The Forward Defensive Cricket Podcast

Round six of the Rothesay County Championship is in the books, and all the sides have now played five matches. In this episode, Matt looks back at the last ball finish between Essex and Yorkshire, Su…

After a mostly dry start to the season, rain finally played a part (well, it is April after all), and only two matches did not finish in a draw. There was still plenty of quality cricket played in ro…

Round 2 of the Rothesay County Championship backed up a wonderful week 1 with another group of pulsating matches.

In this episode, Matt goes through Warwickshire's one-wicket victory over Durham in t…

The Rothesay County Championship is back! In this episode, Matt recaps the brilliant battling display of Worcestershire against Somerset in the game of the week.He then dives into the performances th…

In this episode, Matt is joined by Aaron of The County Cricket Podcast to discuss Division 1 of the County Championship in depth.

They go team-by-team, breaking down their strengths, weaknesses, key p…

You might have forgotten about it but the ICC Champions Trophy is back. In this episode, Matt goes team by team breaking down their chances, key players, and their biggest weaknesses.

The best eight …

T20 World Champions India have continued their dominant run by brushing aside England at home. Is this the dawn of India's 20-over domination?

Despite the change of coach, England's familiar failing…

The dust has settled on one of the most hyped and highly anticipated Test series of all time between Australia and India. Despite it coming down to the final game, is Indian Test cricket at a crossro…

England had already won their first series in New Zealand since 2008 and were looking to seal a 3-0 clean sweep but the Black Caps wanted to give Tim Southee a perfect send off.

In this episode, Mat…

In this episode, Matt looks at how England have secured a first Test series win in New Zealand since 2008 as they hammered their hosts to win the second Test match.

Brook, Bethell, and Duckett blast…

Does England have a new superstar? Jacob Bethell made a debut 50 batting put of position as his stock continues to rise.

In this episode, Matt analyses the first Test Match between New Zealand and E…

An inexperienced England lost their 3rd successive One Day International series at the hands of the West Indies. Given all the key players missing how much did we learn?

In this episode, Matt looks …

When a batter with an average of 25 gets called up to the England Test squad, you have to ask, where are all the batters?

In this episode, Matt looks at the inclusion of Jacob Bethell in the squad f…

In this episode, Matt analyses the deciding Test Match between Pakistan and England. The home side came from behind to win the series in Rawalpindi.

Trial by spin exposed the same flaws for England …

In this episode, we are looking back at the 2nd Test Match between Pakistan and England, once again in Multan.

For the first time in Test cricket, the pitch was being reused as the hosts hoped that …

For this episode, we delve into the Multan run-fest as England hoped to repeat their performance from two years ago. It was certainly one for the records books.

Joe Root became England's leading run…