Oborne & Heller on Cricket

By Peter Oborne, Richard Heller

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Cricket authors (and obsessives) Peter Oborne and Richard Heller have launched a new podcast to help deprived listeners endure a world without cricket. They will chat regularly about cricket topics – hoping to keep a good line and length but with occasional wides into other subjects.

Episode Date
World Cricket And All That Shapes It Covered By Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth
May 03, 2023
Sovereigns, stars, stewards, scorers, statisticians … Steven Lynch on this year’s Wisden obituaries
Apr 18, 2023
From teenage record breaker to players’ champion: James Harris of Glamorgan and the PCA
Mar 28, 2023
The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history
Mar 21, 2023
Two testaments of cricket and war
Mar 14, 2023
A story made for the movies – Pakistan women’s cricket
Mar 01, 2023
After a hard day in Nagpur, the great cricket writer Mike Coward gives a masterclass on Australian cricket
Feb 14, 2023
An elephant never forgets India’s first Test victory in England
Feb 07, 2023
How professionals save soccer – but not cricket – from public school amateurs, explains sports historian Richard Sanders
Jan 24, 2023
Cricket, diplomacy and a fierce despatch from Freddie Flintoff
Dec 13, 2022
England versus Pakistan – the first seventy years with historian Najum Latif
Dec 07, 2022
Another thrilling spell from fast bowling legend Wes Hall
Nov 29, 2022
Before D’Oliveira – the glories and the shame of England’s Tests against South Africa
Nov 22, 2022
A select offering from Ed Smith
Nov 15, 2022
From the captains’ table – cricket in two village communities
Nov 08, 2022
The cricketing car park of Beirut
Nov 01, 2022
Wendy Wimbush – fifty years of keeping but never settling scores
Oct 25, 2022
Mike Coward - sixty years of great cricket writing
Oct 18, 2022
At the wonder house of cricket books
Oct 11, 2022
Geoff Boycott celebrates yet another century
Oct 04, 2022
High performance or last performance? Campaigner Alan Higham dissects the ECB review of English cricket
Sep 27, 2022
Can serious cricket survive pornography asks Simon Heffer
Sep 13, 2022
Rebuilding Ukraine cricket and children’s lives – despite the ICC
Sep 06, 2022
The joy of Sri Lankan cricket, expertly distilled
Jul 05, 2022
Dutch cricket – and when it can be dangerous to watch
Jun 21, 2022
Writing and cricket: two matching crafts for Harold Pinter
Jun 07, 2022
Cricket – a prisoner of market forces?
May 31, 2022
Charles Sale digs deep into the tunnels at Lord’s
May 24, 2022
Non-racial sport: its slow journey with English cricket in the rear
May 17, 2022
Writer, broadcaster, cricketer Isabelle Westbury celebrates the upward trajectory of women’s cricket
May 10, 2022
Haringey Cricket College – a missing engine of opportunity in English cricket
May 03, 2022
Wisden’s obituary section, a tapestry of cricket, by their master weaver Steven Lynch
Apr 26, 2022
Wisden 2022, the global publishing event of the year, and its editor Lawrence Booth
Apr 20, 2022
Suing the ECB? Former board member and Somerset chairman Andy Nash suggests how to resist its destruction of English cricket
Apr 12, 2022
Some searing yorkers at wreckers of cricket
Mar 29, 2022
A classic cricket book republished for a new generation
Mar 22, 2022
Great cricket writers – and capping the Pope
Mar 15, 2022
Escape from Kyiv; the Modi grip on India’s cricket ball
Mar 08, 2022
Waiting for the Assault on Kyiv
Feb 28, 2022
Reporting the whole world of cricket: Osman Samiuddin
Feb 22, 2022
English cricket’s biggest and longest crisis: economic inequality
Feb 15, 2022
Class and the myths of English cricket analysed by historian Duncan Stone
Feb 08, 2022
The shocking sight of a dive in the field: Micky Stewart remembers highlights of a vanished world of cricket
Feb 01, 2022
The Graces CC, the club which opens up cricket to LGBT people
Jan 11, 2022
Two festive offerings from Henry Blofeld
Dec 14, 2021
Tanya Aldred and the global pressure to save cricket from climate change
Dec 07, 2021
Scyld Berry – England’s greatest cricket-watcher – shares highlights from over forty years of England on tour
Nov 30, 2021
The great commentator Fazeer Mohammed brings up to date the stories of BlackLivesMatter and West Indian cricket
Nov 23, 2021
Seventy years of revolution in English women’s cricket
Nov 16, 2021
Tantrums and turmoil, racism and riots, class conflicts and colonialism – and some great cricket – in a historic tour
Nov 02, 2021
The magisterial Imran Khan: the inspirational Lingard Goulding
Oct 19, 2021
A great umpire raises his finger against discrimination in cricket
Oct 12, 2021
England’s most incisive cricket writer, George Dobell, who never forgets the fans
Oct 05, 2021
Painful testimonies of racism shake the culture of denial of apartheid in South African cricket
Aug 31, 2021
Who needs the Hundred when Two Hundred Parents Start Playing Cricket?
Aug 24, 2021
South African cricket – still haunted by its unacknowledged legacy of white supremacy
Aug 17, 2021
Lonsdale Skinner: a cricket career blighted by racism
Jul 27, 2021
“Caught Eagle bowled Eagle” and other highlights from a political cricket lover
Jul 20, 2021
The hidden history of a huge success: women’s cricket in Britain
Jul 13, 2021
Behind the stumps but never the times in eight decades: the multiple lives of Lingard Goulding
Jul 06, 2021
Restoring the lost history of South African cricket
Jun 29, 2021
Cricket’s romantic numbers
Jun 22, 2021
No longer underdogs but still undervalued… New Zealand’s world-class cricketers
Jun 15, 2021
Cricket’s clarion call… from the man who delivered it
Jun 08, 2021
George Headley and a supporting cast of two emperors, one king and Evita Peron, in Latin America’s cricketing drama
Jun 01, 2021
The County Championship – past, present and future – by its great historian Stephen Chalke
May 04, 2021
Wisden 2021: cricket and class, race, plague and global warming
Apr 26, 2021
Rich lives in a few words: the obituaries in Wisden 2021
Apr 20, 2021
The park cricketer who married the Queen
Apr 12, 2021
Why crowds roar for the Tigers of world cricket
Apr 06, 2021
The man who discovered Eoin Morgan (and other stories)
Mar 29, 2021
The great Pakistani fast bowler who nearly became a Hollywood movie star
Mar 23, 2021
Wilf Wooller – the man at so many great moments of Welsh cricket
Mar 15, 2021
Andy Flower: inspiring cricketer – and protestor
Mar 08, 2021
The Modification of Indian cricket, expertly assessed
Mar 01, 2021
Kashmir – where cricket has become a political statement
Feb 22, 2021
Maurice Turnbull – and other heroes of cricket in Wales
Feb 15, 2021
A great historian’s love affair with cricket
Feb 08, 2021
Another fast-scoring innings by Mahela Jayawardene
Feb 01, 2021
The sky is the limit for Alsama Cricket Club, where refugees from Syria get new lives
Jan 25, 2021
What happened to the magic of Sri Lankan cricket?
Jan 18, 2021
The United States: Paradise Regained For Cricket?
Jan 11, 2021
The man who changed cricket for ever: Peter Hain
Jan 04, 2021
“Absent, caught fire” and other great moments from Scotland’s cricket heritage
Dec 28, 2020
“To take us to tea – and beyond”: the incomparable Henry Blofeld
Dec 21, 2020
New Zealand cricket’s long journey to success
Dec 14, 2020
The thrill returns of Ted Dexter at the crease
Dec 07, 2020
South African cricket and the poisoned legacy of apartheid
Nov 30, 2020
John Cleese Shares His Lifelong Love of Cricket
Nov 23, 2020
Jill Rutter on watching cricket with Prime Ministers and others
Nov 16, 2020
Talking with Pakistan Women’s Former Cricket Captain Sana Mir
Nov 09, 2020
The glorious social and cultural heritage of Irish cricket with Charles Lysaght
Nov 02, 2020
Cricket's growth in remarkable places: the man who knows
Oct 26, 2020
Talking with Human Rights Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith
Oct 19, 2020
Talking with Historian and Author, Dr Prashant Kidambi
Oct 12, 2020
Talking with ECB's Managing Director of Women’s Cricket Clare Connor
Oct 05, 2020
Talking with MCC's Head of Heritage and Collections Neil Robinson
Sep 28, 2020
Talking with Huw Turbervill and Simon Hughes of The Cricketer
Sep 21, 2020
Talking with Former First-Class Pakistani Cricketer Qamar Ahmed
Sep 14, 2020
Talking with Journalist and Author Mihir Bose
Sep 07, 2020
Talking with Sports Writer and Radio Broadcaster Pat Murphy
Aug 24, 2020
Talking with Lord Jeffrey Archer
Jul 27, 2020
Talking with Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ehsan Mani
Jul 20, 2020
Talking with ICC Umpire Simon Taufel
Jul 13, 2020
Talking with Cricket Historian Stephen Chalke
Jul 03, 2020
Talking with West Indian Commentator Fazeer Mohammed
Jun 26, 2020
Talking with Mickey Arthur, Sri Lanka’s National Coach
Jun 19, 2020
Peter Gibbs on his County Career
Jun 12, 2020
The First Nets & More Cricketing Novels
Jun 05, 2020
Afghan Cricket with Dr Sarah Fane OBE
May 29, 2020
The Impact of T20 with Tim Wigmore
May 22, 2020
Cricket and Literature
May 15, 2020
Analysis with Nathan Leamon
May 08, 2020
British Politics and Cricket Entwined
May 01, 2020
Cricket anyone? Anywhere?
Apr 24, 2020
Unpacking more of this year’s Wisden
Apr 17, 2020
Publication of Wisden 2020
Apr 10, 2020
A Preview of Wisden 2020
Apr 03, 2020