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This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

Welcome along to a very special episode of TMS Does the IPL. We persuaded one of the

biggest names in cricket to drop by for a chat today, after taking a break from the game

to spend time with his family in New Zealand. England's World Cup winning and Ashes Batting

Hero is back with a radisson royals for his third season. Already one of England's

greatest all-rounders of all time, he holds numerous records, including England's fastest

ever test double century. He's also the reigning sports personality of the year. You guessed

it, it's Ben Sokes.

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Ben, thanks so much for giving up your time. Just great to see you and great to see you

playing in the IPL with the blessings of your family, of course. Do you feel like you've

managed to settle in OK?

Yeah, I mean, the sort of obviously the quarantine was actually pretty easy to be honest.

You know, having to spend six days in your room doesn't sound like the most appealing thing,

but the hotel facilities that we got, you know, given to us was actually actually made

the quarantine a lot easy. You know, we had sort of like a balcony, we had like a garden

area and stuff like that. So the first six days were actually made pretty easy and then

obviously once you've done that, you're back into the training and you're around the

group. So yeah, once I've done that, settled in pretty quickly, obviously I've gotten

to know most of the team, so I didn't have to worry about sort of meeting new people or

anything like that. So yeah, it's gone pretty well.

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