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Hello, it's Jonathan Agni with the first of two

Tess match special podcasts at the end of a remarkable year for everybody.

Cricket like every aspect of life has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic

with tours cancelled, fans frustrated and the word test,

taking on rather a different meaning for everyone around the sport.

But despite all the challenges we've seen, lots of action on the field,

there have been some special games and significant milestones and plenty of dramatic moments

along the way. Over the course of this episode and the next, we'll look back on the year that was

2020 and also looking ahead to what might come to be in 2021. We'll even get our panel

to throw in some outlandish predictions as to what could await us over the next 12 months.

With me to discuss it all are the former England international and Wilcoe,

winner Ebony Rainford Brent, TMS commentator Simon Mann and our stats guru, Andy Zoltzman

Greetings all. Jonathan, hello. Hello. How are you doing?

And Ebony, there she is in the background. I mean firstly, we'll be part of the

biopubble this year. How have you found it? And have you been strumming your guitar along

with the rest or something? Have you recovered? Just about aggers. Yes, it was, well, it was

curious and we were I guess hugely fortunate to be able to be part of it.

And yes, it was a sport without a crowd is I think something that everyone is looking

forward and not having to go through whenever that is possible. We want full steps.

But sport without people watching, it doesn't entirely make sense. But I think particularly the test

cricket worked very well given those restrictions and we saw some highly competitive sport.

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