# England make four changes for The Oval, Williamson retires & a fresh twist in the BBL merger saga Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378/england-make-four-changes-for-the-oval-williamson-retires-a-fresh-twist-in-the-bbl-merger-saga Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378/england-make-four-changes-for-the-oval-williamson-retires-a-fresh-twist-in-the-bbl-merger-saga.md Podcast: [Wisden Cricket Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378) Published: 2026-06-16T08:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG1182514931.mp3 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG1182514931.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378/episodes/england-make-four-changes-for-the-oval-williamson-retires-a-fresh-twist-in-the-bbl-merger-saga Duration seconds: 4690 ## Resource Cameron Ponsonby, Ben Gardner, Lawrence Booth and Mark Butcher look ahead to the second Test at The Kia Oval, with England making at least four changes from their Lord's XI. Also on the show, Kane Williamson's retirement, the latest from the County Championship, and Alex Malcolm provides an update on the BBL merger saga. 0:00 Intro / 0:46 KIA UK / 1:13 Mark Butcher / 17:33 Brendon McCullum / 24:47 England's XI / 30:39 Ollie Robinson / 32:29 Kane Williamson / 43:23 MNDA chat with Chris Broad / 50:52 Women's T20 World Cup / 51:32 County Championship / 59:14 Win ODI tickets vs Sri Lanka / 59:35 Big Bash / 1:00:33 Alex Malcolm on the BBL / 1:14:36 Other cricket / 1:17:23 Outro KIA UK πŸš— Find out more about Kia’s range of EVs: https://www.kia.com/uk/electric-hybrid-cars/electric-cars/ Win tickets to the England vs Sri Lanka ODI: https://www.kia.com/uk/about/sport-sponsorship/kia-oval-england-srilanka Test drive Kia's EV2: https://www.kia.com/uk/new-cars/ev2/ ROASTING PARTY β˜•οΈ Find out more about Wisden's Official Coffee Partners: https://roastingparty.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=wisden_roastingparty_2026 MNDA 🧠 We're proud to be supporting the Motor Neurone Disease Association this summer: www.mndassociation.org/cricket πŸ‘€ PATREON For bonus podcasts and daily episodes after every England game, sign up to our Patreon! http://patreon.com/WisdenCricket #EnglandCricket #TestCricket #ENGvNZ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378/episodes/england-make-four-changes-for-the-oval-williamson-retires-a-fresh-twist-in-the-bbl-merger-saga/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisden-cricket-weekly-954378/england-make-four-changes-for-the-oval-williamson-retires-a-fresh-twist-in-the-bbl-merger-saga.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.