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Oct 14, 2026
Cameron PonsonbyHOST
Uh, the ECB initially, um, said they were gonna grant NOCs, and they've said they will have to think about it very carefully.
Cameron PonsonbyHOST
And Rob Key spoke to the Test Match Special podcast, I think yesterday.
Cameron PonsonbyHOST
And so this is his quote saying, "Legally, it's hard to stop players going over and playing in these competitions." So the thing with the ECB is there's restraint of trade laws in the UK.
Cameron PonsonbyHOST
So they're going, "Look, we cannot stop these people from going." Key goes on to say, "It becomes a moral judgment, and players have to be prepared to take the right moral stance.
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Andy ZaltzmanGUEST
You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to another episode of Test Match Special Top 10.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
I'm Stefan Szymanski, and this time round we'll be ranking test cricket's biggest scandals with the help of you, listeners of TMS and the readers of the BBC Sport website and app.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
To mark Australia's first test in South Africa since Sandpapergate, we have been asking which is the biggest scandal in test cricket history.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
So we asked you on the BBC Sport website and app to rank 10 scandals from 10 to one, and we are going to reveal the results right now, and I'm gonna be helped by three scandalous men: former England fast bowler Steven Finn, Test Match Special scorer, podcaster, and comedian Andy Zaltzman, and the BBC's chief cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew.
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Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
We had that a lot, but that was in a one day international.
Stephan ShemiltCORRESPONDENT
So that's why some of those weren't on the list.
Jon BriggsHOST
Anyway, when Bob and I sat down to decide who we'd like to appear with us, on the very top of our list was a man who spent almost half a century living and breathing cricket.
Jon BriggsHOST
As a county fast bowler, as one of the voices of Test Match Special, and as the soundtrack to countless English summers.
Jon BriggsHOST
Jonathan Agnew, better known to Test Match Special audiences as Aggers.
Jon BriggsHOST
Aggers, welcome to the Backgarden Cricket Club.
Jonathan AgnewGUEST
Well, I've been looking forward to this, and I thought, look, it's a beautiful day.
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Jonathan AgnewGUEST
He didn't get his leg over the stump.
Jonathan AgnewGUEST
So anyway, I laughed.
Jonathan AgnewGUEST
And then, of course, when I said it, Had I said that to any other commentator on Test Match Special that day, it would just have gone straight past and they wouldn't have thought anything of it.
Nathan JohnsHOST
I mean, the IPL and BBL were broadcast basically by the same guys who do the England games.
Nathan JohnsHOST
That's broadcast by Test Match Special, which is based in...
Nathan JohnsHOST
Well, they're based all over the shop really, but in theory that's the responsibility of, uh, MediaCity in Salford.
Nathan JohnsHOST
Uh, Ireland games would be the responsibility of BBC Ulster, who don't re- I reckon there's probably two blokes in BBC Ulster who are proper cricket fans, and their bosses just don't see cricket as a priority because it's, you know, Northern Ireland falls into the same bracket as Ireland in that it's rugby, soccer, GAA that dominates the, the airwaves and the headlines.
Ebony Rainford-BrentGUEST
Mm.
Henry MoeranHOST
This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live What about the women's summer?
Ebony Rainford-BrentGUEST
Hmm.
Henry MoeranHOST
Because that had the, the, the big sort of, uh, marquee event of the T20 World Cup hosted, uh, in England and, uh, England get to the final, lose to Australia, Matt.