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This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

Welcome to the second episode of TMS, does the IPL. I'm Artif Nawaz and joining me is

my friend, my comrade, a man I've known for 10 years, the man that missed the legend,

Mr. Daniel Norcross How are you, Dad?

Oh, I'm fine, you know. It's like every England cricket fan the day after the last day

of the domestic cricket season. I was at T20 Blast finals day in Edgbaston, a rainy Edgbaston

to see the end, the curtain go down. But I was watching the IPL on the TV because it rained

so much. We got to see two games. I got to see the beautiful sunshine, some spectacular

cricket. My beloved story lost in the final of the past. But I'm fine. I'm fine. Look,

I'm really well. I'm really looking forward to this week in the IPL.

Well, we did see some great cricket this weekend. It was fantastic. So much cricket,

absolutely spoiled for choice. But really the highlight was the IPL. And as you say,

that postage stamp of the ground in Sharja is so small that teams are putting on huge

230 run totals and chasing them. It's crazy. Can you think of a smaller cricket ground

off the top of your head? No, I can't, but I dream of them because I used to captain

a cricket team, not very well, like captains in club cricket, at least your player, but the

best person on a telephone to get 11 people onto the ground. And I have this recurring dream

where I'm captaining on a table, not with on tennis court. I've got somebody who's hitting

it big and I've got to defend a 15 year boundary. And I kind of felt watching at Sharja,

if you were captain and you got Kair and Pollard, it comes out so fast. I mean, it's just

terrifying that the road took a heck of a hammering, didn't it? But the ball kept on disappearing.

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