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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
The Final Word Cricket PodcastHow the ICC screwed Thailand
Season 11, Ep 7: With a new COVID variant causing panic in the ranks, the ICC cancelled its Women's World Cup qualifier that was underway in Zimbabwe. But…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 72 – Laurie Nash and the hat-trick ball
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins the show once again as Adam (read…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTaking apart the Tim Paine story - with Daniel Brettig
Season 11, Ep 6: There was one main story this week: another Australian captain resigning, claims and counterclaims, and a lot of misunderstanding and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 71 – Oversized shorts and a filthy polo
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back from the hospital, stitched up and ready to run, here is the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe day Azeem Rafiq testified - with Taha Hashim and Nikesh Rughani
Season 11, Ep 5: Few bigger weeks for the show to return: this was the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a parliamentary hearing shook cricket in the UK…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 70 - Geoff fell off his bike again
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 70, we planned to clear the decks and get through ever…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 69 – Nice
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 69, it's time to follow the guidance of Missy Elliott: lay it…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastT20 World Cup Daily: Day 11
T20 World Cup Daily: Day 11 South Africa-Bangladesh & Pakistan-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 68 – Drug choppers in Hollywood
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, time to head back to Los Angeles and work out what the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastT20 World Cup Daily: Day 4
Pakistan-New Zealand. South Africa-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon. They’re top of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 67 – Hello, my name is Flooi du Toit
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, back to The Avenue nightclub in Perth, source of such good…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastYes, it most certainly is a double hat-trick
Season 11, Ep 4: Four wickets in four balls. The talking point of the cricket week, after Curtis Campher did it for Ireland. Scotland also had a win after a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 66 – The Gentlemen of Philadelphia
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, it's all about the city of Bruce Springsteen's song and Ben…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIPL finals and England squads: the Ben Jones analysis version
Season 11, Ep 3: We have a guest co-host! And it's IPL finals time. In that three of the finals have already happened, and the playoff for the title takes…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 65 – There has never been a Test match in Adelaide
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's learn about a whole lot of running without a lot of smiting…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastNo, FFS, they won't cancel the Ashes - with Phillip Brown
Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 64 – The Dublin scorecard mystery
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, an early theme emerges with the West Indies and Ireland…
The Final Word Cricket Podcast26 wins and the end of cricket's longest streak
Season 11, Ep 1: It's the start of Season 11! And to kick it off, a huge omnibus show after a busy week in the game. We saw two all-time classics in the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 63 – The best off-spinner in New Hampshire
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: another Daniel Norcross visit, as we find out the things of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Maeva Douma
Season 10, Ep 22: She wowed the world last week with her four run-outs of the non-striker while bowling for Cameroon. Now she's chatting with The Final Word: a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 62 – The bumper comeback 10-wicket clearance show
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Adam is back properly, so we get stuck into the revisits…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Afghanistan dilemma
Season 10, Ep 21: Australia has cancelled on Afghanistan - not formally but in effect - to protest the Taliban's destructive attitudes to women. But…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 61 – Shane Warne's "sparkling green eyes and glittery grin"
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what could be better than Shane Warne describing Shane…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe week of watching You Guys Are History, with Emma John
Season 10, Ep 20: This week, Guardian writer Emma John joins the show to talk about her recent article drawing together interviews with many of the England…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Double Don Sachin sandwich
Season 10, Ep 19: Happy Birthday Sachin is back in a big way, in a temporarily upside-down episode. There's a 7 in the morning now? The Australian summer is…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 60 – Red Stripe and Jamaican green
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: when Adam met some gentlemen in the Caribbean who were…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCricket and the Taliban
Season 10, Ep 18: It's far from the most important question facing the country. But given that Afghanistan's cricket team has been a consistent good-news story…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 59 – Rally round Rakheem, Clifford, and Jerome
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe glory of a long fifth day
Season 10, Ep 17: Daniel Norcross joins the show this week, as Adam - for the first time in Final Word history - has a holiday. That allows Geoff and Dan to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 58 – When Uncle Rod Marsh was king
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: someone who managed one sixtieth of a Test career, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with John Doyle / Roy Slaven
Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: Bumrah's wickets v Root’s ton - 1st Test, Nottingham, Day 4
After all the waiting, Day 4 was a classic. Early strikes from India, dogged resistance from England, that blossomed into one of Joe Root’s best tons. Every…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: Slogging from the tail - 1st Test, Nottingham, Day 3
This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name Player of the Day, and rank…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 57 - The dusty old bastards club
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a faster episode because we're in the middle of a Test…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: Kohli’s golden duck in collapse - 1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 2
The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. With play limited play by rain, there was still time for the Test to twist and turn. Jimmy Anderson…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: England rolled for 183 - 1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 1
The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. Four seamers, big results. England chose to bat and India’s quicks finished them off not long after…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Felix White
Season 10, Ep 15: Most of us were kids who dreamed of being rock stars. None of us had the single-minded determination to set about making it happen. Felix…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 56 – Yeah Nawab
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Nawabs come in all shapes and sizes. We respect them all. Or…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBetting the house on The Hundred
Season 10, Ep 14: Like it, hate it, or ignore it, The Hundred is... hunderway? The stakes are high. The bills are high. So is the risk of a stumble. Henry…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word community page is live
A mini-episode to let people know about our Discord server, which is basically a website where listeners to the show can hang out. It's a bit like the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 55 – Dion Nash invents the scoop
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: more proof of the compelling case that the one-day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Clare Connor
Season 10, Ep 13: From captaining boys' under-10s to captaining England goes the story. But retiring as a player brought much more. By now it's fair to say…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 54 – The Shaun Marsh glory days
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a time when it all happened with ease for the Son of Swamp…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastJustin Langer and the spiral of confusion
Season 10, Ep 12: It can be hard to follow Justin Langer's line of logic. The Australian men's coach has an extempore media style that over time can veer into…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 53 – The world's best Tinder profile
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: there's something about doctors and cricket, they just keep…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBen Stokes and The Replacements
Season 10, Ep 11: Remember when England's whole team got COVID? Or something like that, we're not big on detail. That's why we've got Will Macpherson on the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 52 – Chocolate Starfish live at the Hallam Hotel
Story Time is back, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the coolest band name of Adam's youth makes an unexpected…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSlow over rates, fixed once and for all
Season 10, Ep 10: After much hand-wringing from us over poor over rates, the time has come to step back from the flame and take a closer look at what is…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSolving the World Test Championship
Season 10, Ep 9: WTC #1 has been run and won, done and done, New Zealand are one from one. The next instalment has the same structure, but from 2023 things…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: New Zealand win big at long last, on WTC Day 6
They’ve done it: after a lot of near misses, the New Zealanders have won a major trophy. A historic one, too, in the first ever World Test Championship. A lot…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: Shami & Williamson fight with one day to go, WTC Day 5
Yet another excellent day of Test cricket, with a gripping battle between bat and ball all through the morning session. The advantage swung from one team to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: Jamieson rolls India before Ishant hits back
Another gripping day that again ended prematurely thanks to bad light. Kyle Jamieson set a Test record with another five-wicket haul, up against some fight…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: India Women save Day 4, Kohli battles on WTC Day 2
What a rearguard, what a fight. Sneh Rana, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma were all among the stars as India fought back from…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: World Test Champs Day 1, England India Day 3
We got one XI, we didn’t get the other XI, and we didn’t get a toss. Not much to report on after all the build-up to the match at Southampton. Lucky it goes…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWorld Test Champs and making change for women in India
Season 10, Ep 8: Snehal Pradhan joins the show this week - the former India bowler has become an advocate for women in India, and co-wrote the the report An…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: England v India Women, Bristol Day 2
What a breakneck day. First it was England’s tailenders swinging the cue with help from Sophia Dunkley. Then it was another player on debut, Shafali Verma…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: England v India Women, Bristol Day 1
It started fast, with Lauren Winfield-Hill launching sixes over the leg side and Tammy Beaumont playing strokemaker as ever. Heather Knight nearly made a ton…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: England NZ, Edgbaston Day 4
The formalities were completed, and now New Zealand head into the World Test Championship final on a winning note. But which of their many bowling options will…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 51 – Geoff learns algebra
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: back to the Smokers v Non-Smokers match for a minute, via a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 3
The fortress didn’t last for long. Day 3 featured another English batting collapse, too modest to even be especially dramatic, brought on by persistent quality…