England and India square off in the square up series, but who will be England’s Axar Patel? We farewell Cracker Hohns by exploring the best ways to drop blokes. There’s some tedious media gear about the Ashes - it will get sorted out at Lee’s Fortuna Court. Nic Maddinson joins us in studio for discuss both Manscaped and cricket’s mental side, and he stays for #AskTGC where it gets extremely toxic, probably to the point where we should have deleted it.

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