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Classic View from the Boundary on the TMS Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast.

This is Simon Mann with you for another trip down memory lane,

as we revisit a classic view from the Boundary from 2011.

The matching question was that lords were team England and Sri Lanka,

though the game finished in a draw,

is remembered for centuries from Sir Alistair Cook and Matt Pryor,

as well as a massive 193 from the Taurus Tillie Karatni Dilshan.

Our guest up in the commentary box was the author Sebastian Fokes,

best known for his novels, Bird Song and Charlotte Grey.

Fokes has been described as one of the most impressive novelists of his generation.

As well as his writing, Fokes is a keen cricketer,

and as will here has plenty of playing experience.

So let's go back to 2011 when he joined me in the commentary box

on a sunny Saturday in June.

Hello Simon, nice to be here. It was great to have you here with us,

but the reason we invite people on to a view from the Boundary

is because they are big cricket fans as well,

and you are a big cricket fan.

You've listened to this programme for long and blow blow,

does it have been on it, I should think?

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