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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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Here come the Windies - T20 World Cup Daily 21.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 21.2: West Indies v USA We have seen signs over the last week that the Windies are emerging as one of the biggest contenders for this…
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Harry Brook v South Africa - T20 World Cup Daily 21.1
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 21.1: England v South Africa It was back to Group 2, for the unbeaten South Africans taking on the newly awakened English. Quinton de…
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Patrick hat-trick - T20 World Cup Daily 20.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 20.2, Super 8s, Australia v Bangladesh Bangladesh scraped into the second stage of this tournament after a poor group stage, and had an…
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SKY goes blue - T20 World Cup Daily 20.1
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 20.1: India v Afghanistan Not everything is going easily for India. Rohit and Kohli are having their troubles at the top. Dube isn’t…
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Bairstow is annoyed - T20 World Cup Daily 19.2
2024 T20 World Cup, Day 19.2: West Indies v England After England scraped through the group stage and West Indies battered Afghanistan on the same ground two…
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Respect the USA - T20 World Cup Daily 19.1
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 19.1: South Africa v USA The Americans are the story of this tournament. And sure, they weren't good enough to get over the…
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A night for muscles - T20 World Cup Daily 18
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 18: West Indies v Afghanistan The game happened on Day 17, but we talked about it on Day 18, after the pool stage came to an…
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Climate change will keep hurting our game
Season 16, Episode 20: The research is clear: the effects of the climate emergency on cricket will be significant and the horrible floods and storms in Florida…
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Ferguson's perfect game - T20 World Cup Daily 17
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 17: New Zealand v Papua New Guinea, Netherlands v Sri Lanka Baseball has the shut-out. Ten-pin bowling has the perfect game…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 16
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 16: Pakistan v Ireland; Australia v Scotland A shocker of a game ends the Group A adventure, Pakistan doing marginally less…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 15.2
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 15.2: England v Namibia, Uganda v NZ The rain came, the rain stayed, but with little time to spare the rain eventually left…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 15.1
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 15.1: India v Canada, Nepal v South Africa More rain in Florida washed out another game, the flood mixing with the tears of TV…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 190 – "Long live Victoria!"
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Dusty Old Bastard with a twist - an ideas man with fast hands…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 14
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 14: USA v Ireland, Afghanistan v PNG As the rain falls in Florida, the USA go through! Into the Super Eights thanks to an extra…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 13
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 13: England v Oman, West Indies v NZ, Sri Lanka v Nepal, Netherlands v Bangladesh. After all of those days of talking about…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 12
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 12: India v USA The last day on Long Island came down to this. Group leaders India versus surprise packet the USA. And it was…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 11
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 11: Pakistan v Canada As far as must-win games go, this was very must and not very win for Pakistan, who once again had to wade…
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Bumble for England (over 70s)!
Season 16, Episode 19: David 'Bumble' Lloyd was one of our most entertaining guests way back in the early days of the pandemic. He's back with us today to…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 10
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 10: South Africa v Bangladesh, Scotland v Oman Another New York day, another last-ball thriller, another low-scoring run chase…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 9
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 9: India v Pakistan The Big Bertha of cricket matches came around at last, with the Nassau Stadium on Long Island packed to…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 8.2
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 8.2: The heavyweight contest of Group B took place in Barbados, with England needing a win more badly than Australia giving the…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 8.1
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 8.1: Netherlands v South Africa, Bangladesh v Sri Lanka What an opening week of this tournament! The Dutch have a habit of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 189 – The Marsh Supremacy
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at the point when a Marsh coincidence became a Marsh…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 7
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 7: Canada v Ireland O Canada! A first T20 World Cup win for the Maple Leafers, defending 137 with class and skill at Eisenhower…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.2
T20 World Cup Daily, 2024, Day 6.2: Scotland v Namibia. While history was being made in Dallas, Geoff was with Steven Finn in Barbados watching the Scots…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.1
T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.1: USA v Pakistan Wow. What a game, what a victory. It took going to a Super Over but the Americans have produced the most…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.2
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 5.2: Australia v Oman, Uganda v Papua New Guinea. The Australians finally get into action, but Oman are not about to let them do…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.1
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 5.1: India are away, thrashing Ireland on Long Island. But what's going on the New York pitch? It's just as much of a talking…
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The search for cricket-loving Americans
Season 16, Episode 18: Coming to you from New York City! Or more specifically, Long Island. The ICC is hunting for US-born cricket converts, so we found a…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 4
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 4: Scotland dominate the first ten overs of their game against England, and give themselves a real chance - but what effect will…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 3
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 3: Time for a Super Over! That didn't take long. David Wiese was there in all disciplines for Namibia in the absurdly tight game…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 2
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 2: Join us in a Dallas diner for pancakes, and maybe an imminent upset? West Indies, the other co-host, had a challenge on their…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 1
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 1: What. The. Absolute. Hell. The USA pulled out one of the great cricket turnarounds tonight, after Canada dominated the first…
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T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 0
The T20 World Cup Daily, Day 0: Welcome to America! The Final Word hits Texas ahead of the opening game tomorrow. It’s time to head down to the cricket ground…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 188 – The case against 150
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the argument has gone on long enough that it's time to finish…
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IPL season meets election season
Season 16, Episode 17: India, the UK and the USA are all heading towards national elections, in the same year that the USA, England and India will all be…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastFrench fraud: the ghost games of Paris
Season 16, Episode 16: It has been quite the story. First, the revelation that France's cricket board was approving scorecards from domestic games with no…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 187 – How Sachin changed the calendar
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, is this one of the most bogus games to get first-class status?…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes, with Harry Ricketts
Book Club 6: Harry Ricketts - Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes The 1961 Ashes had it all, especially at Old Trafford. The ground where Jim Laker ran amok the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 186 – Jim Laker, Australian Test spinner?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, how many things do you not know about Jim Laker? For us…
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Launching our Final Word ad-free feed
Season 16, Episode 15: Yes, we finally have our ad-free feed up and running, extra exciting in the same week as Adam claims to have watched The Greatest Round…
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The Test documentary part 3, with director Adrian Brown
Season 16, Episode 14: After Australian cricket endured its worst moment in modern memory in 2018, the Sandpaper debacle, cameras were invited into the inner…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 185 – Paul Nixon writes his own Wikipedia
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Did Paul Nixon pen his own Wikipedia entry? Daniel Norcross reports, you…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 184 – Eddie Gilbert sits Bradman on his arse
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a long backtrack to a much earlier episode where we tried to…
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The James Anderson exit: right or wrong?
Season 16, Episode 13: With the Jimmy farewell in the air, was it the right move or wrong? Should it have happened three years earlier, or one year later?…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 183 – German bombing doesn't stop play
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with Daniel Norcross joining Geoff Lemon, we start with a walk…
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EMERGENCY POD: Jimmy calls time
We weren't expecting to record an ep today but the news of Jimmy Anderson's retirement announcement required it. At The Oval, Adam has an emotional Daniel…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 182 – Bob Hawke and the death penalty
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with Adam and Geoff are back together, do you know how cricket…
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This is The Final Word - ONE THOUSAND
Season 16, Episode 12: Our 1000th episode! A serious number. From the 2015 Ashes to now so much has changed, but we’ve kept hitting record and talking to each…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 181 – Threads of the Caribbean tapestry
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat Sundaresan joins the show for what is coincidentally a…
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Vanuatu’s Women, an extraordinary tale
Season 16, Episode 11: On this episode, as promised, we shift focus to Vanuatu. Specifically, to their extraordinary women’s team, currently in action at the…
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English cricket sells the family silver
Season 16, Episode 10: Just what is The 100 worth? It's a question that has vexed English cricket, on various levels, since it was first dreamed up some six…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Greg James
Season 16, Episode 9: It’s appropriate that this conversation with Greg James took place at The Oval, the ground he grew up visiting with his dad – the place…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 180 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club of Nerds
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Daniel Norcross is back with Adam for a second installment of their…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 179 – The Fake Test Telegram
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This is the first of a Story Time weekend doubleheader with Daniel…
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Chamari Athapaththu launches into space
Season 16, Episode 8: We've seen her do unreal things before, but this one was the best of the lot. The biggest chase ever in women's cricket, with Chamari…
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What's the craic in Ireland at the moment? With CEO Warren Deutrom
Season 16, Episode 7: It's been a rugged month at Cricket Ireland. In a buoyant mood after winning their first men's Test Match in March, the focus has quickly…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 178 – Wherever you go, there is Gary Pratt
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a search for the greatest Welsh all-rounder, and another…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWisden 2024 with Lawrence Booth
Season 16, Episode 6: One of our staples is to speak with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, on the day of its release in the…
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A new Indigenous gathering at an ancient place
Season 16, Episode 5: Deep into western Victoria, in the land around Harrow and Edenhope, was the home of the great cricketer Unaarrimin, more broadly known as…