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.

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2.15 – Simon Dolding

4.09 – Sam Littlejohn

3.39 – Fred Cowen

3.05 – Harry Woolley

2.39 – Harry Chalkley & Nick Garner

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