Best of First Up for Friday 7 May

In the pod today: New Zealand's IPL cricketers begin their exodus from Covid-ravaged India; a middle-aged cool Mum doing stand up: flights to and from New South Wales are on hold until midnight Saturday after two new community Covid cases with no links to the border were identified in Sydney and enough's enough - Hutt Valley High School students and their parents shut out of their classrooms take an unscheduled lesson on the steps of Parliament.