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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 PodcastThe India-England Daily – 1st Test, Chennai Day 5
India v England, 1st Test, Chennai Day 5: 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 – 1st Test, Chennai Day 4
India v England, 1st Test, Chennai Day 4: 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 – First Test, Day 3
Day 3 of the First Test at Chennai – 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 PodcastStory Time 33
Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. In a compact episode with some revisits left to future eps, we'll find out many…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe India-England Daily – First Test, Day 2
Day 2 of the First Test at Chennai – 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 – First Test, Day 1
Day 1 of the First Test at Chennai – 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 PodcastEngland gets ready while Australia bails
Season 9, Ep 19: Australia's tour to South Africa is off, just as England's Tests in India are about to begin. With three weeks to go, CA has chalked up…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 32 – The feats of Cam the Cameraman
A little late due to squad illness and injury, but here we are: the weekly walk through cricket history via the means of listener quiz numbers. Start out by…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe January 26 problem
Season 9, Ep 18: "How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle / To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?" So goes the A.B. Originals song January 26…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 31 – a tribute to Julios
We spend a lot of time talking about our Nerds. But this weekend on Story Time, we pay tribute to our Julios. After that, we get to work solving the puzzles…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Marcus Stoinis
Season 9, Ep 17: Sometimes an interview comes along that knocks our socks off. We all think that we know Marcus Stoinis: the big smile, the big sixes, the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Brisbane Day 5
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Brisbane Day 4
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Brisbane Day 3
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Brisbane Day 2
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 2 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Brisbane Day 1
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 1 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSteve Smith's scuff and nonsense
Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Sydney Day 5
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Sydney Day 4
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 30, the bumper 2021 beginning
New year, new me. This is 2021's first Story Time, our dance through the history of cricket. This week returns to our favourite defenestrator, the most…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Sydney Day 3
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Sydney Day 2
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 2 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Sydney Day 1
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 1 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Stuart MacGill
Season 9, Ep 15: Few bowlers have enjoyed playing at Sydney more that Stuart MacGill, appropriately so given his iconic initials. So, ahead of this Harbour…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word New Year – Best & Worst of 2020
Season 9, Ep 14: Happy New Year! Load up your glasses and turn on the show in the final hours of one year or the fresh ones of the next. The terrible times of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Melbourne Day 4
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 2nd Test, Australia v India, from the MCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Melbourne Day 3
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 2nd Test, Australia v India, from the MCG. Check out CBUS Super at…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Melbourne Day 2
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 2nd day of the 2nd Test from The MCG Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Find…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Melbourne Day 1
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 1st day of the 2nd Test from The MCG Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Find…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word Christmas with Jim Maxwell
Season 9, Ep 13: At Christmas time, we like to sit down for a long chat with someone well loved by The Final Word. The first time was Harsha, last year was Mel…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 29, plus Lisa Sthalekar on commentary
Story Time is our weekly walk through cricket history. Jim Swanton had a hymn that he liked to sing, but you’ll never guess why. What about identifying the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAustralia India Daily - Adelaide Day 3
Australia v India, 1st Test, Adelaide Day 3: Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Adelaide Oval. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAustralia India Daily - Adelaide Day 2
Australia v India, 1st Test, Adelaide Day 2: Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Adelaide Oval. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily - Adelaide Day 1
Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 1st day of the 1st test from Adelaide Oval Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastIndia Daily – Test series preview
Australia is hosting India for four Tests for the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Geoff and Adam bring you up to speed the day before the first Test starting in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Dawid Malan
Season 9, Ep 12: There’s never been a higher ranked international T20 batsman than Dawid Malan and it just so happens to be that he is quarantining down the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 28, plus Adam Mountford on the future of commentary
Another weekend, more stories – this time with a strong Australia v India theme ahead of the Test series. What’s Geoff’s Angel Number? When was the only time a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Comeback Summer – Geoff's new book
Season 9, Ep 11: First up this week listen out for an Urthboy giveaway. Geoff's new book is in shops across Australia and the UK, so we'll roleplay an…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 27, plus Andy Zaltzman on scoring
This weekend The Final Word time machine takes us to visit Jack Ryder and Clem Hill, triple tons and prison. Also, a Sussex mainstay who couldn’t stop and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGlenn Maxwell mayhem & 150 years of women's cricket
Season 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 26, plus Vic Marks on Test Match Special
All roads lead back to the 1909 Ashes on Story Time of late, and why wouldn’t we want to visit again via Charlie McCartney’s tweak? That man is still firing 12…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Peter Siddle
Season 9, Ep 9: On his birthday! This episode is in fact released on Peter Siddle's birthday, and on the 10th anniversary of that birthday hat-trick. The day…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 25, with Harsha Bhogle on India’s TV revolution
How the Sheffield Shield came to be, Stan McCabe’s sculpture and one of the more curious Test careers. That’s where we begin on this weekend’s Story Time deep…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastJasprit Bumrah arrives by parachute
Season 9, Ep 8: Australia’s Test season faces new turmoil, with any means necessary being considered to deploy cricketers across the length and breadth of the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 24, plus Jonathan Agnew
The weekend means history on The Final Word, going as far back as the 1899 Ashes (a couple of times), via a couple of early Indian greats to Justin Langer’s…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastI want to rock all night and attend the Sheffield Shield every day
Season 9, Ep 7: Final Word friend Bharat Sundaresan has spent the past month in Adelaide rocking out at the First Annual Sheffield Shield Party Carnival…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Live with Stuart MacGill, this Thursday
Don't forget, this Thursday is our Final Word Live show online with Stuart MacGill. The biggest turner of the ball the game has seen, an exhilarating operator…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 23, plus Jarrod Kimber
This week our history wander takes in the famous 1960-61 West Indies tour of Australia, two different times that Zimbabwe finished with scores level, some very…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCricket and BLM, with Ebony Rainford-Brent
Season 9, Ep 6: Our first long interview in 2020 was with Ebony Rainford-Brent, when the world looked very different. Nine months on, the former England player…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 22, with Dan Liebke
Another weekend with the world in flux, another edition of Story Time to take you back to a happier time, deep within the belly of cricket history. From the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSacking South Africa, with Lungani Zama
Season 9, Ep 5: This week, the entire board at Cricket South Africa finally gave in to outside pressure and resigned. The extent of wrongdoing via a recent…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 21, plus Tim Wigmore’s new book
For the footy fans in our ranks, it is Grand Final weekend! Geoff can’t be in Brisbane to watch his beloved Cats play off for the flag, in Sydney instead to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe T20 Disease, with Jarrod Kimber
Season 9, Ep 4: Last week we had the positives of T20 with the IPL up and firing. This week we’re looking at the downsides of the many other leagues, a newly…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 20, with Wil Anderson encore
Wil Anderson has been one of our biggest supporters and our interview with him was one of our most fun. Beforehand, fill your boots with cricket history – a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastInto the IPL, with Ben Jones
Season 9, Ep 3: It’s the halfway point of the Indian Premier League, the time when you can start to see the trends, the patterns, the improvers, the declines…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 19, with Gerard Whateley encore
It's Story Time, where we wander through the history of the game. This week, Slasher Mackay's less noted strength, the highs of cricket in Florida, why the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSmithy, get the guitar
Season 9, Ep 2: Steve Smith is giving out free love on the free love highway and good on him for it. Something about those Dubai hotel rooms. In the same part…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 18, with James Pattinson encore
Gather round. It’s that time again, where we take you down the winding road of cricket history – it’s weekend Story Time on The Final Word! Check in to learn a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Batmobile, Bob Willis, and summer Down Under
Season 9, Ep 1: It's a new season! Cricket starts in Australia and the dial turns. What did we do in the last week week? Geoff has been calling the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time: Bring Back Deano
Dean Jones has left us. The One-Day King. There is nothing we’d rather do with this episode than talk about Deano: the career, the influence, the swagger, the…