Corbin Middlemas is back as the gents break down England and Australia’s Ashes preparation or lack of, ahead of the first Test in Perth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair discuss who will and won’t play the first Test in Perth, wrap up the Sheffield Shield action and go deep on what’s the secret to a great salad roll.<\/p>\n
Across the 2025-26 Ashes series, ABC Grandstand cricket commentator Corbin Middlemas is joined by former Test opener Ed Cowan to bring you the latest highlights and match analysis to keep you up to speed. The pair discuss the key players and big issues that are dominating the cricket agenda. Whether it’s Ashes results, the latest in live fixtures or you just need a hit of cricket banter, Corbin and Ed are here to keep you up to date on the game in Australia and abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Catch every episodes\u00a0of \u2018The ABC Cricket Podcast,\u2019\u00a0hosted by Corbin Middlemas and Ed Cowan on\u00a0ABC listen\u00a0or wherever you get your podcasts, and\u00a0get in touch\u00a0with them on social media via\u00a0@abc_sport This podcast was formerly known as \u2018The Grandstand Cricket Podcast\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corbin Middlemas is back as the gents break down England and Australia’s Ashes preparation or lack of, ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[2655,159503,47932,159505,159507,64,63,159508,2129,740,159506,1208,159509,159510,44226,1948,46,17069,85,8824,159504,70541],"class_list":{"0":"post-274688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-abc-cricket-podcast","10":"tag-ash-gardner","11":"tag-ashes-cricket","12":"tag-ashes-highlights","13":"tag-au","14":"tag-australia","15":"tag-australia-highlights","16":"tag-ben-stokes","17":"tag-cricket","18":"tag-cricket-highlights","19":"tag-england","20":"tag-england-highlight","21":"tag-england-highlights","22":"tag-jake-weatherald","23":"tag-pat-cummins","24":"tag-perth","25":"tag-sam-konstas","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-stadium","28":"tag-the-abc-cricket-podcast","29":"tag-usman-khawaja"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}