World Cup Daily: The importance of the underdog and New Zealand continue their perfect start
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Mike Riches to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back |
| 0:07.4 | We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debuting. It was right. Well, it's taught me me. Not a challenge, Gary |
| 0:14.7 | First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day, didn't you Gary? |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, matches a top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds |
| 0:27.0 | The test match special podcasts at the cricket World Cup |
| 0:46.5 | LBW he pulled across the line hurling and India have caused one of the greatest upsets in the history of all sport |
| 0:55.3 | Hello, I'm Henry Moran and welcome to another episode of the World Cup daily podcast from test match special on a day |
| 1:01.8 | Where New Zealand continued their perfect start |
| 1:13.7 | All the reaction to come from Alex Hartley Daniel Norcross and Jeff Lemmon and after a couple of shocks in the tournament |
| 1:19.5 | We'll take a deep dive into the role of smaller nations in global events and you'll also hear from the Netherlands all-time |
| 1:25.5 | Most capped player Tim DeLader on a stunning win yesterday, which featured his son |
| 1:40.6 | So lightning didn't strike twice for Afghanistan today, but there have been some much needed shocks in this tournament |
| 1:46.2 | Earlier on I spoke with Australian journalist and TMS commentator Jeff Lemmon on the importance of those victories for World Cricket |
| 1:53.2 | We've got a cricket administration that has limited what a World Cup can be which when you look at other sports and the way that they run World Cups |
| 2:01.5 | It's all about expansion. It's all about how can we get a broader flavor of all of the teams across the world? |
| 2:07.2 | How can we see teams that we haven't seen before and see them go deeper into tournaments VG surging through the rugby World Cup or you know that |
| 2:15.9 | Win from Japan in the previous edition the excitement of those kinds of results the teams that you see getting on a tear during football World Cups |
| 2:23.5 | Who weren't expected to get out of the group stages and and how momentum builds behind sides like that and then you come to a cricket World Cup |
| 2:30.5 | And it's a 10 team group stage with each team playing nine times. There's not a lot of jeopardy |
| 2:36.0 | You can lose three matches maybe even four and then still qualified defend depending how things pan out and |
| 2:41.9 | And you don't get to see that diversity that breadth of teams come to the major tournament and play |
| 2:49.2 | Yes, they're a pre tournament qualifiers and some of the cricket played in those qualifiers has been electric over the last |
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