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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 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…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 2
Mark Wood had some fun with the bat as England surged on to 303, and Broad got Tom Latham out early. From then on, things stopped going England’s way. Dropped…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 1
A proper twisting turning day of Test cricket started this match off, with a arm wrestle of a first session, a run of wickets in the second, and some tail-end…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastRobinson and racism, with Vithushan Ehantharajah
Season 10, Ep 7: Vish joins the show in a busy week in England after Ollie Robinson was suspended following his Test debut. We talk through the purpose of his…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 5
New Zealand set up the Test match beautifully on Day 5 at Lord’s but England refused to play ball. What gives? Ollie Robinson is out, and the draw leaves…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 4
What a tussle on the fourth day. Tim Southee finished with six wickets, Rory Burns finished with his best Test century, and England finished up just over a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 50 – A gentle wave of the bat
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: raise the bat. 50 episodes of this indulgence are somehow in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 2
He resumed the day on 136 and just kept going. But not everything was Conway’s way. Mark Wood started a speed spell for England, and the match rattled and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 1
Win the toss, bat first, and make a ton. It couldn’t be easier for Devon Conway, who is unbeaten overnight with the highest score ever made on debut at Lord’s…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBoom Boom boom boom, I want Shahid Afridi in my room
Season 10, Ep 6: Daniel Brettig joins the show to discuss Cricket Australia's new and old appointment as CEO, as well as Dan's own appointment at The Age. We…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 49 – The Brisbane Line and the Barassi Line
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a trip across Australia's lines from the Brisbane to the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStevo for England! with Darren Stevens
Season 10, Ep 5: Is he the first live-streaming superstar? The cricket world turned to a dodgy video feed from a gale-struck Canterbury as Darren Stevens…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 48 – The hardest shot of all
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the innings that even Robelinda agrees could have been the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastJeeeesus, it's sandpaper again
Season 10, Ep 4: Horror movies teach us that if you don't nail the monster properly, it always comes back. Australia's ball-tampering story was never buried…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 47 – Finding your place on the hangover scale
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: how to rate a big day on the field against the big night…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with David Bumble Lloyd
Season 10, Ep 3: This week on The Final Word, a long and uplifting conversation with a man who really has done it all in the professional game across nearly…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 46 – The ol' wozzler
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a Dusty Old Bastard with a very particular trick. A deep…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Eleanor Oldroyd
Season 10, Ep 2: The IPL has been cancelled, Sri Lanka won a Test series, and there was a bonkers county round. But honestly all we really want to do this week…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 45 – You can't play cricket with the clap
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll go from what kept Wally Hammond away from the game in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGlenn Maxwell's IPL – The borders have closed
We didn't think it would come to this. By Week 4 of the IPL, Australia's government has barred flights from India until at least the middle of May. With…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia's deepening disaster, with Karunya Keshav
Season 10, Ep 1: This week Karunya Keshav wrote fiercely about the deafness of the Indian Premier League to the suffering outside its gates. She joins the show…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 44 – Ravi Shastri goes nuclear
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: an alliterative match whose final day was unexpectedly…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGlenn Maxwell's IPL – The move to Mumbai
It's Week 3 of our series with Glenn Maxwell, India correspondent, as he takes us through the move from Chennai to Mumbai, and the increasing worry for players…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Nanny is filmed in front of a live studio audience
Season 9, Ep 30: The last show of Season 9, recorded on 420 day, on which we decide to let a live audience pile in via the Patreon page to watch the thing get…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 43 – How to get fired as the drummer from KISS
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a number that has nothing to do with Stumpy Laird, and a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGlenn Maxwell's IPL – The wins in Week 2
Disregard the parts about St Kilda hoping to win a match – that soon went a different way. But otherwise it was a great day to hear from Glenn Maxwell after…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word reviews the Wisden Almanack 2021
Season 9, Ep 29: It's that time again: the new Wisden Almanack time. In what has now become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we've sat…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 42 – Selfish batting
We're busy recruiting for our tours to Brazil and Pakistan when (hopefully) the planet allows for such a thing in 2022: on The Final Word, we Dera to Dream…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGlenn Maxwell, India correspondent
It happened. Since the IPL is a biosecure fortress in 2021, we've got a contact on the inside. Glenn Maxwell, who is bunkered down at the Royal Challengers…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Tim Murtagh
Season 9, Ep 28: Tiger Tim of Ireland has quite the story. From bowling the first ball in Irish Test cricket, to triumphs with Middlesex, to missing out on…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 41 – Three days in no-man's land
Light and shade, in cricket as it is in life. So, on Story Time this weekend, learn about the batsman who spent three days presumed dead in no-man's-land only…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastMicrowave stops play
Season 9, Ep 27: Steve Smith wants back in as Australian captain. Over in New Zealand, is it Jeff Jeff or Microwave Jeff? A West Indies classic plays out in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 40 - Ruthless, perhaps, but necessary
(Language warning near the end of this show.) From deep inside the spreadsheets of cricket's past comes another edition of Story Time. This weekend, settle in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWilliam Wallace gets the Irish onside
Season 9, Ep 26: In the early years of the colony, Irish politics were very much Australian politics. Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter, Catholics and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 39 – David Boon on the 8 Mile
Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what happens when Boony's biggest secret is revealed? Who slides into the Old…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word goes to Brazil
Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 women recently won the country's first central contracts. But the game has…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 38 – The Dera Ismail Khan disco
Here is perhaps the greatest tale we have yet told on Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener challenges. Get ready to learn…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Mark Butcher
Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 37 – Charlie Parker, jazz communist
Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll visit a walk-up start for the Clem Hill Defenestration Club, one Charlie…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 3
Day 3 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 2
Day 2 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 1
Day 1 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSomebody please beat the Breakers
Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back and forth…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 36 – Dr Quiney, Medicine Woman
Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Rob Quiney, healer of seagulls, was there anything he couldn't do? How are…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – Third Test, Day 2
Day 2 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – Third Test, Day 1
Day 1 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastFarewell to the Dan O'Connell Cricket Club
Season 9, Ep 22: A busy cricket week, aside from the final match in the Yarra Pub Cricket Association for the storied DOCCC (est. 2007). We also look at the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 35 – Keys in the bowl
It's time for some spicy group action, on our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. This week we have the Jones-Off of '88…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTest cricket's pitch politics – below the surface
Season 9, Ep 21: Now the dust has settled in Chennai, we try to strip the parochial from the practical on the broader subject of pitch preparation, and figure…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – 2nd Test, Chennai Day 4
India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 4: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – 2nd Test, Chennai Day 3
India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 3: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – 2nd Test, Chennai Day 2
India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 2: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 34 – Javert's hunt for Jean Valjean
The game is afoot! Our long-time quarry Rob O'Neill is back with another twisting, turning number designed to push Geoff to the brink of madness. Will Prisoner…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – 2nd Test, Chennai Day 1
India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 1: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCaught Collins, bowled Brereton
Season 9, Ep 20: Featuring Damien Fleming, Dermott Brereton, and Adam White in guest spots, this week's episode comes direct from the Media XI cricket match…