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 to find out!

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 rants about an article written about the women's game by a Times food critic.

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 women) and so the team assisted by Mel and other sought out refugee status for them in Australia.

The ICC still allow the Afghan men's team to compete despite the rule that states that a full member nation must have a recognised women's team and pathways for women and girls.

The outgoing ICC chair Greg Barclay was interviewed by the Daily Telegraph recently where his comments regarding this topic caused quite the reaction.

Daggers, Lyds & Mel discuss.