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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, some players are top of the good stats, others see things slip through their fingers. There's an unlikely county champ from the far side of the globe, a champion who just popped in from the gardening, and the ultimate purveyor of drowning them in honey... Adam and Geoff are back for Story Time with four long-time pledgers and a dash of Chesney.
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2.60 - Randolph Brazier
5.60 - Robin Fritz
4.37 - David Honeyball
6.20 - Luke Reynolds
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"Story Time 284 – Good set of hands in the slips, good set of slips in the hands" is an episode of The Final Word Cricket Podcast. Runtime 1 hr 18 min. Published August 31, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.