Show Notes
Before the commentary box, the county wickets and the blue blazer, Charles “Daggers” Dagnall was a boy in Bolton determined to become Ian Botham. The back garden had other ideas.
Daggers joins broadcasters Whispering Bob Harris and Jon voice of Siri Briggs for a gloriously wayward innings involving childhood cricket, questionable rock-star ambitions and a celebrity dressing room where the usual rules barely applied. What makes a cricket bat worth taking to bed? How did cricket broadcasters end up in spandex? And whose version of Bob’s encounter with Daggers in the nets should we believe?
Along the way, a surprisingly personal conversation about knowing when to walk away — and finding another way to keep playing the game you love.
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More than 40 years ago, Broadcasters Whispering Bob Harris (Radio 1, 2 and The Old Grey Whistle Test) and Jon Briggs (Radio 2, 5, The Weakest Link and the Original Voice of Siri) played cricket in Bob’s back garden.