

Wisden Cricket Weekly
Wisden Cricket Weekly
Join Mark Butcher, Yas Rana and the rest of the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast team for a weekly digest of the biggest stories from both English cricket and the wider world game.
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Oct 12, 2020 • 22min
How Sanderstead CC are hoping to inspire a club cricket highlights revolution
Sanderstead CC's Dan Allen joins the show to explain how he made the Surrey club social media stars almost by accident, with viral clips of the on-field action being shared by, among plenty of others, Sachin Tendulkar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 9, 2020 • 51min
A Black History Month special
The Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast, in conjunction with Chance to Shine, marks Black History Month in the UK by celebrating the careers of some of England's most loved black cricketers. There are contributions from Roland Butcher, Alex Tudor, Devon Malcolm, Michael Holding and Ebony Rainford-Brent on their careers, experiences of racism in the game and questions around diversity in the here and now. Interviews conducted by Phil Walker, Yas Rana and John Stern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 3min
Remembering Dean Jones, Alastair Cook's Lord's hundred and a chaotic week in the IPL
Sam Perry from The Grade Cricketer joins the show to pay tribute to the life of Dean Jones, who passed away this week at the age of 59.
Regular panelists Ben Gardner, Phil Walker, Jim Wallace and Yas Rana look back at the Bob Willis Trophy final at Lord's, the latest batch of central contracts, England's series win over West Indies and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 24, 2020 • 24min
Gun young quicks, netting for the sake of netting and the future of match teas
With the season now drawn to a close, Phil Walker and Yas Rana talk about their newfound love of netting, the ends of their summers, match teas and the record-breaking young quick at Phil's club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 22, 2020 • 1h 1min
An epic last round of the Blast, the final of the Willis, the IPL and taking a knee
The panel of Phil Walker, Jo Harman, Ben Gardner and Yas Rana talk about an incredible finish to the T20 Blast group stages and whether the tournament deserves more TV coverage, preview the final of the Bob Willis Trophy – the captains of both finalists, Tom Westley and Tom Abell, both join the show – and look back at the opening T20I of the England-West Indies series, as well as the first three games of IPL 13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 18, 2020 • 22min
CricketForce Special Part 3: Creative fundraising
In the final Wisden CricketForce podcast with Natwest, we hear from members at Toft CC, Uffington CC, Welton CC about their efforts to raise funds and engage with their local community in 2020 through new
and at times unconventional ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 17, 2020 • 52min
Maxwell's magic, epic comebacks and John Cleese
Jo Harman, Taha Hashim and Yas Rana reflect on England's first home ODI series defeat in five years, discuss what England's ODI team might look like at the 2023 World Cup, look back at the latest T20 Blast action, preview the IPL and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 14, 2020 • 47min
Wisden and CricViz present...The Greatest T20: Who is the greatest T20 spinner?
The Greatest T20 series is back, and this time Yas Rana and CricViz analyst Freddie Wilde are joined by two-time World T20 winner with the West Indies Samuel Badree, as the panel debate who the format's greatest ever spin bowler is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 11, 2020 • 20min
CricketForce Special Part 2: What club cricket can learn from its most testing summer
In the first of three Wisden CricketForce podcasts with Natwest, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Finchley CC chairman Julian Powe and the GMA's Jason Booth join the show to talk about CricketForce, club cricket's reliance on volunteering and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 11, 2020 • 1h 5min
A celebration of Bell's career, Dawid Malan, the Willis and Headley's hat-tricks
The panel of Jim Wallace, Jo Harman, Yas Rana and Taha Hashim look back at the careers of Ian Bell and Graham Onions, both of whom announced their retirements from the game over the past seven days, and reflect on England's 2-1 T20I series win over Australia, the final round of the group stage in the Bob Willis Trophy and much more. The show ends with a pre-recorded interview between Jo and Dean Headley, where Headley describes two of the three hat-tricks he took in 1996. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices


