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Sharp analysis and opinion from the cricket world with Simon Hughes, The Analyst and the BBC's Simon Mann, featuring comment, analysis, interviews with international players and celebrity guests.

Find us on the Sport Social website: https://podcast.sport-social.co.uk/podcast/the-analyst-inside-cricket/

The Analyst Inside Cricket Simon Hughes

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    • 4.6 • 580 Ratings

Sharp analysis and opinion from the cricket world with Simon Hughes, The Analyst and the BBC's Simon Mann, featuring comment, analysis, interviews with international players and celebrity guests.

Find us on the Sport Social website: https://podcast.sport-social.co.uk/podcast/the-analyst-inside-cricket/

    Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Project Darwin: Evolve or Die?

    Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Project Darwin: Evolve or Die?

    Melissa Story (Gloucestershire & TMS) and Nikki Chaudhuri (Surrey & TMS) dissect the ECB's latest plans to expand the professional women's game with 00 Child Podcast host Polly Starkie and the Independent's sports writer, Sonia Twigg, who makes her second appearance on the pod.
    Whether the new announcement will grow or harm women's cricket is down to natural selection but the panel left no stone unturned with a critical and passionate debate on how to develop the domestic game.
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    • 58 min
    Simply The Best

    Simply The Best

    Special guest Tino Best recounts the tale of playing in the Test match when Brian Lara broke the world record Test score with his 400 not out, twenty years ago this week. Its also 30 years to the day since Lara's epic 375 not out in Antigua. Simon Hughes was there.
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    • 44 min
    Kent Mourns and Applauds

    Kent Mourns and Applauds

    Simon Hughes and Simon Mann celebrate the life of the incomparable Derek Underwood, Kent and England's prolific spinner and hear from Rob Key, also a Kent legend, about his ethos in charge of England, why he chose Brendon McCullum as coach and what Harry Brook said to Ben Stokes .
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    • 1 hr
    County Cricket - in Full Bloom

    County Cricket - in Full Bloom

    The sportswriter Ben Bloom discusses his new book Batting for Time - the fight to keep English cricket alive - and Simon Hughes and Simon Mann assess his findings and evaluate the solutions
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Future Firepower and Sri Lanka's swagger

    Storylines: The Women's Cricket Show - Future Firepower and Sri Lanka's swagger

    Melissa Story (Gloucestershire & TMS) and Nikki Chaudhuri (Surrey & TMS) celebrate Melissa's remarkable achievement in winning the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year award before turning their attention to England's tour of New Zealand.
    The girls then spoke to the brilliant Estelle Vasudevan to get her insight into all things Sri Lanka Women's Cricket ranging from this year's world cup to the domestic leagues.
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    • 55 min
    The Only Way is Up

    The Only Way is Up

    On the eve of the new County Championship season, Simon Mann and Simon Hughes talk to the optimistic Mark Alleyne, newly installed head coach of Gloucestershire who failed to win one first class match in 2023 and finished bottom of Division 2.
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    • 40 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
580 Ratings

580 Ratings

gaffer190 ,

Top quality

With the current world game anchored by references to the games’ rich past, Hughes and Mann, balanced and precise, vastly experienced and informed, are always listenable.
Hughes’ advert voiceovers are cringeworthy, flogging herbal teas and the like with great insincerity.

Yotsuyasanchome ,

Superb podcast

The best cricket podcast out there. Brilliant analysis, unbiased and detailed content, it’s my absolute favourite. Lovely chemistry between the two Simons- thank you both!

Rob🎶 ,

Love it 😊🙏🏼♥️

Simply brilliant - thank-you♥️

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