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- It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, one question: was there any game played in the 19th century that wasn't at Lord's? A self-styled pioneer with a pseudonym certainly got his fill of pavilion lunches. Also, do South Australians play for South Australia? We test facts against myth, as well as an unlikely trip to Los Angeles, and a clean sweep even rarer than we imagined.
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11.30 - Miranda Debeljakovic
1893.94 - Bernhard Sayer
7.60 - Nigel Browne
1.72 - Ash
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - South Africa Australia Daily, 3rd ODI, Potchefstroom: South Africa gave some of their younger players a gallop in the North-West University town, and Australia let their big names stretch their legs. Alex Carey and Pat Cummins made Australia look comfortable, but Oliver Peake and Xavier Bartlett might get the country excited for the future, and Ryan Rickelton and gave South Africa huge momentum. It was set up for another box-office day. Dan Gallan joins Geoff Lemon.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - Season 20, Episode 32: We called it: CA chair Mike Baird has been knocked off by New South Wales, and the cricket privatisation war could now turn in any directions Can we short-circuit the conflict by crowdfunding the Renegades, and signing Will Bosisto into the bargain? Over in South Africa, the Aussies are floundering in the pyjamas, Kagiso Rabada has been in the hyperbaric chamber with Kouta, and Pat Cummins may not be fit. Plenty of moving parts there, as Kohli powers on in one-day cricket, and Warwickshire are County Champs.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we might need some help to get this one across the line, but there's a world record that need reclaiming from some dubious operators, and it involves Australia's greatest Test captain. Come with us to find out more. Also this week, will the pitchforks need to come out for a contentious TFW opinion? Plus an Oxford student with a wild life and lineage, and a pioneer who missed a Test cap.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
10.47 - Peet
3.77 - Simon Clarke
7.18 - Steven Westwood
7.24 - Brent Simmonds
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - South Africa Australia Daily, 2nd ODI, Johannesburg: Australia were bullish at the Bullring, talking about levelling the series. South Africa's batters levelled the Australians. The chase was hefty, but the chasing was just as Bison-sized. So could the visitors correct their course this time around, and make use of another massive opening stand? Not when Australia's middle order is busted. Call it Cam Green syndrome.
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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.
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