets?
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