Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: 22 'Story Time' tales from hit podcast The Final Word

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No sport does storytelling like cricket agame as full of heroes, villains, politics, and drama as any Shakespearean play.

Andfew have explored those stories as far and wide as Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the history spin-off to beloved podcast The Final Word, they have followed their listeners clues to track down the wildest characters, matches, and situations the pitch has seen.

Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragicsbrings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, from the 1879 riot in Sydney sparked by an umpires call, the all-rounder who tried to rob the Catholic Church, the biggest defeat in history, and much more.

Author Bio

Geoff Lemonhas covered cricket as a writer and broadcaster since 2010, including touring with the Australian mens and womens teams since 2013, for outlets including the ABC, BBC,Wisden Almanack,TheGuardian,The Cricketer,The Saturday Paperand Cricinfo. He has worked on radio and television in Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Caribbean, Ireland and the UAE, and hosts cricket podcastThe Final Word. His writing outside sport appears in places likeBest Australian Stories,The MonthlyandMeanjin. Hes editor of one of Australias oldest literary publications,Going Down Swinging, and formerly directed the National Young Writers Festival. His previous books were the essay collectionThe Sturgeon General Presents, collaborative novelWillow Pattern, and poetry collectionSunblind. Adam Collinsis an Australian cricket journalist, author, and broadcaster. Adam was a senior adviser to the former federal Labor government, for the most part on the staff of then federal treasurer Wayne Swan. In between Canberra stints, he worked for the organisingcommitteeof the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A Melbourne sports nut from central casting, he follows cricket and footy first and foremost, but plenty else as well.He was named the 2020Cricket Writers' ClubChristopher Martin-JenkinsBroadcaster of the Year. In 2024, Collins co-authoredGlenn Maxwellsautobiography.