Red Inker With Jarrod Kimber

This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on India's chances of making the World Test Championship final again, how the West Indies' classic 4 man pace attack handled their workload, and how India's current bowling lineup sits in the history of bowling lineups, how AFL impacts grade cricket in Australia, how Jarrod reacted to the news about Shane Warne, the actual importance of the 'Ball Of The Century', whether Johnny Bairstow has found some solid form and different body types in cricket.

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This episode is about Shane Warne. It kind of had to be, right? I thought about doing an emergency podcast, but I didn't know how I would do it, would it just be me on my own, trying to emotionally process it all? And then my friend Jon Norman said why don't we do a podcast where we just chat about him until we run out of things to say. So here it is, two friends talking about Shane Warne for a very long time.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on Ravichandran Ashwin versus the Indian spinner of old, and how the classic Indian spin quartet would fare in T20's, right arm bowlers coming around the wicket to left handers in Test cricket, the future of English wicket-keeping batsmen and what happens if Ben Stokes' career has already peaked, where the money that goes into the BCCI goes to, whether England have a chance in the West Indies, how the Australian teams are going to fare in the ODI World Cup in NZ and in the Test series in Pakistan, the continued prevalence of 'moneyball' cricket in franchise leagues, and how the ICC T20 rankings work.

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This episode we look at the bowling of Axar Patel under an actual microscope. And I do mean that fairly literally, as we have a scientist, Himanish Ganjoo, to come and take a look at Axar's data. We look at his height, angle, spin, lack of flight, sweeps, types of SLA, DRS, drift, failure to spin away and Axar's hang time.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on opening in T20's, batting in the PSL, Rovman Powell's ongoing form against spin, fielding a team of all-rounders, who is India's support spinner for the T20 World Cup, Jarrod's pick for the most important type of players in a draft, racism in cricket across the world and the role of translators and pronunciation across the cricketing world, leadership in cricket and what signs you can read into to evaluate a well structured team, Steve Smith's role as the 'fixer' and the stubborness of male cricketers, how England could use Broad and Anderson better when overseas and how the role of anchor has changed in T20 cricket.

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This is the 100th episode of Red Inker (sorta), and I wanted to do something a bit different here, so I have looked at the first time I ever sat in a team dug out. When I was a journalist covering Hong Kong in two matches against the Netherlands. It involves the ICC kicking me out, a man pissing while breaking protocol and me dreaming of a job that never existed.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on mental strength, the differences in stamina between Test and T20 cricket, how players choose which format they want to focus on, how much you can improve a players fielding, the dichotomy of Aaron Finch, some thoughts on New Zealand vs South Africa, why the top of off stump is such a target and the quality of the Pakistan Super League.

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This episode is on Australia'swin in the '99 World Cup from the perspective of a fan. And so we only went and got the creator of the TV show Wilfred, Adam Zwar, to talk us through it. We talk Sting, Shane Warne's hurt feelings, Glenn McGrath at first change, Neil Johnson, comedy writing, South Africa, Lance Klusener's power, Steve Waugh's sledging and two of the greatest ODI’s ever.

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This episode of Red Inker is about bowling at the death, so I got on the bloke who has bowled there more than almost anyone alive. Jade Dernbach and I chat about slower balls, yorkers, scoops, social media, pressure, putting your hand up, bouncers, and the need for three good balls.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on analysis and the role of captaincy through the ages, space for ads in sports coverage, Jarrod's filmmaking background in his content making, reasons for Kuldeep's return and the state of spinners in the Indian side, how the speed that spinners bowl at has changed, and Jarrod's thoughts on the West Indies vs England series.

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This week we’re talking about the weird last 12 months of Irish cricket, so we only went and got the captain on. Andy Balbirnie and I talk about beating South Africa, pinch blockers, losing to the USA, the T20 World Cup and what beating the West Indies means to Irish cricket.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on swing in the Women's game and the supposed 'optimum swinging pace', Jarrod's sense of humour and his interviewing demeanor, the future of cricket Youtube, Harsha Bhogle's comment on how easy it is for India to be the best team in the world right now, the progress of both teams in the Eng Vs WI T20 series, how distance can affect the 'heart' in cricketers' lives, whether bowlers impact matches more than batters and Jarrod's thoughts on Mahela Jayawardene's post-playing career. 

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This episode of Red Inker is about the structure of English cricket, which has become one of the many narratives about how England lost the Ashes. So I got on cricket analyst Dan Weston who works for a county to talk about his plans to change it. We discuss #SilverwoodOut, red ball scheduling, incentives for player development, transfer fees, three divisions, four overseas, moving List A cricket and the medium-fast middle aged-glut.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on over rates in T20's and cricket in the Olympics, what young wicketkeepers should focus on, bowlers having a better average in international cricket over first class cricket, why hit wicket counts as a bowler's wicket, generational cricket talents inspiring the same skills in players in their origin country (or not), whether 'thinking' crickets are actually intelligent people, what countries like New Zealand are doing to be so successful with such a low playing population, what sort of 'league' structure works best for cricket, what to say to a pre-Ashes Joe Root to help make the series more competitive, whether a better system than Duckworth/Lewis exists for score prediction, and how internal competitive culture can affect a team on the field. 

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This episode is all about Ross Taylor. Now that his career is over, I thought it was a great time to look back. So I brought on one of the best New Zealand cricket journalists, Dylan Cleaver, to talk about him. We chat about his origin story, middle class cricket, Pacific Islands players, slogging, Martin Crowe, Kane Williamson, Brendon McCullum, his record in Tests, his even better career in ODIs and the fragility he had when he started his innings.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the curious case of Alex Carey, bowling like Jasprit Bumrah, what Clarrie Grimmett and Bill O'Reilly might have been like in T20's, whether the 1st or the 6th ball in the over makes any difference, what the role of the IPL Team Director is, Hardik Pandaya's bowling, how much age plays into captaincy selections,  how the 3rd Test in SA against India is going and how SA are shaping up for the future, what Jarrod thinks a good keeper is, and how the pinch hitting role is going (or isn't going) in cricket.

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This episode of Red Inker is a story I have wanted to tell for ages, how I grew up in Melbourne in the 1990’s as a young legspinner when Shane Warne was Shane Warne.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on 'golden arm' bowlers, why Mitch Santner and Ashton Agar are more successful in limited overs cricket than Test cricket, the enigma of Rassie van der Dussen,  New Zealand without Kane Williamson, counter-attacking on difficult pitches, the downfall of Ed Smith at the ECB and the ongoing search for a Test all-rounder.

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This episode of Red Inker is the end of year review. In a now annual tradition, I have brought on a friend, Vithushan Ehantharajah, to chat about it. We discuss every Test team in the world, but also, the Taliban, SA admin, Yorkshire, Pakistan at home, Burl’s shoes, Arthur’s shorts, Paine’s penis and Shaheen’s hair.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on England's batting, my goodness there are alot of questions about England's batting, the current South African team in red and white ball, the systems that make (or don't make) international cricketers, the 'mindset' of batsmen, who the next candidates are to become Test playing nations, what Jarrod notices and notates while watching cricket, and how to convince people that the quality of bowling in Tests has gone up in the last 5 years. 

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This episode we look at whether first class records are great predictors for batting success. So I got on someone who had written about that recently, Jack Hope from the Cricket Podcast. We look at stats, scouts, conditions, preparation, why players average more in Tests than First Class sometimes and also the whole Vaughan/Trescothick anomaly.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on Ollie Pope vs Marnus Labuschagne in regard to average, Ollie Pope's batting position, cricket content on Youtube, England's treatment of spinners, the concept of 'clutch' moments in cricket, England's treatment of fast bowlers, Jarrod's opinions of England's issues and overseas' teams success in South Africa. 

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the wobble ball, other fast bowling variations, a second tier of Test Match cricket, fairness of selection, the BCCI/Kohli saga, Jarrod's selections for England in Adelaide, a lower grade T20 competition in Australia, England's spin predicament, leg spinners in Tests, Mickey Arthur's resignation as Sri Lankan coach and the Butler/Foakes conundrum and what Butler may choose to do in the future. 

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This episode we look at why Bangladesh bat so slow, and so since part of the problem is left-arm finger spin, I got on Bangladesh's greatest left-arm finger spinning journalist, Mohammad Isam. This episode we cover politics, pitches, BPL, coaching, old ODI cricket, painkillers, mirrors to try answer why Bangladesh batters don't hit the ball very hard. -

This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the no ball situation in the first Ashes test, on the structure of international cricket, room for changes in 3rd umpiring, England's current performance, the interplay between technique and psychology in Test batting, and the Indian ODI captaincy situation. 

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This episode of Red Inker is about the class system within English cricket. A recent book was written on it, so I got the author, Duncan Stone, to come on. We chat about how the English class system still touches international cricket today, the media, private schools, parks, Azeem Rafiq, ECB, TCCB, TV rights, and how the game makes obscure answers on quiz shows.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on KKR retaining Andre Russell, NZ's path to becoming a Test nation that plays more tests, different countries combining to form a transformer cricket team, a return to discussion about Ollie Pope, the comparative strength of different T20 leagues, a continued Rahane discussion, more talk of Test cricket strike rates, and a question about Tom Blundell's batting in the 2nd innings of the first test in India.

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On this episode of Red Inker we look at the broad shouldered David Wiese, a journeyman who became the story at the T20 World Cup. To chat about him I got someone who just wrote a feature, C.S Chiwanza. We talk golf swings, Albie Morkel, Namibia cricket, Kolpaks, South African all rounders, and how he changed his career with the help of baseball.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on NZ's chances in the Test series against India, questions about Australia's captaincy (recorded before the Cummins announcement) and how much cricket Pat Cummins will play, whether Asian T20 tournaments are predictable with the timing of games, the eternal Head or Khawaja question, strike rate in Test cricket, what it'll take to play less cricket around the world, how long Rahane might have left in the Indian Test side, and the makeup of T20 finals systems.

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This episode is about off stump guards. So when I found someone else who was as obsessed with this topic as I am, Cameron Ponsonby, I got them on the podcast. We chat about old men yelling at the sky, Graham Gooch's baseball stance, Steve Smith, Kevin Pietersen, LBW rates, how much red ball cricket has changed and where your toes should be while you are batting.

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This week we look at the T20 World Cup because it just finished. And so I got someone who followed every game the same way I did, Matt Roller from ESPNcricinfo. We look at every one of the teams in the second round, what they did, what they might do next time, all these sorts of things. 12 teams, several hot takes.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on tactical retirements, T20 World Cup expansion and the format of the comp, Jarrod's on-point predictions and how he has dealt with bias in the past, and where the concept of the 'death of test cricket' is coming from. 

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The latest episode is about analytics in cricket, and so we got on a fellow analyst who had spent a lot of timing talking to his US compatriots, Amol Desai. We talk about enthusiasts, stats, pop-up leagues, scouting, strategy data science, bad pay and African cell phones.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the comparison between England of the 70's and India of today, India's mindset against spin, how Jarrod analyzes teams, Michael Vaughn's tweet about India playing '2010's cricket', Australia's team structure since the 2015 World Cup, the resurgence of Pakistan limited overs cricket, and whether the IPL and CPL will share players in the future. 

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This episode of Red Inker we look at T20 batting and how players are preparing differently. And so we got on someone who talked to a lot of players and coaches and thought about it a lot, Tim Wigmore. In this episode, we talk about bases, back hips and golf, overload training, running a lot, Mumbai buses and sleep training.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on how hard it is for batsmen to develop bowling skill, the balance of the Australian T20 side, the importance of strike rate, what's going on with the West Indies in the World Cup, and cricket in the Olympics.

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This episode we play the full version of our chat with Scotland's Calum MacLeod. Originally recorded this for the Double Century podcast, we had to cut it down a fair bit, but Calum is such a fascinating player to chat with, that the entire interview is worth listening to. This episode we cover his journey from being a bowler to a batter being called for chucking, professionalism, associate cricket, the county game, and what it's like to achieve something like this for the Scottish cricket community.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on permanent 3rd man fielders, the differences in investment in Associate teams, how Virat's T20I record isn't necessarily important, what the future of cricket television watching might be like, retentions of players for next year's IPL, and how South Africa might fare in this year's T20 World Cup.

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This episode talk about Oman cricket since they are hosting the World Cup at the moment. Paul Radley is an expert on cricket in this region, and we discuss the rise of Oman cricket, Pankaj Khimji, concrete wickets, Duleep Mendis, some brief thoughts on the UAE and where to for Oman after this tournament.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on cricket league point scoring, associate team makeup, the juggle of AB and Maxwell for RCB, T20 rules in Australia, and the legacy of Dhoni's captaincy.

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This episode we talk about the boom of cricket analysis by discussing the history of CricViz and to do so we got on a journalist who has just written about them, Mike Jakeman. We talk about legendary statistician Charles Davis, Hawkeye, TV, working for teams, Krishna Tunga and we look at some of the people who made CricViz what it is today. 

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions on batting first or second in T20's, Australia's chances in the Women's World Cup, T20 players enlisting analysts, utilising the crease as a batter, lack of data on wicketkeepers, M.S. Dhoni's captaincy, Rajasthan's captaincy and length of seasons in T20 cricket.

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This episode we look at Major League Cricket and cricket in the USA. For that we got on a born and bred cricket writer from the USA, Peter Della Penna. We talk about money, recruiting, Liam Plunkett, airhogs, Silicon Valley, Willow TV, corruption, the history of US cricket and how Boris Karloff was a wicked keeper.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, IPL team consistency, things for youth cricket clubs to work on, the pace 'pandemic', the evolution of outdated terms in cricket and role designation in all forms of the game. 

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This episode we talk about the myth that basketball is killing West Indies’ cricket. So I got on a podcaster to help explain it, Machel St. Patrick Hewitt. We talk about Australian basketball, taxi drivers, Patrick Ewing, cable TV and show how little we know about Bahamas cricket.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, discusses Dhoni's captaincy strats, using tennis technology for cricket, Ollie Pope, actual liquid manure and a deep look at TV rights for cricket. 

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This episode is about cricket photography. So I got one of the 100 greatest cricket snappers I know, Phil Brown. We talk about Stuart Broad’s nose, Bob Hawke, a boy in Bangladesh, backgrounds, remotes, following the ball and enjoying a tour.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, discusses the Pakistan/NZ non-starter, where all the legspinners are, Indian domestic offspin, and a pointed question about our favourite travelling cricket wunderkind, Benny Howell. 

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This episode we talk about Sunil Narine, a man on a constant journey to perfect his T20 game. To do that I found a writer as obsessed with him as I am, Karthikeya Manchala. We talk about chucking, length, box of tricks, batting Trinidad and how he hides the ball up his butt.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, and also questions about Indian T20 selection, wobble seam, and and why alot of batters don't bowl anymore.

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This episode we look at something slightly new to cricket, scouting. And in order to do that, I only went and found someone who started their own cricket scouting magazine, Ronan Alexander. On this episode, we look at a few different talented players, but really what we’re doing is breaking down how we need to look at cricket going forward. Where players fit in, what their skill sets are, not specifically batter bowl or rounder, but where they can be used in different kinds of games. You may find a new favourite player too.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, and fields questions about Ranji trophy imports, generational batting and bowling differences, drafts across cricket leagues, and differences in cricket balls. 

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This week we talk about cricket and baseball, to discuss pitchers who can't hit, number elevens who can't bat and how baseball produced their first great all-rounder in 100 years. I brought on one of baseball’s greatest writers to chat about it, Ben Lindbergh. We discuss soft tossers, Babe Ruth, number 11s, Imran Khan, designated hitters and the two-way all-round unicorn that is Shohei Ohtani.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from Patreon, discusses doctoring pitches, averages, and over rates.

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This episode we talk about Cricket South Africa's Social Justice and Nation-Building hearings, which is their attempt to let past players tell their stories about racist treatment they’ve received. So I got on Lungani Zama, a journalist who was also once a player. We chat about stereotypes, opportunity, old boys, quotas, rugby, and what it's like to be chosen only to field from third man to third man.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod updates us on his broken arm, how Shakib Al Hasan is faring, questions about India's middle order, and a common question about leg spin bowlers. 

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Jarrod is making a good start on his recovery from a broken arm last week. If you'd like to hear the full story, check out the start of our most recent episode of The Wagon Wheel, the QnA session Jarrod does every Friday, which we publish here on Red Inker each Saturday. It should be in your feed for this show.

We're hoping to be back very soon with new episodes, but for now, here is one of our favourites. Andy Balbirnie is the current all-format Irish captain, steering them through a recent series against South Africa. Here, Andy discusses his rise through to the captaincy, his current Test record, and what he learnt at Middlesex under the coaching of Chris Rogers.

Thanks again for all your patronage and messages of support for Jarrod, we'll be back shortly.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod regales us with the tale of his broken arm, how supersub rules have fared in the past, and India's next test captain. 

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Bad news folks, Jarrod came off his skateboard on the way home from commentary on the England Vs. India Test Match this week, and has broken his arm, and Michael Clarke didn't even give him the chance to get ready for it. As such, we're remastering some older episodes. This week, we're featuring episode 17 with Tabraiz Shamsi, the South African left arm spinner who has had a great deal of success in recent times in the SA white ball sides. He comes on to talk about why he chose wrist spin, his mentor Imran Tahir, his different journey towards the top and the day he felt worthy when bowling to MS Dhoni.

This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod dissects Pujara, the quality of different cricket balls, and how to choose openers. 

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Each week, Jarrod Kimber hosts a live talk show on Spotify Greenroom, a live chat app that you can use to talk with Jarrod. You can join the conversation over there each week, just download Spotify Greenroom on your phone, and follow Jarrod Kimber. 

This week we look at what the hell is going on with Sri Lankan cricket. Cause, it’s not going well over there. So I got on Estelle Vasudevan to try explain it all to me. We spoke about suspensions, coaches, captains, T20 Leagues, contracts, the invisible women’s team, and why the major changes to how SLC is run still haven’t happened.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod first gets a great question from one of our Patrons, and then answers live questions on Spotify Greenroom, including topics such as more on the difference between left and right arm wrist spin, Bangladeshi anchors, the depth of the Indian batting line up, and how we almost lost a lot of Australian cricketing greats to other sports.

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Watching the first match of the Hundred, it occurred to me that the standard of women’s cricket had improved so much that it barely registered this was a domestic game. So I went and got myself a veteran domestic women's player to talk about it. Izzy Westbury played for Somerset, Middlesex and the Dutch teams before becoming a cricket writer. On this chat we talk about the little changes in the women's game, what drawbacks professionalism has, gender pay gap, growing new markets, how the athleticism has changed, and why women's cricket has improved so much that Izzy wouldn't get a game anymore.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers several questions from our Patrons, and then answers live questions on Spotify Greenroom, including topics such as the start of the Hundred, Kohli and Joe Root's T20I performances and the physical body strain of left arm wrist spin.

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This episode is with Stuart Meaker, who burst onto English cricket with pace and outswing, took the wicket of Virat Kohli twice, and has been fighting to get back to what he once was ever since. In this episode we chat about pace, outswing, struggles and the moment when it all comes back again.

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This week, the discussion ranges from Indian domestic cricket, through to how underrated Colin De Grandhomme really is, and where to put Ajinkya Rahane. Apologies for the rough quality on this one, we're currently working to improve it.

This episode we talk about how for the first time in history Test averages have dipped below ODI averages. Recently I found a really good blog on it, and so I got the author to come on. Daniel and I talk about pitches, balls, the talent gap, the divergence of the formats, and the wobble seam ball.

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This episode we look at a Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin moment in Cape Town. It was a short, brilliant partnership that inspired a book, so I got on one of the authors, Abhishek Mukherjee to take me through it. We talk about Azharuddin the batter, fast bowling and India, how cricket history is hard, where Sachin was at this point in his career, South Africa's relationship with India and how Nelson Mandela watched - and may have inspired - the partnership.

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This episode we look at New Zealand’s rise and the many things they got right along the way. So I figured it was only fair to get one of them to come on and tell me. Peter McGlashan was New Zealand’s limited overs keeper, and so together we look at the people and processes that changed New Zealand cricket. We discuss Taylor, McCullum, Hesson, Stead, pitches, NZ A, South African players and why Kane Williamson was a really annoying kid.

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This episode is talking about two of the world’s biggest cheating scandals of modern times; the Houston Astros and the Australian cricket team. And while I knew a lot about one, the other was not as known to me, so here’s Ben Reiter from Sports Illustrated and The Edge Podcast to chat about it.

In this episode we talk about the many similarities of the two scandals, the reactions, the hatred for the teams, how so few people were punished, what happens when standard cheating crosses the imaginary line to moral outrage, how funny they both were and we compare Faf Du Plessis to the Boston Red Sox.

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This episode we talk about why Indians don’t bat left-handed. And so why not get on someone who has just written a book on this, with that as his very title. Nathan Leamon and Ben Jones have written a book called Hitting Against the Spin, and it’s basically the book you need to understand how cricket is currently played. But I got Nathan on to talk about the history of left-handers, anticipation skills, why off spinners are good, LBWs, umpires, outswing, and why left-handers were better against seam than spin.

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Here's a bonus episode to feature the new season of our other show, Double Century. This is episode one of season three, and for this series we’re looking at the first times teams had their first big victory over England. To start with, let’s go way back and look at Australia, the team that started it all.

This week we have former New Zealand into the wind bowler Iain O’Brien, who has had a fascinating career. In this chat we talk about being a late bloomer, the NZ players’ strike, being an into the wind bowler, mental health, coaching and how a misunderstanding against Scotland ended his T20I career.

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This week we talk about Argentinian cricket. And luckily two men have just written a book called “Evita burned down our Pavilion” and I got one of them on to chat about it. James Coyne and I discuss how good Argentina were at cricket when they took games off MCC teams, why they were held back from Test cricket, and why the game didn’t spread like football and rugby did. We talk Evita, Plum Warner, Buenos Aires and the new rivalry coming out of Brazil versus Argentina in women’s cricket.

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This episode we talk about Aaron Finch, one of two accidental Australian captains. But perhaps the more interesting one. So I got on Melinda Farrell who wrote a piece on Finch recently. Here we talk about how Finch thought his career was gone, his likeability, white ball talent, red ball scars and the night he quite literally thought he pissed his career away.

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This episode we get on someone who has become one of the most heard voices in the game. Danny Morrison had a ten year career for New Zealand before becoming the IPL court jester. This episode we talk about his history, dropped catches, a tough period for New Zealand, his batting, and how his mother inspired his commentary.

Due to Danny doing this interview from the Maldives after the cancellation of the IPL, there were some issues with his audio, and it might be a bit less decent than you're used to on this show, apologies.

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It’s quite possible you have never owned a T20 team, but you are probably still fascinated by how that works. So I went and got an IPL owner to talk us through the entire thing. Manoj Badale owns the Rajasthan Royals, and so we talked about how you make a team from scratch, the logistics of running an organisation suspended for spot fixing, his moneyball fandom, why the team is trying to be the global IPL side and the future of the league.

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This episode we talk about what happens when you go from the person everyone wants a piece of, to a voluntary twelfth man in county cricket told by the man who loved it. Abhinav Mukund’s career started the way legends do, and since then, it’s been a bizarre journey, from batting with Rahul Dravid in a test to 30 pounds a day to run drinks at Leicestershire. We chat about his career, mental health, suicide, speaking out, and finding happiness when life goes in another direction.

Batting at four in a T20 match is a horrible position, so I found someone who had batted pretty much everywhere in T20 cricket, but spent most of his time at that hell position. Brad Hodge was in the first T20 match, won the first title, and then played it up until a few years ago when he stated coaching and commentating on it. Here we talk about facing gun spinners, why many players want to move up the order, and why he would retire a player who is batting too slow.

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This episode we talk to someone who has played two Tests, hit the winning runs in one of them, and would just like to play more. Shikha Pandey is an all-rounder for India who has represented her country over 100 times altogether and when I asked her what she wanted to talk about, she said “Why women should play test matches. 😍” So this episode is about her experiences of trying to learn the game without playing multi-day cricket, why she believes the time is now, plus some views on women’s cricket changing the game, and why I believe she should retire from Test cricket.