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26/07/2025

Our commentary team are all set for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat 🎙️⚽

Will it be Morocco 🇲🇦 or Nigeria 🇳🇬 lifting the trophy? 🏆

Listeners to BBC World Service in West and Central Africa can hear live radio commentary of the Wafcon final from 1930 GMT 📻

25/07/2025

Should England be the permanent host of the World Test Championship finals? 🏏

After the decision to award England the next three finals, Stumped's Nikesh Rughani, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma share their thoughts.

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Is England the natural home for the event or should the ICC consider rotating between venues?Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3Vyyr...

24/07/2025

Is England the natural home for the World Test Championship finals? 🤔

Nikesh Rughani, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma also discuss who can share India🇮🇳's fast bowling burden with Jasprit Bumrah?

Plus, hear about a Day for Thorpey

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We discuss the decision to award England the next three World Test Championship finals.

21/07/2025

BBC Sounds has closed outside the UK.

You can now listen to your favourite BBC World Service programmes right alongside the best of the BBC's written journalism - giving you more context and analysis, all in one place.

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18/07/2025

What’s it like to be a cricketer’s wife? 🤔

Puja Pujara didn’t know anything about cricket when she married India batter Cheteshwar Pujara 🏏

They both join us on Stumped to lift the lid on family life amid elite cricket

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We hear from Puja and Cheteshwar Pujara who discuss what life is like for the partners of international cricket players.Click here to subscribe to our channe...

17/07/2025

Windies woes – will they recover? 😳

Following that historic 27-all-out against Australia – the lowest Test score since 1955 – we ask what’s next for Caribbean cricket? 🏏

Plus, Puja Pujara on her book The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife: A Very Unusual Memoir. We pull back the curtain and find out what life is really like for the spouse of an elite cricketer

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West Indies slumped to 27-all out in the third and final Test against Australia.

11/07/2025

“Brian Lara is a legend” 🏏

Was Wiaan Mulder right to respect history? 🤔

We unpack the South Africa stand-in captain’s decision to declare himself 33 runs short of Lara’s record for the highest individual score in a Test innings 🥇

Would a bigger name in world cricket have made the same choice?

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10/07/2025

Are India the team to beat? 🇮🇳

Jemimah Rodrigues reflects on India’s historic first T20 series win in England after she scored the winning run at Old Trafford 🏏

Plus, we debate Wiaan Mulder stopping short of Brian Lara’s record 🤔

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India's women beat England to win a T20 series on English soil for the first time.

04/07/2025

Bowler burnout - is injury inevitable for a quick? 🤔

Former South Africa fast bowler Vernon Philander joins Henry Moeran, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma on this week's Stumped, to discuss Jasprit Bumrah’s fitness and Jofra Archer’s return to the England squad 🏏

Plus, what toll does fast bowling take on the body, and how can cricketers manage their injuries?

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03/07/2025

“Injuries are part of your career”

What toll does being a fast bowler take on the body? 🤔

Former South Africa quick, Vernon Philander, discusses how the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer should be managed to get the best out of their game, after Bumrah was rested for the second Test at Edgbaston 🏏

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Philander on Jasprit Bumrah's fitness and Jofra Archer's return to England's test squad.

27/06/2025

"He doesn't miss the target"

Jasprit Bumrah took a five-for in the first innings of the opening Test at Headingley – but what is it that makes him an elite bowler? 🤔

Having kept wicket to Bumrah, India international K.S. Bharat explains 🏏

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Indian Test Cricketer K.S. Bharat reflects on India losing to England at Headingley.Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriMOn this...

26/06/2025

What’s it like to keep wicket to Jasprit Bumrah? 🏏

India lost the opening Test of their five match series away in England - as we reflect on the defeat, Stumped is joined by India international, K S Bharat 🇮🇳

So, what changes will India need to make going forward in the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy?

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Indian Test Cricketer KS Bharat reflects on India losing to England at Headingley.