The Unplayable Podcast

It's the last week before the Australian domestic season properly gets underway so Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger are on deck to chat through each of the men's states' chances in the Sheffield Shield.

Richo also goes into some detail on what it means to have a stress fracture in the back after the news that 19-year-old Callum Vidler is suffering that fate this week.

Plus TUP regular Louis Cameron is dialled in to give his five breakout players for the 2025-26 season.

EPISODE INDEX

0:30 - Weekly winner

3:43 - What is a back stress fracture and why do fast bowlers get them?

10:50 - Louis Cameron enters the chat

26:02 - Men’s state previews

39:00 - Josh plugs #KitWeek 

40:25 - Australia A v India A (in India) 

44:00 - ‘Hey Richo’ returns 

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Adam Burnett and Josh Schonafinger join host Louis Cameron in the slips cordon and desperately hope they won't drop Kevin Pietersen.

The fifth and final Test of the 2005 Ashes series is the subject of the last episode of cricket.com.au's special podcast series commemorating 20 years since the epic 2005 Ashes.

We all remember Shane Warne putting down KP - but do you recall the other crucial missed chance not long before? This, and plenty more, is discussed in the series finale.

EPISODE INDEX:

2.00 Cricket going mainstream in England thanks to its heroes Flintoff and KP

5.50 Matthew Hayden learning to surf in a swimming pool ... in Essex

9.00 Should Shane Watson (or Andrew Symonds) have played at The Oval?

14.30 Australia's conservatism costs them again

29.25 More Shane Warne brilliance, with the ball (and in Michael Clarke's hotel room)

36.30 A tribute to Michael Atherton's hard-hitting questions

39.30 The 'other' dropped catch that cost the Aussies

49.40 Cricket's peak on free-to-air television in the UK

53.57 Amazing Adelaide v not-so-amazing Oval

55.00 Warne's dropped catch sours the greatest individual series by a losing player (sorry Jasprit Bumrah)

1.00.00 In which warm congratulations are offered to Paul Collingwood for earning an MBE, and other things that peaked

1.04.00 Not-ugly Aussies are immediately gracious (as are England)

1.14.00 Getting sledged by Merlin, the spinning bowling machine, and whether the Queen imported one to Windsor Castle

1.16.00 KP v Lee = Test cricket at its best ... plus an unusual insight into Pietersen's reaction to Trump's 2016 Presidential election victory

1.24.50 The legacy of an all-time series

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A bonus episode this week with some big news coming through in both women's and men's cricket!

EPISODE INDEX:

0:30 - Australia's World Cup squad preview

8:30 - Starc chats about calling time in T20Is

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On this week's episode of the Unplayable Podcast, Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger discuss Mitch Starc's stellar T20I career, Pat Cummins' inconvenient back complaint, the Big Bash's superstars, what Australia's ODI World Cup squad could look like and the grand idea for a Gold Coast Big Bash team.

Pat Cummins gives an update on his back

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Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger are back at their home ground in the studio to bring you this week's episode - and from the ODI series to the Hundred to the A series, there's plenty still happening in late August!

No special guest this week but the lads cover off Belinda Clark, Cooper Connolly, Cameron Green, Dewald Brevis (again!), Sianna Ginger (again!), Riley Meredith and plenty more.

Check out Clark's record ODI score against Denmark by searching for Stories After Stumps on your podcast player, or by clicking through to his article.

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England take the lead ... only just!

Adam Burnett and Josh Schonafinger join host Louis Cameron recap what would be the decisive Test match of an epic series, the fourth 2005 Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

EPISODE INDEX

2:00 - Series hits fever pitch

3:30 - England’s array of sporting sex symbols

7:00 - Australia’s mid-Tests trip to Scotland

9:30 - Best batting combo: Warne and Lee or Starc and Cummins?

16:50 - Wild Thing debuts

18:30 - Who was Gary Pratt? 

35:30 - To follow on or not, that is the question

47:00 - Another chapter in the McGrath saga

53:15 - Kat snaps at controversial call

59:10 - Lou’s case for more MacGill game time

1:13:40 - The origin of Jones’ head-slapping celebration

1:20:00 - Ponting’s success … with the ball

1:23:40 - The morality of reverse swing bowling

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Welsh Fire star import Chris Green is this week's guest on the Unplayable Podcast!

Green has been dominating all winter for Lancashire and the Welsh Fire and will soon link up with the Barbados Royals in the CPL too.

Before that, Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger chat all things ODI series and we get an update on Richo's return to cricket in the Northern Territory's Top End T20.

EPISODE INDEX:

0:40 - Weekly winner

3:15 - ODI series chat 

8:15 - What to expect in Mackay 

13:00 - Chris Green interview, experience in the Hundred

19:30 - Green’s captain Steve Smith

23:20 - County Championship domination for Lancashire

27:27 - Jimmy Anderson, the teammate 

33:00 - What the CPL means to Green

36:00 - Green’s international debut

40:00 - What no state contract means 

43:00 - Green’s Thunder season preview

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Fresh off Australia's win in the T20 series against South Africa, Nathan Ellis sits down with Josh Schonafinger for an Unplayable Podcast bonus episode!

Ellis is enjoying another outstanding year with the ball and is shaping up as a key player for the Aussies at next year's T20 World Cup.

EPISODE INDEX:

0:40 - Impending fatherhood

3:30 - T20 series win 

6:50 - Keys to being a good white-ball bowler

8:35 - Bowling variations

10:40 - That trademark slower ball

14:00 - Hat-trick on debut memories

15:20 - Hurricanes season preview

19:55 - Sheffield Shield? 

21:30 - IPL frustrations 

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Following Australia's two T20s against South Africa in Darwin, Unplayable Podcast hosts Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger catch up in the Northern Territory for this week's episode. 

On the agenda is Dewald Brevis, Tim David, Mitch Marsh, Kwena Maphaka, the Hundred, Australia A and of course, that crowd catch. 

Plus Richo's return to cricket for the NT Strike in the Top End T20!

Get in your questions for 'Ask Richo' and let us know your Weekly Winners by emailing [email protected].

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Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper’s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, knocks Louis Cameron's off stump out of the ground with a reverse-swinging seed on the 20th anniversary of the epic draw at Old Trafford.

Yes, who could forget the sound of Michael Clarke's timber being shattered by a Simon Jones wonder-ball, Shane Warne's agony at narrowly missing out on a Test ton, or Ricky Ponting's match-saving hundred?

But do you recall Ashley Giles' unplayable delivery to Damien Martyn? The supposed rift in the Aussie camp? The heroism of Errol Alcott? We look back at all this and more in our podcast series commemorating the greatest Ashes campaign of all time.

Episode index:

2.52 How cricket became cool again in England

11.28 Did Australia celebrate a draw too hard?

30.00 Did Mike Gatting invent cryptocurrency? Plus Ashley Giles' forgotten seed 

43.47 Worst and best takes

58.06 Peak Simon Jones 

1.03.00 Was Errol Alcott's Australia's MVP of this series?

1.09.34 Australia's siege mentality after English press 'lies'

1.18.01 The warning signs for Australia

Listen to our episode on the first Test (July 21) and second Test (August 4) by scrolling down in our podcast feed now.

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