Everywhere We Go

Fresh off the back of 5-fers, 22 wickets between them in two Tests and a 2-nil series win, Jack Leach and Dom Bess come on to The Shackles Are Off to chew the fat whilst in quarantine in India.  A nice long chat with Leachy includes: - Just missing the honours' board at Lord's  - Playing a club game the week before The Ashes - A-list status in Taunton - And plenty of chat about the greatest 1* in...

England pick up a 2-nil series win in Sri Lanka.... Joe Root scored a double-ton, a ton, and picked up a man of the series award... Dom Bess and Jack Leach took 24 wickets between them in 2 matches and Randy Caddick is the toast of the team.... join Somerset seamer Jack Brooks, barmy Army MD Chris Millard and radio presenter James Gregg for a fun look back on the series that was. To view what Broo...

England romped to a victory in the first Test of what could prove to be a simply ridiculous 2021 for them in Galle over Sri Lanka... here the lads round that up, plus get a half-way score update on some of your predictions with your chance to win two Test match tickets... oh and a little mention for what happened at the Gabba!!! And a bumper episode as we talk to current Essex Head Coach Anthony M...

Happy New Year to you all, and here's to a summer packed with cricket and watching from the terraces wherever that may be...  Unfortunately, not for the moment for the upcoming Sri Lanka tour, but there's some special representation our in Galle, some amazing pronunciations, and a proper chance to win some Test match tickets.... simply by getting in touch!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Chief Executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Wasim Khan graces the podcast with his presence, to talk about the slow return of touring parties to the country, his own First Class career (where he won a County Championship and a NatWest Trophy) and how he even got there in the first place. Imagine being in charge of the number one sport for 220 MILLION people. That's Was's task. He also talks Jac...

Imagine standing there in the middle at Lord's having lost in THAT Super Over World Cup final at Lord's last summer... and hours later having the good grace to congratulate your opponents, whilst simultaneously taking the mickey out of yourself.... well... Jimmy Neesham has done just that. The New Zealand and franchise cricket star joins the lads as the first overseas guest on the podcast - and do...

Memorable. That's how we here at Barmy Army HQ would describe Graham Onions' England career. From terrorising the Aussies to saving Test matches with the bat... newly-retired Graham Onions joins the lads to chat all things cricket and beyond on our latest episode.  ========================= Get 20% Off and Free Shipping at Manscaped.com with code BARMYARMY. Make your balls a priority this Fall. Si...

One of the poshest men in cricket (as well as being one of the most exciting and explosive) Sam Billings joins the lads to talk everything from his unusual route to the top of the sport, scoring a ton against the Aussies this summer, and his family's rich sporting heritage.  Captain of Kent and a formidable franchise player who's got plenty of years left yet to keep lifting us off our seats with h...

Ollie Pope is gonna be awesome... in fact, scrap that, he already is awesome. 22 years old at the time of recording, he's already scored a Test hundred and won a county championship... and shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Sat with his new pup, Greggy, Brooksy and Millard catch up with the Surrey batsman... and talk about everything from cricketing beginnings to what playing in the bubble...

Fresh out of the gym and enjoying a coffee at an Oxfordshire farmhouse eatery (!) we find Ben Duckett, the Notts batsman who's made his mark on the game in a huge way in 2020 after his heroics on T20 Finals Day. Still only 26, rewind back to 2016 and he was named the PCA and Cricket Writers' Club player of the year.... where he was rewarded with a call-up to the England Test side. Ben sits down an...

Harmison.... Jones..... Bowden!!!!!!!   Another hero from 2005, Geraint Jones joins the pod to discuss everything from 'going with the flow' in Test cricket to his new job as a schoolteacher and part-time fireman.  ---------- Remember to head to Manscaped.com and use the code BARMYARMY for 20% off a package to look after your balls! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

After spending the best part of 17 years at his home county Yorkshire, Brezzy has decided to move to pastures new and up sticks to Warwickshire (this caused a bit of a problem for recording the pod, all is explained in the pod)! Two Ashes urns, a T20 World Cup and two County Championships in a glittering career, the lads hear all about it in this fairly random podcast. Remember you can watch the v...

This week sees the start of a series of special podcasts in conjunction Barmy Army Meets, and what a guest it is to kick things off. Knight of the Realm, England's greatest ever opening batsman and all round decent bloke, Sir Alistair Cook graces the podcast with his presence. After a 25 minute chat with Greggy, Millard and Brooksy, The Chef answers YOUR questions that you sent in fully and compre...

151 Test matches, 584 wickets... and still rising.... the genuine Greatest Of All Time and the King of Swing joins the podcast. With so much to cover, Jimmy talks about his early fielding prowess at Burnley CC, his hatred for Yorkshiremen, breaking into the England side and breaking a rib on THAT training camp in Germany before the 2010/11 Ashes series.  Remember to get in touch with where you're...

It'd been over two years since we had England captain Joe Root on the pod, and his brother Glamorgan star Billy hadn't been on the pod at all until they both joined the lads for this special episode (although Billy was sat in the studio as his then-team-mate Luke Fletcher appeared a couple of years back, so he knew what he was letting himself in for!). Imagine back-yard cricket, but then imagine i...

Four test matches into what will surely be a long England career, Zak 'Creepy' Crawley joins The Shackles Are Off for a long natter. He talks about playing golf (good player) with fellow Kent man Rob Key (dubious player), scoring runs on his (quite literal home ground) favourite Canterbury patch, and what THAT catch was like to snaffle in Cape Town earlier this year. Plus it also has to be said, h...

Robert Charles 'Jack' Russell had an innate ability to let the ball melt into his gloves as a wicket-keeper, and now he has an astonishing ability to paint what he sees with a paintbrush.   But as you'll find out in this podcast, the enigmatic and legendary gentlemanly character that is Jack Russell specialises in telling us stories and recounting some of his fondest moments from being a player. H...

Another of the '05 Ashes heroes joins us on the podcast this time around... but this guy was also the hero of four other Ashes-winning series too. England legend Ian Bell made 22 tons in 118 Test matches for England and joins the lads from his kids' play-room to talk everything from Aston Villa to Australia, and from KP to his own glorious cover drive. -- Also fancy some free beer? FREE BEER! Head...

From four different locations, Brooksy, Chris and Greggy speak to Somerset and England's spin sensation Dom Bess. Brooksy is a tenant of Bessy's Taunton pad (albeit in the 'weird' zone upstairs) so we get a good picture of what it's like to co-habit with the pair of them, plus Bessy talks us through his rise-and-rise to being a Test spinner.... aided by the help of his new best mates Ashwin and He...

Greggy, Chris and Brooksy are reunited once again... but not in their stomping ground of podcasts gone by... A trip down to Taunton to see Somerset to see legendary swashbuckling, opening batsman, '05 Ashes hero Marcus Trescothick.  'Tres' talks about his early years in cricket in the cricket-loving county of cider, beating the Aussies, headbutting Kevin Pietersen and touring once again after his...

Happy new year! (Well, we didn’t do one in 2019 so happy new year for then too... won a World Cup and that didn’t we...) Welcome along to Cape Town - The Barmy Army has had one of its greatest ever weeks watching England win their first Test match at Newlands since 1957. And if you’re at home with the January blues, we’ve got it covered!!! Hear from, Darren Gough, Jonathan Trott, Romesh Ranganatha...

HELLO! We are back.... for "series two" of The Shackles Are Off podcast Produced by England's Barmy Army. Greggy, Brooksy and Millard catch up (briefly), before introducing a red hot guest. You could argue he's 'hot' in more ways than one... (you'll understand as the podcast goes on). Liam Plunkett trumps Brooksy with his FOUR County Championship titles - and they've even lived together.  Hear fro...

A larger than life character, who very much fits into the Barmy Army mould of being a 'people's player', Nottinghamshire's Luke Fletcher joins the chaps on the podcast this week. The Shackles Are Off present to you Episode 4, which includes The Bulwell Bomber's previous career working at Hooters, his aspirations of scoring a Championship ton (like our own Brooksy), and THAT delivery last summer wh...

With plenty of rain falling at Headingley on the opening week of the new County Championship season, Brooksy, Barmy Chris and Greggy found themselves in the company of former England wicketkeeper James Foster. In the words of Brooksy 'he WAS a big name'.  The Shackles Are Off present to you the second consecutive episode featuring a wicketkeeper - and he delivers! Fozzy fills us in on Essex's rubb...

After a lengthy delay for Yorkshire's pre-season (Chris and Greggy don't have an excuse) Episode 2 of The Shackles are off is here!   This episode, a notorious sledger, a Cumbrian hero and all-round energetic so-and-so Paul Nixon joins the Barmy boys in the studio.   Brooksy, Greggy and Barmy Chris chat to the Leicestershire and Kent legend about making his England debut at 36, being at the scene...