Episodes
Peter is joined by Dave Tickner, author of 28 Days' Data, a new book that you can pre=order here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/28-Days-Data-Englands-Troubled-Relationship/dp/1785311506 They discuss the first two Tests between England and Sri Lanka and Ben Stokes celebrating in his pants.
Published 05/31/16
A chat about Sri Lanka vs England and Charlotte Edwards retiring. With Will Macpherson. Check out his podcast here - https://soundcloud.com/freelancecc-podcast
Published 05/12/16
Peter is joined by Emma John, author of new book "Following On: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket". We discuss what it was like following England in the 1990s. (SPOILER: It was terrible, but in a good way). You can buy Emma's book here - http://www.amazon.com/Following-Teenage-Obsession-Terrible-Cricket/dp/1472916875
Published 05/05/16
Peter is joined by Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) to talk about the Indian Premier League so far.
Published 04/19/16
Alan Butcher joins Peter to talk about his new book about his time as Zimbabwe coach, "The Good Murungu?" You can buy the book here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Murungu-Cricket-Tale-Unexpected/dp/178531131X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Details of the book signing event at The Oval are here - https://www.kiaoval.com/bills-book-club-to-launch-on-april-24th/
Published 04/04/16
We have had semi finals in both the men's and women's World T20 and Peter is joined by Iain O'Brien to talk about two New Zealand loses and two West Indies wins
Published 03/31/16
Two brilliant guests for this episode. Peter is joined by Netherlands captain Peter Borren and Scotland captain Preston Mommsen to discuss the WT20 and where their teams go next.
Published 03/25/16
Peter is joined by Anjali Doshi - editor of the new book Tendulkar in Wisden. You can buy the book here - http://www.amazon.com/Tendulkar-Wisden-Anthology-Anjali-Doshi/dp/1472927354
Published 03/19/16
Peter is joined by Daniel Norcross to talk about World T20 organisation, India losing to New Zealand, Chris Gayle and the Friends of Tooting Bec Common
Published 03/16/16
Peter is joined by Tim Wigmore to discuss the qualifying round of the World T20. There is resigned anger and love for Scotland's captain.
Published 03/13/16
It is nearly time for the qualifying round of the World T20 and Peter is joined by Andrew Nixon and Bertus de Jong to discuss the runners and riders. You can buy Alan Butcher's book on Zimbabwe cricket here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Good-Murungu-Cricket-Unexpected/dp/178531131X You can buy Peter's book on associate cricket here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Second-XI-Cricket-its-Outposts/dp/1785310135
Published 03/06/16
Brendon McCullum has gone, Australia beat New Zealand and the World T20 is a shambles. Adam Collins and Peter talk about it.
Published 02/27/16
The Test Championship is under the spotlight again and Peter is joined by Russ Degnan to discuss the idea. Russ has put together a survey, you can complete it here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ek6ZY9dAT04zHVNmaeLCN1HxIUau97_yymPcnCAjEO0/viewform?c=0&w=1
Published 02/21/16
Peter went on the excellent The Willow in the Windies podcast with David Oram. It is great, you can find it here - https://soundcloud.com/david-oram-2 - Subscribe etc
Published 02/19/16
Daniel Norcross joins Peter to discuss England's series loss to South Africa in ODIs, the West Indies winning the U19 World Cup and Shane Warne's belief that aliens created humanity by messing with some monkeys.
Published 02/16/16
Peter is joined by Dave Tickner and Tom Evans to discuss England in ODIs, the Pakistan Super League, old men playing cricket and Mankads.
Published 02/08/16
The men's and women's Big Bash events have just finished in Australia and Peter is joined by Geoff Lemon and Will Macpherson to discuss how it all went. There is some bigging up of the Big Bash and blasting of the T20 Blast.
Published 01/28/16
... we just live in it. We have seen a brilliant South African victory inspired by the 20 year old quick bowler Kagiso Rabada but England win the series 2-1. Peter is joined by Daniel Norcross to discuss the goings on.
Published 01/26/16
England have won a remarkable Test in Johannesburg and Peter is joined by BBC Test Match Special's Daniel Norcross to talk about it.
Published 01/16/16
South Africa and England have just played a Test match that didn't make sense. Peter is joined by Vithushan Ehantharajah to try and work out what it was about.
Published 01/07/16
South Africa are in trouble, or so we are told. Peter is joined by Cape Town based cricket journalist, Altus Momberg, to talk about quotas, targets and whether South African or English cricket treats spinners worse. Done via a mobile phone line so hopefully the sound is OK.
Published 01/01/16
It is the 2015 end of year review and Peter is joined by Dan Liebke and Daniel Norcross to talk about the best year cricket has had since 2014.
Published 12/27/15
Jarrod Kimber has written a new book. It is called Test Cricket - An Unauthorised Biography. It is very good. He talks about it with Peter. You can buy it here - http://www.amazon.com/Test-Cricket-The-Unauthorised-Biography/dp/1743790198
Published 12/18/15
Peter is joined by Dr Julian Cresser of the University of the West Indies. Julian teaches a course on the history of cricket in the Caribbean and has been deeply involved in Jamaican cricket for many years. He is fascinating on the subject of where the West Indies are and how it can be fixed.
Published 12/15/15
New Jingle
Published 11/30/15