Hasan Mahmud

... uh, of the stories around the player who was central to it.

But this, you know, and that, that, that Darwin test is so different because you watch Hasan Mahmud take the six wickets in the first innings, and you contrast it with, with Shoriful Islam in Mackay, where he takes seven for and bowls beautifully, but it doesn't matter 'cause they get pumped anyway.

That's kind of how you expect a, a, a good Bangladesh p-performance to, to pan out from one player.

But it's not just six for fifty-five in the first innings from him.

Now onto what we call sort of the, I guess I call the general news se- segment, of just sort of things that might have gone on in the County Championship Division 2, and you might not have noticed they were going on, if that makes sense.

Um, [lip smack] now within the sort of the two games coming up and, and the games that are going on right now, as I mentioned, Hasan Mahmud has been removed from Kent duty by the BCB, so that's the Bangladesh Cricket Board, um, due to he's got a, you know, heavy workload this winter coming up.

Um, but it's a real tough one for Kent, [chuckles] you know, to take on the chin.

Kent have been in contention for a promotion push now, uh, sort of I think they're in third.

Um, they could be in second.

Either way, they're, they're one of the two that are going for that second promotion place after Durham.

Uh, and in the last two matches, Hasan Mahmud has played for Kent.

He's taken 14 wickets in those last two matches.

Like, he's, he's not, he's not a tall man.

Hasan, he's, he's not much taller than Hasan Mahmud, whom may, whom won Bangladesh a test match in Australia, which is, like, famously Australia and South Africa are the places for which we prepare tall and into the deck bowlers, and here he comes.

[laughs]

No, Hasan Mahmud is les- listed as six foot.

I mean, this is all just Wikipedia data, by the way.

I don't think that-

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I don't think that in cricket, do they, like, actually, does the ICC record players' heights officially?

They actually, the BCB, have actually set up an entire program to promote test cricket.

In fact, Hasan Mahmud, the, uh, bowler who took those wickets in the first test match-

Mm

... was brought back into the fold because he didn't know which way he was going, you know, white ball, red ball.

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I, my phone was blowing up from people who I didn't know had an interest in, uh, the bowling of Hasan Mahmud-

[laughs]

... until about a week ago.

Mm.

You know, if they'd got an opportunity to bowl on that wicket that was doing a bit, did a bit throughout the whole test.

I played against Hasan Mahmud at, um, at Blackpool when he was playing for Kent, and I was talking to Adam Hollioake actually, who's Ken- the Kent coach, and he said-

Good coach