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Hay-On-Wye Cricket Club v The Authors XI 2025

June 20, 2025·53 min·5 clips
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The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast captures the 2025 rematch between Hay-on-Wye Cricket Club and the celebrity Authors XI during the Hay Literary Festival. Through interviews with players, volunteers, and festival-goers, the episode explores community cricket, personal connections to the game, and the unique intersection of literature and sport in the Welsh countryside.

As heard by us

A village fixture, a literary festival, and the local voices that give the match its shape.

Hay-on-Wye comes across as more than a cricket fixture here; it also reads as a small civic portrait, with the return meeting between Hay Cricket Club and the Authors' Eleven set inside the festival's sports day and carried by local voices, sponsors, and stewards.

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Why you'd press play

Press play if you want a return to Hay Cricket Club's festival fixture, with local voices and visiting characters.

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