Maxwellball, Bairstowball, Aristotleball

Season 12, Ep 11: It was a big Final Word day, what with Glenn Maxwell turning on a matchwinning performance in Sri Lanka right after Jonny Bairstow did the same thing at Trent Bridge. This week Daniel Norcross joined Geoff, which of course meant that they had to talk about Aristotle and monitor lizards before getting to the cricket. There were also matters of Steffan Nero emulating The Don in blind cricket, Gaby Lewis continuing her star trajectory in Irish cricket, Moeen Ali making a Test comeback, and the IPL scoring 6 billion clams.

Your Nerd Pledge number this week:

1.88 – Alan Simpson

Meetups

A reason why you should get on the Discord chat page. In extremely wholesome happenings, a whole stack of Final Nerds made it to Amsterdam for the England-Netherlands matches, and met up for good times including a canal boat ride captained by listener Julian. Message us for a joining link.

Hear our Pakistan commentary... with vision

With extreme dedication, TFW listener Thomas Miles recorded all of the SEN commentary from the recent Australian tour to Pakistan, then dubbed it over the extended video highlight packages. YouTube doesn't like it, and kills off the clips when he uploads them, but if anyone wants to see them discreetly then they're in a cloud folder here.

The Final Word Daily

We had a good time from Trent Bridge, with Adam working mostly with Daniel on the ground, and Geoff popping in for a day from Canada. 

You can start with video from Day 5, here.

Story Time 92 – Alex Tudor's perfect day out

A double DOB comes back to one piece of major dustiness. We pay tribute to the pioneers of Guernsey, look at a Laker less celebrated, and consider both Mick Lewis and the cryptic crossword.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
1.79 - Chris Arkle & Josh
2.53 - Samuel Therkelsen
1.85 - John McPheat
10.88 - Mr Mark Henderson
2.81 - Oli Goldman
4.85 - James Tiernan
4.36 - Dom Griffiths
6.54 - Liz Brant

The audio is here.