The Surfer

Talking the language of cricket

In the weekly BBC podcast Stumped, Alison Mitchell chats with David Studham, head librarian at the Melbourne Cricket Club, and Susie Dent, a lexicographer to find out how the language of cricket has ingrained itself in daily English parlance

In the weekly BBC podcast Stumped, Alison Mitchell chats with David Studham, head librarian at the Melbourne Cricket Club, and Susie Dent, a lexicographer, to find out how cricketing terms and phrases have seeped into conversational English.