The No Balls Cricket Podcast

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 58: BazBall Turns Into BegBall

The one thing about BazBall is that it does not do boring. Even in a run-fest that turned into only the 2nd draw of Ben Stokes's captaincy, the man found a way to make th

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 57: Lords Don't Slow Us Down (Please)

Where did it all go wrong? After an unexpected win at Edgbaston, where Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Shubman Gill and the rest of the Team India showed they've got the hear

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 56: Bazboozled

We went away for a short while, and an entire era changed. South Africa won a trophy, Australia LOST A FINAL, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retired, Shubman Gill became Te

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 55: Crashed Down Under

India's decade-long stranglehold on the most fiercely-contested trophy in Test cricket has finally come crashing down. And at the end of this long reign, we come to bury

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 54: Thank the Gods for Rain, Ashwin, and Bumrah

There was no repeat of the last miracle at the Gabba, but India not losing that Test might be its own version of a miracle, helped by the rain gods and a rollicking innin

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 53: Day-Night Debacle, Awards Galore, and...Sex Tapes?

India had another nightmare pink-ball Test, but it included a moment that is our podcast's raison d'être: a wicket off a no ball. The past week was a banner week for th

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 52: The BCCIA and TOOTH-E

Just how powerful are the BCCI and Jay Shah? That question was important enough to ask even when we had a magnificent India win to review. Would you put it past the new I

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 51: The Return

We're BACK (again)! We could make some overwrought metaphor about how we gritted it out to get to 50 and then retired hurt, but are now back to complete the innings. We

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 50: A Half-Century of No Balls

Our esteemed podcast has managed to do something Jonny Bairstow wasn't able to do during England's tour of India: get to 50. In a series full of milestones – including a

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 49: BazBollocks Capitulation and Ranji Madness

England nearly had it. Everything they wanted. A vindication that their stupid marketing gimmick is actually good cricket (even though they only got to this point by drop

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 48: A Moral Loss for BazBollocks?

If you suffer your worst defeat on the pitch in 90 years, is there any way you can still claim moral victory? According to us, there isn't, but we think somehow England c

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 47: BazBollocks 1, JaisWallops 1

India get back in the series thanks to an outstanding innings from Yashasvi Jaiswal...and are England getting high on their own supply? Also, because we don't know how t

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 46: BazBollocks Has Arrived

So about those 5-0 and 4-0 predictions from our podcast... We look back on a wild first Test and how exactly England pulled off the "Heist of Hyderabad". How do India tu

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 45: BazBollocks Comes To India

We're back! With perfect timing. After a winter break for us where a lot of cricket happened (and we aren't even talking about the IPL and WPL auctions). Meanwhile, Eng

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 44: Tails Between Our Legs

We put it off for as long as we could, but finally, here we are, sucking it up and dealing with our loss. By which we mean, of course, India's loss at the men's ODI World

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 43: Don't Choke

Working against a deadline trying to get an episode in before the World Cup final puts a lot of pressure on us. Thankfully we didn't choke. Unlike... Maybe let's not go

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 42: A Crispy Preview

It's time to preview the semifinals. India get a chance to stare down the demons of 2019 and New Zealand, and South Africa have semifinal ghosts of their own to exorcise

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 41: Timed Out and the Big Show

After a ho-hum first half of the group stage, the World Cup has really kicked off over the last week. Our favorite rivalry just had its biggest controversy that has Siddh

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered: Ep 40 – Pakistan this, England that, Bangladesh whatever

Having come back after a long time, we've decided that we need to freshen this podcast up by doing something we didn't know we're capable of: sounding smart. So this po

No Balls Cricket Unfiltered: Episode 39

WE'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! After a long hiatus as we moved around in the world, we finally figured out how to do a long-distance pod. Just in time for the men's ODI World