{"id":180797,"date":"2025-10-05T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180797\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:14:14","slug":"englands-and-australias-top-three-most-ridiculous-ashes-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180797\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s and Australia\u2019s top three most ridiculous Ashes captains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t  2 minute read<\/p>\n<p>Newer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebcricket.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Liebke<\/a>, because we haven\u2019t actually produced any episodes in almost two years. The sizeable gap came about because we\u2019ve been spending all of our podcasting time writing a book together instead \u2013 The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments. That\u2019s out soon, so now we\u2019re back with a special one-off episode about the most ridiculous Ashes captains, inspired by our findings.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridiculous Ashes podcast<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/the-most-ridiculous-ashes-captains\/id1547098563?i=1000728472918\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one-off episode<\/a>, we debate our top three most ridiculous Ashes captains from each nation. Among other things, this sees us discussing asterisked ridiculousness density, our disdain for weak T and the platonic ideal of Australian Ashes captaincy.<\/p>\n<p>We also reveal which Ridiculous Ashes series we\u2019re going to cover next, AND we offer our predictions on the likely ridiculous superstars of the upcoming 2025\/26 series.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more Ridiculous Ashes podcastery, here are some subscription links.<\/p>\n<p>And here are links to the previous series of the Ridiculous Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridiculous Ashes book<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-loading=\"\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@id='page']\/*[3][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::SECTION]\/*[1][self::MAIN]\/*[1][self::ARTICLE]\/*[3][self::DIV]\/*[12][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/50-Most-Ridiculous-Ashes-Moments-Email-Banner-1024x323.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41943\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not a complicated one to explain. Together with Dan, we count down the 50 most ridiculous Ashes moments of the last 50 years. Most of your favourite stuff will be in there, even if it\u2019s only being mentioned in connection with some other moment.<\/p>\n<p>The book is out on October 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com.au\/books\/The-50-Most-Ridiculous-Ashes-Moments\/Dan-Liebke\/9781923135697\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Australia<\/a> and seemingly at a similar sort of time in the UK going by what various book retailers have uploaded to their websites. (We\u2019re not sure the exact date\u2019s 100% confirmed, but we\u2019ve seen November 6 in a couple of places.)<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the UK, it looks like you can now place your order on <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/13129\/9781923135697\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bookshop.org<\/a> \u2013 which until Simon and Schuster tells us otherwise is our preferred online seller because they help support independent bookshops.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re morally bankrupt and want to save \u00a32.61, or you\u2019re buying car key batteries or some other random item that you can\u2019t find anywhere else and want to spend over the threshold so that you qualify for free delivery, you can also get it from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3KvjXyx\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you spot it for sale anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcricket.co.uk\/subscribe-to-the-king-cricket-email\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to the King Cricket email<\/a> to get hectored again whenever future episodes appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 minute read Newer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,80123,80124,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-180797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-extras","10":"tag-regulars","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}