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Sep 11, 2026

Ian WardHOST
17:19
You'll be throwing the ball to Razaullah, um, first up, that is for sure.
Ian WardHOST
17:23
Could they pull off the sort of victory that Ian Botham and Bob Willis inspired, um, for England against Australia all those years back in 1981 at Headingley? Um, the stage is certainly set for something special, and with Pakistan cricket, you don't put anything past them whatsoever.
Ian WardHOST
17:38
That has been the Daily Review.
Ian WardHOST
17:39
Thank you very much to Owen and to, uh, Chris Woakes.
Adam CollinsHOST
12:14
It's why it's always been such a special form of the game that it permits you to have the, the great rally and comeback.
Adam CollinsHOST
12:20
I mean, the comparisons I joked before about Leeds in nineteen eighty-one and, you know, what Dilly and Botham did, or what Botham and Dilly did rather to get them back in the game, and Bob Willis running down the hill and all the rest of it.
Adam CollinsHOST
12:31
Um, you know, those types of comebacks are what, uh, are what folklore is made of.
Adam CollinsHOST
12:35
Um, and yes, the probability is low, but I've said this many times, the beauty of overnight, the, the, the, the, the joy of overnight is it permits yourself for about fifteen hours to switch off and talk yourself into anything.
Michael ClarkeHOST
9:07
Yeah, exactly
Simon JonesGUEST
9:07
Uh, I remember playing against him when he was, when he first came in to play for Durham, and I thought, "This kid's got something" And I remember I was doing the verdict with, with Sky, and Bob Willis was, was climbing into the England team-
Michael ClarkeHOST
9:21
Yep
Simon JonesGUEST
9:22
... and I said, "Ben Stokes will be the best all-rounder England have ever had"
Behram QaziHOST
2:40
[laughs]
Jarrod KimberHOST
2:40
I'm gonna go Bob Willis.
Behram QaziHOST
2:42
Okay.
Varun AlvakondaHOST
2:42
Ooh.
Behram QaziHOST
2:43
The most test wickets for a bowler without a 10 wicket haul, Bob Willis.
Varun AlvakondaHOST
2:48
Is it?
Behram QaziHOST
2:49
Yep.
Behram QaziHOST
3:06
Yeah.
Jeff HovdenHOST
18:11
Starting from the center, Buffett has shot off to a number of unusual planets." Now, in Riddles in the Sand, we see him coming home, not quite on A1A, but with the same richness of feeling that informed much of his earlier work.
Jeff HovdenHOST
18:24
This album has a musical range expanding in an arc from Bob Willis to Bob Marley, with the Gulf somehow always there, a low and high tidal range, sweet and pining like the delta soil, Caribbean islands with white coral dust.
Jeff HovdenHOST
18:38
Rather than a return, Buffett is starting out from center again, with a vast expansion both musically and emotionally.
Jeff HovdenHOST
18:44
The music is a triumph for an American sound.
Harry CareySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:20
Whoa, they almost had him.
Harry CareySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:24
Boy, they almost had Bob Willis.
Harry CareySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:30
One ball, no strike.
Harry CareySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
79:37
Activity in the bullpen.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
26:53
And, and it seemed to split the, uh, the nation, actually.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
26:58
I mean, there would be, there were some county cricketers, people like Bob Willis, of course, who did not approve of it.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
27:03
There were others who couldn't see what the problem was.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
27:06
I mean, it was a, a strange time in cricket, wasn't it? When...
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
53:32
Omar Throneberry picking up two put-ups.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
53:35
And the batter coming on is Bob Willis.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
53:37
Right-hand batting shortstop.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
53:44
Lillis wide out to center field his first time up.

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Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:34
There's a one-strike pitch.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:35
Hit deep in the hole.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:36
Coming over Bob Willis.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
78:38
A good play as he throws over to first base in time.
Nick HoultHOST
7:20
Mm
Geoffrey BoycottGUEST
7:21
... until Bob Willis changed ends.
Nick HoultHOST
7:23
Mm.
Geoffrey BoycottGUEST
7:24
I know I was clearly near him.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:33
[crowd cheering] Bowled him.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:35
It's all over, and it is one of the most fantastic victories ever known in test cricket history.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:44
Bob Willis, eight wickets.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:47
A fabulous performance.
Tim GilbertGUEST
3:57
Hey,
Steve GillisHOST
3:57
for those that don't know, but many people would have seen you on the Today Show and Channel 9 over a long, long period of time.
Steve GillisHOST
4:04
You've been in radio.
Steve GillisHOST
4:06
You've worked on Sky News and many other things.
Steve GillisHOST
4:10
Just to give you a bit of background, you've hosted at the London Olympics, the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Steve GillisHOST
4:17
You've been to two US golf opens, the Commonwealth Games.

7 MINS LATER

Tim GilbertGUEST
11:36
And Anthony Maroon I met.
Tim GilbertGUEST
11:38
And he was a ridiculous human.

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