Steve Harmison

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We'll be back for the weekly Following On podcast this Tuesday, where Neil Manthorpe and Steve Harmison will be joined by the former South Africa captain Dean Elgar to reflect on his international career in the game.

But for now, this has been another edition of Following On.

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the 2005 Ashes series, where you and Brett Lee, unbelievable partnership of 59.

I think you only needed three runs to win, and Harmison comes in.

And of course, apparently, well, you did glove it, but your hand was off the bat at the time.

I know you must get asked about this all the time.

[upbeat music] This is Following On with me, Neil Manthorp, along with former England fast bowler Steve Harmison, as always, for the usual busy show.

Right, we'll start by unpacking some of the key points in, uh, the ECB's new central contract list, and we'll talk to England's new test bowling coach, Eric Simons, before moving on to some other news.

And we'll finish with the final word.

So that's what I'd be looking at.

I'd be looking at it more at Josh Tongue, and this is where Henry Crocombe could go, rather than two or three of the other punts that didn't go our way.

At the end of the day, you always look to punt on fast bowlers, because you're never really sure what you're gonna get until you get them into the international scene.

I think it's good that they're looking after him.

Feels, I feel for Sussex though, 'cause he didn't have to move county.

Covington has kind of said to him, you know, he went and spoke to him apparently, and Pat Covington said, it's fine, man, tell your story.

If you're in a change room and you feel that one of your teammates is likely to go, and you had that, I don't know if you knew that Vaughney and Harmison were going to go off and work in the press, but were going to go off and have media careers, is that change room going to be as open as it could be? Because there's fears of what you say might leak later on or use later on against you.

I don't think that ever enters anyone's mind because at that moment, you're in a changing room playing and you're fighting for each other to win that match.

So you never think, look at it and go, oh, he could bring this up 10 years down the line or whatever.

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I'm Steve Harmison.

I represented England in 63 tests, 58 one-day internationals and won the Ashes twice with my country.

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[upbeat music] This is Following On with me, Neil Manthorp, alongside former England fast bowler Steve Harmison.

Later on, we'll be discussing new rule changes made by the ICC, and also England players signing up for the Afghanistan Premier League.

But first, South Africa begin a massive summer with eight test matches, but it, uh, hardly compares to Australia's year.

Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Oh, you know, it is always a tough tour, as it is for any opposition team coming over to Australia.

Um, and I think, you know, the South African-Australian, there was plenty of spice in the series before Sandpapergate, wasn't there? So it's not like it's uncommon, so I think Australian cricketers are always prepared that they're gonna cop it a lot.

Unfortunately, it's, it's, it's us fast bowlers down a fine leg army.

Yeah.

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And then I, I probably thought I was under the radar then, you know, like, um, you know, where Duncan Fletcher probably have- didn't look at me.

There was other big superstars, you know, in the team at that time with Vauni, Trescothick, Hoggard, Harmison.

You know, Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen.

Um, you know, Bailey, Cook were coming in.

So having two tournaments rather than one probably makes more sense.

Mob says, "Are there two players who come together like a two-card trick and play better than the sum of their parts when they share an XI? I'm thinking perhaps of pairs of brothers or sisters or mates or Brearly-ish effects." Uh, yeah, so there's one that I've, I've talked about a lot, which is Steve Harmison and, um, uh, Freddie Flintoff, who one of them was great against top order and one was great against the tail.

And so they both had weaknesses, but they actually accounted for both of their weaknesses.

And so, and again, Harmison can't, um, bat, and yet Freddie can.

So they actually, those two in a team together is a magnificent combination, and they're much better than if they're in a team without each other Like they really do accentuate quite a bit.

Um, another one which is a really random one, which I've probably never talked about before, but I would say Glenn McGrath and Stuart McGill.

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I'm Steve Harmison.

I represented England in 63 tests and 58 1-8 nationals and won the Ashes twice with my country.

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