New Bugle! We celebrate the end of the world, no, hang on, it's just an eclipse. Phew! With Nish Kumar Alice R Fraser. There's other news too.

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Another Warwickshire stat: top three have all made 175+. It's the first time in first-class history that numbers 1,2 & 3 have all reached 150. Also the 4th FC innings with three 175+ scores (Hyderabad v Andhra, Jan 1994; West Indians v Leics, Jul 1950; NSW v Victoria, Jan 1909)

It is now... 555-1 is the highest ever 1st-innings score with one wicket down, by a team that has put in to bat in FC cricket. Previously: Karnataka, 553-1 v Madhya Pradesh, Nov 2004.

... Both Worcs & Glam hit three threes in the first three overs of the match. CricViz data (where ball-by-ball available) has only 15 previous instances of a team hitting 3 3s inside 3 overs at start of an FC game. It had never happened (a) in April; and (b) twice on same day.

I'm going to say: YES. Definitely almost certainly a record, Henry...

The final two Bugle Live shows of our current tour are: Edinburgh, Queen's Hall, tonight, with James Nokise and Josh Gondelman;
Salford, Lowry, Saturday 30th, with Alice Fraser (@aliterative) and Tiffany Stevenson.
Details and tickets: thebuglepodcast.com/live

We avoided the macro (awful) news this week and zoomed in on the micro (petty) ones instead. With Andy Zaltzman Nato Green Ria Lina ⚜️

In the ‘news’…

👕Football shirts
🍔Junk food
💨Vaping
😵Not cross buns

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Mendis' 266 runs in the match is 2nd-most scored by a batter at no.7 or lower in a Test, after Bradman's 270 (all 2nd inns) at MCG in 1936-37 Ashes. stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stat…
Mendis' 164 is 6th highest score at 8 or lower in Tests (2nd highest in 2nd inns). stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stat…

... This is the third instance of two players on the same team scoring centuries in both innings of a Test, after: Ian and Greg Chappell, Aus v NZ, Wellington, 1973-74; Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq, Pak v Aus, Abu Dhabi, 2014-15.

More century stats from SL v Bangladesh... Kamindu Mendis is the first player to score two centuries in a Test when batting 7 or lower in both innings... Dhananjaya the 3rd (and Mendis the 4th) to score two centuries batting at six or lower in a Test... stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stat…

I make it the 4th instance of two centuries in all-out score <300, after:
Petersen 100/Amla 114, SA 296ao v Ind, Kolkata Feb 2010
Ryder 102/Vettori 118, NZ 279ao v Ind, Hamilton Mar 2009
Lawry 105/Ian Chappell 117, Aus 284ao v WI, Brisbane Dec 1968

No - Bradman and Barnes both made 234 v England at SCG in December 1946 espncricinfo.com/series/england…

STAT ALERT: Sri Lanka's 280 v Bangladesh is (assuming I've crunched the numbers correctly) the lowest all-out team total in Test history to contain a 200+ partnership: stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stat…

Bristol folks: This looks good, is free, is this week.

Andy Zaltzman Andy Zaltzman and Rosie Holt Rosie Holt discussing past, present and future of satire through a classics lens.

Hummina hummina.

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Some my as per STUNNING crowd work Old Rope with a young couple

Next show is Monday 11th March The Comedy Store, UK with a bonkers line up of Andy Zaltzman Ria Lina ⚜️ Lou Sanders , Luke McQueen , Rachel Parris Dane Baptiste/A$ap BAP/Joke Dza and Nish Kumar
Tickets here -
london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/old-rope/

We’re back for the final episode of this series! 6:30pm on BBC Radio 4

Andy Zaltzman is joined by

simon evans
Mark Steel
Zoe Lyons
and making her debut Marie Le Conte

Written by Andy

&
Meryl O'Rourke
Cody Dahler
Molly McGuinness
Pete Tellouche
Christina Riggs

According to CricViz data, Jaiswal's 3 sixes in Shoaib Bashir's first over is the 2nd time a bowler has been hit for 3 sixes in his first over of a Test inns (after Eng's Maurice Tate clonking 3 sixes off SA's Bruce Mitchell, final completed over of drawn Test, Durban, Feb 1931)

Jaiswal joins this tidy list of players with 700+ runs in a Test series v England:
George Headley
Don Bradman (x3)
Garfield Sobers (x2)
Viv Richards
Mark Taylor
Brian Lara (x2)
Graeme Smith
Steve Smith.
stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stat… #INDvENG