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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 PodcastStory Time 243 – The Inexpressibles
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, what is are "inexpressibles", and what do they tell us about a…
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TFW Daily - Devine melts in the heat - Women's World Cup Day 11, NZ Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 11, New Zealand v Bangladesh: It's getting hot in Guwahati, hotter by the game, as Sophie Devine found out when her diabetes needed…
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TFW Daily - Battle of the power hitters - Women’s World Cup Day 10, India South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 10, India v South Africa: What a battle, and from unexpected sources. Today saw the two biggest scores ever made from No8 in women's…
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TFW Daily - Pakistan frighten Aussies - Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia v Pakistan: For a second consecutive day, there was a very real chance of the biggest cricketing upset of all time…
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Marnus Labuschagne on the comeback trail
Season 19, Episode 1: It is officially the start of the southern season, because we say so, and what more fitting way to start than with a huge Sheffield…
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TFW Daily - Knight lances upset - Women’s World Cup Day 8, England Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 8, England v Bangladesh. Whilst it looks like a routine victory on the scorecard, this was anything but comfortable for England, who had…
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TFW Daily - Brits streak continues - Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa New Zealand: Tazmin Brits belatedly kicked off South Africa’s tournament, and in some style. Have they done enough to…
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TFW Daily - Termites stop play - Women’s World Cup Day 6, India Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 6, India v Pakistan. It’s the biggest event of any ICC tournament, and the action off the pitch was yet again as much of a focus as that…
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TFW Daily - Washout costs Aus a point - Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka Australia
Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka v Australia: Sri Lanka will be the happier of the two teams as they come away with an unexpected point against Australia…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 242 – When Sachin took down India
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, dare we suggest a very slight case of pledger error, or will…
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TFW Daily - England create carnage - Women’s World Cup Day 4, England South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 4, England v South Africa: England have arrived at the World Cup with a resounding victory over a South Africa team that many thought…
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TFW Daily - They’re from Tigerland - Women’s World Cup Day 3, Bangladesh Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 3, Pakistan v Bangladesh: The first upset of the tournament comes in only its third game, and the first of 11 matches in Colombo. We…
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TFW Daily - Gardner v Devine - Women's World Cup Day 2, Australia NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 2, Australia v New Zealand: It was a battle of class v experience and century versus century, thanks to Ash Gardner and Sophie Devine…
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TFW Daily - India stutter to start - Women's World Cup Day 1, India Sri Lanka
2025 Women's World Cup, Day 1, India v Sri Lanka: It wasn't always easy, but India's muscle and skill showed through when it mattered most, overcoming their…
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England abandon spin for Ashes plans
Season 18, Episode 35: It's the end of our season (with another to start tomorrow). We'll be covering the Women's World Cup on every match day. But first…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 241 – The Bradman song, hot or not?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, let's go to the work of Jack O'Hagan, who loved writing…
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The future of Lord’s, with Rob Lynch
Season 18, Episode 34: The Home of Cricket will forever be a special and revered place, but how does it ensure its future? Rob Lynch, MCC’s director of cricket…
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It turns out Pakistan-India can go lower
Season 18 Episode 33: We said that last week’s Asia Cup nonsense was a new low, but we spoke too soon. And as the IPL and BBL flirting gets heavier, are we on…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 240 – Free Fred Tate
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's time to right another cricketing wrong. You may not have…
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India-Pakistan cricket relations reach a new low
Season 18, Episode 32: Despite all the political posturing, India and Pakistan are still playing each other in tournaments, currently the Asia Cup. But never…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 239 – The Percy Fender Stratocaster
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we start with a heavy-hitting pledge looking at one of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - Chasing Jessop, with Simon Wilde
Book Club 12: Simon Wilde - Chasing Jessop: The Mystery of England Cricket's Oldest Record Shrouded in myth and mystery, Gilbert Jessop’s 76-ball century is an…
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Australia launches a World Cup spin juggernaut
Season 18, Episode 31: As they ready for their warm-up series ahead of the Women's World Cup, Australia's squad is out and it is a formidable collection of…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 238 – David Bowie meets Matthew Wade
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff start off with a tale full of incident but…
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Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes
Season 18, Episode 30: Last week we asked whether Australia had a depth problem with fast bowling. A week later, it's suddenly more likely that they might…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 237 – Father Marriott II: The Quickening
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back to normal with a few great tales and a…
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Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves a problem?
Season 18, Episode 29: Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured in the last week, with Spencer Johnson again withdrawn from duty and…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 236 – A Scottish cry for justice, with Sean McGivern
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we complete the set, having now had each current member of our…
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The faces of England’s 2005 Ashes heroes, with Philip Brown
Season 18, Episode 28: Philip Brown is one of the game’s great photographers, having covered more than 300 Tests since 1988. Two decades ago, he had one of the…
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Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!)
Season 18, Episode 27: Our inaugural podcast all-star fundraiser at Wormsley was a hit, with The Final Word team getting over the line with one wicket to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 235 – The chase for Skase remains
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back together and heading back to Italy in…
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TFW's 10th Anniversary Special! The lost pilot episode
Season 18, Episode 26: It is true: The Final Word has turned 10. Technically our first episode was released on July 23, 2015, but July 23 this year was in the…
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Umpire Bharat is better than your umpire
Season 18, Episode 25: Top End cricket is happening with Australia and South Africa in Darwin, but our attention is on Leicestershire league cricket where the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 234 – Brazil's Smoking Cobras beat the Axis Powers
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an unexpected detour into the World War II battle for the…
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The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket
Season 18, Episode 24: The Hundred is here – a competition that divides opinion and likely always will. But what do the players think? Especially those who’ve…
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TFW Daily - Looking back at the Anderson-Tendulkar jamboree
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 6: It's all over bar the podcast reviews. A intense few weeks with 25 days of Test cricket, much of high quality…
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TFW Daily - Siraj and Woakes in thrilling finish - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 5
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 5: A series as good as this deserved a finish as good as this. It should have been a stroll for England on the…
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TFW Daily - One final stanza remains - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 4
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 4: So we go to Day 25 of the series, with 35 runs or 3 wickets to decide the fate of the series. Unless Chris…
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TFW Daily - Can the Bazballers do it? - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 3
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 3: It was Yashasvi Jaiswal’s day at The Oval, as India pressed home the advantage of a weakened and inexperienced…
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TFW Daily - Bonkers/brilliant Test Cricket - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 2
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 2: An emotional day at The Oval, honouring recently departed legend Graham Thorpe, saw some of the most riveting…
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TFW Daily - Spicy deck fun - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 1
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 1: Rain threatened to spoil the party, then an extended final session saw plenty happen for both teams before the…
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TFW Daily - Stokes out, Bumrah maybe - England India 5th Test, The Oval preview
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Review: They're dropping like flies after 20 days of Test cricket in this series. Ben Stokes had his arm fall off…
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Olympic pathway is set, as Tests are pushed further back
Season 18, Episode 23: With each meeting of the ICC board, the direction of travel becomes clearer. Two tiers of Test cricket, with less time to play it…
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TFW Daily - Tensions high after bitter end - England India 4th Test, Old Trafford aftermath
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 6: The reactions to the final hour of play at Old Trafford have been plentiful and wild. We take a deep dive…
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TFW Daily - Defiant India keep series alive– England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 5
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 5: How did India turn this around? After losing two wickets in the opening over, only two more were lost across…
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TFW Daily - Rahul and Gill cling on – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 4
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 4: KL Rahul and Shubman Gill dug in after the series looked over when losing two immediate wickets in their…
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TFW Daily - Root sets course for Tendulkar – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 3
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 3: Joe Root moved into second spot on the list of all-time Test run-makers on a day where India’s bowlers…
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TFW Daily - Stokes the machine - England India, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 2
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 2: Zak Crawley continued his love of the Old Trafford pitch as he and Ben Duckett set up a potential first…
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TFW Daily – Rishabh injury sours first day – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 1
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 1: A return to the more familiar slate skies of cricket in England, but will India’s mood be made greyer by the…
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TFW Daily – Bumrah plays, Touchpaper lit – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Preview
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Preview: How is the better team down 2-1 in this series? This Test is massive, and India has reinforced the point…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - Brick by Brick, with Max Bonnell
Book Club 11: Max Bonnell - Brick by Brick: the Australian Cricketers in England 1964 The Ashes series of that summer gets a pretty bad rap. That’s…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 233 – From gloveman to pantsman
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an ever-lively Daniel Norcross tells us all about a Surrey star…
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Exit the Caribbean
Season 18, Episode 22: It's the end of our Caribbean trip, so Geoff and Bharat convene in the hammock one more time to look over what happened here, and what…
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TFW Daily - Is Bazball now Benball? – England India, Lord’s 3rd Test, Review
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Review: It was a hot one at Lord’s, with the old-fashioned ebb and flow Test match returning. After what was essentially…
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TFW Daily - Windies join the 27 Club - West Indies Aus, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 3
West Indies Australia Daily, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 3: It's hard to put this one into words. Not often that you witness an utter sporting annhiliation, but…
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TFW Daily - A legit Lord’s classic - England India, 3rd Test, Lord's, Day 5
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 5: India couldn’t have given it much more after looking gone in the first hour of morning five, dragging their chase…
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TFW Daily - Two nights of chaos - West Indies Aus, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 2
West Indies Australia Daily, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 2: We've seen it before, then it happened again. Australia reached the evening session having to bat, and…
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TFW Daily - All set for a classic finish - England India, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 4
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 4: We are on, people, we are *on*. With scores level, England weren't sure how to proceed, veering between attack and…
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TFW Daily - One night of chaos - West Indies Aus, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 1
West Indies Australia Daily, 3rd Test, Kingston Day 1: Chaos, not from ball one, but certainly from session three. We thought the day-night match might be full…
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TFW Daily - Scores are level - England India, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 3
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 3: A day when honours were literally even after the conclusion of India’s innings. How did two India batters get out…