Cricket Podcasts

Test Match Special treats a result as the start of a conversation. India thrash New Zealand for World Cup glory carries the call of the final catch early on, then stays in Ahmedabad for the winners' voices. In The 2026 T20 World Cup Debrief, Henry Moran and colleagues grade England's tournament. One settles on "probably a B", not much more than that, and another insists on "B plus for sure", if not more. It is a small exchange, but it shows the pleasure of informed people disagreeing amiably about how much credit a beaten semi-finalist deserves.

Stumped is the weekly show from BBC Sport in association with ABC and Akashvani, and it puts several continents in the room. In Men’s T20 World Cup Final: India demolish New Zealand to retain title, Clint objects to ICC chair Jay Shah celebrating India's win: "You have to be above fandom." Sunil Gupta, speaking from New Delhi, replies that it is a cultural thing and that nobody in India thought it amiss. They disagree, and you hear one moment read two ways.

Tournament dailies trade depth for speed. On The Final Word Cricket Podcast, TFW Daily – Windies power leaves India teetering - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 17 marvels at West Indies' 254 for 6, built on 19 sixes, and still finds time for Blessing Muzarabani's powerplay spell. For more shows built around results, try the Match Analysis & Commentary page. The white-ball calendar has its own home on the T20 & Limited-Overs page.

Much of the form rests on retired players explaining what the camera missed. Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain host Sky Sports Cricket Podcast. In Broad joins Nas and Ath to reflect on an England Test victory in Australia, but one tinged with Ashes regret, Stuart Broad is asked about the runs England conceded behind square on the off side. His answer works as a coaching lesson: the cut ball misses line and length at the same time. On Test Match Special's The Art of Captaincy, Alastair Cook and Michael Vaughan trade memories of the job. One of them admits he read his first speech to the team "word for word, probably very robotic".

This is where the access argument bites. Former teammates can describe a dressing room in a way no reporter can, and they may also go easier on a friend. Wisden Cricket Weekly, with Mark Butcher and Yas Rana, shows another approach. In 59% of pro male cricketers are privately educated: What is English cricket doing about the state school divide?, a guest's research into state-school cricket leads to the story of a college that closed in 1997 after it could not find 25 grand to survive another year. For more red-ball debate, go to the Test Cricket page.

The Grade Cricketer aims its jokes at the game's excesses. In Dear Vaibhav, well done, with Sam Perry away, the remaining host turns a teenager's strike rate of 300 into mock despair: "this kid is 15 and he's making me sick." The joke works because it tracks a real scoring rate.

The Cricket Podcast's Can England Go All The Way? Group C T20 World Cup 2026 Preview assigns a team an artist. West Indies get Roy Lichtenstein, strong on paper but often failing to come together, "a bit like art made out of individual dots". Even the measured The Analyst Inside Cricket proposes trampolines by the boundary for fielders in INDIA'S POWER CRUSHES BRAVE KIWIS. If banter grates, skip this section. If cricket's solemnity grates, start here.

Some of the warmest listening happens far from the broadcast deals. The Cricket Shed Podcast follows Zimbabwean cricket. Its Zimbabwe v Bangladesh Only Test review with Dean Du Plessis, Darlington Matambanadzo and Prosper Tsvanhu dissects a 140 that took 227 balls and included 17 boundaries. The panel also traces how Harare Sports Club pitches changed after the 2004 exodus of players. The Zimbabwe Cricket Podcast comes from two Australian fans of the Chevrons. In Logan Cup Form Guide & Pro50 Power Plays ft. Roy Kaia, Kaia recalls screaming at the door, with his mother beside him, when he learned he had been picked for the under-19s.

REDDERS Sports Podcast goes down to club grades. BOIDC Podcast Episode 12 160326 questions whether finals rules that let a side bat for two days put too much weight on finishing high, and the host insists, "I am not having sour grapes." The PCR Sports Show, a Friday programme on Peterborough's PCRFM, gives Peterborough Town Cricket Club captain David Clarke and committee member Tim Over room to describe club values of preparation, unity, respect and excellence.

Backward Point Cricket Podcast offers fan company in hard times. The END of Pakistan's T20 World Cup | Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka Review | EP 268 includes the line "We're living through this trauma together." On That's Cricket, pro cricketer Liam Plunkett walks through caps and formats in Is Cricket Getting Americanized!?. On Powerplay: A Women’s Cricket Podcast, in Amanda-Jade Wellington: 'I wouldn't change my life for anything', Wellington says she feels freer playing in the Hundred, for Somerset and in the WBBL.

The Analyst Inside Cricket, with Simon Hughes and Simon Mann, revisits 2005 in 2005 ASHES - THE GREATEST TEST (Edgbaston). It mixes archive commentary with recollection, including an interview in which Andrew Flintoff described retreating to Bovey Castle after a poor Lord's Test. Endless Summers - The Test Cricket History of Australia works through Australian Test history series by series. Its Episode 3 - 1878/79 Demons and Riots explains how leading Australian players raised the money for a tour themselves.

A Century Of Stories treats cricket's economics more loosely. In How did the BCCI rise to its current status? ft. Amrit Mathur | Cricket, India's pull on other boards' finances is summed up as "we are the bailout package." The Last Wicket takes the long view in a technical direction. In Talking Cricket Analytics with Soham Sarkhel, Sarkhel describes good commentators pushing analysts on questions such as whether a batter struggles against left-arm spin.