Josh Poysden on The Ball of the 21st Century

07/06/20 • 60 min

On this week’s episode DJ and Varun discuss the latest happenings in the world of cricket starting with DJ Bravo’s new song about M.S. Dhoni and the Panyda brothers’ social media fitness battle with Virat Kohli. We also talk about the restart of cricket with the West Indies tour of England kicking-off on 8 July and developments in Sri Lanka about fixing allegations around the 2011 World Cup final.

The second half of the show is all about leg spin and is an interview with England Lions and Yorkshire cricket leg spinner, Josh Poysden. We talk about luck, the English first class system, how captains treat leg spinners, the best leggies going around today, Kuldeep, Chahal and how Josh bowled the ball of the 21st century in the 2018 T20 blast (link: https://twitter.com/vitalityblast/status/1029801304787509248?s=21)

Josh’s Cricinfo profile by George Dobell: http://m.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/464110.html

You can follow Josh on Instagram and Twitter @JoshPoysden14 and @SpinBadger.

Link to DJ Bravo song https://www.instagram.com/p/CCATXIMn_Va/?igshid=nexni973kf4n

Jarrod Kimber article on MS Dhoni’s super gut https://wickets.substack.com/p/ms-dhoni-and-the-magical-gut

Link to Virat Kohli’s superman clap pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCI3x9Yl8xu/?igshid=9h3i3l1kxb1v

Link to Hardik Pandya’s back pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOMG7NFWzt/?igshid=fcyjbvz9h5tv

Daily Hunt article on Sri Lankan cricket http://dhunt.in/aaf4o?s=a&uu=0x5367aef756a7fd44&ss=pd

Caribbean Cricket Podcast https://twitter.com/CaribCricket

Oreo’s catching skills https://www.instagram.com/p/CCKvruyFw2k/?igshid=1tx42486huo89

Poll on favourite cricket format https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1278646398532161538?s=21

The Ball of the 21st century: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.hindustantimes.com/cricket/josh-poysden-s-ripper-brings-back-memories-of-shane-warne-s-ball-of-the-century-watch/story-WgYvzj170rqfIHQX3Wo5LN_amp.html

Josh’s Cricinfo profile by George Dobell: http://m.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/464110.html

You can follow Josh on Instagram and Twitter @JoshPoysden14 and @SpinBadger.

Link to DJ Bravo song https://www.instagram.com/p/CCATXIMn_Va/?igshid=nexni973kf4n

Jarrod Kimber article on MS Dhoni’s super gut https://wickets.substack.com/p/ms-dhoni-and-the-magical-gut

Link to Virat Kohli’s superman clap pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCI3x9Yl8xu/?igshid=9h3i3l1kxb1v

Link to Hardik Pandya’s back pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOMG7NFWzt/?igshid=fcyjbvz9h5tv

Daily Hunt article on Sri Lankan cricket http://dhunt.in/aaf4o?s=a&uu=0x5367aef756a7fd44&ss=pd

Caribbean Cricket Podcast https://twitter.com/CaribCricket

Oreo’s catching skills https://www.instagram.com/p/CCKvruyFw2k/?igshid=1tx42486huo89

Poll on favourite cricket format https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1278646398532161538?s=21

Previous Episode

Guy Walker on IPL Gloat XI

This week we deal with the fall-out from the IPL GOAT XI episode as Varun (46%) gloats about his win over Ashwin (41%) and DJ (13%) in the Twitter poll pitting the podcasters teams against each other. We then move on to the keenly contested Listener IPL GOAT XI contest which was won by Ajinkya Patwardhan, who saw off very tough competition from Sreekar’s team. Congratulations Ajinkya!

Test cricket is going to be back on our screens pretty soon with England playing the West Indies on 8 July so we are all looking forward to this. In the meantime, Pakistani players seem to playing COVID test roulette!

The second half of the show is an interview with cricketer and AFL player Guy Walker, who has played cricket for Australia under-19 and has represented the Melbourne Renegades in the BBL. Stay tuned for the awesome Kohli sledging story!

Podcaster poll: https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1275355185989156865?s=21

Listener teams and poll: https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1276931154441093121?s=21

Ajinkya’s video explaining his IPL GOAT XI: https://twitter.com/iamajinkya14/status/1276972255168233472?s=21

Guy Walker’s profile: https://www.melbournerenegades.com.au/players/guy-walker

Next Episode

Monty Panesar on Live Cricket Returns

Live cricket is finally back! In the first half of the show, Ashwin joins DJ as we discuss the big talking points from the West Indies win over England in the first test at Southampton - we cover it all, from the rainy restart to Black Lives Matter to Ben Stokes v Jason Holder to Tino Best v Archer to Jermaine Blackwood’s brilliant 95 in the chase.

In the second half, Varun and DJ get the amazing chance to speak to English left arm spinner Monty Panesar. We talk about Monty’s Gujarati (?) roots, his early career and making it to play test cricket for England and taking Sachin Tendulkar as his first test wicket. We also talk about his batting in the famous Ashes test at Cardiff and beating India in India in 2012. Monty tells us some sledging stories and how he battled with mental health issues. We include a lot of listener questions.

Black Lives Matter - Ebony Rainford-Brent https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1280824942729277440?s=21 & Michael Holding https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1280816042709827584?s=21

Emotional restart to cricket https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1280887205876170752?s=21

Tino Best v Jofra Archer https://twitter.com/jofraarcher/status/1281691991139594241?s=21

Monty on Cyrus Says https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zaBOz9sUh6ekPtEICnnGO?si=nBUhN01DQPqJHkUr-qdxAg

George Dobell’s article on racism in English cricket https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1225596/what-has-english-cricket-been-like-for-black-players

Monty takes Sachin and Dravid on debut https://youtu.be/geTWV6887Zc

Monty batting in Cardiff test https://youtu.be/aTLTcVrU9CE

Jermaine Blackwood Blue Tick Campaign https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1282359012147843074?s=21