What’s going wrong with English cricket?
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After England crash out of the Champions Trophy, Henry Moeran and the TMS team ask just what’s going wrong at the moment. Across the men’s and women’s teams, England have lost 16 out of the 17 games they’ve played in 2025.
Is it an attitude problem? An image problem? Captaincy? Or is there more to it than that?
Henry is joined by World Cup winner Alex Hartley, and TMS colleagues Aatif Nawaz and Daniel Norcross
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| 0:00.0 | he was one of the most enigmatic owners in football |
| 0:04.4 | can you describe Vladimir Romanoff in one word mysterious |
| 0:07.7 | his roller coaster reign of hearts had incredible highs |
| 0:11.7 | heart made by Wengold O'Nell and remarkable lows |
| 0:15.4 | he fires the coach right there on the bus in front of all the team |
| 0:19.1 | so who was Vladimir Romanov? |
| 0:21.8 | And where is he now? |
| 0:22.9 | If you gave this storyline to a Hollywood filmmaker, |
| 0:25.8 | get rejected too incredulous. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Martin Geisler, |
| 0:29.6 | and this is Romanov, Tsar of Hearts. |
| 0:32.4 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.4 | This is the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello, I'm Henry Moran in Rao Pindi. |
| 0:47.2 | It's the day after England have been knocked out of the ICC Champions Trophy at the earliest |
| 0:52.3 | opportunity. |
| 0:53.6 | Their record so far this year reads, |
| 0:55.6 | played 10, 1-1, lost 9. Add in the women's team and English cricket sides have lost |
| 1:01.2 | 16 of the 17 matches they've played in 2025. So what's going wrong? And why are so many people |
| 1:07.7 | across the world taking so much pleasure in England's poor form at the moment? |
| 1:11.7 | Is it the amount of 50 over cricket being played? |
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