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THE TEN MINUTE FORTNIGHT: The retirement of Gareth Batty, and Shikha Pandey's wonderball
"There's a lingering attitude that large swing is vulgar, somehow."
FROM THE ARCHIVES (8'15): Cricket at the Olympics: Paris, 1900
"The British team was a bunch of amateurs on a jolly to the Continent, and they ended up playing in the Olympics purely by accident."
THE REVIEW (17'30): Cricket on the Continent by Tim Brooks
"If I was the president of the Vanuatu cricket association, I'd sit down with this book and use it as a blue-print."
Recorded on 15 October 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