Cricket Et Al

Pete and Gid watch Australia retain the Ashes with an 82-run win in the Third Test after an absorbing day's cricket at Adelaide Oval, in spite of an injury to Nathan Lyon, and pressure on the fitness of Pat Cummins.  What to expect on Boxing Day?  What do England do next?   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍 Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch Australia steadily grind their way through England's second innings at Adelaide Oval, until they're within a whiff of retaining the Ashes, with Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon making their presences felt, and Joe Root and Harry Brook eclipsed.  Not much longer now folks.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch Adelaide celebrate its favourite son, as Travis Head peels off a fourth consecutive century on his home ground, and Australia march to a lead of 358.  Also: don't look now but we might have a five-day Test on our hands.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid perspire in 40+ degrees as England melt down under a red hot Australian assault, Nathan Lyon becomes Australia's second highest wicket taker, and Ben Stokes becomes England's slowest batter of summer.  Also: why is cricket in such a technology cul de sac, and why is the Exeter serving beer in plastic cups?     Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon bask in a bumper first day to the Third Test at Adelaide Oval, complete with an Usman Khawaja comeback and an Alex Carey hundred in the absence of Steve Smith.  Also: is it time to doubt Cameron Green?  And is time for a Saily live read?  We think so.   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍     Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon catch up with the omission of Usman Khawaja from Australia's Third Test team, and wonder if they have seen the last of Australia's veteran opener.  Also: is it the size of the dog in the fight, or the size of the fight in the dog?  We have questions for Ben Stokes.  Welcome back Gaz and Pat; still no sign of Shoaib Bashir.  Also have we mentioned we love Adelaide?   Go to https://surfshark.com/cricketetal or use code cricketetal at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gid talks to podcast guru Tom Holland about his love of cricket, love of history, the points between, and being a massive cock - on the cricket field anyway.    Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch the last stages of Australia's convincing eight-wicket victory, and wonder where the buck stops for England.  Also: Carey's genius, Archer's humours, and Stuart Broadmania.  🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watching Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland dominate the third day at the Gabba with bat then ball, as Australia surge towards victory and the retention of the Ashes.  Also: the gospel according to Saily.   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch a crazy, heady, reckless second day at the Gabba, where England tried to give the Test away but Australia wouldn't quite let them, when easy catches went down but hard ones were taken, when bowlers gave up hundreds but batters couldn't make them.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch Joe Root finally break through against Australia on a see-sawing first day at the Gabba, even as Mitchell Starc becomes Test cricket's most prolific left-handed wickettaker, and Australia go into a Test without Nathan Lyon. Will they regret it?   Go to https://surfshark.com/cricketetal or use code cricketetal at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch Australia juggle their squad even as England swagger into town with their XI in stone. What gives? Will Cummins play? Inglis? Webster? Will Khawaja retire? All these questions and more….will not be answered, although they will be discussed. Also: the late Robin Smith and the pathos of the post-cricket life.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete welcomes Gid back from Perth as they assess the lessons of the shortest four-innings Test in Australian history, the future of Usman Khawaja, the prospect of Pat Cummins' return, the strengths and weaknesses of Bazball.  Also: South Africa's Test surge and the incredible changes in India's home fortunes.   Go to https://surfshark.com/cricketetal or use code cricketetal at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid wonder what the hell happened at Optus Stadium, after Travis Head blows England’s house down with a dynamic, record-breaking hundred, following the bowling of Scott Boland and Brendan Doggett. Where now for England? Where now for Bazball? What are we going to do in Perth for three days?   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid see Mitchell Starc harvest seven then Ben Stokes thresh five, amid a total of nineteen wickets on an astounding first day of the Ashes of 2025-26 played in fast forward - except for the over rates.  Updates also on Pete's glasses and the Shit Box From Hell.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid savour the serenity at Perth Stadium on the eve of the First Test, review the teams, weigh the prospects, wonder what Steve Smith has against Monty Panesar, and thank heavens they needn't write another preview piece.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon kick back a while to luxuriate in their favourite Ashes memories, from Melbourne '82 to Headingley '19, from Pete's affinity for Jim Higgs to Gideon's admiration for the Hammond Sauce Works Band.  Also: the ball of the twenty-first century?  Plus: Pete's favourite toilet cubicle.    Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from St Kilda bowlo, Pete and Gid catch up with the shattering news of Josh Hazlewood’s hamstring, rubbing him out of the First Test. Also who is Brendan Doggett, why is Michael Neser, and what is England playing at in Lilac Hill? Go to https://surfshark.com/cricketetal or use code cricketetal at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter and Gideon explore the likely Australia line-up after the latest round of Sheffield Shield, England's unpopular preparation, reminisce of Headbuttgate, and catch up on the Women's Big Bash League.  Seven more sleeps to the Ashes.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid venture into the annals of Et Al, discussing Gid’s new book Who Is Wallace? - the bizarre story of the world’s oldest prisoner, Bill Wallace. For details on how to buy it, go to the bottom of this post.   Get your hands on this summers Cricket Et Al T Shirt! Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter and Gideon react to the selection of Australia's fifteen-man squad for the First Test.  Has Weatherald won the bat off?  Was there a bowl off too?  Green or Webster?  Or both!  Also: is George Bailey too agreeable to make the tough calls?  Big questions, plus our trademark rambling answers, in another ramshackle episode.   Get tickets to the Cricket Et Al live show HERE! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon want to know the First Test squad, so who else to ask but….long-time friend of the pod Bernard Fanning?! Bernard describes introducing his wife to Keith Richards, barbecuing Adam Gilchrist, playing CBGBs with Powderfinger, playing cricket against Coldplay, his favourite music T-shirt, and taking his first solo record on the road on its twentieth anniversary. For more details on the tour, go here.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon receive the news of Pat Cummins's unavailability for the Perth Test and wonder what it means for Australia.  Also Pete's night of Kohli love at the SCG, with a Rohit masterpiece, plus Alana King's Indore coup, the last round of the bat off, Geese and Betcover!!  We'll explain.....   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon check in on the first ODI in Perth, the future of Virat and Rohit, the prime of Mitchell Marsh, the cult of Sam Konstas, and the on-going thrills and spills of the Great Australian Bat-Off.  Also: how do you lose sixteen consecutive tosses?  Plus: Heather Knight at her best, and India on the brink in the Women's World Cup.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon catch up with four-time Australian World Cup campaign Lisa Sthelakar to discuss last night’s barnstorming Australian chase against India in the Women’s 50-over World Cup in Vizag - subjects include Annabel Sutherland’s five-for, Alyssa Healy’s brutal 142, Shelley Nitschke’s shrewd coaching, the Indian challenge, the English revival, and Lisa’s awesome chair.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The bats have left the belltower, and are lining up for the great Australian bat off - Peter and Gideon review the first results.  Also new handshake wars, Harjas Singh's extraordinary triple hundred at Pratten Park, and farewell to Bernard Julien.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon catch up on the Asia Cup final, which got most interesting when it ended, and take the pulse of India-Pakistan relations. Also: a preview of the Women’s World Cup and Australia-New Zealand T20s, and where the Ashes protagonists stand two months out.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch Jacon Bethell's maiden professional hundred, worry about Pat Cummins's back, look forward to the Asia Cup and women's World Cup.     Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid catch up on Australia’s dead rubber batting extravaganza in Mackay and the fall out at USA Cricket, then pay tribute to birthday boy Simon Katich and recent retiree Cheteshwar Pujara with a double A-side top 10.   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid enjoy another Maxy special in Darwin, further denigrate The Hundred, and celebrate the extraordinary contribution to cricket of the late Bob Simpson. Bonus half-remembered Simon Katich story.   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid catch up on last night’s T20, the early stages of The Hundred, before a discussion of the literary career of the late Eric Midwinter leads to an unforeseen ramble about hair oil. No really, it does.   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter and Gideon reflect on their journey from the mainstream to new media love at the Phillip Island Festival of Stories.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch the last fifty-six minutes of the twenty-five day Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy epic, and judge the winners and losers of an unforgettable series.  Also: can cricket survive the depredations of private equity and corporate ego?  And our tribute to a valiant lady.    🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete visits Gideon in the Cogitorium to discuss England’s draw with India, Australia’s T20 clean sweep in the West Indies, and memories of Allan Border, new septuagenarian.     Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon witness amazing scenes in Kingston, where Mitchell Starc’s six for 9, and Scott Boland’s hat-trick consign West Indies to oblivion. Whither Caribbean cricket? Whither Sam Konstas? Not a great day for either, but the latter at least has a chance to come back.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch a chaotic fifteen-wicket day at Kingston, including another duck for Sam Konstas and a rare Steve Smith failure amid some ripsnorting speed from the Josephs.  But is night Test cricket a crapshoot?   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid are enthralled as pink ball cricket comes to the West Indies, eleven wickets fall on a roller-coaster first day in Jamaica even as Steve Smith makes it look easy, and there are no chairs in the press box.  Also: Viva Italia!   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cricket Et Al’s hundredth episode heralds Mitchell Starc’s hundredth Test, so Pete and Gid pay him an extended tribute, including a Top 10. Bonus pink bits. Also: fun in Kingston. Also: why Bob Marley drove a Beamer.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid see the Frank Worrell Trophy remain in Australian hands, as Pat Cummins's team roll over West Indies by 143 runs.  Also: a prime ministerial visit with a difference.  Plus: what the hell happened at Edgbaston?     Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gid watch Cameron Green battle his way to a first half century at number three, as Steve Smith makes it look easy, and Australia forge a lead in a grinding Second Test at Grenada.  Also: what happened to the dog?  Also: how did Gordon Rorke stir the nappies?  Plus an exciting rumour about the Adelaide Test!     Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch Australia battle to shake off a determined West Indies in Grenada, with Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja failing again.  Plus: Pete's baggy green exclusive.  Plus: adventures in AI.  And just who is 'Gaz'?   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete watches an Australian Test in the West Indies, Gid wonders where the overs went, numbers five, six and seven get Pat Cummins's men out of a hole again, and it's another bloody day in paradise before darkness falls.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete kicks back in Grenada, Gid tugs on his baggy, Gaz passes on the song, and things get a little awkward in the West Indies camp ahead of the first Test in St Georges.  Plus: Cricket Et Al meets our favourite MMA fighter, Robert 'Danger' McCarthy.  No, really, we do.   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch Australia streak away from West Indies on a sixteen-wicket day, with Josh Hazlewood at his best and John Campbell at his worst - bu doubts remain over that top order. Also: it's seventy years since the great 348.  And can anyone tell us about Maurice Visbord?   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch a day of dire batting, drops and DRS misadventures in Barbados, as the Second Test remains too close to call.  Also: we stand with Usman.  And: is there nothing Saily can't do?     🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete in Bridgetown and Gideon in Melbourne watch an enthralling first day of the Worrell Trophy, and wonder whether West Indies can go all the way against Pat Cummins’s recast Australians.  Also: the patriarchy at work at Kensington Oval.  Plus: Pete has made Saily work.   Have we told you?  It’s an eSim….   🌎Go to Saily.com/CRICKETETAL and use the code CRICKETETAL to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.” 👍   Get your hands on The Usman 232 shirt while you still can! Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon catch up on the eve of the First Test in Barbados and in the aftermath of the First Test at Headingley: what looms as a mismatch and what boomed as a contest.  Also Marnuswatch.  And Konstaswatch.  A shout out to subscribers in the Caribbean - buy Pete a drink!     Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter and Gideon struggle to make themselves heard above South African celebrations of their World Test Championship, after Temba Bavuma's battlers win the final at Lord's by five wickets.  How will Australia regroup?  And what will it mean for Test cricket?  Time to ponder.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon see South Africa surge to within sight of a stirring World Test Championship victory, thanks to a bold and brilliant hundred from Aiden Markram, the one-leg wonder Temba Bavuma, and a pitch with no peril.  Also: pastries.  Plus our Cayman correspondent.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete and Gideon watch the World Test Championship final accelerate towards its conclusion, thanks to brilliant pace bowling, brittle batting and dubious selection.   Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.