The Ridiculous Ashes podcast returns with the 2019 Ashes. First up, it’s Fortress Edgbaston, where Alex and Dan discuss nefarious handshake schemes, Moeen Ali's willingness to leave and the improbable rejection of a Steve Waugh game plan. The Ridiculous Ashes book - The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments - is now available to purchase. Order your copy now! Australia - https://liebcricket.com/ridiculousashes UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13129/9781923135697 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back! Fresh off having written a book (The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments (of the past 50 years)), here's a glimpse of what we've learned in the process. It's the most ridiculous Ashes captains of the last half-century (alas, mostly the men. Ladies, lift your ridiculous game!) In this one-off episode, we discuss asterisked ridiculousness density, our disdain for weak T, and the platonic ideal of Australian Ashes captaincy. Plus, we reveal which Ridiculous Ashes series we're covering next, AND we offer our predictions on the likely ridiculous superstars of the 2025/26 series! A blockbuster episode! Celebrate it by pre-ordering our book. Pre-order the book here: https://liebcricket.com/ridiculousashes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sneak bonus episode: The Ridiculous Border-Gavaskar Podcast. Same format, one different team/host. To subscribe on your podcast provider of choice, go to https://pod.link/1666458762 In this premiere episode of The Ridiculous Border-Gavaskar Podcast, Dan and Bharat revisit the 1st Test of the 2017 Border-Gavaskar series in Pune. That’s where they find an unimaginative Steve O’Keefe getting the same figures in both innings, slightly misleading pitch predictions and Matt Renshaw’s unhappy tummy. Follow The Ridiculous Border-Gavaskar Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ridicbg Follow Bharat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beastieboy07 Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/liebcricket Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Special thanks to @LinuxLea on Twitter for helping us access DVDs of this series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Special thanks to @LinuxLea on Twitter for helping us access DVDs of this series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Special thanks to @LinuxLea on Twitter for helping us access DVDs of this series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Geoff Lemon’s ‘Hey Watson’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNDElnx3hus Special thanks to @LinuxLea on Twitter for helping us access DVDs of this series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Which he does. Special thanks to @LinuxLea on Twitter for helping us access DVDs of this series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The fourth Test of the 2009 Ridiculous Ashes sees Dan and Alex head to Headingley. While there, they analyse winning the toss and collapsing, pantomime villainy, and the power of a good old-fashioned ‘sod it’ partnership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over to Edgbaston for the third Test of the 2009 Ridiculous Ashes. That’s where Dan and Alex examine Graham Onions, crowd participation and interminable centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Off to Lord’s for the second Test of the 2009 Ridiculous Ashes. That’s where Dan and Alex discuss disproportionate emotion, Keystone Cops tributes and Mitchell Johnson bowling to the left and bowling to the right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ridiculous Ashes returns to cover the ridiculous historical digestif that is the 2009 Ashes. First up, we’re off to Cardiff where Dan and Alex discuss era-defining Haustralians, throatward defensives and the match-saving heroics of Monty Panesar, James Anderson and Bilal Shafayat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices