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Ethan Bamber's 60 wickets this season is having a major impact on Warwickshire's Rothesay County Championship title drive. Bamber's 6-26 routed Essex and sent the Bears to the top of the table. The Bears now lead Somerset by 11 points with one round of matches to go. Bamber, from an acting family, moved from Middlesex in 2025 and discusses the advantages of playing at Edgbaston rather than Lord's, how he has learnt to accept the plaudits for his consistent wicket-taking and how he would really like to be Allan Donald for. a day. He also nominates his ace-snaffler second slip Rob Yates as the Rothesay Safe Hands award winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ethan Bamber's 60 wickets this season is having a major impact on Warwickshire's Rothesay County Championship title drive. Bamber's 6-26 routed Essex and sent the Bears to the top of the table. The Bears now lead Somerset by 11 points with one round of matches to go. Bamber, from an acting family, moved from Middlesex in 2025 and discusses the advantages of playing at Edgbaston rather than Lord's, how he has learnt to accept the plaudits for his consistent wicket-taking and how he would really like to be Allan Donald for. a day. He also nominates his ace-snaffler second slip Rob Yates as the Rothesay Safe Hands award winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Covering the climax to the Rothesay County Championship, Simon Hughes pays a visit to Hove to watch Sussex's battle with holders Nottinghamshire. He also hears the energetic plans from Sussex’s new chairman Ed Warner to make the county the pride of the south coast again, assisted by some of the county’s finest ex-players like Matt Prior. Clearly they mean business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
England win the Test series against Pakistan 3-0. It's a cause for minor celebration, reversing the direction that England seemed to be heading earlier in the summer, but what does it prove? What is the best England batting order going forward, and how effective will this England bowling attack be in South Africa? Simon Hughes and Simon Mann assess the entrails, evaluate the winners and losers and also ask where this now leaves Pakistan. This podcast is supported by Nord VPN - To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/aic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The debutant Razaullah lights the dying embers of the series with a brillaint 81 including nine sixes and makes it a miserbale day for England's bowlers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With two wickets in his first over - again - Ollie Robinson threatened Pakistan with the prospect of an embarrassing two-day innings defeat in the final Test at Edgbaston. But the weather and some third wicket resistance won them a brief stay of execution. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann watch England pile up 453 having been 39-3 and totally dominate the second day until the last half hour. This podcast was brought to you by Rothesay Protecting Pensions. Also Toyota's grass roots initiative - the Toyota Good for Cricket prize draw - is discussed. To sign up go to www.toyotagoodforcricket.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
At least a more competitive day of Test cricket to crown our 1000th episode of this podcast which began in the relatively early days of podcasting in 2017. Older and balder and probably no wiser, Simon Hughes and Simon Mann still try to break down the day's play and explain the finer points to our loyal audience, as Pakistan try and largely fail to deal with England's probing seam attack. Also in this episode some brief highlights of some of the 1000th episodes and a few clips of our favourite guests. Thanks to Rothesay for supporting this episode, and also to Claude ai. Ready to have an AI that can tackle real work? Try Claude Cowork today — Claude.ai/ANALYST. Onwards and upwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Simon Mann and Matt Prior discuss the upcoming third and final Test match in this series between England and Pakistan, held at Edgbaston from 9th September. Alongside this, they chat about the appointment of former England batter Kevin Pietersen as a specialist advisor to the England white-ball setup. Huge thank you to Rothesay for sponsoring this podcast and protecting the pensions of one million people. Your future in safe hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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