Stories After Stumps

The champion batter - and a host of other relevant voices - gives us the inside account of the 2019 Ashes, and one of the most extraordinary individual series in recent times. Join Steve Smith, Justin Langer, Pat Cummins, Mitch Marsh, Trevor Bayliss, Marnus Labuschagne, David Beakley and more as we rewind to Smith's comeback era. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Cricket Australia XI lasted three seasons in the domestic One-Day Cup competition.  From 18 matches, they won only twice, and finished bottom of the table in each of their three seasons. However, the squad has produced 7 Test players with Brendan Doggett the latest to receive a Baggy Green.  This episode looks back at those years with a seven-team tournament and speaks to those who were part of the inaugural CA XI squad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"I'll be last. It'll be over by then. But little did I know that everybody else was going to miss."  Before the Super Over had been invented, tied T20 International matches were decided by a Bowl Off! It was cricket’s take on the penalty shootout, and it came with a heavy dose of scepticism, amusement and above all, confusion. This episode of Stories After Stumps takes you all the way back to 2006 and the players who were there for the first ever encounter between Australia and New Zealand in women’s T20Is and exactly what happened next when the scores were deadlocked after 20 overs each.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In February 1978, a ragtag Aussie Test squad, shorn of its World Series Cricket stars, lands in the Caribbean, where two revolutions – one involving reggae king Bob Marley – are simultaneously taking place.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Brett Dorey was in his early 20s, he was living and working on the ski fields of Austria. By his late 20s, he was playing for Australia. And by his early 30s, his cricket career was over.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.