The BCCI move for cricket's cash - with Osman Samiuddin

Hi all, welcome to Week 3 of May which was another busy one for news and for the show. 

Season 14, Episode 13: Cricket is getting rich, which means the BCCI is getting richer. Over the last week a huge yet unsurprising story broke that India's board is angling to take a huge share of ICC revenue for itself, putting one administration above everywhere else in the world. So what? Don't they bring in that cash? Well, it's never that simple. As senior editor of ESPNcricinfo, Osman Samiuddin has been on the beat for years, and is here to explain.

Here's the audio. 

Jofra Archer is out of the Ashes

Season 14, Episode 12: England's fast bowlers are going down. One by one, and all at once, in a familiar story ahead of the Ashes. What does Archer's future hold, four years on from his furious debut? Amidst this, England have named a squad for their Ireland Test that gestures at their plans for the five Tests beyond it - bad luck Ben Foakes - while Australia have released their next summer schedule with some changes to the recent template. Ireland and Bangladesh play two stunners, Peter Siddle gets another chapter, David White finishes up as New Zealand's cricket boss, and there's all the domestic action.

Your Nerd Pledge (revisit) this week:
8.62 - Matt May

Here's the show. 

Story Time 136 - Anil Kumble: sex symbol

This week, it's hat-tricks, the state upper house, and the Centenary Test... a couple of times. It's a true north talking about that week in March 1977, the date of which happens to be a clue when digging for some iconic commentary. Is Anil Kumble sexy enough? Let's find out. To finish, a revisit that may never be solved but we're trying our best.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
4.80 - Joel Emonson
8.62 - Matt May
3.53 - Michael Bell
1.10 - Vivek Arcot
3.17 - Nick Dempsey
6.80 - Rudi Voller

Revisits
8.16 - Ramaswamy

Audio is here.

Archive ep: Brendon McCullum becomes King of the World

We're all the way back to Season 2, as we reload lost episodes from the early Final Word. It's February 2016. Brendon McCullum is playing his last Test match, and decides to sign off with the world record for the fastest century of all time. Up to the front of the Titanic with him, where he and Steve Smith can decide who gets to play Kate Winslet. Meanwhile, Joe Burns goes long, and Neil Wagner produces one of his inimitable bouncer marathons. The Final Word from the second Test of Australia's tour of New Zealand.

Here it is. And here's are soe real-life photos we took on that very tour. ONE MILLION years ago.

Get your head around that.

Less than two weeks before we start our enormous English summer of Final Word. And some pretty exciting moves afoot before we get there. Stay tuned to the feed.