Cricket Badger Podcast

Julian Wood has added power and guile to some of the biggest names in cricket. You can win a batting masterclass to add sixes to your season!

Julian Wood is a former Hampshire batsman who now coaches the very best in the world to hit the ball with power and find the angles to maximise their scoring in the shorter forms of the game.

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It's a coaching special on the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast this week as James Buttler is joined by power hitting coach Julian Wood and Christy Kulasingam.

Julian Wood is a former Hampshire batsman who now coaches the very best in the world to hit the ball with power and find the angles to maximise their scoring in the shorter forms of the game.

Christy Kulasingam is the co-founder of a new coaching app which will be launched on 15 September. The Proatar app allows cricketers of any standard to upload footage of their game to get personalised coaching tips from some of the best cricketers and coaches around.

And, Christy and Julian have kindly donated themselves as a prize to one lucky winner who will get a free Proatar coaching masterclass with the powerhitting maestro. Do you want more power in your game?

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All here in the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast!

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As the furore over Adil Rashid's selection by England for the 1st Test against India threatens to become obscene, James Buttler defends the player and the ECB and questions Yorkshire's right to hold the moral high ground.

James argues that Rashid's selection comes from a unique set of circumstances and it's time to get behind a very talented player, not vilify him.

Recorded last night, James Buttler, Simon Peel and Tom Holdcroft debate whether England should pick Adil Rashid for the 1st Test against India.

A day later he's in the side and causing plenty of debate.

Unsurprisingly, the Podcast selection panel was split on the issue.

It's a special Supporters' Panel edition of the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast this week as James Buttler is joined by Tom Holdcroft and Simon Peel to get the fans' view on the game.

There's plenty to talk about. Are Tom and Simon #BackTheBlast men or devotees of the new ECB idea for #TheHundred in 2020? Have the recent rumblings made them nervous or excited for English cricket?

And, who wins the forthcoming England vs India Test series? Should England make changes? Has Adil Rashid's 'Ball of the Century' done enough to get him back in the Test side? We get their series predictions and hear what they think of the current state of international cricket.

All here in the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast! 

Contact the show via Twitter on @cricket_badger or email us at [email protected]. 

Also send us your recorded audio for our new Letters Page feature. Get something off your chest in less than a minute, email it in and you could well find yourself on the Podcast next week!

The Cricket Badger preview the decisive ODI between England and India at Headingley for William Hill.

At 1-1 after the first two ODIs it's all to play for.

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As the Podcast attracts a star-studded guest list and a growing listenership, here's a thanks from the Badger and how you can get involved too...

Contact the show via Twitter on @cricket_badger or email us at [email protected]. 

And send us your recorded audio for our new Letters Page feature. Get something off your chest in less than a minute, email it in and you could well find yourself on the Podcast next week!

Wayne Madsen has told the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast that he is "not convinced" that the ECB proposal to introduce The Hundred into the county game in 2020 will attract a fresh audience and could instead over-complicate the game rather than fulfil the intention to simplify the format and therefore broaden the game's appeal to the masses.

Grahame Lloyd is a guest on this week's podcast and he is seeking to expose the 2006 Christie's auction of a ball sold as THE ball hit for six sixes by the legendary Garfield Sobers in Swansea in 1968\.

The ball sold was not the real deal!

**Wayne Madsen** joins us on this week's Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast and chats Derbyshire, The Hundred, promotion and relegation in the County Championship and his exciting new initiative - alongside his wife he las launched Madsen Sports Coaching. It's keeping him busy.

Also on this week is broadcaster, writer, poet and songwriter **Grahame Lloyd**. Graham has written two books on Garfield Sobers' 1968 six hitting exploits for Nottinghamshire in Swansea and has gone on to prove that the ball sold at a Christie's auction for £26,400 was not the real deal. Who was responsible? What can be done? And, are Christie's prepared to do anything to compensate the Indian collector who is very much out of pocket?

All here in the Cricket Badger Radio Show Podcast!

Contact the show via Twitter on @cricket_badger or email us at [email protected].

Also send us your recorded audio for our new Letters Page feature. Get something off your chest in less than a minute, email it in and you could well find yourself on the Podcast next week!