Season 8, Ep 6: It’s quiz time. Official brain genius J. Liew joins us from the Guardian for a proper dive into an overflowing heap of Nerd Pledge numbers. Before that we’ve got Daniel Brettig from Cricinfo for an update on Cricket Australia’s problems with its relationships and its money bin. We’ve got cricket up and running in Vanuatu with the mighty Mele Bulls taking a title over the Powerhouse Sharks.

We’ve got the most special episode yet of Happy Birthday Sachin, a career farewell to Pakistan’s pioneering captain Sana Mir, the possibility of legalised ball tampering, the ethics and etiquette of when to share a Chupa Chup, and Pauly Shore setting up cricket’s own biodome.

Our bumper Nerd Pledge round includes:

2.76 (from Slim Johns)
3.10 (Nick Dwyer)
2.13 (from Laura Daw)
2.36 (from Thilo Fob)
2.42 (from Mary Stevens)
1.05 (from Nick AMC)
2.25 (from Peta Dowling)
3.27 (from Tim Minchin, no, not that Tim Minchin)
2.17 (from Tim Andrews)
2.64 (from Clive Azavedo)

Guess away. Our answers are in the episode.

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