All Over Bar the Cricket

Recorded during the Cape Town Test, Matthew Hayden, Blewie and JB break down Josh Inglis’ hundred, Alex Carey’s return to form, Cooper Connolly’s grit and another big performance from Mitchell Starc.
The conversation keeps coming back to Marnus Labuschagne, 48 innings without a hundred.
Hayden says he “deserves better than this” and that the selectors have hung him out to dry, while Blewie explains why he wouldn’t have picked him for the tour.
Plus who bats where against New Zealand in Perth, the boys respond to Travis Head’s press conference about criticism from former players, a tribute to James Anderson, and JB’s story of a fire hydrant in Santorini.

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No Test match talk this week, just a fireside chat while the boys are on a break.
With Australia back in South Africa, the boys look back at the tours that shaped them. Hayden remembers meeting Nelson Mandela on the 1994 tour, his Test debut at the Wanderers, Merv Hughes taking on the crowd with a bat, and the story of a heated Cape Town Test that ended with a pistol in the dressing room, as told by Haydos. Blewie relives his 1997 double century and the infamous bus trip to Sun City, and JB tells the story of his very short retirement negotiation and the “can I have your pads?” moment.

Weekly episodes return in two weeks as we gear up for a massive summer.

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The boys are back and joined by respected cricket journalist Peter Lalor, days out from departing for his sixth-straight Test series in South Africa.
Lalor calls Nick Maddinson's shock recall to the Test squad "the most astounding selection decision" he's seen in his career and Matt Hayden isn't holding back either, accusing Australian cricket of "piling up this dog sh*t explanation" for why in-form domestic players keep missing out.
We dig into Marnus Labuschagne's ongoing form crisis, the chaos engulfing Cricket Australia under interim chair David Boone, and what a famously hostile South African reception has in store for the touring Australians.

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Justin Langer joins the show for the first time, fresh off winning the Hundred with the Manchester Super Giants. The boys get into the shortened Mackay Test and whether Australia should just prepare flatter pitches, before turning to the real issue at number three - Marnus Labuschagne's form drought and who might replace him ahead of a brutal tour of South Africa. JL also opens up on the toll of a career full of blows to the helmet, how routine brain scans used to be, and whether he'd have survived in today's concussion era. Plus, JB and JL revisit the night they were caught red-handed drinking Ricky Ponting's retirement Grange and the photo that gave the game away.
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Travis Head takes home the Allan Border Medal but the night itself has the boys embarrassed for the game.
They dig into how cricket's night of nights went from a room full of legends to an afterthought, and why the scheduling mess is bigger than one bad look.
Plus: the boys preview the Bangladesh test series and Stephen Fleming's appointment as England's new coach, Haydos tells the story of taking Ricky Ponting fishing on the Tiwi Islands, and a chicken infestation derails Haydos' garden.

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