Are people underestimating New Zealand? England vs NZ Test series preview, with Rachin Ravindra
6/3/20261 hr 11 min
Cam, Lawrence and Phil look ahead to the start of the English Test summer – with input from New Zealand star Rachin Ravindra – ahead of the first Test at Lord's, and review everything else that's been going on in the world of cricket. 0:00 Intro/ 1:18 Kia UK / 2:07 England / 13:04 New Zealand / 18:11 Rachin Ravindra interview / 39:23 Keith Prowse / 42:21 ICC changes / 54:25 Win Kia's Best Seats in the House / 55:01 The Hundred / 59:14 T20 Blast / 1:02:05 Big Bash / 1:03:14 IPL / 1:07:52 Other cricket / 1:09:52 Test drive Kia's EV2 / 1:10:19 Outro KIA UK 🚗 Find out more about Kia’s range of EVs: https://www.kia.com/uk/electric-hybrid-cars/electric-cars/ Watch the Women's T20 final in style: https://www.kia.com/uk/about/sport-sponsorship/oval-surrey-cricket-best-seats-wisden/ Test drive Kia's EV2: https://www.kia.com/uk/new-cars/ev2/ KEITH PROWSE 🏟️ Experience T20 Blast finals day in style: http://www.keithprowse.co.uk/edgbaston 👀 PATREON For bonus podcasts and daily episodes after every England game, sign up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/WisdenCricket 👉 SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@WisdenCricket?sub_confirmation=1 #Cricket #EnglandCricket #CountyCricket #TestCricket #ENGvNZ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsCameron Ponsonby· Host0:00
[upbeat music] It's the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast. Bumper episode for you this week as Rachin Ravindra joins the show. All things test summer preview. The ICC board meeting resulted in some genuinely interesting stuff, and that's a promise. I know that sounds slightly counterintuitive. Uh, the Hundred has a new competition within the competition. The Big Bash has a new team. RCB win the IPL and a roundup of the whole world of international cricket that you may have missed. I'm Karim Hunt to you. I'm joined once again by Phil Walker, and for the first time under the new regime, the second best chess player in all of the UK media, Lawrence Booth, is with us. Uh, anything on, anything on that? Mm-hmm.
Lawrence Booth· Panelist0:53
Uh, I should've got my, my Queen's Gambit sorted, shouldn't I? But next time. If you ever choose to play me again- I'll never play Lawrence Booth- ... we'll sort all that out ...
Cameron Ponsonby· Host0:59
at chess ever again. One-nil to me. It will never happen again.
Phil Walker· Panelist1:01
When you say the UK media, you mean UK cricket media or, or are you- Uh- ... you taking them all down, you two?
Cameron Ponsonby· Host1:06
I, I... Lawrence, this, the thing is Lawrence is a very, very good chess player. I inexplicably beat him in a one-off match on Christmas Day in Australia. [laughs] I know I'll never beat him again, so I will never play him again. [laughs] [laughs] Very, very simple. Anyway, before we get into things this week, this summer Wisden is proudly sponsored by our longtime partners over at Kia UK. Kia is leading the way in electrification with their game-changing range of six electric vehicles,