This week we’re joined by one of our favourite cricketers Kate Cross, who announced her retirement from the game earlier in the summer. She looks back at her playing highlights, how she got into the game, how women's cricket has changed and what’s next for her. Plus can she survive Mattchin’s latest Quiz ‘ Cross Examination - 24 minutes in Police Custody’ which is based around some of the more ‘unusual’ parts of her career?

Get ready as the England white ball squads reconvene for three T20s and three ODIs against Sri Lanka to close out the summer. With injuries floating around the England camp, who will they play? Who will Sri Lanka bring to the British Isle and what is to be made of Kevin Pietersen's return to the England set up?

It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, what happens when you find a Buttercup Bread scratchie featuring Courtney Walsh from either 1996 or 2000? You find out if we won. Also this week, a disappearing act, tales of the North, and how the best debut wasn't much valued a game later.YourNerd Pledgenumbers for this week: 5.39 - Sam Brown 4.07 - Patch Clapp 8.43 - Kevin Cooper Could you support the show? You can send us aNerd Pledgeor become a member

In this episode, we do a snake-style draft to pick our favourite bowling actions. We also do the first of many Rondos and try to list off memory all 22 cricketers to have played iconic cricket games.✔️ If you like listening to us, please follow us on your Podcast Platform & leave a rating👉 You can follow us on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠✍️ We write not so regularly on Substack. You can read our work ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.📨 If you would like to write to us, please email us at

We have reached the penultimate round of fixtures in the 2026 County Championship and it is STILL all to play for at the top and the bottom of Division One, but is a late points deduction going to set a cat among the pigeons? Oliver Hawke, Dan Haggar, Barrie Funnell, David Wright and Alex Gates describe a frantic dash for the finish line.

A T20 series win for the West Indies as they started their post World Cup cycle with a thrilling 2-1 series win. Join Machel live to look back at the series and the key talking points. As ever please leave a rating, review, comment and follow the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. No other channel keeps it as real as we do on the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. If you'd like to support the Caribbean Cricket Podcast you can become a patron for as little as £2/$2 a month here -

- Get NordVPN with a special discount - https://www.nordvpn.com/goodareas- Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code 'goodareas' at checkout. Download Saily app or go to:https://saily.com/goodareas-Jarrod, Behram and Varun combine to assemble a Test team of cricketers who were role players, in a snake style draft competition.-- To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/c/goodareaspodcast- Head over to commbox.tv to learn more about our network.-

The boys were joined by BDCA Vice President Cameron Beer to discuss the upcoming season and what we can expect in 2026-27.

Kate on meeting Kate & William at the suicide prevention toolkit in Liverpool, her last game, a chaotic trip to Ireland and is Harry Brook England's most talented player ever?Enjoyed this episode? Then follow @noballstcp on socials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we continue our coverage of the ILT20 Development Tournament. And after the Vipers side’s win against MI Emirates in match one, this time Vriitya Aravind’s team came up short, losing by two wickets to the Sharjah Warriorz side in a repeat of the final of the previous Development Tournament, 12 months ago. Coming up, we hear from Vriitya as he gives us his perspective on the loss. All six franchises have sides in the Development Tournament ...

HALFWAY UP MIDDLE - 104 - A DEEPER DIVE INTO JUNIOR CRICKETPete and Liam have a look at the current state of Junior Cricket in Scotland and have interviews with Jack Emslie, Junior Coach at Perth Doo’cot and Keegan Russell Men’s National Perforamnce Pathways Coach. Twitter: https://twitter.com/halfwayupmiddle Instagram: https://instagram.com/halfwayupmiddle/ Podbean: https://halfwayupmiddle.podbean.com/ Apple: https://feed.podbean.com/halfwayupmiddle/feed.xml Spotify:

The domestic season is here! To preview the opening matches of the One-Day Cup this weekend, we speak to Queensland young gun Callum Vidler. Vidler suffered a serious back stress fracture last season but is back bowling at full tilt and ready to rough up some batters in the new campaign. Sheffield Shield specialist Jack Paynter joins Josh Schonafinger to run through all the men's state changes - plus to dissect the opening ODI between Australia and Zimbabwe. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Zimbabwe v Australia

Pat Cummins is back — this time for Player Who. His favourite dismissal? Joe Root — and the reason behind it isn't the one you'd expect.Elsewhere, hidden talents in the squad finally get outed (there's a surprisingly good darts story), we find out who's landed the biggest six of Pat's career, and there's a genuinely funny one from his rookie days. Pat also weighs in on who the most intelligent teammate he's played with actually is and a captain he admires.#PatCummins #KeepinItCricket #TheplayerWho

Cricket Unfiltered turns 13!Menners and Damian Watson celebrate the podcast’s milestone before diving into Australia’s impressive ODI win over Zimbabwe, Matt Renshaw’s century, Cooper Connolly’s continued emergence and Ollie Peake’s growing claims for a Test and limited-overs spot.The boys look ahead to the 2027 World Cup and debate whether Australia’s current batting lineup has enough power in the lower order. They also discuss Travis Head’s warning about the potential hostility awaiting

Bert breaks down the 2-1 start to the season with Augie Head Coach Jerry Olszewski this hour, and highlights a huge game from Sophomore receiver DJ Page. Before the hour is over, Bert delivers the Identity Crisis, as well as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!

After a disastrous week one performance, the Broncos are gearing up for a rebound against the Jags on Sunday. Bert welcomes in Sayre Bedinger of LockedOnBroncos to talk about the issues in the opener, as well as the outlook for Bo Nix and the team the rest of the way!

With Glamorgan set to transition into a tier 1 team next season, Ben sits down with Lauren to discuss the lessons they could learn from Yorkshire's foray into the top division this year, as well as reflecting on another season of county cricket.Katya then speaks with Glamorgan Head Coach Rachel Priest, and star bowler Gemma Porter, to analyse what went well this year, and what strides they must take to compete in 2027. 0:00 Intro 1:01 Metro Bank 1:29 End of season reflections 5:36 Kate

Ben Stokes thinks we are too quick to criticise Harry Brook after he smashes another incredible century - is he right? And is he really more talented than Kevin Pietersen, as Stokes says? Brook will definitely be in England's Test top 7 against South Africa but who else will be? Is Jamie Smith's position under real threat now that Jordan Cox has shown how good he is behind the stumps? This episode is done to help raise money for Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) - please help us by

Santokie jumps into the CCP hotseat to ask...who can we call on to open at the 2027 World Cup? As ever please leave a rating, review, comment and follow the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. No other channel keeps it as real as we do on the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. If you'd like to support the Caribbean Cricket Podcast you can become a patron for as little as £2/$2 a month here - https://www.patreon.com/Caribcricket If you would like to read some high quality articles on West Indies cricket -