Phil Walker

It remains so.

So he played, as you'll remember, in 2023, he played two and a bit test matches.

He actually started the Leeds game.

And then he pulled up with a back spasm.

And that seemed to sort of summarize his attitude to fitness.

Rightly or wrongly, but it got boiled down to that.

People test match in the series and he couldn't get through the first hour or two.

Now, you know, cricketers get back spasms.

They get injured.

That's that's occupational hazard.

But it seemed to feed into this idea that he had, if you like, say, a liberal attitude to fitness.

And that would manifest, obviously, in the second and third spells that he would bowl that would be down on pace.

What was what did Hayden say?

Nude nuts.

He's bowling 70 mile an hour nude nuts.

he has his own vocabulary does the great man um but yeah so so at some point down the line england had a bowler who was ranked number five in the world with an average lower than anderson lower than broad lower than wokes even at home uh and they got fed up with him they got tired of of him in the setup and he went to india he had some off-field issues he had had some personal issues he was

Falling in love with somebody else, basically.

And it became a bit of a big story over here.

And they had a podcast, him and his new girl, which was probably ill-advised.

Definitely ill-advised.