No Balls: EMERGENCY - Crossy’s won The Hundred!

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Al, we've got to issue a swear warning because you are an absolute potty mouth.

Not another one.

And you need to remember that your grandma listens to this.

She does. She also abuses me on social media.

But don't worry, we beep it out.

So your kids can listen.

And Grandma Jean Cross comes in round the wicket. Oh, that's Boulder. Boulder. Leaving a ball alone. Litchfield.

I think it's the wobble ball. And it just nips back. It jagged back. It's the nip backer. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty from Cross.

Hello and welcome back to Nobles, the emergency cricket podcast, with me, Kate Cross and you, Alex Hartley. Hello.

With you, champion of the hundred. Where's your medal? You're in your house. Where is your medal? Get that thing?

We put it in a box, didn't we?

Yeah, we put it away. We did put it away. I know you've got. Have you got neck ache today from Carry it?

How good's that?

So good.

So, fine, I'll put it on.

Fine, fine, fine. Yes, look at that.

Also, I'm making no apologies for the fact that I'm basically horizontal for this episode.

Yeah, you are. You are completely, completely lying down.

I'm. I'm. I'm a bit. I'm perched for anyone that can't see me because obviously it's podcast. I'm just like, on. You know, like how people sit on a shea long. A bit like that.

Yeah. Like paint me like one of your French girls.

Just a bit half up, half down.

Gross. Eve, you won the hundred.

We won the 100. Oh, my God, Al. It was just, honestly, the best day. Like, I've had a thousand text messages and Instagrams and stuff, and I've started replying to them all and all I'm saying back is, like, how much fun I had and what a great day it was.

It's not only, like, how much fun you had yesterday, it's how much fun you've had the whole tournament.

Yeah, it has been great. The 100's always great. We've always said it, haven't we? And I remember three years ago, when I got shipped off across the Pennines to the superchargers, you said to me, the hundred is the hundred wherever you play, so don't worry about that. And that's always the case. But this has been great. We've been winning, which always helps, but it has just been such a fun month.

We've also, like, in the last three years, found yourself a new little home and new little set of friends and, like, you were ball gelled so much. Like, I'm so, so pleased you've won.

I know, it was so good. And do you know what? I think? I. I don't know, I find it quite weird how you can make such a home in a rival's dressing room. Like, it probably goes to show how, like, nice and environment women's cricket is in domestically and stuff, but it has just been great. And I'm so sad. I'm so sad that I'm not with the girls today. Like, everyone's just. Just dispersed and gone home. And we're not, like, we should have booked something in, like, a pub lunch or something today, but we all, all have domestic cricket on Thursday, so we've all had to disappear.

That's actually really sad, isn't it? It's like, okay, sad. Yeah, we won last night, we celebrated and see ya.

That's literally it. Like, I. I didn't say bye to half the staff because they didn't come out out with us. But we had an amazing day at Lords. Obviously, the benefit of playing the first game is that you then stay for the men's game. And not gonna lie, I didn't watch a ball of it. In fact, no, I did watch one ball and I sadly remembered which ball it was when I was with the cricketer that involved.

So let me guess, you told him.

I sat talking to Sam Hay and I was like, was it you that got run out and that Was the only ball that I watched of the men's game.

Oh, Crossy.

But it's just so good. Just sat in the dressing room, like, did our fines meeting. That took about an hour, actually, because everyone says stupid things.

I wanna. I wanna root. Before we get into the nitty gritty of yesterday, Crossy, we have to talk about you texting me the morning of the Eliminator saying you've got a really bad feeling.

I don't know how we're gonna digest this whole weekend, actually, because it's not just about yesterday. Like, it does feel like we've had such a memorable weekend. And I feel really sorry for DAV because she obviously had that unbelievable day on Saturday that is career changing, probably life altering for her. And she's had 12 hours to digest it before she's had to turn it all around and. And try and do it again. And I thought she was brilliant yesterday in the final, actually. I thought it could easily have had first ball duck written all over it. But, yeah, I did have a bad feeling and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I've not had any feelings about any of the games of cricket this summer, but that was the one. I was just like, oh, something doesn't feel right.

Something's not quite right. Anyway. It wasn't. It wasn't. The feeling wasn't for you, it was for the men.

Yeah, we said that, didn't we? We said, oh, probably because the forecast was a bit iffy and then the men didn't get to play, which was. Was a shame. But obviously everyone. Everyone knows the rules.

Do you think Dad's innings for the Eliminator was potentially the best you've seen in 100? Easily.

Oh, easily in the 100. Completely easily in the hundred right up there. Four. Four innings in my mind, stick out. And they've been games that I've played in. One of them was Meg Lanning at Chelmsford in 2019, I think it was, when she got about 140 off not many balls. And that was a day where I was like, wow, this is obviously very hard to bowl at, but, like, we're watching something very special. The other two are in the World cup final of 2022. When Healey got that 150 and then Nat followed it over 140. They were two innings that I was like, wow. To produce those in World cup finals is, again, very special. Yeah. And then Dabs. But Dabs was different because she's 18. That'll never. She's. Yeah. She's 18. It's an eliminator. She's. She's had a good tournament. She's, like, done her role at the top of the order for us. She's had 150, but she's not been, like, in form. So it was like, when. As soon as she hit that six off. Was it Eva Gray, the one that she just picked up?

That.

That was the one where I was like, wow, this. Like, we could see something amazing here. But she was. I. I just remember being like. My jaw being on the floor being like, it's not ending. It's not. She's gone again.

Wow.

That's bigger.

The way she was striking the ball was like, I've never seen it before. So Deandra dotting got a 38 ball hundred in 2010. And that was amazing. Harry Brooke had a 41 ball hundred in the hundred. So she's only one ball off that.

Did you. Did you see that? She said that she needs to get in the gym, take the sixes further. I was like, but that'd give you.

The same score off the same. You actually just needed to face one less dot. I wonder how many dot balls she had.

Do you know?

42.

She. It took her 17 balls to get her second 50. I know that.

Just incredible.

Do you know who deserves a shout out, though? And we did really, really speak about this in the dressing room afterwards. But ADRs role in that innings was so important because she was in the partnership of 75. She was three off six or something. It was crazy.

Yeah. Daz had faced 20, 22 balls of the power play or something like that. Like, it was just mental.

Yeah. And then all ADR knew to do was to just get off strike because dad was on. Like, that's what you say, didn't you just. If someone's on, get him on strike. And she did that perfectly. And then I think ADR realized how good a pitch it was and was like, right, I want some of this. And then. And then obviously lich just did lich things. She's been so, so, so consistent for us this summer. Belzy gets not many runs, which is unusual. Holly gets a first bowler, and then Nick Carey goes in and hits Grace Harris for 22 or five balls. And it's like. But that got us over the two. So I was padded up to going next and Lisa was sat next to me. She said, like, there's 10 balls left. We had 181, I think. So she was like, even a run of ball here gets us to 191, which is a good, good total on this pitch. And then we got 214.

That was incredible. Like, incredible. Take me inside the dressing room because you've obviously won that game at the halfway stage, like it would have you say that.

I didn't, I didn't.

Crossy.

Oh, yeah, I don't really. I know you've rolled your eyes, but.

200.

214. But. But if anyone was going to do it was going to be Grace Harris and it was going to be on that pitch.

Yeah. And I understand that, and I do understand that, but the chances of her coming off were very, very slim. They did the right thing putting her at the top of the order because that's the only way they were going to win that game.

Yeah. One of our coaches actually said, like, I wonder if they, after that set of five, whether they shouldn't have opened with her to just actually give her a bit of space to maybe put her at three, to maybe just, you know, even just get five balls to just write, okay, settle down.

Anyway, you win the game. I want to know what, what it's like in the dressing room knowing you're playing a final. The next day.

It was actually quite calm. Obviously everyone was so pleased with the result and everyone was just so, so not over what David just done. But we have a little award that we had, so we've got a team song. We signed the team song. We got a little award that's a little purple duck that goes to like the MVP player and it doesn't have to be whoever's won the, like, Match hero award.

It's not. That's not one of those. Picked up in a bar last year.

No, no, no. It's a bit bigger than that. A bit bigger than that. Yeah. But Belzy, Annabelle Sutherland did this really lovely speech where she just summarized the whole game and gave everyone the shout outs that they needed to. And even for us to take nine wickets on that pitch felt like. I know, I know. The team, the spirit were going to have to go after the score. So it was going to create more opportunities, but even to take the nine wickets felt like a, A little win. So Belzy did that and then Holly obviously just. And Lisa just spoke about how you've got 24 hours. Well, less than that, to turn it around and, and back it up and try and go again. So it was just all about doing the right things from there. So we stayed and watched the men for a little bit and then it rained, obviously for the men. So everyone everyone's probably in bed by half 10, 11. But it's the sleep, isn't it, that.

You can't switch off?

So I was just replaying Dazzling because in my head, I didn't get to sleep till about 2 o'.

Clock. That was so good, wasn't it? And then you turn up towards the next day, Perry's dancing, she's on the outfield, and you're like, we need to warm up.

Yeah, Perry's warming up. Did you hear what happened before we got there, though? So apparently there's been a really bad road traffic incident, which meant that a helicopter needed to land on the nursery ground so that they could airlift the passenger to hospital. So then everyone's preparation got completely changed because no one was allowed to go and have hits, obviously, on the outfield on the nursery ground. Sorry. So that kind of threw over on a little bit, but I think in a way that was really good because it. It almost switched people. Not didn't switch people off, but it made them think a little bit differently. And I think that was a really good thing.

Yeah. Yeah. It was almost like a. Not a distraction because it's almost like, okay, that is what it is. That's an emergency. There's nothing we can do.

Yeah. And almost like that's real life. Like, someone's obviously really hurt themselves and whatever goes on today probably really doesn't actually matter in the grand scheme of things, but. And it kept the group together a little bit longer as well because we then all went upstairs into the dining room and had food together. And normally, like, the batters are on and off and having the hit, so. But no, that was. Obviously Perry then was warming up, so we weren't allowed to do some of the bits and pieces. But then you're playing in a final at Lord's, like, it was amazing.

You find a way to get up for it, don't you?

Yeah, I actually think in 2020, when did we play the final 23? Played against Brave, didn't we? We had the Eliminator against you the day before and it rained and we got through. And I really. I remember struggling because I never, like, got to the finish of that game. So you never got the, like, disappointment of losing or the jubilation of winning. You never got the adrenaline rush finish from it. So I actually think us playing and completing the game in the Eliminator was a really big part of us going on to win Yesterday, because in 2023 we got three key wickets in the power play early. And I remember Us being high as kites. We were flying around, chasing Gracie Ballinger around when she got Smriti out. And then I remember we like, kind of nose dived a little bit with our energy and our adrenaline. So I actually think we were able to stay a lot more level yesterday for the whole of the day.

Yeah. And bowling first after 50 balls, you were so on top. And I know Freya Kemp came In, she got 26 off 20 balls or something. Like, she started biting really nicely. But as soon as you got her out, you would. It was like, you are winning this.

Yeah. I remember thinking, with about 15 balls to go, it might have been 20. We got a wicket. Can't remember who we got out, but I remember saying to the girls, there's 19 balls left now. Like, this is actually the moment where it really matters. Because if they go and get 30 or 40 now, that's. Again, the momentum completely shifts. Because I felt like the first innings, the momentum did keep shifting, didn't it? It was like, not much happened. Then we took a few wickets, then they got a little partnership, then Belzy got Danny out, then Kempe came in and built a partnership again. So it kind of like, ebbed and flowed all the way through the first innings, I thought.

I think if you. If you ever watch it back, you'll realize just how on top you were, honestly.

Really?

Yeah. If you ever watch it back, they were going at a run, a ball. They didn't look like they were going to get 115 on the board. They did well to do that, like, because Maddie came and smacked a few boundaries. It looked like they were going to finish on, like, 95.

That's so interesting how you feel different when you're involved in it again. Obviously, we chased it down, three down, but there was so many nerves in the. In the dugout, just because it's a final and you're so desperate to win. But then when you look at the scorecard, you're like, oh, we've won by seven wickets. It was quite comfortable.

Yeah. Yeah. I want to talk about your tournament because you have had an incredible tournament. We were looking. We've taken 15 wickets.

I have had two extra games, though.

Stop with the humbleness. Stop with the humbleness. You've got the most power player wickets. You and Marzan cap right at the top, but you've just. You've smashed it. Genuinely smashed it.

I actually, I've loved it, though, and I think we always talk about that on this podcast, don't we? Any kids ask us for advice it's make sure you keep enjoying it, that's the main thing. And obviously I've probably not enjoyed my cricket as much this summer for obvious reasons, but I always know how much I love the environment with the supercharger. And I think Holly brings the best out of me. I think she brings out the best out of everyone. She's said it to you on that interview yesterday. She'll go so unnoticed for how much. She is able to bring a group of 15 players together and make everyone have the best time and yeah, all be aligned to one goal. Like, it obviously can't speak for them, but I would imagine even the four girls who didn't get a game probably had a great month.

Yeah, it looked like they did last night.

Everyone had a great night last night. But, yeah, I've enjoyed it and I think we spoke about it, didn't we? But I had a tiny little bit of technical stuff that I did right at the beginning of the tournament and it feels like it's really helped me out and helped me get a little bit that movement back that I'm probably more known for. So it was just nice. Like, I've loved. I love this team, I love contributing.

To it, but what is it about this team you've played for? So, like, I'm not saying he's played for so many teams that makes you sound like a cricket. Like you, you have played for a lot of teams, but there is something about you playing for the Superchargers that always, always makes you smile. I don't.

I can't even. We have fun like that, but I don't know why it feels different to anything else. Maybe because we're so clued into what our roles are and I was talking to you about this on the train. Like, obviously I've been quite stressed the last month, but when I got out on the cricket field, I just know what I'm going to deliver. I know what Holly wants me to do. I know if it doesn't go well, what my plan B looks like and I know if Deandra Dotting gets going that I'm going to go to this plant. Like, I think there's just so much clarity around what everyone does. And then I think we had batters in form, we had bowlers who bowled well. So you never necessarily needed the sixth, the sixth bowler. Like, we only bowled Lucy if a left hander was in. So it was very tactical. So I think there's just an element of calmness when you're playing as well. There's no. Even in the 100 when it is chaotic, it never feels like that when Holly's in charge.

I think there's something about Holly Armitage. There is something about her and what she does and what she does to teams. Because I personally, in my opinion, I think she's the best captain in the country. But, like, she, like, you make a mistake and she's laughing. You do something and she's smiling and she's running up to you and she's like. You can tell she's just cracking a joke, but then she'll talk to you seriously about cricket. I think the way she manages people from the outside, I don't know, there's something about her.

She's. She doesn't change. She is the exact same Holly on the cricket field as what you'd get on the bus, as what you'd get on the night out, as what you'd get for the coffee in the morning at breakfast. And she's exactly the same. And obviously I completely agree with you. I think she's one of the best captains I've played under. But she's also so calm in those moments of. So there's a really good example of it yesterday where Gracie B got hit for two fours in her. She followed her first set of five and did the 10 straight through. She got hit for two fours and she's gone over to Grace and said, should we do this? And Grace was just so honest, she said, no, I just think they were two really poor balls. And she's like, right, perfect, go back and execute, then go back to plan A. Yeah, just. Just calm. And I think that, like, breeds calmness with the bowlers as well.

Yeah, there's no panic. There's no panic. Anyway, you've won the hundred.

We've won the hundred. Honestly, though, I don't know how to show people how heavy this medal is. Maybe if I bang it on the microphone.

No, no, no. I can tell you. Oh, my God. I can tell you how heavy it is. Kosi. So.

Oh, I know this story.

So. Right. I want to just say a quick note. This is how much the Northern Superchargers are a gem of a team. Like a genuine gem of a team. I've obviously done the post match interviews yesterday and then it's like, right, okay, See the Chargers, give them all a hug and say, like, good luck. Well, sorry, well done. Enjoy your night. Every single one of your teammates invited me. One to the team room and two on the night out. Every single one. Like, just genuinely nice people.

What did someone call us the other day? The Super Swillers. Which we're not, obviously.

Well, I thought you meant me and you, then. You were the Super Swillers. Right, the story of the medal.

Yeah.

So Holly Armitage, the captain, is like. She's like, it's so heavy, I can swing it around my neck. And I reckon I could do it, like, 20 times. So she's, like, gone to swing this medal around the neck. And I just stood with her, like, next to her, holding my glass, and it's full to the brim. You've just bought it. It's literally like. You know when you've got to, like, go really close and sip it because it's that full, she knocks it with a medal. She doesn't touch any part of my body, just the glass and it's shattered, like, absolutely shattered.

I remember getting wet on my leg and I was like, what's that? And then I turn around and you just stood there holding half a cup.

Just happened. Turn around and all these medals dangling off her shoulder. And she's like, it's quite heavy, actually.

She. So she started doing that in the dressing room. She's like, it's well heavy. I bet I can swing it around my neck. So I was like. And she started doing it. I was like, stop. Stop that. Now that looks really dangerous. And anyway, then this morning, I caught up with her before she got the bus back up to Headingley and she went, oh, crossy. I knocked a drink out of Al's hand. I was like, yeah. No, I didn't know it was because you're metal swinging, though. And then she went. And I hit myself on the head with it. I've got a right lump on my back. So she's got this massive lump on her head here because it flew up in here on the head.

Well, she said. She was like, oh, I'm so sorry. I'll get you another drink. But you should be grateful it wasn't your teeth. I mean, yeah, if you want to do it like that.

She is. She's brilliant and she. She. Yeah, she just brings the team together. It's just. She creates fun and it. Nothing feels pressure. And that's, like, such an incredible ability to have when you're leading a group of people, because she will feel pressure and she.

I feel like we should probably speak to her.

Should we get her on?

We actually should. I want to get DAV on, obviously, and I want to get Holly on because just the way she's gone about the last few Years. I want to know what she acts, actually feels and thinks, Ollie.

She's like. But she's carrying the big H. She's like, h for Holly.

H for Holly. The way she carried that trophy, like, it was the lightest thing in the world. It's like so heavy.

So heavy. Literally, so heavy.

Oh, no. Crossy, like, genuinely, a great night. Well, it was all right, actually. I'm not gonna lie. It was an alright night. But I just. I nearly cried when I was running over to interview you because I'm just so proud of you, like, genuinely, that's.

You caught me at the moment where I just had a little tear in my eye because I'd hugged Phoebe Graham on the pitch. Obviously, we ran on. We celebrated in the dugout. Ran on, hugged Belzy and Nick. Nick, by the way, just completely gone under the radar here, but had an unbelievable tournament to say that she's come from pre season, hadn't played any cricket anyway. So, yeah, I'd then sort seeing Phoebe and I'm really good friends with Phoebe's and she was playing for the Southern Brave, but hadn't got a game in the tournament. And she just gave me this massive heartfelt hug and it was like that. It just got me going and I just had these tears in my eyes. And then the cameras come on to you and you're like, no, I don't want to cry. And then you grabbed me and I was like, okay, I'm gonna cry in the BBC. Cheers.

Yeah, someone did tweet saying, we saw you cry on the telly, but proud of you. I am. I am. I think to get the news that you got halfway through the hundred and for you to have still managed to enjoy it, still managed to play with a smile on your face, you've won another trophy this summer, you said.

Yeah, like the FA cup in the hundred now.

Yeah, you.

And we've got one left to go.

England don't know what they're missing. Crossy, you're a winner.

Thank you, Alex.

When you're on, you're on.

I. Obviously we've got like four games to go back and play now for the. For the Metro bank. And they're 50 over cricket. And I was trying to comprehend. I got, I got, I got. Got a taxi with Grace Ballinger to the. To the train station this morning. And as I got out, I was like, good luck bowling your 60 balls on on Thursday, Grace. Like, compared to the 20 that you have to bowl in the 100, it's so going to be so grim.

Well, to put anyone in context of how hard it can be to go from 100 cricket to metro Bank, I retired.

Yeah, you did, didn't you? This is what killed you off.

Yeah. I didn't come back. The thought of going back and doing fine leg to fine leg for 50 overs, put a knife in it.

You were half gone before then, to be fair. You couldn't throw, could you? Your shoulder was gone.

No, I'm mentally cooked.

Do you know what yesterday did make me realize, though, and I don't know why it's taken this long to realize, is that there's still so many great days to be had in cricket. Like, obviously there's so many crap ones, but. But yesterday was up there as one of my, like, top five in my career. And it wasn't for England, it wasn't a World Cup. It was just a great group of people playing great cricket at the home of cricket in front of 22, nearly 23,000 people. And it was just like. That's the thing I probably need to remember over the next couple of weeks.

Yesterday is why you play the game.

Yeah.

For those moments. And as you say, there's still so many more opportunities for those moments.

Yeah.

Crossy, I'm so proud of you.

I'm not sure Beckingham on Sunday is going to feel the same.

Yeah, no, that might be slightly different. Might be slightly different. Right. Crossing.

Alex has emailed us. Is it you?

Yeah, we were.

A couple of questions have popped into my mind. I was hoping you could help me with. To Kate Cross, specifically, you seem to bowl with a towel tucked into your back pocket. Isn't it a risk of falling out or do you use clothes pegs to pin it in place? No, I don't. Don't take any clothes pegs out on the pitch with me.

Tuck it in your waistband, aren't you?

Yeah. It is a risk, it falling out, but I get really sweaty hands, so I try and like, wipe my hands before I touch the ball to bowl it. So that's why I often have a towel there. But it fell out, actually. Was it yesterday? It's eliminator. Yeah. If you bowl it, if it falls out, when you bowl it and you get a wicket, then it's cut. It can be a dead ball, but if the batter just carries on and it's happy, then it just plays as a ball. Alexander says to both of you, when batting, that's always a dangerous start to a question. When batting, do you prefer a gloved fist bump or a bat tap? I'm Seeing far more of the latter this year.

I think the bat tap's quite sexy.

It's got more sexy, hasn't it? I wouldn't say it's sexy, but it's got better. I remember when it first started, I was like, oh, no, don't like that.

But like, think Annabelle Sullan hits that lovely straight six at Henley and then taps her back with a mitt. Put that on her feet.

Yeah. And also, you don't then have to go onto the same side as your partner, so you just reach the bat across.

Yeah. No, If I was to be a batter, I'd be a bat tapper, but knowing my partner, they'd be a fist pumper and we'd get confused.

You'd get mixed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

David has emailed us and that could be my dad. Dear Alex and Kate, second time emailer, long time listener. Well done on keeping us entertained during the hundred. And well done, Kate, on being on the winning team, you questioned why the male. What?

Oh, appendage, then. Ah, ah.

The Hampton.

Ah. Ah. Yeah.

You question why a willy was referred to as a Hampton.

Derivation comes from the cockney rhyming slang and a suburb of southwest London. Hampton Wick. Enough said. Keep up the pod. Best wishes, David. Do you reckon it was my dad?

Probably.

It's probably my dad.

Yeah. Yeah.

Riley is what? Scepters. Which is nice because you can WhatsApp us now. We'll do the numbers in a minute. Hi, Alex and Kate. I recently visited Heavenly to watch Kate play and I had a great time and somehow after the game saw the only Alex Hartley in the car park. So I was wondering, have either of you ever met someone famous in a random place, eg, a car park?

That's good, that's good. I once said hello to Gary Lineker because I thought I knew him. And then it was after he walked past I realized I didn't know him. I just know him off the telly.

Do you remember when you met who you thought was Steve Bryden? Oh, no, it was Hugh Grant. Didn't you?

I thought I met Hugh Grant on the train. It wasn't. It was Steve Brydon or whatever it's.

Called, and you were adamant it was.

I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm on the train with Hugh Grant.

And you, like, still both famous, though.

Hugh Grant doesn't get the train.

They're still both famous, though.

Yeah.

I bumped into Gorka from Street. They come dancing in a coffee shop last week in London. That was cool.

Nice, Nice.

Didn't say hi to him because obviously was too nervous. Yeah.

Chris.

Hoy.

I've bumped into the coffee shop here.

Nice. That's a good. He's very famous.

He's so famous. But there's always famous people at the BBC going into the BBC buildings.

You just got to interview Perrie Edwards yesterday. That's pretty cool.

She's well famous. I can't believe that we've just spoken about your day, not about mine. Yeah, I interviewed Perrie Edwards.

You actually said to me on the train that you didn't have a ball off until the 50th ball of the men's second innings or something.

Yeah. So I do a 50 ball in two in the men's innings. Well, both innings. But yeah, after that I get. Finally got time off. I was absolutely cooked.

Bless you. And then you go again. One day, cricket starts for the boys.

Yeah. Jack's producing that one. And I did have to say, you're gonna have to remind me, there's a high chance I'll forget.

There is a really good chance you'll forget. And you'll also be like, oh, this is so boring. It's going on so long.

Oh, my God. 50 over cricket.

I was joking with the girls before we left because obviously we'll play against them all in the. In the coming weeks and I was like, should we all just make them 20 over games?

Yeah. Nice. Yeah.

But that is obviously not allowed.

Yeah. Probably match fixing and didn't get spoken about. You just lying.

Yeah. No.

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I've just remembered an image of you last night.

Oh, no.

Bopping around the dance floor in an overly Invincibles cap backwards and a pair of sunglasses and your kit and your medal and you just looked like a right diva.

Didn't you take a picture?

No, no, someone did.

I think ADR might have done that was I owe an public apology to Saqib Mahmood because it was his hat. He put it on me, put it on back to front and his glasses. And then I went over to show off in front of the girls and then Holly Armitage was like, you look like a right idiot. Whipped the hat off and just threw it.

Oh, no.

So Saki text me this morning, he was like, I'm still annoyed you lost my hat. We don't. We didn't know where it went.

Oh, it's disappeared.

Disappeared.

Oh, no, that is a nice. They're nice hats.

So I was like, I'll go to the club shop and get you a new one. I'm sorry, mate.

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