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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 PodcastLive from Fitzroy: The Ballad of Glenn Maxwell
Season 5, Ep 9: A special version of The Final Word recorded live at Fitzroy's Commercial Club Hotel on January 17, 2019. This episode features an oral history…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastNo formal wear required
Season 5, Ep 8: After 71 years, India wins a Test series in Australia. Adam and Geoff are joined by writer Bharat Sundaresan to talk through how it happened…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastBest & Worst of 2018 (and India's MCG masterclass)
Season 5, Ep 7: Geoff and Adam look back over the triumphs (and the odd disaster) of the year that was, as well as India's effort to go 2-1 up against…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word Christmas with Harsha Bhogle
Season 5, Ep 6: 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…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastPure Perth pace, and a dive into cricket's Moneyball
Season 5, Ep 5: India and Australia are 1-1, after a Perth Stadium pitch that was more WACA than the WACA. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins review the bouncer…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAdelaide action, and the Secret Life of Peter Russell Clarke
Season 5, Ep 4: A gripping end followed a spongy middle in the first Test of Australia's 2018-19 summer. Geoff and Adam take a close look at India's win and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWelcomes: to summer, Geoff's book, and the World T20 trophy
Season 5, Ep 3: New things abound. The Australian summer starts for real with the first Test against India imminent. The women's team win the World T20 with a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAustralia stares into the Abbas
Season 5, Ep 2: Back to earth with a thud, as the Dubai draw is followed by an Abu Dhabi thrashing. Pakistan pull their biggest ever win over Australia out of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastUsman Khawaja's Great Escape
Season 5, Ep 1: Let's call it straight - one of the most remarkable batting performances ever in the fourth innings of a Test. Usman Khawaja batted more than…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTampering, sackings, a week of disaster
Season 4, Ep 10: What a week. Cape Town to Johannesburg, one of Australian cricket's biggest disasters, and a story that bounced across the world. Sandpaper…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with Gerard Whateley
Season 4, Ep 9: One of Australia's top broadcasters joins Adam and Geoff in South Africa's southern city of Port Elizabeth, in a long-form interview to discuss…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWarner gets into de Kock fight
Season 4, Ep 8: Why does cricket do this to itself? After a brilliant Test in Durban, the discussion is instead about which Australians and South Africans said…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word with David Warner
Season 4, Ep 7: After a mad dash from Auckland to Johannesburg, Australian vice-captain David Warner gives The Final Word. How can he succeed in South Africa?…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastEnd of School Formal with Daniel Norcross
Season 4, Ep 6: School's out for the summer. The Ashes are done, and BBC commentator Daniel Norcross joins Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon to sift through the…
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The Best & Worst of 2017
Season 4, Ep 5: It is New Year's Eve in 2017, and we may be in the middle of an Ashes series but it is also time to run our eye over the year that was. Send us…
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The Final Word with Vic Marks
Season 4, Ep 4: It was a warm night in Perth when we left the WACA after its final Test match saw Australia win the Ashes, and we went to interview Vic Marks…
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The Final Word with Jason Gillespie
Season 4, Ep 3: The interview that started it all. It was December 9, 2017, when we sat down with Jason Gillespie by the boundary at Adelaide Oval as a charity…
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Headbutts and buttheads
Season 4, Ep 2: Bancroft and Bairstow butting heads in Brisbane. In November 2017, Cameron Bancroft didn’t just make an unbeaten 80 to win an Ashes Test, he…
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The Final Word with Ellyse Perry
Season 4, Ep 1: Recorded in a Canberra park after midnight following the final T20 of the Women’s Ashes in November 2017, Geoff and Adam started a new season…
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The Stoinis Arrival Symphony
Season 3, Ep 10: All the way back to when we used to record The Final Word for the ABC. No Urthboy, no stings, no improper language, just straight down the…
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Allan Border is banned from getting old
Season 3, Ep 9: It is late January in 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration week, in which Billy Stanlake is King of Geelong, Glenn Maxwell is switch-hitting to…
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In Spanish, this show is La Palabra Ultima
Season 3, Ep 8: Stop us if this sounds familiar: it's January, around the Sydney Test, there's a tour to India coming up any minute, and we're wondering…
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Warner's century in a session, Younis Khan the batting god
Season 3, Ep 7: With Pakistan's Test series wrapped up in Sydney, let's spend a moment on the great undersung career of Younis Khan: on the occasion of his…
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The Best & Worst of 2016
Season 3, Ep 6: Happy New Year for 2017! Our new NYE segment is Best & Worst. Admittedly it is a short segment at the end of the show, but before that we have…
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Pakistan just miss a Gabba miracle
Season 3, Ep 5: It's the Gabba just before Christmas in 2016, a match in which Pakistan get set 490 to win... and damn near run it down. Asad Shafiq, Yasir…
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Deadwood, Preacher, and the cheese cube method
Season 3, Ep 4: David Warner is on one of the hottest batting streaks in one-day cricket history. After saying that it was his worst format, he has finally…
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Glengarry Glen Ross Glenn Maxwell
Season 3, Ep 3: Glenn Maxwell exiled from the one-day team for answering a question about batting higher up the order? Yep. It's the middle of the Steve Smith…
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When they sacked half the Australian team
Season 3, Ep 2: After the Hobart debacle and the Australia's Got Talent round of the Sheffield Shield, a new-look Australian team takes the field in Adelaide…
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Destroyed in Hobart, Australia hits rock bottom
Season 3, Ep 1: What a week this was. Early November, 2016, Donald Trump has just been elected US President, Geoff returns from following the circus in the US…
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Brendon McCullum becomes King of the World
Season 2, Ep 9: It's February 2016. Brendon McCullum is playing his last Test match, and decides to sign off with the world record for the fastest century of…
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The no-ball that changed the world
Season 2, Ep 8: To end the 2015-16 summer, Australia head to New Zealand. With the one-dayers done it's time for the first Test at Wellington. Would it be…
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Shane Robert Watson, Australian captain
Season 2, Ep 7: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word. In its second season in early 2016, The Final Word got spicy - it covered white-ball…
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Steve O'Keefe hits the dancefloor at Revolver
Season 2, Ep 6: In January 2016, we spend a wet Sydney Test match thinking of songs involving rain rather than watching cricket. West Indies refuse to cook up…
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The Best & Worst of 2015
Season 2, Ep 5: It's the end of 2015! Cue the streamers. Australia have just beaten West Indies at the MCG. Usman Khawaja is making bulk runs, but not as bulk…
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Chasing Australia's biggest records at Wobby's World
Season 2, Ep 4: It's December 2015. West Indies have just been blown off Bellerive Oval as Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pile on 449, within a whisker of the…
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The very first day-night Test
Season 2, Ep 3: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word. Proof of concept. That's what it was all about in 2015, when Australia hosted New Zealand in…
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Ross Taylor versus Tip Foster
Season 2, Ep 2: In 2015, the deadest WACA track in history made Mitchell Johnson retire on the spot. Dave Warner belted a million while wearing a WWII…
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Memories of the Gabba past
Season 2, Ep 1: To start their visit in 2015, New Zealand got first use of a Gabba pitch against a new-look Australian batting order, and fluffed it. That Test…
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Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
Season 1, Ep 6: At the end of Australia's 2015 tour of England, after the one-day series to follow the Ashes, it was great to be joined by our friends Jesse…
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The beginnings of T20 cricket, from a Cardiff pub
Season 1, Ep 5: Partway through a busy Australian tour of England in 2015, it's time to take stock of the short format. We started in The Cricketers pub in…
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The 2015 Ashes = throwing up at a house party
Season 1, Ep 4: The 2015 Ashes came to a close, after a series of batting collapses and bowling blowouts. Australia out for 60 in Nottingham and 136 in…
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Canterbury tales: the Women's Ashes Test of 2015
Season 1, Ep 3: This is the show's first engagement with women's cricket, and you can hear how much we've learned since. Down in Canterbury, amid a men's Test…
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The Edbgaston Ashes collapse (A poster of Charles Bannerman)
Season 1, Ep 2: Our second episode ever comes after Australia got shot out of the sky in Birmingham during the 2015 Ashes, for England to take a lead 2-1 with…
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This is The Final Word
Season 1, Ep 1: London 2015, with our new Ashes podcast project not signed off in time to cover the first Test in Cardiff, we got started after the second Test…