The beginnings of T20 cricket, from a Cardiff pub

The Final Word Cricket Podcast · Sep 4, 2015 · 43m

Season 1, Ep 5: Partway through a busy Australian tour of England in 2015, it's time to take stock of the short format. We started in The Cricketers pub in Cardiff, recording with Melinda Farrell after the Women's Ashes had just finished with three T20s. Two new women's T20 competitions were soon to start in Australia's Big Bash and England's Super League. So we spoke about the start of men's professional T20s in 2003 with Paul Robertson, the man who led that charge. Then we dropped in on journalist Peter Miller to talk T20 evangelism and look at the upcoming 50-over series between Australia…