Looking at Australia and South Africa's World Cup in 1999. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can find him on Twitter at https://…

Bangladesh and Scotland's sliding doors, plus Zimbabwe's greatest moments. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can find him on Twi…

How Sri Lanka won more games in one tournament than in their entire World Cup history. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can fin…

The 1996 World Cup really started before with a horrendous act of terrorism, Kenya shook up the world, the UAE had a tough time, and the West Indies passed over the baton to Australia. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his ma…

How New Zealand helped change the game, and Pakistan finally climbed to top of the mountain. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you c…

The World Cup in coloured clothing with a new old team coming back and a chicken farmer. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can f…

The last World Cup played in whites was actually the start of ODI cricket as we know it. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can f…

The World Cup that changed cricket forever. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can find him on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com…

Sri Lanka almost gets banned from cricket, Denmark miss out due the fact their semi final opponent was changed due to Israel, Geoffrey Boycott bowls swing to win a match and the West Indies win their second straight tournament. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces…

Angry pitch invaders, a dirty protest, a Haemorrhoid operation, the greatest all-round performance in a World Cup and Clive Lloyd. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It i…

The first men's World Cup was in 1975, but that is not the first in cricket. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mukherjee, you can find him on T…

In 1963, Middlesex got caught in traffic, and that set up one of the stupidest matches in cricket history. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It is written by Abhishek Mu…

Cricket has been stopped by many things outside of rain and light, we bring you this episode to add two of the stupidest reasons cricket matches have been delayed. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: htt…

In the history of our game we have had famous actors and authors who also played first-class, and even Test cricket. Plus Frankenstein's monster was a keeper. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week, we look at when batters took over the game, and the MCC tried to stop the big hitting in the worst way possible. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber p…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. how in 1846, two teams of players went up against a bowling machine. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many proje…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week, a story about how the strongest man in cricket got hurt, and that changed how we protect ourselves. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and n…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week, a story about how the real Ashes was not England vs Australia, it was smokers vs non-smokers. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrate…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week we have a whole episode on why we have three stumps in cricket. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his ma…

This season we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week we are talking about bubblegum and bails. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his many projects here: https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. It i…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week we are talking about some of the best players ever who played in matches where they used brooms as bats. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces a…

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week we are talking about an incredible women's cricket team from country Australia. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, …

This is a new season of Double Century, and we wanted to explore some of the weirder things about our game. So this week we are talking about the famous one arm, one leg cricket matches. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces and narrates this series, check out his …

This is the final episode on a cricketer who never became professional. Mohebullah Archiwal is his name, but he prefers to be called Archi. We don’t know how talented he was, there are stories that he had talent, but instead of representing Afghanistan, he fought for his life, his country, and his freedom. This is the story of the Shahid Afridi of …

This is a new season on a cricketer who never became professional. Mohebullah Archiwal is his name, but he prefers to be called Archi. We don’t know how talented he was, there are stories that he had talent, but instead of representing Afghanistan, he fought for his life, his country, and his freedom. This is the story of the Shahid Afridi of Kansa…

This is a new season on a cricketer who never became professional. Mohebullah Archiwal is his name, but he prefers to be called Archi. We don’t know how talented he was, there are stories that he had talent, but instead of representing Afghanistan, he fought for his life, his country, and his freedom. This is the story of the Shahid Afridi of Kansa…

This is a new season on a cricketer who never became professional. Mohebullah Archiwal is his name, but he prefers to be called Archi. We don’t know how talented he was, there are stories that he had talent, but instead of representing Afghanistan, he fought for his life, his country, and his freedom. This is the story of the Shahid Afridi of Kansa…

This is a new season on a cricketer who never became professional. Mohebullah Archiwal is his name, but he prefers to be called Archi. We don’t know how talented he was, there are stories that he had talent, but instead of representing Afghanistan, he fought for his life, his country, and his freedom. This is the story of the Shahid Afridi of Kansa…

This mini-season we look at one of the most emotional Tests ever played. Staged just after Phil Hughes' death, this Adelaide Oval Test became a memorial to the Australian, as Virat Kohli just wanted to win the match. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces, narrates …

This mini-season we look at one of the most emotional Tests ever played. Staged just after Phil Hughes' death, this Adelaide Oval Test became a memorial to the Australian, as Virat Kohli just wanted to win the match. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces, narrates …

This mini-season we look at one of the most emotional Tests ever played. Staged just after Phil Hughes' death, this Adelaide Oval Test became a memorial to the Australian, as Virat Kohli just wanted to win the match. - To support Double Century please go to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. Jarrod Kimber produces, narrates …

This episode is about Charles Lennox, the 2nd Duke of Richmond who was the first great patron in the history of the sport. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id6443234103. To support Double Century please go…

This episode is about Lalit Modi, the megalomaniac who built the Indian Premier League to change cricket forever and now lives in exile. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id6443234103. To support Double Cen…

This episode is about Shaun Martyn, who runs a league that breaks tradition to look beyond gender and geography at the same time. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id6443234103. To support Double Century pl…

This episode is about Abe Bailey, a gold tycoon who crossed the equator over a hundred times, and who bought South Africa’s way into the upper echelons of cricket. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id644323…

This week we're just taking a slight break in Double Century's normal programming to give you the history of Cricket and Hawkeye, because I stumbled onto something that I thought you would all enjoy. We'll be back next week to finish our series on the people who bought cricket. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://a…

This episode is about a media tycoon called Subhash Chandra. Snubbed by the BCCI over a television contract, Chandra bought Indian cricketers to launch his personal league that produced a butterfly effect that was set to change cricket forever. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our…

This episode is about William Clarke, a legendary one-eyed cricketer and owner of the first national-level franchise in the history of cricket. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id6443234103. To support Dou…

This episode is about Allen Stanford, who arrived as a messiah for West Indies cricket and dished out prize money too astonishing even by IPL standards. He turned out to be a crook who is currently serving a 110-year-old prison sentence. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcas…

We take a break from our current series to look at how Christmas and Cricket have intersected over the years. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id6443234103. To support Double Century please go to our Patre…

This episode is about Dr Ali Bacher, a Test captain who brought international cricket to South Africa when no one wanted to tour. He did it by luring them with more money than they would have made from playing cricket for their countries. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podca…

This episode is about Julien Cahn, a rich philanthropist who batted in oversized pads, had all-time great cricketers on his payroll, saved two county cricket clubs from financial crisis, spent a life trying to be accepted by the British establishment, and has a trophy named after him in Cuba. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1…

This episode is about the Indian princes, Maharajkumar of Vizianagaram and Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala. Their money, power, and ambitions determined the course of Indian cricket before Independence, particularly in the 1930s. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts,…

A new season of Double Century where we look at the people who have purchased parts of the game over the years. Princes, administrators, TV owners and many more have bought a part of the game for their own benefit. We tell the story of the people who bought cricket. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg…

In this episode, it’s the USA, an ancient cricketing power. This is about the oldest international cricket rivalry, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Hollywood, Bradman, ten-ball overs, and a battle with Baseball. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over …

In this episode, it’s Kenya, a team of many families, of tennis and table tennis players, of dreams that came true and of a rise as steep as the decline that followed. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. - To find all our podcasts, head over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/99-94dm/id64…

In this episode, it’s Hong Kong, one-half of a cricketing rivalry older than the Ashes. This is about recovering from a shipwreck that claimed most of its cricketers, a novel cricket format, a batter whose six-hitting stopped a match, and using social media to recruit cricketers. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http:/…

In this episode, it’s Namibia, a country a little more than three decades old who have already caused ripples in world cricket. This is about a doctor and conservationist who played World Cups in two different sports in the same year, a world record in first-class cricket, South African imports, and an ICC Trophy heartbreak. - Find the 99.94 app he…

In this episode, it's Denmark, a country that produced an English Test player, a Derbyshire cult hero, a run machine who won two Olympic silver medals, and had to learn how to manufacture their own failed cricket bats during a World War. They also formed one half of continental Europe's greatest cricket rivalry, and somehow never made a men's World…

In this episode, it’s the Netherlands, the first nation outside Britain and her colonies to play serious cricket. They have beaten Australia and England, and their women have played a Test match, something their men haven’t. - Find the 99.94 app here: Android: http://bit.ly/3S29f1R iOS: http://apple.co/3ovg0M5. To find all our podcasts, head over h…