The 80s and 90s Cricket Show
by The 80s and 90s Cricket Show
Get happy/sad/angry all over again as Gary Naylor and guests reconsider world cricket's key players, matches, series, tournaments and stories from the final two decades of the last century. Celebrate the good, the bad and the ugly! Sponsored by Anderton Law.
Episodes
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Graham Thorpe
The 80s and 90s Cricket Show returns with a special episode following the death of Graham Thorpe. Host Gary Naylor is joined by journalists Simon Wilde, Rob Smyth and Rob Bagchi to remember the late, great, former England batsman. They consider Thorpe’s outstanding career and rebellious...
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David Gower: 1985 Ashes, plus Phillip DeFreitas
Host, Gary Naylor, is joined by Pat Murphy, Mike Selvey and the man who held up The Urn at The Oval, the one and only David Gower. They look back to 1985 when Ian Botham swung the bat and Richard Ellison swung the ball and we thought it might always be this way. Our Player of the Pod is Phil...
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Devon Malcolm, plus the 1999 Cricket World Cup
Gary Naylor is joined by Peter Hayter, Emma John and Rob Smyth to profile the history man himself, Devon Malcolm. In the second innings, relive the thrills and spills (and there were plenty) of the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
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Nehru Cup and England Nearly Men XIs
Host, Gary Naylor, is joined by Derek Pringle, Rob Smyth and Rob Steen to look back on the 1989 Nehru Cup, a seven nation event that anticipated both the Champions Trophy and Pakistan's World Cup triumph still three years in the future. In the second innings, the panel choose their England Nearly...
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Angus Fraser, plus England v West Indies 1991
The 80s and 90s Cricket Show (sponsored by Mark Sellek of Anderton Law) is back for Season 2 with old favourites and new guests to look back on the good, the bad and the ugly over a couple of decades of English cricket. In Episode 2, host Gary Naylor is joined by Mike Selvey, Derek Pringle and…
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Jack Russell, plus the 1990-91 Ashes series
The 80s and 90s Cricket Show (sponsored by Mark Sellek of Anderton Law) is back for Season 2 with old favourites and new guests to look back on the good, the bad and the ugly over a couple of decades of English cricket. In Episode 1, host Gary Naylor is joined by Peter Hayter, Mike Selvey and Pat...
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Graham Gooch on Phil Tufnell, plus India v England 1992/93
Former England captain Graham Gooch joins Gary Naylor, Peter Hayter and Pat Murphy to discuss the career of Phil Tufnell, a left-arm spinner who received his first Test cap under Gooch and who then found himself in and out of both trouble and the England team throughout the nineties. As you’d...
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Nasser Hussain, plus England v West Indies 1988
Derek Pringle, Mike Selvey and Rob Smyth join Gary Naylor to discuss Nasser Hussain’s early career. Derek was a teammate of Nasser’s for Essex and England and he gives us insight from inside the dressing room. How did this headstrong young batsman become a transformative national skipper? Pringle...
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West Indies v England 1993/94, plus Graeme Hick
Peter Hayter, Emma John and Rob Smyth join Gary Naylor to discuss how Mike Atherton’s inexperienced England tourists fared against Brian Lara and the West Indies in early 1994. There are tales of Miller’s bar, blotto copy and teenage trauma, along with colourful memories of Curtly Ambrose and 46...
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1986/87 Ashes and Malcolm Marshall
Chris Broad, Pat Murphy and Mike Coward join Gary Naylor to discuss England’s triumphant tour of Australia in 1986/87 which saw the Ashes retained and limited overs success to boot. Broad himself hit three hundreds to help Mike Gatting’s team hang on to the urn. There’s fascinating insight from...
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Robin Smith, plus the 1992 Cricket World Cup
Derek Pringle, Mike Selvey and Rob Smyth join Gary Naylor to discuss the swashbuckling former England and Hampshire batsman Robin Smith. Derek roomed with him for England, Rob helped him write his revealing autobiography and Mike watched Smith’s international career closely from the press box, so...
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Ian Botham (after '81) and West Indies v England 1990
Ian Botham (who else?) is the iconic player under examination in the first ever episode. Gary Naylor debates the second half of Beefy’s career with three men who have all written books with or about the great man - veteran BBC cricket reporter Pat Murphy, cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times...
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Coming Soon - starts September!
The 80s and 90s Cricket Show revisits the days of Botham and Gower, Viv Richards, Allan Border, and Javed Miandad - the days before T20, when test matches had rest days, when chairmen of selectors couldn’t recall names of players, blamed getting beaten on astrology, and once selected 4 captains…
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About this show
Get happy/sad/angry all over again as Gary Naylor and guests reconsider world cricket's key players, matches, series, tournaments and stories from the final two decades of the last century. Celebrate the good, the bad and the ugly! Sponsored by Anderton Law.
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