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Tom Evans: Thank you.
Tom Evans: Hello everyone, welcome to episode three of the Last Hour Cricket Podcast, a podcast about cricket in Merseyside and beyond. My name is Tom Evans from Merseyside Cricket Online.
Tom Evans: ah With me is not my co-host Jamie Bowman, who is very selfishly taking his wife out for her birthday dinner this evening. So ah happy birthday Mrs. Bowman, but um you know, priorities.
Tom Evans: um Now all the cricket world this week has been abuzz about a young man at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL named Vaibhav Suryavanshi. He's just 14 years old and he made a 35 ball century for the Royals against Gujarat Titans.
Tom Evans: But did he ever take 10 for 3 against Magul 3rd XI? Well no he didn't. um But with me today is a man who did, Joey Harrison. How are you Joey?
Joey: Oh, you're all right.
Tom Evans: Now, that 10 for three against the Magool 3rd-11 back in 2017, that is still the ah the record on play cricket for the Liverpool competition. It's the best bowling figures um on record.
Joey: Okay.
Tom Evans: It's still ah still still top of that so top of the three.
Joey: Yeah.
Joey: We won an only season of Birchfield, that was. Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah. Well, you you left an impression, clearly. You also scored 24, not out, in that game. Were you not out? You also scored 24 in that game anyway, which...
Joey: Yeah, half
Tom Evans: You know, you can you beat McGill third 11 by 11 runs yourself.
Joey: the score I think I got for the team as well.
Tom Evans: um
Joey: To
Tom Evans: what What was it like going back into the dressing room, you know, saying it to 10 people, thanks for coming, lads, you know?
Joey: be fair, I always remember coming off at T and scored, I think we got 40-odd, and that the lads' heads were down, but that wicket, it wasn't the best. It was a proper... village, church, yard, wicket, know what mean?
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: And I said to her, went, tell you what, 40s or 200 score on that wicket. A lot of lads were there tonight. was like, we're going to beat these, but I wasn't expecting to get the 10. And don't get me wrong, the two other lads bowled at other end, and bowled well.
Joey: It just come off for me a little bit. Like nine.
Tom Evans: You say that, but um um um I'm looking at scorecard here. Fair enough, ah Michael Finletter took, you know, he bowled one over one maiden.
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: Can't really say fairer than that. You know, there were plenty of wickets going at the other end. Leaky Stephen Shuttleworth, though, five or ten runs.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Ruined the team's figures there.
Joey: Yeah, did you?
Tom Evans: i'm not Nine of the ten wickets were clean bowled as well.
Joey: Yeah, mean last me very last one was caught behind I was a little bit gutted. I wanted Luntie to drop it, the keeper.
Tom Evans: You only needed one other team mate.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Excellent stuff. do you which Which was your favourite wicket of the time? Do you remember?
Joey: He was a lad batting four for my goal and I'm sure he was probably a two player. a I can't his name now. But yeah, he come out at number four and he looked a good bat, like looked technically good.
Joey: And I just thought, you know what? want to try and ball, like can't ball a bounce. never known to ball a bounce my life, but just going pull it back a little bit because he looks good on the front foot.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: It didn't get any higher than ankle high.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: and balled in middle stump. So that was probably fair or not. It didn't come off the way he wanted it to, but it still worked.
Tom Evans: No? Yeah.
Joey: And I think i think he probably potentially could have won it by himself if he stayed.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: think he got in for four or five. I think he got most of their score. and
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: Yeah, his wicket probably. Yeah.
Tom Evans: Good stuff. Well, i'm congratulations on that achievement of um eight years ago, but don't get me wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong with nothing wrong with still being able to remember individual wickets you took eight years ago.
Joey: yeah
Tom Evans: I'd be the same if I'd taken 10 for three. um The main thing that's happened since we were last doing this podcast is that the local cricket season has started.
Tom Evans: I've been to a couple of games already on Saturdays. The first week I was at Birkenhead Park to see Bootle chase down a decent score of 250, 240, 250 to win that game.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: I'm two forty two fifty to win that game um for their first game back in the top flight. but I thought that was quite a quite an impressive performance by then. It was an aggressive declaration by Birkenhead Park skipper Alex Harris, but um fair play to Bootle. They were asked to get the runs, and and they did. and Last week, last Saturday, i was at Newton-Willows to see how the other champions, Ormskirk, had started the season. and And, you know what, it could have been a game from last season, the way that Ormskirk...
Tom Evans: sort of had control. They kept the score down from the start. and um But for one over in which Leo Spilsbury for Newton took three wickets and four balls.
Joey: Yeah, I've been back before.
Tom Evans: i Yeah, yeah. it was ah It was a very impressive batting performance by Ormskirk as well. Captain Gary Knight finished on 66 not outs. So Ormskirk looking ominous at the top with ah up of the prem already.
Joey: Yeah, they're good, aren't they?
Tom Evans: Yeah, i'm very good. yeah um it's
Joey: you.
Tom Evans: you know It's a long way to go yet, obviously. It's ah two games out of 22. Lee in the Premier also. Also two for two in Division I, Liverpool, Springview, Sefton Park and Southport and Birkdale have won both their games.
Tom Evans: And Ainsdale, Caldey and Fleetwood Hesketh have in Division II. ah Just a quick word for a guy who's older than Vibab Suryavanchi, Harry de Brabanda.
Tom Evans: um He's just 15, so ancient by Registar Royal's terms, obviously. like ah He came out and batted number 11 for Newton. They were 120 nine. I think they were, and he came out. It's his Premier League debut. um He only found out he was in the team a couple of days before the match because ah George Bell got called up for Lancashire.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: and And he stuck around. He got 15, 17 himself, and he stuck around for a good half hour and let the last wicket put on 40 runs, which i thought was very impressive.
Joey: thing Yeah, it's good effort, man.
Tom Evans: Ended on the losing side, but um quite a way to make your debut against the against the best attack in the league.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't think I had the bottle of 15 to do that in the prem.
Tom Evans: No, no. How are things going for you your Whitefield Seconds vice-captain currently, aren't you?
Joey: Yeah, yeah. and but do Not doing all right. I i think think the strength, I think the signings that the Wands have made have just strengthened the twos, which helps us. I know last year, Simon, the captain last year, he was still still struggling on a Friday afternoon to get the 11. We're...
Joey: well
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: fingers crossed, such would, the last three weeks. ah Me and Mike Todd have, we've had 13, 14 lads to pick from, we're dropping people, which isn't the norm. It hasn't been the norm at Whitefield for quite a while.
Tom Evans: I think that's a
Joey: i And you're looking at the batting line-up, we've got people who are batting 89 who last year were opening the batting, or batting top four.
Tom Evans: start. I've got to the first couple of hours. And I think that's a good start.
Joey: Do you what I mean? So the strength and depth, I think the balling,
Tom Evans: I think it's a good start.
Joey: We've got too many similar bowlers, but but that'll that'll come in the season.
Tom Evans: I think it's a good start. I think it's a good start.
Joey: I'm not always available, which is annoying. I'm a different bowler. Tom Rigby's come back, which is a massive help as well. And he's starting to turn his arm over.
Tom Evans: I think it's good start.
Joey: but He's our spinning option. i But no, it's looking good. um i don't want to say anything too much because it's early on, but I've got to be by Sutton on the weekend. and I think if we got Nolan out, we went 100 for him early on.
Joey: I think it would have been in the balance. I think Pertensi would have could have won. Fair enough to Tom for it in 100. un it the thing was un in three hundred and four it was and And the week before we played Preston and again, think Preston were maybe 40 runs short.
Joey: Once we come off and we're under 140, we felt like we could do it. And to be fair, I don't know what Dave and Bert have done the groundsman this year, but Cotter Park's little bit of a road, which, yeah, it's flat.
Tom Evans: Is it?
Joey: Not getting much.
Tom Evans: This is making me want to get my pads back out.
Joey: Yeah, yeah, yeah, come back up. Yeah.
Tom Evans: No, I'll have that.
Joey: Yeah, the seamers aren't getting much ah pace off the ball, it's working a little bit more. There's not much movement or anything for the seamers, which is is weird, because there's always it's always a little bit of grass left on the top for something, but even ah last week it says it all with the first team game against Prestatting.
Joey: Yeah, very good start, yeah.
Tom Evans: Yes. It has been a good start for the first team as well, hasn't it?
Joey: yeah very good spot
Tom Evans: How's the mood around the club? Because obviously, um you know, there was it was a bit of a fractious end to last season, fair to say. You know, there was the there was the points deduction and all the um sort the fallout after that and sort of being clear from relegation and then sort of thrown back into the relegation battle, um you know.
Joey: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: As it turned out, you wouldn't have gone down anyway.
Joey: yeah oh
Tom Evans: But, you know, it it was a thought time at the club in general, wasn't it? But how how are things now?
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Are things looking positive?
Joey: Yeah, they are, yeah. then Ben coming on the skipper. um We call it, me and Simon call it a bit of a superpower. Yeah. he just gets tunnel vision.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: at And he's he's just drove and drove over the win. So he's had me on the Facebook page messaging people, are you interested? What are you playing this year? i And yeah, the feel around the club's all right. And like said, the cop we've lost a couple lads to Prescott and Norley Hall.
Joey: a And like fair dues to them, it just, it come at an end and it was a sticky situation. That's the way you can describe it. But,
Tom Evans: who
Joey: But no, it feels good. It does. It feels good. Everyone's getting on. um Obviously, Cronje coming in, who played for Sutton last year, he's fitted in.
Tom Evans: Yes, helping get promoted, yeah.
Joey: Yeah, come straight in, fitted in. um All the other new lads that are coming again, just getting on with it. And yeah, there's just a good feel around the club again. And I think there's, We've got high expectations, but nothing too extreme.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: Do you know what mean? I think if you spoke to Ben, I think Ben be quite happy mid-table. Do you know what I mean? This year, not near the bottom end, more in the middle.
Tom Evans: stuff.
Joey: I think even with the twos, because of all the twos, like I think we think we finished bottom last year. and But again, we're looking at more mid-table with the strength we've got in the team. i But yeah, no one needs a can.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: Yeah, I can't describe It's just a good feel. I think it's a bit of a fresh start, if that's the right word to use. i
Tom Evans: good stuff
Joey: New captains. Total new captaincy team, do you know what mean? Like Ben McGee's come from Runcorn.
Tom Evans: you
Joey: Me and Toddy have took over the twos. Just think, yeah, just that change has just helped a little bit.
Tom Evans: Excellent. Good stuff. Good to hear it. Well, long may that continue.
Tom Evans: little bit further afield, um Lancashire back in Division 2 of the County Championship, four games in, um four draws in as well.
Tom Evans: I thought it was quite a dispiriting one, but the the most recent game against Gloucester, to be honest, because having put on 450 themselves, to then bowl for the best part of two days and take only eight wickets, it's sort
Joey: yeah
Tom Evans: it's it's difficult to see where the wins are going to come from at the moment, isn't it? with but ah ah At home in particular, they're not getting get any help from the pitch because Old Trafford has been a road for years.
Joey: Yeah, yeah
Tom Evans: And it's just difficult to see where the wickets going to come from, isn't it?
Joey: yeah. Yeah, I just don't get it. just You look at that talent in that team.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah.
Joey: who
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: And I just, yeah, I just don't get what what's going on. i Like Simon, I remember ah can't say surname, but Josh Bonaghan.
Tom Evans: um Yeah.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. Like to me, he should be pushing England. you know what I mean? Yeah.
Tom Evans: It's been very close in the past, I know that, but yeah, it's...
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: but yeah it's a
Joey: At one point, Keaton Jennings was probably pushing it.
Tom Evans: is it
Joey: He's at the other end of his career, but he could have been pushing it at one point. I just don't know what's going on.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah. Definitely. They were talking about recalling Jennings for a tour of, I think it was the last tour Sri Lanka because he did so well against the spin in the subcontinent last time.
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: But, you know, just, and Bohannon was sort of, for a while, the next cab off the rank, sort of under Joe Root and Chris Silverwood. Certainly, I think they've sort of looked for more more aggressive options since Baz McCollum and Ben Stokes have come in.
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: But, you know, he's still very highly thought of and and rightly so with the the runs he's put in.
Joey: Yeah, it's just like you said, the ball in, it's just worrying.
Tom Evans: um
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: It is slightly concerning. I mean, you know, a couple of the bowlers and a couple of the bowlers with Liverpool competition credentials and ended up digging them out of the hole in that third innings when Hartley and Bailey put on a decent partnership to sort of block most of the game out But um it's, you know, third innings in general can be very tricky, you know, even when you've put on a big score and the other side's overhauled it a bit and you sort of
Joey: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah,
Tom Evans: You can't win, but you can lose, if you know what I mean.
Joey: yeah.
Tom Evans: but That's always a very so a tricky position to find yourself in. But they i mean they got there in the end. it it's It's better than losing. But it is a <unk> I think they're finding it tougher than a lot of people thought they were going to.
Joey: Yeah, I just can't at the minute. can't see a win. I know it's early on in the season, but just, I can't. Yeah.
Tom Evans: Well, there's plenty of time for them to prove us wrong anyway.
Joey: Fingers crossed, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: What do we know? Right. m With the absence of my selfish co-host, Jamie Bowman, um it's going to be probably bit of a shorter episode of this...
Joey: No worries.
Tom Evans: ah so I say this week, but um you know it's been a month since we recorded the last one. That's one thing. we I'm going to try and get more of these in the can now that now the season's actually started. We've got another guest lined up for next week, so watch
Tom Evans: Right, it's over to you now, Joey, as a guest. you ah excuse but
Joey: um
Tom Evans: You get to choose your nominations for Dressing Room 101. Now, you only have me to convince. um this time. Other guests have two people to convince, but go on, what you got for us?
Joey: i've got five all right so starting with just club stand and stuff so my first one a lot of lads at whitefield i'll get this one is i hate people not getting a shower after the game so i want i don't know how to word if to put it in the 101 but people not showering um
Tom Evans: Five. Okay, yeah.
Tom Evans: Right.
Joey: i but particularly they play cricket all day normally in the sun it's been glorious and they go in and they put their clean clothes back on that they've had then they and stand in a bar with a pint like just get a quick shower and yeah
Tom Evans: I'll be honest, I've i've i've never been a ah a dressing room showerer myself. i just I just kind of think I'd rather shower in the comfort of my own home. if i'm If I'm staying for a drink, I'll i'll just i'll not get changed.
Joey: yeah yeah
Tom Evans: like I know what you mean about putting ah putting clean clothes back on when you're when when you're all s sweaty, but I'm just going my whites into the bar.
Joey: Yeah. I think it's more my pet peeve than anything. anything like one I played at Moorfield a few years. That's the club that I got brought up in. And shower time was probably everyone's favourite part of the game because that's where we had a laugh.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: That's where you ripped each other. there you know what mean? If anything went wrong in the game, instead of having that, but i bit a bit of niggle after games sometimes where you could be sulking because you're batting nine, you should think you should be batting five and all that stuff.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: To me, in the showers at Moorfield, that was the time to just... get it out in the open, but in a laugh, you'd rip each other apart about it and stuff. And as a group, all 11 of us would be in the shower. i Yeah.
Joey: So there's two parts.
Tom Evans: okay
Joey: it The cleanliness part, but also just the camaraderie. And and like we have we had all different shapes and sizes body-wise, you know I mean? But, yeah, just...
Tom Evans: the The camaraderie I get a bit more than kind of the clownliness because people are going to, you know, the end of the day, how much do you actually run when you're playing cricket?
Joey: Yeah. Yeah.
Tom Evans: And um and people, you know, people are going to get a show when you get home. And the camaraderie, I think, can you not get that from the from the dress like just being in the dressing room, in the bar with your teammates?
Tom Evans: Do you have to, um as you put it, get it out in the open?
Joey: Yeah, I think with the changing rooms, people get changed too quick in the straight out because some people might be getting a shower and some people might not be. And then in the bar, once there's a few beers down, and that's when the niggle even kicks in even more.
Tom Evans: yeah
Tom Evans: Right, okay. So it's sort of a a way of getting that all out of the way before all the drinks starts flowing.
Joey: but Yeah, a little punk. One water under the bridge. There you go.
Tom Evans: Hmm.
Joey: Literally, do you know what mean?
Joey: set
Tom Evans: I... thought
Joey: kind of two parts of it. The cleansiness part can get, I can kind of get away with, but that, having a laughing, and obviously, it's different, again, going to throw another, like, different genders, do you what mean? I'm not expecting one of the girls to come and get in showers with the lads, you know mean?
Joey: And, so, there's a lot it as well, we're not expecting that, but, yeah, I just think, like I said, I've played it more, I feel, since I was like five, and it was always, I wasn't getting a shower at five, by the way, just to point that out, I was an adult.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah. No, yeah.
Joey: But, yeah,
Tom Evans: This is about the second time. Go on.
Joey: Just throwing that one out there very quick.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: But it was always just part of the game. Like, youve got you got the flags in, you got the stumps in, you did your game, and then everyone got in the shower together. absolutely
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: It's more just my own personal opinion. And, i like, Whitefield now, there's probably only four or five us that get a shower after the game. And they always laugh.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: They always say, you're smelly. Like... like
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah. i I can see how... Yeah, ah ah I'm not going to put it in dressing room 101, I think. I think it's up to...
Joey: here
Tom Evans: I can see how you might sort of want your teammates to sort of have that camaraderie, that kind of bonding, and you see it's important. But i think at the end of the day, it's got a bit it's got to be up to the individual, hasn't it? of the individual preference.
Joey: yeah but
Tom Evans: So I'm afraid um for your first one of five, it's...
Tom Evans: And that noise means no. um So go on, what's your second?
Joey: yeah right this one is bounces in indoor nets um
Tom Evans: Right, yeah, okay.
Joey: Everyone thinks they're rapid in the nets because you've got AstroTurf or you've got a rollout mats in some places you train in the winter.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: Don't even have them mats. You're just on the sports hall. So you're getting lads who are bowling, bounces at you in the nets all winter. And then comes to the first game of the season and you've got a nice green wicket because nowhere in England is going have a road unless they've got really top level, do you what I mean, kicking ground.
Joey: And then first ball of the season, it hits the grass like a tennis ball, slows right up and get pulled for six.
Tom Evans: it say
Joey: Do you know what I mean?
Tom Evans: ah Pulled into that drainage ditch at Cartier.
Joey: cost a hands on the je Yeah,
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: it's that Because I just ball when I ball. try and ball. I ball full, even when I'm in the nets. ah probably I could probably ball bouncer myself in the nets because it's so bouncy. And I just think you've got your opening bowlers who don't ball many bounces, but then the nets, they're just giving it you because they think they're rapid.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: You've all of a sudden turned into Steve Armisen and they think they can knock your head off.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: And then you put them on a wicket and you're like, what are you doing? and
Tom Evans: Yeah. it's It's a funny one. i think but my I can't remember exactly what the circumstances were. my My best season as an adult with the bat came after... the nets were in a different place to usual. It was it was just a school sports hall and they didn't want us actually like whacking a corky into the floor.
Tom Evans: they So they had mats for us to put down and the mats just did not play like the, like it's so it's almost like ah dedicated indoor net.
Joey: yeah
Tom Evans: It's almost like a slightly springy floor, isn't it?
Joey: no Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: it It's designed to be bouncy, to replicate like a good a good wicket. But these these mats were quite soft and um the ball kept very low. But I think because of that, you know, people who went to a lot of nets were sort of a lot more already for ready for the season. And I think there's a general point there about, you know, um what you're actually practising for when you're in the nets.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: You know?
Joey: So, like, know the juniors in the winter day train, well, they did at Ray & Hill.
Tom Evans: don't know.
Joey: a And their match was similar to what you're saying. There wasn't bounce in it at all. So you were getting front foot and the ballers were, you know what mean? The ballers at the time work a bit harder to get someone out of it. i Where we trained at, what was it? Garston.
Joey: What was the school called in Garston? Can't remember.
Tom Evans: ah to necklace yeah yeah now um um um um I'm in agreement with this.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. And it was bouncy. pains Oh. It was.
Tom Evans: I think bowlers should know the limits and been practice for the actual game they're going to be playing and you know help help the batters practice for the the game they're to be playing as well. So for your winter nets bouncers, I'm going to go...
Tom Evans: Okay, so you are one for one after after two efforts.
Joey: Right, okay.
Tom Evans: Three to go, go
Joey: So this one, I'm going to try and word it right, but poor sledging, i.e. scripted sledging.
Tom Evans: Okay, yeah.
Joey: but I love sledging. I love that banter on the pitch. Like when I'm batting, if someone's giving it to me, i I love it. I thrive off it. It keeps me going. you know what mean? Even when I'm fielding and at first lip I'm not bowling, I love chatting to the batsmen. It's not always sledging.
Joey: It's just genuine. Bubbles, that's the only way to describe it.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah.
Joey: It's the scripted ones that have already been used and they're used over and over, like a natural sledge. There's nothing better than natural sledge. So Flintoff against Tino Best, do you I mean? Watch the wind.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah.
Joey: That wasn't scripted, but you still, you hear people using that now. Like, I don't know, he's got more leaves than Delamere Forest and he's, it's,
Tom Evans: then it's been done. it's Yeah.
Tom Evans: but more More edges than a box of Lego. I got one.
Joey: yeah.
Tom Evans: I didn't really understand that one because
Joey: No, there's someone about NVIDIA, someone about NVIDIA for something like that as well.
Tom Evans: Yeah. Yeah.
Joey: I can't, yeah. Like, more, he's got more lives than a cat, all that stuff. And, like, it's the scripted, it's the typical scripted stuff. It frustrates me. I think I get more, I'd rather someone said to me, you're fat and you're rubbish, you're bad, than someone scripted.
Joey: A scripted sledge to me.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: Because I'd take that and go, you're probably right. Do you what mean?
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah. I was very seldom spent long enough at the crease to really get a conversation going. But when I have, like, it's... it i'm I'm with you. It does help. Like, um I think it helps you concentrate.
Joey: Yeah, it does.
Tom Evans: think it helps some people concentrate.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. And like, I try to think of yours.
Tom Evans: Helps you relax, maybe.
Joey: like
Tom Evans: There's a particular category of this, which for obvious reasons has only come about in the last few years. And it's one that you get from spectators as well. i quite often hear this when I'm at a game covering it. And it's when there's an appeal and it gets turned down and a supporter of the team, of the bowling team says, oh, best send it to VAR.
Joey: Oh, yeah, yeah
Tom Evans: out Right. Cricket has a review system which is older than VAR, which works better than VAR, and which already has its own little three-letter acronym.
Joey: yeah. Yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Like, yeah, and and um the captain's challenge thing, and it works.
Joey: And the technology far superior than VAR. Yeah.
Tom Evans: You know, don't don't don use VAR in sledging.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: call Call it DRS. It's fine. You know.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. I think that comes down to Speckies well, though.
Tom Evans: ah
Joey: It's not really a sledge, but, like, where you always get there, oh, who's winning? You know, like, people don't really know cricket.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: Like, didn't get into Moorfield. We had rugby lads and football lads that'd be there the Saturday, and I'd be fielding somewhere on the Bounds unit.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: It's oh, you're winning? I can't tell you. Yeah.
Tom Evans: No, nobody's winning. That's not how this game works.
Joey: not 1-0. It's not 12-0. We're not going to get a penalty on a drop goal in a minute.
Tom Evans: and
Joey: I can't tell you. and then but got
Tom Evans: i like um ah um I've heard enough on this one. I think I'm happy to say...
Tom Evans: So ah scripted sledges join um bowlers, bowling bouncers in winter nets in dressing room 101. So got another one for us?
Joey: You can set me up a bit there. If anyone's listening to this now and I play him, I'm going but wasn
Tom Evans: um but Don't worry, Joey. No one listens to this. Go on.
Joey: to get it, aren't I?
Tom Evans: I've seen the figures.
Joey: Right. So, next one. Black socks with whites. Yeah.
Tom Evans: That's fine. It's not as if you can't get white socks from somewhere. Yeah.
Joey: Yeah, I like you just went with that one then.
Tom Evans: yeah but but not Nothing else to say. Go on, number number five. Okay.
Joey: Right, so this is more broader cricket, and I might get some feedback off this one, but I want the 100 in 101.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: I don't feel like it's needed. I get the publicity BBC have been giving it, but why can't the BBC just support the T20 Blast? We've got a format already that was there.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: and
Joey: So I used to think, again, this is probably more personal thing with me. I used to love the one-day cups. I used to love going to Old Trafford on a day-night match. Do you what I mean? the did The all one day cup before it just ended up being the reserves like it is now because the hundreds on at the same time. like They had formats there to promote cricket.
Joey: They had the T20 blast and the one day cup. I remember going Lancashire when I was a kid and they still had the whole festival feel around the ground. You could go in the training centre and you used Lancashire coaches in the training centre doing drills with you.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: They had the big inflatable bowling nets and how fast you could bowl. They had the food trucks, they had the beer trucks. We had it, and i didn't I just don't think we needed the 100. Wherever this money's come from the 100, it could have gone.
Tom Evans: yeah
Joey: i said I'm not that i'm not that incident under not not understanding where the 100 money's come from, if it's the ECB or whatever, but that money could have gone into our T20 Blast, which is the original T20, and we should be pushing it more, and the one-day cup.
Joey: hey And I'm not one of these who's into this whole decline of the England cricket one-day team because the one-day cup's not getting used because you get enough time to boo that. Do you know what mean? I don't think... I'm not pushing this on an international basis.
Joey: Couldn't care less. you know what I mean? But...
Tom Evans: this what you want to say domestically?
Joey: Yeah, like... i used to Like Carl Hooper at Lancashire and Malloy. you know what I mean? Watching them in the one-day cup. And I always remember when you had the fireworks, they had the fire going up, they had a DJ, they had it all.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: And remember um um going to one day one last year and I didn't stay.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: I think I watched the first inning and went because I love cricket, but you also go for the atmosphere. you know what I mean?
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Okay, this this isn't... I always end up playing devil's advocate here whenever the 100 comes up because a lot of the problems people have with it are 100% correct. There was no need for an extra format.
Tom Evans: There was no need to... Well, there's no need to shave one ball off each over in a
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: was that that That's basically all they've done with the format. um I can see the logic of making the teams based on cities because that's how it works so well in India and in Australia and in the other franchise leagues.
Joey: Yeah,
Tom Evans: But... ah most crip most domestic cricket followers, the existing ones certainly going to be put off by that because it's not Lancashire anymore, it's the Manchester Originals.
Joey: yeah. yeah
Tom Evans: And it's you know it's different at the end of the day. and
Joey: yeah
Tom Evans: It's sort of half the same and half different and it's ah it's a really confusing situation for us.
Joey: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't even start Manchester Originals in the 100. Yeah,
Tom Evans: people from That's the other thing, like people from Liverpool won't want to cheer for a team called Manchester end the day.
Joey: yeah. Well, I'm a Waller.
Tom Evans: but It's not a football thing, it's it's a
Joey: I'm a Waller. It doesn't really matter to me. Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah.
Joey: Yeah. na
Tom Evans: But, you know, I mean, teams in Yorkshire, they haven't gone with the Leeds superchargers because i'm I'm from Yorkshire and everybody from Yorkshire who isn't from Leeds absolutely hates Leeds.
Joey: yeah
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: They can't stand them.
Joey: Yeah,
Tom Evans: They wouldn't want to identify with a team with the name of a city who you've you know you've got this local rivalry with. And I don't know if in Australia, for example, which has obviously got very few...
Joey: yeah. Yeah,
Tom Evans: big cities and the kind of the more sort of more sort of centralized in in the big cities that way.
Joey: yeah.
Tom Evans: So it's it I don't think England is the right place for the city best thing. But at the same time, they wanted to increase the average quality of the teams.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: um from the 18 counties. They don't just want to leave 10 of the counties out completely.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: So they've had to sort of try so something new starting from scratch. I think it's an example of where you can ah you can see why they've done every individual decision on the way, but not the not the ultimate outcome.
Tom Evans: um
Joey: yeah On this, really quick, I want to go like different direction. Can you ever remember zone cricket that was out for a little bit?
Tom Evans: Go on.
Tom Evans: Zone cricket.
Joey: Yeah, I've not made this one.
Tom Evans: No.
Joey: people, whoever's listening, if you want a message, I've mentioned it so many people they look at me. They had a zone, so mid-wicket and cover, and then they had a zone either side of the stump, so mid-on, mid-off.
Tom Evans: Are you just thinking of about that test match game on the tabletop where you got the bowler to do that and then you had have to swing the...
Joey: If you... Yeah.
Joey: Yeah. because Because I remember watching it and we used to play, like when we were kids, before we started playing senior cricket, there was a bit of the back of the moor field and it had a couple of trees, like there was some trees and we used to make the trees the zones.
Joey: So we got the idea, it wasn't we didn't make this up, we got the idea from somewhere and if you hit it in that zone, it was double your score.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: So if you hit it that zone, it was eight. I think it was pre, just before the T20 blast was big, because I was probably only about 11 or 12, so that was 20-odd years ago.
Tom Evans: Right
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: i But I've mentioned so many people, and they look at me, they've got five heads, and I've even looked on Google, and there's something about it, but nothing really to say it happened.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: but ah And I spoke to my cousin, and my cousin was like, no, there definitely was a thing, because that's why we started playing. That's why we started playing it at the back the more field.
Tom Evans: Yeah. i
Tom Evans: Okay. it's It's not something that ever crossed my path.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: i foot
Joey: I'm going to have to keep digging. I might have to put it in.
Tom Evans: Yeah, that sounds fascinating, though.
Joey: Yeah. I'll watch a hundred game and I'll tweet and ask him.
Tom Evans: It sounds a bit like the others way they play indoor cricket, where you know you have to you get different runs based on which wall you hit.
Joey: yeah the walls, yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah. But yeah, back on 100, I do get the calibre of players playing for them teams. A far superior than what you'd get. But...
Tom Evans: Well, and um on on paper. Yeah.
Joey: On paper. Yeah, yeah, on paper. but
Tom Evans: you you often don't get that thrill of discovering someone, which you quite often get in the blast as well.
Joey: Yeah,
Tom Evans: So,
Joey: yeah. Yeah. and
Tom Evans: and you know, the obvious, I mean, the hundred percent straight down the line, not playing devil's advocate, the hundred has been brilliant for women's cricket in particular, um, having the double headers.
Joey: yeah i Yeah, that's what we're doing.
Tom Evans: Um, so again, playing at the main grounds on the same day as, as the men, sort of the parity in that respect. Um,
Joey: Yeah. ah Yeah, that's...
Tom Evans: if we got if you you know If we got rid of it, we'd have to do something to compensate for that.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: you know i mean and know i know um a lot of counties in Lancashire are doing a double-header T20 for the women, but which is a fantastic idea.
Joey: Yeah, can we...
Joey: ri Yeah, is, yeah.
Tom Evans: um It took the 100 sort of by accident because it was the first year was the post-COVID year, wasn't it? 21.
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: So rather than having two biosecure venues, they They just had both games and at the same venue.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: um So it stumbled upon it by accident.
Joey: Oh, 100%.
Tom Evans: But that that's far, in a way, the best innovation to come out of it, in my opinion.
Joey: Yeah, so, yeah. I know what you're going to say. We're not going to put it in, are we?
Tom Evans: I don't know. Part it doesn't want to because it's such a...
Tom Evans: You know what?
Tom Evans: this yeah you've you You've made your case, and provided that there's some kind of, um you know, they keep with the doubleheaders to give the women's teams equal equal footing, then them I'm happy to happy to see the back of the the competition itself.
Joey: Yes. fun
Joey: and I
Tom Evans: Good stuff. Well, last of all, normally called Stump the Hosts, but Stump the Host on this occasion, singular. I am on my own because I'm selfish, selfish Jamie. Go on, what have you got for me?
Joey: like So kind I've kind of got two little bits. i
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: There's two kind of trivia questions. One's a bit of a game for you, but the other way around. and But the first question, you might get this, because I was like, messaged and said I'm struggling, because I can imagine.
Joey: It's about zone cricket.
Joey: and
Tom Evans: No, is it? No.
Joey: Yeah. So basically, yeah, it was a it's about the timeless test match, if you've ever heard of it.
Tom Evans: was asking for articles to whether that existed, so go on.
Tom Evans: Yeah, yeah, okay. um
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: The one in South Africa, the famous one.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: i mean How many days and why did it end?
Tom Evans: Well, it ended because England had to get the boat.
Joey: Yeah,
Tom Evans: um They were about to chase down sort of what would be ah massive record, still 650-odd, was
Joey: it was a lot, yeah.
Tom Evans: I'm going to say eight days.
Joey: One off.
Tom Evans: Nine.
Joey: Yeah, nine, yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah. that's what I mean. I know you like little facts and stuff, so we're struggling with this.
Tom Evans: Ah.
Joey: But no, the other guy, I just ah just picked, can't remember what got. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So I've got 10 nicknames of cricketers and just named the cricketer.
Tom Evans: OK.
Tom Evans: All right. Go on then.
Joey: um So the first one's Boom Boom.
Tom Evans: Boom, boom.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Shida 3D.
Joey: Yeah. Salt on Swing.
Tom Evans: i <unk> Probably a few people have been called this. um
Joey: think of the original, yeah.
Tom Evans: Springbok.
Joey: originally ah a
Tom Evans: yeah Gosh. Give me a country.
Joey: Pakistan.
Tom Evans: Wasim Akram?
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: but
Joey: and So the next one's The Sherman Eater.
Tom Evans: Well, that was what Shane Warne called um Ian Bell, wasn't it?
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: He was ambled with the lights off my head.
Joey: This one's quite easy because it's a play on the surname.
Tom Evans: um
Joey: Chanda Wall.
Tom Evans: Shifnir and Chandapal.
Joey: And then we've got... Yeah. Then we've got The Wall.
Tom Evans: Rahul Dravid.
Joey: Right. Castro.
Tom Evans: Castro.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: I've never heard this, but Fidel Edwards.
Joey: Yeah, well done. Yeah, yeah
Tom Evans: okay
Joey: Bit of an educated... Yeah.
Tom Evans: I'd get a guess, yeah.
Joey: i Universe boss.
Tom Evans: ah Chris Gale. I think he chose one himself.
Joey: i Yeah. He just started calling it himself, didn't he?
Tom Evans: and
Joey: Don't know why this one's this one, but scooter.
Tom Evans: Scooter.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: um
Tom Evans: I don't know it, so let me try No.
Tom Evans: No, go on.
Joey: South African, batsman, doesn't play anymore.
Tom Evans: South African batter.
Tom Evans: Jack Callis. Graham Smith.
Joey: Well, are you still open in the batting for a bit with Graeme Smith?
Tom Evans: ah Gary Kirsten. um
Joey: No.
Tom Evans: Herschel Gibbs.
Joey: Marshall Gibbs.
Tom Evans: Herschel Gibbs is known as Scooter.
Joey: I have no idea why. I found it before. was like, what? I couldn't find the reason why.
Tom Evans: You learn something new every day, and um today it was that Herschel Gibbs is known as Scooter.
Joey: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: I hope that's educated.
Joey: Two more.
Tom Evans: Some of the listeners as well.
Joey: Yeah, two more. Baby Boycott.
Tom Evans: Baby Boycott. I mean, we're talking Hassib Hamid here, because he got labeled that, didn't he?
Joey: Yeah. Yeah.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: And then the last one, and this one makes me giggle. This is the this are the best play on words. So, Froth.
Tom Evans: Froth.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: ah f r o t h Like like on the head of a pint.
Joey: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: Now, go on.
Joey: Michael Beer, who played Australia.
Tom Evans: Michael B.S., the Aussie left-hand spinner.
Joey: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah. Ah, okay. Good.
Joey: For everyone. I love that. Just that play on words. Like someone saying his name and going, I'm going call you Froth.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah, it's sort of related to the unoriginal sledges, this, isn't it?
Joey: Yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: You know, you you like a bit of a of originality in your nickname.
Joey: Yeah, because they could have called him Pint or anything like something. Pint or just this.
Tom Evans: Yeah, or Barry, or, in being Australian, Bero.
Joey: in
Joey: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom Evans: Yeah.
Joey: But already gone with froth. So, yeah, i like that. That was my favourite one.
Tom Evans: Good stuff. um Yeah, enjoyed that. Thank very much for your time. um Yeah, and thank you for listening. Who have you got at the weekend, Joey?
Joey: We've got all our Caldy at home.
Tom Evans: Right.
Joey: I'm unavailable again.
Tom Evans: Okay.
Joey: But, yeah, we've got Caldy at home.
Tom Evans: Well, go well next time you are available. um Yeah, and thank you for listening, everybody. Like I say, um got a couple more of these lined up over the next couple of weeks. So hope to be recording more regularly in the in the near future. And um yeah, thanks again for listening.
Tom Evans: Take care. Bye-bye.
