The Drinks Break cricket podcast

James Wickham and Seth Bennett bring you reaction to Day 2 of the First Test at Chennai between India and England, which featured a(nother) wonderful double hundred from Lord Joe Root of Yorkshire.

Please send your thoughts on the series and other cricketing matters - plus of course any one-liners for the wonderful Jill to read at the start of the show to:

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Twitter: @thedrinksbreak

James Wickham, Seth Bennett and Matt Lines bring you reaction to Day 1 of the First Test at Chennai between India and England, which featured a glorious unbeaten century from Joe Root, an obdurate knock from Dom Sibley and a dodgy shot from Rory Burns. Plus the return of Test cricket to terrestrial television on Channel 4.

Please send your thoughts on the series and other cricketing matters - plus of course any one-liners for the wonderful Jill to read at the start of the show to:

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @thedrinksbreak

James Wickham is joined by Seth Bennett, Rahul Tandon and special guest Dhananjaya Chak (@dhananjayachak) - better known as DJ Chak - from the Edges & Sledges Indian cricket podcast (@1tip1hand) to talk about the upcoming series with England. 

Topics:

0.00 - Welcome + Channel 4

8.10 - India in Australia 

20.20 - The India squad

30.32 - The England team

41.56 - Edges & Sledges

Please send your thoughts on the series and other cricketing matters - plus of course any one-liners for the wonderful Jill to read at the start of the show to:

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @thedrinksbreak

James Wickham and Matt Lines are joined by Justin Parkinson (@justparkinson), the writer of "The Strange Death of English Leg Spin: How Cricket's Finest Art Was Given Away" to discuss England's series win in Sri Lanka, to look ahead to the India series - and, of course, discuss leg spin.

Topics:

00.00 – Intro & England in Sri Lanka

19.38 - England in India

27.27 - Leg spin

Please send us one-liners for the top of the show! (and of course, your cricketing thoughts)

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James Wickham is joined by Matt Lines & Rahul Tandon to discuss the Sri Lanka v England series, Australia v India, and the greatest moments of spin bowling ever.

Topics:

00.00 – Welcome & one liners

01.52 – England in Sri Lanka

23.10 - Australia v India

39.53 – The greatest moments of spin bowling

45.51 – 'City' Cricketers

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In this episode James Wickham catches up with DJ Randy Caddick - aka Rob Lewis - to talk about his time in Sri Lanka and the chances of him watching some cricket.

You can find Rob on Twitter @elitebandwagon.

James Gregg (@jamesgregg7) joins to talk about the upcoming series v Sri Lanka and the Australia-India series too. James is also on the Barmy Army podcast, The Shackles Are Off - find them here: https://theshacklesareoff.podbean.com/

Topics:

00.00 England v Sri Lanka with James Gregg

04.02 DJ Randy Caddick

24.51 Australia v India

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Test cricket is returning soon (we hope) for England so in this short episode James Wickham hears from Hilal Suhaib from Island Cricket about the game in Sri Lanka.

Island Cricket is at www.islandcricket.lk or @islandcricket on Twitter.

Your predictions for the series welcome - or anything else cricket related - at:

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Happy New Year everyone!

2020 was horrible. Let's hope 2021 brings you, most importantly, health - and many more runs and wickets.

In this episode James Wickham and Matt Lines are joined by special guest and Middlesex member Fred Nathan (@freddienathan) to talk about:

00.00: Hopes for 2021

26.24: England in Sri Lanka

36.26: Breakout stars in 2021

49.10: India v Australia & AOB

Remember you can get in touch with us at any time:

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We are back and it's a post-Christmas special!

James Wickham hosts alongside Seth Bennett and Matt Lines.

Topics:

0000: 2020 memories

09:28 Current Test Series

21.50: England in Sri Lanka

33:38 Current World XI

45.41: Seth's cricketing affair

48.57: The Big Christmas Quiz

Remember you can get in touch with us at any time - we'd love to hear your England & World XIs:

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Seth Bennett and Rahul Tandon join James Wickham to discuss Woakes, Stokes, the West Indies, Pakistan and the lack of even more supporters at county cricket than usual.

Remember you can get in touch with us at any time:

Twitter: @thedrinksbreak

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Email or send your voice messages to: [email protected]