Adam Peacock joins Alyssa Healy for a brand new episode of Willow Talk to bring you the latest from the world of cricket. The Sheffield Shield's last round is on at the moment and the SACA's took a blow when they found out they couldn't play their final at the Oval due to two AFL games, Usman Khawaja missed the last round as he was at the F1 and Heals dives into the history books for a fact on Women inventing overarm bowling. Plus, we dive into sundries to talk about The Hundred draft, Warner's ...
Mar 17, 2025•49 min•Season 2Ep. 75
Adam Peacock is joined by Brad Haddin & special guest Nathan McSweeney for the latest episode of Willow Talk. Australian Test player and South Australian captain Nathan McSweeney is on to chat about the SACA's unbelievably successful 2024/25 season, what makes the team so special and how Ryan Harris has been as a coach. He also chats about his call up to the Australian Test side, how difficult it was facing Bumrah and his thoughts on Konstas. Ask Hadds is back again with some brilliant quest...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 74
Adam Peacock & Alyssa Healy join you too look back at the Champions Trophy final between India & New Zealand, we check back in with our predictions and talk about whether the Champions Trophy has a place in cricket. We discuss the retirement and ODI career of Steve Smith, look at the upcoming schedule for the Australian Men's team and head to the Sheffield Shield as the SACA's have qualified for the final. We finish with sundries as Heals talks us through The Hundred draft format and hav...
Mar 10, 2025•56 min•Season 2Ep. 73
Adam Peacock, Brad Haddin and Alyssa Healy join to you look over the Champions Trophy semi-final where India knocked out Australia in Dubai, we discuss the selection choices from Australia, were they good or not? The impact Shami & Kohli have when they're healthy and have a look at the big picture for the Australian ODI squad, will Steve Smith captain Australia again? Will Maxwell retire? Tune in to find out all of the answers on today's episode of Willow Talk. Fill out the Willow Talk surve...
Mar 05, 2025•45 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and Brad Haddin join you for another episode of Willow Talk. We preview the upcoming Champions Trophy semi-finals and work out how Australia can defeat India, we look at who will replace the injured Matt Short and discuss the treatment the Indian side has received. We look into the decision for England to part ways with Buttler as captain and get stuck into the domestic ODI finals in Australia. The winning coach of South Australia and former Australian pace bowler, Rya...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and special guest Mitchell Starc join you for another episode of Willow Talk. Mitch talks about the personal reasons why he isn't playing in the Champions Trophy in Pakistan. Mitch & Heals discuss the idea of international vs franchise cricket and how it is changing through different generations. The crew discuss the Australian golf trips whilst training, which song Inglis & Connolly sung after their debut Test wins, IPL 2025 and more. Plus, we look back at the...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Adam Peacock & Alyssa Healy join you for another episode of Willow Talk to recap all of the action from the first week of the Champions Trophy. We talk about the exceptional Australian run chase, the wicket-keepers Inglis & Carey overachieving with bat and in the field and we track how our Champions Trophy predictions are going so far. Jackson Bird joins the podcast to chat about his record breaking week, as he joined the 400 wicket club in the Sheffield Shield, he talked about what it's...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and Brad Haddin join you for a very special episode of Willow Talk, as we have a spontaneous pop in from avid cricket fan and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Albo chats about his thoughts on the latest summer of cricket, as well as the upcoming summer for the mens & women team. We discuss Australia's chances in the Champions Trophy, the latest innings from Sam Konstas and Brad Haddin's old mate Stuart Broad has fired another shot at him! Send your crick...
Feb 19, 2025•50 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and Brad Haddin join you to preview the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, they discuss Australia's latest ODI series defeat to Sri Lanka and go through all of the squads for the upcoming tournament. Hadds and Heals give their "Lawnmower Man" for every team and how much chance they think each team has of winning, they look at England's prep for the tournament and see whether Kevin Pietersen's harsh words towards England and McCullum were fair. Then the team gets into the S...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Adam Peacock, Alyssa Healy and Sam Ferris join you to have a chat about Australia's Champions Trophy squad and the omission of Mitch Starc due to "personal reasons", India losing Jasprit Bumrah, Matthew Kuhnemann being cited for bowling with a suspect action and the latest round of Sheffield Shield cricket including a ripper down in Hobart. Then Adam and Heals chat to South Australia fast bowler Nathan McAndrew, who's having a terrific year, about SA's wild win over Western Australia at the WACA...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 66
The whole crew is here! Adam Peacock, Brad Haddin and Alyssa Healy join you to wrap up Australia's 2-0 clean sweep of Sri Lanka, debate whether Steve Smith is the best Aussie batter since The Don, if Matt Kuhnemann is Australia's No.2 spinner and whether Nathan Lyon can catch Warney. Then the team wrap up the Test summer with a handful of awards and pick their XIs for the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord's. Finally, there's some Champions Trophy chat, a wild game at the...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to discuss the winners of the Australian Cricket Awards - notably major award winners Travis Head and Annabel Sutherland - then preview the 2nd Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Galle. Then the guys chat to Melbourne Renegades head coach Cameron White before wrapping up with Sundries and a return of the ODI tri-series! (Not in Australia, sadly). Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW,...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to discuss Australia's epic Test wins over Sri Lanka in the men's and England in the women's with the help of Australia captain Alyssa Healy. They guys then cover off the new Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees, India's thumping of England in the T20I series and the latest injury setback to Australia's Champions Trophy team. Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Follow on Apple...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to have a chat about the BBL Final won by Mitch Owen and the Hobart Hurricanes, preview the Women's Ashes Test at the MCG and the questionable excuse by England's coach. Then the guys chat with former England spinner Graeme Swann about his role as England Lions assistant coach, Ashes prospects and an all-time Ricky Ponting story. Hadds and Feathers then finish the show looking at the Australia A team taking on the Lions and Sundries. Send your cricket club c...
Jan 29, 2025•59 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Adam Peacock and Willow Talk debutant/SMH cricket reporter Tom Decent join you to have a chat about the Hurricanes winning BBL|14 and Mitch Owen's unbelievable century in the final. Then Adam chats to Adelaide Strikers batter Chris Lynn about T20 cricket, hitting huge sixes, horses, tattoos - heaps! Then Adam and Tom preview the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Galle, wrap up Australia's white-ball dominance in the Women's Ashes and finish with Sundries. Send your cricket club cap t...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Brad Haddin and Sam Ferris join you to have a chat about Steve Smith's latest injury update (it's good!), Australia retaining the Women's Ashes and the injury to our skipper Alyssa Healy, the BBL finals and the Hurricanes' win over the Sixers. Then you'll hear from South Australia and Strikers spearhead Jordan Buckingham about his rise through the ranks, wicket celebrations and taking on the England Lions. Brad then indulges Sam on how he goes about setting up a week of net practice (one for the...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to discuss Australia's growing injury list ahead of the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka and Australia's white-ball dominance in the Women's Ashes. Aussie opener Phoebe Litchfield then has a chat with Producer Sam about taking a screamer in the field and some of her best catches. Then the guys preview the BBL Finals and the Stars' remarkable resurgence. Finally, there's Sundries and Shout Outs with a lot of love for our guy Hadds. Send your cricket club cap to Pro...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin bring you a chat with Sydney Thunder star recruit Sam Billings about the Thunder's BBL title hopes and flatting with a young Patty Cummins. Then you'll hear the guys talk about the BBL run home and the Women's Ashes, which Australia leads 4-0 after two ODIs. Producer Sam then steps up to chat with Aussie leg-spinner Alana King on the art of bowling leggies before the guys finish with Sundries, including Jimmy playing on, white jackets make a comeback and India's new ...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to discuss the Australia's Test squad to tour Sri Lanka, Australia's preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy, the opening match of the Women's Ashes with special guest Mitch Starc and finish with a look at the wild finish to the BBL season. Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Follow on Apple , Spotify and the LiSTNR app Watch on YouTube Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok ...
Jan 13, 2025•58 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Former Australia captain and ICC Hall of Famer Lisa Sthalekar, former NSW and Sydney Sixers captain Brad Haddin and former 2nd XI Armidale Ex-Services co-captain Sam Ferris join you to discuss the potential two-tier system for Test cricket, the upcoming Women's Ashes, hear from Aussie allrounder Annabel Sutherland and finish with the resurgence of the BBL. Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Follow on Apple , Spotify a...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 56
The boys are back - Adam Peacock and Brad Haddin join you to discuss the winners and losers/non-winners of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series, revisit pre-series predictions and look ahead to the Sri Lanka tour. In there, Producer Sam chats to Australia's newest Test cricketer Beau Webster about his stunning debut, how he got there, what's to come and being the victim of a potential prank. Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW,...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 55
India began day three 145 runs ahead and with four wickets in hand, but Scott Boland and Pat Cummins skittled the Indian tail for the addition of just 16 runs to set up a chase of 162. The Aussies then belted 35 from their first three overs and with no Jasprit Bumrah, Australia cruised to a six-wicket win with Travis Head and debutant Beau Webster seeing them home to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and qualify for the World Test Championship final. Izzy Westbury, Brad Haddin and Adam Peacock w...
Jan 05, 2025•22 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Australia started day two 1-9 and were bowled out for 181 despite Jasprit Bumrah going off for what looked like scans. Beau Webster scored a maiden Test match half-century and Steve Smith fell one good shot short of reaching 10,000 Test runs. Holding a 4-run lead, India were in trouble due to Scott Boland before Rishabh Pant exploded with 61 off 33 balls. The game is right in the balance at stumps, with India 6 for 141, a lead of 145. Izzy Westbury and the great Merv Hughes wrap up the day's act...
Jan 04, 2025•22 min•Season 2Ep. 53
On a spicy SCG pitch, Australia are 1-9 at stumps trialing India by 176 runs. Rohit Sharma opted to rest, catches were taken, put down and somewhere in between (just ask Steve Smith), more DRS controversy, Scott Boland was on a hat-trick, box shots, and Sam Konstas firing India up again! Plenty to get through so joining you is Izzy Westbury and Sam Ferris to recap it all. Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Follow on A...
Jan 03, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Australia batter Travis Head joins Producer Sam Ferris and you to discuss Australia's thrilling MCG win, the flashpoints of the series, Beau Webster's upcoming Test debut in Sydney against India in the 5th Test, Sam Konstas faux pas and Glenn Maxwell's outrageous BBL catch! Send your cricket club cap to Producer Sam at the following address: Sam Ferris 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Follow on Apple , Spotify and the LiSTNR app Watch on YouTube Drop us a message on Instagram and TikTok ! See o...
Jan 02, 2025•29 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Australia added just the six runs to their overnight score before Nathan Lyon became Jasprit Bumrah’s fifth wicket of the innings. It meant India needed 340 runs to win but from the outset they were digging in for the draw. Pat Cummins took two wickets in an over and then Mitch Starc got Virat Kohli before lunch to put Australia on top. But Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant batted through the afternoon session to put the draw back in sights. It took Travis Head’s golden arm/finger and a rash sho...
Dec 30, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 50
India started the day on 9-358 and added further 11 runs before Nathan Lyon had Nitish Kumar Reddy for 114. With a lead of 105, Australia lost openers Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja cheaply, but it was a collapse of 4 for 11 in the middle order that put India on top for the first time in the Test. But a gritty 70 from Marnus Labuschagne, 41 from Pat Cummins and an unbroken half-century stand between Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland has Australia 9-228 at stumps, leading by 333. Joining you is Izzy We...
Dec 29, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 49
India started the day at 5-165 and were reduced to 7-221 inside 65 overs courtesy of an outrageous shot/dismissal from Rishabh Pant then Nathan Lyon removing his spin counterpart Ravindra Jadeja. But then Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar combined for a stoic 127-run 8th wicket stand to defy Australia's push for victory. Sundar made 50 but fell with Reddy needing three more runs for his century. Some late drama wouldn't deny a maiden Test hundred as bad light stopped play with rain bringi...
Dec 28, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Australia started the day on 6-311 and were all out after lunch for 474. Steve Smith made 140, his 34th Test ton, Pat Cummins scored 49 and another 4 wickets went to Jasprit Bumrah - that's 25 for the series now. India lost Rohit Sharma early and then KL Rahul to a peach from Cummins before Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli put on 102 for the third wicket. It took a run out disaster to break the stand and then Mr MCG Scotty Boland removed Kohli and Akash Deep to leave India 5 for 164 with a recor...
Dec 27, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 47
What a Boxing Day of Test cricket! Australia captain Pat Cummins won his first toss of the series, elected to bat and then it was the Sam Konstas show. Konstas made 60 from 65 on Test debut, ramping and lapping and charging India’s attack. Usman Khawaja made 57, Marnus Labuschagne 72 and Steve Smith 68 not out but Travis Head and Mitch Marsh missed out, preventing Australia from making a monster score in front of a record crowd of 87,242 at the MCG. Izzy Westbury and Mark Taylor break it all dow...
Dec 26, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 46
