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From team rifts to selection bombshells and off field scandals, Sacked Cricket sits down with some of cricket\u2019s most controversial and powerful names to discuss memorable moments in the game.<\/p>\n

For a second season, Code Sports\u2019 team of cricket experts Daniel Cherny, Robert Craddock and Ben Horne go head-to-head with former players, coaches, selectors and executives to uncover the stories behind the story.<\/p>\n

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Go inside the board room with Malcolm Speed to discuss some of the biggest moments in Australian cricket, listen to Colin Miller\u2019s frightening brush with drugs and feel the raw emotion of Stuart Law as he confronted the mental anguish and shame he felt from being sacked as Queensland cricket coach.<\/p>\n

This page will update every week with a new interview throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, you can catch up on all of last year\u2019s cracking interviews below.<\/p>\n

LAST YEAR\u2019S EPISODESIAN HEALY WASN\u2019T FILTHY – BUT DENYING HIM A FAREWELL WAS DUMB<\/a><\/p>\n

PART II: Healy\u2019s warning for Australia: \u2018We\u2019re turning into England\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\u201cHe\u2019sMICKEY ARTHUR AND THE 24-HOUR WARNER-ROOT COVER-UP<\/a><\/p>\n

PART II: \u2018Disrespectful\u2019 question which triggered the end of Arthur\u2019s reign<\/a><\/p>\n

\"'NobodyBRYCE MCGAIN AND AUSTRALIA\u2019S LOST GENERATION OF SPINNERS<\/a><\/p>\n

PART II: India, injuries, and the Cape Town disaster<\/a><\/p>\n

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