In conversation with Wisden Almanack Editor Lawrence Booth

John Norman· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Following On. I'm John Norman from Talksport, and I'm pleased to say for this special podcast, sitting alongside Lawrence Booth, editor of the Wisden Almanack, and of course, fine cricket writer for many, many years, uh, for the Daily Mail. Um, Lawrence, it's that time of year again. Every Wisden Almanack interview has to start in that way. It's, uh, it's part of the rules or the laws. [chuckles] Um, let's start with, uh, with the top line, I suppose. You know, over the course of the last, uh, or course of the morning and throughout the day, there's ... And I've read and seen a lot of the headlines surrounding Wisden's take on England's, um, Ashes campaign that once again went the way of many other Ashes campaigns. Um, so let's start with that. Uh, feckless, reckless, and legless was how you described it. Um, we were both at Lord's, weren't we, a few weeks ago? Sat round the table. Um, Rob Key spoke for best part of an hour, Richard Gould alongside him. Uh, no Brendon McCullum. He was in New Zealand. Ben Stokes, of course, up in Durham. Uh, we haven't actually spoken about this off air, so I'm going in cold a little bit here. I found it to be an