Pete and Gid see Mitchell Starc harvest seven then Ben Stokes thresh five, amid a total of nineteen wickets on an astounding first day of the Ashes of 2025-26 played in fast forward - except for the over rates.  Updates also on Pete's glasses and the Shit Box From Hell.

 

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Pete and Gid savour the serenity at Perth Stadium on the eve of the First Test, review the teams, weigh the prospects, wonder what Steve Smith has against Monty Panesar, and thank heavens they needn't write another preview piece.

 

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Pete and Gideon kick back a while to luxuriate in their favourite Ashes memories, from Melbourne '82 to Headingley '19, from Pete's affinity for Jim Higgs to Gideon's admiration for the Hammond Sauce Works Band.  Also: the ball of the twenty-first century?  Plus: Pete's favourite toilet cubicle. 

 

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Live from St Kilda bowlo, Pete and Gid catch up with the shattering news of Josh Hazlewood’s hamstring, rubbing him out of the First Test. Also who is Brendan Doggett, why is Michael Neser, and what is England playing at in Lilac Hill?

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Peter and Gideon explore the likely Australia line-up after the latest round of Sheffield Shield, England's unpopular preparation, reminisce of Headbuttgate, and catch up on the Women's Big Bash League.  Seven more sleeps to the Ashes.

 

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Pete and Gid venture into the annals of Et Al, discussing Gid’s new book Who Is Wallace? - the bizarre story of the world’s oldest prisoner, Bill Wallace. For details on how to buy it, go to the bottom of this post.

 

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Peter and Gideon react to the selection of Australia's fifteen-man squad for the First Test.  Has Weatherald won the bat off?  Was there a bowl off too?  Green or Webster?  Or both!  Also: is George Bailey too agreeable to make the tough calls?  Big questions, plus our trademark rambling answers, in another ramshackle episode.

 

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Pete and Gideon want to know the First Test squad, so who else to ask but….long-time friend of the pod Bernard Fanning?! Bernard describes introducing his wife to Keith Richards, barbecuing Adam Gilchrist, playing CBGBs with Powderfinger, playing cricket against Coldplay, his favourite music T-shirt, and taking his first solo record on the road on its twentieth anniversary. For more details on the tour, go here.

 

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Pete and Gideon receive the news of Pat Cummins's unavailability for the Perth Test and wonder what it means for Australia.  Also Pete's night of Kohli love at the SCG, with a Rohit masterpiece, plus Alana King's Indore coup, the last round of the bat off, Geese and Betcover!!  We'll explain.....

 

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Pete and Gideon check in on the first ODI in Perth, the future of Virat and Rohit, the prime of Mitchell Marsh, the cult of Sam Konstas, and the on-going thrills and spills of the Great Australian Bat-Off.  Also: how do you lose sixteen consecutive tosses?  Plus: Heather Knight at her best, and India on the brink in the Women's World Cup.

 

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