The weekly cricket show from BBC Sport in association with ABC and Akashvani.
Ailson Mitchell and Jim Maxwell are at the Sydney Cricket Ground as India take on Australia in the final Test. We speak to a relieved Dale Steyn after the South Africa fast bowler ended his three-and-a-half year wait to become his country's record Test wicket-taker. And we'll be joined by Smriti Mandhana, the Indian batting star and recently crowned women's cricketer of the year. Photo: Chesteshwar Pujara (Getty Images)
Cricket's newest Test nations face an exciting 2019 after their historic debuts. We'll tell the stories behind Ireland and Afghanistan's journeys to Test cricket. Plus former Ireland international Niall O'Brien and Afghan journalist Emal Pasarly on the next steps in cricket for their respective countries. Picture: Afsar Zazai (AFP) & Kevin O'Brien (Getty Images)
As Australia level the series with India in Perth, former Australia batsman Ed Cowan analyses the spat between captains Tim Paine and Virat Kohli. Plus Dwayne Bravo on the West Indies' love affair with Twenty20 cricket. Picture: Virat Kohli and Tim Paine (Getty Images)
One Test down, and it is advantage India Down Under. In a thrilling final day in Adelaide, India claimed victory - their first on Australian soil since 2008. The Stumped team analyse the action and savour what looks to be a Test series for the ages. Can India go on to do something special? Or will Australia stamp out their ball-tampering demons in their first home Test since the scandal in March? We hear from Australian greats Allan Border and Mitchell Johnson, along with Indian batter Aakash Ch...
This week’s episode comes from Adelaide as Australia take on India in their first home Test since their ball-tampering scandal in South Africa earlier this year. Alison Mitchell is joined by Harsha Bhogle and Jim Maxwell in the Adelaide Oval commentary box as they reflect on the action so far.
Australia women's captain Meg Lanning reflects on their dominant victory over England in the World Twenty20 final. Plus, as cricket makes a bid for inclusion in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, South Africa's Paul Adams remembers his team's gold medal in the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: South Africa celebrate 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medal (Getty)
Reaction to the opening exchanges between Australia and India as the Aussies name their squad for the first two Tests. Are safety concerns and lack of opportunities in schools limiting the take-up of cricket among girls in India? Plus, we meet 30-year-old New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel, who inspired his team to one of the closest victories in Test history. Photo: Ajaz Patel (Getty Images)
Australia have their fourth World Twenty20 title in sight - we hear from Ellyse Perry on how the women's team have bypassed the fiasco involving the scathing cultural review on Cricket Australia. This week, Australia fast bowler John Hastings retired because of a bleeding lung condition and we hear from England spinner Jack Leach on coping with Crohn's disease. Picture - Ellyse Perry (Getty Images)
It's being called a global epidemic. More allegations of match-fixing at the highest level of cricket. But why aren't the players implicated by Al Jazeera being named, and what more can be done to cut the link between the fixers and the players? Plus - as one great bowler prepares to call time on his career, another announces himself on the game's biggest stage.
In an in-depth interview first broadcast in 2018, Australian legend Shane Warne looks back at his cricketing career, from taking 708 wickets in 145 Tests for Australia to bowling the most famous delivery of all time: the Ball of the Century. Image: Shane Warne (Credit: BBC)
Australia look to repair relationships and build bridges from the cheating scandal that rocked the sport - we discuss Australia's new look squad as they face Pakistan in a two Test series in the UAE. We also look ahead to the inaugural Afghanistan Premier League with rising star, Nepal's international Sandeep Lamichhane and we speak to Chris Carter who has decided to give up a career in cricket to become a pilot. Picture - Tim Paine (Credit - Getty Images)
Charu Sharma, Alister Nicholson and Natalie Germanos ask whether Moeen Ali "Osama" revelation changes the way cricketers behave out in the field? Xhosa-speaking South Africans have been playing cricket for more than 160 years. But only now can they do so in their mother tongue. And we find out how a new cricket initiative is aiming to increase female participation from the South Asian community. (Photo - Moeen Ali. Credit - Getty Images)
After being cleared of affray outside a Bristol nightclub, should England cricketer Ben Stokes play in the third Test against India which starts on Saturday? The England and Wales Cricket Board will now decide whether they will punish Stokes further - and if so, what would be the appropriate sanction? We also ask, what more can be done to attract black cricketers to play the sport? And would Alison Mitchell be tempted to feature in a dancing contest in India? Picture - Ben Stokes (Credit - Getty...
In 1877, England played their first ever Test match - 141 years on - they have become the first nation to reach 1000 matches in the longest format of the game - we reflect on England's Test history with cricket journalist Simon Wilde who has written a book called England: The Biography, the story of English Cricket 1877-2018. Plus find out how Imran Khan went from a cricketing icon to potentially becoming Pakistan's prime minister. Picture - Joe Root and Virat Kohli (Credit - Getty Images)...
England broke their own world record for the highest one-day international total, making 481 runs off 50 overs against Australia at Trent Bridge. In professional cricket, only Surrey have got closer to 500, when they scored 496 at the Oval and only New Zealand Women's team have scored more in an ODI, when they hit Ireland for 490 earlier this month. We ask, which team will reach the 500 mark first? The Acting Chief Executive Officer of Cricket South Africa, Thabang Moroe, believes that the count...
It's a nation that has been torn apart by decades of war but after a long long wait, finally Afghanistan are playing their first ever Test match against India - Our reporter Sam Sheringham is in India to find out about Afghanistan's remarkable journey. The Afghan Cricket chairman Atif Mashal has been telling us what it means to be part of cricket's most exclusive club. Bangladesh's women's team pulled off a dramatic three-wicket victory in the final against six-time champions India to clinch the...
One-hundred and fifty years ago, 13 Aboriginals became the first Australia team to tour overseas when they travelled to England. Author Greg de Moore tells the remarkable story of how the Aboriginal team was created - which he believes is the most important part of Australian cricket's history. To mark the anniversary, the best Aboriginal players from Australia are back in England this summer, to trace the steps of those pioneers in 1868. Hannah Darlington is one of them and she joins us at The ...
Pakistan out-fought, out-skilled and outplayed England in the first Test at Lords to silence their critics - we ask how has Mickey Arthur transformed a team usually mocked for their fielding to showing England how to win in English conditions. We hear from legendary pace bowler Waqar Younis. In contrast, where is it going wrong for England? Former England batsman James Taylor speaks to Alison Mitchell about how can Trevor Bayliss and Joe Root turn their form around having gone eight Tests withou...
Vikram Solanki became the only full-time non-white coach across the domestic league in England after becoming assistant head coach of Surrey County Cricket Club - we speak to Roland Butcher, the first black player to represent England, on the lack of ethnic minority coaches in county cricket. Two weeks ago, not many of you would have heard of 26-year-old wicketkeeper Heinrich Klaasen - but he is now been in the headlines following a remarkable performance with the bat to give South Africa a much...
How Sachin Tendulkar's son is starting his quest to follow in the footsteps of his celebrated father. Meet the Australian sportswoman who's equally handy with a tennis racquet as she is a cricket bat. And India's blind cricket team are the best in the world - but why aren't they funded by the national board? (Photo: Arjun Tendulkar. Credit: ABC)
As The Oval hosts its 100th Test, former England fast bowler Devon Malcolm looks back on his incredible nine-wicket burst at the ground in 1994, and sets the record straight on some of the myths surrounding his remarkable career. Tammy Beaumont, voted the best player of the Women's World Cup, on the impact of the tournament around the world. Photo; Devon Malcolm (Getty Images)
Who will triumph in the Women’s World Cup final – England or India? England’s Anya Shrubsole, star of their semi-final win over South Africa, looks ahead to the showpiece. Rahul Tandon reports from Kolkata on the rise of the women’s game in India. And Holly Colvin, head of Women's Cricket at the ICC, looks at the global impact of the tournament.
India's Women's World Cup star Smriti Mandhana talks to Alison Mitchell about her upbringing in India, where she was never coached but copied her brother's batting technique. John Buchanan reflects on the bitter pay dispute threatening to derail Australian cricket. And meet Ian Holland, the reality TV cricketer. Photo: Smriti Mandhana (Getty Images)
The fallout from Australia's series loss in India, as India captain Virat Kohli says the Aussies will never be his friends. The charity sending cricket kit to Afghan refugees in Germany. And England captain Joe Root on South Africa and the Ashes. Photo: Virat Kohli (Getty Images)
The fallout from Australia's series loss in India, as India captain Virat Kohli says the Aussies will never be his friends. The charity sending cricket kit to Afghan refugees in Germany. And England captain Joe Root on South Africa and the Ashes. (Photo: Credit:
The fallout from a fiery Test match in Bangalore as Virat Kohli accuses Steve Smith of bending the rules. Dawid Malan talks about bringing joy to Pakistani people by playing the Super League final in Lahore. And England captain Heather Knight on a game-changing year for women's cricket. (Photo: Steve Smith and Virat Kohli. Credit:Getty Images)
As Alastair Cook steps down as England captain, all eyes are on his successor-in-waiting Joe Root. We speak to Root’s England teammate and former housemate Gary Ballance about his credentials for the job. We report from Cape Town on the launch of a new global Twenty20 League aimed at stopping the exodus of South African players to lucrative contracts abroad. Fast bowler Kyle Abbott, who quit international cricket to join Hampshire, puts his side of the story. Photo: Joe Root (Getty Images)...
As Australia batsman David Warner achieves one of cricket's rarest feats with 100 runs in the first session of a Test match, we'll ask why it remains such a novelty in an age of big bats, flat pitches and Twenty20 run fests. Meet the Melbourne comedian who is turning the world's best female cricketers into karaoke stars. And the South African schoolgirl who scored 160 runs, while her team-mates made none. Photo: David Warner (Credit: Getty Images)
Stumped highlights, from Chris Gayle to spot-fixing, via a blind cricket commentator from Zimbabwe. Photo: Chris Gayle (Getty Images)
Stumped presenters Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma go head to head in a festive cricket quiz, hosted by Kevin Howells. Photo: Shane Warne (Getty Images)
