CategoryInterviews

A Chat With Isa Guha

Live cricket will return to the BBC on 30th August for the first time since 1999. The Beeb will be showing the second T20 against Pakistan and then a T20 against Australia in September. As someone who grew up watching cricket on the BBC during the summer holidays, this feels like cricket is finally coming home. Sky’s coverage is excellent, of course, but they’ve never been able to reach the same mass audience. To celebrate live cricket returning to the BBC, I was offered the chance to talk to...

Cider Saturday: Annie Talks RLODC Final With Tom Abell and Andy Hurry

Today we’re delighted to welcome Guerilla Cricket ‘waffler’ Annie Chave to TFT. She caught up with Somerset Director Of Cricket Andy Hurry and skipper Tom Abell at Taunton last week. There was only one thing on their collective minds: Saturday’s big Lord’s final against Hampshire. On Saturday 25 May, Somerset take on Hampshire at Lords for what looks likely to be the last ever Royal London One Day Cup Final. On the face of it, it’s just another one day final, but...

Talking Bats With Charlotte Surridge

I’m sure many readers will remember that well known cricketing brand called Stuart Surridge (SS). It was made famous by the likes of Graham Gooch and Sir Clive Rice back in the 80s. In fact, I bet a few of you owned an SS Jumbo or an SS Turbo back in the day. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Rolls Royce’ of cricket bats, especially at the time when Gooch scored his famous 333 at Lord’s, the Surridge brand spent many years at the top of the game – until one day it wasn’t around so...

TFT Talks To Athers, Beefy, Nasser, and Bumble

I enjoy a good chinwag. I enjoy it even more when it’s with four guys I idolised as a kid. It has always been an ambition of mine to chew the cricketing fat with Athers and Co – perhaps over a couple of beers in the pub – so when Sky invited me to meet them a couple of weeks ago, it was an opportunity too good to miss. There was just one problem: the meeting wasn’t going to be in your typical boozer. It was taking place in the Members’ Bar at the top of the Lord’s pavilion...

TFT Talks To Mark Butcher

Back in November 1998, a young Englishman fresh out of uni left these shores to travel around Australia. Obviously it was a complete coincidence that the Ashes was on. On the third day of the first test in Brisbane, he saw another young(ish) Englishman flay McGrath, Fleming, Kasprowicz and MacGill to all corners of the Gabba. The first young man was me. The second young man, the one who actually had some talent (and some hair), was Mark A. Butcher. Little did I know that eighteen years later...

An Evening With Nasser Hussain

We arrived at the Grace Gate at Lord’s. The ground was a hive of activity. Graham Gooch strolled by, shoulders rolling and head bowed in that familiar fashion, and then the penny dropped: it was corporate and media day ahead of the Royal London Cup final between Warwickshire and Surrey. Lord’s was awash with cricketing royalty … and us. Our hosts, two lovely girls from Threepipe, an agency that does PR work for Royal London and the ECB, came down to greet us. We were issued with guest...

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