Episode 26 - Commentary As Brain Exercise with Cat Jones
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Cat Jones of White Line Wireless and the Can't Bowl Can't Throw podcast joins the show to talk about the dearth of women's cricket available to her when she was growing up, being a part of very early cricket Twitter and White Line Wireless, as well as Australia's changing commentary landscape.
Can't Bowl Can't Throw: https://cantbowlcantthrow.com/
Cat's Guardian articles: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/cat-jones
Follow Cat on Bluesky @cricketbatcat.bsky.social
The Cricket Sickos Podcast on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhzf25
On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aditrs7870?feature=shared
RSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/fa16cb28/podcast/rss
Follow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.social
Chapters:
01:00 Cricket Bat Cat
02:53 Cricket origin story
08:24 Intro to commentary and cricket Twitter
14:11 Early White Line Wireless
19:50 Commentating WNCL
22:25 Non-former players in women's cricket commentary
26:00 Cat's article on Meg Lanning's commentary stint in 2014
32:21 Final questions
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