Women's World Cup preview with Mel Jones | Plus, Ashes squad announced & Dickie Bird tributes
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
They discuss if anyone can stop favourites Australia, how a win could change the lives of some players and whether England can challenge for the trophy.
Plus, Mel tells us about the Afghanistan Women's team who are in India on tour at the moment.
Nas and Ath also discuss England's Men's Ashes squad which was announced this week and pay tribute to legendary umpire Dickie Bird who passed away at the age of 92.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, gone. |
| 0:02.0 | Go on, he gets his fairy tale ending. |
| 0:05.0 | An epic way to go to a test match 100. |
| 0:09.0 | The London sphere the first time win is the most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket. |
| 0:15.0 | Six hundred and four and final test wicket that's new at all. |
| 0:19.0 | It's India who win the T20 World Cup. |
| 0:22.6 | England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there. |
| 0:26.6 | England have hope. |
| 0:32.6 | Right, this week's Sky cricket podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | We're coming to the end of a long domestic season. |
| 0:38.9 | The championship will be decided this week and maybe by the time this podcast is released. |
| 0:45.1 | Knott's will have wrapped things up. They're certainly in the box seat as we speak. |
| 0:49.6 | England have just announced their Ashes squad and the Women's World Cup is just around the corner, |
| 0:55.1 | which we'll have Mel Jones on later on to discuss that. But we'll get through England |
| 1:02.1 | and some domestic stuff. First, NAS, good morning. How are you? You're up in the lakes on |
| 1:07.9 | another holiday. More holidays than Thomas Cook. It's unbelievable. I'm not sure it's another holiday more holidays than thomas cook's unbelievable |
| 1:11.2 | i'm not sure it's another holiday before i go off to the women's world cup on monday |
| 1:16.7 | if i get a visa by the way i've had my visa no i've got my visa declined uh twice that's the |
| 1:23.1 | only reason i'm doing this pod it's just a message to the Indian embassy. Please give me a visa. I'd |
| 1:28.3 | like to go to Guwahati on Monday. On what grounds would they refuse your visa? Bad commentator. |
| 1:36.0 | Bad commentator. There's so many grounds for not letting me into India. But I've put Chennai, born in Chennai, I'll put in capital |
| 1:45.9 | letters at the bottom. So, hopefully this time round I'll get the visa. Yeah, I'm just having a few |
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