After 1 win in 19 tests, the McCullum-Stokes era has brought 3 wins in 3 against World Test Champions New Zealand. There have been some stunning individual batting and bowling performances by England in the last month, but the real question is how good has stokes captaincy been and how much of an impact has it had.

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This episode(our 30th episode!) covers key aspects of cricket from 4/06 to 11/06.

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In this episode, we look at the elements that make up the amazing, England-saving Joe Root. We look at all things technique, including scoring rate, as well as Joe Root's shot selection.

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We look at the India and South Africa T20 Squads for the upcoming men'sT20I series between these two countries and see which squad we think looks the strongest.

Some of the topics we discuss are: 

 - Matt Parkinson vs Jack Leach: who is England's long term spinner ?

- Matty Potts Stunning Debut 

- Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell's 150+ run partnership in between chaotic batting 

Gujarat stormed to their maiden IPL title with a 7 wicket win over 2nd place Rajasthan, but how did they do it? We look at the key components of Gujarat's winning formula through analysis and stats. We also look at our Team of the Tournament, featuring Jos Butler, Dinesh Karthik and many more.

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Harry Brook has averaged 140 in the County Championship this season and has been a highly consistent performer in red and white ball domestic cricket for a couple of seasons now, but somehow he can't break into the England team for more than a match. What makes him so good and what is stopping him from becoming an England Regular?

It's confirmed! GT, RR, LSG and RCB have qualified for the IPL 2022 Playoffs. We will talk about the last group match of the IPL and then look at what we think will happen in the IPL playoffs.

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Matthew Mott has been named as England's white ball coach - is this appointment good or bad for english cricket? We look at this as well as the recently published squad for England Men's Test Squad.

In this episode, we look at the 2 most important matches of IPL Week 7. These two matches have been extremely significant and are worth looking at, with some good performances including England duo Liam Livingstone and Jonny Bairstow’s fifties.

No matter how good McCullum was as a player, he does lack experience as a head coach, especially in Test Cricket. With England doing so horribly in Test Cricket in 2021, you would think that we need an experienced coach to guide us to victory. We look at this and more about McCullum in this episode.

IPL Highlights of this week include:

- David Warner 92* off 58

- Daniel Sams Defending 9 runs in 20th over for MI

- Liam Livingstone 119m six

and so much more about english cricket! Most English Cricket fans were undoubtedly excited when Ben Stokes was appointed England's Test Captain, which followed the announcement  of Rob Key, a familiar face from Sky Sports Cricket,  as Managing Director. But what should we expect from them and what's going to be different from Root's captaincy?