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The Final Word Cricket Podcast
Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword. Get your big NordVPN discount: https://nordvpn.com/tfw
Episodes
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Sri Lanka teach England a lesson - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 4
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 4: Pathum Nissanka enjoyed his finest moment as a Test opener, leading Sri Lanka to a stirring come-from-behind…
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England hand Test to Sri Lanka - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 3
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 3: The extent to which England have botched this deserves as much discussion as celebrating Sri Lanka for…
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Sri Lanka are in this - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2: Bad light, bad cricket, a big boy on debut and some offies from Chris Woakes. The day that was at The Oval…
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Pope's ton silences critics - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1: Ollie Pope had a shocker last week at Lord's but across the river to his dear old home ground, he was back to…
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If cricket isn't just for rich people, stop pricing it for rich people
Season 16, Episode 36: A big week, beginning with the very sad and seemingly inevitable confirmation that Will Pucovski's career will end early after one Test…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 200 – Raising the double ton
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go from Peggy Antonio on episode 200 to another pioneer from…
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More honours for Atkinson - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4: There wasn't much chance for Sri Lanka, and despite some effort to make a scrap of things, the margin was a big…
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Root's Twin Tons - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3: A day that went just as we all predicted needed something special, and Joe Root provided it by backing up his…
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Gus tons up! He can do no wrong - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2: Gus Atkinson's staggering Test summer continues, crushing a run-a-ball maiden ton to get on the Lord's boards…
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Roooooot does it a 33rd time - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1: Joe Root, ton machine. Lord's day one, England need someone to stand up, and there he is with a 33rd Test…
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Surprise! Jay Shah is the boss of cricket
Season 16, Episode 35: In a dramatic twist that nobody saw coming, the most powerful man in cricket continues to be the most powerful man in cricket. The only…
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The Final Word with Mark Nicholas
Season 16, Episode 34: August has been a great run for interviews on the pod. And today, to end this busy month, we bring you an hour with a man who has been…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 199 – The Taylor Swift First XI
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go to Adelaide all the time for cricket, but let's have the…
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Zaltzman and Norcross on England's win - England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 4
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 4: England get the job done, going one-nil up at Old Trafford. But that doesn't tell the full story of the…
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Jamie Smith's first of many - England West Indies Daily, Manchester Day 3
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 3: A clinical England took advantage of a curiously sleepy Sri Lanka, with Jamie Smith easing himself to a…
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New England shines in wet Manchester - England West Indies Daily, Manchester Day 2
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 2: On a wet day in Manchester, Sri Lanka were just about on top when Joe Root was dismissed. But then Harry…
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Sri Lanka saved by our man Dhananjaya - England West Indies Daily, Manchester Day 1
The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Manchester Day 1: Sri Lanka were cruising for a bruising after an early collapse on the opening day of the series but were…
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Stokes, Smith and the Sesquicentenary Test
Season 16, Episode 33: Sesquicentenary - such a satisfying word to say, and satisfying news this week with confirmation that the 150th anniversary of Test…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 198 – First against the wall when the revolution comes
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the full story of England's most underrated batting star, as we…
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The Final Word with Amanda-Jade Wellington
Season 16, Episode 32: Amanda Wellington! We've loved her work since we first saw her rip a cricket ball from leg to off in 2015. We've also loved the bubble…
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No, don't put more cricket behind a paywall
Season 16, Episode 31: It's Adam's birthday, and another decade approaches. So too do the 2028 Olympic Games, with cricket's moment coming up. Will it be…
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The Final Word with Jimmy Anderson
Season 16, Episode 30: A conversation with the most prolific fast bowler in the history of the game is the type of thing that might normally take us a couple…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 197 – The man who loved being whacked in the head
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, most people do not seem to relish being clobbered in the scone…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Adam Zampa
Season 16, Episode 29: The foundation of Australia's white-ball success in the post-Covid era has been the dependability of their star spinner, Adam Zampa. A…
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Turn down the Olympics, I'm trying to watch India-Sri Lanka
Season 16, Episode 28: Deep in the fervour of an Olympic week, falling in love with new sports around the clock, Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff to talk about…
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The Final Word with Jason Holder
Season 16, Episode 27: He's one of the most impressive figures in the contemporary game, and not just because he's about six foot eight. Jason Holder was the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 196 – The most stylish neckerchief in India
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, is it possible to arrive with cutlery during childbirth?…
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Did England sack the wrong guy?
Season 16, Episode 26: Matthew Mott has got the chop as a national coach, but should England have followed tradition and blamed the Buttler instead? There's a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 195 – The search for cricket's Private Ryan
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're on the trail of someone very hard to track down. Where…
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Ben Stokes breaks a record - England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston Day 3
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston, Day 3: In a familiar tale, West Indies started the day with some hope of staying in the game. Mikyle Louis had…
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Will Root overtake Sachin? - England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston Day 2
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston, Day 2: Does Joe Root end up overtaking Sachin Tendulkar's Test runs tally? We are distracted by that question…
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WI somehow take day one honours - England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston Day 1
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Edgbaston, Day 1: What a strange old day that was. For almost all of it, it felt like England would sleep well tonight. But…
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Justin Langer = Ted Lasso?
Season 16, Episode 25: Another week, another proposed job for Justin Langer. Sure, he doesn't want it, and the AFL club doesn't want it, but it's a fun idea…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 194 – Nobody can stop the Railway Hotel
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go from the very top of the game to the Kevin Bartlett…
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Joe Root, ton machine - England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge Day 4
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge, Day 4: That escalated quickly. Another long and competitive day of Test cricket, with West Indies holding the…
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Shamar Joseph loves No.11 - England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge Day 3
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge, Day 3: You never quite know what's going to happen, and after three quick wickets on the third day, another…
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Kavem Hodge's maiden ton - England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge Day 2
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Trent Bridge, Day 2: It was doom and gloom after Lord's and not unreasonably so - the Windies were uncompetitive in London…
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Is anyone happy? - England West Indies Daily, Notts Day 1
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Notts Test, Day 1: It's a strange day when 400+ runs are smashed but the batting team goes to bed short of satisfied. Who…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 193 – The best captains Australia never had
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we might all have ideas about the players who should have…
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Euros, assassinations, and no Test cricket
Season 16, Episode 24: The weekend was enormous, though not due to any Test cricket being played at Lord's. Instead of a close fifth day, Sunday had a gunman…
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James Anderson's last stand - England West Indies Daily, Lord's Day 3
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Lord's Test, Day 3: It's all over, and Jimmy Week became a shortened Jimmy Three Days. Gus Atkinson had a much bigger say…
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Brathwaite gets schooled - England West Indies Daily, Lord's Day 2
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Lord's Test, Day 2: This game is moving quickly, with Joe Root purring along and Harry Brook promising more before falling…
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Atkinson's 7fa on debut - England West Indies Lord's Day 1
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Lord's Test, Day 1: Well how about that! It was Jimmy's Day in the script but Gus Atkinson's in reality, snaring 7/45 on…
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Farewell, Jimmy - England West Indies Lord's preview
The 2024 England West Indies Daily, Lord's Test, Day 0: It is Jimmy Anderson Week at Lord's, with England's most prolific player finishing his run with his…
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Every Jay Shah wants to rule the world
Season 16, Episode 23: We might be about to see major changes at the ICC, if the man who already has the most power in cricket formally takes over the show…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 192 – The biggest run chase of all
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, something so remarkable happened that we had to shake up the…
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Geoff’s stuck in a hurricane
Season 16, Episode 22: With Geoff marooned in Barbados because of Hurricane Beryl, we have Cam Ponsonby jumping into the co-host chair for the first time on a…
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The morning after India's triumph - T20 World Cup Aftermath
2024 T20 World Cup... the day after! At Kennington Oval in London (as opposed to Kensington Oval in Barbados) Adam Collins has Daniel Norcross with him to…
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India pull it out of the fire - T20 World Cup Final! Day 29
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 29, the final! India v South Africa It was a final worthy of the occasion, one that swung one way and then another, back and forth…
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Our final preview - T20 World Cup Daily 28
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 27, final preview: India v South Africa The big one is here... India v South Africa. It's the right combination too, with these teams…
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Ollie Robinson and history's worst over
Season 16, Episode 21: What the hell? The record (the real record) for most expensive over in first-class cricket has stood for decades, and then it gets both…
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India to the final again - T20 World Cup Daily 27
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 27, second semi-final: India v England It wasn't the biggest margin, but it was an outclassing in all departments. India ran the game…
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At last, South Africa make a final - T20 World Cup Daily 26
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 26: South Africa v Afghanistan No sense being vague here - it was an absolute thrashing. South Africa's quicks took apart Afghanistan's…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 191 – The day that Don Bradman cut sick
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the aftermath of September 11 in Pakistan cricket, a revolution…
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Afghans knock out Aus again - T20 World Cup Daily 24.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 24.2: Afghanistan v Bangladesh Another knockout in the group stage, with three teams having a chance based on the result, and…
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Rohit leaves Aussies teetering - T20 World Cup Daily 24.1
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 24.1: India v Australia What a performance from India’s captain. With Australia needing to win to realistically keep their hopes alive…
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South Africa face the choke - T20 World Cup Daily 23.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 23.2: South Africa v West Indies It was effectively a knockout, so the spectre of a South African choke was always on. They bowled…
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England are through! - T20 World Cup Daily 23.1
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 23.1: England v USA Despite it being not even eight days ago, it feels an eternity since England were on the brink of being bounced out…
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Afghanistan shock Australia! - T20 World Cup Daily 22.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 22.2: Australia v Afghanistan After their all-timer in Mumbai at last year's one-day World Cup, and the boycotting of bilateral series…
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Are India unbeatable? - T20 World Cup Daily 22.1
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 22.1: India v Bangladesh After a polished performance against Bangladesh, this increasingly feels like the question – can anyone match…