Cricket Badger Podcast

Former Yorkshire batsman Kevin Sharp joins the Badger, James Buttler, to talk about his life in the game. He went into coaching after retirement as a player and worked at Headingley before moving on to his current position at Worcestershire CCC. In this edition of the Podcast, Kevin takes on the Cricket Badger 20 questions. His answers are great and include working with Joe Root and Anthony McGrat...

BBC Middlesex commentator Kevin Hand joins the Badger, James Buttler, to talk about the cricket season just about to begin. Ah, well you know the rest. Instead you'll hear two broadcasters and journalists who would normally be previewing the summer and preparing to get back into action, who are instead as fed up as you. It's generally their version of the chats you're all having out there. The pai...

There have been some amazing players to represent India in Test cricket and the Badger is joined by Guerillia Cricket commentator Nakul Pandeto discuss who is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). The pair nominate five players each and talk about their various and many merits. You will have noticed on the @cricket_badger Twitter feed that the 32 nominations were put in a 'hat' and the vote to find Ind...

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Adam Hollioake joins the Badger, James Buttler, to take on the Cricket Badger 20 Questions.  From nearly captaining Kolkata in the IPL to leading Surrey to three County Championship titles. From the death of brother Ben and losing everything to finding contentment on the Gold Coast. From being a professional sportsman in cricket, boxing and MMA to returning to cricket as a coach. This is everythin...

There have been some amazing players to represent England in Test cricket and the Badger is joined by BBC TMS commentator Dan Norcross to discuss who is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). The pair nominate five players each and talk about their various and many merits. You will have noticed on the @cricket_badger Twitter feed that the 32 nominations were put in a 'hat' and the vote to find England's...

Many sportsmen struggle post-retirement and Nick Compton is searching for his identity post cricket. He loves to travel and has spent the last few weeks in Africa, where he has also caught up with family. He loves photography and anyone following his Instagram knows he is pretty handy with a camera. And he has done some media work too.  Here he chats with the Cricket Badger, James Buttler, about l...

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With no sport to watch we welcome psychologist Simon Hartley to the Cricket Badger Podcast. The founder of Be World Class chats to James Buttler about what we do with ourselves. The players have prepared for competitions and now have no idea when they will get to play cricket again. For those of us in the media, the work has disappeared overnight. And sports fans everywhere are already missing the...

Hi everyone With the sporting world grinding to a halt, the Cricket Badger Podcast continues with great guests, discussions and two per week during the coronavirus postponements and cancellations of sporting events. James Buttler, the Badger, currently has a lot of time on his hands with live sport and the potential to commentate, broadcast and write about it gone overnight. He also needs an incom...

What a few days it has been for humankind and sport. We've seen fixtures, tournaments, Test series and sport thrown on the postponed and cancelled lists as the world buckles down to take on COVID-19. The Badger, James Buttler, is joined on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast by journalist and broadcaster Nakul Pande to assess the impact of the virus on cricket and the future of the sport. Are the r...

Former Middlesex and Durham pace bowler and now cricket broadcaster and writer, Simon Hughes, joins the Badger, James Buttler, to take on the Cricket Badger 20 Questions. A long life in  cricket is discussed as Simon reveals that he would like to be Jos Buttler for a day, cricket on FTA, the 2005 Ashes and the birth of The Analyst and plenty more besides. Always a good read, Simon is planning a ne...

Two guests on the Podcast this week as Phil Walker, Editor in Chief at Wisden Cricket Monthly magazine joins the Badger, James Buttler, to assess how good England are in the Test arena. The pair discuss Joe Root's captaincy, the future of Joe Denly at no3 and come to verbal blows on whether Jos Buttler is worth his place in the team. Also, is Jonny Bairstow the answer at first wicket down? And the...

Northamptonshire bowler Ben Sanderson joins the Badger, James Buttler, to take on the Cricket Badger 20 Questions. They talk Northants success in T20 Blast, bowling at Adam Lyth at Headingley when he made that monstrous 161, the future of smaller counties like Northants, playing with his hero Darren Gough, how he’d love to play a Test match for England and his hopes for Northants in Division One o...

Do you want to go to Sri Lanka in March to watch England in Test action? Want to enjoy the country too? Nick Clark of the Experience Travel Group chats to James Buttler about what you could be enjoying in Sri Lanka in just a few week's time. Our partners at Experience Travel Group have a range of packages and options for you. Tell them the Cricket Badger Podcast sent you and they'll throw in a sla...

Former Warwickshire all-rounder Paul Smith joins the Badger, James Buttler, to chat about his life in and out of the sport of cricket. The former treble winning Bear speaks of the highs and lows of a career that some would suggest was unfulfilled, but others would say saw him take all he could from being a cricketer.   As Paul takes on the Badger 20 Questions this week the conversation jumps from...

Tatenda Taibu became the youngest ever international skipper when he took charge of Zumbabwe aged only 20. He describes that period as the toughest of his life. Tatenda chats with James Buttler about his life in cricket, being a youngster in the side as Andy Flower and Henry Olonga did their death of democracy protest, the inspiration Flower gave him and how he'd change Zimbabwean cricket if given...

Sam Northeast joins the Badger, James Buttler, on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast for a chat about his life in the game and his hopes for the season ahead. He's on a plane to Australia soon with England Lions and makes no secret of his desire to play Test cricket. If you look at the next cabs off the rank, he has every chance! Sam answers the Cricket Badger 20 Questions and, refreshingly, wants...

The Badger is joined by glamorous assistant Graham Hardcastle to open the envelopes and announce the winners of the Badgers 2019. The pair discuss each category as they review the amazing year of cricket just gone and build up to the big awards of the prestigious evening which include Team of the Year, Player of the Year and Lifetime Achievement (of which there are three this year). Also, welcome...

Darren Stevens joins the Badger, James Buttler, on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast for a chat about his life in the game, his plans for the future, whether he should have played for England and is he misunderstood? Often the example for 'dibbly=dobbly' seamers, Darren is more than that as he showed with some stellar performances in Division One of the Championship this year. Along the way, Darr...

George Dobell is the Badger's guest on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast for a terrific chat with James Buttler about the state of cricket in England.  Is there too much cricket played? If The Hundred is the answer, what was the question? Are the ECB heading down the right path? How will England do this winter? George, the winner of the Cricket Badger's Cricket Journalist of the Year 2018, gives...

Guy Walker is the Badger's guest on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast for a terrific chat with James Buttler about the swings and arrrows that have thrown themselves at this dual professional sportsman. The former Australia Under-19 fast bowling all-rounder played one game for Melbourne Renegades before an injured shoulder ended his cricket dreams. His one outing as a full professional cricketer...

The Badger is joined by journalist and broadcaster Dan Whiting to pick their most iconic Test match moments. The criteria was that they had to be on English soil and 1980 onward. The moments are being immortalised by our friends at GoalHanger.co.uk who have taken all eight of the Badger's Iconic Moments and made them in to stunning prints, which you can buy..  This Podcast is brought to you in ass...

Former Zimbabwe pace bowler Henry Olonga is the Badger's guest on this week's Cricket Badger Podcast. James Buttler asks about Henry's appearance on the Voice Australia before getting into the cricket.  Henry played a combined 80 times for his country before joining forces with Andy Flower to wear black armbands at the 2003 Cricket World Cup to protest against the "death of democracy" in their cou...

Dan Norcross joins James Buttler to turn the tables on the Cricket Badger in this 100th edition of the Cricket Badger Podcast. Well this is part two as they gabbled on too long to keep it as one episode! The Cricket Badger 20 Questions, that James has asked so many guests, are put to him, and Dan joins in to answer too. Some frivolous, some not so much, we hope you enjoy. Thanks to all the guests...