Before Test matches, before rivalries, before the tiny urn… there was only a field, a stick, a ball, and the quiet rhythm that would become cricket.

Join Michael Wiltshire for a soft, immersive history of the sport’s earliest centuries - a drift through village greens, ancient strokes, and the long evolution of bat, ball, and patience.

This is Willow & Ash: Part One - Willow - the gentle origin story of cricket.