It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Zaheer Abbas extravaganza that ends up having nothing to do with Zaheer Abbas. Confused? So are we! Also, the oldest first-class cricketers, the greatest all-rounders numerically speaking, and a loop back to French cricket in the modern style. Enchanté.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
6.80 - Andrew Perrin
26.00 - George Norman
2.74 - Ian Colvin
3.50 - Sinead Bird
Revisits: Rooto, Jim Robertson

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Title track by Urthboy
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