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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the little-known twist of how cricket's most famous mathematicians nearly ended up with a Hawaiian feel – one we’re determined to embrace from this point forward. We then get into WA’s remarkable first Shield season and the characters who made it so. Later, the rarity and oddity of a very unusual ton, before a father-son pledge about a famous debut from a very not-famous player.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
6.48 - Cameron M
22.13 - Monique Beadles
10.30 - Leigh Rees
6.78 - Scott & Finn Mackie
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