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It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a player we've just learned about who had a compelling tale either side of the Great War, a big day in the East for the West, a brief but wild innings with the ball, and is this still the greatest run chase of all time?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
9.83 - Niall Taylor
5.67 - StuG
4.38 - Paul Batfay
8.62 - Matt Gaynor
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The mighty Max Bonnell returns to Book Club to discuss his acclaimed title from last year about an oft-discussed character on Story Time, leggie Charles ‘Father’ Marriott. Naturally, there’s so much more to this man than the curiosity that his only Test netted him the stunning match figures of 11/96, the of his life so well told in the pages of Father Marriott’s Summer Holidays. Daniel Norcross picks up the conversation with our author, in an interview recorded, appropriately, during a county championship lunch break.
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Season 20, Episode 8: Note: an earlier version of this podcast confused NRMA motoring association (not a CA sponsor) with NRMA insurance (CA's major Test series sponsor). They're different companies with shared branding. Apologies. Nonetheless, this story is strange, with CA chair Mike Baird planning to double up that job with being CEO of NRMA motoring association. How is that possible? Also this week, women's T20 World Cup news comes apace, while a slew of players are being banned from various levels of cricket for a range of offences.
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It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, the greatest run of free lunches in a particular journalist's history. An adopted hero, a distant memorial, a new era beckoning for Bangladeshis bowling fast, and there's only one thing in this world that Virat Kohli can't stand.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
2.14 - Harsha G
3.51 - Not The Run Machine
6.00 - Alex
4.10 - Tim O'Meara
Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
and win a signed copy of Wisden, or a case of Stomping Ground: browse their range at stompingground.beer
Check out the range of Duncan Fearnley bats and kit at duncanfearnley.com.au
Get 50% off the Wisden cover price by subscribing: wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe
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Season 20, Episode 7: Live from Lord’s at the annual MCC Women’s Day. Adam Collins brings you a series of chats from prominent women in cricket, proving that it’s not just what happens on the field or on TV that keeps the juggernaut of the women’s game rolling. From Meg Lay, the first woman to prepare an international cricket pitch, record-setting German international Tina Gough, Dutch captain and ICC Europe boss Esther de Lange, and sports apparel pioneer Leigh Burns from our partners at Lacuna Sports. But the star of the show was our own Enakshi Rajvanshi, who marked her Lord's debut by uprooting some stumps.
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Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
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Season 20, Episode 6: A new investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has brought to light the extremely serious risk that rottenness has consumed cricket administration in that country. The ICC, of course, has hands in pockets while whistling. Also this week, Tom Decent joins the show to update us on Cricket Australia's campaign to win over the state associations and sell the Big Bash, a couple of Final Word faves rejoin the Pakistan Test setup, and Suryavanshi is heading for an Indian team debut.
Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
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It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a 77-year dynasty of decent boring men, a piece of pure cricket slapstick in the middle of a tough streak, an accidental stumbling onto someone's favourite player, and the moment when a legend in the making passed the biggest one of all.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
3.00 - Andrew Cooper
18.46 - Calum Evans
13.00 - Simon Clarke
3.29 - Rory Seymour
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Season 20, Episode 5: We love a tradition on The Final Word, with one of those our annual chat with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the little yellow bible of the game, every year in the MCC Library before he and Adam go across the road to the Long Room for the launch dinner. Once again, the book is a tour de force – we expect nothing less. And as ever, the man who steers the ship is on top form, be it summing up to perfection England’s Ashes misadventure, or taking aim at the latest round of administrative shambles the game increasingly shrugs its shoulders at.
Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
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Season 20, Episode 4: Another big week, do we keep saying that? Laura Cardoso from our favourite cricket team claimed the best bowling figures in T20 history this week with 9 for 4, so let's break down how it happened and hear, briefly, from teammate Roberta Moretti Avery. Making the news for less salubrious reasons was Dave Warner, blowing twice the legal limit into a breathalyser over Easter. Also this week, the likely 12-team Test championship structure, Bangladesh sack the board, Cricket France is once again in breach of ICC rules, and our big county wrap features double-ton-maker Ben McKinney.
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It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, why is it accepted wisdom that bowlers in limited-overs formats should only get 20 percent of the overs each? Let's have a look. Also this week, a little-known WACA classic, a storied ground whose stories have run out, and the curse of the Mitchells.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
2.00 - Joel Emonson
9.10 - Ben Helliwell
12.10 - David Salter
3.77 - Jack Jorgensen
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