The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket
Season 18, Episode 24: The Hundred is here – a competition that divides opinion and likely always will. But what do the players think? Especially those who’ve made careers in the shorter forms? Benny Howell is one of them. At the start of his journey he was an opening bat, but over the last decade or more he’s been the man with a million slower balls. The pioneering 36-year-old begins another season this week with the Birmingham Phoenix and remains as passionate as ever. A big part of Benny’s creativity as a cricketer, as he explains in this in-depth discussion, is the ADHD he is hardwired with. As one of the only cricketers happy to talk about neurodivergence, he goes into how having ADHD was a handbrake as a restless youngster and how it was harnessed to get the best from himself.
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TFW Daily - Looking back at the Anderson-Tendulkar jamboree
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 6: It's all over bar the podcast reviews. A intense few weeks with 25 days of Test cricket, much of high quality, some of it less so, but all of it entertaining. Daniel Norcross has been your steadfast guide through those weeks, and joins Geoff Lemon for an outside view of what has been a truly memorable contest.
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TFW Daily - Siraj and Woakes in thrilling finish - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 5
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 5: A series as good as this deserved a finish as good as this. It should have been a stroll for England on the final day, needing 35 runs with four wickets in hand - even if one of those wickets was Chris Woakes with his arm in a sling. The fact that Woakes had to walk out to bat will tell you that things didn't go that smoothly. India's tour hero Mohammed Siraj had the ball in hand. So began one of the famous last chapters of a match, and a series...
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TFW Daily - One final stanza remains - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 4
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 4: So we go to Day 25 of the series, with 35 runs or 3 wickets to decide the fate of the series. Unless Chris Woakes can bat? For most of Day 4 it looked like another England miracle was panning out, thanks largely to Harry Brook and Joe Root, as Mohammed Siraj and company toiled. But with wickets falling near the end, India’s bowlers will get one last chance on morning five. Cameron Ponsonby joins Daniel Norcross from The Oval.
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TFW Daily - Can the Bazballers do it? - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 3
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 3: It was Yashasvi Jaiswal’s day at The Oval, as India pressed home the advantage of a weakened and inexperienced England attack. What a knock from the opener. 50s from Akash Deep and Ravindra Jadeja, and late fireworks from Washington Sundar kept the foot on the throat of the weary hosts. And to top it off, a Mohammed Siraj yorker to castle Zak Crawley completed the visitor’s superb day. How will England approach the chase with so much time? We all know the answer to that. But if any team can hunt a big target, roared on by a parochial crowd, it’s the Bazballers. Daniel Norcross joins Ben Jones.
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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.
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