No Balls: Watt's this? Scotland at the T20 World Cup?

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Hello, and welcome back to no Balls of Cricket podcast with me, Kate Cross and you, Alex Hartley. Hello, my darling.

Hello. We are no longer together and in the studio.

That lasted long, didn't it?

Yeah, we. We managed to bash out two or three episodes together.

Yep. And we can't see them because we were in the fancy studio and the videos weren't bloody working.

I know. Now I'm in my pajamas in Sri Lanka getting ready for tea and this video.

I'm in a store cupboard. I'm in a store cupboard at the minute at Old Trafford because we're getting the dressing rooms renovated and everything's just been put in the umpire's room. So here we are.

Yeah. You've just had to Tell Jack Blatherwick to shut up.

Yeah, Jack Blatherwick and Luke Wells were just playing darts behind me, but they've gone now, so that's their appearance for you. Gone.

Yeah. How are you, my dear?

Yeah, I'm okay, thanks, El. Bit cold, bit nippy. It's February. It's finally February. Finally.

The longest month of the year has done.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Happy New Year.

No, but I'm good, thank you. How are you? You're not in the country anymore. Time differences.

Yeah, time differences. We've done well today because producer Jack's actually really good with time differences.

Well, you taught me a secret hack. Oh, you've got it. I've done it. So, on your phone, for everyone that obviously can't see, because it's podcast. So for everyone that can't see, you can make it show the time zone of a different country, but on your home screen. So now I know what time it is where you are, and I know.

What time it is where you are, because there's no point me having that if it wasn't for you, because Mum and Dad are in this country as well.

Yeah, perfect. It's for the podcast. Podcast. We've finally, after seven years, found a way to get it right.

No crossy. It's actually amazing how the weather makes me just happier.

Yeah, you're smiling. You're actually grinning.

Yeah, it's warm. It's beautiful. I have sat by the pool, so for context, I'm in Colombo, but I've come out early for a holiday. Having said that, I am just deep in my World cup notes right now. But, yeah, it's lovely. I'm so glad I came early. It's so warm.

When does it all start?

Starts on the 7th, so that's Saturday.

Oh, that's soon. I'm excited for this World cup, do you know?

Me too. I'm literally just going through. I've just done my own man notes. Oh, man. They were hard to do. Oh, man, oh, man. ESPN didn't know who one of the bowlers was, so neither did I. Ah, happens.

Yeah.

So I was doing a deep dive into Odedra.

A lot's gone on, hasn't it, in the build up to this World cup, which I don't really. I know we're not a. A podcast that talks in great detail about cricket, but it really feels like even we can't ignore what's gone on this week.

It has been wild, hasn't it? And so much so we've actually got one of the Men of the moment as a guest.

Yes.

We didn't really talk about it in detail with him. So for anybody that lives under a rock, Bangladesh have pulled out of the World cup and Scotland have replaced Bangladesh. So they got a last minute call up and now it's just come out a couple of days ago that Pakistan are going to play in the World cup but they're going to boycott the game against India. Now they haven't, hasn't been. It's 3rd of Feb. Tuesday 6pm here in Columbia. There hasn't been an update since they've said they're going to boycott that game.

I saw, I don't know how true this is, but I saw that the rules and regs of the tournament hadn't actually officially been put out yet. So then no one knows what the rules are for a forfeit. So the ICC could now just change it to be like if you forfeit, you team other team gets 12 points. They could make it anything at this stage. So there's a lot of unknown, isn't there?

It's getting messy as well because obviously ICC are governing body so they have to be seen to be treating teams equally. India bring in most of their revenue. India get all the favorable fixtures. You know, when they refused to travel to Pakistan, they got to play in the uae. So it is all a bit of a mess. It's going to be really interesting to see what comes of it all.

Yeah, I, I've not followed it enough politically to know, but obviously the safety concerns from Bangladesh was why they pulled out, isn't it? They didn't feel safe to play their games in India and they asked if they could move just to play in the games in Sri Lanka. The ICC said no, but then that's been allowed for Pakistan. So it, it the integrity of the tournament straight away already feels a little bit, a little bit off the edge. Yeah. So it's gonna be interesting. And do you think it's gonna be one of them where whoever wins it is gonna be like. Well it was that World cup that was just a bit of a shambles.

Depends if India win at home, isn't it? Like if India win at home, it'll all be very, very quickly forgotten. But if somebody else wins then yeah, I think that will be an excuse and not an excuse, but it definitely will. You know, with four days out of a World cup and it's like a Pakistan's play against India. Yeah. What's happening?

It's gonna happen. Okay, so it starts on Saturday. You're basing yourself in Sri Lanka for a majority of it, aren't you? So we'll hear you on the radio.

Yes, yes, yes. I'm very excited, actually. I'm ready to get going now. I've done everything.

And when is England's first game? Do you know that?

No, that's Stephen Finn's job. I take over. I take over and then halfway through the tournament.

Okay.

I've not got there yet. I am currently concentrating on what I do. Schedule starts with Pakistan, Netherlands on Saturday and then it goes Sri Lanka island. England come over to Sri Lanka after the group stages. If they get through. Good job.

We've got a very diligent producer, isn't it? Because he's just come in and said England start their tournament Sunday morning. UK time against Nepal, 9:30am okay, there you go.

There you go.

We can cricket then. Perfect.

Crossy, there's two, three games a day. You are back to back cricket.

I'm going to be absolutely fine for the next few weeks then.

Yeah. So before we get our guest, I want to just, you know, put the record straight. So for anyone that thinks, you know, I don't work when I call on these tricks because my social media is just always like the nice stuff. In the first 11 days, I've got 10 games in a row.

How many are on the same day?

No. So no double headers for us, which is.

Oh, nice.

One game in Sri Lanka, one game in India. So.

Yeah, nice. Okay, well, that's good. It's good to know that you're earning the taxpayers money.

Moving on.

I don't have anything on my sticky note, so shall we, while we're talking a little bit about cricket, just introduce our guest.

I actually think we should because it's pricey. Crossy, I am so happy to say we've got a guest. We've got Mark Watt from the Scotland team, who I can only imagine. Wasi, you've been had a mad couple of days.

Yes, it's been. It's been a crazy week. It's been a very crazy week. But glad to be here in Bangalore and I'm now just finished training and training for World Cup. Who would have thought?

Before we get into this, can we just talk about your podcast setup because this is more professional than ours. You've got the cricket Scotland thing in the background. You've got all your photos and your logos up and you also look like you're about to start Call of Duty.

Yeah.

With your headphones on.

Yeah. I think it looks like I'm about To start a fighter pilot or something.

Very professional.

This is not mine, but it looks pretty good, doesn't it?

Does. It's very professional. Very professional. Mark, when did you get the call to say, you're going to have to pack your bags, you might be going to a World Cup?

It was probably about four days ago. No, it wasn't.

I was.

I think it was three days ago we got the confirmation, so. But the week leading up to that, it was just so many, like, screenshots of, like, Bangladeshi journalists and all these tweets. All the boys were just flying around saying, like, is this true? Is this going to be happening? I remember I called my dad and I was like, oh, we might be going to the World Cup, I think. And he was like, nah, these things always, like, sort themselves out. And then two days later, I was trying to book flights to Calcutta. So, yeah, it's been a really crazy week. But, yeah, here we are.

Can you kind of put into perspective for us? Because you actually obviously didn't qualify back in July, but then you didn't even finish in a position where you might be the next people to qualify because Jersey were ahead of you. So how is it. Not necessarily. How has it become you guys, but, like, how does it feel to have had the disappointment back last summer and then now you're like, oh, my God, we're on the eve of a World Cup.

Yeah, it's. Again, it's so surreal. I did a chat at a local cricket club at Clydesdale and they were saying, oh, what are you going to do when the World Cup's on? I was like, I'm not even going to watch any games because I'm just still so gutted that we're not playing in it and now here we are. But, yeah, like you said, Jersey beat us. I think in that game we had to try and win by a certain margin. So we went out and played in a particular manner. But, no, we still lost the game and they finished above us. So, yeah, I can sense that the Jersey cricket team would be a bit frustrated, but, yeah, I'm not complaining at all.

You win some, you lose some. Lucky jersey.

Exactly.

When you obviously started seeing all the rumors about, like, you know, Bangladesh might not be going, you might be going, where. Where are all the boys? So what. What were you meant to be doing over the next month? Because I can only imagine some of you would have been playing franchise cricket somewhere. You've got one lad that's been at the under 19s World cup, like, is. Has everyone been Dotted around everywhere.

Yeah. I mean, Leesky lives in Aberdeen. He was shoveling snow as we're getting all these, like, calls. We had a few sessions because we had nothing really planned schedule till Namibia next month. We were just doing kind of, like fitness stuff twice a week. We're doing.

Oh, thank God you got out of that.

I know. We're doing. We're doing boxing and then whilst we're boxing, like, in between sets, we're like. So do you reckon, like, we're actually going to go. And then obviously, like, the. The cricket Scotland staff didn't want to get our hopes up at all or anything like that. And whatever they knew, they kind of had to keep confidential. So, yeah, it was just like, not a lot of cricket was going on. It was other things and crosses. Trying to build his house at the moment. So he's doing all this di.

I follow that on Instagram. It's a really good follow for anyone that loves the renovation, it's great.

I wouldn't say it's a really good follow, but.

No, it's not, actually. It's. But it's in some. Some bits are interesting.

So he's, like, stressed over the past, like, three, four days, trying to get other people to go in and, like, sort out the stuff that he was going to do. Yeah. I mean, people who have kids as well, trying to get their minded and.

Oh, God, yeah.

You know.

What were your plans?

My plans? Not an awful lot, to be honest. I was just kind of. Yeah, not an awful lot. I didn't really have anything. Got all my holidays and stuff out the way last. Last year I came back from Nepal, then Nepal Premier League. So I was actually looking forward to a little bit of a break and then. But I'm very still happy to be here. Let me just say that.

Just get that in there.

Yeah.

But no, everyone had different stuff going on. Cricket was probably put to the back of our heads whilst the World cup would be going on anyway. And now here we are.

Yeah, I've just got already the Netflix sign off in my head of, like, you guys winning the World cup. And then for future generations, they're all going to be not doing cricket, they're all just going to be boxing in preparation for World Cups. Because Scotland won it.

Exactly. But no, everyone keeps saying Denmark, 1992 because they didn't qualify for the Football World cup and then ended up winning it. So anything's possible. But yeah, imagine that.

I really enjoyed the fact that, like, over the last couple of days. So it's Saturday when we're recording this for a bit of context, but there's been more and more cricket stories on your lad's social medias and less and less holiday stories. It's been like Vlad's running to the indoor nets. Like.

It'S like that scene in the office where it's like, okay, it's happening, it's happening, stay calm, stay. But no, I must say, like cricket, Scotland's done really well to get, just to organize everything so quickly and getting everyone out to India so quickly and we actually had our first training session yesterday and there was only seven of us.

I was going to ask is everyone there, has everyone made it yet or.

No, we're coming like bit by bit.

Will you have a team for the.

First game in the warm up games? Yeah, we should do. If not, we've got physio on, on standby to be third man going fine leg to fine leg.

Yeah, nice, nice little debut for him.

I'm sure, I'm sure we'll be good for them.

So can you talk us through like the logistics? Because obviously to get to India you need a visa. Yeah, ICC booked the flights as well. It's, it's kind of out of probably cricket Scotland's control a little bit, isn't it? But yeah. Was the visa an issue or.

Yes, yeah, the visas can take I think anywhere from like two days to two weeks. So I think the ICC were trying to get the, whoever's in charge of them to speed up the process a little bit. So we actually booked flights without our visas coming through yet just to try and prepare them. So if they come on the day of flight, you get on them. My flight was canceled about half one in the afternoon and I was supposed to be leaving for the airport like 4 o' clock and a flight two days, two days later. And then I got my. It was like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I got my golden ticket and I was like, oh, you need to get me back on the flight, need to get me back on the flight tonight. I can go. And then called the icc, icc then change the ticket. So then I was back on my original flight. It was just mayhem. And at least you living in Aberdeen, had to drive like two and a half hours to Edinburgh airport. So he got his visa through at the same time as me. He called me.

I think he would have drove to India if he needed to. I mean he would have found a way.

Yeah, he would have went by boat or something. But no, it's been, it's been a Stressful, stressful week. Just not knowing. And also you're hearing all these different texts from so many people around the world. You're saying like, oh, you boys are going. But you're trying not to get your hopes high. You're trying to kind of stay level, be like, nah, it can't happen, it can't happen. And then suddenly it has. So, yeah.

So cool.

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I mean, it's unusual to get to a World cup in the way you have, but it's also an amazing opportunity. But now you're there and you're in India and you've done your first training session. Is it bit like what, we're in India?

Yeah. I mean, so it's so bizarre. Like we're all kind of at breakfast and I was chatting with Jonesy Michael Jones yesterday and he was like, mate, like where? I woke up like. And I was like, I know, doesn't feel like it this. And he's like, no, not at all. And I was like, yeah, we're facing like Rashid Khan and Nabi and stuff in like two days in a product and he was like, yes, man. I was like, have you boys been like prepping hard? And I was like, no, I've just been doing boxing, really.

Best when fresh.

Best when fresh. Exactly. That's the main approach. So now we're all. We're all just so excited and so grateful that this opportunities came about, but also kind of feel sorry for Bangladesh on the other side as well.

Yeah. Well, have you got plans now that you're there? Is there like a plan of when everyone does arrive and you've got everyone there? Is there going to be like a big chat about it or is it just going to be we're going to ride this wave or, you know, has there been any talk about how you're going to approach this tournament?

No. Well, obviously, yeah, but we're not really going to chat about anything other than cricket, if that makes sense. So I think it's just kind of right into game plans, into kind of doing what we do. And yeah, we've got a few. We're going to have a few meetings before our first game and yeah, it's just to be fair, we're just taking it day by day and seeing what happens. Yeah, yeah. See you. Rocks up to add a bit of.

Stress to it as well. We were supposed to do this podcast an hour ago and you were at training and it was running late and then you got blue lighted out of training to get back to the hotel for us. So we've just added a little bit more stress and a bit uncertainty into it for you.

It's fine. This has actually been the least stressful thing I've had this whole week. So it's all good. But no, like now that we're here, we've got like all like the anti corruption and media stuff like all crammed into it. So you guys know all about that. It's. It's a bit. Can be a bit jarring, but n. We're all good. Still pleasant to be here.

Have you got all your kit? Has it turned up?

They're wearing Bangladeshes.

For anyone that doesn't know when you go to a World cup, you have to have specific World cup kit. It's got your big. It's got the big name across the front. You can't just wear the kit you wore last summer, can you? You can't just wear cricket, Scotland, you have to have specific World cup kit. So yeah, I'm guessing people are scrambling behind the scenes to get that there for you as well.

I think cricket, Scotland and Graynex have done really well. I think I don't want to like announce it here, but yeah, we've got.

Give us an exclusive.

We've got some kit on the way, but I think we're wearing like our old kit for the warm up games.

Yeah.

So fingers crossed.

As we speak, someone's in a warehouse just writing on Scotland on the front of the kit, of the old kit.

Like what?

But yeah, it's just again, I'm going to say this, that Craig of Scotland done an unbelievable job. Considering all the things that's just been done in like three or four days. It's been pretty chaotic.

Have you, have you had time to look at your group? Do you even know who's in your group yet?

I know who's in the group. I have no idea when every game is yet. So yeah, I think that's actually quite a good thing that you don't have too long to actually prepare for these games. Sometimes you can kind of overplay them in your head and, and think too much about opposition and yeah, sometimes if you just go out there fresh, okay, he's born, doesn't really matter, bang, and then get into it that way.

But I suppose you've still got quite a big lead up. So I actually, I know you, it's all been a bit chaotic but you still got a decent amount of time before your first World cup game.

Yeah, I think it's just all those other things that I mentioned before getting all crammed in when you kind of want to actually just take a second just to breathe and just think, right, okay, we're here, let's actually, you know, people are already talking about, oh, they've had no preparation, it'll be no good. Like we're not thinking about that at all. We're thinking about, right, how can we, how can we use our time wisely that we've got before the first game to actually get ourselves.

You're the underdogs now.

Yeah, I know, I quite like it. Yes.

This is like one of those, it's like a simulation that you go into an interview and they're like, right, so you find out, you go into the World cup in three days, what's the plan? Go. It's like one of the, like you can't really write it. Can you prep for it? It's crazy.

It is. But yeah, I mean I do, I've said these things happen, but I kind of feel like they don't.

No, they don't.

But no, all the boys are just so happy and so buzzing after the, the heartbreak of not qualifying.

I was going to say, do all those emotions that you felt in July. I was like, oh, what a waste that was.

Not really. Not really. But honestly, the emotions over the past week of, like, waiting for the confirmation because you're just. It was actually horrible. I think I looked at my screen time on my phone for that week. I think I was on my phone for like nine hours a day. Just like, refreshing to. Seeing what people are saying.

Looking on sky scanner.

Yeah, I'm just glad it's. It's happened and we're here and, yeah, here we are.

I text. I text George Munsey about a week ago saying, pack your kit, chief. He just said, cheers, chief. And I was like, no, you meant to give me some gossip. It's like you meant to tell me.

Everyone's after the gossip at the moment is horrible.

And, yeah, that's how I've got you on the podcast.

I know you can't actually give any out because we didn't get, like, having just everything that was on Twitter already. And then other people are texting, like, in the cricket world being like, yeah, pack your bags. And you're like, oh, I don't know where to believe you. I don't want to get my hopes high. And, yeah, it's just been crazy.

Right. Let's actually turn our attention to the World cup now. So you've got England, West Indies, Nepal and Italy in your group. Obviously, there was a little bit of heartbreak around the Italy situation last summer. So who are you looking forward to playing the most?

Oh, it's got to be England, isn't it?

On Valentine's Day as well? How cute is it?

That's very romantic, but I think someone told me. I don't know. You're gonna have to fact check this, but I think we play England in the morning, back home time, and then they play in the Calcutta cup rugby that same day.

Okay.

Ah, you're gonna have to check that.

I'm not sure you know that information, but you don't know your own fixtures.

Yeah, exactly.

Good. Good start.

Because he was getting ready to watch the rugby.

Oh, yeah. Our producer's just giving us the big thumbs up. You got it right.

Yeah, that's true. So, yeah, it could be. Could be a double victory for Scotland. Who'd think it? But no, that's what we're preparing for.

And Italy, it's about thinking you'd be like, right, no, we are definitely better than you. Let's just beat them.

Oh, yeah, 100%. I mean, we want to Be saying that stuff about every team. But, yeah, I think us in Italians, there's actually a lot of chat going on with us and Italians in the field. Yeah, it kicks off a little bit exciting talk.

Does.

Does.

So maybe if you lose to them, you could take them on in a boxing match.

Oh, we'd be ready. We'd be ready.

You'd be well. You'd be well ready. You guys.

We've got a few big guys, actually. I don't know if you would, but. No. I actually used to play with Dwayne Madsen at Derby and he was telling me about how he was trying to.

What a man.

Oh, what a man. He was telling me at the time that he was trying to play for Italy and stuff. And I was like, oh, imagine one day we play against each other. I think he was saying that. Imagine we played against each other at the World Cup.

So there you go.

It'd be interesting. I've still got absolutely no idea how to bolt him. He's the king of. King of playing against spin.

I'm really looking forward to this World cup now. It's kind of been on the horizon a little bit and obviously you guys haven't thought about it at all.

Personally, obviously, I'm a bit like, got a bit of favoritism for the associates, but I just think the more the merrier. And like, you see these international teams, the test playing nations play against each other so often, it's kind of getting a little bit samey. I think it's really refreshing when the associates come to play against these big teams and obviously sometimes the results don't go your way and then people online say, oh, they shouldn't be playing at this level, and blah, blah, blah. But it's the only way these teams and ourselves are going to learn how to play against, you know, the likes of Joffre Arch and people who can bowl 90 miles per hour. You don't really face that often in the. In the associate game. So it's a great learning curve. But also we're there to. We're not there just to learn, we're there to. To be teams upset.

I love a World cup upset.

It does nothing better than the last World cup, though, when the USA beat Pakistan and everyone went wild.

Yeah.

But it just shows, like, guys can compete.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I think it's frustrating that we have to wait till World Cups for these things to happen, but, no, it's exciting.

Wattie, thank you so much for joining us. Obviously, you've got a lot to Think about. And a lot of workshops to go and complete now, so we won't get, anyway, too much. But thank you so much for coming on.

Nah, it's all good. Thanks very much for having me. It's good fun.

Thank you very much and thanks for telling us what a chaotic week you've had.

That's all good. Mark.

What.

What about him?

Who?

What? Who?

Mark?

What?

How. How good that he's just been like, yeah, look, it's been a bit chaotic. Oh, how many times did he thanked the Scottish Board Cricket Board?

I know. You kind of have to, though, don't you? Because do you know what? Moments like this really go to show what people can do when they're under pressure. And I think about the times that, like, kit orders haven't made it in time and we've had to play in last season's kit for the first couple of games of the season. You can do it. You can absolutely do it.

Yeah, you can. And they also pay his wages, so he's obviously going to say thank you.

Yeah, he's got to say thank you, hasn't he?

But it's a mad story.

I'm still quite confused as to why Jersey haven't had the opportunity. That hasn't become clear to me yet and I tried to do research on that. I still don't know why they leap from Scotland.

I got got here and done some digging, so I think. I think it's come down to world ranking.

But then what's the point in the qualifications?

I know Jersey probably feel hard done by and rightly they should, but I think it's coming out as well, ranking.

I saw an interview that the head of Jersey Cricket spoke and she said that she was so, so humble and down to earth about me. She's like, we'll just qualify on our own terms next time. And, like, didn't say that anything was bad or they were dis. Obviously they were disappointed, but I just thought, oh, you could have had your moment to get to a World cup and it's. It's gone.

No, it is. It is odd, that one. But, you know, Scotland, I feel for them because everyone's talking about them. No prep, like, get the excuses in, but actually just massive underdogs.

I think sometimes that's best because you've not had time to overthink anything. So they'll just go. And obviously form will be an issue because they've not played any cricket, but they've done the BLEEP Test or whatever on Sunday.

But I do feel like he said we were meant to have fitness testing and then the coaches said we should probably net.

Probably have a net. Yeah. So they had a net instead of doing fitness testing. But if they get into any sort of fights they're boxing, they're going to be ready for it.

They're going to be ready. They are. Well, it might tend to be a 50 fight this world Cup.

I know it sounds a bit like it could be, but good luck to Scotland. I love an underdog story and like I said, I'm here for the Netflix documentary already. If they were to win it.

Shall we do a shout out to the teams that have qualified for the Women's World cup from the qualifiers? Yes.

Yes. Because it all came to fruition last week, didn't it? Or a couple of days ago.

Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland.

It was down to the wire in that last game. So if the USA had beaten Scotland in the final game, then USA would have qualified, but Scotland won.

I'm with Gabby Lewis out here as well because her partner plays for Ireland and she was just like, oh, my God, I qualified for the World Cup. How good is she? Kind of, what USA to. Then I was like, everybody did.

Yeah. But again, everyone loves the underdog story, so that's why. But it makes. I think it's better for the tournament that Scotland have qualified.

Yeah, me too. I feel sorry for them because they've lost a lot of people.

Well, I was just thinking I went off to ball at Katherine Bryce in the Blast now, which is perfect.

Perfect. Right, Crossy, I'm gonna let you get.

Back to training, get some research done, darling.

Yeah. I am currently doing Zimbabwe.

Nice. Got a lot down there, Al.

Yeah, I just said.

You spelled it right.

Probably not.

Good luck to Nambia this week.

Yeah, I did have to Google Zimbabwe. I was like, zimbab away.

Yeah. Looking forward to hearing you. I'm sure a lot of people will be looking forward to hearing you again because you didn't get much air time in the Ashes, did you? You a lot of screen time, not much air time.

One of the boys said to me, went, I never listened to TMS before. It's actually quite fun. I was like, thank you.

There we go. There we go. Remember not to mention your period.

Oh, no, I won't. Obviously not. I'm on it now.

Don't. Don't you dare.

Do you know, I've done it last week.

Okay.

Last week we went and got a pregnancy test. This week I'm bleeding. I hate the female body.

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