It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: an alliterative match whose final day was unexpectedly spectacular. The only player with a[…]
Season 9, Ep 30: The Nanny is filmed in front of a live studio audience
Season 9, Ep 30: The last show of Season 9, recorded on 420 day, on which we decide to let a live audience pile in via the Patreon page[…]
Season 9, Ep 29: The Final Word reviews the Wisden Almanack 2021
Season 9, Ep 29: It’s that time again: the new Wisden Almanack time. In what has now become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we’ve[…]
Season 9, Ep 28: The Final Word with Tim Murtagh
Season 9, Ep 28: Tiger Tim of Ireland has quite the story. From bowling the first ball in Irish Test cricket, to triumphs with Middlesex, to missing out on[…]
Season 9, Ep 27: Microwave stops play
Season 9, Ep 27: Steve Smith wants back in as Australian captain. Over in New Zealand, is it Jeff Jeff or Microwave Jeff? A West Indies classic plays out[…]
Season 9, Ep 26: William Wallace gets the Irish onside
Season 9, Ep 26: In the early years of the colony, Irish politics were very much Australian politics. Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter, Catholics and Protestants brawled into[…]
Season 9, Ep 25: The Final Word goes to Brazil
Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 women recently won the country’s first central contracts. But the game has[…]
Season 9, Ep 24: The Final Word with Mark Butcher
Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests behind the[…]
Season 9, Ep 23: Somebody please beat the Breakers
Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back[…]