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Australian allrounder Grace Harris, playing her first season with Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the 2026 WPL after three years at UP Warriorz, found how different she is from Mandhana when the two went out to open for RCB. On the No Balls podcast, she and England fast bowler Kate Cross chatted about playing with Mandhana.

"If Smriti sneezes and you say, bless you, that's about as outgoing as she gets, right," Harris joked "Like, that's a conversation with her. She's one of the quietest, introverted people. [As we got ready to bat], she shook my hand. She's like, how you going, I'm like, yeah, good. And that was it.

While on commentary for the 2025-26 men's Ashes, Gilchrist recalled his first Test tour of India, in 2001.

"This might sound a little bit self-indulgent, but it's more self-deprecation," Gilchrist starts while describing the hundred he scored in Mumbai on the first Test of the tour.

"Everyone's aware that for so long, however many years it was, maybe 12 years or so, that Joe Root didn't have a hundred on Australian soil and it became such a talking point," Gilchrist said on the microphone with England commentator Isa Guha next to him. "He obviously nailed it this time around. So if Harry Brook can tick off something as significant as scoring a Test match hundred on these shores, it will help him for his time when he comes back here and gets rid of the monkey off the back."

Middle-order batter Hugh Weibgen pulled a ball by legspinner Matthew Spoors for four. Fraser-McGurk chased after the ball, which seemed to disappear once it crossed the boundary.

The miked-up fielder searched long and hard, under the advertising boards, the gutter, around the broadcasting equipment littering the sidelines, and told the commentators he reckoned it had gone into a camerman's backpack.

And now finally, after years of coaxing his captains into reviewing his appeals, mostly to lose them, it seems he is ready to admit that himself.

After finishing as the top wicket-taker in the ODI series against South Afric, Kuldeep seems in a generous enough mood and, coaxed by Rishabh Pant and Harshit Rana, he says: "Clearly, what I want to say is: I'm very bad at DRS calls and that I tend to think one out of the two reviews [per team] ought to be reserved for me."

Healy, the wife of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc, was attending the men's Ashes Test in Brisbane and walked through the stands with a few cold ones, much to the delight of the other spectators.

"I got one of my biggest standing ovations at the Gabba," she told Adam Peacock on the Willow Talk podcast. "Because you're a Queenslander," Peacock asked.

England were 264 for 7 in their first innings when Gus Atkinson top-edged a pull off Mitchell Starc. Both Carey and Labuschagne ran backwards for it and, at one point, they were shoulder to shoulder, but somehow Carey held on to the ball even as he fell.

After the victory, the two players sat down to chat about the catch.

What's an emoji that best describes Ellyse Perry's playing style? It ought to be something to do with the universe, because she can do everything, but modest Perry chooses the snooze emoji for herself because she says she's "pretty boring". Pat Cummins is self-effacing as well, picking the shrug because "who knows what we're gonna get". Nathan Lyon chooses the spiral eyes emoji to describe his spin-bowling skills and Alana King goes with the salsa dancer or the cowboy, "because they are a bit rogue at times".