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Feb 2022
49m 22s

How’s Jimmy?

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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Jimmy talks for the first time about being omitted from the England Test team for the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Plus, the return of ‘Correspondence of Uncertainty’, Mattchin debuts a new game and Greg, Felix and Mattchin have a moral dilemma.

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