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💰Several days have passed since India's shellacking of England and we're already back into IPL season. We examine the big money movers, bask in what a classic Test series this is shaping up to be, discuss England's terrible PR skills with Moeen and the tweet first think later attitude of Michael Vaughan. With you today are Max, Sach and Bertie, and we get very excited by what you think different...

🏖️3️⃣  Having heard that nobody can bat on the pitch for 2 days up steps R. Ashwin to play England off the park. Throw in some rogue sixes from the No. 11 and England are left with more than a mountain to climb in the 4th innings. The game is India's so expect a buoyant Sach who's been having heaps of fun on his own with the 4am get ups, whilst the English podcast contingent choose a normal s...

🔥2️⃣ The following episode contains a lot of anger about 'English ignorance' which we struggled to contain both in the recording and edit. You have been warned. Day 2 and India are winning this. They coped better with the spin and executed said spin more effectively. England see a classic English collapse and *click* we're back in the land of normal. Gone are the recent days of England dominating...

🦡1️⃣ A compelling 2nd day in the 2nd Test at Chennai. Chalk and cheese compared to the 1st Test. Same ground, remarkably different pitch as spin takes hold from the first over. India bat, Rohit makes big runs at a fair clip, but England take wickets so it could be honours even. We won't know until England put in their own shift with the bat.  It's one for the badgers today as Nerds in Chief...

🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿5️⃣ India lose a Test at home, as England romp to victory in the first test. We're here for it all in our final daily show of the Test match. An ageless Jimmy Anderson produces some of the finest goods of his triumphant career whilst Jack Leach spins into the dust to drive England to a winning margin of 227. Declaration shmeclaration. That's all in the past isn't it, as Kohli's boys migh...

🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿4️⃣ Today declarations on the mind of every Englishman stuck in a 4AM cricket bubble at the moment as India are set north of 400 to chase down on what was a fascinating day of Test cricket in Chennai. Washington puts up some resistance, Leach bowls a peach and England put enough runs on the board to tee themselves up for a final push through the Indian order. Sach, Max and Bertie on toda...

🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿3️⃣ The 1st Test in Chennai is hotting up as England turn the screw on India with the ball. Dom Bess has a day to remember, pilfering the big middle order guns of Kohli, Rahane, Pujara & Pant as India finish 6 down and with much work to do on the 4th day. The cricket content drive continues for team TWU with Bertie and Ollie are here to examine England's rather good performance on a...

🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿2️⃣ 1st Test. Day 2 . India come back with a vengeance. Well not really. It was England who returned with yet more impressive batting, and Ollie, Max, Sach and Bertie give you the rundown of everything the day had to offer.  We're here for the second course in a potential 20 course meal of daily podcasts. So if we were in a posh tasting menu we're still in the canapes. Much like thi...

🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Here we go sports fans. India vs. England. Right in our Anglo-Indian wheelhouse. 4 Test matches. Daily podcasts for every single one of them. Oooo yeah.  And we kick off with a big day for England. Toss? Won. Runs for fun. Rooty's ton. Work not yet done. Sibley and England's centurion centurion bat nearly the whole day as Kohli's men batten down the hatches on the flattest of wicket...

India vs. England lies glistening on the horizon as England have gone through their paces with a competent showing in Galle led by an irrepressible Joe Root. A substitution comes in today as level-headed India expert Sach is replaced by Max, leading to far more chaos, and honestly the most variable quality of content we've ever produced. The fine line between complete guff and bold thinking is fre...

💥Wow, wow, wow. A whole *checks watch* 8 days after it came to its thrilling conclusion we are finally here to run through India's stunning victory over Australia with the finest of tooth combs. Gill, Pant, Pujara, Thakur, Washington, Siraj. Heroes every last one of them as India power through at the Gabba with even more aplomb than Britain's rapid vaccine rollout. Shouts to both the civil servic...

🇦🇺🇮🇳 The boys are back in town for 2021, and as you can tell by his absence and Christmas day commentary, Max had a big holiday period by the sounds. So it's Messrs Aggarwal, Godden and Moores bowling full into the New Year. And what better way to begin it than by diving into all things India vs Australia with our take on  Rishabh ' The Best Since Dhoni' Pant, Cheteshwar 'Mourinho' Pujara, th...

🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿What a week! It's vaccine day in the UK and the cricket winter is in full swing as tours commence left, right and center. India head to Australia and the Kiwis welcome West Indies, but our focus today is England in South Africa. A national lockdown has meant there's been cricket watching time aplenty for Max, Bertie and Ollie and as England's momentum for the T20MWC continues South Afric...

Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Bloody Indians. They're a bit good that lot. Off the back of a record breaking season in the IPL we simply have to bask in their unremitting greatness for half an hour and soak in this year's final. Expect acclaim for Boult and Bumrah, the openers, middle order and everything which makes up the complete T20 team. With that Matt, Ollie, Sach and Bertie reflect on a dull but i...

🍝6 weeks and 56 matches later just 2 points separated 3rd place from bottom in what's been a bonkersly competitive IPL. From the 3 corners of the globe - Plymouth, Guildford & East London - Bertie, Sach and Ollie give you all the rundown you need. As the playoffs kick into gear the lads hone in on the the teams who've still got a shot. Sunrisers Hyderabad have impressed in recent matches whil...

Illness and operations put a hold on TWU proceedings for a few weeks as it did for the edit this week but we return to look at the IPL playoff hunt. Ollie, Sach and Bertie  here this week. Much to Sach's joy our Kings XI have made a stunning revival in the push for 4th but at the other end of the table CSK have written this year off. On English shores there's a new league format and pay cuts...

😫There are few certainties in the IPL, other than the inevitability that the team we decide to support ends up being complete toilet. It's matches left right and centre as we get to the end of Week 2 in the UAE. Bertie, Sach and Matt run the rule over the runners and riders as the direction of travel for some teams becomes a little more clear. Matt sings the praises of Delhi Capitals while Sach m...

The entire franchise is back together and have a lot to catch up on.  The UAEPL is on the agenda. Notably looking at where Sach’s beloved Kings XI Punjab are going wrong, how the pitches are playing, and what‘s up with the IPL's questionable kit choices. Essex heroes lifted the first (and only?) Bob Willis Trophy, and isn’t Max happy about it. We reflect on whether the right team won and what...

🍀At 28-5 and 78-5 in their first two ODIs against England last month, Ireland found themselves looking at the prospect of heavy defeats even before they could come out to have a bowl. Batting at seven, out walks Curtis Campher. In his first two internationals for the side, the allrounder dragged his side back into the games with two fluent half centuries before contributing vital wickets to give...

By the time you read this England will have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the ages. So why don't we rewind 5 days to another incredible victory.  The plucky minnows beating the World Champions. No this isn't a Jamie Vardy flick inspired England beating Germany 3-2 in a friendly in 2016 but  Ireland playing the English at their own game. Namely, letting a shedload of runs do the tal...

Ireland. In front of nobody in Southampton. With a second choice England team. On a Thursday. This is the big one, and if you tune in this then you're a true member of the diehard club. So come on in, you're welcome here. Join Max and Bertie for a dissection of the world champions' fringe players putting themselves into the shop window only to be dropped for Stokes, Root and Buttler.  Meanwhi...

Oh baby, cricket's returned and it's back with the intensity of dropped Stuart Broad. 3 weeks, 3 Tests. Boom, boom, boom. In the immortal words of the great Peter Kay we are the cricket marines, the Hobnobs being dunked into the Test match tea every week, desperately shouting 'Again' as we're biologically set for constant 5 day a week cricketing immersion. "I'm going nowhere son dip me again," as...

3 Tests in 3 weeks. Brace yourselves. To set you off a Moores-Godden partnership with a sprinkling of Barbados preview England's much awaited Test series against West Indies. We first look to England in a run down which Ollie would complain post-recording became a case of Bertie asking him loads of questions, despite himself offering little in the way of questions in the other direction. Either wa...

The cricket podcast content gods have blessed us with the actual return of cricket. England-Windies is pencilled into the diary as Sky subscriptions are dusted off and The Rose Bowl ups its anti-bac gel supplies in preparation for the largest England squad ever conceived by man. That means Ollie, Sach and Bertie roll back into town, taking in all the fun stuff - logistics, Sir Geoffrey and cricket...

2020 was meant to be Yorkshire batsman Will Fraine's breakout season. 23 and playing for his home county, coronavirus has placed a slight bump in the road. Bertie and Ollie have a chat with him about his career so far as well as the Yorkshire lads' expectations for the season and the financial problems which have come the way of the club with cricket and social gatherings on hold. From pay cuts to...