One-off Tests, an exciting England Lions squad and Yas' Wisden podcast journey comes to an end...
5/20/20261 hr 1 min
A sad episode today as we officially say goodbye to Yas ahead of his departure from Wisden Towers on Friday. He's joined in the studio one last time by Ben and Butch to tackle the future of Tests, an England Lions squad and a busy week of County Championship action, before signing off with a couple of listener questions. What a ride it's been! ❤️ 0:00 Intro / 1:21 KIA UK / 1:50 Test cricket / 15:53 English summers / 19:21 Win T20 Blast tickets / 19:47 England Lions squad / 26:14 County Championship / 40:46 T20 Blast / 42:36 Dimension Sport / 48:51 Listener questions / 1:00:29 Outro KIA UK 🚗 Find out more about KIA’s range of EVs: https://www.kia.com/uk/electric-hybrid-cars/electric-cars/ Win T20 Blast tickets: https://www.kia.com/uk/about/sport-sponsorship/kia-oval-t20/ DIMENSION SPORT 🏏 Explore Dimension Sport's range of equipment: https://www.dimensionsport.com 📒 WISDEN CRICKET MONTHLY OFFERS Digital: https://pktmags.com/wisdensummer26 Print: https://forwardpress.imbmsubscriptions.com/WCMBEDTIME26 👀 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsYas Rana· Host0:00
[rock music] Hello and welcome to the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast. A slightly different episode today, as the, uh, title of the episode suggests. This is my last episode, so we'll have a mail bag Q&A thing at the very end to round things off. But before that, we, we deal with the future of test cricket, um, a new and exciting England Lions squad, the first block of the championship and the start of the new Blast season as well. Um, we'll cover all the farewell stuff at the end of the show. All I'll say now is that after Liam Dawson called it in, packed it in last week, I thought my time's up too.
Mark Butcher· Guest0:49
Time's up.
Yas Rana· Host0:49
My time's up too.
Mark Butcher· Guest0:49
Time for you to go.
Yas Rana· Host0:50
Although I was thinking this week that after Glamorgan's excellent start to the season, I wonder if Richard Dawson for the England head coach job could be the next bandwagon that's Dawson related on the pod. It's going very well. Glamorgan's third in Div One.
Mark Butcher· Guest1:03
Yeah.
Ben Gardner· Panelist1:04
Bring, bring out Dawson's Creek maybe. [laughs] Yeah. And Crawley dropped as well, so what, what are you gonna talk about now, Butch?
Yas Rana· Host1:10
[laughs] It's a really good question.
Mark Butcher· Guest1:12
Damn.
Yas Rana· Host1:13
It's a really good question.
Mark Butcher· Guest1:14
You've- I've been rumbled.
Yas Rana· Host1:15
And, and, and- After five years ... and, and, uh, not something that I have to worry about either. [laughs] Um, anyway, before we move on, this summer Wisden are proudly sponsored by our long-term partners, Kia UK. Kia are leading the way in electrification with a game-changing