Melissa Story (Gloucestershire) and Nikki Chaudhuri (Surrey) are with Producer Matt to dissect this year's Hundred competition. Melissa has another game for the podcast (no singing this time) before the trio chat about the big winners and losers of the 2023 tournament.
In other news The Analyst himself - Simon Hughes is delighted to announce his film "The Greatest Game" is on BBC 2 at 11:05pm tonight (01/09) and on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 months, a must-watch for all cricket fans studying England's 2019 World Cup Triumph.
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Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Hundred Heartaches and Hurrahs

Sharp analysis and opinion from the cricket world with Simon Hughes, The Analyst and the BBC's Simon Mann, featuring comment, analysis, interviews with international players and celebrity guests.

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Simon Hughes and Simon Mann discuss the difficulty of scheduling county cricket to anyone's - never mind everyone's - satisfaction and hear about the real (10th century) origins of cricket - with fairly brutal consequences - from a most unexpected source. This podcast is sponsored by www.visitbarbados.org/cricket
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Conflict of Interests

Simon Hughes and Simon Mann analyse this month's big talking point, the potential sale of the Hundred franchises to private investors and what it might mean for the 18 counties and MCC. PCA chief executive Daryl Mitchell and Leicestershire CEO Sean Jarvis offer their views.
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The Big Deal

Melissa Story (Gloucestershire & TMS) and Nikki Chaudhuri (Surrey & TMS) return to the massive plan to return the women's game to the counties and the impacts of this move. Reading listener concerns and speculating on the game before Surrey CC Women's Captain Amy Gordon describes the uncertainty the plans have had on her life.

She also talks about how commendable work in founding teh charity "Pad Up" an organisation delivering period products to girls in Kenyan schools to keep them engaged in education and sport.
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Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Darwin deliberation with Amy Gordon

One of England's truly great players, David Gower, joins our virtual cricket club to discuss the future of Test cricket, his most embarrassing dismissals, which modern player he'd most like to be and why he loves Icelandic cricket. Join our virtual club at worldsbestcc.com
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David Gower is in the House

Melissa Story (Gloucestershire & TMS) and Nikki Chaudhuri (Surrey & TMS) dissect the ECB's latest plans to expand the professional women's game with 00 Child Podcast host Polly Starkie and the Independent's sports writer, Sonia Twigg, who makes her second appearance on the pod.
Whether the new announcement will grow or harm women's cricket is down to natural selection but the panel left no stone unturned with a critical and passionate debate on how to develop the domestic game.
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Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Hundred Heartaches and Hurrahs

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