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The many Prime Ministers of Eton are displeased
🕑 Added 2023-03-23 19:07:59 +0000 UTCSeason 13, Ep 28: This week, the MCC gets swarmed by Eton and Harrow fans , and Emma John joins the show to help explain this especially English toff barney. Before we get to that, Australia is still playing in India, Sri Lanka get finished up in New Zealand, the WPL reaches its finals, Victoria stun Western Australia and Queensland in the Mr Sheffield Shield, Aleem Dar and Dane van Niekerk sign off, Nepal finish a crazy winning streak after Asif Khan's even crazier innings, and how many litres of paint can Kane Williamson drink?
Your Nerd Pledge number for this week:
12.40 - Elia Andrews
The audio is here.
Story Time 127 – Revenge at Wattle Flat
This week, a new record for single largest pledge provokes a ridiculous voyage into the obscurities of the past. We have cricketing pilots, an Almanack exploration, Stork Hendry going in to bat for Clarrie Grimmett, and a thorny clue that you might have more luck with than we did.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
411.12 - Sean McGivern
23.30 - Michael Holden
1.68 - Eric Parnis
2.93 - Graeme Innes
4.43 - Sean O'Carroll
17.75 - Tane Aikman
Pro top: listen to this before we get to the Sean McGivern and Michael Holden revisits on the big show coming up this weekend.
Audio is here.
Also on Story Time, up the top of this post is a video from episode 123, which we did shoot when Bharat was crook as a dog in Delhi, but soldiered on to tackle his new nemesis, Ramaswamy.
Archive ep: Pakistan nearly created the Gabba miracle first
We've tracked back to Season 3, Episode 5, as we reload the lost early episodes of the show. It's the Gabba in late 2016, a match in which Pakistan were set 490 to win... and damn near ran it down. The first pink-ball match played in Brisbane, an inaugural swimming pool in the stands, and one of the most joyful fifth days in Test cricket. Recapture the magic.
Audio is here.
Look what I found in the photo archive! Yasir Shah walks off after being run out from slip to end the match despite his highest Test score. What a day.
Thanks for another big Final Word week. See you on the feed.
