England take the lead ... only just!

Adam Burnett and Josh Schonafinger join host Louis Cameron recap what would be the decisive Test match of an epic series, the fourth 2005 Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

EPISODE INDEX

2:00 - Series hits fever pitch

3:30 - England’s array of sporting sex symbols

7:00 - Australia’s mid-Tests trip to Scotland

9:30 - Best batting combo: Warne and Lee or Starc and Cummins?

16:50 - Wild Thing debuts

18:30 - Who was Gary Pratt?

35:30 - To follow on or not, that is the question

47:00 - Another chapter in the McGrath saga

53:15 - Kat snaps at controversial call

59:10 - Lou’s case for more MacGill game time

1:13:40 - The origin of Jones’ head-slapping celebration

1:20:00 - Ponting’s success … with the ball

1:23:40 - The morality of reverse swing bowling

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Welsh Fire star import Chris Green is this week's guest on the Unplayable Podcast!

Green has been dominating all winter for Lancashire and the Welsh Fire and will soon link up with the Barbados Royals in the CPL too.

Before that, Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger chat all things ODI series and we get an update on Richo's return to cricket in the Northern Territory's Top End T20.

EPISODE INDEX:

0:40 - Weekly winner

3:15 - ODI series chat

8:15 - What to expect in Mackay

13:00 - Chris Green interview, experience in the Hundred

19:30 - Green’s captain Steve Smith

23:20 - County Championship domination for Lancashire

27:27 - Jimmy Anderson, the teammate

33:00 - What the CPL means to Green

36:00 - Green’s international debut

40:00 - What no state contract means

43:00 - Green’s Thunder season preview

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Fresh off Australia's win in the T20 series against South Africa, Nathan Ellis sits down with Josh Schonafinger for an Unplayable Podcast bonus episode!

Ellis is enjoying another outstanding year with the ball and is shaping up as a key player for the Aussies at next year's T20 World Cup.

EPISODE INDEX:

0:40 - Impending fatherhood

3:30 - T20 series win

6:50 - Keys to being a good white-ball bowler

8:35 - Bowling variations

10:40 - That trademark slower ball

14:00 - Hat-trick on debut memories

15:20 - Hurricanes season preview

19:55 - Sheffield Shield?

21:30 - IPL frustrations

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Following Australia's two T20s against South Africa in Darwin, Unplayable Podcast hosts Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger catch up in the Northern Territory for this week's episode.

On the agenda is Dewald Brevis, Tim David, Mitch Marsh, Kwena Maphaka, the Hundred, Australia A and of course, that crowd catch.

Plus Richo's return to cricket for the NT Strike in the Top End T20!

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Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper’s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, knocks Louis Cameron's off stump out of the ground with a reverse-swinging seed on the 20th anniversary of the epic draw at Old Trafford.

Yes, who could forget the sound of Michael Clarke's timber being shattered by a Simon Jones wonder-ball, Shane Warne's agony at narrowly missing out on a Test ton, or Ricky Ponting's match-saving hundred?

But do you recall Ashley Giles' unplayable delivery to Damien Martyn? The supposed rift in the Aussie camp? The heroism of Errol Alcott? We look back at all this and more in our podcast series commemorating the greatest Ashes campaign of all time.

Episode index:

2.52 How cricket became cool again in England

11.28 Did Australia celebrate a draw too hard?

30.00 Did Mike Gatting invent cryptocurrency? Plus Ashley Giles' forgotten seed

43.47 Worst and best takes

58.06 Peak Simon Jones

1.03.00 Was Errol Alcott's Australia's MVP of this series?

1.09.34 Australia's siege mentality after English press 'lies'

1.18.01 The warning signs for Australia

Listen to our episode on the first Test (July 21) and second Test (August 4) by scrolling down in our podcast feed now.

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Kane Richardson and Josh Schonafinger chat through the week’s cricket news including the thrilling finish between England and India.

Also on the agenda is Australia’s men’s next assignment against South Africa in Darwin, before we cut to a chat with women’s cricket editor Laura Jolly to explain the women’s return to cricket and their build up to the ODI World Cup.

EPISODE INDEX:

2:30 - Woakes’ ‘legacy enhancer’

5:00 - Australia v South Africa series preview

10:05 - Australia A women’s series against India A with Laura Jolly

20:30 - Richo likes the Hundred

23:15 - Breakout contenders locked in

28:00 - Richo’s return to work in Top End T20

31:45 - Artificial Intelligence tries sledging

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Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper’s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, keeps both gloves on his bat to re-live one of the greatest Ashes Tests ever with host, Louis Cameron, on the 20th anniversary of the Edgbaston epic.

It was a Test made famous by Glenn McGrath’s rolled ankle, Ricky Ponting’s fateful ‘we’ll have a bowl’, reverse swing, Andrew Flintoff brilliance, Shane Warne stepping on his stumps, Michael Kasprowicz’s last-ditch departure and an iconic photograph of sportsmanship.

But we have delved even deeper, into John Buchanan’s fondness for a Worcestershire cake stall, an Ashley Giles sideshow, the Ponting-Warne dynamic, security concerns that gripped the Australian camp, and so much more.

Episode index:

2.00 What it was like to cover a 'surreal' Ashes tour

7.00 When Clarke and Kasprowicz lost all their playing kit at Leicestershire

11.15 John Buchanan perusing the Worcestershire cake stall

12.50 Should Ponting have listened to Warne before the toss?

17.40 The factors that led to McGrath's fateful ankle roll

33.30 Giles fires back at the doubters after becoming a 'one-man sideshow' between Tests

37.45 The Geraint Jones narrative arc

39.20 The little-known story behind iconic Flintoff-Lee photo

50.15 England's reverse-swing advantage

1.02.15 Harmison's slower ball to Clarke, Flintoff's over of brilliance to Ponting

1.24.30 The security concerns after Tube bombings

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After watching Australia blitz West Indies 5-0 in the T20 series, the Unplayable Podcast's Jack Paytner gives us a end-of-tour recap from the Caribbean.

On the agenda is the Aussies' middle-order weapons Mitch Owen and Tim David, more opportunity for Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green's best series to date and plenty more, such as the latest on Australia's squad to face South Africa in August.

With Kane Richardson away this week, Jack and Josh Schonafinger also lock in their five breakout players for the upcoming summer.

EPISODE INDEX:

1:10 - Weekly Winner

4:19 - Wrap up from the West Indies

15:19 - Australia’s squads to face South Africa

20:00 - Ben Stokes handshake saga

25:20 - Breakout player nominations

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