Story Time is back, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the coolest band name of Adam's youth makes an unexpected appearance. We crunch some numbers on Lawrence Rowe, tackle a proper cryptic, and look at days when it was all about swinging for the fences, once by a Test player and once by TFW listener Osman Bahemia. There's also another appearance from Geoff's own Jean Valjean.

Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
2.38 – Dom Griffiths
2.85 – Sid
5.96 – Pete Simmons
2.57 – Josh
4.08 – Lachan Pye
1.99 – Alan Simpson

Plus revisits and confirmations.

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