In anticipation of our 99 Semi-Final special, The Greatest Season That Was Presents...Dan Brettig with Tim Lane talking about the 99 Cricket World Cup. Our semi-final episode will be finished (finally) very soon. Our next series, The Greatest

11: Australia - Damien Fleming

Aug 1st, 2019 1h 29m

Australia’s World Cup record stands above all others. After 2019 they sit on 5 titles and justifiable claims to be the World Cup kings over its 44 year history, with India and the West Indies sitting far behind on two wins each.Implausible as

10: South Africa - Lance Klusener

Jun 30th, 2019 1h 35m

South Africa announced its arrival back to world cricket at the 1992 World Cup and they were immediately a force.Whilst results in Test cricket were strong, it was one day cricket that had grown around the world in South Africa’s absence, and

9: India - Harsha Bhogle

Jun 22nd, 2019 1h 4m

Throughout the course of the 1990s, India’s standing in the global game experienced a revolution, turbocharged by a passion for one-day international cricketBy the time the 1999 World Cup rolled around, expectations were lofty. Having fallen s

8: New Zealand - Geoff Allott

Jun 19th, 2019 1h 21m

There were more than a few breakout stories in 99, but few morefascinating than that of a left-arm pace bowling spearhead from NewZealand who used a three fingers "claw" grip on the white Dukes ballto swing it just the right amount and finish t

7: Zimbabwe - Andy Flower

Jun 14th, 2019 1h 22m

By 1999 Zimbabwe had experienced some fleeting success at World Cups; upsetting Australia in 1983, and Eddo Brandes destroying England in 1992 being the standouts.The era that followed those landmark wins however, is a beacon for Zimbabwe cric

6: Inaugural CEO of the English & Wales Cricket Board - Tim Lamb

Jun 8th, 2019 26m 42s

As a follow-up to our episode with Tournament Director Terry Blake, Adam Collins talks to Tim Lamb, the CEO of the English & Wales Cricket Board during the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TGSTWSee omnystudio.c

5: Tournament Director - Terry Blake

Jun 7th, 2019 59m 10s

After a trying decade for England cricket, their chance to host the 1999 World Cup was seen as a prized opportunity to revitalize the sport by capturing the public imagination when the carnival came to town. It was a mighty task. To do so, a lo

4: Bangladesh - Aminul Islam

Jun 2nd, 2019 1h 20m

They were called the ‘minnows’ the non-Test playing nations that won their way through to the World Cup. Pre 1999 Sri Lanka, East Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe, Kenya, the Netherlands and the UAE had all played World Cups without Test status.In 1

3: England - Alec Stewart

May 30th, 2019 1h 7m

If the 1980s was English cricket’s decade of sex, drugs and rock and roll excess, the 1990s were its decidedly milder and meeker decade. An English team that for the most part had been losing, slipped further in the pecking order of world crick

2: Why 99?

May 28th, 2019 22m 47s

The Greatest Season That Was Presents...99 The Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins, Dan Brettig and Shannon Gill are back with a new series that tells the story of the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Was it the greatest? Let us know what you think on Twi

1: The Greatest Season That Was Presents...99 The Cricket World Cup

May 27th, 2019 2m 45s

Was 1999 The Greatest Cricket World Cup there was? Perhaps. If not the greatest, what about the quirkiest? The most interesting? Over the next seven weeks, Adam Collins, Dan Brettig and Shannon Gill will share their reasons why the 1999 Cricke

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