Noughtie Child Podcast

India are World Cup Champions and this is our reaction 👇🇮🇳🏆

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India have won the World Cup in India, it felt inevitable 🏆

Harmanpreet Kaur takes the winning catch and Shafali Verma who was only called in for the knock out stages in the hero of the match

The missing generation – who are the next wave of England batters? In 2029 there will be another Ashes tour of Australia and another 50 over World Cup. Who will be batting for England on that tour and in that competition? Here are the ages of our current top 5 batter...

✍️ The missing generation – who are the next wave of England batters?

In 2029 there will be another Ashes tour of Australia and another 50 over World Cup. Who will be batting for England on that tour and in that competition?

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Lenny Sims: How The King's Speech helped keep her cricket career on track Italy and Northamptonshire all-rounder, Lenny Sims, spoke exclusively to the Noughtie Child Podcast in this week's latest podcast episode Harold Larwood is a name which triggers immediate association ...

✍️ Lenny Sims: How The King's Speech helped keep her cricket career on track

From Harold Larwood to the 2010 film The King’s Speech, there’s not much we didn’t cover!

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New episode out now with Italy & Northants’ Lenny Sims 🇮🇹

We spoke all about her ties to an iconic player, representing Italy, struggling with the yips & working in the Essex pathway

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New episode out now celebrating our 200th episode! 🥳

This week we discuss: Is Polly an international jewel thief? Is one of us a nepo baby? And why is our name nothing to do with cricket?

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Donate to Support Susie's Battle with Cancer, organized by Kent Cricket Former Kent Women’s and International cricketer Susie Wilson-Rowe has sadly been diagn… Kent Cricket needs your support for Support Susie's Battle with Cancer

Kent CCC are organising a fundraiser to support former England and Kent batter Susie Wilson-Rowe, who is battling a rare form of lung cancer. We've chipped in - if you can, please do too.

Chances of Qualifying Australia: 100% England: 100% South Africa: 100% India: 54% New Zealand: 37% Bangladesh: 6% Sri Lanka: 2% Pakistan: 1%

Women's World Cup - Qualification Analysis 🏏

New episode out now with Lancashire’s Grace Johnson speaking about the highs & lows of her season and dealing with a long term injury - we really appreciate Grace’s honesty about her injury & how tough it has been 🌹

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World Cup episode. Who is the most valuable player so far? Which superstars have more ducks than Sainsbury's meat counter? Are Australia just toying with us all by letting their number 10 batter score a 50?

New episode out now discussing a wobbly World Cup so far with every team having nervy moments. We also share our thoughts on an interesting demerit for Mlaba & the domestic awards 🏆

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Linsey Smith out in the middle for England at No.10, which makes her the first left-handed batter to face a ball at a World Cup for England Women since Lydia Greenway in 2013.

By ending 5*, she becomes England's fifth-highest left-handed run-scorer at Women's World Cups, ever.

Podcast coming out this evening (instead of yesterday morning)

Any World Cup questions, let us know ⬇️🏏

Arthur Miller, Harmanpreet Kaur, the 1982 FIFA World Cup and a plague of gnats. A few thoughts on a recent game at the ICC World Cup.

What a massive own goal for the ICC to refuse to make post-match World Cup press conferences available to join via Zoom. They cannot realistically expect overseas freelancers to travel between 5 grounds & 2 countries?

A cynic might say they don't actually WANT independent press coverage 👀

Don’t be too harsh on Harman India’s refusal to shake hands with Pakistan reflects more broadly on a culture of polarisation around the world.“You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counte...

✍️ India’s refusal to shake hands with Pakistan reflects more broadly on a culture of polarisation around the world

These teams will meet at Edgbaston next summer but will anything have changed?

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New episode out now rounding up the first few games of the World Cup, discussing legacy and how cricket can learn from rugby. Plus how England now & Ashes England are “chalk and cheese” (maybe they are with South Africa 38/6 just after the powerplay 🤷‍♀️)

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It’s time for the 2025 Season Debrief! We’ve made a Tier 1 County Team of the Season, crunched the numbers of our cricket this year & reflect on the first professional season for County cricket

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Lancashire lift the One Day Cup to cap the “year of the chase” Lancashire (289/4 from 48.3 overs) beat Hampshire (288/6 from 50 overs) by six wickets.The Metro Bank One Day Cup final began with renditions of “Abide with me” and “God save the King”. By the end, it...

✍️Lancashire lift the One Day Cup to cap the “year of the chase”

We finished are season in Southampton yesterday. This is what Richard had to say on Lancashire’s success, Freya Davies’ retirement, observations from the season & more

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It’s been a mad one

Not quite ‘over and out’ - new podcast out Friday with a big season review & World Cup preview coming soon. Lots of podcasts & interviews over the winter to keep everyone company on those cold, dark days! Thanks for supporting us this season ☺️

The podcast has been busy too!

2️⃣6️⃣ episodes
1️⃣4️⃣ guests
1️⃣4️⃣ teams represented
1️⃣ documentary

We’re familiar with these teams the most

1️⃣Lancashire (12)
2️⃣Warwickshire (12)
3️⃣Durham (10)
4️⃣England (10)
5️⃣Blaze (6)

We visited 2️⃣2️⃣ grounds in 3️⃣ different nations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇳🇱

Here we’re our Top 5️⃣ most visited:
1️⃣Chester-Le-Street (9)
2️⃣VOC Rotterdam (8)
3️⃣New Road Worcester (6)
4️⃣Old Trafford (4)
5️⃣Taunton (4)

We’ve crunched the numbers & here are our 2025 cricket season stats 📊🏏

We started the summer in Durham & finished in Southampton 🚗

6️⃣1️⃣ games covered
3️⃣1️⃣ games together
1️⃣8️⃣ international
4️⃣3️⃣ county
2️⃣6️⃣ teams
8️⃣competitions/tours
3️⃣county tiers

Gaby Lewis finished 141* & Lancashire are One Day Cup champions

Two trophies for Lancashire this season after a barren spell as Thunder

Gaby Lewis reaches a century in the ODC Final

It’s difficult for Irish players to get a gig as an overseas but she’s taken advantage of the opportunity and been important for Lancs on a few occasions now

We’ve had a rendition of Abide with Me and the National Anthem ahead of the One Day Cup Final in Southampton…is this one of the changes within Project Darwin 🤣

Proper end of season feelings this week - Richard gives us the lowdown on the Tier 2 ODC Final & we discuss two incredible semi finals in Tier 1 🏆

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Heroic team effort sees Lancashire overcome The Blaze in gripping semi-final Lancashire (241/6) beat The Blaze (236/9) by 5 runsIn the most thrilling of finishes Lancashire found a way to win against a Blaze side who seemed to be cruising to victory until the very end of a ten...

✍️Heroic team effort sees Lancashire overcome The Blaze in gripping semi-final

Richard’s words from a thriller at Trent Bridge

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