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The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, and we also offer our predictions on the likely ridiculous superstars of the 2025/26 #Ashes series! A blockbuster episode! Why not celebrate it by pre-ordering our book?

Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 14d

My next book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, co-authored with @kingcricket.co.uk, is now available for pre-order here in Australia. (England readers - stay tuned!)

If you plan to buy it - and, honestly, why wouldn't you? - please pre-order. It helps a lot.

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The Ashes is one of the oldest and most revered contests in the history of sport. But it is also a contest that contains profound nonsense.The ridi...

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The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 13d

A special one-off podcast: The Most Ridiculous Ashes Captains, in which we discuss asterisked ridiculousness density, our disdain for weak T, and the platonic ideal of Australian Ashes captaincy.

Plus: we reveal the next series we're covering!

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The Most Ridiculous Ashes Captains

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 14d

My next book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, co-authored with @kingcricket.co.uk, is now available for pre-order here in Australia. (England readers - stay tuned!)

If you plan to buy it - and, honestly, why wouldn't you? - please pre-order. It helps a lot.

liebcricket.com/ridiculousas...

The Ashes is one of the oldest and most revered contests in the history of sport. But it is also a contest that contains profound nonsense.The ridi...

liebcricket.com

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The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

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The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Season 5: 1981 Ridiculous Ashes

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The fifth season of the podcast covered the 1981 Ridiculous Ashes.

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Season 4: 2013 Ridiculous Ashes

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The fourth season of the podcast covered the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes.

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Season 3: 2009 Ridiculous Ashes

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The third season of the podcast covered the 2009 Ridiculous Ashes.

Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar try to work out how long remains in the Test, while Hero Hauritz lurks ominously

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Season 2: 2013/14 Ridiculous Ashes

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The second season of the podcast covered the 2013/14 Ridiculous Ashes.

Michael Clarke warns Jimmy Anderson to get ready for a broken fucken arm

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Sixth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

For those who came in late, here's the story so far.

Season 1: 2009 Ridiculous Ashes

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The first season of the podcast covered the 1997 Ridiculous Ashes.

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The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan wrap up the 1981 Ridiculous Ashes at The Oval, receiving annoying slaps on the back from small children, embracing odd number-centric scorecard revisions, and speculating about hypercolour headbands.

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Fifth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan catch up at Manchester, where they are confronted by the tedium of Chris Tavaré's batting, Kim Hughes' precognitive insight into obscure Return of the Jedi quotes and shared regret about not being able to make Knott puns.

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Fourth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

To Edgbaston for the fourth Test, where Alex and Dan revel in the absurdity of Australian amphibian-based shithousery, alphabetical batting orders and more preposterous Ian Botham antics.

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Third Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan are off to Headingley for the third Test, an unremarkable match that has mostly been forgotten by all but the most obsessive of cricket fans. Despite this, they uncover some moments of absurdity, including prototype Peter Siddles, England hair quotas and a tragic lack of Bane narration.

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Second Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Here's Ray Bright!

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The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan wander over to Lord's for the second Test of the 1981 Ridiculous Ashes, where they delight in the startling entrance to the series of Ray Bright. After recovering from that, they also muse upon inaccurate descriptions of inches and whether cricket players should be treated like toast.

1981 Ridiculous Ashes - First Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The Ridiculous Ashes podcast returns with the 1981 Ashes. First up, it’s Trent Bridge, where Alex and Dan discuss two-men bowling attacks, the sad decline of ferrets as a commentary descriptor, and Ian Botham being dreadful at everything.

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The fifth season of the podcast covered the 1981 Ridiculous Ashes.

2013 Ridiculous Ashes - Fifth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes concludes with the final Test at The Oval, which gives Alex and Dan plenty of things to muse upon, including the one-Test wonderment of Simon Kerrigan and James Faulkner, the gruesome birth of Steve Smith as we now know him and Chekhov’s light meter.

2013 Ridiculous Ashes - Fourth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan are off to Chester-le-Street for the fourth Test of the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes, which features discussions on the baggilessness of Australian helmets, Jonathan Trott’s sideways wicket celebration and the Summer of Bell.

2013 Ridiculous Ashes - Third Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan zoom up to Old Trafford for the third Test of the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes, where they celebrate the return of David Warner, Alastair Cook’s easy listening captaincy, belated time Snicko and Stuart Broad walking.

2013 Ridiculous Ashes - Second Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Alex and Dan head to Lord’s for the second Test of the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes. While there, they discuss the birth of Root Maths, Graeme Swann instigating the ‘worst piece of cricket in Test history’ and decisions that suck ass (#bullshit).

2013 Ridiculous Ashes - First Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The Ridiculous Ashes podcast returns with the 2013 Ashes. First up, it’s Trent Bridge, the showdown of two of the most ridiculous moments in Ashes history - Ashton Agar’s 98 and Stuart Broad not walking. A colossal match-up so absurd we need Pat Cummins to drop in and help us sort it out.

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

The fourth season of the podcast covered the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes.

2009 Ridiculous Ashes - Fifth Test

The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social · 21d

Over to The Oval for the fifth and final Test of the 2009 Ridiculous Ashes. With the series locked 1-1, we are introduced to Jimmy Anderson’s first Test duck, Jonathan Trott’s first Test century and the enigmatic figure known only as Simon Katiche.