The new anniversary milestone is... 12 years?

Hello, it's Week 2 of April and we had a fun one, even with working our recording schedule around Adam's broadcasting in Hong Kong and Geoff's travel back to Melbourne for a brief quiet period before the English international summer. 

If you can think of a more exciting name than what we came up with for our segment of reading out bad press releases, sing out. 

Choose a career in marketing, where words mean literally nothing!

Season 14, Ep 2: This week, some more exciting corporate nonsense from the cash-chasing division of the ICC, making up both milestones and meanings. All that we're asking for is Michael Bevan Day to be formally recognised. The Australian national contracts are done for men and women, and there's plenty to read in those tea leaves. Bangladesh knocks off Ireland but there's a ton on debut for Lorcan Tucker, and we catch up on IPL, Fairbreak, and the early County Championship.

Your Nerd Pledge number for this week:
7.43 - Shannon Blackmore

The episode is here.

Story Time 130 – In the pipe, five by five

This week, our first ever Nerd Pledge answer that has entirely nothing to do with cricket. A couple of chunky revisits get mixed through the new numbers as we look at why so many Pakistan players ended their lives in England, how Nobby became named Nobby, which 1800s Chunky Boi you would most love to cuddle, who Chappelli rated most of all, and what the difference is between the differences that were the difference. We're going down to Decimal Town, baby! Coming?

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
1.68 - Eric Parnis
2.45 - Matthew Jones and Big Geoff
2.71 - Richard L
5.39 - Elise Gane
5.55 - Osman Bahemia
6.29 - Andrew West
23.75 - Rob O'Neill

The episode is here.

Archive ep: Glengarry Glen Ross Glenn Maxwell

Season 3, Ep 3: Our latest reloaded lost episode from the early Final Word.

Remember when Glenn Maxwell got exiled from the one-day team for answering a question about batting higher up the order? Never forget. Also this week in 2016, Amanda-Jade Wellington debuted for Australia, taking a wicket with her first ball. Matthew Mott was played this week by Emilio Estevez. And we gave a detailed team-by-team WBBL preview. Granular AF.

The episode is here.

Coming up this week

Looks like a busy one. A new Story Time just dropped which will be mentioned in the coming week's email. The weekly show will likely be out on Wednesday. Adam has been interviewing everybody in sight while producing a separate episode about Fairbreak, and we have another surprise in the works. Stay tuned.