Story Time 62 – The bumper comeback 10-wicket clearance show

Story Time 65 – There has never been a Test match in Adelaide: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's learn about a whole lot of running without a lot of smiting, by the last person you would expect it from. How many international caps did Morne Morkel win WITHOUT playing for South Africa? Krejza goes Krazy, Gilchrist goes crazy, and there's a triple-header with a whole lot of permutations. But one question persists throughout: has there ever really been a Test at Adelaide? Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 3.10 – Amelia Vine 12.34 - Rosie Piper 1.54 - Shane Fagg 2.96 - Nick Tewson 3.83 - Timothy O'Mera, Simon Butcher & Jayaprakash Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 100!: Raise the bat by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 55 – Dion Nash invents the scoop: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: more proof of the compelling case that the one-day tri-series must return. An understated and underrated turn from Allan Border. The numerical quirks of Bangladesh, and a big day for Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club. Then some long-term revisits take us around the Monopoly board via Arthur Shrewsbury's haunted house. And who's up for the vaccine game at London Fields?Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:11.15 – Tim Vanderpump2.98 – Dom Philp2.62 – Will Cuckson1.43 – Ehite Ekramul HaquePlus revisits and confirmations.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind other episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Check out Brick Lane at bricklanebrewing.comGet 20% off Woodstock kit with code TFW20 at woodstockcricket.co.ukGet 44% off a Wisden Cricket Monthly subscription at bit.ly/wcmtfwThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urt by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

87 min listen

Story Time 47 – Finding your place on the hangover scale: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: how to rate a big day on the field against the big night preceding it. A look at Indian royalty next to an English character who was everything but. Some very early work from Ireland and from southern Africa. And we solve a couple of recalcitrant revisits that had traps laid in the clues along the way. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.17 - Matt Smith 2.28 - Vivek Arcot 3.79 - Laksmi Govindasamy 1.24 - Eric Pritchard 5.06 - Matt May Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Get some primo gear from Woodstock Cricket with 20% off full-priced kit. Enter the code TFW20 at woodstockcricket.co.uk Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the  Bad by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

82 min listen

Story Time 77 – The double and the double-double: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We're back in the swing of things, with the Australian summer's Test matches done with, and the English winter unrelenting. Today, The Kid can only mean one thing to Adam. There's never a bad time to talk about Captain Misbah, and who fancies a trip to Lismore? Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 19.51 - Michael Gormley 5.34 - Jake Sheedy & Sean Barry 42.50 - Chris Churches-Lindsay 4.21 - Kumar Gopalkrishnan 4.00 - Dan Walsh and James Heuzenroder 2.39 - Dane Hansted 11.13 - Christopher Byrne Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urth by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

76 min listen

The Final Word 59 - Rally round Rakheem, Clifford, and Jerome: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins with panache and aplomb. Sounds delicious. And we have a huge amount of fun with a particularly dastardly number, a creative solution, a look at the world's biggest roundabouts, the best ducks, the most running, and a Trinidad legend of 1928. Jump in. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 7.75 - Timothy Waud 2.12 - Darren Smith 3.07 - Dan Forman 3.90 - Nigel Browne 11.37 - Tanya Wintringham 9.04 - Chris Arkle Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find other episodes at finalwordcricket.com Get 20% off Woodstock kit with code TFW20 at woodstockcricket.co.uk Get 44% off a Wisden Cricket Monthly subscription at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane at bricklanebrewing.com The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Titl by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

87 min listen

Story Time 75 – Booster shot blues: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam is recording under a blanket with booster chills, but: can't stop, won't stop. Want to know the silver lining of an Ashes whitewash? The link between Rust Cohle and Gareth Batty? Or learn about the life and times of Syed Abid Ali? Here you go. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.54 - Luke Richardson 6.43 - Mel Shawley 3.61 - Fran & Nick O'Connell 5.33 - Trev from Perth 3.11 - Sukrit Munjal Find Matt H's cricket analysis series here. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

52 min listen

Story Time 52 – Chocolate Starfish live at the Hallam Hotel: 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. If you want to urge on Declan Lawlor to finish his several marathons along the Thames, you can donate to his Lord's Tavs fundraiser here. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Check out our new friends Brick Lane at bricklanebrewing.com For a discount subscription to Wisden Crick by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

87 min listen

Story Time 57 - The dusty old bastards club by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 68 – Drug choppers in Hollywood: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, time to head back to Los Angeles and work out what the airspace is used for. Also, did you ever hear about the game Acid Ninja, or when Betty Wilson cut sick, or the ways in which Ian Harvey is better than Wally Hammond? A less safe for work than usual Story Time, for a range of reasons. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 1.80 - Chris Clarke 5.19 - Matthew Johnson & WG Rumblepants 4.60 - Robert Dinsey & Michael Fallon 1.98 - Debashish Biswas 2.36 - Harry Chapman & Keiron Costello Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

95 min listen

Story Time 89 – Bradman on the job: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, tales of thwarted ambition, tales of brief moments in the sun, and tales of lengthy honeymoons with just a smidgen of cricket thrown in. Plus we go around at some crunchy revisits and sort them out right smart. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 6.53 - Daniel Maloney 5.86 - Al Saunders & Graham 2.14 - Sami Dowd 6.66 - Edward Edgecumbe 17.86 - Jacob Norton Revisits: 5.13 - Stuart Akers 9.02 - Charlie Ryan 1.33 - Ed Simba 4.80 - Dave Brown 3.89 - Chris Beattie 11.33 - Pip Clark Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find other episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 113 – Live from the bath by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 91 – The great Billy Murdoch fraud: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a giant fraud perpetrated upon an unsuspecting public. A club with claims to be the Dera Ismail Khan of New Zealand. A time when the gods of the Caribbean roamed around Melbourne grade cricket. And a competition for the worst matches of all time, featuring Final Word fave Pankaj Dharmani. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.82 - Thomas Havell 7.80 - Andrew West 2.15 - TDLF 5.31 - Jim Carnegie & Richard Jansz-Moore 13.33 - Anna Collins 2.11 - Big Geoff 7.46 - Matt Gaynor 6.79 - Alex Crampton Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find other episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

74 min listen

Story Time 73 – On the discovery of yet another Marsh: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a partially hidden Marsh whose work we have never touched on before. Not Jack, Geoff, Rod, Mitchell or Shaun. Also, back to Betty Wilson and Una Paisley, a visit to Brisbane's combination Lord Mayor and pitch curator, and Wasim in the pub in Manchester. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.69 - Steve Moore 3.82 - Julian King 6.04 - Jeffrey Gabriel 4.54 - Chris Unwin 2.60 - Rob Taylor 4.14 - Sam Ashworth 1.51 - Brendan Legg 6.28 - Declan Lawlor Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://p by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

89 min listen

Story Time 27, plus Andy Zaltzman on scoring: This weekend The Final Word time machine takes us to visit Jack Ryder and Clem Hill, triple tons and prison. Also, a Sussex mainstay who couldn’t stop and wouldn’t stop. We solve the Venn Diagram question via a fellow who just could not sell a car. After those tales, we'll have the full interview for the first time with acclaimed comedian and BBC statistician, Andy Zaltzman, from the files of the documentary Calling The Shots. Your Nerd Pledge numbers are: 2.95 – Steve Denner 3.55 – Real Victor Trumper 1.91 – Sam Ashworth 3.19 – Eranda Jayawickreme 4.23 – Jeremy Henderson 4.49 – Jack T Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword  Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Get your Wisden drinks for Christmas! Your discount code is FW10 Check out CBUS Super at  cbussuper.com.au Listen to the Calling the Shots documentary. The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by Urthboy Support the show: h by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

113 min listen

Story Time 69 – Nice: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 69, it's time to follow the guidance of Missy Elliott: lay it down, flip it, and reverse it. We did consider doing the show backwards and forwards at the same time, but eventually went for the chronologically conventional. Still, given how much we enjoyed exploring some deep partnership data, more North American gallivanting, a meeting of wagering enthusiasts, a mid-match vanishing act, and the activities on Don Bradman's honeymoon, we trust that this episode will stay true to its name by giving us pleasure at the same time as doing so for you. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 3.21 - Pat Rodgers & Tom Fisher 3.57 - Rob Sinclair 19.32 – David Jones 4.71 - Andrew Gilbertsão 1.37 - Joel Crosby 8.55 - Alasdair Townsend Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 44 – Ravi Shastri goes nuclear: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: an alliterative match whose final day was unexpectedly spectacular. The only player with a perfect record, nestled within an imperfect record. The return story of one of the most prolific, and diminutive, of all time. Plus our regular rounds through dusty old bastardry and Bannermania. Also, this is the last episode of The Final Word Season 9! Luckily Season 10 starts next week. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 1.63 – John McPheat 3.04 – Simon Butcher & Osman Bahemia 13.13 – Rob 3.55 – Matt Gaynor Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Save heaps on the Wisden Almanack at wisdenalmanack.com/2021 In Australia or the USA use code WA30 for 30% off. In the UK subscribe to get the book for £25 instead of £55 For a discount subscription to Wisden Cricket by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 51 – Geoff learns algebra: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: back to the Smokers v Non-Smokers match for a minute, via a trip to the West Country. An all-time great finish that you won't remember, an unwanted record for drink-mixing, and a whole lot of confusion about x and y and what happens in between. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 4.11 – Not That Tim Minchin & Rory Seymour 3.35 – Sam Chappell 3.57 – James Tiernan 3.75 – Matt Keane Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com For a discount subscription to Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Get 20% off Woodstock kit with code TFW20 at woodstockcricket.co.uk The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

75 min listen

Story Time 96 – Find the jade monkey before the next full moon by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 175 – The fastest hundred ever made against Jeff Thomson* by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 33: Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. In a compact episode with some revisits left to future eps, we'll find out many relations or people with the same first names can pop up in one show. There's a very important moment registered on Old Father Time, a number that definitely needs to get bigger, the finest hour of a rhyming individual, and some queries on alternative timelines spiralling off our space-time continuum. Set your watches. Your Nerd Pledge numbers are: 2.15 – Simon Dolding 4.09 – Sam Littlejohn 3.39 – Fred Cowen 3.05 – Harry Woolley 2.39 – Harry Chalkley & Nick Garner Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Pick up The Golden Summer with a £3 discount with the code GOLDTFW Or get a discount Wisden Cricket Monthly subscription at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The F by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

51 min listen

Story Time 118 – The one we made while going into labour by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Steve Smith's scuff and nonsense: Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show we go into the detail of that one which has been mostly overlooked. We also look at Tim Paine's apology for losing his cool, racism from the SCG stands, and England's upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka. Plus some Nerd Pledge and a very unexpected Super Performer of the Week. Your Nerd Pledge numbers: 3.41 – Oliver Grünler 4.76 – Paul Cherry Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Pick up The Golden Summer with a £3 discount with the code GOLDTFW Or get a discount Wisden Cricket Monthly subscription at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Get Geoff’s new book, The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by  Urthboy Support the show: ht by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 140 – One September in 1917 by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 67 – Hello, my name is Flooi du Toit: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, back to The Avenue nightclub in Perth, source of such good times. A flick through cricket magazines from before the First World War, some DOB material from Adam, than a contest as to which Test player had the shortest cricket career. JJ Ferris gets amongst it before Aftab Baloch does the same, in a real Old-Timey Story TIme. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 19.10 - Anna Forsyth 2.43 - Simon Ward 13.90 - Anthony Radford 5.88 - Max Heaton 4.28 - Stephen Frith, Crispn Crunch, Nick Marple Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk kit with the code TFW20 44% off Wisden Cricket Monthly subscriptions at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out Brick Lane Brewing on Instagram,FB and Twitter The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

78 min listen

Story Time 95 – The lunacy of the river horse by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 50 – A gentle wave of the bat: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: raise the bat. 50 episodes of this indulgence are somehow in the bag. We'll have both Mad Dogs and Englishmen, midday sun or otherwise. A closer look at the fitting finish to an epic Test series, an exhibition of T20 perfection, some pure filth from 100 years earlier, and the Final Word's party number gets another run. This is also the week for a chaotic attempt at Julio Pledge! The far less accomplished game on the show. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 4.19 – Dan Walsh & Alastair Wilson 2.73 – Brian Stratford 3.24 – Dane Hansted 3.69 – Sam Littlejohn 2.13 – Harrison Payne Your Julio Pledgers: Nick Rice Anand Viswanathan Paul Dennett Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi Ross Davey Alex Pranav Lalan Susheel R Ramasahayam Brian Withington Rob Kingston Eleanor Higgs Richard Oakley Mohit Mark Peckham Matt Whitehouse James Mulcahy Matt Featherstone Peter by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 45 – You can't play cricket with the clap: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll go from what kept Wally Hammond away from the game in 1926 onto Joe Denly's football career. Remember Jack Russell? Let's talk about the other one, the first Englishman to clock twin tons. Worcestershire's finest day on a rival's ground and Deano's final day for Victoria will come before finally answering a question that's kept us busy for weeks: who really is the best player to drop a catch from your bat? We also make amends for 5.66. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 2.01 - Sam Litster 4.15 - Ian Minors, Dave McRobbie & Luke Reynolds 4.25 - Joe Reinhard Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Declan Lawlor, what a guy! In conjunction with Lord's Taveners, he's running the length of the Thames. Get behind him if you can. http://donate.gi by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 49 – The Brisbane Line and the Barassi Line: It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a trip across Australia's lines from the Brisbane to the Barassi. Some cryptic stuff about numbers that don't equal other numbers. A couple of the great counterattacks, and the fastest in the world in more ways than one. Jean Valjean is back, along with 1970s beer advertisements and even more time than usual in the 1800s. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 5.43 – Cheemgadar & Peder Roberts. 2.22 – Srikanth Agaram & John Tucker 2.00 – Rob O'Neill Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com To support Declan Lawlor's Lord's Taveners run along the Thames, click here. To do your own Tavs adventure, look here. For a discount subscription to Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Get 20% off Woodstock kit with code TFW20 at woodstockc by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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Story Time 62 – The bumper comeback 10-wicket clearance show

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