When Tuffers met Jack Leach

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by Tuffers and England World Cup-winning spinner Alex Hartley to listen to and discuss Phil’s chat with Jack Leach. From the satisfaction of a stumping to speed, crease position and chirping Brian Lara – they discuss what makes slow bowling so special and something that they all love. The panel also discuss the preparations for the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston and how injuries have affected England’s squad. TIMECODES: 03’30 – Ashes preparation 08’10 – Phil and Jack chat about the love of spin 17’20 – The importance of variation and guile 26’30 – What Jack has learnt from test cricket 37’30 – Jack interviews Phil 43’00 – Steve Smith discussion

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0:00.0	Jules Scott's coffee club. Jules Scott there's a little croit turn. Beautiful.
0:06.3	Hey, yeah, I'm Jules Scott, England midfielder, coffee obsessive and
0:10.0	dress and moon joker. And you left out the second highest cat, the
0:13.2	England player of all time in there, Jules. Oh, I should have put that in,
0:16.1	shouldn't I? We're going to be chatting to some of the biggest names in
0:18.9	Wemmer's football over a cup of coffee. If you still got that dog that you
0:22.4	don't get on with, no, I like him now, yeah, Norman. We have one before
0:25.4	that, called Jimmy. So you can call him like Kyle.
0:28.0	I went to Nandos and ordered some chicken warts.
0:31.6	Jules Scott's coffee club. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:38.6	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:42.0	From Five Life Sports, this is the TMS Podcast.
0:48.9	Hello, welcome to a very special TMS podcast all about Jack Leach and the art of
0:53.2	Spin bowling. Phil Toffel recently sat down with Leach to discuss
0:57.3	everything from the joy of a stumping to variation, speed and patience when
1:03.1	the going gets tough. Phil is with us as well as England World Cup
1:07.4	winning spinner Alex Harley to discuss what Leach talked about.
1:11.6	We'll start though by hearing how it went when they headed off for a bowl in
1:14.9	the net after their chat.
1:16.5	Been a while.
1:18.5	Been a while. Oh,
1:21.4	bowl. That's the one. Six and M please.
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