The Daggers & Lyds Podcast

After a very busy 24 hours over the weekend, the decisions were made to remove England Women’s head coach Jon Lewis and captain Heather Knight. Daggers & Lyds get together to discuss the reasons behind their removal and the ECB review after the disastrous Women’s Ashes tour. The pair answer questions sent in about who might fill both positions.

Daggers & Lyds get together again to go through all the latest news from the world of women's cricket. England announce a TWENTY player "A" squad for their tour of Australia and the pair pick that apart. The HUNDRED draft took place and they look at the headlines from that and how the squads are shaping up for the summer. Plus the Mumbai Indians make it TWO WPL championships in t

Daggers (in India) and Lyds (in the UK) return with a look at the first two weeks of the Women's Premier League in India. Daggers catches up with commentary colleague and former Indian international Anjum Chopra to get her thoughts on how the first three years have fared, the possible expansion of the League and what the pathways are for young domestic players. Then, ahead of Inter

Daggers and Lyds return after a short break (which there is a very good reason for) to finally look over some of the reasons for England's performances in the Women's Ashes and to respond to some of the comments made by ECB Managing Director of Women's Cricket Clare Connor. The look over the issues and the potential remedies going forward. Plus Daggers is in India for the WPL an

Daggers and Lyds get together to review a dominant start to the WAshes by Australia as they complete a 3-nil series whitewash of the 50 over part of the series. That means a lead of 6-nil lead in the multi format system needing only 2 more points to retain the trophy. The pair discuss the games and try and put a finger on what's gone wrong for England.

Daggers & Lyds are back for their big preview of the forthcoming Women's Ashes series. After Australia retained the Ashes in England in 2023, this contest is one of the most eagerly anticipated in years after England won both the T20 and ODI sections of the multi-format series, with the Aussies winning the test at Trent Bridge. Plus the pair answer some listener and viewer questi

Daggers & Lyds bring you a festive edition of the podcast including a review of the test between South Africa and England (at least thats one review that's not controversial) plus the series between India & WI and NZ v Australia. They discuss the England central contracts and the hundred pay increases with a round-up of all the other news. THE BIGGEST NEWS??? You'll have to watch

A Bumper episode!!! Daggers and Lyds round-up the ODI series between South Africa and England and are joined by Pace-Ace Lauren Filer for a chat! They then move onto Australia v India with Sky Sports colleague Mel Jones discussing their form and the recently ended WBBL. Finally the pair go through an historic T20 series victory for Ireland over Bangladesh. And finally Daggers ran

In this episode Daggers & Lyds are joined by Sky Cricket colleague and former Australia international Mel Jones to chat about a topic which has returned to the headlines recently. The plight of the Afghanistan women's team has been ongoing ever since the country returned to Taliban rule back in 2021. The Taliban refuse to allow women to play sports (amongst many other laws against

Daggers and Lyds are joined by spinner Charlie Dean after England's 3-0 T20 series win against South Africa. She chats about the post world T20 fallout, predictions of her being a possible future England captain and whether having a birthday so close to Christmas, she receives two lots of presents. Plus the pair are across all the news of the moment in the women's game looking at