How's Stat

Crafted for all the county fans out there, we welcome Harry Everett (Voice of Somerset CC), Wilf Lo (@CountyChat) and member of the fabled Patsy Hendren AF Whatsapp Group Dave Hartley, to the pod. Who will be the biggest County Cricket Badger? Tune in to find out.

• Round one - Name the Kabir Ali
• Round two - The Brad Wheal of Fortune
• Round three - Do you know your Graham Onions?
• Round four - Surrey, that's Notts the right answer.

You can find Harry on at @Harryweverett, Wilf at @thecountychat, and Dave doesn't want to be found.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along.

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Finally, the denouement of the longest test series in history is here! Gary has pulled out all the stops for the final quiz, as Dave and Lee have each won two tests. It's a musically themed, niche test match quiz podcast. What's not to like? Find out who wins and tell your cricket-loving friends.

Rounds include:

• Hotel Kallis-Fornia
• I just died in your arms Craig White
• Do you Brearley want to hurt me?
• 99 problems and the pitch is one.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments, or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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The longest test series in cricket history is back, with Lee taking on Dave in the fourth match. Gary asks the questions: will Lee claw his way back into the five-match series, or will Dave take a 3-1 lead? Tune in to find out!

Rounds include:

• Never Mind the Pollocks
• Linked-Inzamam Ul-Haq
• I'm sorry I haven't got a Klusener

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments, or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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A little bonus content for our loyal listeners, as Dave is joined by Joe (@Joekeeps) and Jack (@leftarmerseamer_) for a cricket content head-to-head.

Both prefer test cricket from 2005, so that's what they got. Who will win out in this four-round quiz on the purest form of the game.

Rounds include:

• Vaughan Supremacy
• Alistair Cooked to perfection
• Na-Rine Time

Make sure you follow both @joekeeps and @leftarmerseamer_ on instagram.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments, or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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The purest form of the game is back, as we head into game three of the test series. The series between Lee and Dave is tantalisingly poised at 1-1 as Gary poses the questions, with some textbook literary cricket puns.

Rounds include:

• Grapes of Gough
• 1984-runs
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Ashwell Prince
• Slip Catcher in the Rye

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments, or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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After Lee's coaching exploits with the Brazil Cricket Women's team in Rwanda, we're back with a quick T20 to warm us up for some Test action. Hear from Lee as he talks through the tournament and what it's like to coach in a Super Over. Dave, with a gravelly/patch voice, is in the chair as Gary and Lee compete in the short form of the game. Dave would like to apologise to Lee publicly for getting a question completely wrong; see if you can spot which one.

Rounds are:

• Gladstone Small Talk
• Different Stokes for different Foakes
• Morne Sporcle

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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For this pod we welcome another guest, this time it's social media star, club cricketer and Rob Key fan Liam Clarke (@liambeforewicket). He is up against Gary in this four-round How's Stat special with our usual focus on international cricket, despite Liam's love for county. Will the upstart Liam manage to unsettle the wily Gary?

Rounds include:

Hot to Jonathan Trot

Who Aatif Na-Waz that?

Will Jacks to the Future

You can find Liam on all social media platforms on @liambeforewicket

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

To find out more about the Clean Bowled Pod, head over to their Instagram page

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We're back with a very special guest, as TMS Commentator, comedian and cricket nut Aatif Nawaz joins Lee and Dave on the pod. Lee is the question master as Dave tries to out-trivia one of the best in the game. Will Aatif's years of commentating on the beautiful game pay off?

Listen to find out!

Rounds include:

• You don't Rothesay: it's the County Championship
• That's a Laura, Laura wickets and runs.
• More reasons to shop at Danny Morrisons

You can find Aatif on Instagram at @cricketwithAatif or @aatifnawaz.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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We're back with a pod-off as Sab and Kieron from the Clean Bowled podcast join us. Fresh from South Africa beating India in the T20 World Cup, the boys test their cricket knowledge against regular How's Statter Gary, with Dave asking the questions (Lee was stuck coaching cricket in Brazil, of course). How will the new pod get on?

The round names are:

Round 1 - How's Stat

Round 2 - Sach-In the ball park

Round 3 - Revenge of the Smith

Round 4 - The Everton Week-est Link

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

To find out more about the Clean Bowled Pod, head over to their Instagram page

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

We have a YouTube channel!

Check out pod snippets and our How's Stat challenge game here

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Gary is back in the question chair, as we fire out another meaningless T20 encounter.

Three rounds of mainly test-match trivia and some word play await our avid listeners.

The round names are:

Round 1 - Holding out for a hero

Round 2 - No block-busters

Round 3 - Scrambled Singles

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along.

Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

We have a YouTube channel! Check out pod snippets and our How's Stat challenge game here

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Test cricket is back, baby! We return to the purest form of cricket in the second test between Lee and Dave. Gary has set a fiendish quiz with a culinary theme, but will Dave go two-up in the series, or will Lee level it up? Also, look out for our most ridiculous round name yet...talking of which.

The round names are:

Round 1 - How's Stat

Round 2 - Chicken Aravinda-loo De Silva

Round 3 - Buffet Bowling

Round 4 - Curtly Ambrosia Devon Malcolm Clive Rice Pudding

Round 5- Alistair Can't Cook Won't Cook

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along.

Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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We're back in our PJ's again as Dave sets a frankly ridiculous T20 quiz. We plumb new depths with some absurd rounds, which will most likely be consigned to the annals of history. Will Lee or Gary come out on top in this spicy T20 encounter?

The round names are:

Round 1 - T20 Questions

Round 2 - Quinton De Kock-Busters

Round 3 - Spelling Brett Lee

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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We're back with some proper cricket quizzing this time, as the new test series starts in earnest. Gary has delivered five full days of questions (none of this two-day malarkey), as Lee and Dave face-off in this vital first test. This matchup has a music theme, with some of the most tenuous - and longest - round names we've had. We hope you enjoy.

The round names are:

Round 2 - Nick Knight's in white Satin

Round 3 - We made our love at Newlands, through the Matthew Wade

Round 4 - Itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot Ntini

Round 5 - Hooper Freak, Hooper Freak, he's Hooper Freaky.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

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We kick off this year with our shorter quiz format, which revisits the most recent Ashes series.

Whilst it might induce mild PTSD in English listeners, Dave and Gary take on Lee's twenty-point challenge, with the usual array of incompetence, punning and mirth. We hope you play along and let us know how you go!

The round names are:

Round 1 - They're still Gabbering on with the same old nonsense

Round 2 - Head and Shoulders

Round 3 - You Bet-hell

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

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Ho, ho, ho! Welcome to the How's Stat Christmas special. As Lee and Gary are on the travels, Lee has put together a quiz themed around the twelve days of Christmas, but recorded purely via the medium of Whatsapp notes. Gary and Dave did not listen to each others answers...see how it turned out!

The round names are:

Twelve Daniel Bell-Drummonds Drumming

Eleven Who Sponsors the Piping on International Cricket Shirts

Ten Batters at Lords are Leaping

Nine Ladies Dancing

Eight Bowlers are bowing Maidens the Batters are Failing to Milk Any Runs

Seven Graeme Swann’s are Quitting

Six Geese are Laying

Five Gold Rings

Four Bad Calling Leads to Run Outs Some Probably Given by Dickie Birds

Three Bruce French Hens

Two Turtle Doves (The Tortoise of the Sea)

And a Partridge in I’d Rather be a Bear Than a Pear Tree

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

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In a first for How's Stat, Dave and Gary take on two guests in a head-to-head format. As it's Ashes season, we welcome two ardent Ozzies and veterans of the European Cricket League commentary box Andrew Ryan and Vinny 'Mr Maximo' Sandhu.

Each team has come armed with three rounds of 10. Who will win out in this, the real Ashes (Quiz)?

Round names include:

- Media-ocre

- Waugh, huh! What are they good for?

- Unskilled immigration

- Outside sledge

- David Gravy

-train

Tune in to this bumper pod to see takes home Ashes bragging rights!

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

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In this mini-pod, we hear about Lee's cricketing adventures from Cyprus to Nepal (where he joins us from).

We hear about how cricket is developing in Nepal, particularly with women and girls. No pod would be complete without a quiz, so Dave tries to name the top 10 from the Guardian's top 100 Ashes heroes.

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along.

Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

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For this special podcast, we welcome Jonny, Ivan and Lawrie from the Pads and Pints podcast.

They take on Lee in an every man for themself battle in the test arena.

Will Lee keep his trivia crown or is there a new badger in the sett?

The rounds are:

1) How's Stat (Name the player, with a link)

2) We need to talk about Kevin (Which first names have had multiple english test players in the 2000s)

3) I'm sorry I've gone for a few (Name the bowler from the expensive spell, sent in by listener Will Reynolds)

4) This quiz Khan't last forever (Name the sides when England hosted Pakistan at the Oval in 1996)

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

You can find more about Pads and Pints on theirinstagram and YouTube channels.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

We have a new YouTube channel! Check out pod snippets and our new How's Stat challenge game here

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We're back with the finale of this mini T20 series, as Gary takes over the questions, with Lee and Dave battling out for victory.

Please note that this was recorded before the passing of Dickie Bird.

The rounds are:

1) Can't hit off the celebrity square (Name the batters with 9,000 test runs but less than 50 strike rate)

2) Done a stretch of Dickie Bird (Guess the cricketer from the clue and their crime)

3) Nothing in this game for two in a Bedser (Match the player with the most test wicket for their country from their stats)

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

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The T20 quiz action keeps coming; this time, Dave poses the questions with an Oasis theme. Will Lee or Gary end up with the victors in this pun-heavy episode?

The rounds are:

1) ShakerLaker (Guess the spinner from the rhyming clue)

2) Shiv Forever (Name the 2nd-highest male test run-scorer from each nation)

3) Don't look back in Upul Tharanga (Name non-English male ODI players who made their debut as close to 2005 as possible, but not before)

4) An impromptu Champagne Super-Over (How many ODI runs did Upul Tharanga get?)

As always, we hope you enjoy the pod and play along. Please drop us an email with round suggestions, comments or just to say hello at howsstatpod@gmail.com.

Want a How's Stat T-shirt? You're in luck! Our friends at Bluefintees have created our first merchandise. You can buy it here: the 10% discount code is 'stat'.

We have a new YouTube channel! Check out pod snippets and our new How's Stat challenge game here

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