Mason Crane

It's gonna be interesting

... we have interesting Mason Crane, the return of one for 7,174 Mason Crane.

Well, he's now in, in-

I think-

Remember Ryan Sidebottom came again, like many, many, many years after his first, uh, first ...

So did Graham Go- well, it may be only three years, but players do come again.

I'd love to see Mason Crane.

Graham Swann.

in there, and, uh, we'll read a few out.

Monty, oh, I can think of, what, Mason Crane, Boyd Rankin.

Oh, Mason Crane.

Oh, I'll go back to keeper Warren Hegg.

Gosh, there's been so many in England cricket.

So if the fielding had been a little better, I think we'd have been closer... to the victory that day who knows how then the second innings would have gone but no it's been very encouraging over the two years to see the growth of a team that didn't exist two years ago so to go from scratch to what we've done I think is very encouraging and I hope things continue and we manage to get a good season in the first season next year in tier one What's your summary of the men's game this season? Well after a somewhat unexpected promotion but a very very deserved one in the end obviously the first half of the season we maybe not so much over performed but the results were better than maybe we were hoping obviously a couple of very good performances particularly at home and obviously backs to the wall with Ryan Hadley against Somerset in particular And to get the double over Surrey is obviously extremely encouraging.

And Mason Crane's performance is in both.

So obviously one or two matches didn't quite go as we'd like.

But to retain our status for Division 1, that's what I was hoping.

Loads, and also a lot of it's been pretty good.

But the big news, headline news from England's squad is that Mason Crane, after eight years out in the wilderness, is back.

Rehan Ahmed is out.

Mm.

James Coles and Henry Croker more included, though uncapped.

Butler is out with a hamstring injury, Bethel still recovering, Archer rested.

Um, Mason Crane, what a joy.

Yeah, richly deserved for the boy as well.

It, it's a team that's kind of full of very good county players, not many England call-ups, and therefore almost perfectly kind of set up, uh, to compete in the championship

championshipTalking of, um, moves that went well, Mason Crane moved from Hampshire to Glamorgan, and they've- they announced their, um, white ball side for the triangular in, in Pakistan.

What did you make of that side? What did you make of Mason Crane's call-up?

Yeah, I mean, that's the, that, that's the main bit of news out of that squad, isn't it? They rested Archer, but, um, the, the main kind of takeaway from that is Mason Crane in for, for Rayan Ahmed.

First of all, it pleased for Mason Crane.

It's a great story.

We were there in 2018 in Sydney when he was called up for that test match, and he had a kind of hellish introduction really, didn't he? What were his figures? One for 193 or something in 40-odd overs.

Um, I mean, there's time obviously for Rayan Ahmed to come back.

I think the spinner, the spinner, I'm going to go a little bit rogue.

And look, Mason Crane was definitely up there for me, and he has had a phenomenal season.

But I've still got an overseas spot available.

Now, originally I was tinkering between Carlson and Nathan McSween.

I literally wrote Critchley down, uh, like, next to my 12th man, and then had to rub him out a second later, um, because Aaron picked him.

I don't...

Again, I don't know how none of us have picked this guy, but I'm gonna go with Mason Crane.

Um, it was a toss-up between him and Liam Patterson-White for me.

And Glamorgan, the second innings, was a dramatic shift in tone as they amassed 594.

Uh, Asa Tribe top scored with 115, and Mason Crane seems to have something against Surrey because before this season he didn't have a first class 100.

He now has two, both against Surrey.

Uh, and Australian Dutch bowler Tim van der Ghuyten scored 72.

And no matter where Surrey are, be it in one, Division 1 or Division 2, the last game of the season, there has to be a rule that we're allowed to win it still.

Um, other, other than that, I had a fantastic last day at cricket last, uh, I think, I don't know, last Thursday I went to the Oval.

Saw, um, saw Mason Crane, who I've always quite liked as a cricketer, hit 100.

Um, I saw a Glamorgan number 11 close his eyes and swing the bat and hit some sixes.

Um, but I've gone someone slightly different.

I've gone with Mason Crane.

Scored his second first-class century of his career.

Um, really, really happy for him.

And for Glamorgan to beat that Surrey side, I know kind of Surrey have been in a bit of a free fall this year, but having Dan Lawrence back into the side, having a slightly stronger side, um, I think it was a really, really good performance, um, from a Glamorgan team that I didn't give a chance to staying up at the start of the season.

Um, and I thought some of these performances that this team has put in has been really impressive, despite it kind of falling away a little bit towards the end of the season.

Um, but to stay up, I think they've done really, really well, and Mason Crane has massively impressed me all throughout the season, but especially this week.

Yeah, to be honest, Charlie, he's impressed us as well, and rightfully so.

Root came in at six.

Chris Cook then, Mason Crane, Tim Van de Gerten, Ray Toole, Amir Hamza.

In terms of Colin Ingram's future, but I think this is his last season with us.

He's been a great service for us.

And I felt it at the time.

I felt if we had gone two down, I think, obviously, I think we probably would have sent in a night watch.

I don't know whether that was Mason Crane or Tim Van Goorten, but... we quite could have easily crawled to 30 for two and that would have been a disaster and I think the writing would have been on the wall but we didn't we showed some fight and application and to finish the day 30 for no loss that sent a signal that they were willing to dig in and fight because obviously that was before the Leicestershire ECB decision so it did feel like if there was a collapse coming then Our status in division one would have been right up for grabs.

And I think going into that Essex game, given what happened to Essex as well, it would have been extremely nervy and extremely uncomfortable and no glammy support.