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Full terms at mintmobile.com. Welcome

1:25

to the first of five contractually obligated

1:27

mono pods. They won't be in stereo,

1:29

they will be in mono. But they

1:31

will be pods. Okay, nonetheless.

1:34

This is G-Force, Greg James. We

1:37

have Felix White. We have Matching

1:39

10 Dawken. Hello! And we don't have

1:41

a Jimmy Anderson because he is currently

1:43

en route with Joe Root

1:46

to Hyderabad. Okay.

1:49

Yeah? Yeah, nice. We

1:51

have a very special guest. He hasn't featured

1:53

in many podcasts. We're very lucky to have

1:55

him. Who could it be because the bar

1:58

is incredibly high because we've had the... Director

2:00

of English crickets the head of English cricket very

2:02

recently you saw and Joe root. We've had Joe

2:05

Rube I caught me wall. She's had a V

2:07

great of the game. So when you say very

2:09

special guest, I'm expecting someone very special Well

2:12

jump in the sea because it's time to swim with the

2:15

shark It's

2:17

mark sharky shaman He

2:22

is off the subs bench and playing for the first

2:24

team I've just realized is it Like

2:26

an audience we're visit interview of shark. No, hang

2:28

on. This is this is his first start Yeah,

2:31

this is your first start first international start. How

2:33

you feeling about it? Bit nervous. My life bit

2:36

nervous Yeah, well welcome

2:38

to tell embers you you're

2:40

gonna be editing yourself here

2:43

Yeah, feel about that. Not sure I enjoy that. They

2:45

like the sound of my voice. We do

2:48

we love the sound of your You shark will

2:50

be friends me for many years and we just want

2:52

to say we did before the piss-taking begins

2:54

all of us We love you. We

2:56

do love you. Thank you. Love you, too

2:58

Do you know what actually melts my heart and I don't I

3:01

put this on the whatsapp a while ago and it didn't get

3:03

a response I don't know if you two are feeling the same

3:05

affinity of it But when shark he walks

3:07

into the studio he gets to take to the ever

3:09

in Scavo and he folds it really neatly And

3:12

there's something about that is it moves

3:14

me. Can we just explore what that is? Why

3:16

is that? Moving to me. Well

3:19

for me it reminds me of when Paddington

3:21

puts a marmalade sandwich under his hat.

3:23

Oh, okay Yeah, yeah, yeah,

3:25

it's a sort of process the comfort thing.

3:27

It's a safety thing Yeah, I Joe what

3:29

I think you're right And I

3:31

think I can see it's I can see sharky from

3:33

a young boy to the man He is now same

3:36

scarf all the way through in the same scarf Have

3:38

you had that scarf forever? No that actually

3:40

brings back some bad memories Okay,

3:43

one sec well welcome to this monosations

3:45

your first general cricket Sanders general

3:48

scarf madness I Did

3:52

have an evidence car I

3:54

loved and cherished I

3:58

never washed it It had

4:00

so many memories. Ketchup

4:03

from an FA Cup semi-final. Red

4:05

like Liverpool. What's

4:08

that one's side? Then

4:11

one day, I was returning home via

4:13

tube and train. When

4:16

I returned, a scarf, which

4:19

had never been washed and probably had penicillin growing on it.

4:22

Oh, it was gone. I

4:25

emailed the train, I emailed the tube, I emailed

4:27

the train. Authorities.

4:30

What's the train's email address? Train

4:32

at train.com. And

4:34

they asked for a description of this scarf. You

4:38

know, in the hope that somebody had found it

4:40

and handed it into lost property. And

4:43

I had to write, lost one

4:46

filthy Everton scarf with

4:48

1980s 3D writing on it. Oh,

4:52

never to be returned. And

4:54

how old is the incumbent scarf? The

4:57

incumbent scarf was bought in 2012

5:01

when I took Will, my son, to his first

5:03

ever game. We bought matching

5:05

scarves and we both still

5:07

have them. That's nice. There we go. I think

5:09

we would go into why that is moving to

5:11

me then. I wonder where the other scarves got

5:13

to. Maybe it's found a home. I

5:16

like to think so. Those dark days,

5:18

I like to think so. So welcome to

5:20

this monopod slash therapy session. You found this

5:22

on this monopod slash therapy session. Or Sharknado.

5:25

We are going to talk about Stuart

5:27

Broad briefly. We're going to talk about Harry

5:29

Brooke. We've got some Glenn Maxwell news. We've

5:31

got some Veracoli news. We're going to go

5:33

through an article. The only bit of Jimmy

5:35

we've got is in print. Yep. So

5:38

he doesn't tell us anything, but he doesn't mind telling

5:40

us Sunday Times thing or two

5:42

about how he's feeling. Yeah, for the benefit

5:44

of say, Greg's opened up a double page

5:46

spread that has a big photo of Jimmy

5:48

in a release point where I would say

5:50

in his trigger. Before we

5:52

get there, on the football

5:55

tip, I walked into

5:57

the offices that we record trail finders in.

6:00

and Matt Chintin-Dorca was sort of telling

6:02

us how he's become

6:04

the new Ted Lasso. Yeah.

6:07

Thanks for bringing that up, Greg. Basically, I

6:09

suddenly had to take over my son's

6:11

under-10 school football team. The sports

6:14

teacher left, we don't know why. Sorry, the

6:16

school football team. Yeah. Right, so

6:18

they've drafted in, you're on a

6:20

freelance contract. Freelance contract, I'm not being

6:23

paid. Right. Completely voluntary. Sorry, hang

6:25

on, I didn't realize it was like a club

6:27

team. It's not a school, so you're now a

6:29

school teacher. I didn't realize that either. Yeah, I'm

6:31

the- You're loud, is that loud? Yes, I've had

6:33

to have a CRB check, wherever

6:36

it's going. Right, so you're not your

6:38

parent manager. Yeah, essentially.

6:40

Okay. Yeah, parent manager. You

6:42

might be the first ever parent manager football coach. If

6:45

no one stepped up, the team

6:47

would have went under. We would have went to the administration.

6:49

Yep. So, and there was no one

6:51

else wanting to do it. I've

6:54

got no- You didn't start, this is your team's sort of the new

6:56

for the kids. No one else wants to do it.

6:59

I've got no experience. What

7:01

I've instilled is, we were on a

7:04

bit of a lose and run and I came up with

7:06

this new tactic. Any other football coaches there, feel free to

7:08

borrow this. Basically, we had

7:10

several training sessions where I said, however

7:13

many passes you have before you score

7:15

a goal, that's how many points

7:18

you get. So if you link three passes and

7:20

then score, you get three points, you're three nil

7:22

up. Right. So the

7:24

kids love this because they just try to link as

7:26

many passes as possible. And then we

7:28

played our first game and it was like Barcelona

7:30

90. So

7:33

good. Tic-a-tac-a. So good.

7:36

The only problem is that when they score one

7:38

goal, they think they're winning six nil. That's true.

7:40

But it's- Yes. Do

7:43

you have to tell them that it's not actually six

7:45

nil? Yeah, so we just know in our minds- No,

7:47

because when we do the training, I shout, one.

7:51

I love it. Two. I love

7:53

it. Three. And then, when it's

7:55

a real game, I can't obviously shout

7:57

out. It's genuinely inspiring because I think

7:59

that it's- Encouraging communication isn't it? It's

8:01

encouraging a sort of democracy among

8:03

teams. And at that age, what age

8:06

is it? Ten. Ten. Nine and ten year olds. You've

8:08

normally got like two really good footballers that just run

8:10

rings around everyone type of thing. There is that in

8:12

the team. I've tried to encourage that kind of community

8:14

and that kind of... Right. And

8:16

how are they feeling? They feeling buzzing about it? I think they

8:19

really enjoyed it, yeah. Yeah, I don't

8:21

know how long my tenure is. I don't know if they get a

8:23

new sports teacher in that RB. Well

8:25

the test will be when teams work you out. Because

8:29

the tapes will be going round now. I'll

8:33

wait and see. There will be some managers that

8:35

will do a... What's

8:37

his name? Of Spurs. What's he

8:40

called? They'll go, I'm

8:42

just copying matching mate. I'm

8:45

just copying matching. I really love this story.

8:47

Looking forward to seeing how it goes. Well

8:49

good luck and we'll follow the progress on

8:52

tell-enders. Great, thank you. We could dedicate a whole monopod

8:54

to it at some point if you want. Or interview

8:56

some of the players. Yeah, sure.

8:59

I guess some of the parents feedback. Yeah, quite a

9:01

bit. I have had a few... I

9:03

do have to then deal with some of the parents now. Because

9:05

if that kid gets left out, then I get text messages saying,

9:07

Oh, it's just happening. Oh. There's been a

9:10

couple of squabbles within... Are

9:12

you picking your son more often than he might have previously been

9:15

getting picked? Yes. Okay, I think we've got some right to say.

9:17

I say because I'm there, so I've got to pick it... Like,

9:19

I'm not going to drop him and then I've got to look

9:21

after him as well. So I can't like let

9:23

him go home when I... No. Could he become

9:25

the assistant coach? He's out. He's

9:27

not matching. Oh, he's asked. But... Oh, would

9:30

he rather be the assistant coach or the

9:32

player? He'd probably rather be

9:34

assistant coach. Would he? Okay. So who's your

9:36

star player? I don't

9:38

want to name names. There's no star players. We just established

9:40

it. Who's your star striker? Come on,

9:42

there's a name in your head now. It's Rio. Rio.

9:44

Okay, cool. Rio, yeah. It's very good. Rio, hit Rio.

9:47

Can I just address it, Sharkey? You don't need to

9:49

be in the corner of your hand up. You are

9:51

a participant in this podcast, Sharkey, so you can speak

9:53

whenever you want to. I just

9:55

want to say that's much... it is a

9:57

better coach than I am because... I

10:00

would have to take my son's indoor six-second

10:03

cricket team Yeah, and he hated it because

10:05

I felt bad Putting

10:07

him up the order so I put him at number

10:09

six in the batting order Oh what to

10:11

show that you're not showing that I wasn't biased and he's

10:13

hated when I was coaching Do

10:15

you know you're about higher than that? You're normally about higher than

10:17

that. Oh, I felt obliged to put

10:20

him down the bottom So you're punishing him for

10:22

being yours in that in probably many levels to

10:24

be honest. Oh Oh Complicated

10:27

isn't it? Yeah the aforementioned Everton scarf. I

10:29

guess I know you have cursed him for

10:31

life Yeah, yeah, has there been many father-son

10:33

cricket? Yeah. Oh my god, you're broad broad

10:36

broad butcher I like Alex Stewart Mickey

10:39

Stewart Stewart Corin's

10:42

yes, Kevin It's

10:45

a Peter Willie David Willie, I've got a great

10:47

one which I messaged you about this week Chanderpaul.

10:52

Oh, yeah, I think the batting for West

10:54

Indies who is an

10:56

image of his dad There's

10:58

only two people in world. I've ever

11:00

seen bat sort of crab like face

11:02

on And it's

11:05

both chanderpaul's father and son Has anyone heard

11:07

it like have you read anything about them

11:09

or like because obviously his dad must have

11:11

taught him cricket Yeah, he's batting with great

11:14

discipline now and in difficult conditions in Australia

11:16

at the top of the order But

11:19

he looks like a real player. There must be

11:21

some amazing Story there

11:23

with chanderpaul teaching his son. Well, you would

11:25

just watch your dad, wouldn't you? I guess

11:27

your dad was as good as as shivnerine

11:29

chanderpaul you go well I'll just do that

11:32

right you would just want to be your dad. Just be my

11:34

dad I was actually making me quite moved

11:36

to Pollock's nice Thunder

11:39

cuz of course. Yeah, I've been there.

11:41

Yeah The

11:43

cares and aim but yeah, yeah There's

11:45

a load. Yeah, there's a lot. There are a Lude

11:48

actually in a mini-matching. Hmm. I'm hoping he'd live

11:50

out my failed football in dreams, but I don't

11:53

think you know He's not feeling

11:55

the same. I don't want to do it. Yeah,

11:57

he's like there for fun, but he hasn't got my um

12:00

Burning ambition football. No pressure in

12:02

the internet. Next up on the

12:04

agenda, the SA20 is happening in

12:06

South Africa. Yeah. So Stuart Broad

12:08

was out there doing some commentary.

12:11

He put a photo up saying, so

12:13

great to be at the SA20. Oh my God, I

12:15

love being out here with the lads. Brilliant. The cricket

12:17

is amazing. The crowd's brilliant. Next photo

12:19

on his Instagram, a photograph of

12:21

a golf bag. Oh. And then

12:23

him just playing golf with Joss Butler. Right, OK. So

12:26

that's the root of it then. That's what you

12:28

call in poker a tell. Yeah. He's told himself

12:30

that that's the real reason that any of these

12:32

crickets play cricket and do anything associated with crickets,

12:35

they can go and play golf. Yeah. When the

12:37

cricket is done. That's exactly right. There's some good

12:39

names in it though this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

12:41

All of that, South African boys, Joss Butler. Isn't

12:44

Butler opening with Roy, or have I imagined that?

12:46

Oh really, I don't know. I'm not locked into

12:48

the teams there. May have imagined that. I'll tell

12:50

you what I am locked into, as aforementioned with

12:52

Chanderpaul, the test series in

12:55

Australia where Shama Joseph, do we

12:57

know about this? Oh yeah. He

13:00

batted an 11, he scored 30 odd in a dire

13:02

situation where

13:04

Western needs were predictably 130 for nine

13:06

or something, pulled him out of the

13:08

Maya. But this guy was a,

13:10

forgive me for not knowing the full story, but he's a security

13:13

guard who had only bowled with a

13:15

tape ball in cricket only 18 months

13:17

ago. He

13:19

was identified by Kurt Leambros as

13:22

a talent. They

13:25

got him into the system really quickly. 18

13:27

months after bowling through a cricket ball for

13:29

the first time, he got Steve Smith first

13:32

ball of his test career, nicked

13:34

him off second slip. He

13:36

ran about the length of the

13:38

pitch twice in celebration. And in

13:40

his press conference, so lovely, he mentioned

13:43

the name Steve Smith about 45

13:45

times. He just said

13:47

again and again, I can't believe I've got Steve

13:49

Smith out. It was Steve Smith. Steve Smith's one

13:51

of my favorite cricketers. I got Steve Smith. But

13:53

he's setting it alight. I think he took four,

13:55

five. He's taken five in total, Sharky. He's taken

13:57

five for in the first innings. Wow. trouble

14:00

bowling quick yeah Hollywood story isn't it a

14:02

brilliant story and he could be great for

14:04

us in the summer to have him here

14:07

oh come on because it's England West Indies

14:09

England Sri Lanka he's serious yeah he's got

14:11

to be a telender guest in the air

14:14

yeah it's a very telling the story is

14:16

exactly telling they quite literally is a telender

14:18

so that's another person to put on your

14:20

booking list is a here above or below

14:22

Mark Elam I'd say

14:24

at the moment above have you gone with

14:26

Mark Elam is there any mean contacts made

14:29

at all they're not huge about

14:31

you tried not

14:33

a lot of huge amounts okay good if

14:36

you mean not a lot do you mean you have you've

14:38

thought about it but you haven't done this thing I have

14:40

a list on my wall in my office and it's are

14:42

you just emailing the train train train train at trade not

14:44

my human my my scarf might have

14:49

you scarf be pretty weird that might

14:53

be the best moment in podcasting

14:56

history if that is the case okay

14:58

let's let's move on now to well

15:01

we're talking about Australia mentioned Glenn

15:03

Maxwell there was this thing that shaki just put

15:05

in the group before we started recording breaking

15:08

cricket news Glenn Maxwell is under investigation by

15:10

cricket Australia following up at being hospitalized after a

15:12

drunken night out in Adelaide and

15:14

then someone just said I'll get coffee to

15:16

1130 what do you all want okay so

15:19

so that's sharky showing concern there just there

15:21

what what

15:23

do you know about that sharky only

15:26

what was I think put on Twitter which is

15:28

what white basically what you just ran out okay

15:30

all right we'll follow that story very closely and

15:32

we wish you well Maxwell cheers

15:35

comma there's a comma there wish you well Maxwell

15:38

Cheers next up two bits of slightly

15:40

sad news for cricket fans and also

15:42

we don't we can't delve into why

15:44

they're doing this yeah Harry Brooke is

15:46

missing the whole series England

15:48

India yeah he's flying home for personal reasons

15:50

and this morning Verac Coley has said that

15:52

he's missing the first two games for personal reasons

15:55

as well how we hope everything's okay there

15:57

but that is a real shame for cricket

15:59

fans size Those are two good batters

16:01

that we were excited to see. I know. I

16:03

think Jimmy was looking forward to it. I know.

16:06

Jimmy and Virat. Long series though. Yeah.

16:09

For the third game. That would be great. Because I

16:11

don't think Jimmy's going to play all five, is he?

16:14

Doesn't feel like it. Be honest. Probably

16:17

play a lot of spinners, right? And then Jimmy will

16:19

rotate. I don't know if would or something like that.

16:21

Maybe. I don't know. Not a

16:23

lot of seamers, isn't it? Not a lot of seamers either. No.

16:25

Which was weird because in the South Africa

16:28

series, all the chat was about the

16:30

Indian seamers and how they

16:32

could actually destroy India. Yeah, yeah.

16:34

But in India, yeah. Well, they play them in

16:36

India. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Excited for that

16:38

though. Yeah. I'm so excited. You're going to be

16:41

getting that. Obviously, Greg, you already get up at

16:43

the stupid o'clock in the morning. I will be.

16:45

Yeah, yeah. I'll be getting up at the first

16:47

four o'clock. I love a series in India. Yeah,

16:49

it's on TNT. They've finally bought the right series.

16:51

You're going to be doing a commentary on that.

16:53

I don't know. They'll be taking a feed maybe,

16:55

won't they? Yeah. Maybe they might.

16:57

But yeah, that would be good. To answer

16:59

your question, I will be getting up much earlier than I

17:01

normally would be. You'll be getting up earlier than you normally

17:03

do? Yeah. Well, maybe not for

17:06

the first day, I think, for the first

17:08

ball. But then it's just nice having the

17:10

background, isn't it, when you're starting work? I

17:12

guess. Right, your day. It

17:14

goes until basically middle of March. Yeah,

17:16

brilliant. Come on. Do you want to

17:18

know the squad? Yes. Yeah, go on.

17:20

Ben Stokes. Ryan Ahmed.

17:22

James Anderson. Gus Ackelman. Johnny

17:25

Benso. Sherbet here. Harry Booker. Harry

17:28

Booker. He's going to be pleased with

17:30

Dan Lawrence. Zach Corley. Ben Duckett.

17:33

Ben Folks. Tom Hartley. Armée

17:35

Jack Leach. Ollie Pope. Ollie

17:37

Robinson. Joe Root. Mark Wood.

17:40

So is that four scene, really?

17:42

I think. He's got

17:44

Robinson, Wood, Jimmy. And

17:47

Gus Atkinson. Good opportunity for Dan Lawrence, please,

17:49

for him. Yeah, yeah. Big moment for

17:51

him. Yeah, he might play as well. That would be exciting, wouldn't it?

17:53

Good to see him go at them. If it's

17:55

a like for like, that would be very cool. Actually, I don't know

17:57

if that would solve a problem because they were trying to fit. Seven

18:00

into six, so maybe actually you won't play because

18:02

that one thing weirdly does solve a problem a

18:04

little bit I'll just taking because Johnny best I

18:06

could bat and folks could keep wicket and then

18:08

that would solve that issue for them And the

18:10

ends of the rumors that best I won't be

18:12

keeping some photos of Ben

18:15

folks warming up with the gloves and everything so I

18:18

mean but it also I've a five test this will

18:20

change a lot Because there'll be an injury there'll be

18:22

an illness there will be some was knackered so that

18:24

I think Everyone will

18:26

get a game maybe Showabash here might

18:28

not get a game early on because

18:30

of a visa issues. I can't believe

18:32

this He's currently so what's

18:35

this Monday lunchtime? He's currently still in Abu

18:37

Dhabi with these issues and the Indian government

18:39

and the BCCI were trying to sort it

18:41

out Cheers, right so with you'd

18:43

think he's probably not waiting. Have a name

18:45

you think you might not play with their

18:47

mind He's in a different country It's

18:50

really annoying they were talking about the other

18:52

day, but we thought he had got no

18:54

first-class experience really best year But actually he

18:57

had as much first-class experience as Nathan

18:59

line did when he was picked for Australia So

19:01

it suddenly made you think oh, that's kind of you

19:03

know, that why shouldn't he play? We got to start

19:05

somewhere It's actually yeah, and we've been talking about him

19:08

a lot But obviously David Warner had had very little

19:10

if any Red Bull exactly when he

19:12

was picked for Australia If he's in some bit

19:14

more English thinking of like, you know They've been

19:16

a bit more reticent or things like this when

19:18

you know, why not? But that's what Rob Key

19:20

was saying exactly He just said we should be

19:22

we should be putting players who we think Could

19:25

be good enough and just get them in the

19:27

team and get them feel feel comfortable and get

19:29

them acclimatized First test is

19:32

on Thursday Second test

19:34

second of February third test

19:36

15th, February fourth test 23rd of February fifth

19:38

test 7th of March. Oh good To be

19:40

aware isn't it for Jimmy? Yeah for us

19:42

amazing. This gets us to the spring. I

19:45

know then we're home and dry Yeah, yeah,

19:47

got spring then we get excited about the

19:49

county championship Then that

19:51

you know, don't forget about the hunt that one

19:53

of the hundreds bit later this but then we

19:55

got this summer Test summer so got tests in

19:58

June t20 blast. Let's not forget then We got

20:00

100, we got more tests into

20:02

September. Also, mad, I was looking

20:04

at all the dates over the weekend. There's

20:07

a one day series, England,

20:10

Australia. There's one at the

20:12

end of September. And there's one at the

20:14

start. I think there's a T20 World Cup

20:16

warm up against Pakistan. So I think Pakistan

20:18

are over here, Mayish time

20:20

I believe, before everyone goes to West India

20:23

slash America because of course it's a

20:25

co-host with America. And India, Pakistan

20:27

are playing in New York. Oh yeah. We've got

20:29

about the T20 World Cup in June in America

20:31

and they're building a stadium, aren't

20:33

they? Should we not go to India, Pakistan, New York?

20:36

Yeah, it'd be amazing. Should we not? What's

20:38

the date? June time, isn't it? I

20:40

might have a training session with my lads. I

20:42

think they're building like a 35,000.

20:44

Are they building it in Long Island? Wow.

20:48

Can we do that? It'd be amazing. Can

20:50

I also thank you for all the tell-enders

20:52

that have forwarded this correspondence onto me that

20:54

Michael Vaughan has been on the Twitter X

20:57

saying that he thinks there should be a

21:00

window in the calendar for Test Cricket

21:02

only. And so thank you for people

21:04

alerting the fact that we did indeed

21:07

allude to that earlier in which

21:09

Rob Key shut it down. But

21:11

I have received a

21:13

groundswell of support actually for

21:16

the Test World Championship, which

21:18

I decided not to call the, what

21:21

did I call it? The River Island

21:23

Moose Cup initially, because I

21:25

made a judgment call, but that might mean,

21:27

make it more obvious to

21:29

sort of turn that down. Right. Okay.

21:33

Anyway, thank you for your groundswell of support

21:35

and we will keep lobbying. The groundswell coming.

21:37

What said tournament? Keep lobbying. All

21:39

right. Let's, let's now

21:42

do, June the 9th. June the 9th.

21:44

Maybe. That's quite fun

21:46

actually. Maybe. June the 9th.

21:48

Sunday. Could be, could some holiday

21:50

time that. It could be. Let's

21:53

do the papers. Let's pop our spectacles on and

21:55

look at the board sheets. We

22:00

brought this to show and tell today

22:02

for one reason in particular, but it's a nice

22:04

nice way to talk about Jimmy and

22:07

his potential new Run-up.

22:09

Yes, Sharkey. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt just

22:11

more New York news before

22:13

we go to matching They're bringing

22:15

the pictures Over from

22:17

Australia. Oh god by

22:19

this is what clicking for writing a boat never

22:22

been done before Unsurprisingly, the pitch

22:24

trades will be shipped from Australia to

22:26

Florida and then transported to the pop-up

22:28

venue Oh dick is that it was like

22:30

an enormous waste of money? Mmm As

22:33

me we hard and fast and bouncy though not

22:35

to put down on it, but that does sound

22:37

like a terrible idea environmentally

22:43

Anyway, sorry matter of the papers ruffle them so

22:45

everyone knows you're feeling authentic papers. Oh, just I

22:49

was just flicking through the Sunday

22:51

time. Oh, yeah on the weekend

22:53

and a Middle page

22:55

spread golf gigs and a new

22:57

run-up Anderson's six months of India

23:00

preparation And it's an article double

23:02

page spread about our good friend.

23:04

He was Michael Anderson lot of

23:06

talent as mentions. That's good Talks

23:09

about tour exchange. Yeah, I mean there

23:11

actually is a photo of you on

23:13

base and double page cricket spread Unbelievably,

23:16

there is a photo of me doesn't

23:18

mention me my name doesn't matter pictures

23:21

pick several thousand words. There is me Picture

23:25

sells a thousand words Thousand

23:28

words me face that launch a thousand shit

23:33

Sales sales the seven seas in

23:35

playing double bass with Jimmy behind me

23:38

backing me up double double bass Oh

23:40

bass bass bass with Jimmy just

23:42

behind me That's a great

23:44

article I by Simon Wilde he's

23:46

obviously listening to the podcast you go well Simon

23:49

Simon Did you I do know Simon very well?

23:51

Yeah, I don't think he listens to tell and

23:53

there's no oh he's mentioned it several times Yeah,

23:55

he's been scalloped. That's because he's a good journalist.

23:57

He does research, but he listens so talks about

23:59

how well Jimmy does in India. Yeah

24:01

very well Okay

24:07

Subbery in summary very well

24:09

you expecting Let's

24:12

talk about stuff now Jimmy's not here This

24:14

would be the opportunity to have a chat about

24:16

some of the stuff that people

24:18

ask you guys maybe about About Jimmy,

24:20

please ask away. Okay number one question. How do

24:22

you think you'll do in India? I think you'll

24:24

do very well I think you won't play all

24:26

the games as I've said But I think he'll

24:28

have a nice time and keep it tight and

24:31

I think you'll take some wickets as well Yeah,

24:33

I think well as we know is my summaries most

24:36

iconic moments came in the last Indian tour It'd

24:38

be interesting to see what Jimmy's role is

24:40

but we know from the team that they

24:43

want to take wickets all the time So

24:45

him switched on in that mentality amongst maybe

24:47

fewer seamers could be exciting and he will

24:50

Absolutely be the leader of them. I mean

24:52

he has been anyway here as there's no

24:54

one there's no Stewart Broad You

24:57

know, he is the senior player And

24:59

as we were saying about well He mentioned in

25:02

there he likes bowling under Ben Stokes as you said

25:04

for you as a different role and he is allowed

25:06

to bowl In an attacking way, so he might go

25:08

for a few runs in some sessions But I think

25:10

he will take some wickets and what's this what's this

25:13

change in action? What's that? What's lucky? What were

25:15

you gonna say? All I was gonna say is I

25:17

think he'll hit a double hundred Well, that's the other

25:19

thing. Do you see on TNT sports the picture they

25:21

use the picture they use was of Joe

25:24

root and they're at Coley

25:27

and Sort of as the

25:29

main sort of faces sure sell their coverage

25:31

and underneath was a picture of Jimmy Anderson

25:33

in a batting helmet Oh, okay, because he

25:35

has in a way been picked for his

25:37

batting What's interesting you say that because I

25:40

have seen Ben ducat say that and in

25:42

India his Forward

25:44

defensive might be the reverse sweep.

25:46

Well, there you go So that's

25:48

Jimmy Anderson getting into like never was he is exactly

25:50

next question I was gonna let me just find a

25:52

bit about his okay. Why are you looking for it?

25:55

Sharky's got a question for well, I'm gonna put it

25:57

to the room. I'm interested in

25:59

how how many spinners England will

26:01

play and who might get

26:04

the nod. So, as our resident spin

26:07

expert... Oh, me? Well,

26:11

Jack Leach obviously is not going to

26:13

be... Hasn't played a lot of

26:15

Test matches recently, but he is the senior

26:18

spinner in that attack, so we expect him

26:20

to definitely play. I think Rhian

26:22

Amur has been blooded, hasn't he? So, I

26:24

think we expect him to almost become a

26:26

pick as well. Joe Roots can evolve some

26:28

overs, isn't he? Joe Roots will evolve off-breaks.

26:30

And Dan Lawrence could. Yeah, as well. And

26:32

Dan Lawrence can bowl spin as well. So,

26:34

you imagine, if Shabash is can't even get

26:36

over here, Tom Hartley might be the other

26:39

option, spinning the ball away from the

26:41

right-hander, as and when required. So, bear

26:43

in mind, Stokes isn't going to bowl.

26:45

Yeah. You're thinking,

26:47

two seamers, two spinners. It's not really up to me.

26:50

I know it's not up to you, but I know

26:52

you've got influence in the high levels of England's cricket,

26:54

but if you were going to ring Rob, what

26:56

would you be saying? Is that... No, I

26:58

think you need more than two seams and two... No. If

27:01

Joe Roots can bowl a bit as well. I think two seamers, two

27:03

spinners, and Joe Root bowls. Yeah, I think that probably sounds about right,

27:06

doesn't it? But to you. No, that's

27:08

right. I'm just asking the question. It's just a

27:10

lot of work for the seamers. It's a lot

27:12

of work for Jimmy, isn't it? A lot of

27:14

work for the seamers. And that's why he won't

27:16

play all the games, I don't think. What I

27:18

will say is, when we saw Jack in Bath,

27:20

he was looking very svelte. He was looking very

27:22

lost and weak. He was. He was looking good,

27:24

good Nick. Yeah, talking over spin. Until Sharkey fed

27:27

a pizza down his face. At

27:29

four in the morning. This

27:32

is quite interesting. I just thought about Jimmy's action.

27:36

Yeah, here's the bit. Here's what I want to get to. He

27:38

said, this is Jimmy. One

27:41

thing that was not right last summer was

27:43

my run-up speed. I can't rely on fast

27:45

Twitch. Is this from Yorkshire? Oh, can I

27:47

redo Burnley? No. You're

27:49

correct. Do a Jimmy

27:51

impression. That's it. That's

27:55

it. You

28:01

do a Jimmy impression? I go, I would hear what

28:03

he said though. He says, I can't rely on that

28:05

fast twitch snap at the crease that I've had over

28:07

the years. So I've been working on my momentum in

28:10

my run-up. Interesting. It feels like it's working really well.

28:12

I just need to transfer that to outdoors now. And

28:14

if you've seen him doing all the indoor bowling sets,

28:16

it's really good. Oh, that's really

28:18

interesting. I wish we had him here

28:20

so we could talk to him about that because, yeah,

28:22

he has like... He's always had that snap, hasn't

28:24

he? But maybe he's talking about having to

28:27

evolve that in the run-up. That's

28:29

fascinating. Looking forward to seeing that. Shall

28:32

I text him and say, tell us about the snap? Yeah, let's see

28:34

what he gets. What time is it over there? I

28:37

think there are five, maybe six, about five hours

28:39

ahead. He might. He might

28:42

get back to that. Jimmy, Jimmy,

28:44

Jimmy, Jimmy Anderson. I've

28:46

just texted Jim saying, tell us about the new snap please.

28:48

And he's just texted back saying, huh? Oh, I told you

28:50

my impression was good. That was literally weird. Come.

28:55

Hi, mate. I'm just doing voice note.

28:57

Hi, mate. We're doing some...we're doing the monopods

28:59

and we just started talking about your new...not

29:02

new action, but how you've been working on it. Really

29:05

nice write-up, picture it matching to the dork on the double

29:07

base. Do you have any

29:09

details on the new run-up slash

29:12

snap? Over. Wait

29:14

for that to come back. We

29:17

might get an appearance on the Jimmy Anderson's Create

29:19

Podcast from Jimmy Anderson. That means he can invoice

29:21

for it as well. He

29:25

needs a voice note. I'd

29:35

love that, mate. Right.

29:38

Any other bits? What are we talking about? Buzzing for

29:40

India. Good luck

29:42

to Jim. Wendy's Australia is obviously one-sided

29:44

out there, but Wendy's do look like

29:47

they've got some characters and personalities. And

29:50

under Craig Raffae, I've got some fights

29:52

and discipline. So it's worth watching

29:54

that if you can. And I did

29:56

notice Jason Holder came out this week saying, basically,

29:59

if we do not do that, care about test cricket

30:01

and if we carry on doing what we're doing there

30:03

will be no test cricket which I thought was a really well

30:06

a important thing to say but somebody of his

30:08

stature and seeing what's happening at the moment I

30:10

thought totally and that seems the general consensus a

30:12

lot of big names at the moment good everyone

30:14

needs to save it the cricket Avengers needs to

30:16

stand up exactly just say all these things can

30:19

exist and they all need each other in the

30:21

ecosystem of this great game well who are the

30:23

test cricket Avengers well there's one over there on

30:25

point your shark it he is one of them

30:27

but I meant Jason Holder you know you've got

30:29

your Jason Holers your Barat Coley's Jimmy

30:31

Anderson's you know your Pat Cummins

30:33

is yeah basically the captain's right

30:35

but yeah no word back from

30:38

Jimmy just

30:41

wait if

30:46

one of the Avengers just

30:51

going back to a previous point yes

30:53

Roy and Butler playing together for the

30:55

Paul Royals nice and they Roy hit

30:57

68 and Butler 54 against

31:01

an MI Cape Town well cut winners back in the mix

31:04

oh the Lord has spoken

31:06

come on Lord has spoken yeah read out

31:08

what he said in the article he

31:10

hasn't done a voice note I got the idea that we're doing

31:12

a podcast okay boys then no one

31:16

thing was not right last summer was my run-up speed I can't

31:19

rely on that fast

31:23

twitch snap at the corner yet

31:26

I've had over the years I've been

31:28

working on my momentum in my run-up

31:31

that feels like it's working really well

31:33

I just need to transfer that indoor

31:38

okay this is why we started this podcast

31:40

so we can get a real good insight

31:42

we can get stuff that isn't already out

31:44

there helping to subconscious usually

31:47

on this occasion he's given me less he

31:50

gave the Sunday times he just says just trying

31:52

to run in a bit quicker creating more momentum

31:54

and that tells the story as to where Jimmy's

31:56

head is that he is in the zone yes

31:58

say not not for up for any playing, and

32:00

that's fair enough. Yeah, because when you build momentum, the

32:02

last thing you do is stop and chat about it.

32:05

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