Too much cricket, Hampshire's takeover and Tuffers' beans
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by former England internationals Phil Tufnell and Georgia Elwiss, as well as Kent's Sam Billings to discuss the cricketing summer overall. Has it been an underwhelming summer? Is there too much cricket internationally and domestically? How will Brendan McCullum balance coaching the Test team and white-ball teams? The panel are also joined by former Hampshire player Kevan James who now covers them for BBC Radio Solent after their takeover by GMR who co-own IPL team Delhi Capitals. And we hear from England captain Heather Knight ahead of the Women's T20 World Cup which starts this week. You can hear ball-by-ball commentary of all of the games from that tournament on Sports Extra and BBC Sounds starting with Bangladesh vs Scotland on Thursday - England's opener against Bangladesh is on Saturday.
01:45 - The end of the English cricketing summer 18:13 - How to help county cricket 24:57 - Hampshire's foreign takeover 32:30 - Heather Knight ahead of the Women's T20 World Cup
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| 0:47.0 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to the latest TMS podcast Phil Tuftnell |
| 0:55.3 | Sam Billings and Georgia Elwhis are with us and just let me set the scene for you so |
| 0:59.3 | I'm in the studio Georgia is in a beautifully set up room with a framed England shirt behind |
| 1:10.4 | you there. Georgia a couple of lovely photos is that a medal that's in there as well? |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah that's the World Cup winning shirt medal. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:20.7 | Perfect. |
| 1:21.7 | My claim to fame. |
| 1:22.3 | Sam looks like he's in a stately home. I mean, yeah, I know. He looks like he |
| 1:28.5 | has Henry the 8th behind him chewing on the turkey leg. That's lovely wherever you are. |
| 1:35.0 | At the inn halls. |
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