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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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India England Daily 2024 - Vizag Day 3
India v England, Vizag Day 3: They couldn't, could they? Nearly 400 to chase for England, but they're off to a bright start and they believe. That's after a…
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India England Daily 2024 - Vizag Day 2
India v England, Vizag Day 2: Jasprit Bumrah, goodness me. One of the great spells of fast bowling, moving it both ways with precision and pace, has earned…
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India England Daily 2024 - Vizag Day 1
India v England, Vizag Day 1: What an innings. What a day. 179 not out for Yashasvi Jaiswal on a day where his teammates faltered and the match was left in the…
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India England Daily 2024 - Vizag preview
India v England, Vizag Day 0: Jimmy Anderson has been playing Test cricket in India before the IPL began and will take the field tomorrow alongside Shoaib…
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One of Test cricket's wonderful days
Season 15, Episode 22: After two of the best Test matches we've seen, finishing within a couple of hours of one another last Sunday, it's nice for Geoff and…
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The Hyderabad Heist (the day after)
India v England, The Hyderabad Heist (the day after): The hits keep coming. Just as everyone is reflecting on one of the great days of Test cricket, India are…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 167 – Test cricket's greatest passenger
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. A revisit special this weekend as we round up some incorrect…
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India England Daily 2024 - Hyderabad Day 4
India v England, 1st Test, Hyderabad Day 4: What a staggering day of Test cricket. For England to turn around a 190-run first innings deficit, practically…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Brisbane Day 4
Australia v West Indies, Brisbane Day 4: One of the most remarkable days of Test cricket seen in Brisbane, and one of the most remarkable bowling performances…
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India England Daily 2024 - Hyderabad Day 3
India v England, Hyderabad Day 3: At the close of play on day two, it looked like only one team could win this First Test - India, of course. 24 hours on, it's…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Brisbane Day 3
Australia v West Indies, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3: This West Indies line-up just won't quit. Hanging in there for long enough to set Australia 216 for victory…
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India England Daily 2024 - Hyderabad Day 2
India v England, Hyderabad Day 2: It's taken India just two days to show the gap between the teams when playing on their home soil, cruising to a handsome…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Brisbane Day 2
Australia v West Indies, Brisbane Day 2: What a day of Test cricket! If only those bails fell off... well, let's not get too deep into alternative histories…
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India England Daily 2024 - Hyderabad Day 1
India v England, Hyderabad Day 1: A day as busy as you expect from two teams determined to make a mark to begin the series right from the outset. England’s…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Brisbane Day 1
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 1: How the tables turned! Then turned again. For a session there, it was business as usual, with Australian quicks…
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India England Daily 2024 - Hyderabad preview
India v England, Hyderabad Day 0: Jack Leach, Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley are not Ashwin and Jadeja - let there be no doubt. But on the belief that the…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Brisbane preview
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 0: Time for a pink-ball shake-up. Bharat Sundaresan has been prowling around training and press conferences as always…
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Lloyd Pope as played by Ben Mendelsohn
Season 15, Episode 21: Lloyd Pope ripped up the Big Bash this week, but he hasn't been talking to the cops. He wouldn't do that. Usman Khawaja's jaw is ok…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 166 – The secrets of Gubby Allen: live in Adelaide
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This show comes to you LIVE from the Arkaba Hotel in Adelaide, the…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Adelaide Day 3
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 3: It didn't take long, but it took longer than it might have. Josh Hazlewood rounded out a five-wicket haul, Shamar…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Adelaide Day 2
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 2: The best couple of hours of bowling from a touring West Indies team in... how long? That was how the day started. But…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Adelaide Day 1
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 1: A day for debuts, in mostly sunshine at Adelaide Oval. Australia bowled and largely flexed the ability of Pat Cummins…
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Australia West Indies Daily 2024 - Adelaide preview
Australia v West Indies, Adelaide Day 0: Another day, another brief Test series. But the touring West Indies had a good hit-out against the mighty CAXI, and…
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David Warner gets to the chopper
Season 15, Episode 20: When a chopper lands in the middle of the cricket ground, it is only ever a good sign. Right? That was David Warner's arrival to the Big…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 165 – The ancient birth of Gunter's Chain
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we explore the centuries between Gunter and Gunther…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBangladesh's stunning ascent - Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup
Greatest Season That Was, Episode 6 – Bangladesh with Aminul Islam. It's difficult to believe that it took Bangladesh until 1999 to make a World Cup, but they…
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How to make an Australian Test opener
Season 15, Episode 19: It's a beautiful day in Sydney, and time to catch up on a lot. Danyal Rasool joins the show, the Pakistan correspondent from Cricinfo…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Nick Hockley
Season 15, Episode 18: Running Australian cricket will never be an easy job. Nick Hockley’s path to the chief executive chair was from left field, slotted in…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Sydney Day 4
Australia v Pakistan, Sydney Day 4: It's all over. David Warner Week ended with David Warner Day, as the man of the hour got to take centre stage for one last…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Sydney Day 3
Australia v Pakistan, Sydney Day 3: Is this Jamal's Ashes? By god, it was for a while, as the Pakistani wonder produced another stunning passage of play, while…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Sydney Day 2
Australia v Pakistan, Sydney Day 2: You're not going to believe it, but there was the tiniest bit of rain at the Sydney Test today. We still got 46 overs in…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Sydney Day 1
Australia v Pakistan, Sydney Day 1: A very watchable, and rainfree, day at Sydney to begin Warner Week, although the man himself did not feature until the…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Sydney preview
Australia v Pakistan, Sydney Day 0: Happy new year. It's time for the first Final Word of 2024. And it finds Adam and Geoff kicking back in the backyard one…
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The Best & Worst of 2023
Season 15, Episode 17: Happy New Year. As we wrap up what was a huge one in 2023, and roll over blinking into the new light of 2024, we take our annual look…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 164 – Rugby League Island
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, our title story takes us all the way back to 1997, to a…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Melbourne Day 4
Australia v Pakistan, Melbourne Day 4: It was real, it was raw, and it was on until the last hour of the day. Shan Masood batted like a dream, Babar Azam…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Melbourne Day 3
Australia v Pakistan, Melbourne Day 3: What a day of Test cricket. Pakistan scrapped and clawed in the first session with the bat, then started with a glorious…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Melbourne Day 2
Australia v Pakistan, Melbourne Day 2: Sunshine! Glorious sunshine, as Pakistan found some mojo to work through seven Australian wickets in the long first…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Melbourne Day 1
Australia v Pakistan, Melbourne Day 1: It was damp, it was drizzly, and that still didn't stop 62,000 people and their friends from coming down on Boxing Day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIn Bed with Harsha Bhogle - Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup
Greatest Season That Was, Episode 5 – India with Harsha Bhogle India, but not at all as they are today. A quarter of a century ago, before their financial…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 163 – Quadruple ton Rodeo
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, Adam and Geoff are trying something unusual. It's a…
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The Perth red-eye special
Season 15, Episode 16: Back from Perth, the numbers are flying around as CA looks to ink in its schedule for the next five years. There's a new 10-over IPL on…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Perth Day 4
Australia v Pakistan, Perth Day 4: The wait was all about Nathan Lyon's 500th wicket, and eventually it came around. Not before Pakistan challenged Australia…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Perth Day 3
Australia v Pakistan, Perth Day 3: For a while, the resistance was building. Imam did his thing, Babar was rising alongside. Then things changed quickly. David…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Perth Day 2
Australia v Pakistan, Perth Day 2: Would it be Mitchell Marsh Day in front of his home crowd? It kind of was, and it kind of wasn't. It was also kind of Ameer…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Perth Day 1
Australia v Pakistan, Perth Day 1: Australia won the toss and chose to bat, and we know how that tends to pan out. David Warner had one of those David Warner…
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Australia Pakistan Daily - Perth preview
Australia v Pakistan, Perth Day 0: The Australian Test season is about to begin. Geoff and Adam get together in Perth to run the rule over the respective…
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Justin Langer ceremonially blesses the Test in the West
Season 15, Episode 15: The Perth Test is coming, and once again the local authorities are apparently worried about whether people will show up unless JL waves…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 162 – The Norcross-Sundaresan Takeover
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with Geoff and Adam away from the desk it's Daniel…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAndy Flower on Zimbabwe's finest hour – Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup
Greatest Season That Was, Episode 4 – Andrew Flower: It never got better for Zimbabwe than their run at the 1999 World Cup, storming into the Super Six stage…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Maxi's Parents, Joy and Neil
Season 15, Episode 14: A short ep, but a very sweet one too. A conversation with Neil and Joy Maxwell – the parents of you know who. Recorded in the family…
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Mitch Johnson can still put it up your nostrils
Season 15, Episode 13: Mitchell Johnson can still steam in - which he did this week, aiming some pelters at David Warner and George Bailey. But perhaps his…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 161 – Buddy Holly in Adelaide
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the creation and fate of the Adelaide Oval…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - 100 Funniest Moments, with Dan Liebke
Book Club 3: Dan Liebke - The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket Dan Liebke emerged as a cricket satirist in what we might with hindsight call…
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The Green Marsh showdown
Season 15, Episode 12: So it comes down to Mitchell Marsh vs Cameron Green - but does it make sense for David Warner to get his preferred farewell instead of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastEngland botches it – Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup
Greatest Season That Was, Episode 3 – Alec Stewart: Back to the 1999 World Cup, this is the sorry story of the home team. England’s captain of the day, Alec…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 160 – Who is in the Story Time XI?
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus…
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World Cup Daily 2023: The morning after
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 47: The lost episode has been found. We did record this the day after the final, both of us at airports in different countries on the…
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The Final Word Australian homecoming
Season 15, Episode 11: It is a week of homecomings. Adam, Geoff, and the World Cup all arrived back in Australia within hours of one another, and nothing ever…
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The Final Word with David Gower
Season 15, Episode 10: David Gower’s composure at the crease, combined with his perennially relaxed disposition, have contributed to a sense that he’s forever…