The Pinch Hitter

We Think Of Famous Terrys, Ask Where Did Ashton Agar Fit In and Begin To Believe That 713 Is Achievable...because it has to be

The First Bio-Secure Test has been and gone; England lose but that’s great for cricket; We go back to 1975; Look forward to 713 & consider leaving Broad out for the whole summer

It’s Christmas Eve aka the night before an intra-squad 3-Day game at the Ageas Bowl. We discuss Steve McManaman, the possibilities of Jonathan Bairstow becoming Cap 697 and the folly of a park & ride scheme

We start by chatting about all the great cricket content out there at the moment, chuck in some trivia and Wikipedia, and then go Freddie crazy after he begins his Test career as a biffer who doesn’t really bowl.

Cricket Without Crowds, The County Championship not in New Zealand, A Naughty Over That Was & A Left-Handed Ricky Ponting

It’s an impromptu mix of hot days at the cricket, very very cold days at the cricket and mixed in with the glory of name checking Jason Gallian & Carol Vorderman.

It’s lockdown but that doesn’t stop us jumping on a delayed flight from Ghana with Alitalia whilst Alec Stewart conveniently gets out lbw.

New series with Opening Up, looking at cricket in the 90s. A detailed look at the front cover of Dermot Reeve’s book before we go off to Gladiators at the NEC for a game of The Wall.

Coronavirus is at the crease and there’s not a lot of cricket going down. But there’s an over that was and Ian Smith’s World Cup commentary gets a hand-washing outing.

We close off England’s tour of South Africa, fall deeper in love with CJ, return to January 1999 at the SCG & finish off with Belinda Carlisle