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THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: watching baseball, and Bangladesh host Sri Lanka
"The first pitch of the game was sent straight into the stands for a home run. That raised my and my wife's sense of what normal drama would be in baseball. It turned out to be very rare."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'00): Andrew Symonds at the 2003 World Cup
"There must be a psychological credit to Symonds: you come in knowing that if you don't score there's the next player waiting, and scoring under those circumstances is difficult."
THE REVIEW (22'40): The Test by Nathan Leamon
"Cricket is lacking in fiction compared to other sports, and this is a rare attempt to take on top level cricket in fiction - and it's done really well."
Recorded on 29th May 2022
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy receives a message from a listener, and Toby ponders whether cricket's efforts to reduce carbon emissions may have some unintended consequences
"As a podcast host, it makes you feel very differently about the whole enterprise."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (12'00): England's...
Published 10/28/24
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy plays fantasy cricket, and Toby comes across some retro technology on the trainĀ
"I went to take out my headphones, and then my ear was caught by the message coming out of his phone."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (10'15): The Canterbury Lime: Cricket's most famous tree
"That...
Published 09/30/24
THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Andy donates his Cricketers to a good cause, and Toby ponders the Shakib al Hasan scandal.
"There's a bandaged batsman sitting in hospital leafing through my old magazines."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (08'54): Cricket in the poetry of Philip Larkin
"'...an Odeon went past, a...
Published 09/06/24