Season 15, Episode 22: After two of the best Test matches we've seen, finishing within a couple of hours of one another last Sunday, it's nice for Geoff and Adam to exhale and have the chat about it that we didn't get to have. Pat Cummins took a broad view of the significance of the West Indies win, which predictably annoyed some people, while others are annoyed at England doing things the way England currently does - and the fact that it worked. Otherwise, South Africa's women beat Australia for the first time in any format, though they lost the T20 series 2-1. The Big Bash finished last week with Josh Brown going nuts, there are Australian white-ball squads out with several points of interest, and Australia's Inclusivity Championships were played around the same time as England's physical disability team finally began their much-postponed tour of India.

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