S2 09 | England draw and Australia lose

This 2021/2 Ashes series might be unbelieveable but it's not urnbelieveable. However if you still want a podcast mix of comedy, cricket, Andy Zaltzman, Felicity Ward and stats then do check out The Bugle Ashes Urncast available wherever you get your podcasts. 

Felicity returns to the studio to celebrate Australia's victory and deliver an emphatic No Paine No Gain. Trying to consol himself, Andy points out that Australia have retained the Ashes not won it. And there's a bumper stat whack to pay homage to the great Steve Smith. 

In a late substitution Felicity retired ill from the podcast field, so her Marnus Labuschagne is Declan Fay. However from her sick bed she still brings you No Paine No Gaine and Sick Burns! Andy is also joined by UK comedy legend Mark Steel to talk Ben Stokes, the return of Steve ... Show More

England's one day cricketers are struggling to get going under their new captain Jos Buttler. After suffering a series defeat to India over the weekend, they were soundly beaten in their opening ODI against South Africa on Tuesday too.To make matters worse, test captain Ben Stoke ... Show More

On this week’s episode, Alison Mitchell is joined by Sunil Gupta and Jim Maxwell to look at how the Ashes series is panning out.As Steve Smith resumes his domination of the Ashes series, we’ll ask an England fast bowler if he can spot a single weakness in Australia’s batting supe ... Show More

The breaking news from the world of Cricket saw Stuart Broad announce his retirement from the sport following the conclusion of the 5th and Final Ashes Test. The fast bowler recently passed 600 wickets in Test Cricket and has made 167 appearances for England since making his debu ... Show More

talkSPORT's Cricket Editor Jon Norman and former England fast bowler Steve Harmison talk about David Warner's plans for retirement, England's 10 wicket win over Ireland, Ben Stokes knee, Jack Leach's spin and Josh Tongue's five-fer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ... Show More

On this week’s Stumped with Alison Mitchell, Brett Sprigg and Charu Sharma, we discuss the announcement of Ben Stokes as England’s new Test captain. The team meet Britain’s oldest cricket umpire, Keith Dibb who at 86 years old is showing no signs of slowing down. Dibb has even ha ... Show More

Alison Mitchell and Jim Maxwell are at the Sydney Cricket Ground as Australia take on South Africa in their third and final Test Match of the series. They are joined by Sunil Gupta and debate how cricket should tackle the problem of bad light and ask whether a pink ball should be ... Show More

Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma chat to England opener Dom Sibley fresh from his maiden home Test century during England's victory over the West Indies in the second Test at Old Trafford, and pay homage to "Mr Incredible" Ben Stokes after he starred with the bat, ba ... Show More

Sydney Thunder bowler Hannah Darlington on Big Bash glory, future Australia selection and barefoot circles.Are England's coded messages from the dressing-room to the captain a vision of cricket's future or an underhand tactic that needs to be stamped out? The northern city that b ... Show More

On this week’s Stumped with Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma we speak to the England physical disability cricketer Liam O'Brien who has swapped playing cricket games for computer games. Plus he also speaks to us about raising awareness of disability cricket and how h ... Show More

On this week’s Stumped with Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell & Charu Sharma, we take a look at the state of play in the Women’s Ashes so far, debate the maiden use of DRS in the competition and ask if the format works.As the ICC name their cricketing achievements of the year, we cele ... Show More