The Wrong 'Un

🪵 TIMBER!!! Wood enters the fray to bowl absolute heat and help change the direction at another box office encounter. We've crossed the halfway mark of the Asheses and just look at how much can things change from one week to the next with England striking back with the red and the white balls. Ollie - fresh from Luke Fletcher's testimonial dinner - Sach and Bertie examine the difference m...

🚶 Surely we can't keep up with this record of constant corkers as the boys convene to decipher what the hell went down last Wednesday to Sunday inclusive. Stokes pulls on his big boy pants once again amidst a testy and tempestuous <checks notes> Lord's atmosphere as Australia dared to poke the bear. The Aussies held their nerve to put themselves into a commanding position in the ser...

🛢 We hope you tackle your weekend with all the intensity of a protester-carrying YJB, but in the meantime, relax, switch off and engage in half an hour of relatively irreverent cric and other bits. The Women's Ashes got underway with a game that went to the wire - well if the wire means two sessions before the end - and we're here to have a dig. Elsewhere, Max dives into the kit cupboard,...

😲 The Wrong 'Un returns for a bumper summer and boy have we been treated to an epic opening salvo. Australia squeeze through with two wickets to spare on a phenomenal final day as Captain Cummins and Lyon show their mettle to bring them home. Declarations, intent, flat pitches, Khawaja, keepers and send offs - so many threads to unpick as Bazball gets the sternest test of its principles and d...

🧹 An England clean sweep against the World Test Champions? Don't mind if I do. It may or may not have been a flash in the pan but at least it flashed bright and true as BMac appears to have Queer Eyed a previously sad, poorly dressed and unkempt England side low on confidence. All it needed was a kiwi to show them what's best about themselves.  So there's a lot to review there but Max, Sach...

🇳🇱 Canals, 25 degrees, the prospect of a slightly funky night out, there's a new contender for cricket's greatest away day in Amsterdam. England return to ODI cricket for the first time in almost a year bombing into a swimming pool of Dutch amateurs as Buttler and co. flayed their way to a new World Record total against an understrength Netherlands side.  Elsewhere we offer a belated assessme...

🥓 The usual show is replace due to much needed holidays as Max is off travelling to Wrexham from London (yes why indeed?). BUT we couldn't leave your Tuesday feeds uncricketed and in one of the great last minute decisions Max Parry MP & Bertie headed to the Oval to soak in some County Championship. One of the *all time great days* as the two of them joined some radio friends and made their wa...

A big week of moving and shaking within the England men's setup. Out goes Joe Root as captain and in comes big daddy Rob Key in his top down Porsche and real ale in hand as the side's new director of cricket. What that means and what he'll be able to do is open to interpretation. Ollie has decided that since he can do nothing about who will be England's new skipper he doesn't care about it, an opi...

🏃 Astonishingly we're back with regularity on your Tuesday podcast feeds and the cricket is serving up some lovely entertaining pies for us to dance down the track to. The IPL churns out top class matches like a mid-afternoon entertainment machine whilst the County Championship offers us up early season run fests / bore draws. Bertie and Ollie in the seat this week so if you prefer Max and Sach t...

🍕 The English cricket season returns after a winter which has been no means devoid of cricket. So we dust off our mics to return every week with cricket takes galore from Manchester, Nottingham and cricket hub Switzerland. The IPL is underway so Sach takes a cursory look under the bonnet at some changes for this edition, whilst Ollie casts his eye across a red ball season which could hold real si...

🇦🇺4️⃣-0️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England have engaged in their final and perhaps biggest collapse yet. Halfway through the 3rd day in Hobart things were looking rosy for England. 68-0 in a chase of 271. Two wickets fell and then in the 74 minutes of actual play after tea the remaining 8 crumbled in a manner so swift that in many ways it was the crowning and most emblematic glory of a miserable series for the Pom...

🇦🇺3️⃣-0️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pride is restored. The St George's Cross is no longer at half mast. The tide has changed. England have drawn a Test by the skin of their Jimmy Anderson having to face 6 consecutive Steve Smith rippers. 3-0 down with 1 to play but there are genuine positives for England to take away from Sydney. Yes they only took 14 wickets and nearly lost by 100 runs but there were hints of grit...

🤦‍♀️Ollie, Max and Bertie convene for a sigh heavy half hour of catharsis as England are once again comprehensively rolled like dough balls at Pizza Express. After 12 days of play the Ashes are already remaining in Australia. Well that's statistically speaking, we've known the end result for a while now.  We talk everything from how bad England are to where the problems may lie, covering it...

🍦 For the first time during the T20 World Cup we convene - without notes or preparation - to chat India and England's varying fortunes so far in the tournament. Don't expect much from this episode and try your best to enjoy it. Sach brings the India, and Bertie and Ollie the England.  Straight off the back of India's walloping of Afghanistan there is still everything to play for and a few mo...

🧔🏽 Moeen our swashbuckling prince, you leave Test cricket behind but with us you have deposited a lifetime of excitable moments into our memory banks. Off he rides into a T20 spin-hitting sunset for the rest of his career. Without Sach & Max, Bertie and Ollie indulge on some reflections Moeen Lane and also examine the close of the County Championship for 2021 as Warwickshire ride out as the...

🥲A final day for the ages at Lord's gives India a 1-0 lead in a series which is promising even more. And more than any other victory this really got Sach's tear ducts going as the Indian tail offer rearguard action, England are rattled and Siraj et al. roll through their top order. Meanwhile Joe Root's back is creaking as he carries his side and Virat Kohli gets more pumped than ever. As with eve...

💯 After much anticipation, backlash, columns in the broadsheets, intrigue and social media discourse, The Wrong 'Un returns, sorry The Hundred has arrived. And boy were we treated to an opening match as the women's competition got underway with a scorching run chase from Oval Invincibles to haul down Manchester Originals. Far more of a bang than a whimper first out with Dane Van Niekerk the hero...

Following a breakout year in 2018, Ethan Bamber has become one of the brightest young stars in English cricket. At just 22-year-old, he already has 54 first class wickets at the time of recording, and was England's top wicket taker in the U19 World Cup in New Zealand three years ago. Ethan graduated from Exeter with a degree in theology, and in this episode opens up how his university experience g...

💥BOOM. After a nice couple of weeks break from El Cric we're back plunging head/feet first into the crickety pool for the start of the IPL and the County Championship. What a week! Sixes, strategic timeouts, snow, draws, there's loads to talk about. Mumbai Indians get underway against RCB, whilst CSK took on the DCs. We run the rule over the first weekend of the VIVO IPL 2021 and Bertie gives a b...

🇮🇳3️⃣- 2️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 After a month of constant, neverending two day cricket we're back to the 1 day format and boy was it a big series. We had England executing pitch perfect powerplays, India clawing themselves to series victory from 2-1 down and lots of England mid-innings stumbles. The biggest T20 series for both sides before the World Cup provided several answers but also a few remaining Qs as p...

🇮🇳3️⃣- 1️⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 After one month and 14 TWU episodes, one magnificent Joe Root double century, uncountable England ducks and a tanker full of wickets for Axar Patel and Ashwin, Virat Kohli's men walk away with a 3-1 victory. The first Test was but an anomaly in the grand scheme of Indian dominance on some spin heavy tracks. Show pal and writer at The Cricketer magazine, Nick Friend, joins Sach,...

👖⬇️ Ollie steers the ship today and is joined by Sach, Max and a sprinkling of Bertie to sing sweet Rishabh Pant praises following his third Test ton and whisper sweet nothings about Washington Sundar who rescued an Indian collapse. The boys lament a tireless effort from the England bowling attack, but ask questions about the spin department, and Sach spills the Chai on whether we will see anothe...

😌 Sach has finally mellowed after unleashing his wrath on the salty England fans of Twitter. But he is now bored by conventional Test cricket - 'Bring back the Tina Turners' he cries. Bertie is here to join him and unpick the day's action, with plenty to cover: unorthodox selections, predictably disappointing batting, and plenty of ghosts.  Virat is still spiky, Axar Patel and Siraj both loo...

🌪️Several days have passed and the storm has calmed after hurricane 3rd Test romped its way through Ahmedabad leaving ducks, dust and a 10 wicket defeat for England in its wake. Only Axar Patel, Rohit and a hyped up Kohli remain untouched. India are on the path to a 3-1 dub. We welcome CricViz Analyst and Professional xW-er Ben Jones into our warm TWU embrace to conduct the post-mortem on wha...

🏟️ A downbeat mood in TWU HQ today as a 100% English contingent gets sad about England's chances disappearing before a session is out - again. 3rd Test. Day 1 is strongly India's. England skittled for 112 as Kohli and el boyos press fast forward on the "Get England out cheaply" remote. Good showing for Crawley though, if that's any small comfort. Elsewhere Bertie and Ollie speculate whether someon...