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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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England Ireland Daily - Lord's preview
England v Ireland, Lord's Test 2023: It's almost upon us. The one-off Test at Lord's will repeat the fixture played before the Ashes of 2019, with Andrew…
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The Final Word's England adventure begins
Season 14, Episode 16: Geoff has landed in London and he's straight to Lord's to join Adam, who has just returned from Edinburgh where The Final Word runners…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 138 – Influence of the male ejaculate on prezygotic barriers in field crickets
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a chance diversion takes us to Dr Erica Larson's work on…
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The Final Word with Gideon Haigh
Season 14, Episode 15: Ahead of his seventh tour to England, Gideon Haigh has been collecting his writings on the rivalry for a new book, On The Ashes. It's a…
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Josh Hazlewood is the next bowler to fall
Season 14, Episode 14: Another week, another Ashes bowler in trouble: Josh Hazlewood only has "side soreness" according to CA, but we know how that has panned…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 137 – Wild times in the Births, Deaths and Marriages registry
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Geoff and Bharat put their Serious Historian hats on to…
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How the BCCI plans to grab cricket's cash - with Osman Samiuddin
Season 14, Episode 13: Cricket is getting rich, which means the BCCI is getting richer. Over the last week a huge yet unsurprising story broke that India's…
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Jofra Archer is out of the Ashes
Season 14, Episode 12: England's fast bowlers are going down. One by one, and all at once, in a familiar story ahead of the Ashes. What does Archer's future…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 136 – Anil Kumble: sex symbol
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's hat-tricks, the state upper house, and the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Andrew Balbirnie
Season 14, Episode 11: Go back 20 years, and Irish cricket was considered a contradiction in terms. Now Ireland is one of the game's success stories, rising to…
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Ashes warm-ups are for squares
Season 14, Episode 10: Who needs to play tour matches before a major Test engagement, anyway? Its not like Australia's most recent tour was affected by a team…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 135 – Let's Get Physical
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, let's begin with the apocryphal contributions of Olivia…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Dennis Amiss
Season 14, Episode 9: When it comes to the second half of the 20th century, few figures had a bigger influence on English cricket than Dennis Amiss. But those…
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Wait... is England ditching The Hundred?
Season 14, Episode 8: Nick Hoult from the Telegraph leads this show, after a huge news week in England that includes suggestions from the top of the ECB of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 134 – King George is dead
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with a coronation coming up, let's go back to the last…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Peter Handscomb
Season 14, Episode 7: Victorian captain, back in the Test side for India, then not in the Ashes squad, Peter Handscomb's cricket career is still the proverbial…
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The Saudi move on cricket, with Daniel Brettig
Season 14, Episode 6: After our initial conversation last week about Saudi Arabia wanting to buy Indian cricket, it's time to talk to Daniel Brettig, who did…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 133 – Happy Birthday, Sachin
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a very unusual Story Time. It's not the weekend. It's a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 132 – Caddick keeps up with the Kardashians
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Story Time double is coming your way, so for the…
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Farewell, Faith Thomas
Season 14, Episode 5: Cricket farewelled someone truly special this week, Faith Thomas, who played a Test match in 1953 as Faith Coulthard when she became the…
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The 160th Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Season 14, Episode 4: Four years ago, we sat with Lawrence Booth, the editor of cricket's bible, to discuss his most recent edition on the night that Geoff won…
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FairBreak Special - a truly good thing
Season 14, Ep 3: We're lucky to work on a lot of cricket around the world each year and never take that for granted. But what I (Adam here) didn't have on my…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 131 – The worst run chase ever
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat Sundaresan makes his suggestion for most iconic…
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Choose a career in marketing, where words mean literally nothing!
Season 14, Ep 2: This week, some more exciting corporate nonsense from the cash-chasing division of the ICC, making up both milestones and meanings. All that…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 130 – In the pipe, five by five
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a couple of chunky revisits get mixed through the new…
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All episodes should be recorded in castles
Season 14, Ep 1: It's a new season of The Final Word. More importantly, the Australian board has a new pay deal in place with huge significance for the women's…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 129 – The varied children of Mr T
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a time when Zimbabwe ruled the world and Henry Olonga…
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The first big-money Women's Premier League is done
Season 13, Ep 29: This week, reporter Annesha Ghosh updates us about the WPL that she has spent the past few weeks watching more closely than anyone, after…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 128 – The big one (revisit special)
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. It isn't often that we breach the two-hour barrier, but this was…
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The many Prime Ministers of Eton are displeased
Season 13, Ep 28: This week, the MCC gets swarmed by Eton and Harrow fans , and Emma John joins the show to help explain this especially English toff barney…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 127 – Revenge at Wattle Flat
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a new record for single largest pledge provokes a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastDeparture through the Gateway of India
Season 13, Ep 27: And with that, it was done. Ahmedabad receded into the distance. Mumbai vanished into the night. Those weeks were left behind. So we turn out…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 126 – Australia's answer to C. B. Fry
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a host of sports betting enthusiasts get involved across…
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India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 5
India v Australia, Ahmedabad Day 5, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. The best thing we can say about that is, it is over. Day five was about as tedious as it…
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India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 4
India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 4, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, and after people talking about it for three years, Kohli made a…
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India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 3
India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 3, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. A long day where the scoreboard won't suggest that much action, but the playing field begged…
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India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 2
India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 2, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, where Usman Khawaja batted his way to one of the longest innings…
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India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 1
India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 1, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, coming from a deeply weird day where the Test match was taken over…
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The Yorkshire hearings, with George Dobell
Season 13, Ep 26: With the ECB's hearing into Yorkshire's racism charges underway, we spend the second part of the show speaking to the reporter who has done…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 125 – Every Story Time host, everywhere, all at once
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. And this week it's a special. Geoff and Adam get together with our…
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India Australia Daily - the Indore aftermath
India vs Australia, Delhi Not Day 4: Another day four, another day of nothing happening. Except for press conferences and ICC ratings for the pitch, which was…
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India Australia Daily - Indore Day 3
India vs Australia, Indore Day 3: It's The Final Word Daily. It's all over, before lunch on day three. That makes seven and a half days of cricket across three…
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India Australia Daily - Indore Day 2
India vs Australia, Indore Day 2: It swung back and forth, it spun one way and another, and eventually another huge day of Test cricket came to an end…
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India Australia Daily - Indore Day 1
India vs Australia, Indore Day 1: After two massive batting collapses for Australia, the tables turned. India got bowled out for 109 after Australia's three…
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India Australia Daily - Indore preview
India vs Australia, Indore Day 0: After a long break with some time to clear their heads, the Australians will approach Indore with some team changes, while…
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Five wickets in an over in Hobart, three World Cups in Cape Town
Season 13, Ep 25: While the Women's T20 World Cup final might have gone entirely as expected to complete a hat-trick, the domestic WNCL final did not - an…
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T20 World Cup Daily: South Africa Australia women's final
2023 T20 Women's World Cup: After a short sharp tournament full of upsets and close calls, the final went to form. Not without some magic from Laura Wolvaardt…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 124 – The Olympic gold medal for kidnapping
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, one of the dodgiest characters we've yet had the…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Australia India women's semi-final
India vs Australia again, but in the women's T20 World Cup semi in Cape Town. A day of brilliance for Jemima Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur, the usual high…
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On racism far from home, with Andrew Wu & Bharat Sundaresan
Season 13, Ep 24: On his last trip to India covering cricket in 2017, Australian reporter Andrew Wu was surprised to be targeted by anti-Chinese abuse. On…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 123 – Rage Against the Machine play the Greg Chappell Cricket Centre
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. In the grip of the Delhi Flu, Bharat Sundaresan nonetheless gamely…
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India Australia Daily - the Delhi aftermath
India vs Australia, Delhi Not Day 4: With the match done, Geoff and Bharat headed down to the ritzy Lalit Hotel to hear from head coach Andrew McDonald. What…
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India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 3
India vs Australia, Delhi Day 3: In a match that has gone in fast forward, the fastest forward was saved for the end. A historic collapse, 10 wickets for…
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India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 2
India vs Australia, Delhi Day 2: In the Test that just keeps giving, the match swung back and forth on the second day. Nathan Lyon had another day out, Axar…
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India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 1
India vs Australia, 2nd Test, Delhi Day 1: That was fun. A wild day of Test cricket, starting with an unexpected bouncer barrage, a reverse-sweep-a-thon, and…
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India Australia Daily - Delhi preview
India v Australia, 2nd Test, Delhi: When you get the chance to record an episode at the Feroz Shah Kotla Fort, one of the most impressive ancient structures in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 122 – Michael Atherton cooks you pork belly
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's finally time to get amongst the revisits, which…
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The Final Word has got to go to India
Season 13, Ep 23: Coming to you at sunset from the old VCA ground in Nagpur, where Damien Martyn hit that six onto the press box roof in 2004, this is at last…
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The Final Word with Gary Kirsten
Season 13, Ep 22: The Nagpur Test is over early, so what better time to speak to the man who coached India to the 2011 World Cup, Gary Kirsten. He also took…
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India Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 3
India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 3: They don't come much more comprehensive than that. India's lower order kept bringing the pain, having some fun for…