Stories After Stumps

Best Since Bradman: The Return of Steven Smith

The champion batter - and a host of other relevant voices - gives us the inside account of the 2019 Ashes, and one of the most extraordinary individual series in recent t

Out of our league

The Cricket Australia XI lasted three seasons in the domestic One-Day Cup competition.  From 18 matches, they won only twice, and finished bottom of the table in each o

The Rose Bowl Bowl Off

"I'll be last. It'll be over by then. But little did I know that everybody else was going to miss."  Before the Super Over had been invented, tied T20 International mat

Blood on the Pitch: Riot & Revolution in Jamaica

In February 1978, a ragtag Aussie Test squad, shorn of its World Series Cricket stars, lands in the Caribbean, where two revolutions – one involving reggae king Bob Marle

Finding Dorey

When Brett Dorey was in his early 20s, he was living and working on the ski fields of Austria. By his late 20s, he was playing for Australia. And by his early 30s, hi

Breaking a Curse

In almost seven decades of trying, the Queensland Women's team had never beaten their fierce foe from south of the border, NSW. All those years of heartache finally came

The Final Frontier: Part Two

Part Two of the Final Frontier resumes the story with Australia one-nil up after the opening Test of the 2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. With matches to come in Chennai, N

The Final Frontier: Part One

To celebrate 20 years since Australia's breakthrough Test series victory in India, Stories After Stumps has spoken to a group of the key individuals who made it happen.

'97 Problems: Mayhem, mishaps & World Cup glory

The 1997 Women's World Cup will forever be remembered for Belinda Clark's record-smashing 229 not out and the heaving Eden Gardens crowd for the final between Australia a

The Catch

For an extended period either side of the turn of the 21st century, Victoria and Queensland fought out the most intense rivalry in Australian domestic cricket. One of sev

'You just dropped the Ryobi Cup'

Five required off the final over with seven wickets in hand. Game over, right? Well, on a steamy Saturday night in Adelaide, back in February 2012, the finish to the Ry

Nicole Bolton: Raw

Nicole Bolton played 55 times for Australia and spearheaded WA's first-ever WNCL title, but the former opener's remarkable 17-year journey in cricket was also one long em

King of the Bash

Craig Simmons was a 31-year-old club cricketer without a professional contract when BBL|03 began. A wild month of cricket later, he'd hammered two centuries and guided th

Bevan Sent

Cricket.com.au has this week launched a landmark new podcast series, Stories After Stumps, which dives into the game's glorious history through half a dozen compelling ep

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Welcome to Stories After Stumps. A production by cricket.com.au where we look at cricket's greatest untold stories, the classic, the compelling and the controversial.