This episode starts as it often does, with This Week In Cricket, where we congratulate the Trinbago Knight Riders on their unbeaten season, talk more turmoil in the ranks at Cricket South Africa, the value of a TV deal in Australia and the England/Australia limited-overs series. In the second half of the podcast (22.40), we turn our attention to another Cricketing Mt Rushmore, as we debate the best four Pakistan bowlers of all time.
This week on the show, the panel take a break from the interviews to discuss This Lockdown in Cricket, covering the NZ Cricket Awards, what international cricket might look like when it returns, the cancellation of The Hundred, Australia's contract list and Baldy's Sheffield Shield team of the year. (27.00)Then we return to a favourite segment: Cricketing Mt Rushmore, this time debating (heartily at times!) the four greatest Sri Lankan batsmen of all time. Did we get it right?
In this bonus episode, the panel discuss the best English bowlers of all time, debating which faces should be etched into England's cricketing Mt Rushmore.
In this episode of The Top Order Podcast the panel talk to Paul Watson, a Level 4 Umpire in Auckland, about why he became an umpire, his pathway to the top and all the processes umpires go through to make a decision. Then the panel rip into each other discussing the Mt Rushmore of New Zealand batting.