Women's Ashes: Clare Connor reacts to England's humbling tour
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Henry Moeran speaks to the ECB's Clare Connor to discuss England Women's awful Ashes showing. Plus, the thoughts of BBC Sport's Ffion Wynne and Isabelle Westbury.
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| 0:00.0 | Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful British manager of all time. |
| 0:05.0 | Nobody is above him or this football club. |
| 0:08.0 | So how did an apprentice toolmaker from Glasgow become one of the most iconic figures in sporting history? |
| 0:15.0 | His strength of character, his determination, the fight on him. |
| 0:18.0 | He can be persuasive, he can be charming, he can be frightening. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Kelly Cates, and this is Sporting Giants, Sir Alex Ferguson. |
| 0:25.8 | I didn't want to feel. I couldn't feel. |
| 0:27.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:35.7 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello, I'm Henry Moran. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to a special TMS podcast as we look back on the series that may come to define the future of England women's cricket. |
| 0:51.1 | A 16-0 humbling in Australia cannot be ignored. Something has to change |
| 0:56.4 | and we'll be hearing from some of the most significant names in the game to try and work it all out. |
| 1:01.8 | To come some controversial comments from the cricket writer Gideon Hay and we'll get the |
| 1:06.9 | thoughts around it all from Fion Nguin and Isabel Westbury. But before any of that, the day after the crushing loss in the test match at the MCG |
| 1:15.5 | that sealed the series clean sweep for Australia, I spoke to the England and Wales |
| 1:20.0 | cricket board's deputy CEO and managing director of women's cricket, Claire Connor. |
| 1:25.4 | Stand by for what is at times a challenging interview |
| 1:28.3 | with some deep reflections on a devastating few weeks for England's women. |
| 1:32.6 | The TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 1:38.4 | Claire, honest reflections of the talk. |
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