The Final Word has got to go to India

Well, we're finally here. It has been a wild six days since we landed the day before the Nagpur Test and joined our excellent colleagues to throw ourselves into setting up two radio broadcasts in a stadium that had probably never hosted one before. Travel fatigue and sleep deprivation met the sensory overload of a subcontinent tour. We've also been exploring the night time venues of Nagpur and learning to cross Indian highways under the expert guidance of tour captain Bharat Sundaresan. 

You might understand then why we couldn't record a weekly show last Wednesday, and why this is last week's email, coming out this week.

Find our more in the weekly show that has just gone up.

Nightlife: our crew with Nikesh Rugani from SEN, Karthik Krishnaswamy of Cricinfo, Roshan Thyagarajan of the Deccan Herald, and in front Louis Cameron from the CA website. 

Season 13, Ep 23: Coming to you at sunset from the old VCA ground in Nagpur, where Damien Martyn hit that six onto the press box roof in 2004, this is at last our first weekly show from India. The old stadium a different place now, much more low key than when it hosted Tests, but our friend Milind bhai from the security detail showed us around. This week on the show, the fallout from Australia's Test loss at the other VCA ground, the women's T20 World Cup gets underway with some serious upsets, Jofra Archer bursts back into the England one-day team while their Test side prepares in New Zealand without Trent Boult, Aaron Finch retires, the Big Bash finishes up, and West Indies play out a fun Test match against Zimbabwe. Join us on the roof

Your Nerd Pledge number for this week:
1.80 - Bernhard Sayer

Audio is here.

TFW Daily from Nagpur

This went absolutely gangbusters this week - over 200,000 views on video and another 20,000 downloads on the podcast feed. Not bad for a three-day Test. Patreon is still the number one reason that we can afford to be here making these shows, so thank you. 

The video for the third and final show is up top of this email - that's us standing in the replica VCA Stadium outside the real VCA Stadium. The audio eps are in your pod feed, the video channel is here. 

Photo: Rob Cianflone

Story Time 121 - Understudy to Bryan Brown

This week, Bharat was in Nagpur after some time in the nets in Bangalore while Geoff was still on the way to meet him. Not deliberately, we launched into an India-fest via Dhaka, Multan and Bridgetown. Also, a surprising divergence into an Australian cinema living treasure.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
5.80 - Shyam Sundaraman
20.79 - Jeremy Brown
11.39 - Darcy Matthews
8.14 - Luke Reynolds
5.68 - Jimit Raja
5.34 - Andrew Turner
33.00 - Toby
3.09 - Jayaraman Ashwin

Audio is here.

Plenty more coming, we'll try to email again this week to get back on schedule. Off to Delhi tomorrow, while today we try to cancel everything from Dharamsala and arrange travel to Indore. Onwards!