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Glenn Maxwell mayhem & 150 years of women's cricket
🕑 Added 2020-12-01 07:57:13 +0000 UTCSeason 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the Finch-Warner partnership, and Maxi's destruction at the end. The Women's Big Bash finals are over with the Sydney Thunder the surprise winners. England are winning in South Africa and a new chair was appointed to the ICC. Then there's our interview with Fiona Bollen, whose new book with the Bradman Museum brings together a trove of newly discovered photographs of women's cricket in Australia since the 1800s and tells those stories. We'll go all the way back to when the four nieces of Australia's first Test captain Dave Gregory proved their own skill on the field. And keep an ear out for 1930s Final Word favourite Peggy Antonio.
Plus there's a new Wisden Cricket Monthly out, get your discount: bit.ly/wcmtfw
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
5.67 – Jon Rees.
2.72 – Not that Tim Minchin.
Story Time 26, plus Vic Marks on Test Match Special
All roads lead back to the 1909 Ashes on Story Time of late, and why wouldn’t we want to visit again via Charlie McCartney’s tweak? That man is still firing 12 years later, a series that included a Dusty Old Bastard with a tough old name. Also featured: Curtly, Finny and a cheesemonger from Baltimore. Stick around to hear from one of our Final Word faves, Vic Marks. His Calling the Shots contribution focused on ins and outs of Test Match Special, the most famous comm box cricket has known.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
4.61 – Clayton Lewis.
7.58 – Daniel Smith.
7.00 – Ciaran O’Kane & Renuka Satchithananthan.
2.27 – Joe Reinhard.
1.89 – Dale F. Adams.
5.16 – Anna Forsyth.
Oh Lord, it's December already. That means our Final Word Daily will start soon for the India Tests, and there'll be our traditional Christmas Day interview, and our Best & Worst New Year's Eve wrap. Let's get festive.
Comments
Yes, agree with you there. Any time the match refs have got involved (with charges, bans, etc) the politicking has started immediately. Discretion leaves them vulnerable.
If there is someone out there who captured the full commentary of Dubai, well, that'd be quite something! You're a gem, David.
Cheers for the shout-out - happy to add to the Final Word Archives Project, I'm only sorry (as an England fan) that the 10-60 wasn't included - can anyone help..?
There's a constant debate in the States about the length of baseball games due to the same issues. In the minor leagues they've implemented a pitch clock but of course the Major Leagues fight any sort of change. Everything from pitchers taking 2 minutes between every pitch, batters having to readjust every piece of gear and stepping out of the box, and managers constantly visiting the pitchers mound games regularly take 3 1/2 to 4 hours (oh the horror, silly Americans need to watch more test cricket). God help any match referee who tries to intercede in something like this, they'll get crucified.
Enjoyed the episode as ever, boys. I agree, something needs to be done about over rates (my god, how many times have we said that?) but to put it in the hands of the match referee? Two words. Mike Denness. Remember the furore arising from him exercising his discretion in South Africa, what, fifteen years ago? I don't think discretion will cut the mustard.
Satchmo Distel
Your discussion of depression a few weeks ago (which I've only just caught up with) means a great deal to me. I think cricket has helped me down the years to cope with bad days but, as you emphasized, depression is not always related to specific events and sometimes even cricket cannot help. My worst ever year was 1984 and I value that year's West Indies side immensely for helping me but there was no real "cure"; you just have to ride it out.
A great interview with Fiona Bollen which increased my knowledge of the women's game. I've been following Australian cricket more closely than ever over the past few months and have great admiration for the way all versions have been organised. Geoff mentioned sustainability at the end of the interview, hopefully administrators can build this into all forms of the game all not push it to onside as something that would be a nice thing to do. 2020 has been a terrible time for everyone but hopefully ideas such as holding multiple games in one city or location such as the WBBL or the Sheffield and giving opportunity to developing cricket nations will become the norm. Looking forward to the weekend.
In Southern California ‘Gooch’ means ‘awesome’.
