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Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor have been writing about cricket, and talking about music, books, movies, television and life, for nearly fifteen years. Now they do it with a podcast recorder handy, which sometimes they remember to turn on. Stand by for a podcast full of insights and lacking in organisation. Substack - Cricket Et Al Produced by DM Podcasts
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Cricket Et Al makes cricket feel like a live argument about teams, formats, governance, and the habits of people who care too much.
Cricket Et Al belongs in Sports as a cricket conversation that keeps the scorecard open without losing sight of the wider game. Across the sampled episodes, it moves through Australia selection questions, England fallout, T20 World Cup shape, Big Bash rhythms, domestic finals,…
You came for Travis Head and stayed for the parking-meter detour.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Loose, literate cricket chat that turns a big week into something conversational and easy to stay with.
Cricket et al. lands as a lived-in cricket conversation: two voices in the shed, one fresh from the Mitchell Library, the other keeping things moving with questions, jokes, and small corrections.
A dry, clear-eyed look at pressure cricket and why India keep finding a way.
The episode treats India-Pakistan as a familiar fixture with its own built-in history, and Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler make a decent case that the outcome can feel settled before the first ball.
A tense Nepal-England near upset, World Cup shocks, and lively cricket talk.
England's near miss against Nepal gives the episode its best edge, and Gideon Haig and Pete Lalor sound genuinely unsure what to make of the last ball.
A messy Test day, handled with dry wit and enough detail to keep the collapse readable.
The episode follows a shambolic Test day in which 20 wickets fell and Australia was all out for 152 before England came in. Gideon Haig and Peter Lawler keep the tone dry and faintly exasperated, which fits a contest that yielded 267 runs or thereabouts, roughly 75 overs, and…
A strange Ashes win, told with dry, observant cricket chat.
Cricket et al. treats the two-day Ashes Test as a rare kind of oddity, centering England's long wait for a Test win in Australia and the striking detail that no batter reached 50.
A loose, conversational World Cup check-in that stays centered on cricket.
This episode is a World Cup check-in on Australia's rough T20 form in Pakistan. It moves from conditions and recent results into the tournament groups, then takes a long role-play detour that gives the conversation some shape and some wobble.
A loose cricket hangout that folds Rum Rebellion Day, an eSIM ad read, and banter into one easy listen.
Cricket et al. opens on Rum Rebellion Day and then drifts into Australian history, civic mischief, and banter that feels like two people talking before they have decided where the conversation is going. It is loose, funny, and happy to skip tidy structure.
Cricket talk that drifts a little, keeps its wit, and still gets there.
Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler share the studio, and the episode starts with Sydney chat before settling into cricket: pink-ball tests, cash prizes, the MCG, and the strange math of drawing bigger crowds for less cricket.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket analysis with the lid off.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
Hosts Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler analyze Australia's surprising loss to Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup, focusing on Prasanna Sankar's match-winning century and Australia's dramatic batting collapse.
Erin Vincent opens at the Wheeler Centre by framing Cricket Et Al as a live recording and introducing Gideon Haig and Peter Lawler.
Cricket et al opens in the shed, deep in the swamp, with Peter Lawler and Gideon Hague together in person again in Sydney.
Cricket et al opens on the T20 World Cup, with Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler treating Australia's absence as oddly freeing.
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Cricket Et Al catches up with the Big Bash League.
Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler open with India versus Pakistan and ask why a match built up for weeks could still land like a non-event.
Gideon Haig and Pete Lalor open on Nepal's near-upset of England in the T20 World Cup.
Cricket Et Al tracks a hot second day in Adelaide, where England finished 8 for 213 after chasing Australia's 371 and trailing by 158 with two wickets left.
Cricket Et Al centers on Travis Head's 142 not out at Adelaide Oval, where Australia moved 358 ahead with six second-innings wickets left and Alex Carey added 52 not out.
Jacob Bethell’s 142 not out at the SCG dominates the episode, with the hosts calling it “proper test match batting” rather than “basketball razzmatazz.” They also note Scott Boland’s nagging 114-ball spell, Joe Root’s 24 balls without a run, and Bo Webster taking three wickets as Australia moved toward a 4-1 series win.
A wild Melbourne first day leaves both sides rattled.
Australia end day four of the Test four wickets from victory and four wickets from retaining the Ashes, with rain forecast for the next morning.
Cricket Et Al opens with Gideon Haigh and Peter Lawler reacting to Australia’s 4-1 Ashes win, including a final-day chase at the SCG, a disputed Jake Weatherall review, and Jacob Bethel’s 154.
Cricket Et Al opens in Adelaide with Gideon Haigh and Peter Lawler talking about the “best test match in Australia” and the cloudless, balmy setting around Adelaide Oval.
Gideon Haig and Peter Lawler open from the academic common room of Aquinas College and call the Adelaide Test day a “classic day of Test cricket.” They spend most of the episode on Usman Khawaja’s return to fluency, Alex Carey’s quick shift in momentum, and Australia reaching 8 for 326 after being 4 for 94.
Gideon Haig and Peter Lawler focus on Travis Head’s 91 off 87 balls, including 11 fours through the third-man-to-extra-cover corridor, after England were bowled out for 384.
Australia retained the Ashes by 82 runs, but Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler spend much of the episode on the nervousness that built as rain fell and Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc looked undercooked.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor analyze the second Ashes test in Brisbane, where Australia dominated England, led by Mitchell Stark's all-round performance with bat and ball.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor analyze Australia's eight-wicket victory over England in the second Ashes Test at the Gabba.
Pete Lawler and Gideon Haigh start out tired, because they stayed up for the T20 World Cup final.
Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler are together in Sydney and treat that fact like a small planetary event.
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Tom Holland joins Cricket et al and quickly fits the show’s teasing, loose rhythm.
Gideon Haigh and Peter Lawler open a special edition of Cricket et al with Greg Chappell and explain why he is on the call.
Cricket et al opens on Rum Rebellion Day with Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler tossing around John MacArthur, Bly, Tasmania, and the old Australian quarrel that gives the show a history soaked start.
Gideon Hague and Peter Lawler open with the ECB's overnight Ashes review and the comic fact that not much seems to change.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor discuss recent IPL and PSL matches, previewing an interview with Tim Paine, coach of the Multan Sultans.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor discuss a day's play at the Gabba, focusing on England's dropped catches and the narrative of the match.
Two cricket journalists discuss the day's play at the Gabba, focusing on Joe Root's first Test hundred in Australia and Mitchell Starc's bowling performance.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor preview the second test match between Australia and England, discussing team selection uncertainties and the pitch conditions in Brisbane.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor discuss the aftermath of a short test match in Perth, sharing personal anecdotes and cricket analysis.
Two cricket journalists discuss the first day of a test match between Australia and South Africa, analyzing key moments and the state of the game.
Two cricket journalists discuss their experiences at Lord's cricket ground, including watching the Australian team train and reminiscing about past visits.
Two cricket journalists discuss the IPL, end-of-season club awards, and the culture of recreational cricket.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor discuss a report on cricket's chaotic calendar with Tom Moffat, CEO of the World Cricketers Association.
Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor interview cricketer Curtis Patterson about his successful summer and batting form.