The Bowler’s Pegging, The Batsman’s Arsehole | The History of Cricket (Part 1/2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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From Oliver Cromwell to Graham Gooch via Slavery and Rorke’s Drift, there is no sport with more historical symbolism than the battle between bat and ball. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, once again to Finn versus history.
0:15.0	As ever, I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:17.5	Batsman's Holding, bold as Willie.
0:19.0	And today it's a fun one it's the history of cricket
0:22.6	finally do you remember the batsman holders bowling willie yeah of course yeah yeah um this is one
0:29.7	the just see off our last few female listeners get in the bin yeah this one's for the lads
0:35.2	this is sort of after a battle where you're going stabbing the corpses to make sure yeah there's another second bullet in the head. Yep. This one's for the lads. This is sort of after a battle where you're going to stabbing the corpses to make sure
0:38.4	that there's none of the...
0:39.6	Second bullet in the head, bang.
0:40.9	Just in case.
0:42.4	I riddle it, really just riddling the corpse. We're playing with Gaddafi's corpse. Yes. That's what we're doing. Well, we went on a big cricket day out, didn't we? We did a couple of days ago.
0:49.4	I had a great time.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:50.3	Brilliant time.
0:51.0	We went on a company, a summer treat.
0:53.5	We went to the test world cup final.
0:56.7	First day between Australia and South Africa got absolutely cunted. Completely cunted. Had a massive curry. I'm still, I'm still, and we're all still recovering from it. We all agreed that our arces were going to be like failed states. We said it was all going to be. Eritrea. Yeah, I said after that my ass was like Gaddafi's after he was killed. Yeah.
1:28.0	And not in a good way. My ass is still like Somalia. It's just pirates everywhere. Corruption. I am de Poupu now. No, the institutions are completely crumbled. Black Hawk down. Is that you wiping your ass?
1:29.4	That's me wiping your ass.
1:30.3	Sending in the air troops and it's crashed.
1:34.8	But cricket, of course, is the oldest game.
1:39.4	Is it?
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