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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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World Cup Daily 2023: Day 4, India Australia
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 4: We're going down to Chennai, where the pitch is crusty and slow, the humidity is through the roof, and visitors struggle…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 153 – Crashing the night cart
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we find that military service is not for everyone, or…
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World Cup Daily 2023: Day 3.2, South Africa v Sri Lanka
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 3.2: The most runs ever scored in a World Cup match? Go on, then. A bananas day of cricket at Delhi as the South Africans went full…
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World Cup Daily 2023: Day 3.1, Bangladesh v Afghanistan
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 3.1: In the first of our Saturday double-header, the Tigers are on the board in style with a thumping win over a lacklustre…
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World Cup Daily 2023: Day 2, Pakistan Netherlands
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 2: The Dutch were far more in this than the 81-run margin suggests but when it mattered most, Pakistan did as they had to in their…
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World Cup Daily 2023: Day 1, England NZ
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 1: Expect the unexpected. The first day of this year's tournament and it was already worth the wait. Jonny Bairstow started in style…
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World Cup Daily 2023: The ten-team preview
World Cup Daily 2023, Day 0: It's about to land. Ten teams, a dozen cities, the best part of seven weeks. Take a deep breath and dive in with us, and the…
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The ICC: blazed and on the tonk
Season 15, Episode 2: With only a day or two before the World Cup, the press releases are coming thick and stupid, and we are the only podcast with the courage…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Mitchell Johnson Show with Bharat Sundaresan
It's The Mitchell Johnson Cricket Show, with our great friend and regular co-host, Bharat Sundaresan. This is a new project for the two of them, which has been…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 152 – Three captains and no idea
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, our second revisit special before we get into the World…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling The Shots, Director's Cut: Today
Episode 5 - Today The final revisited episode of our multi-part audio documentary on the 100-year history of cricket broadcasting brings us up to the modern…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling The Shots, Director’s Cut: The Disruptors
Episode 4 - The Disruptors: This was an awkward one to prepare because it told our stories. Not only Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross, but many others who, in…
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Josh Hazlewood learns to bat
Season 15, Episode 1: Spring is springing in Melbourne, domestic cricket has begun, and you know what that means. A new season of The Final Word. Just in time…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling The Shots, Director's Cut: On TV
Episode 3 - On TV In the third installment of our revisit of the documentary series made by Adam and Daniel Norcross during the first Covid lockdowns of 2020…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 151 – Hopper Read, not Chopper Read
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a bumper revisit special, have we found the cricketer…
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Calling The Shots, Director's Cut: Test Match Special
Episode 2 - Test Match Special: Our revisited documentary series began between the World Wars, where radio and cricket started their beautiful relationship…
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Absolute ODI obliteration
Season 14, Episode 43: What happened to... everyone, in the space of a week, with the World Cup approaching? South Africa smear Australia across the park to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Kumar Sangakkara
Season 14, Episode 42: Kumar Sangakkara is not only one of the greatest cricketers to ever play the game but also one of the most thoughtful. In turn, his life…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 150 – The best possible war
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. For the non-milestone episode of 150, we got everybody together…
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England NZ Daily - 4th ODI, Lord's 2023
England v New Zealand, 4th ODI at Lord's: Dawid Malan might’ve thought the selectors were a chance of trading him in for a flashier model a couple of weeks…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling The Shots, Director's Cut: How It All Began
Episode 1 - How it all Began: In March 2020, the world stopped as human tragedy unfolded. To that backdrop, a lockdown project started small and got way out of…
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The Final Word with Ian Bell
Season 14, Episode 41: A child prodigy, a five-time Ashes winner, and the man with the finest cover drive you could ever wish to see - Ian Bell's fine career…
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England NZ Daily - 3rd ODI, The Oval 2023
England v New Zealand, 3rd ODI at The Oval: Ben Stokes, good grief. He was retired from this format until a week ago, and today at The Oval he’s smacked…
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Turns out we actually do love one-day cricket
Season 14, Episode 40: It's easy to forget, but as soon as a few good one-dayers start up again, we get right back into it. Australia have been notching wins…
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England NZ Daily - 2nd ODI, Southampton 2023
England v New Zealand, 2nd ODI at Southampton: It was all going so well for New Zealand, romping through England’s top order in a rain-reduced affair at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 149 – When Warney met Dannii Minogue
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. And sometimes, we have to go all in on a certain subject…
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England NZ Daily - 1st ODI, Cardiff 2023
England v New Zealand, 1st ODI at Cardiff: What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, New Zealand’s batting was in a world of pain, bowled out in 14 overs…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Sai Sudharsan
Season 14, Episode 39: It's not often we get the chance to talk to India's cricketers, especially young guns on the way up. So with Sai Sudharsan playing…
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The golden months of Mitchell Marsh
Season 14, Episode 38: A huge week of international men's white-ball cricket, with the Asia Cup complemented by Australia's tour of South Africa and New…
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England NZ Daily - 4th T20, Trent Bridge 2023
England v New Zealand, 4th T20 at Trent Bridge: Another day, another new Final Word host, with Andy Zaltzman steering the ship for the first time alongside the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastEngland NZ Daily - 3rd T20, Edbgaston 2023
England v New Zealand, 2nd T20, Birmingham 2023: Jeremy Coney, our newest co-host, is thrilled that New Zealand are back in the series but isn't best pleased…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 148 – Zaheer Abbas multiball
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Zaheer Abbas extravaganza that ends up having nothing…
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England NZ Daily - 2nd T20, Old Trafford 2023
England NZ Daily - 1st T20, Manchester 2023: If Harry Brook is the best, then how doesn't he go to India for the World Cup? We consider this, New Zealand's…
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TFW Book Club - Bowler's Name? with Tom Hicks
Book Club 1: Tom Hicks - Bowler's Name? The Life of a Cricketing Also-Ran. Welcome to a new version of The Final Word! The plan is to feature books and authors…
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England NZ Daily - 1st T20, Durham 2023
England v New Zealand, 1st T20 at Durham: If the plan over these four matches is for Jos Buttler to learn a few things and for players to put pressure on…
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The Mankad goes mainstream
Season 14, Episode 37: In the closing stages of a close ODI between two Full Member nations, a non-striker run out by the bowler is a big story but not the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 147 – The greatest French cricketer and violinist of all
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the greatest French cricketer you've never heard…
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The Final Word Scotland special
Season 14, Episode 36: Today’s episode is about Scotland, a nation we’ve not given enough time to over the years. Complicating this is the current mess…
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The slowly vanishing adventures of Plucka Duck
Season 14, Episode 35: As time wears relentlessly on, archives and artefacts begin to vanish. That is why this week brings about an important foray into a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Cheteshwar Pujara
Season 14, Episode 34: This has been on our wish list for a long time - Adam sits down with Indian great Cheteshwar Pujara. And contrary to reports, he's far…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 146 – Busting the Colin Cowdrey myth
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. MCC Cowdrey walks down the MCC steps in the final over of the Test…
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Shock us! Ben Stokes’ pretend ODI retirement is over
Season 14, Episode 33: The most predicable coming-out-of-retirement tale is complete, with Ben Stokes doing as we all knew he would – he’s going to India for…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Grace Harris
Season 14, Episode 32: One of our favourites from the earliest days of the pod, and one of the most likeable people in the game - Grace Harris. A international…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 145 – Roman Holiday
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Buongiorno from the Eternal City, where history never sleeps and…
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Beergate, Ballgate, Gabriel Gaté
Season 14, Episode 31: Bharat is home to meet his chickens, Geoff is notionally on holiday, but that doesn't mean there aren't still some cold Ashes ashes to…
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How England took over the white-ball world
Season 14, Episode 30: In their new book, White Hot, journalists (and Final Word regulars) Tim Wigmore and Matt Roller have documented the dominance of the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 144 – Right in the Gooch
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in the saddle after the Ashes, although technically this…
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The Final Word with Stephen Fry
Season 14, Episode 29: He is just about everybody's favourite, and it's obvious why. Stephen Fry has been a comedy and literary hero for Geoff and Adam…
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How to fail to organise a World Cup
Season 14, Episode 28: There are World Cups coming out our ears, with details of the schedule for the men's T20 version next year starting emerge even while…
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The Ashes Daily farewell - a look back at the series we saw
The Ashes, just in general: We knew it would be big. It always is. We didn't know that four of the five matches would be in balance into their final hour. So…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 5, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 5: IT IS OVER. We started the day with a chaseable target remaining for Australia. We stopped in the middle for a long…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 4, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: It was all about Stuart Broad as the fourth day started at The Oval, but not so much when the bowling began. Australia…
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Ashes Daily - Stuart Broad retirement special
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: While we were recording the Day 3 Daily show, Stuart Broad decided to retire. Not a helpful piece of timing for…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 3, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 3: Halfway through the last Test of the series and Bazball was still blazing. Pat Cummins battled, Todd Murphy performed…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 143 – The fastest hundred ever
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Fine, it hasn't exactly been weekly in the middle of the Ashes, but…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 2, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 2: One team pushes ahead, the other pulls them back. So it has been all through this Ashes series. Usman Khawaja and…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 1, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 1: A ridiculous fast-forward day of Test cricket, is it? Of course, as usual in this series. Pat Cummins made a big call…
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Ashes Daily - The Oval preview, 2023
The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 0: And so it comes to this. And so we face the final curtain. The Test season ends where it began, fittingly at The Oval…
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The Final Word with Patrick Brammall
Season 14, Episode 27: Someone from the creative world tweeting up a storm during the cricket gets our attention. So it has been over the Ashes with Patrick…
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How to abuse umpires and get away with it
Season 14, Episode 26: Crazy scenes, not just because Indian women's captain Harmanpreet Kaur smashed her stumps over in a rage, but because she and other…