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THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: Joe Root's lockdown viewing, welcoming a future test cricketer, and a jawdropping shot at the BBL
"When you're in those first, sleep-deprived moments of parenthood, I'd imagine that having a test match on in the background must be a great thing."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (9'20): More cricketing etymology, including the origins of the word 'cricket'
"This is where I'm going to get really Tudor with some of my pronunciations."
THE REVIEW (19'05): The Cricketer, February 2021 edition
"I know that cricket administration matters, and I'm very grateful to journalists for keeping the administrators honest. But I couldn't help craving more cricket, and finding the administrative stuff homework reading."
Recorded 6 February 2021
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