Stories After Stumps
Episodes
Best Since Bradman: The Return of Steven Smith
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The champion batter - and a host of other relevant voices - gives us the inside account of the 2019 Ashes, and one of the most extraordinary individua...
Out of our league
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Cricket Australia XI lasted three seasons in the domestic One-Day Cup competition. From 18 matches, they won only twice, and finished bottom...
The Rose Bowl Bowl Off
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I'll be last. It'll be over by then. But little did I know that everybody else was going to miss." Before the Super Over had been invented, tie...
Blood on the Pitch: Riot & Revolution in Jamaica
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1978, a ragtag Aussie Test squad, shorn of its World Series Cricket stars, lands in the Caribbean, where two revolutions – one invol...
Finding Dorey
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Brett Dorey was in his early 20s, he was living and working on the ski fields of Austria. By his late 20s, he was playing for Australia. And by h...
Breaking a Curse
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In almost seven decades of trying, the Queensland Women's team had never beaten their fierce foe from south of the border, NSW. All those years of hea...
The Final Frontier: Part Two
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of the Final Frontier resumes the story with Australia one-nil up after the opening Test of the 2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. With matches to ...
The Final Frontier: Part One
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate 20 years since Australia's breakthrough Test series victory in India, Stories After Stumps has spoken to a group of the key individuals w...
'97 Problems: Mayhem, mishaps & World Cup glory
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 1997 Women's World Cup will forever be remembered for Belinda Clark's record-smashing 229 not out and the heaving Eden Gardens crowd for the final...
The Catch
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For an extended period either side of the turn of the 21st century, Victoria and Queensland fought out the most intense rivalry in Australian domestic...
'You just dropped the Ryobi Cup'
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Five required off the final over with seven wickets in hand. Game over, right? Well, on a steamy Saturday night in Adelaide, back in February 2012, th...
Nicole Bolton: Raw
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Bolton played 55 times for Australia and spearheaded WA's first-ever WNCL title, but the former opener's remarkable 17-year journey in cricket ...
King of the Bash
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Simmons was a 31-year-old club cricketer without a professional contract when BBL|03 began. A wild month of cricket later, he'd hammered two cen...
Bevan Sent
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cricket.com.au has this week launched a landmark new podcast series, Stories After Stumps, which dives into the game's glorious history through h...
This is Stories After Stumps. It's cricket's most incredible yarns.
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Stories After Stumps. A production by cricket.com.au where we look at cricket's greatest untold stories, the classic, the compelling and th...