Switch Hit: Opening gambit. Plus: Baker's cooking Alan Gardner is joined by Matt Roller and Vish Ehantharajah to discuss the runners and riders to open for England, while Sonny Baker talks about his flying start to the season

Sonny Baker talks about his flying start to the season for Hampshire, while @alanrgardner.bsky.social is joined by @mattrollercricket.bsky.social and @vitue.bsky.social to discuss the runners and riders to open for England 🎧 #SwitchHit

Switch Hit: Let's go, Champo The county season has begun amid talk of an England selection reset. Alan Gardner, Matt Roller and Vish Ehantharajah discuss the latest from the shires

The English season is underway with the start of the County Championship, amid hints that there will be spots in the Test team up for grabs for those who impress.

@alanrgardner.bsky.social, @mattrollercricket.bsky.social and @vitue.bsky.social discuss on #SwitchHit 🎧

Switch Hit: Still in it, could win it England have been scrappy but find themselves in the T20 World Cup semi-finals. Next up: India in Mumbai. Alan Gardner is joined by Matt Roller and Vish Ehantharajah to assess their chances

It's been scrappy so far, but could England win it?

@alanrgardner.bsky.social, @mattrollercricket.bsky.social and @vitue.bsky.social look ahead to the #T20WorldCup semi-final on #SwitchHit 🎧

The Ashes are not yet over, but Bazball most emphatically is. It died, to all intents and purposes, with Ben Stokes' shockingly frank admission after another crushing defeat, that his team of mindset-driven genre-benders have been found wanting in the heat of a battle that their entire ethos had been geared towards.

Rest in peace, Bazball.

Analysis by @millercricket.bsky.social: bit.ly/44bb6Jx

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Double #Ashes win for England today, as Joe Root got his first Test hundred in Australia and in the process ensured David Warner would stay top of this list stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/st...

Pat Cummins might miss the first Test after being abducted by aliens It's wall-to-wall Cummins watch in the lead-up to the you know what. But there's some other stuff here as well

This month's #LightRoller is a scientific deep dive* on the likelihood of Pat Cummins featuring in the Ashes

*Not really, just the usual BS
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Switch Hit: Dub smash After two topsy-turvy series against South Africa, England round off their season with a trip to Ireland. Alan Gardner, Andrew Miller and Matt Roller discuss white-ball form and Ashes selection latest

After two topsy-turvy series against South Africa, England round off their season with a trip to Ireland - @alanrgardner.bsky.social, @millercricket.bsky.social and @mattrollercricket.bsky.social discuss white-ball form and Ashes selection latest on #SwitchHit 🎧

Five consecutive QF defeats in five consecutive seasons for Birmingham Bears in the T20 Blast - a feat unmatched in the competition's history (although they did manage six in seven years as plain old Warwickshire back in the early days)

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After a nerve-shredding end to an amazing series at The Oval, Alan Gardner catches up with Andrew Miller and Sid Monga to pick through all the Test match goodness

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Hundred's 'transition' year is relying on Test star Steven Smith as headline act Steven Smith hoping to use his first appearance for Welsh Fire as a platform to reclaim a T20I spot for Australia with the long-term aim of playing in the 2028 Olympics

Never mind the Bazballs... it's the Hundred! Have a read of @mattrollercricket.bsky.social's interview with New South Welshman turned new Welsh Fireman, Steven Smith www.espncricinfo.com/story/hundre... then join me for bbb of the men's opener at Lord's www.espncricinfo.com/series/the-h...

Que Siraj Siraj. Fitting end to a brilliant series

#EngvsInd

C'mon Hoppsy. You know, that scientifically speaking, it'll take at least 10 years of games with the Kookaburra to disprove the hypothesis that 95mph speed merchants are a natural byproduct of being bored rigid...

"We'll have a chase..."

What a genius decision at the toss, eh? #EngvsInd

Matt Roller on WTC oddities

✍️ The World Test Championship might be fundamentally flawed, but after three missed attempts to reach the final on home soil, it is time for England to take it seriously

Matt Roller writes 🔗 bit.ly/4kW0UuU

The Wizard with an opening spell of 6-3-8-2 against India A at Northampton. Tasty

Switch Hit: Zim sing while England win Alan Gardner speaks to Andrew Miller and Firdose Moonda about the Trent Bridge Test, while Matt Roller joins to preview the West Indies series

@alanrgardner.bsky.social, @millercricket.bsky.social and @firdosem.bsky.social reflect on the Trent Bridge Test, while @mattrollercricket.bsky.social joins to preview the West Indies series on the latest #SwitchHit podcast 🎧

I feel like Test wickets are really hard to get, actually, so getting 100 wickets is a big achievement for any fast bowler. That would be really special.

Heath Streak is the only player to take more than 100 Test wickets for Zimbabwe - Blessing Muzarabani is aiming to be the second 🎯

Interview by @alanrgardner.bsky.social: bit.ly/3F19d8Z

Switch Hit: Summer's hotting up Alan Gardner is joined on the pod by Andrew Miller and Valkerie Baynes to discuss the England Test squad and Nat Sciver-Brunt's appointment as captain

England's international summer is fast approaching!

@alanrgardner.bsky.social is joined on #SwitchHit by @millercricket.bsky.social and @valkeriebaynes.bsky.social to discuss the England Test squad and Nat Sciver-Brunt's appointment as captain 🎧

Couple of rare old finishes going in Division Two www.espncricinfo.com/live-cricket...

When your luck's out... Zak Crawley getting dropped at slip, then caught by the keeper off a rebound, for 1

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Never mind the tariffs, cricket's trade wars are the ones to watch Harry Brook and Corbin Bosch have been the first casualties in this game of cricket chicken, and no one is safe

Harry Brook and Corbin Bosch have been the first casualties in this game of cricket chicken, and no one is safe

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Cheers! Simpson has been terrific, and Hunt looks ready to step up a level. Hope you get to sing GOSBTS tmw

Went to Hove actually in pursuit of visible otters. Wasn't disappointed

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Ah ha, an important corrective! Happy to be put right, and will tweak

Confirmed: Sonny Baker is ⛽

Baker vs Bairstow - the duel in the Southampton sun www.espncricinfo.com/series/count...

Bairstow goes on to hit the first fifty of the match. Yorkshire battling their way into the lead three down, having given up a 128-run deficit on first innings

Sonny Baker has just had Jonny Bairstow dropped twice in as many balls - both bumpers that the batter took on

Nick Gubbins seemed to lose the first one on the rope and took a glancing blow to the head. He went off to be checked over, sub Joe Weatherley then couldn't quite scoop up a miscued pull

And now he's out for 10 off 22 balls, top-edging Sonny Baker's second ball to third (his first was smacked for four)

Heeeeeeeeeeere's Jonny