World Cup Dreams
Tailenders
BBC
4.9 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Scotland and Lancashire’s Michael Jones joins us to tell us about how one minute he was doing pre-season training with Jimmy at Lancs, the next he’s in India for the World Cup.
Plus Issy Wong is back with all the news from the WBBL and more Italian Cricket History.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello and welcome to Tail Enders. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, and thank you for having us on Tail Enders. |
| 0:10.3 | We're back. It's Craig James with Felix White and Sir Jimmy Anderson. |
| 0:14.6 | Before we go any further, I have some housekeeping to do. |
| 0:18.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:20.2 | The statisticians, the BBC Sounds version of Andy Zaltzman, have been telling me. |
| 0:27.3 | In fact, they're telling me live now into my earpiece, |
| 0:31.9 | that we have picked up a substantial number of new listeners following the visualised, sorry, visualised Ashes |
| 0:41.2 | podcasts. |
| 0:42.4 | So you're all very welcome to tailenders and it would be, it would be remiss of me not to say |
| 0:47.4 | that we've been going for ages, therefore there are, there's like a tailender's language. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you're feeling a little bit out of the loop on certain stuff, you can get in the loop Therefore, there's like a tailender's language. |
| 0:59.3 | So if you're feeling a little bit out of the loop on certain stuff, you can get in the loop so easily. |
| 1:04.0 | The catchphrases, the stupid quizzes, the in jokes, the reference points. |
| 1:08.6 | There are loads of tailender's episodes on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:14.0 | They're sort of guides to the podcast, including Matching's Guide to Loads of Stuff. |
| 1:15.8 | All of that on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:18.2 | There's background to all of us. |
| 1:20.1 | There's some extra matching quizzes on there. |
| 1:22.7 | The origins of the catchphrases. |
| 1:24.5 | All episodes of Tailenders can be found on the BBC Sounds feed. |
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