No Balls: England 'solving problems' & we actually get some emails!

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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.

See, you kids can listen.

And Grandma Jean.

First ball castled.

Now I'm celebrating for crossing. That one was for Crossy. That was a beautiful delivery. The wobble ball again from Kate Cross. And that is such an important wicket. Kate crossing for the hattrick ball. Oh, so wide.

Hello. I was going, I said, let's do it together. You don't know who it is.

Oh, okay. Three, two, one. Hello.

Hello and welcome back.

Welcome back to Nobles and Cricket podcast with me, Alex Hartley and you, Kate Cross.

We didn't know because it's been forever. Because we last recorded, I feel it was about three years ago.

Yeah.

Do you remember that Valentine's episode that we did? Do you remember it?

No, because it was way before Valentine's Day, but happy Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine. Happy Pancake Day, everyone. That not more people message me saying happy Pancake Day, because everyone knows it's my favorite holiday.

I know so much. So you messaged me and you two. Two days or two pancakes?

Two days.

Two days. Oh, I did know that cuz you text me and you're like, cuz why not?

Yeah, well, I text you saying how good being an adult, you don't have to wait for the holiday to come round. So I had Pancake Day and then Pancake Boxing Day, effectively.

Yeah. And how good is it that you're not really playing for England? So who cares?

Perfect. So good shout out to Matching because we've not managed to get. We had a bit of a shocker, didn't we? The video in the studio didn't work, so we didn't have anything to put out about Matching's episode and the Love Doctor. But he was so perfect for that role and he. We got some messages saying how good the episode was. So thank you, Martin Tendulke, for coming on and being a wonderful guest.

The Love Doctor.

The Love Doctor. I wonder if he's been allowed to book an Airbnb since then.

Well, that's true. I was gonna say, how was your Valentine's Day?

What did I do? Oh, I was with hen. Hen Two fingers for anyone playing the drinking game. We were in Copenhagen. We did a lot of walking. We went to the Carlsberg factory. That's what we did. Because I did not know that that's where Carlsberg originates from.

Okay.

And then hen got food poisoning that night. So that was perfect.

Yeah. You did message me and you were like, I'm having a lovely time, but hen's not.

I felt so sorry for them. So sorry for. It was like bad, bad. But anyway, we won't talk about that on the podcast. It's not fair. How was yours?

I worked. I did. What did we want? Island. O man.

Maybe the big one.

The big one. The one everybody wanted. I actually got back to a rose and I was like, oh my God, like, he's done something. I was like, this is really nice. So I messaged saying, thank you so much, my rose. And he put, hahaha. It wasn't me.

Oh, who was it? Do we know?

The hotel gave every room a rose.

Of course.

So then he came in the room like an hour after me because I got back early and he brought me the same bag that was on the door. It was like, happy Valentine's Day. I was like, you've just nicked that off next door.

Oh, no. Oh, dear.

Yeah, yeah. So that's okay.

Well, we hope everyone had lovely Valentine's Day. We've got Easter next, so that's good. It's mini egg season, like the perfect season, the best season. How have you been? What have you been up to. I feel like we've kind of boycotted this World cup because we had the Valentine's episode ready to go. We've not really done any cricket for a little bit.

I've been good and so has Karen. Karen being Karen on the end of my nose. Because she just wants.

This is the spot that you keep putting on Instagram. Yeah.

It's not. Do you know what? I just put it on thinking, like, you know, like, it'll be funny. I reckon I've had about a thousand messages being like, how's the spot? How's the spot? How's the spot? I can still see it. I can still see it.

That's. It is one of the biggest things I've ever seen. It's more like a boil than it is a spot.

I know. And it's one of those where, like, you have to pop it because it's a massive white head.

You can't leave it.

You can't leave it because everyone then thinks you don't shower and you're a bit grubby, so you pop it. And I've popped it that many times. I've now got a hole in my nose.

Yeah.

But when I shower, the scab comes off and it's still a white head.

You don't deserve that.

I know. My mum text me saying, you don't need any headlights leaving the ground tomorrow, do you? It's like, thanks, Mom.

Cheers, Mum. Nothing like your mum to make you feel better.

I know. She said, it's all the badness coming out of you. I was like, what do you mean?

Right. Let's not. Definitely not get into that.

But other than that, I am fan. Davidozy. I'm having the best time.

Good. You're still in Sri Lanka.

Still in Sri Lanka. We've moved from Colombo. Well, no one will know. Actually started in Colombo for the first 10 days of school and then now we're in Kandy. And then we're doing England's games now because England's got through to Super Eights. They're here. We're doing England's games and then go back to Colombo in a few days time.

I can't hear Candy without hearing then Robbie Williams's song. That can be.

I can't pick it up. I. I went to a guy called Candyman and got some rings made. So I can't listen to the thing going, Sweet sugar candy man.

No, that's not. This is the one I get. That goes through my head every time.

Does it? Yeah. So I'm in candy. Or as Dan introduced it on air the other day, Canada. Hello and welcome to the Palakali International

Cricket Stadium in Canada, Greenland's first game. Yeah, there's not been many World cup games played in Canada in this edition.

And I was like, on air and I had like. I was like.

Did he just. Did he just say Canada?

Did I. He said, welcome back to Canada.

Ah, yeah.

Had he been.

Had he been on the Y.

No, it was a game.

Does that stop the commentators

moving swiftly on?

How are you?

How have you been? What have you been up to?

Yeah, I'm good, thank you. We've just had a little deload week, which has been so welcome, so. Oh, my gosh. Since. Yeah, we won't have spoke about this on the pod, it's been announced that I've signed with Lanx. Obviously, people have probably guessed it or had guessed it, but I've been training with LANX since, like, January. So after Christmas, I came back in, started doing some cricket, and then it got announced last week, maybe. So officially, one more year. Hashtag, one more year.

Hashtag, we go again.

One more year. Scott Reed messaged me when it went out because Scott's our BBC lanks correspondent, and he was down in Southampton when we won the 50 overcomp last year. And he was like, are you gonna play another year? And I was like, I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't think so at this stage. I'm tired. And he messaged me as soon as the news came out, just with capital letters, One more year. So I was like, this is for you, Scott is for you.

Okay, so now we can talk about it. And I did actually accidentally mention it on the pod, which went out live, but it's fine. How are you finding it

different winter trainings? I don't. I'll probably sound a bit like a talking like this, but I've never done a full winter, and I've never had to be too far away from playing competitive cricket because obviously you just tour through the winter and play a lot. So, like, it got to maybe my third or fourth week of bowling, and I was like, okay, I'm ready now. I feel like I could play a game, not in terms of, like, workloads and stuff. I probably would break down and get injured. But I was like, okay, I feel like I'm in rhythm. And I was like, oh, we're three months away from our first fixture. What do I do now? Yeah, so, yeah, it's been a bit different.

Yeah. It's, it's a, it's an adjustment, isn't it? Because the next England tour is always just around the corner and your next tour is now still a block away.

Yep. And we're going on pre season tour next month, so we've got like three weeks till we go away. So there's, there's that to look forward to. But the other thing when you tour with England and play international cricket is generally you've only got three or four games in the tour and obviously when I wasn't playing T20 cricket for England, it would be like I'd drop in for three one dayers and then that'd kind of be the tour done up. However we've structured the tour, whereas now it's like, okay, in two months time I've got 38 games to get through.

How many?

38 and something like that. If you think of the hundred and the One Day cup and the FA cup and the T20 Blast, like, so I'm then like, whoa, this is really different to prepare for.

Is this where you go, I know I've been dropped from England, but I should get a pay rise.

I'm going to play more, I'm playing more cricket now. But it has, it's been really nice to be around Lancs consistently. I've really enjoyed that and I've loved like spending more time with some of the younger girls and getting to know them a bit more. Because naturally when you come back in, like, I've got my mates in the Lanks team that you gravitate towards, but I feel like it's been really nice to kind of get to know everyone in the hard bits of, you know, like winter. Pretty gruesome in a way. And like you see everyone cry. Yeah. You get to the track and you see a few people vomit and you're like, oh, okay, right, yeah, this is. Oh, it's like trauma bonding almost. Yeah.

You did message me the other day and you were like, two people have been sick, four people didn't finish the session and I split my pants. I was like, how tough could a running session be?

It was a bad day, really bad day. So, yeah, no, it's been. Like I said, it's just been different. But it's had its enjoyable moments. But I'm not, I'm really not convinced I'll be able to do another winter. And that's me talking in February, before the season's even started.

That's okay. That's okay. You are of an age where let's just Say you play the summer and you enjoy the summer. You necessarily wouldn't need to do the full winter. And I know what you're like and I know you'll say, well, I can't not give 100%. Like, well, you've earned, you've earned to be able to not give 100% and your is going to be different to everyone else's 100% now.

And I guess there's a world where I could just do like the blast or you know, maybe sign a contract that I don't know. This is the stuff where I'm like, in my head, it's 100% or nothing.

White gold specialist.

All right, Saki seat to any specialist. I've never got any games for England, but here she comes at the ripe old age. 39.

Perfect.

You and Glenn don't swap. But back to the original question. It's been good. It's been. So we had the deload week last week, which was nice. Did Copenhagen with ham, which was nice. And then just been trying to catch up on sleep because the body. Ooh, the body's feeling the six week block.

Yeah. You said to me, you were like, I don't know what's wrong with you, but I'm always tired. I was like, I think that's part of being an adult and it being

like dark depths of winter. It's February. It's the worst month, isn't it?

Well, yeah, it is actually the worst month.

Spring next month. I just drove back, actually drove back from Old Trafford from training and there's tulips on the roundabout so we're getting there. It's nearly spring.

Is it dark? Is it light? What time we are.

It's light now and it's. What time is it? 10 to 4. So that's good.

Okay. Okay. Well, I'm obviously lucky enough in the fact I've missed the whole winter.

Yep, perfect.

And I can't, I cannot, cannot wait to get home.

Oh, bless you. Have you got anything on your sticky note?

No. Check before.

I've got one thing and it's quite Cricket. Well, it's a big, big cricket thing actually. I learned a new rule because of this men's World Cup.

Oh, for goodness sake.

I didn't know and I think there'll be a lot of people out here, so if there is, please bump me up. Get in touch on social media and email us. I, I didn't know that the non striker could stand on the side of the stumps that the bowler's bowling from Yeah. I thought you always had to stand on the opposite side. So if I came over the wicket, the bat has to stand on, like round the wicket. I didn't realize. And then someone from the USA was just stood on the same side.

Yeah.

As the bowler didn't know he was

on the other wicket, wasn't he? So you've got to be like. You got to be out the way.

Out of the way. Yeah. I just never knew that. I've just never seen it. It's always been on the opposite side.

It's because people are always so polite. But I think people that don't do it don't do it because they like to. They prefer to turn a certain way, if that makes sense.

But would that not just depend on which way side the ball goes?

No. I don't know.

Well, it would because that's how you turn blind. No matter where you stand. No matter where you stand on the pitch.

Oh, well, the reason why people swap over now is the sand closer to the stumps for the LBWs to help their teammate out. So.

Well, you say that the reason that people do it now is if it was a massive fad that people never did it. It's never been seen before. This was the. The first time in my adult cricket in life that I've seen this happen.

It has been seen before.

Not often. It's not a common thing to stand on the same side because you were

like, oh, my God, I never knew this rule. I was like, what rule? You send me a picture. I was like, yeah, what's the rule?

Yeah. Never knew I on. I bet I'm not alone in this one. It's not like you and the sight screen. Oh, actually, you had a lot of people back you up on that one as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was on my sticky note. So there you go.

Yeah. No, every day is a school day. It's fair. What have I learned in this World Cup? I've learned so far that pre Super Eights, the games have been better than the Super Eights.

Agreed. I've loved this World Cup. I think it's been one of the best additions that I've seen.

So good. Yesterday we had England, Sri Lanka, crap game. Then we had South Africa, India, South Africa beating India. How good? Crap game. And then now we've got west indies just scored 250 against Zimbabwe.

Do you think there's an element of, like, fatigue coming in now?

Oh, good question. I think no. Do you know what I think it is? Everybody has a rubbish game in a Tournament and nobody's had one yet.

That's true. It has felt like I've not. I must admit I've watched enough because there's three games a day is brilliant. But I've watched enough of the tournament, but I've not watched it all. But it's felt like every game has been close or like been pushed to the. And normally you don't get that a lot in men's cricket. I don't know why it feels like you get that more so in the women's game. But yeah, it's felt like a really good, entertaining tournament.

It has been good. And the best thing for us is literally, I know it's an all day for you, but it's literally on all day for us as well. It's like, okay, we're doing the 3pm game. If we rush home, we can get back for the seven o' clock game.

Yeah, it's literally 9:30 in the morning here. 1:30. I think there's one before that as well.

5:30. There you go.

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So how's it been being over there? Because obviously you've been commentating on a lot of it and you've seen a lot of things.

Yeah, well, good, like, right, okay, so I did the Women's World cup into the ashes, into this. I thought, I'm gonna be so tired and so mentally, like, over cricket. I've had the best time.

Good.

Genuinely the best time. We did 10 games in 11 days. And I was like, that's gonna be really, really tough. Like nine days on the bounce. Day off, another, another day. But because the games have been like 3pm or 7pm, it felt like I had a day off on the 7pm Games, if that makes sense. I saw Mum and Dad. I, like, they came out on a holiday. Like, I've just had such an amazing time.

Now. Can you talk about the cricket?

Yeah, the cricket's been good.

Nice.

So we had all the games here in Columba, obviously. Pakistan, Oman, Ireland.

But did you have the Zimbabwe, Australia upset?

Yes, and we had the Australia, Sri Lanka upset, which that Was a great game. Crossy. We've not even spoken about Australia.

I know. Because you're talking about your mum and dad on holiday.

Yeah. Well cute. Well cute. So, yeah, we had the group that was, like. When you looked at it, it was like, set in stone that Australia would finish top. Sri Lanka second. Anyway, Zimbabwe finished top. They go through unbeaten. Sri Lanka finished second. Australia are out. Ireland are out. Amanda out. That's fine. We expected that with the bottom two, But Australia, mental.

They had the. They had the g. They had the bad game early, didn't they? So they had the bad game against Zimbabwe. Yeah. And then they had a. I don't think they had a particularly bad game against Sri Lanka, but I thought Sri Lanka had an excellent game.

Yeah. And then they played Ireland and obviously won in a game that Ireland were never expecting to win. Australia were always expecting to win. And they hammered Ireland, to be fair. And then it was just like, okay, we'll see what happens in the next game. And they. They lost to Zimbabwe, and it was utterly wild.

Yeah. But they've never beat Zimbabwe or they haven't beat Zimbabwe in a T20 game, World cup game for, like, 18 years or something. I know. They've only played them twice or something.

They played them twice and lost both.

Yeah. But it's. How funny. What a start.

I know. And then obviously, Zimbabwe are now in the Super Eights and getting hammered by West Indies as we speak.

But. But I think West Indies have got this game in them where they can score 250 against any attack. Like, they batted so well against England, didn't they?

West Indies and Zimbabwe, for me, are the only two teams that have actually shown up in this competition.

Yeah.

Like everyone else.

And I think Sri Lanka have had a good tournament.

Yeah. They didn't play well against England yesterday,

but they've had their bad game now.

They've had their bad game. And I think, like, those three teams are the three that have gone, okay, we'll play well, and everyone else has gone. We'll just get by. Yeah.

What it is about. I wonder what it is about World cup cricket where you have a bad game. Or is it our narrative as fans that if, like, in the Ashes, England had a few. Had a few bad games, and then they beat Australia. But I wonder if, like, it looks more like a bad game because it's tournament cricket.

Yeah.

I don't know. Do you know what I'm trying to say?

I think Also we expect 200 runs scored, don't we? Like, as fans who watch a Lot of cricket and a lot of franchise cricket, where we're used to seeing those scores and then you play on a wicket where it's a bit slower, it's a bit lower, there's more in it for the bowlers. Those, like, 150s look worse than they are.

Yeah. I've really enjoyed England in this tournament. I know they've not been like firework England, but I've loved them, like, feels like they're problem solving a little bit, which is sometimes what they don't necessarily get the credit for doing.

They are finding ways to win, aren't they? And I said this yesterday, like, on a tournament, cricket isn't about dominating, it's about finding ways to win and getting that winning momentum. Because if you win games, you find ways to win, and if you lose games, you often find ways to lose. Yeah, England are just finding ways to win.

And I think Harry made me laugh at one of Harry Brooks interviews, where it was early on, I think it was when they'd beat or lost to the West Indies, and he was like, thank God we've beaten a pole now, because that would have put us in a tricky situation. And you know what Harry's like. He just says what's on his mind. It's really honest. But that's almost tournament cricket, summed up, because it is that. It's like, thank God we beat them in that position, because now we've given ourselves a better chance to get through, which is actually all that matters.

Yeah. It's also so different as well, like, going from India to Sri Lanka. So Sri Lanka have got the two biggest grounds in Colombo and actually probably the third biggest ground here. I don't actually know how big candy is. Sweet sugar candy, man. Don't know how big it is. But India, the grounds are so small. Postage stamps. The wickets don't turn, they're flat. And then you come to Sri Lanka and they turn. They don't really bounce as much. There's more in it for a bowler. So for a team for England in particular, that have played their games in India and then had to come over here to adapt, I think they did pretty well.

The other day, did you see Joss Butler got some stick off someone on Twitter for doing his podcast? And someone tweeted, I can't think who it was, saying, I'm not sure how I feel about someone doing a podcast. Mid World cup, were you like, why always stopped? No, I was like, I'm going to minute this lad who's clearly, like, out of form. Yeah. Giving us an insight into how he's feeling, what he's going through, what his thought processes are, when it's tough because it's so easy to do the interviews when it's going well, which is like, incredible. And he's still getting stick for it. I'm like, what do you want? You can't do right for doing wrong.

You want the inside info and then you get it and you don't want it.

It's mad. Mad, yeah.

Apart from cricket, anything else for us?

I think we've got a few emails, which feels unusual. Whoa.

Who are we going upstairs with?

I don't know. Who's been umpiring at these, this World

cup, so can I before we go upstairs? My brother started a new job today and he listens to the pod. He works in the police.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, well, cool. I'm so happy. I'm so excited to see how his first day was.

Good work, Will.

Yes.

Right, emails. Who we going upstairs with?

Do you know what? We can't beat Kumar, can we? Because I love his little Instagram pictures.

Fun for anyone. Anyone that doesn't follow Kumar Sangakar on Instagram. Go and get that man followed.

Suma Kangakar. Suma Kumar. Sorry, Kumar Sangakara's the cricketer.

Oh, Kumar Damasina. That was it. Sorry. Kumar Sangakara. Kumar Dharma Sina. You need to follow him on Instagram. He's such a good follower and he's got his own perfume range.

He has, and I really want to smell it, but then I don't want to get too close to him and be like, I wonder.

Yeah. Do you think. Do you think he wears his own?

Has to hasta.

We need to get him on as a guest.

Okay.

But we. Kumar. Hi, Kate and Alex. From a long term listener down under, I hope you well. I was watching the World cup the other day when someone on Fox Sport briefly referred to Nambia before correcting themselves. I immediately got a flashback to the early days of nobles Pre BBC, I believe in the era of Chelsea Zoo LBWs. Lower. Oh my God, what a throwback lower is. And peaks and troughs of the week. Vintage stuff. And at the start of each match, I'm willing someone to say Toynkos. But sadly it hasn't happened yet. Take cake, Steve. P.S. when Alex and Steve Finn were on the comms during the COVID Men's Ashes tour, it was gold. Some of the best TMS I've ever heard. Bring it back.

Do you know what I feel like everything we used to do Used to be so much fun.

I know. I think it was because we didn't get edited out. When you make mistakes, we wouldn't edit them out. For anyone that doesn't know lower, that was a highlight, wasn't it? That was you reading out some person was from Iowa and their I was obviously a capital I and you were like, I've never heard of loa. When's lower?

I don't know what was better. That other manhole episode.

The manhole is good if you can go back and find these, because they are gold.

Anyway, I do love a toy coss.

Toy coss.

So good. Hello and welcome to the toy coss. Oh, no, I've done it again.

I've done it again. Done it again.

Yeah. Anyway, who is that from? Steve. Take cake.

That was from Steve. Take cake.

Do you think Steve's dyslexic as well, or do you think he's purposely misspelling things?

No, he's done that on purpose. I think that's the irony of that bit.

Yeah. Hi, Alex and Kate. So Alex's boyfriend is a cricketer at the World cup, but not for England. For her sake, I hope it's not Mitch Marsh.

Hey, we need to get Mitch on now. No balls.

Yeah, Keep up the good work. Playing, coaching, commentating, and making the podcast. Bernie, I'll tell you what, the amount of people that messaged me trying to guess who it was was hilarious.

Has anyone got it right?

No one's got it right. I even put him on my Instagram story and someone said, I thought you said your boyfriend was playing in the World Cup. Who is this?

Looky. You did soft launch slash hard launching. But, like, different angles of different body parts, which I was like, what on earth are you doing? Just put a pitch up of the bloke.

No funny.

Dear Kate and Alex, we've had a women's softball cricket team in our at our club for three years now. And this year, we're launching our first women's 11 squad and playing in a hardwood league for the first time. What advice do you have for us? But not about our game, about the other stuff. I'm talking about the stuff that no one tells you about, the stuff that you won't find written anywhere. Like, wear your biggest pants or don't get the Velcro on your thigh. Gardener. Your bikini line. That kind of invaluable advice that you only get from years of playing Spill love the pod from Fiona.

Right, Fiona, if you're wearing skins, do not. Do not wear a thong because Your asshole will chafe. That's what you learn.

Mine doesn't, but. Yep.

You don't wear a thong, though. You don't wear any pants.

I do.

Have you gone back to the thong?

Yeah.

Why did you go back to the. See, this is the conversation. Why did you go back to the thong?

Because I found a better thong, basically. Like a sporty one that doesn't chafe or rub.

So maybe I was wearing like, lacy ones.

Oh, gosh. Do not wear that. Don't wear lacy underwear to play cricket.

I was wearing, like, my Handsomers special. You know, England versus India, third odi.

They were not Ann Summers. They were Bow Avenue and you know it.

You couldn't afford Ann Summers.

What would be my no one tells you advice? I don't think your thigh guard near your bikini line's an issue. Unless it's been a while, in which case look after yourself a bit more.

Different women of different ages. Some people have a bush.

Okay. Actually, my genuine advice would be always have spare skins, spare underwear and spare sports bra in your bag. Because there's been so many, or there was so many times where I was like, oh, God, I feel grim and I've sweated because I've bald and I just want to feel clean and, you know, like, shower mid game or whatever. That would be my advice.

Okay. Never did that.

And socks. Spare socks. Always a good one.

You say spare socks. I'd probably wear mine for two games in a row. I just give him the. Yeah.

Remember when you were saying people don't think that you wash because you've got a spot on your nose?

Hi, Al and Crossy. Quick question. Some podcasts do live shows and tours across the country. I know you're both mega busy, but is it something you'd ever think of doing? I imagine it would be funny with good cricket banter. Cheers, Ryan.

We've dipped our toe, haven't we? We did a few ashes 20, 23. And we did. We did another. Do we do another one?

No, they were all. They were during the Ashes because we weren't allowed to Taunton during the Ashes as well. Problem is we got your dad as a guest.

Oh, God. Yeah. That was live on the radio as well.

We're live on the radio and he had to be emergency taken off his emergency exited.

Oh, God. That was such a low light of the whole podcast. That was a real low light.

I had second hand embarrassment. Well, that's quite funny.

Well, we do keep. We always talk about it. It's just getting the time to do it. Isn't it? I think while I'm still playing cricket, it's borderline impossible, but I would. I do think we could do a little arena tour. Not arena, a little cricket library tour.

Yeah, well, crossing the podcast is impossible while you're playing cricket.

It's not impossible.

We make it work. We do make it work. That's all our emails.

That is all our emails. Thanks for getting in touch, though. It's nice to have emails again. So, Ryan, Fiona, Bernie and Steve, you get all the points this week.

You get a high five.

Nice. So what have you got next? End of Super Eights and then into

the finals, semi finals and finals, wherever they may be. We don't know where they are yet because if Pakistan qualify, they're obviously in Sri Lanka. If they don't qualify, all the semi finals and finals will go to India. We've got two remaining England games. One tomorrow, today, yesterday, tomorrow, whenever. Yeah. And then one on Friday. God, I'm good. And then. Yeah, we see.

Nice. Exciting. Well, good luck to England. I feel like. Come on, the boys, that'd be lovely. If they could pick a nice trophy up on the way would be good.

Can't lie, we're all Pakistan fans because we want Pakistan to get through so we can stay in Colombo.

Okay. But that still means that England can qualify and win.

Yeah, yeah. England can get to England. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nice. Okay, good.

Yeah.

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