On getting larger and enjoying a refreshment

Hard to think of many more popular award winners than Mitch Marsh this last week, and his acceptance speech has immediately become iconic. As iconic as TFW sending out the first Wednesday email for February on a Saturday. How did that happen?

There was still a lot going on this week. Our coverage of the India-England Test from Vizag involved all of Adam, Geoff, Cam P and Vish, in different configurations. If you missed an episode we had a preview, days one, two, three, and four, and a post-match. 

The video up top is none of those things, it's the live show that Geoff and Bharat did in Adelaide, if you want to check out the fabulous outfits. We rocked the Ark harder than Noah and a couple of elephants.

Amnesty for lost Nerd Pledge revisits

If we've missed your revisit, we're sorry - sometimes a few get lost down the back of the couch. Do remind us though, email finalwordcricket@gmail.com or send us a Patreon DM. 

If you're waiting on a second or subsequent pledge to get its first airing, we probably haven't lost it, there's just a long list of them to work through. 

"I'm a bit fat sometimes and I love a beer."

Season 15, Episode 23: Mitch Marsh won more hearts this week while winning the Allan Border Medal, while Ash Gardner confirmed her supremacy in the Australian women's team with the Belinda Clark Award. That didn't stop South Africa's women knocking off Australia for the first time in 50-over cricket, after notching their first 20-over win the week before. Marizanne Kapp is currently Superwoman. New Zealand predictably battered South Africa's 5th-tier team in the men's Test, but not without plenty of statistical quirks, Afghanistan battled hard in their Test in Sri Lanka, and there's a new women's domestic structure in England.

Your Nerd Pledge for this week:
2.29 - David Nicholls

Here's the episode.

Story Time 168 – Viv Richards versus Papua New Guinea

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's hear a tale we had never found before, about one of the unlikeliest mismatches of them all. Also, an equally unlikely change of allegiance, a game with four results on the table, the player who faced the longest wait, a real wrong number, a curious cumulative record, and the little-discussed batting of a bowling legend,

Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:
6.35 - Max W
78.00 - Peder Roberts
10.70 - Rafael Szumer
1.14 - Guy Hornsby
5.00 - Xavier Bochat
12.32 - Glenn Finkelde
and new number 6.79 - Ben Woolgar

Story Time 168 is here.

More developments and plenty more shows coming in the weeks ahead, stay tuned.

TFW