ABC Cricket Podcast

By ABC

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by ABC

Category: Cricket

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 186
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 232

Description

Broadcaster Corbin Middlemas and ex-Test opener Ed Cowan pull apart the biggest issues in cricket. Your weekly deep dive into the sport. 

Episode Date
IPL 2026: Head vs Kohli, the tournament trends and best Aussies
May 25, 2026
The players want it all - protection, pay, leave and loyalty
May 18, 2026
Todd Greenberg on the "damn difficult" BBL privatisation process
May 11, 2026
Setting the record straight on the BBL sale and what comes next
May 04, 2026
If cricket is for sale, what do the players think?
Apr 28, 2026
Inside the BBL privatisation stand off
Apr 20, 2026
Ryan Harris talks 'rhino rev ups', SACA glory and Australian coach aspirations
Apr 13, 2026
George Bailey chats relationships with the press, retirements and Ashes reviews
Apr 05, 2026
A "proper" Sheffield Shield final sees SACA triumph and the Vics buckle
Mar 30, 2026
Straight up, this episode is MUST listen
Mar 23, 2026
Shield final confirmed but the season batting numbers are grim reading
Mar 16, 2026
Reckoning with the depth of India's T20 dominance
Mar 09, 2026
T20 World Cups every two years just don't resonate
Mar 06, 2026
T20 World Cup semis and Alyssa Healy's fairytale finale
Mar 02, 2026
“I would hate it”: The possible BBL flow on of The Hundred’s Pakistan issue
Feb 27, 2026
Selectors under fire, South Africa shock India and the BBL money fight heats up
Feb 23, 2026
Blame game: unpacking World Cup recriminations
Feb 20, 2026
Zimbabwe shock, Super Over thriller, and pink-ball intrigue
Feb 16, 2026
The best T20 game ever and Steve Smith boards the flight
Feb 13, 2026
T20 World Cup scares, the Shield shines and Vaibhav destroys
Feb 08, 2026
Australia without their big three, World Cup quirks and Shield chaos
Feb 06, 2026
Pakistan's Cup Boycott and Australia's Shaky Preparation
Feb 02, 2026
Australia's World Cup pressure points and BBL's future
Jan 30, 2026
The Scorchers do it again, finals fallout, and the weekend in world cricket
Jan 26, 2026
As the BBL heats up, CA prepares to sell it
Jan 23, 2026
Steve Smith is shaping the BBL finals picture
Jan 19, 2026
Ashes to Bashes: who's rising, ready and matters in the BBL
Jan 12, 2026
Ashes retained, standards exposed: what this series really told us
Jan 09, 2026
Ashes D5: 5th Test – Big moments, big players as Australia dominate the Ashes
Jan 08, 2026
Ashes D4: 5th Test – Bethell arrives, Webster delivers as the Ashes enter the final day
Jan 07, 2026
Ashes D3: 5th Test – Head, Smith centuries as Australia take control
Jan 06, 2026
Ashes D2: 5th Test – A good wicket, a missed opportunity, and Head hits back
Jan 05, 2026
Ashes D1: 5th Test – Bad light, early stumps, England on top in Sydney
Jan 04, 2026
Usman's pointed farewell and the final Ashes Test
Jan 02, 2026
The game, the money, what comes next
Dec 29, 2025
Ashes D2: 4th Test – England celebrate, but Test cricket isn’t meant to be rushed
Dec 27, 2025
Ashes D1: 4th Test – If you blinked, you missed an innings
Dec 26, 2025
Ronball reigns as Ashes celebrations bring new questions
Dec 22, 2025
Ashes D5: 3rd Test – Australia Retain the Ashes in Adelaide
Dec 21, 2025
Ashes D4: 3rd Test – What did they think was going to happen?
Dec 20, 2025
Ashes D3: 3rd Test – So much for Bazball, It’s the Travball episode
Dec 19, 2025
Ashes D2: 3rd Test – England melt in Adelaide
Dec 18, 2025
Ashes D1: 3rd Test – A proper day of Test cricket in Adelaide
Dec 17, 2025
Heat rises on England, metaphorically and literally
Dec 15, 2025
The Adelaide litmus Test
Dec 12, 2025
England Talk a Big Game, Australia Play One
Dec 08, 2025
Ashes D4: 2nd Test – Neser validation, Smith stunner, Starc summer - Australia lead 2-0
Dec 07, 2025
Ashes D3: 2nd Test – Starc legend grows as England wilts
Dec 06, 2025
Ashes D2: 2nd Test – Jake breaks in, but Australia fails to capitalise
Dec 05, 2025
Ashes D1: 2nd Test – Root's final frontier, Lyon shock, Starc heroics
Dec 04, 2025
‘Piece of sh*t’ controversy, ‘eye black’ experiment, and batting order relevance
Dec 01, 2025
Perth verdict is in, now Brisbane awaits
Nov 28, 2025
Saved our best for LIVE
Nov 26, 2025
'Brand over brains': England's refusal to learn
Nov 24, 2025
Ashes D2: 1st Test - Travball Head-lines as Australia surf the chaos wave
Nov 22, 2025
Ashes D1: 1st Test - Starc shines, Stokes stars in manic opener
Nov 21, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: The 2005 nailbiter at Edgbaston
Nov 18, 2025
Ashes anticipation peaks as the injury rollercoaster continues
Nov 17, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: Shane Warne and amazing Adelaide
Nov 14, 2025
Hazlewood’s good, Wood’s warming, the Ashes are incoming
Nov 14, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: Ben Stokes at Headingley
Nov 11, 2025
Over prepared, under prepared, salad rolls and Corbin returns
Nov 10, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: Border and Thompson's almost miracle
Nov 07, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: A Bob Massie Masterclass
Nov 04, 2025
Another Dog(gett) in the fight
Nov 03, 2025
The lid's off for Hoff
Oct 27, 2025
Jim's Ashes Special: Bairstow and Carey
Oct 24, 2025
The Australian summer of cricket has begun
Oct 20, 2025
All eyes on Pat Cummins and Australia's Women's World Cup record-breaking win
Oct 13, 2025
The great Australian bat-off is on!
Oct 06, 2025
Is England’s Ashes squad (gulp) good?
Sep 29, 2025
Are all runs created equally?
Sep 22, 2025
Cricket's coldest shoulder
Sep 14, 2025
How worried are we about Pat’s back?
Sep 08, 2025
A very overdue mailbag episode
Sep 01, 2025
Ok fine, let's talk about the ODIs
Aug 25, 2025
Is Test cricket for all, or just the lucky few?
Aug 18, 2025
Is it too early to start predicting our Ashes team?
Aug 11, 2025
Final day drama & the Big Bash buyout
Aug 04, 2025
Handshake gate
Jul 28, 2025
What do Nathan Ellis and Scott Boland have in common?
Jul 21, 2025
Testing times for the West Indies while Australians rack up records
Jul 15, 2025
Trophy retained, questions remain
Jul 07, 2025
Any danger of some top order runs?
Jun 30, 2025
Green shoots and growing pains
Jun 23, 2025
Humbled at Lord’s
Jun 16, 2025
One Test. One champion
Jun 09, 2025
Smith’s swan song?
Jun 02, 2025
Is Marnus finally out of luck?
May 26, 2025
We pick our WTC XI
May 19, 2025
Aussie cricketers caught between contracts & conflict
May 12, 2025
Too young to drive, old enough to smash IPL centuries?
May 05, 2025
Will India stay in the Olympic Village?
Apr 28, 2025
What can cricket learn from Will Pucovski?
Apr 13, 2025
Who's in, who's out?
Apr 07, 2025
29 years in the making
Mar 31, 2025
We need to talk about that Uzzie presser
Mar 24, 2025
The death knell of 50-over cricket?
Mar 10, 2025
How much worse can it get for English cricket?
Mar 03, 2025
Inglis inspires | Australia’s record-breaking triumph & Corbin’s big win
Feb 24, 2025
Golf trips and bent elbows
Feb 17, 2025
Galle in one
Feb 10, 2025
So one-sided it was almost boring … almost
Feb 03, 2025
Who on earth is Mitch Owen?
Jan 28, 2025
Should Steve Smith open for the Aussie T20 side?
Jan 13, 2025
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Jan 06, 2025
The greatest show on earth
Dec 31, 2024
Can Sam Konstas save Australia?
Dec 23, 2024
The Test that got away
Dec 19, 2024
The prince of Adelaide strikes again
Dec 09, 2024
How do you bat against Jasprit Bumrah?
Dec 02, 2024
Perth post-mortem
Nov 26, 2024
Who is under more pressure this summer, Australia or India?
Nov 19, 2024
Is Australia’s big guess, an even bigger mistake?
Nov 11, 2024
Is Nathan McSweeney the answer?
Nov 04, 2024
Why are the big three all struggling?
Oct 28, 2024
“A great week for the cricket purists”
Oct 21, 2024
Cam Green is out for the summer, who takes his place?
Oct 14, 2024
Our Aussie women get off to a flyer, as does Spriggy!
Oct 07, 2024
What can cricket learn from the AFL?
Sep 30, 2024
14 wins in a row, some outrageous English comments and a six-day Test in Sri Lanka!
Sep 23, 2024
The Aussies tour England, a Test reshuffle, and a BBL team in Canberra?
Sep 16, 2024
Scottish whitewash, Pakistan's woes and Bazball all-around?
Sep 09, 2024
Jay Shah is the new ICC boss, and we are concerned…
Sep 02, 2024
Can $15 million save Test cricket?
Aug 26, 2024
Corby returns, Nick Hockley leaves
Aug 19, 2024
The art of selection with George Bailey
Aug 12, 2024
India deep dive with Prakash Wakankar
Jul 29, 2024
A cricket calendar shakeup is coming
Jul 22, 2024
We love the Connolly call up!
Jul 15, 2024
A cricketing crossroads
Jul 08, 2024
Questionable catches and hamstrings
Jul 01, 2024
The Aussies slip on a banana peel
Jun 24, 2024
“You do not want to upset Mother Cricket”
Jun 17, 2024
Upsets galore and Dave Warner bingo
Jun 10, 2024
It’s World Cup time baby!
Jun 03, 2024
Mitch Starc is the “best white ball bowler of all time”
May 27, 2024
Is Justin Langer going to coach India?
May 20, 2024
New Zealand snatch defeat from the jaws of victory AGAIN!
Mar 12, 2024
The grass is Green in NZ for the Aussies!
Mar 04, 2024
Teddy is in his Tim David era
Feb 26, 2024
Farewelling the summer of cricket, and Teddy’s moustache
Feb 19, 2024
Ill-advised facial hair, and non-existent runout appeals
Feb 13, 2024
Vapes at the Allan Border Medal, funky dismissals, and the ‘same old story’ at the SCG
Feb 05, 2024
Rally 'Round the West Indies!
Jan 30, 2024
How does Travis Head do it?!
Jan 22, 2024
The worst-kept secret in cricket: Steve Smith is our new opener
Jan 14, 2024
Is Test cricket circling the drain? Oh, and the Aussies win again…
Jan 08, 2024
Culture Carrier
Dec 30, 2023
Tom Curran coming through!
Dec 22, 2023
Warner goes wild in the West, and the GOAT spins his way to 500 wickets
Dec 18, 2023
Mitchell Johnson bowling heat or throwing shade?
Dec 11, 2023
Australia are World Cup champions!
Nov 20, 2023
Maxi magic, time's up Sri Lanka and Meg's farewell, with X-Man
Nov 13, 2023
‘Have you ever seen anyone fall off the back of a golf cart?’
Nov 06, 2023
The World Cup is heating up, and so are the Aussies!
Oct 30, 2023
We are so back!
Oct 23, 2023
Why has Australia fallen behind in men's ODI cricket?
Oct 16, 2023
The Rooster becomes a world-record setter
Oct 09, 2023
Will this be the last ODI World Cup?
Oct 03, 2023
Balls, Broad and beers
Aug 01, 2023
Rain, glorious rain!
Jul 24, 2023
Ashes mailbag
Jul 17, 2023
Good for the series
Jul 17, 2023
Lunacy at Lord's
Jul 03, 2023
The cult of Bazball
Jun 26, 2023
Baz what? The Aussies win Ashes classic
Jun 21, 2023
Australia are World Test Champs!
Jun 12, 2023
Test match cricket is back, and so are we!
Jun 05, 2023
Sheffield Shield finale, and our season finale!
Mar 27, 2023
Ed and Corbin’s mailbag
Mar 20, 2023
'Wasn't that a dull Test match!'
Mar 15, 2023
Indore galore!
Mar 05, 2023
The best team on the planet
Feb 27, 2023
'Australia should have won this Test'
Feb 20, 2023
DISASTER in Nagpur
Feb 13, 2023
India, India, INDIA!
Feb 08, 2023
Thanks BBL, it’s been fun…kind of
Jan 30, 2023
What’s hot what’s not, Big Bash edition
Jan 23, 2023
The Afghanistan decision
Jan 16, 2023
We need to talk about Sydney
Jan 09, 2023
Choose Your Fighter
Jan 02, 2023
Domestic takeaways, some outrageous English comments, and a six-day Test in Sri Lanka!
Jan 02, 2023
A two-day Test!
Dec 19, 2022
The David Warner conundrum
Dec 12, 2022
Queue jumping
Dec 05, 2022
Is the Australian cricket team on the nose?
Nov 28, 2022
The ODI series no one asked for!
Nov 21, 2022
‘Long live the white ball kings!’
Nov 15, 2022
Where did it all go so wrong?
Nov 07, 2022
Busting slumps and tearing hamstrings
Nov 01, 2022
Was that the greatest T20 international EVER?
Oct 24, 2022
What is ABC SPORT DAILY?
Aug 02, 2022
Introducing ABC SPORT DAILY
Jun 02, 2022
Season Finale!
Mar 28, 2022
To follow on, or to not follow on?!
Mar 17, 2022
Shane Warne's 'Diet coke and three Panadol…'
Mar 10, 2022
Pakistan here we come!
Feb 28, 2022
Farewell to the summer of cricket
Feb 21, 2022
The ‘High stakes and high drama’ of the IPL Auction
Feb 14, 2022
‘He deserved better’
Feb 07, 2022
Much more than a draw
Jan 31, 2022
Quick-fire cricket debates
Jan 24, 2022
Full Ashes wrap
Jan 17, 2022
The selection squeeze
Jan 11, 2022
Happy New Year cricket nerds
Jan 03, 2022
Retaining the urn
Dec 28, 2021
A one-sided Adelaide affair
Dec 21, 2021
Victory at the Gabba
Dec 13, 2021
The Ashes are here!
Dec 06, 2021
The battle for No.5
Nov 29, 2021
“The cover up is worse than the crime”
Nov 22, 2021
It's coming home
Nov 15, 2021
Semi-finals here we come!
Nov 08, 2021
"England open a can on the Aussies"
Nov 01, 2021
How should we feel about Australia’s win?
Oct 25, 2021
Welcome back cricket nerds!
Oct 18, 2021
The end of the summer all wrapped up in a bow
Apr 19, 2021
Questions or Answers?
Mar 08, 2021
Pride of Place
Mar 01, 2021
The Perfect Game
Feb 23, 2021
Sixers go back-to-back
Feb 08, 2021
President of the Alex Carey fan club
Feb 01, 2021
Matching ability with talent
Jan 25, 2021
The Indian cricket freight train
Jan 20, 2021
A weird sense of humour
Jan 12, 2021
It feels like the grand final
Jan 04, 2021
The man who serves us the meat in the deli counter
Dec 30, 2020
You can't scan a broken spirit
Dec 21, 2020
First Drop Openers
Dec 14, 2020
Where was Pat Cummins?
Dec 07, 2020
Hands finding
Nov 30, 2020