00:00Chris, you're obviously joining me from the pitch of the Memorial Day at Shepherds Bush Cricket Club.
00:09Just tell me a bit about the day they have and the different type of cuisine it has sort of brought into cricket.
00:16Yeah, no, it's been a great day so far.
00:20Obviously, from the time I walked through the gates, I could really feel a sense of inclusion.
00:28To be able to experience a different kind of cuisine at a cricket game.
00:35Obviously, my background is well documented, so I was really smiling at the Caribbean food.
00:43I think having spent a bit of time here today, it really defines the culture that Shepherds Bush Cricket Club is going for and pushing.
00:52That combination with the taste of cricket, I think it made a good mix today.
00:58Obviously, cricket has a great history with food and tea time.
01:03I mean, it must be a nice thing for you to see a bit of a twist with the Caribbean touch.
01:08What's that been like for you?
01:10Oh, it's been brilliant.
01:13Probably like a kid on Christmas Day.
01:16Because leaving home today, I actually didn't know what to definitely expect.
01:21Seeing so many of the food that I was kind of accustomed to growing up and what's not.
01:27It's about having a second plate.
01:30That will tell you how nice the food has been here today.
01:33There's an aim to sort of increase the black communities to get involved into cricket more.
01:40How important is it that nations like maybe the West Indies come and play cricket here and try and encourage that?
01:47Yeah, it's huge, man.
01:50I think when World Cricket on the whole has the flavor, not just on but off the field of kind of that West Indian culture,
01:58especially having that inclusion, especially again, walking through the doors here today,
02:04hearing obviously a lot of that Caribbean music going.
02:08And I just seen the entire environment so vibrant, you know.
02:12I think it definitely has a huge part to play in a huge place in cricket.
02:18And you had that remarkable hat trick in the World Cup, obviously in Barbados as well.
02:23What was that like for you doing it in your hometown for England?
02:28Yeah, it really was a special day.
02:30I can't lie. Right up there, one of my best days in cricket.
02:34I think with all the ingredients, including no pun intended, by the way.
02:39But with all the ingredients it had, being a place that I was born, a place that I grew up,
02:45a stadium that I played so much cricket at, in front of my family, my friends and loved ones.
02:52Yeah, to do that and to walk off, seeing them in the stands so happy, so proud.
02:58It was a really special moment.
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