Season 3, Ep 6: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word.
It's the end of December 2016. Happy New Year! Our first year doing Best & Worst. Admittedly it is a short segment at the end of the show, and we only covered our Best things. But before that we had to talk about a wonderful Boxing Day Test. Mitchell Starc has missed a lot of those, but he reserved his best all-round performance for this one against Pakistan, despite the best efforts of Azhar Ali.
This ep also contains what must be our first references to Gusatvo Kuerten, Thomas Muster, and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, some early work on Steve O'Keefe at Revolver, and what may be the inaugural Final Word use of the Dream Dinner Party concept. Plus with Matthew Wade struggling with the gloves, this foresight: "If we want to go really left field, is Tim Paine starting to lurk again?"
This season was originally recorded for the ABC.

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