Name: Christmas special: SA v ENG preview and Pakistan's triumph return home by Wisden Cricket Weekly
Duration: 1 h 7 min 8 s
Description: In a bumper show, Phil Walker, Taha Hashim and Dan Gallan join Ben Gardner to discuss all the big news from the past few weeks and look ahead to England's hotly anticipated Test series against South Africa.

Australia retain the Ashes after a pair of calamitous batting performances from England at the MCG. Hometown hero Scott Boland took 6-7 on debut to brutally end England's Ashes hopes by bowling the tourists out for 68.

The panel of Mark Butcher, Phil Walker and Yas Rana try to make sense of England's longstanding batting woes and look at what the short term future may hold for the England men's Test side. 

We apologise for the sound quality on this episode. A combination of a technical fault and our need to record the podcast remotely owing to a positive Covid-19 test in the team means that the sound quality is not quite at our usual level. We hope to be back to normal for next week's episode.

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Australia retain the urn: What's behind England's longstanding batting woes?

The panel of Ben Gardner, Jo Harman and Yas Rana preview the fourth Ashes Test at the SCG, react to Quinton de Kock's unexpected retirement from Test cricket, India's win at Centurion and much more.

From the 54-minute mark, a section of Jo's interview with the Parkinson twins is played. You can read the full interview in the next issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly.

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An SCG Test preview, Quinton de Kock's Test retirement and a chat with the Parkinson twins

Mark Butcher, Ben Gardner, Taha Hashim and Yas Rana share their thoughts on the most competitive Test of the series where England battled hard to just about escape from Sydney with a draw.

The panel will discuss South Africa's win over India at The Wanderers and Bangladesh's historic win in New Zealand on a bonus episode later this week.

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Whitewash avoided – England finally show some fight at the SCG

Phil Walker, Taha Hashim and Yas Rana look ahead to the Hobart Test - the fifth and final encounter of the 2021/22 men's Ashes. Taha - after speaking to Kent head coach Matt Walker – gives us the lowdown of what to expect from Sam Billings the red-ball cricketer, Phil looks ahead to the women's Ashes and Yas rounds up everything that's been happening in the international game over the past week or so. 

The panel also pick their out-of-the-box England captaincy suggestions as well as their all-time favourite comeback centuries in international cricket.

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Sam Billings the red-ball cricketer, comeback centuries and Heather Knight

Podcast regulars Mark Butcher, Jo Harman, Ben Gardner, Phil Walker and Yas Rana react to the latest England batting collapse, this time one that gave Australia their 13th win in their last 15 home Ashes Tests. They answer your questions on how England can make improvements both in the short and long term. 

There is also discussion on Virat Kohli's resignation as India Test captain and India's 2-1 series defeat in South Africa.

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England collapse yet again and Virat Kohli resigns as India Test skipper

An action-packed episode this week. Mark Butcher shares his views on the first two T20Is between England and West Indies in the Caribbean, before the panel of Jo Harman, Ben Gardner, Phil Walker and Yas Rana discuss the T20I-leg of the women's Ashes and pick an 18-man squad for England's upcoming Test tour to West Indies.

There is also an interview with author Duncan Stone about his new book, 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket.'

The selection discussion begins at 35:10
The interview with Stone begins at 1:19:14

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Picking our Test squads for the West Indies tour, McGrath's blitz and England's death bowling

Podcast regulars Taha Hashim, Phil Walker and Yas Rana reflect on a classic Ashes Test at Canberra that had it all, the backlash to cricket's most recent DCMS hearing and a host of encouraging performances from English cricketers in franchise leagues around the world.

Elsewhere, Mark Butcher gives his thoughts on England's series defeat in the Caribbean, Alec Stewart's rumoured link to the England head coach role and off stump guards.

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A classic Ashes Test, West Indies beat England and Harmer's return to international cricket

The panel react to a hectic week in English cricket that saw two of their all-time greats dropped from the Test squad, three senior off-field figures in the men's game lose their jobs, the women's side go winless in the Ashes and their U19 side lose a World Cup final.

There's also discussion on Justin Langer's resignation from the Australia men's coach job, India's ODI series against West Indies, Jason Roy's PSL form and much more. 

Freelance cricket writer Tanya Aldred joins the show from the 1hr 7 mark to discuss the Cricket For Climate initiative that was recently launched by Pat Cummins and a number of other big names from Australia.

England drop Broad and Anderson, go winless in another Ashes series and lose a World Cup final

As well as covering the headlines from the international game over the past week, Phil Walker, Jo Harman and Yas Rana react to Stuart Broad's column in the Daily Mail in which he voiced his frustration at his omission from the England squad for the upcoming tour of the Caribbean.

The panel also discuss some of the new/returning faces in that squad and there's a recording of Yas' interview with England newbie Alex Lees from the 31:57 mark.

Mark Butcher joins the show from the 47:43 mark to give his thoughts on the possible impact of an expanded IPL and why we should be excited by Will Smeed after his 99 in the PSL.

Phil, Jo and Yas spend the last section of the show answering a range of questions from the listeners.

Reaction to Broad's column, a chat with Alex Lees and answering your questions

The panel look back at all the major news from the last week in international cricket, including Joe Root's decision to bat at three for England, Rohit Sharma's appointment as India Test captain, the dual dropping of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, New Zealand's emphatic win over South Africa, a thrilling ODI between Bangladesh and Afghanistan and much more.

The panel, joined by women's cricket journalist and historian Raf Nicholson, preview the upcoming women's World Cup from the 18-minute mark.

From 1:12:09, Ben Duckett – one of the most consistent all-format batters in England – joins the show after a challenging winter away in Australia and Pakistan.

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Root to bat three, a World Cup preview, Rahane and Pujara dropped and Ben Duckett joins the show

In a bumper show, Phil Walker, Taha Hashim and Dan Gallan join Ben Gardner to discuss all the big news from the past few weeks and look ahead to England's hotly anticipated Test series against South Africa.

Christmas special: SA v ENG preview and Pakistan's triumph return home

Join Mark Butcher, Yas Rana and the rest of the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast team for a weekly reflection on all the big stories from the game that week.

Christmas special: SA v ENG preview and Pakistan's triumph return home

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