The Most Ridiculous Ashes Captains

About this episode

The episode discusses the most ridiculous Ashes captains of the last half-century and predictions for the upcoming series.

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

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Liebke, Alex Bowden

Topics covered

• Ashes captains
• cricket history
• ridiculous moments
• sports analysis
• predictions

Keywords

• Ashes
• captains
• cricket
• ridiculousness
• predictions
• sports
• book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: liebcricket.com

Books & works: The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments (of the past 50 years)

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• 2019 Ridiculous Ashes - Second Test · November 23, 2025 · 35 min
• 2019 Ridiculous Ashes - First Test · November 16, 2025 · 38 min
• 1981 Ridiculous Ashes - Sixth Test · December 23, 2023 · 48 min