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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
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TFW Ashes Daily - Jumping, jumping - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 3: Sometimes, Test cricket offers the chance for rare resistance. We saw that through the morning session on day…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Perfect bowling in the heat - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 2: The hottest day of the Test by far, and somehow the bowling side were not the ones who wilted. An astounding…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Carey's hometown class - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 1: It's blazing hot in Adelaide, although the oracles say it will only get hotter, and the Test match is off to a…
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TFW Ashes Daily - England's last chance - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 0: We are down to England's last chance to stay in the series, and they've elected to take on Adelaide Oval and a…
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The one time that Beth Mooney couldn't do it
Season 19, Episode 15: This week, from Brunswick Street Oval in Melbourne during our TFW XI match, more Ashes chatter and chunter with Usman Khawaja stepping…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 250 – Billy Corgan introduces decimal currency
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Adam and Geoff get together at Stomping Ground Beer Hall to watch our TFW ale come off the…
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The week that Noosa entered cricket folklore
Season 19, Episode 14: The Ashes players keep on dropping, with Australia and England each losing a vital bowler for the rest of the Ashes, while a backup…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 249 – The man who named Bodyline
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, an extraordinary figure whose efforts spanned two sports, four jobs, and the Federation of…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Wait, you prepared too much? - 2nd Test, Brisbane wrap
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 5: We're wrapping things up from Brisbane the day after the Test, down by the church to say a prayer for England's…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Resistance (if futile) - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4: Something strange happened on the fourth day at the Gabba. Test cricket broke out. Quality defensive batting…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Send England home - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3: England got the start they wanted, but then Australia played the perfect day of pink-ball cricket. Sometimes…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Jake Weatherald's Ashes - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2: It's a tight one in Brisbane, with England not just soiling the bed but throwing it out the window in the first…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Joe Root versus the hex - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1: This whole series has been set up to see Joe Root face down one giant hoodoo: can he make tons in Australia?…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Is Pat Playing?! - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0: Is that Pat Cummins' walk-on music? Is he running into the ring? It had a wrestling feel to it at the Gabba as…
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Khawaja is out - two hours after we recorded this
Season 19, Episode 13: With Usman Khawaja's back injury keeping him out of the Brisbane Test, that may be it for Australia's opening bat. Not that we knew this…
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The Final Word with Paul Marsh, ACA chief executive
Season 19, Episode 12: The decisions made about international cricket over the next couple of years are likely to have a major influence on how the game is…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 248 – Nepotism is fine when it's your brother
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're looking at shit brothers: one who genuinely was terrible…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Grade Cricketer x The Final Word
Season 19, Episode 11: For years, people have asked about the BEEF between us and The Grade Cricketer. The reality is, for a decade now, we've all been in this…
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Mark Wood driving to Brisbane is the only driving England is allowed
Season 19, Episode 10: No, that's not true, they're back driving on the golf course. But we're not going to talk too much about Ashes wash-up... ok, only a…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 247 – The best fourth-innings bat of all?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're looking at one of the great fourth-innings players, and a…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Is Khawaja done? Are England capable of humility?
The Ashes Daily 2025, Perth Day 3: A two-day Test brings many questions to consider. For the winners, is Travis Head up top for Brisbane after his all-timer?…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Travis Head's day of annihilation - 1st Test, Perth Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 2: We thought the first day in Perth was crazy, but the second was perhaps even more so. England continued on their…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Carnage in the West - 1st Test, Perth Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 1: Hooley dooley! We thought that things were going in one direction when Mitchell Starc went on a rampage through…
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TFW Ashes Daily - The green monster is soothed - 1st Test, Perth Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Perth Day 0: We've all been hearing about the Green Monster, but it looks a bit more like a cricket pitch now that we're one…
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The Ashes, here at last
Season 19, Episode 9: Adam and Bharat come to you from the back row of Perth Stadium, for the Ashes of 2025-26 has nearly arrived. From their vantage point…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - The Ashes Files, with Steven Finn
Book Club 14: Steven Finn - The Ashes Files: Inside Cricket's Most Intense Series So much of Steven Finn's story is wrapped up in Ashes cricket, from his first…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 246 – Sacking Whitlam, sacking Boycott
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're recording 50 years to the day since the Whitlam…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics
Book Club 13: Geoff Lemon & Adam Collins - Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics One for those who couldn’t make the launch of our history book, Bedtime Tales for…
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The last London sleet before Perth heat
Season 19, Episode 8: Adam and Geoff are in London this week, where it's freezing and awful, and the dream of Perth summer beckons like a mirage. But this…
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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part two, The Final Word in Brazil
Season 19, Episode 7: We left our conversation in part one at the South American Championships, reflecting on where Brazil has been over the last quarter of a…
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Um, dois, três, Cricket Brasil! - part one, The Final Word in Brazil
Season 19, Episode 6: When the game was looking for good news stories during the Covid pandemic, we found one in Brazil. Five years on, Adam has spent the week…
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The Ashes squad has landed
Season 19, Episode 5: At last, the speculation is over. At least, Geoff and Bharat think that it is, because they think this Australian Ashes squad leaves no…
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TFW Daily - History for India - Women's World Cup Day 34, the final
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 34, the final, India South Africa: After two iconic semi-finals, the double underdogs that triumphed in those contests moved to the…
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TFW Daily - Women's World Cup final preview - India South Africa
Women’s World Cup final preview, South Africa India: It’s the big one, and it’s the matchup that nobody expected. Both of these teams pulled out astonishing…
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TFW Daily - The greatest chase - Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia
Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia: Two duelling hundreds between Phoebe Litchfield and Jemimah Rodrigues lit up an already electric atmosphere at…
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TFW Daily – The innings of a lifetime - Women’s World Cup Semi-Final 1, South Africa England
Women’s World Cup Day 30, 1st semi-final, South Africa England: After England humiliated South Africa to open the tournament, this knockout rematch was always…
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Is it Weatherald versus Renshaw now to open the batting?
Season 19, Episode 4: The women's World Cup semis are around the corner, so first up it's time to run the rule over the four remaining teams, and get a sense…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 245 – 1990s Australia is another country
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an inadvertent detour into just how distant the 1990s version…
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TFW Daily - Can India now push Australia? - Women's World Cup Day 27, Eng NZ + India Bang
Women's World Cup Day 27, England New Zealand & India Bangladesh: Not a day they will be making a commemorative DVD from, it is fair to say. Appropriately…
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TFW Daily - Alana King’s astonishing 7fa - Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia South Africa
Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia v South Africa: What a performance, what a bowler. Alana King’s 7 for 18 defined Australia’s annihilation of South Africa…
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TFW Daily - Virat and Rohit light up one last time - Australia India, 3rd ODI, Sydney
TFW Daily, Australia India 3rd ODI, Sydney: For one last time in Australia, the old partnership did it again. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scoured back the…
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TFW Daily - Zero scrutiny of washout shambles - Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka Pakistan
Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka v Pakistan: Another washout. Another one. What a shambles. It makes three abandoned games each for Sri Lanka and Pakistan…
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TFW Daily - Then there were four - Women's World Cup Day 24, India New Zealand
Women's World Cup Day 24, India v New Zealand: It was always likely that today would seal the last semi-final spot in this edition of the World Cup, as long as…
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TFW Daily - The onfield casualty ward - Australia India, 2nd ODI, Adelaide
TFW Daily, Australia India 2nd ODI, Adelaide: It was a full game this time around, and it involved a proper battle between old foes Starc and Hazlewood on the…
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TFW Daily - Punch and counterpunch - Women’s World Cup Day 23, England Australia
Women's World Cup Day 23, England v Australia: England began both innings full of purpose and daring and ready to rattle some Australian cages before the…
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His cuffs are bone dry: everything's coming up Marnus
Season 19, Episode 3: Round 2 of the Shield has come and gone, and you won't believe it, but there was another big Marnus ton. The Premier Jake Weatherald is…
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TFW Daily - A new number one - Women's World Cup Day 22, South Africa Pakistan
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 22, South Africa Pakistan: Once again, rain affected the game in Colombo, but the amazing groundstaff ensured a result. The…
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TFW Daily - Disaster at the last - Women's World Cup Day 21, Sri Lanka Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 21, Sri Lanka Bangladesh: Once again, we came down to the final over in this World Cup, in an absorbing tussle throughout. None of…
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TFW Daily - India on the brink - Women’s World Cup Day 20, India England
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 20, India England: Another nerve-shredder of a match involving India. There was high quality across the park from both teams…
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TFW Daily - Kohli and Rohit bomb out - Australia India, 1st ODI, Perth
Australia v India, 1st ODI, Perth: They're back, the big dogs who retired from Tests in Australia earlier this year after flaming out in that format. Their…
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TFW Daily - Harmanpreet’s week of destiny - Women’s World Cup Day 19, Pakistan NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 19, Pakistan v New Zealand: With the counter ticking over to 350 overs lost in Colombo during the tournament, we turn our attention to an…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 244 – To lose the Championship by 10 feet
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, have you heard the one about the three-time premiership Lion…
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TFW Daily - Why play in a monsoon? - Women’s World Cup Day 18, Sri Lanka South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 18, Sri Lanka South Africa: Another day, another rain-affected game in Colombo. We examine the extent of play lost in the Sri Lankan leg…
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TFW Daily - Healy goes boss - Women’s World Cup Day 17, Australia Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 17, Australia Bangladesh: Alyssa Healy loves the big dances. Is she the best of all time? Bangladesh were commendable and valiant, but…
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TFW Daily - A heartbreaking ending - Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan England
Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan v England: Who benefited most from the rain? There’ll be arguments back and forth, but it seemed like we were on the verge…
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Cummins and Head reject 10 million IPL bucks to ditch Australia
Season 19, Episode 2: The Ashes runway continues, the Women's World Cup is mid-flight, and the Indian men's team are about to land in Australia for a…
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TFW Daily - Lanka's fastest fifty - Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka vs New Zealand: A 26-ball fifty from Nilakshika Silva lit up a stormy Colombo evening, in a game which saw seen India get…
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TFW Daily - Three balls remaining - Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh v South Africa: After being dismantled by New Zealand, Bangladesh's batting found a new level of resolve, topped off by…
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TFW Daily - World record run chase - Women's World Cup Day 13, Australia India
Women’s World Cup Day 13, Australia India: That was quite something. India set Australia the biggest ever run chase in women's ODIs... and then you'll never…
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TFW Daily - The Sciver-Brunt show - Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka England
Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka v England: Nat Sciver-Brunt led from the front again, with Sri Lanka on the receiving end this time. There was fight from…