County Cricketer S5 Ep7 Harmy on North, George on Lancs & Nick on Hadley
5/13/20261 hr 2 min
Who is Ryan Hadley? Are Somerset architects of their own downfall? Are the wheels coming off at Yorkshire? What's going on at Lancs? Why does it take 45 minutes of the show before Surrey are mentioned? Is the appointment of Marcus North going to be a good thing for English cricket? Why is Jon going to Milan at the weekend? And could Ben Stokes open the bowling for England and what did he say to Harmy when he put it to him?
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Hosts: Jon Norman, Steve Harmison, George Dobell & Nick Friend
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First 90 secondsJon Norman· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Following On County Cricket. Myself, John Norman, alongside Nick Friend, George Dobell from the Cricket magazine. Head out and check it out on the, uh, is it, is it ... Okay, is it ... No, it's not WHSmith's anymore, is it? Whatever it, whatever WHSmith's- No ... is called these days.
George Dobell· Host0:26
Yeah.
Jon Norman· Host0:27
Go and pick up a copy.
George Dobell· Host0:28
It's online, like everything else. It's online.
Jon Norman· Host0:32
Well, it's also, it's also online, and you can pick up a copy as well, but yeah, it's also online. Uh, Steve Harmison, um, double County Championship winner. Guys, so many, so many angles to go at this week, but I do think we need to speak about that incredible Somerset v Morgan game. 11,500 watching it on the stream as Ryan Hadley reached 50 for the first time in his first-class career with a four to win the game and walk off. 21 years it's taken for Morgan to win in the top flight. Now they've gone back-to-back. Um, who better to tell us, who better to tell us about Ryan Hadley than Nick Friend? Nick, over to you. You could talk for the next 45 minutes if you wish.
Nick Friend· Host1:17
No, the Ryan Hadley story, the Morgan story more widely is really cool because, um, he went 21 years without being in one, but he went to be, therefore obviously two answers without winning division one. And I don't think necessarily people thought they could see that many