The Offspin
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The Offspin
A New Zealand cricket podcast hosted by Simon Day and Alex Braae, with a squad of sloggers, change bowlers and specialist fielders. Brought to you by The Beer Spot. Theme music by Sam Scott.
Recent Episodes
34 episodes
2021: A cricket odyssey
Alex Braae and Simon Day come out of retirement to record the podcast equivalent of a testimonial match for the year that was. The World Test Champion...
Voice memo special: What the WTC win meant to us
Two weeks after Kane Williamson raised the World Test Championship mace, The Offspin reconvenes to reflect on the toll consecutive all-nighters took,...
World Test Championship: Day 6 🏆
NZL 140/2 & 249; IND 217 & 170 (NZL win by 8 wickets) | What a game of test cricket. Today's episode of The Offspin was recorded in the moments after...
World Test Championship: Days 4-5
IND 64/2 & 217; NZL 249 | After another day of rain, both members of The Offspin stayed up all night watching a riveting day of test cricket and are n...
World Test Championship: Day 3
NZL 101/2; IND 217 | Between them, The Offspin managed to watch almost every ball of what was an excellent day of test cricket for the Blackcaps. Alex...
World Test Championship: Day 2
IND 146/3 | On a leisurely Sunday morning episode of The Offspin, Alex Braae is joined by producer Jonathan Pearce to break down an enthralling first...
World Test Championship: Day 1 (with Brendon McCullum)
🌧️ | After a rained out day in Southampton, The Offspin is joined by former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum. Without any actual cricket to talk a...
World Test Championship: Day 0
It’s the day before the night of the World Test Championship final, but depending on which weather forecast you read the chance of any play in Southam...
Party like it's 1999
After an historic series victory over England, The Offspin is joined by real life professional cricket broadcaster (and diehard Blackcaps fan) Sonia G...
First test performance reviews
With the first Blackcaps v England test in the books, Simon and Alex review how their bodies and minds held up to the demands of overnight cricket wat...
Life lessons from a cricket coach
You might not recognise the name of this episode’s guest, but you’ll certainly know some of the people he’s worked with. Kit Perera is an Auckland cri...
Cricket diplomacy, stat chat and the IPL
In this episode, Simon and Alex are joined by Michael Appleton, diplomat and The Spinoff's chief cricket statistician, to learn about his previous pos...
Bringing the Cricket World Cup back to NZ
The Spinoff’s resident cricket nerds Simon Day and Alex Braae are joined by Andrea Nelson, CEO of the 2022 ICC Women’s World Cup, to talk about landin...
World Test Championship here we come
With the Blackcaps headed for the final of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship at Lord’s in June, Simon Day and Alex Braae have successfully app...
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2019
Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look b...
The Offspin podcast: Jimmy Neesham on life, loss and that runout
The Offspin Podcast is back by semi-popular demand for a bonus episode, with Black Caps Cricket World Cup hero Jimmy Neesham.
For those still s...
The Offspin: the greatest game of cricket of all time
The Offspin podcast tries to make sense of the greatest cricket game of all time, at the same time as not seeing the Black Caps win it.
Perhaps...
The Offspin: World Cup final preview with Sonia Gray
On the latest episode of The Offspin, the team are joined by actor, Lotto host, and hugely passionate cricket fan Sonia Gray as we dare to believe of...
The Offspin: Savour it, because we're going to Lord's
In today's episode of The Offspin podcast, Simon Day and Alex Braae go absolutely berserk over the semi-final win that put the Black Caps into the Cri...
The Offspin: Mixing sport and politics with Peter McGlashan
In the latest episode of The Offspin, cricketer, commentator, activist and aspiring local board rep Peter McGlashan joins the show to mix sport and po...
The Offspin – Back to the 90s with Dion Nash (and back to the semis (probably))
On this episode of The Offspin, legendary all-rounder Dion Nash joins the show after a Black Caps performance that felt like a throwback to New Zealan...
The Offspin: The unbearable bleakness of an all-night loss to the hate Australians
For the latest episode of The Offspin podcast, we're joined by writer, musician and cricket tragic Samuel Flynn Scott, to process the utterly insipid...
The Offspin: 1992 deja vu
We're joined by writer and broadcaster Ali Ikram, and his dad Hamid Ikram, to discuss their role in Pakistan's success at the 1992 Cricket World Cup a...
The Offspin: A walk on hallowed turf with Grant Elliott
In this bonus episode of The Offspin podcast, Simon Day takes a walk around Eden Park with one of the most unlikely legends of New Zealand sporting hi...
The Offspin - the MPs heading off to their own Cricket World Cup
In this bonus episode of The Offspin podcast, Labour's Kieran McAnulty and National's Chris Bishop join the show to talk about the Parliamentary World...
The Offspin podcast: How cruel is cricket?
In episode nine of The Offspin, we're joined by Black Caps test spinner Mark Craig to explore the crueller side of cricket in the wake of the Black Ca...
The Offspin - Can you even call South Africa’s loss a choke?
In episode eight of The Offspin, we break down the best game of the tournament so far and talk about the shattered dreams of South African cricket wit...
The Offspin - bad weather and coaching dads
In episode seven of The Offspin, with the weather continuing to be very bad in England, and not a lot of cricket being played, we took the opportunity...
The Offspin– Rain delay with Suzie Bates
With much of the Cricket World Cup rained off this week, White Ferns superstar Suzie Bates joins The Offspin to discuss the growth of the women's game...
The Offspin podcast: The romantic Afghanistan cricket story faces up to reality
In the fifth episode of The Offspin, we're joined by Basir Safi and Ismail Wardak, two Kiwi-Afghan cricket lovers who talk about learning the game in...
The Offspin - Mohammad Isam on life after Christchurch and the Bangladesh bond with New Zealand
In a special edition of The Offspin, Mohammad Isam, ESPN Cricinfo’s Bangladesh correspondent, spoke to the podcast about his experience of the Christc...
The Offspin – Mitchell McClenaghan visits the studio to discuss the Black Caps victory over Bangladesh and Simon's figure.
In the third episode of The Offspin, globetrotting freelance cricketer and muscleman Mitchell McClenaghan joins the podcast to discuss winning the IPL...
The Offspin – The Blacks Cap crush Sri Lanka, and we rate their new uniform.
In the second episode of The Offspin esteemed uniform ranker Calum Henderson joins the podcast to discuss the Black Caps comprehensive victory over Sr...
The Offspin – Can the Blackcaps win? (Maybe, but probably not).
In the first episode of The Offspin, The Spinoff's new Cricket World Cup podcast, hosts Alex Braae and Simon Day are joined by Jogi Bhatt to examine t...