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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 30/09/2026

Ground staff (extreme left and right) satisfied the pitch is fit for play. #SAvAUS 🏏

Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 27/09/2026

Sadly, it looks like South Africa will pass 300 here which, according to my recently announced policy on excessively tedious high-scoring ODIs, will render this match null and void. #SAvAUS 🏏

I’ve now officially expanded my contempt for 350ish v 350ish ODIs to any match where the team batting first scores more than 300.

I just don’t want to know about them. As far as I’m concerned, the instant a team passes 300 in a first innings, that ODI should be declared null and void. Start again with a less batter-friendly pitch.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 11/09/2026

What I didn't know until I attended my first #NFL game was that the 49ers mascot is a 7 in a square.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 16/08/2026

A green cocktail in honour of Cameron Green #AUSvBAN 🏏

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 13/08/2026

State of play just prior to the toss #AUSvBAN 🏏

Australia 94% chance of winning, Bangladesh 3% chance

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 30/07/2026

We were required by podcast law to mention the finger-clicking controversy that’s swept through cricket like a bad stomach bug. So we did. Get the full episode at cantbowlcantthrow.com or other podcast outlets.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 28/06/2026

Can't tell you how excited I am for the Brookball™ era. #ENGvNZ 🏏

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 19/06/2026

A general reminder while Mark Wood commentates of the time he built a little fort and became my favourite England cricketer #ENGvNZ 🏏

Mark Wood hiding in a fort of cricket kits

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 14/06/2026

Remember when Jacob Bethell scored a century because of wordplay? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

When Green first dropped Duckett, many Australian fans were muttering to themselves ‘Bet he’ll make a century now.’
This was an obvious distraction.
Because what England fans were instead saying was ‘Bethell! Make a century! Now!’
(Note: wordplay)

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 11/06/2026

Remember when Steve Smith was distracted by EVERYTHING on his way to a century at the SCG? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

Because Steve Smith was in and full of all his most distractible and irritating nonsense. He asked everybody to stop moving. He made people sit down, stand up, hide things, show things, turn things around, face things the other way. He signalled wides and boundaries and good balls and where his shot should have gone and where the field should have been. He fell on his bottom, and jumped in the sky. He ducked and he turned and he drove and he pulled.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 10/06/2026

Remember how almost everything bad for England in the Ashes seemed to take place on day two? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

A terrible and fearsome day then, day two, for fans of England cricket. Not coincidentally, also the best day for listening to the endless swathe of English cricket podcasts for fans of Australian cricket. Schadenfreudcasts!

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 08/06/2026

Remember when those sneaky Australians tried to steal Ben Duckett's short man between two tall ones anthem gag? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

Anthems followed, with Australia shamefully stealing some of England’s material, positioning Jake Weatherald in between Beau Webster and Cameron Green for comical height difference effect.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 05/06/2026

Remember how England were never going to change their leadership group after winning at the MCG? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

4-1 or 5-0? Who gives a shit. What matters is England staying committed to a philosophy that doesn’t work. And Melbourne guaranteed that.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 04/06/2026

Remember the miracle of the MCG, where Bazball rose briefly from the dead? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

What happened at Melbourne proves ‘Bazball’™ is something rather different: a bona fide religion, complete with genuine miracles. Resurrection, for instance. Which, in the true spirit of ‘Bazball’™’s fast- forward nature took a mere two days, rather than the three Scripture reports.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 02/06/2026

Remember when England won a Test match in Australia? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

Ultimately, enough runs were clobbered before enough wickets could fall for England to close out the chase, six wickets down, securing their first victory in Australia in recorded CricViz history.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 30/05/2026

Remember when Scott Boland opened the batting? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

Captain Smith simply ordered Boland to throw that fucken skittle away, for goodness sake, and pad up to open the batting alongside Travis Head. Yet another new opening partnership for the Australians.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 29/05/2026

Remember when there was ten millimetres of grass on the MCG pitch? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

If you stacked two hundred of these MCG pitches on top of one another, you’d have grass as tall as Cameron Green! Talk about a green top!

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 27/05/2026

Remember when Australia retained the Ashes in just eleven days? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/store/produc...

Because the Poms have stuffed this up yet again, giving up the ghost in just eleven days of Test cricket. This is Nasser Hussain type shit.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 24/05/2026

Remember when Jamie Smith threatened to steal a match with aggressive batting then got out instead? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Jamie Smith has so far on this tour been less the drummer of the band,
and more the drum machine sample in the band. Offering little, a soulless simulation of the real thing.
And yet, here he was on the final day of this Test, combining with Will Jacks in a partnership that saw England reduce the runs required to
win the match to below 200, barely offering a chance.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 23/05/2026

Remember when Nathan Lyon played a Test? And his new nickname was Filthy? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

In one blow, Lyon - who, after his infamous interview about being overlooked for the previous Test, now goes by the nickname ‘Filthy’ - had not only put an end to the dream of Harry Brook craziness, but also Cummins’ ten-fer. Awful stuff from the veteran offie. In a very Spartacus way, all true cricket fans were now filthy.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 21/05/2026

Remember when Ben Stokes turned into Yosemite Sam? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

A tremendous delivery that elicited an even more tremendous reaction from the England captain, who went Full
Yosemite Sam, hopping up and down in fury at his wicket having fallen.
“What in tarnation?” Stokes could be lip-read shouting as he departed the middle, moustache a-droopin’, ten-gallon hat on his head, and firing angry six-shooters into the ground. “Dagnabbit.”

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 18/05/2026

Remember when Mitchell Starc decided he'd score regular half-centuries in addition to taking all of Australia's wickets? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Y’know, I quite like Starc batting below Pat Cummins. It really drives
home the Australians’ theory that batting orders don’t matter. (See also: Starc batting below Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Josh
Inglis, et al.)
The half-century also meant that this series swung back to being Starc’s Ashes. Alex Carey must now take a seven-fer to regain the ascendancy

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 17/05/2026

Remember when Snicko lost its mind and allowed Alex Carey to score a century? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Carey’s century was not without luck, the keeper reprieved by DRS at one point when the Snicko operator apparently used the wrong stump microphone to align the sound waves with the video footage. Good stuff. Good, maddening stuff. The kind of thing that definitely wouldn’t infuriate a team asked to field in scorching Adelaide heat for an entire day.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 15/05/2026

Remember when England buggered off to Noosa for a week instead of learning how to bat from Mitchell Starc? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Zak Crawley: How about this, Zak? Maybe have a look at one before
wafting away like a dickhead.
Ben Duckett: Has a 3% leave rate or some shit. Mate, you’re not a 14-
year-old hormone-riddled teenage boy. You can leave balls alone. It
won’t kill you. I promise.
Ollie Pope: Stop skittering about like a crab with its arse on fire. The
ball’s coming at you. Stand still and play it properly.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 14/05/2026

Farewell Zak Crawley. I shall always remember you for this great moment in the 2023 Ashes. (Yes, I know that's Harry Brook. But Crawley was in the vicinity, and that's what I'll always remember.)

Harry Brook propelling Pat Cummins' defensive prod over the boundary to give Australia victory in the first Ashes Test of 2023. Zak Crawley is in the vicinity.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 12/05/2026

Remember when Steve Smith became suddenly offended by Jofra Archer bowling fast? And called him a champion? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

The pair went back and forth with some mindless banter, with Archer questioning why Smith was scoring runs so quickly and Smith returning serve by questioning why Archer was
bowling so quickly. Neither line of argument seemed to stand up to
too much scrutiny

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 11/05/2026

Remember when Michael Neser went on an inexplicable spree of caught-and-bowleding? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

I was tempted to say I didn’t think I’d
ever seen a caught and bowled specialist before but then I remembered the great Peter Taylor, Australia’s superb one day bowler who in every single ODI he played took a one-handed catch from a ball chipped back to him. Astonishing, if true.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 09/05/2026

Remember when Marnus Labuschagne and Alex Carey co-invented tackle catching? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

The first day of this Test was most notable for Alex Carey and Marnus Labuschagne’s co-invention of tackle catching, the most exciting innovation in cricket since the much-missed Three-Team Cricket.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 06/05/2026

Remember when Joe Root scored a Haydos nudie run-denying century in the appropriately named pink ball Test? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

The clatter of wickets briefly opened the possibility of Root being
stranded on 99*, with the rest of the team bowled out.
We were, however, denied this delicious dark comic moment, with
Root instead finding his way to a memorable first century on
Australian soil scant seconds before the tail really got serious about
throwing their wickets away.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 02/05/2026

Remember when we thought that a two-day Test during the Ashes was an alarming event that surely couldn't possibly be repeated? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

This two-day rubbish doesn’t test anything except who can hit the ball
hardest before they get out. It’s not a test. It’s a lottery. Sure, it’s a lottery in which Australia hold most of the tickets, because the Poms couldn’t play bounce if you gave them a trampoline and an instruction manual. But it’s still a lottery. And I have no interest in watching Test cricketers buy scratchies.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 30/04/2026

Remember when Travis Head the opener happened? Yes. Of course you do. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Jofra Archer returned and Head pulled him for a straight six down the ground, as the run rate moved towards seven. Too sane. Accelerate
further.

Gus Atkinson returned. Consecutive fours from Head to move into the nineties. Too sane. Accelerate further.

A century off 69 balls, the second fastest in Ashes history behind Adam Gilchrist’s throat-crushing display in 2006/07. Too sane. Accelerate further.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 28/04/2026

Remember when for one (1) day England seemed to be on top of the Ashes, with their bowling attack an unrelenting force unable to be denied? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Brilliant stuff from Australia to trick Stokes into bowling a six-over spell. Yes, five wickets. But how much wear and tear on the notoriously injury-prone England captain? Steve Smith’s men playing the long game. England reeling.

All in all, this first day of the 2025/26 Ashes was a great three days of Test cricket.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 28/04/2026

Remember when we were desperate for the Ashes to begin just so we could put an end to Steve Smith making fun of Monty Panesar on Mastermind? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Like any good game of whispers, this build-up had devolved in every retelling until the final piece of pre-series banter was, inexplicably, Steve Smith and Monty Panesar squabbling over the relative infamy of Smith’s Sandpapergate vs Panesar’s appearance on Mastermind (a tour de force trivia effort in which, among a myriad of wild answers, he’d asserted that Germany’s main soccer stadium was in ‘Athens’, and identified verses from Keats as belonging to the poem ‘Oliver Twist’).

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 25/04/2026

Remember before the Ashes when Ben Stokes was scathingly dismissive of the prospect that they might be underprepared heading into the series? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Now, one suspects, given his northern England upbringing, that he
grasps this knowledge instinctively, rather than as the result of any higher-level study. He has, presumably, never read Einstein, nor spent a tedious term attempting to explain Minkowski spacetime to an
entirely bewildered set of undergraduates. It is exceedingly unlikely that the England captain can talk an educated fan through the differences between the special and general theories of relativity. He would not, one imagines, know his Hessian from his Jacobian, if I may
indulge in a little tensor calculus humour.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 22/04/2026

Remember before the Ashes when cocky England pundits were making endless jibes about the Australians being Dad's Army? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

But you’re not playing babies, you moaning bloody Poms. Although you’d like that, wouldn’t you? An opposition that drools as much as your selectors do whenever they spot another county player with an average of 32? Honestly, I wouldn’t let Zak Crawley near a baby for fear he’d edge it straight to second slip.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 21/04/2026

Remember when Virat Kohli went into his last match on Australian soil on the back of consecutive ducks (not literal ducks)? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

I’m pleased to report that Kohli could be seen in the field during Australia’s innings, furiously shadow-batting. More importantly, after his twin ducks in the first two ODIs, the shadow-batting had yet to result in his dismissal. Good signs for the great man.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 19/04/2026

Remember when Tim David didn't cheat during the T20 series against New Zealand? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

Almost fifty years of relationships between the two countries built on the solid foundation of the Australians being willing to bend the rules at every possible opportunity, and the New Zealanders looking down their noses at their West Island brothers for such mischief. And here’s Tim David undermining all that good work by volunteering that he’s not held a catch.

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 16/04/2026

Remember when India beat Australia in the Women's ODI World Cup via the cunning tactic of Jemimah Rodrigues playing the innings of her life? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...

A thesis India held to be true, then
Was to defeat the Aussies you had to crash through them
And to ensure they were beat
Required an incredible feat
Of batting from Rodrigues - a true Jem

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 15/04/2026

Remember when Australia beat India in the Women's ODI World Cup via the cunning tactic of having Ellyse Perry bat twice? No? Well, it happened. Relive this and the rest of the Australian summer with my Wasted Review of Cricket for 2025/26 www.liebcricket.com/wastedreview...