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Referenced when discussing why Martin Amis chose darts over cricket for his character Keith Talent, noting that darts can be explained in five minutes unlike cricket's complexity

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Introduced as a book written by the podcast guest John Houghton, described as 'modestly titled'

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Referenced as an early historical record of cricket - the son of a publican began writing down stories of cricketers he'd seen in his youth, making these 'the first cricketers we really know about'

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Mentioned in discussion of the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England, noting Darwin's work 'had just come out' about 10 years earlier, affecting how the visiting team was perceived

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Referenced as the cricket almanac that first came out in 1864, the same year overarm bowling was legalized, described as part of 'cricket's great hinterlands' of statistical record-keeping