The Bishop and Bear this week is brought to you in association with Nord VPN - working for a safer and better internet. A Very Happy New Year! We have a great chat for you to start 2024. Let’s face it, you might have a bit of time, especially if you had been planning to watch days 3, 4 and 5 of the Cape Town Test!   Special guests seated on our Barstools of Bravado are Shelley - Destroyer of Worlds and India’s biggest fan and critic, Anindya. Not surprisingly, we focus on the extraordinary Test in Cape Town – a conversation that last’s almost longer than the Test itself. Records tumbled and Harry Butt finally has some company as the only player ever to be dismissed twice on his very first Day of Test cricket.   Armed with drink of choice our intrepid duo, along with your ursine landlord and episcopal barman get stuck into a New Year feast of:   -      Dismissals and Dumps in Cape town -      Are South Africa really committed to Test cricket? -      Farewells to Elgar and Warner – same vintage very different players -      Pakistan doing Pakistan things in Sydney -      India haven’t lost a Test series at home since 2012/13 and in that time have won 36 Tests and lost only 3 at home - Will England need all of their 3 days prep?   Thanks to all kinds of nifty, cutting-edge technology, NordVPN keeps your devices malware free and your browsing safe from strangers’ eyes. How safe? It would take the world’s most powerful computer billions of years to unencrypt your data — that safe! Grab your EXCLUSIVE GUERILLA CRICKET NordVPN deal by clicking here https://nordvpn.com/gcradio to get a huge discount off your NordVPN Plan plus 4 additional months for free! It’s completely risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! When prompted, remember to use the special discount code GCradio. Cheers!   Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices