Broadcaster Corbin Middlemas and ex-Test opener Ed Cowan pull apart the biggest issues in cricket. Your weekly deep dive into the sport.
Latest episodes
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Innings Closed: Ed Cowan's Final Episode
After 8 years behind the mic, Ed Cowan plays his final innings as ABC Cricket Podcast co-host before stepping up to the Cricket Australia board. From Cape Town, the boys preview th…
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54 min
South Africa Stun Australia
Corbin and Ed unpack South Africa's emphatic innings victory over Australia in the second Test at St George's Park, where the Proteas roared back from 6/110 to hand Australia their…
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55 min
Grandstand at Stumps: Battling Boland can't save Australia from an innings defeat
Scott Boland did his job for Australia with a 166 ball innings as night watchman while Travis Head notched his 13th Test century. Even the weather did its bit by wiping out the ent…
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27 min
Grandstand at Stumps: career jeopardy for Aussies as Jansen stars
Australia is staring down the barrel of defeat in the 2nd Test in a performance that could shake the careers of a number of players. Marco Jansen followed up his batting heroics wi…
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35 min
Grandstand at Stumps: A Temba ton as Bavuma blasts South Africa into the box seat
South Africa wrestled back momentum on day 3 of the 2nd Test against Australia on the back of a brilliant century to captain Temba Bavuma.
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Grandstand at Stumps: More rain and more pain for South Africa
Australia are in control of the 2nd Test against South Africa in Gqeberha, despite the start of play being delayed for almost 6 hours on day 2.
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24 min
Grandstand at Stumps: Boland shines through the rain
Only 60 minutes of cricket was played on Day 1 at St Georges Park with rain delaying the start and stopping play multiple times before an early stumps was called, with South Africa…
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51 min
Renshaw's Renaissance
Send a voice message to the boysEd Cowan and Corbin step through Australia's remarkable come-from-behind victory over South Africa in the first Test at Kingsmead. From 6/124 on day…
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51 min
Grandstand at Stumps: Hazlewood's haul helps Australia home
Josh Hazlewood achieved career best figures on the final day of the first Test in Durban to bowl South Africa out for 206 and seal the win for Australia. It was emphatic turnaround…
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28 min
Grandstand at Stumps: This is Matt Renshaw's Test Match
Australia is closing in on victory in the 1st Test in Durban. South Africa needs a world record chase to run down 421 but lost 4 wickets before the close of play.Matt Renshaw top s…
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Grandstand at Stumps: Smith scoops 4 catches to return to World Leading mark
Australia stuck to their task to notch a 106 run first innings lead as South Africa's batters failed to capitalise on good starts. 6 players got to 30 but nobody managed to kick on…
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29 min
Grandstand At Stumps: Renshaw's redemption ton puts Australia in box seat
Matt Renshaw's second Test century, almost a decade after his first, led Australia to a dominant position in the First Test against South Africa in Durban. Renshaw batted for 397 b…
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34 min
Grandstand At Stumps: Renshaw and Cummins save Australia as Maddinson experiment fails
Australia scrambled to 6/187 when bad light brought a premature end to the first day's play, thanks largely to an unbeaten half century partnership between Matt Renshaw and Pat Cum…
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42 min
In The Nic of Time? Who Bats At 5?
Cam Green's injury has thrown Australia's batting order into chaos ahead of the first Test against South Africa in Durban. Ed Cowan breaks down the selection dilemma: does Cooper C…
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47 min
Baird out, Cowan in?
Sorry what, are we losing one of our hosts to the Cricket Australia board? With Mike Baird stepping down after no longer having the support of Cricket NSW, Corbin chats to the guy…
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39 min
CA board shakeup, Zimbabwe scares and what's a false #3?
You can almost smell the South Africa test series but before it begins there's domestic cricket and an ODI series win against a plucky Zimbabwe on the brain. As well, Cricket Austr…
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44 min
Interrogating the Big Bash sale decision and NSW's opposition
Cricket Australia will push on with privatisation starting with the Renegades so Corbin and Ed have PLENTY to discuss. Mike Baird and Todd Greenberg fronted the media last week spr…
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38 min
Marnus gets his "last chance saloon"
The test squad for South Africa has three names on it that the boys are keen to discuss - Labuschagne, Neser and Connolly. Corbin and Ed think it's clear from George Bailey's comme…
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46 min
Rabada out, Lord's dire deck, and T20 Eurovision
Australia's chances in South Africa jumped today with Kagiso Rabada likely out of the series and the Lord's pitch continues to disappoint. Corbin and Ed chop up all the news in the…
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46 min
Has Marnus Labuschagne 'tinkered' his way out of the Test side?
After another lean series from Marnus Labuschagne, Ed Cowan is wondering whether he has 'boiled the frog slowly' by continuing to tinker with his batting set-up while still not mak…