The Final Word Cricket Podcast New Aussie contract list braces for Test overload year
Season 19, Episode 39: It’s our season finale for the Australian cricket season of 2025/26, with a cracker of a Sheffield Shield final run and won over five days, and a new Australian central contract list moving well away from white-ball formats and investing everything in the extraordinary glut of 21 Tests between this August and the following July. Also this week, separate administrator madness in both Pakistan and India, an all-time performance in the women's game, and more discontent with Brendon McCullum is part of the many stories bubbling away in England before the new county season.
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Title track by Urthboy
0:00 Award for Best Podcast 11:30 Sheffield Shield Final 23:30 CA Central Contracts 34:00 Beyers Swanepoe 43:00 Jay Shah 22nd Most Powerful Man 52:30 PSL 58:00 Bopara retires 1:00:30 IPL 1:10:00 Amelia Kerr 1:15:00 AusW v WI W 1:19:24 Bazball under fire 1:26:49 County Wrap
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