Urooj Mumtaz: from bowlers to molars
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Agnew speaks to former Pakistan captain Urooj Mumtaz.
Now splitting her time between cricket commentary and dentistry, Mumtaz talks about the struggles of not being allowed to play cricket as a child, the opportunities for women in cricket now compared to when she was growing up, and how she'll be straight back to her dental practice once England's tour of Pakistan is over.
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| 0:52.0 | Hello I'm Jonathan Agnew. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast of Pakistan, |
| 0:57.0 | where I've been speaking to Aruj Muntas, |
| 0:59.0 | the former Pakistan Women's Captain and Dentist, |
| 1:02.0 | is on TV commentary duty for the series and we caught up in |
| 1:05.2 | the Test About Special Commentary Box during the second test in Milton. |
| 1:08.8 | You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. A Rouge, it's lovely to have. Yes, really and it's not it's not something to be proud of or a quality that we should we |
| 1:24.0 | should celebrate but unfortunately it's almost become a norm in the system or the |
| 1:28.2 | organization and it surely doesn't help I mean there's the outside noise and trying |
| 1:32.2 | to pin barber down for the lack of |
| 1:33.8 | form but it can't be easy when you're in that dressing room or you named |
| 1:37.5 | selectors in terms of head of selectors the selection committee I think the |
| 1:41.2 | members in the selection committee has gone |
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