Maxwell's miracle

That was quite a week. It was quite a Tuesday. It was also a reason why the Wednesday email is going out on Friday again, for November Week 2. We were a little bit distracted, ok?

You will all know that Glenn Maxwell produced the greatest individual ODI miracle. There are any number of pure one-day centuries, and you can make a few arguments for some special rescue knocks - Kapil, Viv, Abul Razzaq - but this was another level. Nobody has ever made a double century unless they were batting first and opening. Maxwell did it batting second from six. When the seventh wicket fell Australia needed 201 more runs. He finished with 201 not out. And the last 75 or so of those runs were made without the ability to run, and most without the ability to move his feet at all. 

No surprise we made a 36-minute TFW Daily that night. Video above, audio here, and the ABC cut a package of highlights with Geoff and Henry calling the innings here.

Save Robelinda2

Season 15, Episode 8: Imagine someone dynamiting the Louvre. The cricket equivalent has happened, with the magical YouTube channel Robelinda2 being brought down by some vandals with spurious copyright complaints. We speak to Rob Moody about his life's cricketing work, the last fortnight, and what comes next. Plus next year's World Cup qualifiers, a supposed makeover for Perth Test cricket, and a Nerd Pledge story with a lot of meandering.

Your Nerd Pledge number this week:
3.13 - Sebastian Tarek

Here's the link.

Story Time 157 – The tragic death of Johnny Douglas

This week, Adam has Bharat Sundaresan in the co-hosting chair and they settle into a theme: fathers and sons. Some of the stories, like a couple of Australia/West Indies ODIs from the glory days, are lovely. The passing of Final Word fave Johnny Won't Hit Today, alongside his old man, is tragic. Between times, more Jamaica than we anticipated, more of the 1911-12 Ashes, and we return to the Boer War for another sad tale from the battlefield.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
2.23 - Rahul Venkat
5.00 - Guy Hornsby
5.85 - Slim Johns
1.70 - Chris Dobbins
2.65 - Elliott Diamond
7.00 - Terry Hogan

Audio episode here.

Episode 1 - Why 99?

In 2019 on The Greatest Season That Was, Adam made a 12-part series exploring whether the 1999 ODI World Cup swas the most interesting global tournament. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports), they spoke with many of the key players and administrators across seven weeks. On the basis that you'll probably enjoy what was pulled together back then, we are re-releasing World Cup '99 here as the current competition reaches its business end. Before we get into the interviews, a framing discussion that should help jog the memory.

Here's episode one. 

Plus all the other World Cup Daily action as we get into the last weekend of the group stage. Nearly there!

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