The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

Dan Liebke is a comedy writer, who was a regular contributor to MAD Magazine in Australia for two decades before coming to his senses and turning his comic focus to cricket. In addition to a social media presence on Bluesky (@liebcricket.com), Dan has contributed articles making fun of cricket and cricketers to a variety of magazines and websites. He also co-hosts both the Can’t Bowl, Can’t Throw and Ridiculous Ashes cricket podcasts, and has written numerous cricket books, most of which have been published by Affirm Press (including The 50 Greatest Matches in Australian Cricket, The 50 Greatest Australian Cricketers and The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket, among others). Dan is a genuine all-rounder, equally inept with both bat and ball – and he steadfastly believes that cricket is the funniest, and hence best, sport that humanity has ever invented.

Alex Bowden is a cricket (and cycling) writer who has previously contributed serious, semi-serious and far-from-serious articles to The Wisden Cricketer, Wisden Cricket Monthly and Wisden.com, as well as Wisden’s quarterly publication, The Nightwatchman. Somehow or other, he has never actually written for Wisden itself. He has, however, also written for several non-Wisden-branded cricket publications, such as ESPNcricinfo, Cricket365 and the Mumbai Mirror. Alongside this, he co-hosts the Ridiculous Ashes podcast with Dan Liebke – in large part because Dan has displayed a willingness to call him Alex, rather than King Cricket, which he assures you is a quite excruciating nom de plume to inadvertently land yourself with.