The Final Word with Alison Mitchell
Added 2020-09-23 09:46:04 +0000 UTCSeason 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket around the world. That didn’t happen by accident. Starting nearly two decades ago when she was the runner on Richie Benaud’s TV broadcast, Ali has worked her way through the county reporting circuit and assignments in distant countries all the way to Test cricket and the Olympic Games. She talks us through the trip from then to now.
Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
7.69 – Matt Wust
2.33 – Chris Lawson
There was also our Emergency episode late last week after Glenn Maxwell's pearler of a century in the deciding one-dayer against England. No team had ever chased over 300 from five down for 73 or less... but one team has now.
And from the weekend, Story Time 16, with an encore from Matt Renshaw. Adam can't stop talking about George Headley. Geoff at last has caught up to a long-elusive quarry. What does US political analyst Nate Silver have to do with Mahendra Singh Dhoni? Why are we talking about Lionel Richie and a former host of Getaway? Who was the last player to join an exclusive club, and who was the fastest to join another one? Who inspired more love, The Freak or The Rug? And is that actually Daniel Norcross on the CBUS ad?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
10.98 – David Nicholls
5.38 – Satchmo Distel
4.64 – Anthony Radford & Jeremy Nash
3.65 – David Bek
2.23 – Liam Williams
1.43 – Wayne Holloway
Thanks as always for playing this ridiculous game and letting us have this much fun.
