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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 16th January 2026 - Nick Andrews, England Senior Cricket International · The PCR Sports Show

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  Good evening, I'm Dipam and welcome to the PCR Sports Show.
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  Myself and Nigel this week. A warm welcome to you and thank
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  you for joining us. And it's your Friday night start
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  to the sporting weekend here on PCRFM.
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  We've got a great show lined up for you this evening.
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  We speak to an England international.
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  Nick Andrews has joined us, who's a England seniors cricket
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  international and he's going to be embarking on a wonderful
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  journey in the next few days. He's representing England Down
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  Under first of all, defending the Ashes against Australia and
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  then defending the World Cup in New Zealand as well.
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  So he's got quite an adventure ahead of him in the coming
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  weeks. So we'll be hearing from Nick
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  about that and how he's been preparing and how he's looking
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  forward to that chapter in his life.
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  But first, let's start off with this week's headlines and Nigel
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  Hassle for this week. Hi, Nigel, How are you?
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  I'm very well, thank you. Good evening.
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  So this week's headlines then. The recent Posh revival was
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  halted in its tracks last weekend when they went down one
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  nil to Plymouth at the Western Home Stadium.
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  It was an all round bad day at the office for the Posh with
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  eight cautions ascending off for Peter Kioso and injuries to Tom
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  O'Connor and Harry Leonard. Posh have a chance to get back
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  to winning ways tomorrow when they travel to Buckinghamshire
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  to face Wickham Wanderers at Adams Park.
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  Posh are waiting on the fitness of Harry Leonard who is subject
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  to the concussion protocol before being given the green
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  light. Across the city.
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  Peterborough Sports also suffered a defeat last weekend.
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  They were beaten 2 nil in Wales against New boys to the National
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  League N Merthyr. Both goals came in the
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  second-half after Sports were in the game for large periods.
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  To compound the defeat, there was a red card for Turbine
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  striker Mark Jones. Manager Phil Brown was also
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  cautioned during the game and subsequently received a one
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  match touchline ban for his comments about the officials
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  after the game. Sports, now in a real relegation
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  scrap, are back-to-back games at Pyms Park over the next week.
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  They start the week with the visit of Chester tomorrow and
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  then FA Cup heroes Macclesfield will visit Pyms Park on Tuesday
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  evening. Indoor CRICKET Cricket and
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  Warrington have one hand on the Indoor Hunts League title after
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  73 one run win against Hampton. Defending champions AK11 kept up
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  the pressure with a 47 run win over Breton.
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  Both AK 11 and Warrington sit at the top of the table but
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  Warrington have the edge after winning the game between the two
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  sides earlier in the season. Athletics and City shop putter
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  Lawson Capes has been selected for the third consecutive time
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  to represent England. He travels to Sweden as captain
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  next month and expects to compete in both the shop put and
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  the discus competitions. ROLLER HOCKEY Peterborough
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  Roller Hockey Club suffered A52 defeat at Letchworth last
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  weekend. The City goal scorer was Michael
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  Carter with both of the Peterborough goals and in a
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  packed weekend of field hockey, it was eight wins and eight
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  losses for the City of Pittsborough Hockey Club.
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  Last time out. The women's first cemented their
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  position at the top of the table with a nine nil win over
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  Dereham. Top scorer Lily Craven led the
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  way with a hat trick and Bricia Foxton and Matilda How Halford
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  chipped in with two each with Alana Walker and Hannah Grimshaw
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  completing the scoring for Town. It's another busy weekend of
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  games at Breton this weekend with the game starting at 10 AM
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  on Saturday and 11:30 on Sunday. I'm finally staying with hockey
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  but this time on the ice. It was a defeat for the
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  Peterborough Phantoms in the semi finals of the National
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  League Cup. The home leg with the Sheffield
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  Steel Dogs ended in A4 four draw but Phantoms went down 51 in
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  Sheffield on Wednesday evening and a 95 aggregate loss.
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  Phantom's consolation goal was scored by Jasper Foster.
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  And those are the headlines this week, Dipan.
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  Thank you Nycha, Lots going on as always in the city of ours.
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  There is, there is, it seems to, we seem to be getting away with
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  the weather a little bit and seems to be not many
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  postponements. Which is good.
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  I know Peter, Sports had many or certainly a couple early part of
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  this month and things are back on track and you follow sports
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  wherever they go. And what's your experience been
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  like lately? Yeah, I mean, it was Merthyr was
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  the first game in 2026. So yeah, they did have a bit of
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  a break, nearly three weeks. It actually did them a little
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  bit good because a few of the teams around them played some
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  games in hand that they had and and didn't do that well.
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  So you know, it didn't it didn't do sports much harm really.
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  They have dropped back into the bottom 4 now though, so two
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  very, very important games coming up tomorrow against
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  Chester and then on Tuesday night against Macclesfield could
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  really do with, well, we could do with two wins but with at
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  least at least one win out of those two.
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  I mean, it's increased the increasingly tight in in the
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  league and sports are kind of hovering in and around that sort
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  of relegation zone, sometimes in it, sometimes out of it, you
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  know, and, and putting a couple of wins back-to-back could make
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  all the difference, couldn't they?
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  Really just to kind of give that little boost.
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  Indeed. And, and, and Phil Brown, the
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  manager alluded to that in his interview last night.
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  He sort of said that, you know, 5 weeks ago, just before
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  Christmas and, and we were in a, a sort of a, we're in an
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  improvement battle or something like that.
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  That's what he sort of called it where, you know, we'd, we'd felt
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  that we'd turn the corner and we were picking up points.
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  But yeah, it's the last game now.
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  We haven't won for quite a while but haven't played many games so
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  really do need to get back on that winning track again And and
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  and important that people get down to Pyms Park pass away
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  tomorrow. So it's a great opportunity to
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  go and watch some National League N football and cheer the
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  boys on and and keep them in that league.
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  And you know, you say you watch every game, you, you spend a lot
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  of time with the club and in and around the club doing some of
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  their media work and, and speaking to the manager,
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  players, chairman, and you follow them from, from from sort
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  of the summer onwards. Are you noticing sort of
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  differences since Phil's been in in the hot seat and in terms of
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  style of play, improved performances?
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  I know they've been hit by a lot of injuries throughout the
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  season as well. So that's that's not really
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  helped. But do you feel that things are
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  generally heading in the right direction?
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  Absolutely, yeah. I think it was always going to
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  be a tricky season. I, I think a lot of people got a
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  little bit carried away with last year's finish, which was a
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  lot higher up the league. And you know, there was talk
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  about playoffs. I never really entertained that.
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  I, I didn't think we, we would be up there.
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  But you know, it's, they're not the worst team in the league.
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  They've, they've been in a lot of games that they've lost,
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  they've been in. We're just struggling to score
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  goals at the minute. And that's, that's the big thing
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  for me. Hopefully they'll they'll start
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  with, you know, scoring those goals again.
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  We we're not letting that many in.
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  You talk to Phil a lot and he talks about a clean sheet
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  mentality. That's that's what he's trying
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  to instill into the players. And, and you look at the team
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  from from what it was when Luke and Gashi had it, it's it's
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  totally different team now. You know, we have struggled with
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  injuries, but Tim's put his hand in his pocket and I think got
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  one of the biggest squads in the league.
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  So, you know, we've got the players there.
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  We've got quality players there. It's just, you know how hard it
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  is when you're down there and you're you're not winning.
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  It's just you just need a couple of wins just to kick start
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  stuff. And let's hope that's this week.
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  And and I think the other thing is that Phil Brown carries with
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  him, you know, a level of war and certainly the reputation and
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  the ability and comes with that perhaps the chance to attract
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  certain qualities of players. Team's never been shy of doing a
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  bit of Wheeling and dealing so there's always going to be a
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  turnover of of playing staff for the club and and and always a
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  strive to to improve the squad. Yeah, I think the flip side to
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  that is when you're when you're in the public eye, as Phil is,
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  there's a lot of people who want to see you not fail, to not be
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  too successful. So, you know, there's, there's a
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  lot of, I think Phil's got a lot of haters, but he's got a lot of
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  lovers out there as well. But he's definitely made the
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  difference. And, and with regard to staff,
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  there's there's some new faces around the club.
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  We've got a strength and conditioning coach now, we've
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  got a new physio and we've got a new goalkeeping coach.
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  So you know, that's going to help as well.
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  The, the strength and conditioning work feels alluded
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  in his in his interviews is really, really important.
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  And he feels that's why we're getting a lot of injuries,
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  especially on the 3G pitches, because they're not doing the
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  strength and conditioning work. You go down in the, into the,
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  the club these days and you'll see a lot of gym equipment in
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  the Tavern. That's now in the week that's a
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  gym. That's not the Tavern anymore in
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  the week that's a gym. And the players are doing lots
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  of weights, lots of cycling, lots of rowing and stuff like
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  that, which you know, they, they, they were really left to
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  do that on their own before because they only trained 2
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  nights a week. Now they're doing that as part
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  of their official training. So that's, that's one big change
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  I've seen. But but yeah, it's, it's just,
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  we're just desperate for some goals, just desperate for a win.
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  And then I don't see any reason why it can't kick off if that
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  comes. And you'll be there tomorrow.
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  Certainly will, yes. Can't wait, can't wait.
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  I love the old Saturday, Tuesday at home.
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  It's something to look forward to.
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  Brilliant Nick, if I, Nick, if I can bring you in just quickly,
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  you know, you go to Peter of Sports when you get a chance.
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  It's a remarkable story up here of sports in the last sort of
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  5-10 years in the rise they've had through the the grassroots
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  leagues and then to where they are now and and to have a former
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  Premier League man as a manager. It's fantastic.
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  Yes, I'll I'll get down there when I can.
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  I really enjoy it. I know there's not a a big fan
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  base there. One of the things I quite like
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  is that you can make the decision to go to a game fairly
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  late. You haven't got to buy a ticket
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  a a week in advance and and everything like that.
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  It's a friendly, hospitable place.
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  It was welcomed. It's always no one or two people
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  down there to have a chat with during the game and after the
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  game. And you can have a beer if you
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  want before or during or after, which is, you know, very
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  convivial. And yeah, I love it.
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  It's as good as it's a kind of a nice relaxed, casual place to go
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  and watch football and none of the sort of heirs and graces is
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  perhaps you get further the league and you can kind of, you
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  know, yeah, just kind of beat yourself a little bit more
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  kindly. Yeah, and, and, and you can talk
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  to all my fans as well. Yeah, without any kind of
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  tension. Absolutely.
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  I mean guys who follow sort of National League side, they're
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  sort of die hard football supporters and happy for a chat
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  and a bit of banter with anyone. You know, there's not this kind
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  of tribal rubbish that you get in the the the top levels of
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  football now. I think it's very, very pleasant
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  place to go and and watch and I'll be there tomorrow.
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  It brings back memories, doesn't it Nick of moving along Glee
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  road at Posh when used to watch used to follow the ball, didn't
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  you? Where where for the first and
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  second-half, you can do that at sports and, and I'm telling you,
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  anybody who goes down there for the first time I think will be
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  pleasantly surprised with the standard of football for
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  National League North. And not not just standard
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  football, but the standard facility as well, because our
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  team has invested an awful, an awful lot of resources into
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  making the ground what it is now.
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  Absolutely. So brilliant, right?
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  Let's take a short break then. Then we'll come back and speak
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  to Nick with a bit more earnest about cricket and what his
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  speciality is. So stay tuned, you listen to PCR
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  required. So back to this evening's show.
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  We briefly heard from him just before the break talking about
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  pizza sports, but Nick Andrews is in the studio with us.
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  Nick is an England seniors cricket international.
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  He's played for the side for a few years now and he's going to
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  be embarking on a journey down under to Australia and New
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  Zealand to defend the Ashes and the World Cup for the country.
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  So exciting times for Nick coming up and to follow on from
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  exciting times they've already had with the side.
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  So Nick, good evening. How are you?
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  Good. Evening, Deepan.
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  Very well indeed. Thank you.
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  Thanks for joining us. My pleasure.
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  You must be excited, surely? Yeah, I'm absolutely bubbling at
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  the moment. It's only three days before we
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  head off and you know, can't wait to get cracking.
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  Absolutely. And I mean, just that feeling
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  we, we get other guests in that have, in whatever sport that
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  have managed to get to a level where they're, they're fortunate
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  to represent their, their country.
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  But what's the feeling like to to represent England in, in, in
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  an international tournament, you know, the Ashes, which is a, you
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  know, a big rivalry and, and then obviously the World Cup as
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  well. D Pam I've, I've been lucky
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  enough to, I've been playing for England since, since I was 60,
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  on and off through the 60s and and now through the 70s.
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  I still can't, can't, can't quite believe that I'm
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  representing England. Hopefully I'll, when I finish
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  playing and look back on it, I might view it sort of slightly
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  differently, but it's, it's unreal.
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  But you know, fantastic at the same time.
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  I'm 73, for heaven's sake. I'm hardly a youth and played
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  cricket all my life, played sort of just reasonable club cricket,
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  nothing sort of fantastic, but just sort of kept, kept going
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  and kept going. And I perhaps haven't got as bad
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  as some people who get older and still still struggling along
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  and, and good things have have happened to me.
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  Just incredibly lucky and you know, I'm just riding that Crest
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  of a wave while it's still there, while it's still there.
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  Amazing. And.
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  And times like this and and obviously you've had previous
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  experiences with the national side, but are they kind of pinch
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  me moments still for you? Very much so.
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  Yes. And you know the first time we
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  went and thought, oh OK, well that's it.
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  I've done that and then had the chance two years ago to go with,
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  with the 70s again and couldn't believe my luck then and now
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  with a, a World Cup and an Astra series to that I've been
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  selected for, you know, I just feel so fortunate.
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  But having said that, I, I don't feel as though I shouldn't be
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  there. If you know, of course, I think
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  I've done enough and I think I've done well enough to warrant
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  the selection and I hope I still that that's proved at the end of
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  this winter. Brilliant.
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  But yes, it's it's it's coming on quickly.
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  And as I said, I can't wait to get cracking.
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  Do you? Do you keep counting
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  international appearances? Oh yes.
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  How many have you had? Well, yeah, why don't I keep
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  camera? I'm not sure I can trot them
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  out, but I've I've probably played about 20 times, but
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  that's impressive. Enough plus with.
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  With two games as well, it's probably getting on sort of 3030
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  plus games in a in an England shirt.
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  That's impressive. Haul, Really, to be honest, it's
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  not bad. It's.
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  Not bad, I won't lie to you. So I mean, you touched on on
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  your kind of playing career prior to the international
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  appearances. So just briefly, you know, chart
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  for us, you're kind of career from the day you started playing
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  cricket at an earlier age and and how you've got to where you
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  are. What's what's been your kind of
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  story? As I said, I've been.
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  A a club cricketer really. I started playing when I was
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  early, early teens at at my father's club and sort of played
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  cricket ever since and varying degrees of of success.
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  As I said, nothing, nothing special, but just kept going and
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  I've, I've been lucky enough that I've been fairly fit and
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  eyes are still quite good. More importantly, my knees and
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  ankles are holding up, which you know, that being said it, it's
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  one of the first things that goes and it stops a lot of
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  people from playing into their, into their dosage like like I
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  am. So I've been fortunate on that
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  front and I've been playing seniors cricket since I was 50,
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  over 50s, over 60s and now over 70s.
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  So it's you're getting on for about 20-3 years I've been
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  playing seniors cricket and it it suits me.
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  For some reason I just seem to have sort of grown into it.
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  I've done done quite well and I don't want to stop anytime soon,
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  to be fair. Fantastic.
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  Amazing journey. And when, when there aren't
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  tournaments on, you know, World Cups or, or, or like an ashy
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  series, do the seniors still play like one day International
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  test matches, say the regular international team would, but
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  over 70s? There's not a lot of national, I
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  know there's a World Cup coming up and there's eight countries
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  taking part in that, but there's not a lot of countries other
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  than Australia and possibly I think New Zealand coming on
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  board who prepared to sort of tour and host tours at over 70s
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  level. So you know, we've we've been
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  sort of not stuck, but we've been playing out Australia a
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  fair bit and that's not really sustainable.
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  Every year, every two years it's quite quite difficult, quite
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  expensive because you know, self funded.
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  We don't get don't get a lot of financial help.
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  We get a bit of bit of sponsorship that again we have
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  to raise amongst ourselves. So what we're trying to say it's
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  it's not Sixers are. Hard to come by on there I
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  suppose. Very much so.
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  Yes, yeah, we, we, we sort of soccer play other teams and
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  yeah, during times when there's not a national series or or a
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  World Cup, we, we play a few sort of friendlies and try and
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  stick together because it's it's a quite short window if you're
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  representing England over 70. I mean, some poor devils who
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  were selected just part of COVID and then tours were cancelled
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  and they didn't get to play and that was their opportunity gone.
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  Yes. And I think, well, how how cruel
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  is that? It is, isn't it?
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  You know, you, you wait, you, you get an England call up at 70
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  is fantastic. Then to have it taken away from
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  you for no fault of your own is it's pretty, pretty desperate.
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  Absolutely. And and.
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  Even at the what you'd perhaps call regular international
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  level, there aren't, you know, I know Scotland I think have got a
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  side, but there's not many in this region of the world, is
• 20:23
  there that that have cricket inside.
• 20:24
  Because you think about the cricket powerhouses, you've got
• 20:27
  the two down unders, you've got subcontinent Asia with, with
• 20:31
  India and Pakistan and a handful of maybe African countries and,
• 20:35
  and, and obviously England and, and that's kind of really isn't
• 20:38
  it in that sense, I mean. For this upcoming World Cup,
• 20:41
  we've got in in March in New Zealand there there's Australia
• 20:46
  there New Zealand are there, India there, Sri Lanka are
• 20:50
  there, Canada are there, there's an emerging nations sort of bit
• 20:55
  like a rest of the world if you like and and England there.
• 20:59
  So I think it's I think that's eight.
• 21:01
  And you know, if more of those were playing regularly and we
• 21:04
  get more regularly, it'd be fantastic.
• 21:07
  But that's not the case at the moment.
• 21:09
  And we don't play that many games, which is a bit
• 21:12
  disappointing. But you know, we, we cherish and
• 21:15
  the games that we do play and knowing that, you know, a year
• 21:20
  from now might face might not be fitting with.
• 21:24
  So it was two years ago when we went to Australia last and I
• 21:27
  think there's 4-5 of the 17 who went on that, who were going
• 21:31
  back this year. So there's a quite a regular
• 21:35
  sort of change where, you know, people come through, younger
• 21:38
  players are available, keen to have a go and other guys are
• 21:41
  dropping off at the other end and not quite sort of good
• 21:44
  enough to to carry on. So, you know, we're just sort of
• 21:47
  hanging on in there enjoying it. Well, we can.
• 21:52
  So over 70s then, is that the highest age group for in the
• 21:57
  England camp or is there at the moment?
• 22:00
  At the moment there's, I mean, people talk sort of jokingly
• 22:05
  about an overrated side and whilst that's a bit fanciful,
• 22:10
  it's not 100 miles off the off the mark.
• 22:13
  And I think there's some talk about being an over 70 fives
• 22:17
  because, you know, people get to the mid 70s like I will in a
• 22:21
  year or two time. I'll still be keen to play.
• 22:24
  But I'm fully aware that there's a load of Youngs every year, the
• 22:28
  great sort of tranche of, of players become available to play
• 22:31
  and they want to play and they're going to be 5 years
• 22:34
  younger than me and we've got a shelf life at that level.
• 22:38
  So what's the next step? Well, there's enough people who
• 22:41
  want to play over 70s cricket. Someone's going to come out and
• 22:45
  and organise it and it will probably happen.
• 22:47
  What what would that look like? Is that down to you guys to
• 22:50
  drive that as so as your team at the moment as you get older and
• 22:55
  get to that 75 year, there's there's there's.
• 22:57
  There's a national governing body for the over 60s, over 70s.
• 23:01
  It's really well run. It's a, you know, there's a big
• 23:03
  a group of people represented throughout the whole country.
• 23:08
  And yeah, it's if it's going to happen, those are the guys who
• 23:13
  can make it happen if there's a demand for it.
• 23:15
  And I wouldn't be surprised. Hope so.
• 23:18
  Or if they're listening, let's. Make it happen.
• 23:20
  Sounds like a really good plan, Nick actually.
• 23:22
  So right, let's just take a slight pause there.
• 23:24
  We'll be back after break, talking more cricket with Nick
• 23:27
  as he heads Down Under for the Ashes and the World Cup.
• 23:29
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• 24:25
  So Nick, back to your wonderful story representing England
• 24:28
  seniors in the Ashes tour and the World Cup starting.
• 24:33
  Well, you set off in two or three days time.
• 24:36
  How do you sort of prepare for such a because it is quite AI
• 24:41
  suppose dexterous journey, isn't it because you're travelling to
• 24:44
  the other side of the world. Big time difference between here
• 24:47
  and then Australia and then New Zealand.
• 24:49
  Cricket wise, you're out of season here, but they're in
• 24:52
  season. Let's say you know, What's your
• 24:54
  preparation been looking like so far?
• 24:57
  It's not been easy. Well, I finished the season last
• 25:03
  year in September. That's why I, I sort of carried
• 25:07
  on trying to keep myself in a little bit of reasonable
• 25:09
  condition, not running or sort of going to the gym five days a
• 25:14
  week, but just stuff under my own steam, things that I do to
• 25:18
  keep all my sort of all my muscles sort of going, my arms
• 25:22
  and legs and core and everything just to keep them supple and
• 25:25
  going. And during that time, luckily
• 25:30
  I've been able to get a few Nets organised, one or two before
• 25:33
  Christmas and a couple of Nets in the last couple of weeks.
• 25:37
  I've got some batting, got some bowling in there.
• 25:40
  I've been stepping up a little bit since Christmas, trying to
• 25:43
  get a bit more intimate legs, knowing that when we get out
• 25:46
  there, you know, hit, hit the ground running.
• 25:49
  We we get there sort of I think it's on the on that the, the
• 25:52
  28th might have a chance of a a cheeky little net with some
• 25:58
  other guys who were going earlier the next day.
• 26:00
  Then there's a practice day and then there's the first game,
• 26:03
  then there's a rest, then there's another game, there's a
• 26:05
  rest there's and it goes on like that pretty well for best part
• 26:08
  of five. Yeah, absolutely.
• 26:09
  So the first. Few games are going to be quite
• 26:11
  hard getting your legs going, getting into a little bit of
• 26:14
  form, getting used to the, the wickets and the, and the weather
• 26:17
  and everything out there. But you know, that's what we're
• 26:20
  going for. We can't sort of turn around and
• 26:22
  say, oh, well, it's a bit hot for us and we can't do it.
• 26:25
  You know, we're going out there to defend the Ashes against
• 26:27
  Australia and we've seen what a mess that the, the, the test
• 26:31
  team did a a few weeks ago. There's a bit of national pride
• 26:34
  at stake here. And we, we want to, we want to
• 26:36
  do well. So what we can't say we've
• 26:39
  prepared any better than the, the other team prepared.
• 26:44
  We we, we've done our best and we just got to suck it up and
• 26:49
  try our best. So you sound.
• 26:50
  Up for it definitely next, which is brilliant.
• 26:53
  I mean, do you get a chance to to get together with a squad
• 26:55
  much before the actual departure?
• 26:57
  Very. Little we, we got together once
• 27:01
  the team was announced, come midway through the season or the
• 27:04
  squad was, we had a 2 day get together down in, in
• 27:10
  Gloucestershire so we could play a couple of games, get to know
• 27:13
  one another as the squad, get all the the ladies, you know,
• 27:17
  the halves down there meeting the other ladies.
• 27:19
  So you know they knew who they would be going on tour with and
• 27:24
  that was great. But one of the games got rained
• 27:26
  off, so we we ended up going into indoor Nets, which was OK,
• 27:30
  but it was a nice way to get together and it was really good.
• 27:33
  And then we had a day at the end of November where most of the
• 27:38
  the squad got together. We had a net session, went for a
• 27:41
  meal in the evening again, just to get a little bit of bonding
• 27:44
  with the squad and that that went really well.
• 27:48
  And then since then it's all been down to the individuals to
• 27:51
  what they can organise. And like I say, I've been sort
• 27:54
  of lucky that I've been able to to arrange a few Nets people
• 27:57
  come along and yes, been been been pretty good fantastic.
• 28:01
  So, so when? You get down there then and the
• 28:04
  competition starts. Modern day sportsmen have
• 28:08
  everything done for them. Is that the same for you guys?
• 28:11
  How? How professional.
• 28:12
  How pampered are you, I guess, Nigel?
• 28:14
  What do you think? No, I mean, we've got a really
• 28:18
  good management team. The, the, the organization is,
• 28:22
  is excellent. You know, everything's been
• 28:24
  arranged, the hotels, the accommodation, the meals, the
• 28:28
  transport, you know that that's all, that's all we've given kits
• 28:32
  provided. That's that's, that's really
• 28:34
  good. But as far as other sort of
• 28:37
  preparations concerned and yeah, we don't get a lot.
• 28:41
  So you're not coming. Off the pitch for a massage
• 28:43
  every 5 minutes that is stuff like that unlikely.
• 28:47
  Unlikely, but what? About the what about the press
• 28:50
  as well? When you get into these
• 28:51
  tournaments. I've I've been, I've been down
• 28:54
  under when there's been an England Ashes tour going on and
• 28:58
  it's just non-stop the the bat. Should we call it banter?
• 29:03
  You know, even on their main news bulletin, I remember
• 29:06
  watching that one night and there we're taking the Mickey
• 29:07
  out of the England team. Did did the press pick you guys
• 29:10
  up because you're under that Ashes guys not.
• 29:13
  So much no. 10 years ago when I went with the over 60s, there
• 29:18
  was a, an item on Channel 9 news, one of the One Day
• 29:23
  internationals. It was just a girls there doing
• 29:25
  interviews and there were clips from the the game and
• 29:29
  interviewing the players and the manager and the captains and
• 29:32
  everything. And that went out over over
• 29:33
  national TV in in Australia. But by and large, I mean the
• 29:38
  guys in assemblies, they're not quite as brash and as in your
• 29:42
  face as some of the kind of younger people are.
• 29:48
  They're decent blokes. You know, we get on really well.
• 29:51
  I've known some of them for, you know, 10 years and more more
• 29:54
  now. And it's great to meet up with
• 29:57
  them when we have a good laugh and have a drink together.
• 30:00
  But when we get on the on the pitch, it's, it's, it's a
• 30:04
  different match. We, we play hard and expect it
• 30:06
  and expect it of them. But you know, it's done in the
• 30:09
  right manner and we would expect.
• 30:11
  Nothing else. Nick, this is the Ashes.
• 30:14
  Absolutely. Yes, and what and.
• 30:16
  What about what about you? You obviously play at at club
• 30:19
  grounds on I'm guessing. Yeah.
• 30:21
  What what about spectators? How how many come and watch
• 30:24
  these games? We get a few.
• 30:25
  For the for the ODIs, I mean, it's often family and friends
• 30:29
  and things like that. And and that's locals who are
• 30:32
  aware care of it. You might get sort of 50 or 80
• 30:35
  people there watching it, which is, you know, all we can hope
• 30:41
  for really. We play on some beautiful
• 30:45
  grounds, no two ways about it. Yeah, really nice.
• 30:49
  And yeah, they do a credit to us and that's that's good.
• 30:53
  People always ask me as well. I say, oh, you're going to
• 30:55
  Australia. Will you be playing at the MCG
• 30:58
  or the No, absolutely not. You know, they couldn't afford
• 31:02
  to hard a big, a big stadium like that.
• 31:05
  It'd be horrendously expensive. There wouldn't be much
• 31:08
  atmosphere rattling around in big state would be horrible in a
• 31:12
  way. Be nice to say you've you've
• 31:13
  played at a ground like that. But no, they play on nice sort
• 31:16
  of public grounds looked after by the local authority.
• 31:20
  Nothing like they are in this country.
• 31:22
  You say local authority ground. You'd you'd imagine.
• 31:24
  Well, it comes up some sort of pretty grim ideas.
• 31:27
  But this is top notch and they they look after you really well.
• 31:31
  You stumble over. That sort of little picturesque
• 31:34
  cricket ground, an awful lot in Australia, don't you, as you're
• 31:36
  travelling around. There's another one there,
• 31:38
  there's another one there, Lots of those sorts of grounds
• 31:40
  around, isn't there? Yes.
• 31:42
  Yeah, but a lot of them in Australia, they're dual purpose
• 31:45
  grounds. They play Aussie Rules football
• 31:47
  on there, which not always conducive to the best kind of
• 31:50
  cricket ground, but some of the grounds that we play out are
• 31:53
  just bespoke cricket grounds and, you know, nice outfields
• 31:56
  and, you know, you haven't got a couple of goal posts and on the
• 31:59
  side screens. Fantastic.
• 32:03
  You mentioned there obviously about partners meeting up in
• 32:06
  your sort of pre tournament catch ups and and the partners
• 32:10
  then go with you on the tour as well.
• 32:12
  Oh yes. So that's quite nice in that
• 32:13
  sense that especially for maybe newcomers in the squad, at least
• 32:16
  they got one familiar face next to them.
• 32:18
  It's brilliant. Yes yeah sadly my wifes been on
• 32:21
  three tours to well will be 3 tours to Australia now and yeah
• 32:27
  the women usually get on sort of pretty well.
• 32:29
  They don't know one another that well at the beginning a few of
• 32:32
  them will but you move around from ground to ground and you're
• 32:35
  staying at the same hotel for a while and you can't assume bond
• 32:38
  in and they seem to get it get on OK and none of them have gone
• 32:42
  away and said well I was rubbish or you didn't enjoy that or that
• 32:45
  was horrible. No little cliques or or anything
• 32:47
  like that. We say it's a good sort of
• 32:49
  strong squad and I think that's one of the one of the sort of
• 32:54
  qualities they were looking at are people who make good
• 32:57
  tourists. Yes, you know, you can get good
• 32:59
  players, but if they're a bad influence or they're not going
• 33:02
  to get on with the rest of this, you don't really want that.
• 33:05
  Yeah, you want that? That kind of togetherness.
• 33:07
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 33:08
  And we've. Been been lucky so far that
• 33:10
  we've we've had good touring squads and the signs are that
• 33:14
  we've got a really good one this time yeah, because you're.
• 33:17
  Ultimately you're, you're representing the country, aren't
• 33:19
  you? So you know, A's got to be best
• 33:21
  behaviour from from the players and the squad, but then also any
• 33:23
  associates that are with them as well.
• 33:25
  Yeah, they'll be like. Drunken nightclub stories coming
• 33:27
  out of this too. Definitely not.
• 33:32
  And then obviously onward to New Zealand afterwards for the World
• 33:35
  Cup and equally the venues there, are they similar to what
• 33:38
  you described? Yeah, actually I've.
• 33:39
  Had a look at the the photos on our On Our Tour brochure and
• 33:46
  fantastic. I mean, if we're lucky enough to
• 33:48
  get through to the final, it's being staged at the Hagley,
• 33:52
  Hagley Oval in Christchurch, which they play top class
• 33:57
  cricket matches out there. Looks a beautiful place.
• 34:01
  And that would be, that'd be a real feather in our caps to be
• 34:03
  able to play there. But that's a long way off yet.
• 34:05
  We're not thinking about that just yet.
• 34:08
  So what can you what? Experience, can you kind of
• 34:09
  bring forward from the previous Ashes tour or Ashes win and also
• 34:13
  the World Cup win there now? Does that kind of put you in
• 34:16
  good stead for the first Ashes? Like, so this is my third tour
• 34:19
  of Australia, so I know pretty well what the wickets are like,
• 34:22
  what the weather's like, what what to expect.
• 34:26
  I mean, that will help, but at the end of the day you've got to
• 34:29
  go out and play cricket, you've got to go out there and bowl,
• 34:31
  you've got to go out there and bat.
• 34:33
  No one can help you or do that for you.
• 34:35
  It's a very individual sort of sport within a A-Team sport.
• 34:39
  But having been there and sort of done it before, whilst it, it
• 34:44
  won't necessarily be any easier, but it'll just give you a little
• 34:48
  bit of help. I think that you're going over
• 34:51
  familiar ground. Yeah, absolutely.
• 34:53
  Absolutely. And yeah, yeah.
• 34:57
  I mean, what what's your kind of strength as a player?
• 34:59
  Then what's what's your my strength?
• 35:00
  Yeah, what's what I like well. I'm an all rounder and I always
• 35:05
  pride myself on thinking, well if I wasn't in the in the team
• 35:10
  for my batting, will I get in just as a bowler?
• 35:14
  And if I wasn't getting a bowl in the side, would I get in the
• 35:17
  side as a batter now? I don't know, but as a batter
• 35:22
  and a bowler gives me two opportunities.
• 35:27
  I've got more than one string to my bow and you know, I'm lucky
• 35:32
  enough to be able to do both disciplines to a a good enough
• 35:37
  level. That has been fairly successful
• 35:40
  while I've been playing for England, so must be doing
• 35:42
  something right. And also as well, I try to keep
• 35:45
  myself fit enough to be a good fielder.
• 35:48
  Yeah, there's no good being being a good batsman, but you,
• 35:51
  you can see 25 runs in the field because you can't stop it or run
• 35:54
  after it or throw it in. Yeah, that's just an important
• 35:57
  part of yeah of the game as being a good bat, a good bowler.
• 36:01
  So if I could do three elements pretty well, I've got, you know,
• 36:05
  gives me better chance to, you know, keeping the side.
• 36:08
  I'm not going to be batting at two or three or anything like
• 36:11
  that. So, but mostly, mostly I'll get
• 36:14
  an opportunity to do something during a game and it's it's
• 36:18
  doing that and, you know, having, having the confidence to
• 36:21
  to do it at the time. And what order did you bat?
• 36:23
  Out. Then I usually go around.
• 36:24
  That 7, something like that, 7-8, yeah.
• 36:29
  Which is a decent place to be, Yeah, absolutely.
• 36:31
  But we've got such a strong. Batting side this time, some
• 36:33
  really good players though. Having said that, you never know
• 36:37
  when you might be needed, but I'm not expecting to to bat an
• 36:41
  awful lot in the in the one day games.
• 36:43
  But who knows? Who knows?
• 36:45
  Fingers crossed. Eight.
• 36:46
  Yeah, right. Let's take our final break and
• 36:49
  we're back speaking with Nick about his cricket adventures.
• 36:52
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• 37:07
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• 37:09
  Myself, Dipam and Nigel this week, if you missed any of the
• 37:12
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• 37:15
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• 37:19
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• 37:22
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• 37:27
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• 37:31
  anything that you've missed. But we continue with Nick, as I
• 37:34
  say Nick. So the tour is just sort of
• 37:37
  three days away to the journey is 3 days away.
• 37:41
  You get there, you've got a couple of days to settle and
• 37:43
  then it's straight into the action.
• 37:45
  And you know, how, how do you kind of adjust your mindset?
• 37:50
  Because you know, like I mentioned earlier, we're out of
• 37:52
  season here. So you, you're perhaps not
• 37:54
  playing cricket here as regular as you perhaps were a few months
• 37:56
  ago. And then kind of switching on
• 37:59
  that mindset that you're going to be playing cricket, you're
• 38:01
  playing on the other side of the world and in, in key matches all
• 38:05
  of a sudden. So what's the kind of motivation
• 38:07
  and mindset? Hopefully I might get 2 next
• 38:12
  sessions in and before our first game.
• 38:16
  And I remember again drawing on experience from three years ago
• 38:20
  that we, we flew to Queensland and played up in the, the north
• 38:26
  of the country and it was so hot.
• 38:27
  It was 37° and it was humid and it, it was so hot and just
• 38:34
  trying to get you, you just got to go through it.
• 38:36
  It's it's not easy. And for the first day or two, we
• 38:40
  were absolutely tuckered. But you know, you play a game
• 38:43
  and and you just get a little bit more strength and then the
• 38:45
  next game and and you just have to build into it.
• 38:48
  You're not going to be going full ball in the first game.
• 38:52
  And, you know, we perhaps won't have our finest performance in
• 38:56
  the first game, but we will grow.
• 38:58
  We we know what to expect and we'll improve as the as the two
• 39:02
  starts and these early games will be absolutely key for us.
• 39:05
  Yeah, absolutely. And.
• 39:07
  They say that you say there's five for you in the squad from
• 39:09
  last time. So there's the majority of squad
• 39:11
  are are new faces. So it's kind of they all want to
• 39:14
  blend in and, and do well and, but some of the guys who.
• 39:17
  Played in the World Cup 2 years ago who weren't on the last away
• 39:21
  tour. So it's the the sort of squad
• 39:24
  just just generally sort of changes each year.
• 39:28
  Yeah. Not not drastically, which is
• 39:30
  good. You need that.
• 39:30
  Kind of. It's almost like a conveyor
• 39:32
  belt, don't you really? Definitely, yeah.
• 39:33
  Got to got to sort of freshen it up and bring sort of younger
• 39:37
  sort of good talent into play and if they're they're good
• 39:39
  enough, they'll, they'll get in excellent.
• 39:43
  So when you first started playing at international level,
• 39:46
  you said it's been over 20 years now.
• 39:48
  Well, no, it's. 20/12/2012 SO. You're on to 13 years, 1314
• 39:53
  years, so how's that kind? How did that come about?
• 39:57
  Obviously you said you're playing local league cricket.
• 40:00
  I don't think that had. Any bearing on that?
• 40:03
  I played over 50s, over 60s cricket.
• 40:06
  I was enjoying my first year over 60s and we play on a on a
• 40:11
  regional basis and we play against Norfolk a couple of
• 40:14
  times a year. And we had done for years.
• 40:16
  And the guy there was the chap who was the the chairman and
• 40:19
  sort of manager of the, of the over 60s.
• 40:22
  And he kept telling me, oh, is it yes, when you get to 16 it
• 40:24
  will be. He was over his England cricket
• 40:26
  and he used to swan around with his England shirt and cap on.
• 40:30
  And I thought, Oh yeah, that looks all right, doesn't it?
• 40:32
  And I got to get when I was 16 that first year, Australia are
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  over here in the national series.
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  And it was the last game of the of the series, England playing
• 40:43
  Australia, Bourne up at the road there and I'd scored some runs a
• 40:48
  week before and we had a friendly game against the
• 40:51
  Australian touring side. It was a mixed team between
• 40:54
  Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. And I was playing and this guy
• 40:57
  Martin Pierce who was the manager was playing and I did
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  quite well in that game. And he said after me, he said
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  I've had a word with the with the Australians and we've got
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  we, we're playing tomorrow in this game at Bourne.
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  They're quite keen to make it 12 a side.
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  Yeah. And would you play?
• 41:16
  Would I play? Yeah.
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  Absolutely. Of course, yeah.
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  Of course I would love to. Yeah.
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  Wow, I was absolutely made-up. So went to Bourne the next day
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  and it was, it's been raining overnight.
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  It was green, it was damp and the Martin who was the captain
• 41:33
  chairman always opened the batting.
• 41:35
  It's got a fantastic record. And have a look at this green
• 41:39
  top and we'd lost the tops and we were, we were put into bat.
• 41:42
  He said Nick, he said would you mind opening today?
• 41:44
  He said I'm going to drop down to #6 and I thought, oh, thank
• 41:48
  you Martin. Yeah.
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  So I, I went and opened and I got a few runs, I got a few
• 41:52
  wicket. I got the man of the match award
• 41:53
  believer in first, first ever game.
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  So kind of that gave me a little bit of a, a base to, to carry
• 42:00
  on. I played one or two more games
• 42:01
  the following year against sort of Scotland and that that gave
• 42:06
  me a leg, a leg up. But after that, Martin sort of
• 42:11
  moved on. He was, he was ousted from from
• 42:13
  his position and selection for the the side after that became a
• 42:17
  lot more professional. There were trials, there were
• 42:21
  Nets, there were sort of, you know, counties were asked to
• 42:25
  recommend they're better players and trials were organised and
• 42:30
  you know, and rightly went through that process.
• 42:32
  But luckily I was able to get through them successfully.
• 42:36
  And that's, that's how the the process continues.
• 42:39
  Now trawl matches, recommendations, how you do your
• 42:44
  records and your stats are looked at scrupulously on how
• 42:47
  you're doing. Yeah, everything's there on on
• 42:49
  the play cricket website so that you can't sort of blag your way
• 42:53
  through saying, oh, I've done this, I've done that.
• 42:55
  As you quickly Scroll down and everything that you've done seen
• 42:58
  is cricket ever since you started playing.
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  It's there to to to sort of be scrutinised.
• 43:05
  Fantastic, So so this. Is an Ashes series, it's a World
• 43:09
  Cup. You obviously want to win those.
• 43:11
  What would not? Personally though, what would a
• 43:15
  good series for Nick Andrews look like?
• 43:18
  Well, I'd like to get a few runs, I'd like to get a few
• 43:21
  wickets. I mean, there's, there's nothing
• 43:24
  better than winning when you've actually contributed to
• 43:28
  something. You know, it's nice to be there.
• 43:30
  I mean, I was lucky enough in the, in the World Cup final two
• 43:33
  years ago that I, I took some wickets at a, at a, at a tough
• 43:37
  time. And you know, we ended up
• 43:39
  winning the game and I felt I played, I didn't get to bat.
• 43:43
  We, it wasn't needed that day, but we won a game and I, I can
• 43:47
  say that yes, I'd, I'd chipped in, I'd, I'd contributed to the
• 43:50
  game. And that's, that's what we're
• 43:51
  looking for really. If you don't, yeah, And that
• 43:54
  happens as well. But the important thing is that
• 43:56
  the team does well. And, you know, everyone wants to
• 43:59
  be a part of everybody wants to do their bit and succeed.
• 44:03
  Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
• 44:04
  People have good tours. Porters.
• 44:07
  Fingers crossed. I mean, I'll do OK, but if I
• 44:09
  don't and the team does well, that'll be good for me.
• 44:12
  Yeah, it's a team. Victory that counts as an
• 44:14
  ultimate to bring the bring the two trophies back home against
• 44:17
  of course it's a. Very fanciful thought, but you
• 44:20
  know you don't want to go get into ahead of ourselves got lots
• 44:24
  of work to do in absolutely try and condition before that so
• 44:29
  the. The Ashes tour itself, that's
• 44:31
  played through One Day International.
• 44:34
  Yeah, yeah, 40. Five over games, Yeah.
• 44:37
  And it's really helpful as well that they are.
• 44:40
  They're still 12 aside games so that one person doesn't bat and
• 44:44
  one person can't bowl, so that you can sub fielders on and off.
• 44:48
  And we have like not a 12th man, but a 13th man.
• 44:52
  So you know, you can be bringing sort of two people off every 9
• 44:56
  overs, for example. And it doesn't make a difference
• 44:59
  if you've you bowled 9 overs and you're out there in 30° of heat.
• 45:03
  If you can get a 40 minute break in the middle of it all,
• 45:07
  fantastic. You know, it just gives you that
• 45:10
  you don't get quite so exhausted.
• 45:14
  Fantastic it. Sounds amazing.
• 45:16
  You speak with such passion and enthusiasm, Nick, you know
• 45:19
  clearly you you love do doing what you do, representing the
• 45:22
  country and rightly so. And you know, wishing you all
• 45:25
  the best in the tour. Thank you.
• 45:27
  Thank you, you. Know.
• 45:28
  Absolutely. Best of luck SO.
• 45:30
  Do keep in touch with us if you can throughout the tournament.
• 45:33
  Drop us a message. Do you want me to?
• 45:34
  Yeah, of course, we'll. We'll give you result updates in
• 45:37
  our shows and what have you, and we'd love to do that.
• 45:39
  Yeah, to, to, to keep us in touch.
• 45:42
  So and I can lie. Can't I?
• 45:44
  Yeah. No, no.
• 45:45
  No, absolutely, absolutely. So yeah, I say wishing you all
• 45:49
  the best. Absolutely fantastic.
• 45:51
  So and dear, do keep in touch. Nice.
• 45:55
  Thank you very much. Thank you for your.
• 45:57
  Contribution. This evening, as always, it's
• 45:58
  been an amazing. Show tonight so it has been
• 46:00
  yeah, played a lot of cricket and just the opportunity to go
• 46:04
  out and do something like you're going to do is is just amazing
• 46:07
  and and if I'm right you speak so passionately passionately
• 46:10
  about it and really hope you have a great time and bring it
• 46:14
  home. Thanks, Nigel.
• 46:15
  Yeah. I certainly, yeah, certainly try
• 46:18
  brilliant good stuff. Good luck to Peter for sports
• 46:21
  tomorrow night. You'll be there, yes.
• 46:23
  Yeah, it's getting nervous now. The show is over.
• 46:25
  The football will be in the front of my head now.
• 46:27
  That's it. Get ready.
• 46:28
  For it and thank you for joining us as always, we totally value
• 46:33
  your support and the fact that you're listening.
• 46:35
  And like I said earlier, we have a quiz night in a couple of
• 46:38
  weeks time. Do get in touch if you want to
• 46:40
  enter a team of four and we'll see if we can make it happen for
• 46:43
  you. Other than that, have a
• 46:44
  fantastic weekend, whatever you're doing sporting wise, have
• 46:46
  a great week and we'll be back again.
• 46:49
  Same time, same place next week on the PCR Sports show.
• 46:51
  Bye for now.