November 3, 2023 • 68 mins
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam has Bharat Sundaresan in the co-hosting chair and they settle into a theme: fathers and sons. Some of the stories, like a couple of Australia/West Indies ODIs from the glory days, are lovely. The passing of Final Word fave Johnny Won't Hit Today, alongside his old man, is tragic. Between times, more Jamaica than we anticipated, more of the 1911-12 Ashes, and we return to the Boer War for another sad tale from the battlefield.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
2.23 - Rahul Venkat
5.00 - Guy Hornsby
5.85 - Slim Johns
1.70 - Chris Dobbins
2.65 - Elliott Diamond
7.00 - Terry Hogan
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