Simon Hughes

When America decides the balance of power, turn to the voices you trust.

Hello, welcome to the Analyst Inside Cricket with me, Simon Hughes.

And I'm Simon Mann.

Another intriguing day in the international world of cricket.

So I'm sorry to say, when you went into that committee room to get your P45, I don't think necessarily that I would have been there sort of scrambling to stop them giving it to you, especially as you got injured on the Cresta run in the season when you shouldn't have been doing that as a professional sportsman.

Did Claude criticise me for that? It hasn't, but it should do.

If I said, should Simon Hughes be criticised for that, I'm sure it would say there's a reasonable argument for it.

I don't like the way you use Claude for that sort of information, but I can't criticise you for it.

Now, what about this story about Gerrard's set for a major return to Liverpool, okay? Yeah.

Now, this is an exclusive story by Simon Hughes on the back of the Independent, okay?

Go on.

Now, it's wasted, of course, because hardly anybody in the world ever reads the Independent.

Stokes flashes it away, through the covers for four, and England have won the match.

Hello, welcome to the Analyst's Insight Cricket with me, Simon Hughes.

And I am Simon Mann.

I'm going to start with a question, the same way that you started our last podcast.

He's ginger.

He reminds me of Simon Hughes, actually.

I think the two things go together, don't they? When he went down, Andy, I thought he had a really bad injury and then all of a sudden he pops back up and scores.

Well, yeah, exactly.

He'll run about forever.

He'll put everything in.

Well, the comparison with Simon Hughes is he's really, really annoying.

Well, for the opposition, I guess.

Hello.

Welcome to the Analyst Inside Cricket with me, Simon Hughes.

And I'm Simon Mann.

And our special guest today is Chris Woakes, who is the World Cup winner and triple championship winner and one of only eight men who's on the Lord's honors board with both bat and ball.

Well, maybe might have played with one of them, that we, that we watched growing up, that entranced us, that enthralled us, but we wanted an expert on here.

So we've got Simon Hughes joining us, who runs the podcast, The Analyst: Inside Cricket, which you can find on all the best providers.

A great summarizer, analyst, and former Durham and Middlesex fast bowler.

So Simon Hughes joins us in this episode to give us the expert's opinion on the greatest players that we've seen from overseas in our County Championship.

Hope you enjoy the episode.

So Marcus and I have picked our teams, but now we want an expert's view.

So we've gone to Simon Hughes, the analyst, whose podcast, The Analyst: Inside Cricket, is out every week with all the best cricket chat and interviews and news.

And Simon, you've looked at our teams.

[upbeat music] Hello.

Welcome to The Analyst: Inside Cricket, with me, Simon Hughes.

And I'm Simon Mann.

I'm gonna start with a question for you, Hughes.

Mm-hmm

... that have played in county cricket, and then later on, Simon Hughes, Yozza Hughes, the analyst who opened the bowling for Middlesex and for Durham for years, won the championship many times.

He will give us his expert opinion on our teams, take the Mickey out of us, and say he was easy to bowl out or I didn't like facing him.

So it's a bit of ...

... because, of course, in those days they had a whole battery of fast bowlers.

And he was banned because he went on various tours to South Africa.

But if you speak to, to certain batters at the time, and I can't wait to hear what Simon Hughes has to say about him, they would say, certainly David Gower said he was the fastest of them all.

Even Geoffrey Boycott said, "He scared me silly."