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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 Daily - Bumrah v Archer - England India, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 2
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 2: The fast bowling head to head. How we've waited to see this. After a quiet first day, Jasprit Bumrah started his…
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TFW Daily - Joe Root vs the ladybirds - England India, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 1
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord’s Day 1: Finally, a day for the purists, with Bazball nowhere to be seen after England chose to bat. Stokes hobbled, Pope…
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TFW Daily - Jofra's Back! And so is Bumrah... - 3rd Test, Lord's, Preview
England India Daily, 3rd Test, Lord's Preview: After four long years, Jofra Archer will be back in the whites at HQ. Cameron Ponsonby and Daniel Norcross are…
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Mulder the benevolent
Season 18, Episode 21: The kids have taken over the classroom. Ben Jones joins Cameron Ponsonby in a rare double-guest-hosting of our weekly show. What to make…
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TFW Daily - Have India seized the ascendancy? – England India, 2nd Test, Edgbaston review
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Review. Where does India’s onslaught of runs in the second Test leave England’s plans for the series and beyond? Ben…
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TFW Daily - Aussie bowlers ruthless in paradise - West Indies Aus, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 4
West Indies Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 4: It's all over at Grenada. A beautiful country, an ugly innings, after Australia set West Indies 277 to…
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TFW Daily - India make history to level series - England India, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Day 5
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Day 5. Rain threatened to bring Shubman’s declaration timing into question, but instead a flow of Akash Deep wickets…
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TFW Daily - Steve Smith almost gets century 37 - West Indies Aus, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 3
West Indies Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 3: A rare day in this series that felt like normal Test cricket, with a bit of rain slowing down…
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TFW Daily - An insane amount of runs - England India, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Day 4
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Day 4: The days keep passing and the runs keep coming. This time it was India again, as Shubman Gill takes himself…
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TFW Daily - Is it a crisis yet? - West Indies Aus, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 2
West Indies Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 2: We seem to spend every day talking about Khawaja and Konstas, and here we go again. A half hour of…
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TFW Daily - The weirdest scorecard - England India, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Day 3
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Day 3: Six ducks, two doubles? Just about. It seemed we would get there during the monster partnership between Jamie…
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TFW Daily - Aussie top order fails again - West Indies Aus, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 1
West Indies Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 1: It just ain't happening for Messrs Khawaja, Konstas, and Green, with another chance going begging for all…
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TFW Daily - Gill's double as India soar - England India, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Day 2
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Day 2: If Shubman Gill thought he had a good day yesterday, today it went extra large. By the end of the day, only…
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TFW Daily - Shubman edges day for India - England India 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Day 1
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Day 1: There were changes to the India team, but not the ones we expected. Shubman took it upon himself to hand the…
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TFW Daily - Windies keep dodging questions - West Indies Aus, 2nd Test, Grenada preview
West Indies Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Grenada Day 0: After a few days of a story bubbling away, Cricket West Indies have finally got themselves organised…
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TFW Daily - Can Kuldeep solve Edgbaston? - 2nd Test, Edgbaston, Preview
England India Daily, 2nd Test, Edgbaston Preview: Whilst it’s only 1-0, there’s a sense that India needs a positive result out of this game, and since…
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We now come to you live from this hammock
Season 18, Episode 20: It's the first ever Final Word from Grenada, as Geoff and Bharat kick back on the deck looking over St Georges. It's a fine view for a…
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TFW Daily - The wildest extra half hour - West Indies Aus, 1st Test, Barbados Day 3
West Indies Australia Daily, 1st Test, Barbados Day 3: How the hell is that over? This match was destined for Day 4, with some hope of a good tussle, and then…
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TFW Daily - Quicks galore in tasty Bajan contest - West Indies Aus, 1st Test, Barbados Day 2
West Indies Australia Daily, 1st Test, Barbados Day 2: The wickets kept falling, and the game kept galloping along, as Australia put the pressure on West…
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TFW Daily - Quicks smash the Aussies - West Indies Aus, 1st Test, Barbados Day 1
West Indies Australia Daily, 1st Test, Barbados Day 1: Does Shamar Joseph enjoy anything more than bowling against Australia? It's hard to see how. The…
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TFW Daily - Has Bazball killed batting first? - England India, 1st Test, Headingley, Review
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley, Review: Daniel Norcross and Ben Jones assess a wild Test match in Leeds that was… actually quite predictable when…
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TFW Daily | How did India lose this one? - England India, 1st Test, Headingley, Day 5
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 5: England do it! They pull off the 10th-highest chase in history. A lacklustre India provided only scant…
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TFW Daily - Series preview - West Indies Australia, 1st Test, Barbados
West Indies Australia Daily, 1st Test, Barbados Day 0: A ground packed with history, a country that has produced more superstars than any in the region - it's…
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TFW Daily - Bumrah again keeps the balance - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3: What was Harry Brook thinking? And before that, the same question applies to Jamie Smith. Also, how have…
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TFW Daily - Rishabh flourishes but Pope hangs on - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2: Rishabh Pant made it three tons for India on Day 2 with a rollicking century. But with an Ollie Pope blinder…
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TFW Daily - Jaiswal and Gill are gen next - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1: “We’ll have a bowl.” It's not done yet, but Ben Stokes may live to regret that call, as a new generation of…
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TFW Daily - Series preview - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 0: It's about to begin. Five Test matches between two huge teams, with Ben Stokes and the bish-bash brigade…
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No gods, no masters
Season 18, Episode 19: Still in the afterglow of South Africa’s World Test Championship win, apparently the real hero is… board chair Jay Shah? You may think…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 232 – "The summer from hell"
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go back to the northern summer of 1990 when the pitches and…
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TFW Daily - Why South Africa's WTC win means so much, with Dan Gallan
World Test Championship Final, the day after: When South Africa fell short in the T20 World Cup Final last year, it was Dan Gallan who we called upon to…
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TFW Daily - South Africa are World Champions - WTC Final, Day 4
World Test Championship Final, Day 4: They bloody well did it. South Africa and winning finals - that hasn't been a pairing that has seen much airtime in…
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TFW Daily - South Africa surely win this? - WTC Final, Day 3
World Test Championship Final, Day 3: South Africa have looked the underdog throughout this WTC final, but halfway through the third day, that all changed…
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TFW Daily - Game on a knife edge - WTC Final, Day 2
World Test Championship Final, Day 2: If Rabada fired on day one, Cummins fired back on day two, in a battle of fast-bowling quality that any preview could and…
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TFW Daily - Stumps splayed everywhere - WTC Final, Day 1
World Test Championship Final, Day 1: South Africa needed to do some damage with their quick bowlers early to challenge Australia, and they did exactly that…
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TFW Daily - Marnus and Hazlewood in - WTC Final, Day 0
World Test Championship Final, Day 0: It's here. Two years of Test cricket ends with a decider at the ground where it was always designed to be when it was…
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The Final Word with Todd Greenberg
Season 18, Episode 18: Cricket Australia's new CEO came ready to talk when sitting down with Adam at Lord's two days before the WTC Final. Typically at this…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 231 – The best player without a Cricinfo page?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the most significant Test cricketer who doesn't even…
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After 18 long seasons, Kohli and RCB finally win one
Season 18, Episode 17: The IPL turned 18 this year, old enough for Royal Challengers Bangalore to finally buy a celebratory drink after falling short in every…
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Glenn Maxwell retires from ODI cricket
Season 18, Episode 16: A special ep today – yes, Glenn Maxwell has retired from One Day International cricket. In this exclusive conversation, he explains that…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 230 – The Malcolm Marshall LP
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, almost silent and almost deadly, was Malcolm Marshall the best…
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At last, India's prince has come along
Season 18, Episode 15: As England took care of Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, India's new-look Test squad has arrived, with glamour option Shubman Gill leading the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 229 – Adam Gilchrist's trail of destruction
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, one of the peaks of the peak, that isn't talked about as often…
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Bashir gets the better of a fighting Zim | England v Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge, Day 3
England v Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge Test, Day 3: Ben Jones joins Daniel Norcross. DONATE TO OUR EDINBURGH RUNNERS BELOW. Is Shoaib Bashir coming of age? Can Ben…
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TFW Daily - Brian Bennett, Pleasure Machine - England Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge Day 2
England v Zimbabwe, 1st Test, Trent Bridge Test, Day 2: Cameron Ponsonby joins Daniel Norcross. Zimbabwe put up the fight that many thought was beyond them, or…
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TFW Daily - Zak Crawley love & hate day - England Zimbabwe Test, Day 1
England Zimbabwe Daily, Lord's Test, Day 1: It's England Test season, with Zimbabwe back for the first time in 22 years - but they may wish they'd given it a…
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Cam Green, ton machine, keeps WTC pot boiling
Season 18, Episode 14: It's almost northern Test summer time, with Ben Stokes out of hibernation, Zimbabwe playing warm-ups, and the Australian and South…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 228 – The Murali of the 1890s
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we discover a player who we should have known more about, with…
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Virat Kohli: Test match great
Season 18, Episode 13: To those who question Kohli's place as a Test great because he didn't average enough or quite make enough career runs, it is fair to say…
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The Final Word with Kyle Abbott
Season 18, Episode 12: Why did one of South Africa’s best, Kyle Abbott, pack in international cricket at the peak of his powers at age 29 in favour of going…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 227 – Butt juice
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we find that sometimes when researching something else about…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - Test Cricket, A History, with Tim Wigmore
Book Club 10: Tim Wigmore - Test Cricket, A History Over the years, Tim Wigmore has penned several superb books, and this might be his best yet. Joining Daniel…
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English cricket surrenders as the "most inclusive" sport
Season 18, Episode 11: A charged political atmosphere this week, with Australia's election having just taken place, while the ECB fold to the current campaign…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 226 – Sandpaper Day, as it happened
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's Daniel Norcross guest hosting, so he begins with a proverb…
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The Final Word with Marcus Harris
Season 18 Episode 10: A left-handed opener from Perth who grew up idolising Justin Langer, in Marcus Harris you have a player who was meant to fit a certain…
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What were you doing at age 14?
Season 18, Episode 9: With the power outage in Lisbon it’s Daniel Norcross stepping in this week as Adam returns to a familiar sofa under the Jardine portrait…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 225 – Diego Maradona's dinner party
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, there's only one thing on the menu at Diego's dinner, but would…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastWisden 2025 with Lawrence Booth
Season 18, Episode 8: We like forging traditions on the pod and one of those is speaking with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, at…
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“TFW remains the gold standard of cricketing podcasts” - Wisden
Season 18, Episode 7: Call it a mutual admiration society: given the way we respect Wisden, it's nice to get an observation back. More importantly this week…
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The Final Word with Richard Gould - two years on
Season 18, Episode 6: Richard Gould has always been up for a lively chat over the years, whether that was in his previous gig as the boss at Surrey or since…
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The Final Word with Dan Worrall of the 2025 Wisden Five
Season 18, Episode 5: It’s official: Dan Worrall is one of the five cricketers of the year in the 2025 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, following a third dominant…