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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 Final Word with Alison Mitchell
Season 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 16, with Matt Renshaw encore
Story Time! Many and varied they are today. Adam can't stop talking about George Headley. Geoff believes that at last, at last, he has caught up to a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastEmergency episode: Glenn Maxwell's century
Emergency! Maxi time! The Final Word's fave made one of the best hundreds we've seen in one-day cricket to win a ridiculous run chase and win a series decider…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastChannel Seven's big cash heist
Season 8, Ep 28: Two years ago the Seven Network bought TV rights to great fanfare. Now they're refusing to pay. The free-to-air broadcaster has Cricket…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 15, with Jos Buttler encore
Heroes and villains. Rational or fair or otherwise, we have them on Story Time. Geoff meets his nemesis, Adam explains the greatest work of the greatest, we…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAustralia's choke, the Afghan Mankad, and farewell Bell
Season 8, Ep 27: That was quite the choke. Australia's T20 series against England started with a dominant position that somehow turned into a loss. England…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 14, with Pat Cummins encore
Pat Cummins is a special cricketer and a great fella. We had a lovely time talking with him in Derby this time last year, decked out in his skin-tight and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Trent Woodhill
Season 8, Ep 26: Trent Woodhill is one of the most versatile people in cricket: coach, trusted mentor, adviser, ideas man. This was a good time to pick his…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 13, plus Jason Roy
Story Time! We have a new chat with England opener Jason Roy about missing the IPL, which comes after the customary weekend wander through cricket history. In…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastYou hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of 600 wickets
Season 8, Ep 25: That is the sound of inevitability. No matter who didn't believe it, James Anderson's march did not stop towards the mark that only three…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 12, with Natalie Germanos encore
Story Time! This week let us take you through more tales of Ravi "Careless Whisper" Bopara, the human sax solo; some Sehwag madness, an Anzac connection; the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Dhoni Touch, by the Bloodhound Gang
Season 8, Ep. 24: The great MSD has put the cue in the rack, for India at least. In the circumstances, there was nobody better to get back on the show than…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 11, with Vic Marks encore
Hanif Mohammad! Brian Lara! We advance from 499 to 501 patrons and we couldn’t be happier. Your support has been quite outstanding. We celebrate in the usual…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBehold, the week when Chris Woakes wakes
Season 8, Ep 23: Comebacks don’t get much more stylish. England's memorable turnaround in Manchester came when Woakes and Jos Buttler produced a partnership…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 10, with The Edge documentary encore
It's our new show! Or, same show, new name. STORY TIME will be the weekend wander through the weeds, where we get into some of the more obscure and less…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGreen Machines
Season 8, Ep 22: As Ireland, one of cricket’s green machines, prepare to leave England, the other, Pakistan are ready to start their Test series at Old…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 9, with Urthboy encore
One of our most heartfelt interviews with the man behind the music of The Final Word, and pioneer of the Australian hip hop scene, Urthboy. Of course, being a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAn Irish episode with no Irish clichés
Season 8, Ep 21: The Irish are coming, and what better time than before their games against England to sit down with their CEO Warren Deutrom to tell us their…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 8, with Jimmy Neesham encore
"I certainly want to win this World Cup, but I can live with myself if we don’t," said Jimmy Neesham a few weeks before that famous final. One of the funniest…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastEngland level the Windies, and every Cup is on the move
Season 8, Ep 20: It’s 1-1 and the Wisden Trophy is the series that keeps on giving. Another last-day finish, another good fight, another fine bit of comedic…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 7, with Kate Cross encore
This time last year, we sat down with Kate Cross before a T20 International and she shared with us the details of some of the toughest moments of her sporting…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastHow England won the World Cup (and lost the first Test back)
Season 8, Ep 19: Exactly a year from that famous day at Lord's we're joined by Nick Hoult to discuss his new book that gives all the detail you didn't know…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCommentary with Ian Smith: By the barest of margins
Season 8, Ep 18. The end of the 2019 World Cup will remain inseparable from Ian Smith's description of it. He explained in depth to the Calling the Shots…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCricket is back! England prepares the Bio-Dome
Season 8, Ep 17: Shout it from the rooftops! This week, England host West Indies in the first of three behind-closed-doors Tests and we couldn’t be happier on…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: Today (series finale)
This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. In this…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe many sides of South Africa's political brawl
Season 8, Ep 16: Amidst ongoing fighting that predates the virus crisis, South African cricket writer Telford Vice joins the show to explain the conflict in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 6, with David Warner encore
In February 2018, we spoke to Dave in Durban a couple of days ahead of a Test series that would prove to be fateful in so many ways. This was an interesting…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with William McInnes
Season 8, Ep 15: As promised, here it is – our chat with one of Australia’s favourite sons, William McInnes. You know him as an actor and a writer, but before…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: The Disruptors
This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. In…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastExit Kevin Roberts, pursued by a bear
Season 8, Ep 14: That happened fast. At the start of the corona crisis, all looked rosy at Cricket Australia with the women winning the World Cup in front of a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCommentary with Mark Nicholas - Part II
Season 8, Ep 13:Geoff is back with Adam for a little bit of Nerd Pledge before hopping into the second part of the extensive Calling the Shots interview with…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCommentary with Mark Nicholas - Part I
Season 8, Ep 12:Daniel Norcross steps in for Geoff this week, reflecting with Adam on the Calling the Shots documentary project they have been working on…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 5, with Jason Gillespie encore
This interview with Jason Gillespie, recorded on the Adelaide Oval boundary edge at the day after the Ashes Test in 2017, was a turning point for show. Until…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCrickiLeaks
Season 8, Ep 11: The BCCI is fuming after some sensitive correspondence found its way to the Times of India newspaper. Things the BCCI don’t want you to Be…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: On TV
This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Over the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe World Cup, One Year On
Season 8, Ep 10: It is one year since the start of the 2019 World Cup – the time of our cricketing lives. To mark the anniversary, we talk to a funny man we…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 4, with Isa Guha encore
Our fourth encore edition, to enjoy through another socially-distanced weekend. Isa Guha is one of our favourite people in the game with one the best stories…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSpit, sweat and Steve Waugh’s shrugs
Season 8, Ep 9: We shouldn’t, but we couldn’t help ourselves. Somehow we all keep getting sucked in by Shane Warne being an old man yelling at a cloud shaped…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: Test Match Special
This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode three, where Daniel Norcross…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Megan Schutt
Season 8, Ep 8: We've been wanting to speak to Megan Schutt on the pod for years. It was worth the wait. The world’s top-ranked seamer told us her story, from…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 3, with Ian Chappell encore
Another encore edition for your weekend listening during lockdown. It was quite the mission getting up to visit Ian Chappell in early 2019, but it was…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastChasing the Golden Number
Season 8, Ep 7: More segments than a juicy Valencia orange this week. A new Statman chases the grandest cricket number of all. The Milk Round tests out new…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: How it all began
This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode two, where Daniel Norcross…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastNerd Pledge Quiz with Jonathan Liew
Season 8, Ep 6: It’s quiz time. Official brain genius J. Liew joins us from the Guardian for a proper dive into an overflowing heap of Nerd Pledge numbers…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 2, with Glenn Maxwell encore
Another encore edition for your weekend listening during lockdown. And who better to return to than the patron saint of The Final Word? On the eve of last…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBig Trouble in Little Cricket Australia
Season 8, Ep 5: You thought cricket was safe in the south? Think again. CA is shutting down operations to avoid running out of cash. Questions and accusations…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastCalling the Shots: Alison Mitchell and Ian Smith
This is Calling the Shots, new documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode one, where Daniel Norcross and Adam…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe sun of England's empty spring
Season 8, Ep 4. With no cricket on, everyone in England watched replays of the Headingley Test over the weekend, so we look back at that day in our lives as…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 1, with Harsha Bhogle encore
India's voice of cricket has a long relationship with Australia too, part of ABC radio since 1991. None of this happened by accident: Harsha Bhogle was the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word reviews Wisden for 2020
Season 8, Ep 3: The year of cricket ahead might look sparse, but the year before was one of the busiest. For 157 years the Wisden Almanack has been recording…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Nasser Hussain
Season 8, Episode 2: Nasser Hussain. He’s known for Karachi in the dark, for the toss at Brisbane, for Hansie’s leather jacket, so we talked about none of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastSunrise in Lockdown
Season 8, Ep 1: That’s right, it’s time for a new Final Word season. A season in which very little cricket may be played, but much cricket will be played in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastGloves in the Time of Corona, with Dr Peter Brukner
Season 7, Ep 24. With COVID-19 stopping the world of sport, Dr Peter Brukner is who you want to hear from: having been the doctor for Australia’s cricket and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe day we got 86,000 at the MCG
Season 7, Ep 23: World Cup finals do have that special sauce. A few years ago you could barely have assembled a dodgeball game out of the attendance at most…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastFinals time or rain time?
Season 7, Ep 22: The T20 World Cup pool (party) stage is done, and the usual suspects are through to the semi-finals. But the last two pool matches in Sydney…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with the Thailand cricket team
Season 7, Ep 21: It's Thai time! And the first bilingual Final Word. People have wondered how Thailand made it to the World Cup, and we've got the full story…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastADAM HAS A BABY NOW
Season 7, Ep 20: Pardon the Caps Lock, but it's worth it. We've all been waiting for a long time, and now Winifred Mae Collins is with us thanks to some…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastMini update on Patreon plans
The Women's T20 World Cup is about to start, and we've been wanting to do a few extra things for the lovely people on our Patreon page who make our show…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe AB Medal goes to... La La Land
Season 7, Ep 19: The Allan Border Medal really made some people mad this week, as David Warner snaffled it by one vote from Steve Smith. More cheerfully –…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Ebony Rainford-Brent
Season 7, Ep 18: Ebony could have played a dozen sports. Cricket got her by chance. Now she's a popular commentator on Test Match Special, on the Surrey board…