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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 Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 2
India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 2: There were five wickets on debut for Todd Murphy, but at the other end that Jadeja feller did it again. Find out…
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India Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 1
India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 1: It's been a long build-up, but finally the contest began and the pitch was put to the test. As expected it was…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 121 – Understudy to Bryan Brown
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat is in Nagpur after some time in the nets in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastLet Dane van Niekerk play
Season 13, Ep 21: It’s been a while, but the weekly show comes to you from Daniel Norcross’ front room in South London with Geoff having a brief spell before…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 120 – The remarkable life of Enid Bakewell
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week Daniel Norcross returns to join Geoff for a long meander…
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Running out the non-striker, with the MCC
Season 13, Ep 20: Because it remains very much the cricketing topic de jour, it's time for another visit to the non-striker's end to take off the bails. This…
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Round the world via Bridge on the River Kwai
Season 13, Ep 19: The cricket world was teeming this week, and so was our show. Everything from the Cherry Tree's first ever victory in Melbourne pub cricket…
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Afghanistan and fading hope
Season 13, Ep 18: A special episode. First we speak to Homaira Mershedi, Afghan community leader and veteran of humanitarian work, to get some sense of the…
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The Test Part II, with director Adrian Brown
Season 13, Ep 17: With the second season of The Test documentary out in the world, Adrian Brown joins the show for a second time to talk through the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 119 – The tale of Lord Ram and Bharat
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff on babysitting duty, and is…
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Welcome to Peggy Antonio Collins
Season 13, Ep 16: Ok, that's not really her middle name (yet) but we're working on it. The Final Word family has grown by one. Who knew when we told that great…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 5
Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 5: It's all over! We watched the rain for four days but it was all worthwhile for this thrilling... draw. Oh well, what do…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 4
Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 4: After a full day of rain, we got back on the field again. Meaning we recorded the show again: on the politics of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 118 – The one we made while going into labour
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam's baby may be arriving before the end of the show…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 2
Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 2: Steve Smith day! Yet another one of them. The guy who just kept making hundreds has started being almost as relentless…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 1
Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 1: Lots of rain, but a fair bit of cricket, and two life's constants were on show: Labuschagne runs, and Labuschagne luck…
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The Best & Worst of 2022
Season 13, Ep 15: It's New Year's Eve! And as per Final Word tradition, we gather for a look back at the year that was. The good, the bad, the highs, the lows…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 4
Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 4: It's all over, and so is the result of the series, with one match yet to play. Temba Bavuma had what you could call…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 3
Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 3: Some more Nortje snorters to start the day, but it turned into another long one for South Africa. A Test century for…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 2
Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 2: David Warner Day. Under pressure, stinking hot day, unbeaten double hundred. Just David Warner things. Also Nortje…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 1
Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 1: Big day, big occasion, and an effort that wasn't up to it. South Africa's batting fell over once again, but it was a…
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Scott Boland, Unaarramin, and the Mullagh Medal
Season 13, Ep 14: A Boxing Day special. You may know that within three days in 2021, Scott Boland became the second Aboriginal man to play Test cricket for…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word Christmas with Simon Katich
Season 13, Ep 13: It's Christmas! And as is now tradition, we sit down for a long conversation with a person who we like and respect, and who has been a good…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 117 – Made in heaven
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a searing injustice with a divine tinge gets another…
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Riding the Test rollercoaster from Brisbane to Karachi
Season 13, Ep 12: An unexpected weekly show given the two-day Test, but we probably have to talk about the two-day Test. Also, English writer Cameron Ponsonby…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Brisbane Day 2
Australia v South Africa, Brisbane Day 1: Two day Test! What the hell? We haven't seen one of those in Australia since 1931. Which we did not see personally…
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Australia South Africa Daily - Brisbane Day 1
Australia v South Africa, Brisbane Day 1: What a day of Test cricket! South Africa were overwhelmed while batting, then fought back while bowling, either side…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 116 – Are we human or are we dancer?
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in Melbourne with Adam and Geoff sitting across the coffee…
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England back it up, Warner backs out
Season 13, Ep 11: A huge news week. England have done it again - another bonkers victory after careening like a 70s car chase through the second Test in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 115 – This episode is cursed
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Well, it's supposed to be weekly, when the forces of evil…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 4
Australia v West Indies Day 4 at Adelaide: Sadly, it was always going to be this way. The West Indies are a rabble and unless this is taken seriously by…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 3
Australia v West Indies Day 3 at Adelaide: A Scott Boland triple wicket maiden is it? Of course it is. Australia have set the West Indies 497 but all eyes are…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 2
There was only one way Travis Head was getting out - run out. And so it was when cruising towards his first Test double. Australia still had the runs to…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 1
Australia v West Indies Day 1 at Adelaide: It's Marnus yet again, a hat-trick of tons for him, this time against the pink ball. Meanwhile, Travis Head becomes…
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The Final Word with Robert DiPierdomenico
Season 13, Ep 10: Yes, this is a cricket podcast and Dipper was a footballer - a mighty one at that. But at this time of year, we turn our attention to the MCG…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 5
Australia v West Indies Day 5 at Perth: the Australians notch a win to start the series after Nathan Lyon bagged six wickets. But it was not without some…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 4
Australia v West Indies Day 4 at Perth, marked by twin tons for Marnus Labuschagne as his team set up a declaration, before Kraig Brathwaite made his first…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 3
Day 3 at Perth, and Australia had to work hard against some dogged West Indies resistance. The hosts are still well on top though. 20% off primo…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 2
Day 2 of the Australian Test summer, and the run twins went absolutely crazy. But perhaps not everything will go Australia's way after a good West Indies…
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Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 1
Day 1 of the Australian Test summer, with a building West Indies team arriving in the city of Perth that their predecessors used to own. Catch up on everything…
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'No cowards in the Australian cricket team'
Season 13, Ep 9: With Australia's Test summer against West Indies about to start, captain Pat Cummins had some strong answers to the inevitable questions about…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 114 – Rahul Dravid didn't want it bad enough
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the universe bends us unerringly back towards Rahul…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Sam Billings
Season 13, Ep 8: The day before the Melbourne ODI, England batter and sometime keeper Sam Billings sits down with us in the big seating bowl to talk life…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 113 – Live from the bath
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we've never recorded a show in the bath before, so why…
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TFW Daily - Australia v England, Adelaide ODI
A bonus Daily! Our road trip ended in Adelaide, so we shot one more video show with Cam Fink which is also an audio show here. Australia and England played in…
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The triumph of the Pomborneit Bulls
Season 13, Ep 7: A lot to get through in a short time: he ICC sponsorship with crypto has collapsed along with the FTX exchange, Glenn Maxwell breaks his leg…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 112 – Hakuna Matata
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a show bumped from the weekend by the T20 World Cup…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 26, The Final
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England's men won their second T20 World Cup. Apologies for the audio…
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T20 World Cup Daily 25: Previewing the final
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. It's time for the final! As long as the rain permits. We are back in…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 24, India-England semi-final
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England cruised to the World Cup final after humiliating India in…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 23, Pakistan-NZ semi-final
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan played superbly against New Zealand to secure a play in the…
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Joining the JL protection racket
Season 13, Ep 6: As the Australians went out of the T20 World Cup last week, it was the chance that various Justin Langer allies in media jobs had been waiting…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 22
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan sealed a semi final spot after South Africa lost to the…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 21
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England are through to the next stage after beating a resilient Sri…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 20
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Australia beat Afghanistan but not by enough runs. They now need Sri…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 19
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan secured their second Super 12 win to keep their hopes alive…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 18
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, India held their nerve to beat Bangladesh in the rain in Adelaide, and…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 17
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. England beat New Zealand again at a World Cup, by 20 runs, and Sri Lanka kept…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 16
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Australia did what they needed to do, beating Ireland by 42 runs, but…
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 15.2
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, South Africa shocked India in Perth. Brought to you by CBUS Super…