Episodes

  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 50: A Half-Century of No Balls
    Mar 24 2024

    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 100th Test for Jonny himself, along with Stokes and Ashwin – we've brought up this special one of our own.


    So we paid homage (to ourselves) in a few different ways: taking a trip down memory lane, and even bringing out an OG pod member from before our video days.

    And as a bonus, the cricket gave us enough reason to celebrate, and engage in one of our favorite pasttimes yet again, twisting the knife into England as BazBollocks was sent home packing.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 49: BazBollocks Capitulation and Ranji Madness
    Mar 7 2024

    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 dropping the gimmick to play actual good cricket). And then the real England, the one we all know and love and love to make fun of, turned up.

    And if you think England's cricket is mad, wait until you hear what happens in the Ranji Trophy.

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    58 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 48: A Moral Loss for BazBollocks?
    Feb 22 2024

    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 could still manage it even after a 434-run loss.


    Thanks to the magnitude of India's victory, and some interesting decisions from the BazBollocks strategy brain trust, we had a lot to talk about on this one, so a bit of a longer episode than usual. We just love sticking the knife into England when we get the chance.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 47: BazBollocks 1, JaisWallops 1
    Feb 16 2024

    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 to stick to cricket on this cricket pod, there's an excellent discussion about climate change and geography – and by excellent discussion, we mean a brief mention that allows some potshots to be taken at familiar targets.

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    57 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 46: BazBollocks Has Arrived
    Feb 4 2024

    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 turn things around?


    Meanwhile, West Indies pulled off a heist of their own in Australia and we have more updates from the life of Shoaib Malik.

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    52 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 45: BazBollocks Comes To India
    Feb 4 2024

    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, England are bringing their "BazBollocks" marketing gimmick to India. And we have some sad news about India's favorite Pakistani, who may no longer hold that title.

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    43 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 44: Tails Between Our Legs
    Dec 11 2023

    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 Cup final. What happened, who can we yell at for it (BCCI), and where do we go from here? In the middle of all that, of course, cricket never stops, so we take a look at what's next for India and everyone else.

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    41 mins
  • No Balls Cricket Unfiltered Episode 43: Don't Choke
    Nov 19 2023

    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 there, and just leave it at enjoying the fact that we got two high-quality semifinals and now it's time for the ultimate heavyweight matchup in the final: India vs Australia.


    (Don't worry, we went there in the episode.)

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    52 mins