CSB - Jon Norman - UK corespondent

Heading to the land of hope and glory to talk all things British sport.

• Andy Murray to retire
• England cricket post-Anderson era starts with a resounding win
• The Open review 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on gold Sport. They
were after the Land of Hope and Glory to catch
up with our UK correspondent, talkSPORT Cricket editor and Brasidre
or the follow on Cricket podcast, Johnny Norman Money Johnny.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, good morning to you. BK. Hope you will very well.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Thank you. Nice win for the English cricketers again against
the West Indies.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, just got back from Nottingham a couple of days ago.
Really good Test match. We spoke just before the day one,
didn't we and it was actually turned out to be
a good Test. West Indies hit four d and fifty seven,
which I think is the biggest amount they've hit in
quite some time.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And they bowled they bowled pretty well.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
The fielding was a bit slack, but then they just
got they got blown away towards the back end and
you do get that quite a lot. I mean, you know,
if you don't play four or five day cricket, then
by the time you get today three or four you're
absolutely naked.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Kind of looked a little bit that way.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
All ended very quickly, but all things considered, I thought
West Indies played well. They were always up against it
in England as well. A new starring show of Basher,
the young off spinner who toured India having only taken
some like six first class wickets and he's ended up

(01:23):
taking he's taken three five fers in his first what
five Test matches, which is when you consider one of
those Test matches he didn't even bowl, which is at
Law's last week the week before. That's saying something. So yeah,
a new hero there. But yeah, all in all a
pretty good Test.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Wasn't there a ball whek by a West Indian betsman
that woke up some pub patrons across the road.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Some we're bounced on the roof, yeah, Shamara Joseph, he's
actually the number eleven. He was bounced by Gus Atkinson
and he hit the hook. The ball not quite onto
the roof of a pub. It was a land would
stand at square leg and quite far back, hit the
top of the roof and about five or six tiles

(02:10):
came flying down the roof.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
It could have been quite nasty because there's spectators underneath it.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
They all let the duck for cover as the tiles
started falling all around them, but thankfully everybody was okay, oh.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Good, that's good. All right, So the big news out today.
It is now official, even though they fear world him
on senior court at wimbled and Andy Murray will play
his last big game I guess after the Olympics or
at the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, that's right, the Olympics. I think this would be
his fourth Olympics and final final Olympics. We thought that
maybe the wimbereden would have been his swan song, you know,
one bowing out at his at the major, his home
home major. I suppose, I know Scottish, but you know

(02:58):
what I mean. Of course one wimbled a few years back.
But the Olympics is a sports tournament. He is always
competed as hard as any other. It's almost seen alongside.
It's almost like a fifth major, isn't it in tennis?
So yeah, and not too far from home as well,
because of course the Paris Olympics gets underway in a

(03:19):
few days time. So yeah, the final chance was all
just to say thanks to Andy Murray. Really after a
long story career.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I saw the fear well that they gave him on
sandac Cord in Wimbledon, and that was very moving as well.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It was a shame that he wasn't able to play
in the doubles with the Moorada Carno because that would
have just that would have been something special as well
as something quite unique and fresh and quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
The passing of the battle, I suppose.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
But this means, I suppose now that we can, you know,
we can celebrate a wonderful career. He's been head and
shoulders the most successful British tennis star of the last
what seventy years, So you know he will he will
rightly go down in history here and around the world.

(04:06):
And of course if he hadn't have played in an
era of Roger Federer and rafa Adah and Djokovic, of course,
and he probably would have, no doubt, would have added
maybe five or six majors and and you know his
standing would have been even more elevated.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
That said he was.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
He's been absolutely brilliant and now the question is, you
know what next?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Where does he go from here?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And under the golfing scene, sadly no British winner at
the Open, not on the weekend and pretty challenging conditions.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, it's my favorite ride a couple side, it's my
favorite of the golfing majors because you know, it's that
when the elements get involved. I find it just makes
it more interesting, you know, seeing some of these, you know,
huge names from across the pond, and more often than
not it is a huge name from across the pond
that windsor open, you know, coming over him and really

(05:03):
struggling and you know, not just having to take on
the course, but also the elements. It just adds that
kind of jeopardy and it really see you really see
the skill set come out.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So it wasn't to be for Justin Rose.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sadly, you know, it's been what twenty six years since
he announced himself on the world stage with a fourth
place finished at the Open. He's never won it. We
were all hoping that, you know, this was going to
be the year he would add a second major to
his career, but despite leading at one point, it just
wasn't to be. So yeah, it's a shame. Really, it's

(05:38):
been the best part of thirty odd years since we've
had an English.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Winner of the Open.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
It looked for a while like it might be Justin Rose,
but as he said afterwards, he's still got a few
opportunities yet he's still relatively young, of course.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, well, enjoy the Olympic games of
course kick off well tomorrow really Evince starting with football
but for opening ceremony and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah absolutely. I mean the Olympics is as big as
it gets, isn't it. So it would be enjoyable to
work to be talking about some of the stories that
always get unearthed around this time every four years or so.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
So no doubt we'll be uh, we'll be talking about.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
We could we could compare where New Zealand and England
and Great Britain are in the in the middle tally maybe.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Absolutely, John, good on you mate, enjoy thanks so much,
see a lad of mate. John Norman Are UK correspond