Story Time 168 – Viv Richards versus Papua New Guinea

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's hear a tale we had never found before, about one of the unlikeliest mismatches of them all. Also, an equally unlikely change of allegiance, a game with four results on the table, the player who faced the longest wait, a real wrong number, a curious cumulative record, and the little-discussed batting of a bowling legend,

Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:

6.35 - Max W

78.00 - Peder Roberts

10.70 - Rafael Szumer

1.14 - Guy Hornsby

5.00 - Xavier Bochat

12.32 - Glenn Finkelde

and new number 6.79 - Ben Woolgar

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Title track by Urthboy

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