14 episodes
Ahead of the Eight Ball Dave and Mick Tickner
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4.9 • 13 Ratings
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Cricket is the best sport and has the best cliches. In Ahead of the Eight Ball, failed sports journalist Dave Tickner and Dave’s brother Mick dissect every single one of those clichés, from behind the eight ball to tracer bullets via heavy balls and big bats, in painstaking detail whether you like it or not.
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Episode 14 - Cricket Needs A Strong West Indies
We do talk about the topic but also about Brian Lara being great, Ben Duckett's bat's axis of abscissa and Steve Smith (Dave is still rattled).
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Episode 13 - Politics (not really)
We sort of talk about cricket and how politicians use it for their lazy references. Loads of World Cup chat, stare out champinships and the new feature CBWP (Cricketers Bad Wikipedia Photos). CBWP #1 - Damien Martyn.
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Episode 11 - Ashes Hypocrisy
A slightly different episode in which Dave is let loose to rant for an extended period of time about why England and Australia are both just dreadful whinging hypocrites.
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Episode 10 - Test Cricket is/isn’t Dying
We have nudged and nurdled our way slowly to double figures. In this episode we introduce the DRS (the Dave Review System) and we discuss how test cricket might actually be dying. Test cricket is dead, long live test cricket.
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Episode 9 - Root Maths
Dave and Mick talk about stat noncing and why Joe Root had a golden period which coined the phrase, Root Maths.
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