TMS meets superfan Ravi

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Agnew welcomes TMS superfan Ravi into the TMS commentary box. Ravi is visually impaired and plays as part of the Lord’s Taverners supers 1s competition. In two days across England’s Tests against India at Headingley and Edgbaston, Ravi meets Joe Root, Jofra Archer, Phil Tufnell and Ebony Rainford-Brent. Plus, his favourite player Yashasvi Jaiswal visits him.

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0:35.1	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:40.8	Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew.
0:42.4	Welcome to the TMS podcast with a Test Match special team welcomes 12-year-old superfan
0:46.9	Ravi.
0:48.3	Now, Ravi is visually impaired and plays as part of the Lord's Taverners' Super
0:52.2	One's competition and is also involved in the ECB's My Way to Play campaign.
0:57.6	To come, we'll hear how he was surprised at Edgebaston,
1:00.1	to meet and interview some of his heroes.
1:02.1	But first a reminder of how he first met Ravi at Headingley,
1:05.5	and which member of the TMS team went to find him in the stands?
1:09.4	Oh, yeah, Phil Tufel.
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