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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 224 – The Australian who shot the Duke of Edinburgh
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a wild tale from early colonial history about Australia's first…
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The Final Word with Mervyn King
Season 18, Episode 4: Over the years, we’ve had the company of many people for whom cricket is not their day job, but none with as many letters after their…
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At last, the ICC does the right thing
Season 18, Episode 3: Great news this week that after years of campaigning, the ICC board has agreed to support Afghanistan’s women cricketers in exile…
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TFW XI v Zero Ducks Given at Wormsley on 18 August
That's right, we've been kindly offered the chance to play on Wormsley, one of the most beautiful cricket grounds in the world, with The Final Word XI set to…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 223 – The Australian Shahid Afridi
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff reunite from The Oval in London, and as luck…
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The Final Word with Kemar Roach
Season 18, Episode 2: It can’t be easy putting red-ball cricket first as a modern West Indian cricketer, but that’s exactly what Kemar Roach has done…
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Gladiators: The Ashes
Season 18, Episode 1: The new season begins! It begins with a triple century in the county championship, among a slate of brilliant finishes. It also begins…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 222 – Jeremy Coney in leopard print
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross is back with Geoff for a short and sweet Story…
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The Final Word with Keaton Jennings
Season 17, Episode 35: Welcome to episode three in our series of interviews with county cricketers at the top of their games. It’s opening day today with…
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Who's playing for Australia at the World Test Championship?
Season 17, Episode 34: As the Mighty South Aussies finally took home another Sheffield Shield and completed the domestic double, Australia's national contracts…
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The Final Word with Jack Leach
Season 17, Episode 33: Welcome to our second interview in a series with county pros at the top of their game as season 2025 begins. Jack Leach’s career has…
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The Final Word with Sam Robson
Season 17, Episode 32: The English season is upon us, with the county championship starting this week. And in keeping with the comprehensive coverage we’ve…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 221 – Two hundreds in one day
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Cameron Ponsonby joins Geoff to make his Story Time debut…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Book Club - The Art of Batting, with Jarrod Kimber
Book Club 9: Jarrod Kimber - The Art of Batting: The Craft of Cricket’s Greatest Run Scorers Jarrod Kimber was a trailblazer in how the modern game was…
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Khawaja v Queensland
Season 17, Episode 31: Yes, we said the wrong episode number. Let's all be grown-ups about that. We're leading up to the Mr Sheffield Shield final, while…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 220 – DK Lillee back for one last job
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat Sundaresan joins us for tales from the beginning of…
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TFW Book Club - A Striking Summer, with Stephen Brenkley
Book Club 8: Stephen Brenkley - A Striking Summer: How Cricket United a Divided Nation 99 years ago, England was in turmoil, leading to unprecedented…
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The Final Word with David Gower, part two
Season 17, Episode 30: In November 2023, we interviewed with David Gower for over an hour and a half but still had plenty of his massive story still to tell…
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Stuart MacGill's very strange court case
Season 17, Ep 29: It wasn't a good week for Stu MacGill, with a guilty verdict in court but on a pretty minor criminal count. That doesn't begin to reflect how…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 219 – Dark Jo Angel, starring Jessica Alba
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an all-time thrilling finish involving a classic Australian…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Australia/India rivalry: what we learned making Final Frontier
The Greatest Season That Was - The Final Frontier season finale During the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, The Greatest Season That Was pod…
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What idiot put the 150th anniversary Test at night?
Season 17, Ep 28: We've been excited about the 150th anniversary Test scheduled for 2027, so it was deflating to see the news that Cricket Australia have…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastTFW Film Club – Ange & The Boss, with Tony Wilson
A variation on our Book Club, this time we turn to film with a man well known to Final Word listeners, Tony Wilson. We change sports too, to (round ball)…
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TFW Daily - India had to win this one - Champions Trophy 17, the final
Champions Trophy Final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: A tournament tailor-made for Indian success has ended with just that, the best team getting the trophy they…
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TFW Daily - India stand on the brink - Champions Trophy 16, final preview
Champions Trophy Final preview semi-final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: The time has come. A tournament on a platter for the men in blue, they simply must stick…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 218 – Shane Warne helped my wife with the pond
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're obviously going to end up at Shane Warne's sideline as a…
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TFW Daily - NZ and SA dream of droughts breaking - Champions Trophy 15, 2nd semi
Champions Trophy 2nd semi-final, New Zealand v South Africa, Lahore: What a performance from the Black Caps with the bat, storming into another ICC trophy…
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Kuhnemann in the clear
Season 17, Ep 27: While the Champions Trophy semi-finals happen around us, Adam and Geoff try to stay focused on the rest of the week's matters at hand. Jos…
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TFW Daily - Kohli versus Smith in legend battle - Champions Trophy 14, 1st semi
Champions Trophy 1st semi-final, India v Australia, Dubai: Australia changed their blueprint and their attack but neither quite worked as India did enough with…
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TFW Daily - India out for revenge - Champions Trophy 13, semi-final previews
Champions Trophy Day 13, semi-final preview: Everyone is where they need to be for the final stages of this tournament, with Australia's configuration the main…
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TFW Daily - India have a date with their nemesis - Champions Trophy 12, India NZ
Champions Trophy Day 12, India v New Zealand, Dubai: We knew who had made the final four of this tournament, but now - after India flexed their muscles in an…
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TFW Daily - Proteas storm into semis - Champions Trophy 11, England South Africa
Champions Trophy Day 11, England v South Africa, Karachi: South Africa have successfully made it through to another semi-final, annihilating Jos Buttler’s…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 217 – The Leadbeater possum lights a dart
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we head to South Africa for the first big explosion in a career…
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TFW Daily - Australia through with Head flying - Champions Trophy 10, Australia Afghanistan
Champions Trophy Day 10, Australia v Afghanistan, Lahore: More rain ruined the result for the men in gold (canary yellow?), but it matters little - they are…
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TFW Daily - Pakistan's sorry tournament washed away - Champions Trophy 9, Pakistan Bangladesh
Champions Trophy Day 9, Pakistan v Bangladesh, Rawalpindi: What a mess. Pakistan, tournament hosts, were already bundled out after two dreadful losses and now…
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TFW Daily - Buttler's team gone in straight sets - Champions Trophy 8, England Afghanistan
Champions Trophy Day 8, England v Afghanistan, Lahore: For a third ICC tournament in a row, England are going home before the business end. It was a thriller…
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Josh Inglis, Australian Test captain?
Season 17, Ep 26: Back with the weekly show, with Adam back home, and there's always plenty to go through. Bharat's Australian Story episode went up, our show…
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TFW Daily - What does a washout mean? - Champions Trophy 7, Aus SA
Champions Trophy Day 7, Australia v South Africa, Rawalpindi: No toss, no game - the rain won. But what does that mean for the two teams in the context of a…
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TFW Daily - Black Caps bash Bangers - Champions Trophy 6, NZ Bangladesh
Champions Trophy Day 6, New Zealand v Bangladesh, Rawalpindi: The Black Caps are through to yet another ICC semi-final, easily accounting to Bangladesh in…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 216 – When Bharat became a reggae promoter
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we find ourselves revisiting the time when Bharat accidentally…
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TFW Daily - King Kohli breaks Pakistan again - Champions Trophy 5, India Pakistan
Champions Trophy Day 5, India v Pakistan, Dubai: The most clinical of performances from India, who did as they always do in 50-over ICC tournaments: thrash…
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TFW Daily - Australia's record run chase - Champions Trophy 4, Aus England
Champions Trophy Day 4, Australia v England, Lahore: Who would ever count Australia out in a major tournament, even after conceding a big score? It was a night…
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TFW Daily - Proteas purr in Karachi - Champions Trophy 3, SA Afghanistan
Champions Trophy Day 3, South Africa v Afghanistan, Karachi: South Africa had no form to speak of coming into this competition, but just as it has been in the…
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TFW Daily - When Dubai feels like home - Champions Trophy 2, India Bang
Champions Trophy Day 2, India v Bangladesh, Dubai: When it's Bangladesh and India in a big tournament, the results have historically only gone one way. Towhid…
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TFW Daily - Hometown nerves win out - Champions Trophy 1, Pakistan NZ
Champions Trophy Day 1, Pakistan v NZ, Karachi: Pakistan waited 29 years to host an ICC tournament. Their fans will hope the next one is at least another 29…
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Dressing up for The Final Word's night of nights
Season 17, Ep 25: We're recording at the lovely SCG before The Final Word's own night of nights, the Australian Sports Commission Awards, where we're up for…
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The Final Word with Mike Gatting
Season 17 Episode 24: From the moment he walked through the gates as a teenager, Mike Gatting never left Lord’s. Mostly known as England Ashes-winning captain…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 215 – Hail, Caesar
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're back at last, after the longest ever hiatus on this…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastAustralia’s relationship with India with Mike Coward on Final Frontier
The Greatest Season That Was - The Final Frontier – Mike Coward During the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, The Greatest Season That Was pod…
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Sri Lanka flopped but Test TV numbers are through the roof
Season 17, Ep 23: The Australian international summer is winding down, even with a major ICC tournament around the corner next week. A debrief on the Sri…
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TFW Daily - Australia's clinical series sweep - Sri Lanka Aus, 2nd Test, Galle Day 4
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Galle Day 4: It's taken 14 years for Australia to win a series in Sri Lanka and they've done so here in style, completing…
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TFW Daily - Kuhnemann is SL's Kryptonite - Sri Lanka Aus, 2nd Test, Galle Day 3
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Galle Day 3: From a shattered thumb that threatened his tour to the series' leading wicket-taker, Matt Kuhnemann has been…
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TFW Daily - Smith and Carey's stunning tons - Sri Lanka Aus, 2nd Test, Galle Day 2
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Galle Day 2: The scorecard won't suggest it, but the gamer was in balance just after lunch with Sri Lanka's spinners…
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TFW Daily - Lyon, Starc sublime again - Sri Lanka Aus, 2nd Test, Galle Day 1
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Galle Day 1: When you need a job done in this part of the world, you know who to call: Mitch Starc and Nathan Lyon. The…
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TFW Daily - Connolly to debut? - Sri Lanka Aus, 2nd Test, Galle Day 0
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 2nd Test, Galle Day 0: Is Cooper Connolly going to make it four debuts in four Tests for Australia's men? We've compiled enough…
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They're tearing down the World Test Championship
Season 17, Ep 22: In news that will surprise no one, England and India don't like the World Test Championship structure because they haven't made the final. So…
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TFW Daily - The Anatomy of an Annihilation - Sri Lanka Aus, 1st Test, Galle Day 4
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 1st Test, Galle Day 4: 5/9, 7/15, 15 wickets in two sessions. This all combined to Australia recording their fourth biggest win in…
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TFW Daily - King's Ashes - Women's Ashes Test, MCG Day 3
Women's Ashes Daily, Only Test, MCG Day 3: Alana King's Ashes. That is the only conclusion, after a final day of fizzing leg breaks and endless pressure…
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TFW Daily - Dhananjaaaayaaaaa - Sri Lanka Aus, 1st Test, Galle Day 3
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 1st Test, Galle Day 3: Jason Holder had it right all those years ago - Dhananjaaaaaaya, what are you doing? His was one of two…
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TFW Daily - England, catch the damn ball - Women's Ashes Test, MCG Day 2
Women's Ashes Daily, Only Test, MCG Day 2: More drops than Ibiza on the second day of the Test, as England somehow forgot which parts were hands and which…