Australia bails on South Africa

Ok, we should have posted this here a few days ago but... here is last week's episode! Also at the top is one of our Final Word Daily videos, if you haven't found the YouTube channel yet. We borrowed our favourite pub, the Commercial Club in Fitzroy, thanks to Paddy the publican who always tolerates our nonsense, and Cam Fink once more did a lovely artistic job with the lens. 

On the audio show: Season 9, Ep 19

Australia's tour to South Africa is off, just as England's Tests in India are about to begin. With three weeks to go, CA has chalked up another cancellation. Reasonable precaution, foreseeable disaster? Geoff and Adam don't agree on everything. For England's big task ahead, we chat with Vithushan Ehantharajah about what to watch for and what it might mean in viral Britain. Also this week: Pakistan's Karachi win over South Africa, new sources of heat on Justin Langer, the Windies gear up for Tests in Bangladesh, Aghanistan whitewashes Ireland, Australia's Hall of Fame gets some new entrants, and we kick off another Final Word campaign, this time around Charlie Bannerman.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.01 – MJ Knoester
2.90 – Andrew Singleton
1.56 – Alex Brown

Story Time 32

And the Story Time show. Start out by learning about our own Cam the Cameraman's cricket history, which is none: he played his first organised match on the weekend and there's a very good story there. On the show this week: Jean Valjean is back in our sights, some tips about what a 90s kid could see if they couldn't leave Brisbane, and some highly tenuous links between questions and answers.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
246.01 – Rob O'Neill
6.64 – Brent Simmonds
3.64 – Chris Unwin (again?)
17.03 – Andrew Morton
2.26 – Abbey Sim & Luke Appleton
5.33 – Dominic Bowes & Mark Stein

Heaps of videos up on the YouTube channel, daily England-India shows on the feed, we're recording the next weekly podcast tomorrow while Adam plays a media cricket match, and we'll do another Story Time on Friday before the second Test starts on Saturday. Deep breath!