The Final Word with John Doyle / Roy Slaven

Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the show, in a roundabout way, having spoken to Geoff for a Guardian interview about his book that we thought TFW listeners would like to hear in full.

Also this week: the ICC confirms it will try to get cricket into the 2028 LA Olympics, and onwards. A huge shift in policy. We speak to acting CEO Geoff Allardice about how that came about. Plus the shambles of England's Test approach after the first India match, and the shambles of Australia's T20 thrashing in Bangladesh. Tigerland!

Your Nerd Pledge number this week:
12.90 - Xavier Bochat

Changing hosts

Bad Producer's network is in the middle of shifting from Omny to a new podcast host, so that may mean disruption to shows arriving in your feed if you use a podcast app. Other links or embeds may later stop working. For now, you should still be able to find shows on our Omny page. You can find our longer shows on our TFW website. And you'll find the Daily shows from the Tests on our YouTube channel. Any issues, DM us.

Chasing Jimmy

We've nearly got him again: we're up to 619 on Patreon and he skipped out to 621 wickets with his four at Trent Bridge. Maybe the last day of rain saved us? He'll be back in action at Lord's so we need to strike. Tell your friends!

Story Time 57 – The dusty old bastards club

This was a short and sharp episode because Adam was in the middle of broadcasting a Test match: new numbers but no revisits, coming in at a very tidy 35 minutes. That was still time for a Dusty Old Bastard influx. Who did a whole lot of things first? What's the deal with Tasmania? Have we found another obscure record? And what did Neville Cardus have to say about it? All this and more, on Story Time.

Audio is here. 

Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
6.58 - Adam Jones
9.00 - Rory Denis & Paul Cherry
4.97 - Colin Burton
3.42 - Harley Holcombe
2.69 - Simon "Old" Trafford

The next Test starts on Thursday

Another huge few days coming up, with TFW Daily plus a proper Story Time. Onwards.