Ben Stokes retirement sums up what's wrong with Bazball
6/29/202648 min
Ben Stokes' departure as English captain and player has Corbin and Ed declaring it in many ways, a perfect encapsulation of the Bazball era. So a year out from the next Ashes, England are left with questions like who will captain, will McCullum stay on and what does this team represent?
Our Aussie women have also made the World Cup semis by eliminating India and it's the T20 resurgence of Ellyse Perry and Sophie Molineux's form that's impressed most.
Plus Ireland somehow beat India twice, James Hopes leaves the Sixers for QLD cricket before he's even begun and the listener emails are overflowing.
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ABC Grandstand cricket commentator Corbin Middlemas is joined by Ed Cowan to bring you all the highlights and match analysis to keep you up to speed. The pair discuss the key players and big issues that are dominating the cricket agenda, the latest in live fixtures with a hit of cricket banter.
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First 90 secondsCorbin Middlemas· Host0:00
[upbeat music] ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music, and more. [upbeat music] ABC Cricket Podcast time with your boys, Colby Middlemass and Ed Cowan, for your Monday. Uh, it is mailbag day. We'll get to all of that, but there's a whole lot of, uh, cricket news to chop up, which is what we're here for on the ABC Cricket Podcast. Hello, Teddy.
Ed Cowan· Host0:25
Colby, happy Monday.
Corbin Middlemas· Host0:27
Man, what- It's happening ... what a weekend.
Ed Cowan· Host0:31
It's on.
Corbin Middlemas· Host0:31
The Aussie women through to the last four. We'll get to that in just a moment. But, uh, Ben Stokes is the headline grabber this morning. The, uh, the, the England skipper, uh, is departing the international scene. So he retires effective immediately from international cricket. It was a bombshell announcement which came through on day four of the third test, in which England are headed towards a series defeat, and, uh, a pretty heavy defeat there in the, uh, in the third test at Trent Bridge. Uh, initial thoughts, Teddy. How does... What, what did you, what did you think when the 35-year-old, after 121 tests, averaging 34 in test cricket and over 7,000 runs, 14 hundreds, 246 wickets at 31, with six five-wicket hauls, called it a day?
Ed Cowan· Host1:16
Obviously woke up to the news, and my, my first reaction whenever a great player retires is, is one of reflection and celebration. And Ben Stokes is undoubtedly