Red Inker With Jarrod Kimber

This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on India's chances of making the World Test Championship final again, how the West Indies' classic 4 man pace attack handled their workload, and how India's current bowling lineup sits in the history of bowling lineups, how AFL impacts grade cricket in Australia, how Jarrod reacted to the news about Shane Warne, the actual importance of the 'Ball Of The Century', whether Johnny Bairstow has found some solid form and different body types in cricket.

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This episode is about Shane Warne. It kind of had to be, right? I thought about doing an emergency podcast, but I didn't know how I would do it, would it just be me on my own, trying to emotionally process it all? And then my friend Jon Norman said why don't we do a podcast where we just chat about him until we run out of things to say. So here it is, two friends talking about Shane Warne for a very long time.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on Ravichandran Ashwin versus the Indian spinner of old, and how the classic Indian spin quartet would fare in T20's, right arm bowlers coming around the wicket to left handers in Test cricket, the future of English wicket-keeping batsmen and what happens if Ben Stokes' career has already peaked, where the money that goes into the BCCI goes to, whether England have a chance in the West Indies, how the Australian teams are going to fare in the ODI World Cup in NZ and in the Test series in Pakistan, the continued prevalence of 'moneyball' cricket in franchise leagues, and how the ICC T20 rankings work.

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This episode we look at the bowling of Axar Patel under an actual microscope. And I do mean that fairly literally, as we have a scientist, Himanish Ganjoo, to come and take a look at Axar's data. We look at his height, angle, spin, lack of flight, sweeps, types of SLA, DRS, drift, failure to spin away and Axar's hang time.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on opening in T20's, batting in the PSL, Rovman Powell's ongoing form against spin, fielding a team of all-rounders, who is India's support spinner for the T20 World Cup, Jarrod's pick for the most important type of players in a draft, racism in cricket across the world and the role of translators and pronunciation across the cricketing world, leadership in cricket and what signs you can read into to evaluate a well structured team, Steve Smith's role as the 'fixer' and the stubborness of male cricketers, how England could use Broad and Anderson better when overseas and how the role of anchor has changed in T20 cricket.

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This is the 100th episode of Red Inker (sorta), and I wanted to do something a bit different here, so I have looked at the first time I ever sat in a team dug out. When I was a journalist covering Hong Kong in two matches against the Netherlands. It involves the ICC kicking me out, a man pissing while breaking protocol and me dreaming of a job that never existed.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on mental strength, the differences in stamina between Test and T20 cricket, how players choose which format they want to focus on, how much you can improve a players fielding, the dichotomy of Aaron Finch, some thoughts on New Zealand vs South Africa, why the top of off stump is such a target and the quality of the Pakistan Super League.

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This episode is on Australia'swin in the '99 World Cup from the perspective of a fan. And so we only went and got the creator of the TV show Wilfred, Adam Zwar, to talk us through it. We talk Sting, Shane Warne's hurt feelings, Glenn McGrath at first change, Neil Johnson, comedy writing, South Africa, Lance Klusener's power, Steve Waugh's sledging and two of the greatest ODI’s ever.

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This episode of Red Inker is about bowling at the death, so I got on the bloke who has bowled there more than almost anyone alive. Jade Dernbach and I chat about slower balls, yorkers, scoops, social media, pressure, putting your hand up, bouncers, and the need for three good balls.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on analysis and the role of captaincy through the ages, space for ads in sports coverage, Jarrod's filmmaking background in his content making, reasons for Kuldeep's return and the state of spinners in the Indian side, how the speed that spinners bowl at has changed, and Jarrod's thoughts on the West Indies vs England series.

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This week we’re talking about the weird last 12 months of Irish cricket, so we only went and got the captain on. Andy Balbirnie and I talk about beating South Africa, pinch blockers, losing to the USA, the T20 World Cup and what beating the West Indies means to Irish cricket.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on swing in the Women's game and the supposed 'optimum swinging pace', Jarrod's sense of humour and his interviewing demeanor, the future of cricket Youtube, Harsha Bhogle's comment on how easy it is for India to be the best team in the world right now, the progress of both teams in the Eng Vs WI T20 series, how distance can affect the 'heart' in cricketers' lives, whether bowlers impact matches more than batters and Jarrod's thoughts on Mahela Jayawardene's post-playing career. 

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This episode of Red Inker is about the structure of English cricket, which has become one of the many narratives about how England lost the Ashes. So I got on cricket analyst Dan Weston who works for a county to talk about his plans to change it. We discuss #SilverwoodOut, red ball scheduling, incentives for player development, transfer fees, three divisions, four overseas, moving List A cricket and the medium-fast middle aged-glut.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on over rates in T20's and cricket in the Olympics, what young wicketkeepers should focus on, bowlers having a better average in international cricket over first class cricket, why hit wicket counts as a bowler's wicket, generational cricket talents inspiring the same skills in players in their origin country (or not), whether 'thinking' crickets are actually intelligent people, what countries like New Zealand are doing to be so successful with such a low playing population, what sort of 'league' structure works best for cricket, what to say to a pre-Ashes Joe Root to help make the series more competitive, whether a better system than Duckworth/Lewis exists for score prediction, and how internal competitive culture can affect a team on the field. 

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This episode is all about Ross Taylor. Now that his career is over, I thought it was a great time to look back. So I brought on one of the best New Zealand cricket journalists, Dylan Cleaver, to talk about him. We chat about his origin story, middle class cricket, Pacific Islands players, slogging, Martin Crowe, Kane Williamson, Brendon McCullum, his record in Tests, his even better career in ODIs and the fragility he had when he started his innings.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the curious case of Alex Carey, bowling like Jasprit Bumrah, what Clarrie Grimmett and Bill O'Reilly might have been like in T20's, whether the 1st or the 6th ball in the over makes any difference, what the role of the IPL Team Director is, Hardik Pandaya's bowling, how much age plays into captaincy selections,  how the 3rd Test in SA against India is going and how SA are shaping up for the future, what Jarrod thinks a good keeper is, and how the pinch hitting role is going (or isn't going) in cricket.

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This episode of Red Inker is a story I have wanted to tell for ages, how I grew up in Melbourne in the 1990’s as a young legspinner when Shane Warne was Shane Warne.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on 'golden arm' bowlers, why Mitch Santner and Ashton Agar are more successful in limited overs cricket than Test cricket, the enigma of Rassie van der Dussen,  New Zealand without Kane Williamson, counter-attacking on difficult pitches, the downfall of Ed Smith at the ECB and the ongoing search for a Test all-rounder.

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This episode of Red Inker is the end of year review. In a now annual tradition, I have brought on a friend, Vithushan Ehantharajah, to chat about it. We discuss every Test team in the world, but also, the Taliban, SA admin, Yorkshire, Pakistan at home, Burl’s shoes, Arthur’s shorts, Paine’s penis and Shaheen’s hair.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on England's batting, my goodness there are alot of questions about England's batting, the current South African team in red and white ball, the systems that make (or don't make) international cricketers, the 'mindset' of batsmen, who the next candidates are to become Test playing nations, what Jarrod notices and notates while watching cricket, and how to convince people that the quality of bowling in Tests has gone up in the last 5 years. 

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This episode we look at whether first class records are great predictors for batting success. So I got on someone who had written about that recently, Jack Hope from the Cricket Podcast. We look at stats, scouts, conditions, preparation, why players average more in Tests than First Class sometimes and also the whole Vaughan/Trescothick anomaly.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on Ollie Pope vs Marnus Labuschagne in regard to average, Ollie Pope's batting position, cricket content on Youtube, England's treatment of spinners, the concept of 'clutch' moments in cricket, England's treatment of fast bowlers, Jarrod's opinions of England's issues and overseas' teams success in South Africa. 

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the wobble ball, other fast bowling variations, a second tier of Test Match cricket, fairness of selection, the BCCI/Kohli saga, Jarrod's selections for England in Adelaide, a lower grade T20 competition in Australia, England's spin predicament, leg spinners in Tests, Mickey Arthur's resignation as Sri Lankan coach and the Butler/Foakes conundrum and what Butler may choose to do in the future. 

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This episode we look at why Bangladesh bat so slow, and so since part of the problem is left-arm finger spin, I got on Bangladesh's greatest left-arm finger spinning journalist, Mohammad Isam. This episode we cover politics, pitches, BPL, coaching, old ODI cricket, painkillers, mirrors to try answer why Bangladesh batters don't hit the ball very hard. -

This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the no ball situation in the first Ashes test, on the structure of international cricket, room for changes in 3rd umpiring, England's current performance, the interplay between technique and psychology in Test batting, and the Indian ODI captaincy situation. 

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This episode of Red Inker is about the class system within English cricket. A recent book was written on it, so I got the author, Duncan Stone, to come on. We chat about how the English class system still touches international cricket today, the media, private schools, parks, Azeem Rafiq, ECB, TCCB, TV rights, and how the game makes obscure answers on quiz shows.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on KKR retaining Andre Russell, NZ's path to becoming a Test nation that plays more tests, different countries combining to form a transformer cricket team, a return to discussion about Ollie Pope, the comparative strength of different T20 leagues, a continued Rahane discussion, more talk of Test cricket strike rates, and a question about Tom Blundell's batting in the 2nd innings of the first test in India.

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On this episode of Red Inker we look at the broad shouldered David Wiese, a journeyman who became the story at the T20 World Cup. To chat about him I got someone who just wrote a feature, C.S Chiwanza. We talk golf swings, Albie Morkel, Namibia cricket, Kolpaks, South African all rounders, and how he changed his career with the help of baseball.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on NZ's chances in the Test series against India, questions about Australia's captaincy (recorded before the Cummins announcement) and how much cricket Pat Cummins will play, whether Asian T20 tournaments are predictable with the timing of games, the eternal Head or Khawaja question, strike rate in Test cricket, what it'll take to play less cricket around the world, how long Rahane might have left in the Indian Test side, and the makeup of T20 finals systems.

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This episode is about off stump guards. So when I found someone else who was as obsessed with this topic as I am, Cameron Ponsonby, I got them on the podcast. We chat about old men yelling at the sky, Graham Gooch's baseball stance, Steve Smith, Kevin Pietersen, LBW rates, how much red ball cricket has changed and where your toes should be while you are batting.

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This week we look at the T20 World Cup because it just finished. And so I got someone who followed every game the same way I did, Matt Roller from ESPNcricinfo. We look at every one of the teams in the second round, what they did, what they might do next time, all these sorts of things. 12 teams, several hot takes.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on tactical retirements, T20 World Cup expansion and the format of the comp, Jarrod's on-point predictions and how he has dealt with bias in the past, and where the concept of the 'death of test cricket' is coming from. 

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The latest episode is about analytics in cricket, and so we got on a fellow analyst who had spent a lot of timing talking to his US compatriots, Amol Desai. We talk about enthusiasts, stats, pop-up leagues, scouting, strategy data science, bad pay and African cell phones.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on the comparison between England of the 70's and India of today, India's mindset against spin, how Jarrod analyzes teams, Michael Vaughn's tweet about India playing '2010's cricket', Australia's team structure since the 2015 World Cup, the resurgence of Pakistan limited overs cricket, and whether the IPL and CPL will share players in the future. 

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This episode of Red Inker we look at T20 batting and how players are preparing differently. And so we got on someone who talked to a lot of players and coaches and thought about it a lot, Tim Wigmore. In this episode, we talk about bases, back hips and golf, overload training, running a lot, Mumbai buses and sleep training.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on how hard it is for batsmen to develop bowling skill, the balance of the Australian T20 side, the importance of strike rate, what's going on with the West Indies in the World Cup, and cricket in the Olympics.

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This episode we play the full version of our chat with Scotland's Calum MacLeod. Originally recorded this for the Double Century podcast, we had to cut it down a fair bit, but Calum is such a fascinating player to chat with, that the entire interview is worth listening to. This episode we cover his journey from being a bowler to a batter being called for chucking, professionalism, associate cricket, the county game, and what it's like to achieve something like this for the Scottish cricket community.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on permanent 3rd man fielders, the differences in investment in Associate teams, how Virat's T20I record isn't necessarily important, what the future of cricket television watching might be like, retentions of players for next year's IPL, and how South Africa might fare in this year's T20 World Cup.

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This episode talk about Oman cricket since they are hosting the World Cup at the moment. Paul Radley is an expert on cricket in this region, and we discuss the rise of Oman cricket, Pankaj Khimji, concrete wickets, Duleep Mendis, some brief thoughts on the UAE and where to for Oman after this tournament.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions from our loveable Patreon sponsors, and questions from our attendees on cricket league point scoring, associate team makeup, the juggle of AB and Maxwell for RCB, T20 rules in Australia, and the legacy of Dhoni's captaincy.

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This episode we talk about the boom of cricket analysis by discussing the history of CricViz and to do so we got on a journalist who has just written about them, Mike Jakeman. We talk about legendary statistician Charles Davis, Hawkeye, TV, working for teams, Krishna Tunga and we look at some of the people who made CricViz what it is today. 

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod answers questions on batting first or second in T20's, Australia's chances in the Women's World Cup, T20 players enlisting analysts, utilising the crease as a batter, lack of data on wicketkeepers, M.S. Dhoni's captaincy, Rajasthan's captaincy and length of seasons in T20 cricket.

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This episode we look at Major League Cricket and cricket in the USA. For that we got on a born and bred cricket writer from the USA, Peter Della Penna. We talk about money, recruiting, Liam Plunkett, airhogs, Silicon Valley, Willow TV, corruption, the history of US cricket and how Boris Karloff was a wicked keeper.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, IPL team consistency, things for youth cricket clubs to work on, the pace 'pandemic', the evolution of outdated terms in cricket and role designation in all forms of the game. 

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This episode we talk about the myth that basketball is killing West Indies’ cricket. So I got on a podcaster to help explain it, Machel St. Patrick Hewitt. We talk about Australian basketball, taxi drivers, Patrick Ewing, cable TV and show how little we know about Bahamas cricket.

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This week on Wagon Wheel, Jarrod fields questions from our loveable Patreons, discusses Dhoni's captaincy strats, using tennis technology for cricket, Ollie Pope, actual liquid manure and a deep look at TV rights for cricket. 

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This episode is about cricket photography. So I got one of the 100 greatest cricket snappers I know, Phil Brown. We talk about Stuart Broad’s nose, Bob Hawke, a boy in Bangladesh, backgrounds, remotes, following the ball and enjoying a tour.

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