The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus a man celebrated as one of the game's best captains. Modern England didn't invent nothing that Cyril Washbrook didn't already have covered, and there's the path from Blocker Wilson to Chucker Wilson. Plus who would make it into our all-time Story Time team?
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4.65 - Peter Lenaghan
3.79 - Dave Williams
2.05 - Tim Henry
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Title track by Urthboy
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.1
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.2
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.1
The search for cricket-loving Americans
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 4
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 3
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 2
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 1
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 0
Story Time 188 – Why 150 is nonsense
IPL season meets election season
French fraud: the ghost games of Paris
Story Time 187 – How Sachin changed the calendar
TFW Book Club – Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes with Harry Ricketts
Story Time 186 – Jim Laker, Australian Test spinner?
Launching our Final Word ad-free feed
The Test documentary part 3, with director Adrian Brown
The Final Word: Episode One
Story Time 185 - Paul Nixon writes his own Wikipedia
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