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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 - Inglis gets a ton on debut! - Sri Lanka Aus, 1st Test, Galle Day 2
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 1st Test, Galle Day 2: Who would've thought Usman Khawaja's first Test double century, now the oldest Australian to get one, would…
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TFW Daily - Alana King bewitches England - Women's Ashes Test, MCG Day 1
Women's Ashes Daily, Only Test, MCG Day 1: The first women's Test at the MCG since 1949 drew a lot more people than they had in 1949, we're betting, as Izzy…
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TFW Daily - Smith 10k and then some - Sri Lanka Aus, 1st Test, Galle Day 1
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 1st Test, Galle Day 1: With a simple nudge to mid-on, Steve Smith moved to another special level, completing his mission to 10,000…
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TFW Daily - Will Sam Konstas play? - Sri Lanka Aus 1st Test, Galle preview
Sri Lanka Australia Daily, 1st Test, Galle preview: Another day, another series. Plenty of conjecture around the Australian squad about how the team will be…
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Why do English batters keep wandering off like lost sheep?
Season 17, Ep 21: Izzy Westbury joins for a weekly show, and there's a genuine question on the table. Tom Curran is the latest Englishman to go perambulating…
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TFW Daily - Mooney mashes England solo - Women's Ashes 3rd T20, Adelaide
Women's Ashes Daily, 3rd T20, Adelaide: Another match, another stop on the procession. Beth Mooney has been in brilliant touch all series, and outscored…
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TFW Daily - England curse the rain - Women's Ashes 2nd T20, Canberra
Women's Ashes Daily, 2nd T20, Canberra: We finally got a close one, a real genuine close one, with Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Heather Knight turning it on in…
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England losing the plot in 2025's first Ashes stoush
Season 17, Ep 20: After four straight losses, England's women aren't handling the trip to Australia well. What's going on with them? Meanwhile Australia's men…
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TFW Daily - The Litchfield Switchfield - Women's Ashes 1st T20, Sydney
Women's Ashes Daily, 1st T20, Sydney: England talked up their chances in the 20-over segment of the tour, and Australia had a couple of big omissions with…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 214 – The mystery of missing Mickey, with Pat Rodgers
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the third of our Sleuth Group episodes, with historian Pat…
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TFW Daily - The catch of Ash Gardner's life - Women's Ashes 3rd ODI, Hobart
Women's Ashes Daily, 3rd ODI, Hobart: Ash Gardner has been a superstar for a while, but one thing has eluded her. A century for Australia. Not any longer…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastColin ‘Funky’ Miller on Final Frontier
The Greatest Season That Was - The Final Frontier – Colin Miller: During the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, The Greatest Season That Was…
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TFW Daily - England's colossal choke - Women's Ashes 2nd ODI, Melbourne
Women's Ashes Daily, 2nd ODI, Junction Oval, Melbourne: Endings don't come much more ridiculous than this. England bowl brilliantly, field well, falter with…
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Australia's selectors go bizarre for Sri Lanka Tests
Season 17, Ep 19: For the first time in who knows how many years, we missed a weekly show amid the Sydney Test, live show, and travel. So there's a fortnight…
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TFW Daily - Healy back from the wars - Women's Ashes 1st ODI, North Sydney
Women's Ashes Daily, 1st ODI: One series ends, another begins, at Final Word Towers. The biggest bilateral series in the women's game is up and running in the…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Laxman/Dravid Kolkata Miracle with Mike Kasprowicz on Final Frontier
The Greatest Season That Was - The Final Frontier – Mike Kasprowicz: During the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, The Greatest Season That…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 213 – The Fahrenheit of cricket scores, with Glenn Finkelde
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week gradually builds into one of our more absurd episodes, as we get…
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TFW Daily - Where might Australia and India go next? - 5th Test, Sydney review
Australia India Daily, 5th Test, Sydney review: A five-Test series comes to an end, as India and Australia extend their contest back to the size it once was in…
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TFW Daily - How Australia snuck home - Aus India 5th Test, Sydney Day 3
Australia India Daily, 5th Test, Sydney Day 3: After two series wins in Australia, the Indian team could not make it three in a row. Well, we already knew that…
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TFW Daily - Rishabh Pant goes beserk - Aus India 5th Test, Sydney Day 2
Australia India Daily, 5th Test, Sydney Day 2: Goodness us, you can't look away from this match for long. If it wasn't 11 wickets on day one, it was 15 of them…
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TFW Daily - Disputes galore on spicy day - Aus India 5th Test, Sydney Day 1
Australia India Daily, 5th Test, Sydney Day 1: There won't be one point of argument today, there will be about half a dozen. Steve Smith's low catch, or was…
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TFW Daily - Aussie Slug to debut - Aus India 5th Test, Sydney preview
Australia India Daily, 5th Test, Sydney preview: Beau Webster has officially banged the door down for Test selection, confirmed as the man who will debut, at…
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The Best & Worst of 2024
Season 17, Ep 18: It's a Final Word tradition. At the end of each year, we sit down and look at the things that worked and the things that didn't, the things…
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TFW Daily - Should Rohit retire immediately? - Aus India 4th Test, Melbourne review
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne review: It's the question the Indian captain wasn't asked after the Melbourne classic: should he hand over to…
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TFW Daily - Down to the final hour - Aus India, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 5
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 5: When a Test match gets inside the last hour on Day 5 with mutliple results in play, you know you've had a…
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TFW Daily - The next tied Test is coming - Aus India, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 4
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 4: Every time we think that maybe Bumrah's moments can't keep coming, the next one arrives. The MCG was rocking…
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TFW Daily - Reddy's MCG day among the greats - Aus India, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3: One of the great MCG hundreds, on a day with a wonder that you might not expect if you just looked at the…
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TFW Daily - Pat Cummins perfection - Aus India, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2: Starting the day with the possibility of pressing an advantage, Australia went ahead and did so in grand…
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TFW Daily - Konstas and the wildest debut - Aus India, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1: After all the build-up, the day delivered. Starting with Sam Konstas, who was even more spectacular than…
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TFW Daily - Boxing Day Eve! - Aus India 4th Test, Melbourne Day 0
Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne preview: Merry Christmas! We've never recorded a show on the 25th of December before but a BGT series poised as well…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastThe Final Word Christmas with Ian Healy
Merry Christmas, all. Continuing our Christmas series of sitting down with a much-loved cricket person, let's do it once again with Australia's greatest pure…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 212 – Cricket's nicest Bastard
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, following on from searching for the biggest bastard in the…
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Nathan McSweeney heads to the drop zone
Season 17, Episode 16: It's been a tough entree to Test cricket, but it looks like Nathan McSweeney's time is up. For now. At least, that's the reporting…
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TFW Daily - Farewell to Ashwin - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane review
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane review: One day after a rare Test to actually span the five days - thanks to the weather rather than the hectic speed…
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TFW Daily - A wet and wild finish - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 5
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 5: It was wet, but it was wild. Rain kept playing its part on the last day at Brisbane, but not before an…
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TFW Daily - Thrilling scramble for the follow-on - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 4
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 4: God bless the follow-on! What could have been a fairly dull day of cricket between rain delays became a…
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TFW Daily - NZ win by record amount to finish series - NZ ENG 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 4
New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 4: England's series, New Zealand's day. Bethell got some more runs, but Will O'Rourke's spell was special. In…
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TFW Daily - Kohli can't stop nicking - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 3
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 3: Rain, yes, but not so much that we didn't get some very important play. First of all from Carey, doing another…
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TFW Daily - Stokes injured on day of farce - NZ ENG 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 3
New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 3: What on earth was that, cricket? On a day where Jacob Bethell and Shoiab Bashir bowled forever, Ben Stokes…
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TFW Daily - Steve Smith's historic day - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 2
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 2: It has been a long wait, but Steve Smith finally returned to the century-makers list with career ton #33…
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TFW Daily - Feeble England capitulate - NZ ENG 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 2
New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 2: What on earth was that, England? NZ are on en route to a win after trouncing England in all departments in…
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TFW Daily - Why did India bowl first? - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 1
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 1: Not much play on a wet first day, but it was a brave call from Rohit Sharma as India chose to bowl first. Will…
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TFW Daily - Day one in Hamilton sets up a cracker - NZ ENG 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 1
New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 2: Both teams will be disappointed but we have a hell of a Test match ahead. Day one ebbed and flowed in…
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TFW Daily - Can Australia retake the Gabba? - Aus India 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 0
Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 0: Can't wait to get you to the Gabba? Well, we're back, but Australia haven't recently been the same force here…
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The super not secret reasons behind Glenn Maxwell's first-class absence
Season 17, Episode 15: We're in Brisbane, where Bharat joins Geoff to look around the non-Australia-India-series world. The World Test Championship standings…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 211 – One metre per minute, with Matt May
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, across the river from Adelaide Oval on a sunny afternoon full…
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TFW Daily - What next for India? Adelaide Test review
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide review: All square in the Border-Gavaskar, 1-1 heading to Brisbane. And now India are the team with some questions to…
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TFW Daily - All square after Cummins barrage - Aus India, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 3
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 3: It didn't take long on Day 3 to finish off this game, as Mitchell Starc added to his tally and Cummins went…
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TFW Daily - England wallop New Zealand by 323 runs to win series - NZ ENG 2nd Test, Wellington Day 3
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 3: That's a paddlin. Blimey. And just like that England have romped home. Joe Root and Tom Blundell make…
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TFW Daily - Head and Siraj go ballistic - Aus India, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 2
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 2: If we thought Day 1 was hectic, Day 2 did not slow down at all. We thought it had for a while in the first…
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TFW Daily - Atkinson hat-trick and Bethell 96 as England dominate - NZ ENG 2nd Test, Wellington Day 2
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 2: England's day. England's match. England's series. Day two finishes with England 533 ahead and showing no…
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TFW Daily - Starc swings it deluxe - Aus India, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 1
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 1: Goodness. Australia came into this game with an advantage in pink-ball cricket, and they needed somebody to…
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TFW Daily - Harry Brook is a genius on 15 wicket day - NZ ENG 2nd Test, Wellington Day 1
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 1: Have England already won the series? On a day where only three batters made above 20, Brook got 123 and…
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TFW Daily - Australia under pre-game pressure - Aus India 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 0
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 0: After India battered Australia in Perth, there has been a 10-day break for the home team to get their breath…
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No Hoff: what next for Australia’s Big Four?
Season 17, Episode 14: Before taking off for Adelaide, Adam and Geoff reflect on an Australian attack that might be in transition earlier than we thought…
The Final Word Cricket PodcastStory Time 210 – Cricket's worst bastard
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in the Sherrin Stand at Victoria Park in Melbourne, we back to…
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TFW Daily - Carse 10 wickets in England win - NZ ENG 1st Test, Christchurch Day 4
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 4: England cruise to an eight-wicket win to go one-nil up in the series. New Zealand had their chances at…
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TFW Daily - Rampant England close in on victory - NZ ENG 1st Test, Christchurch Day 3
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 3: Turns out if you drop eight catches, it's hard to win. England dominate day three in Christchurch and…
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TFW Daily - CATCH THE BALL! NZ drop six as Brook tons up - NZ ENG 1st Test, Christchurch Day 2
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 2: Use your hands New Zealand. What are you doing!? Harry Brook is very good at batting, so the Kiwis let…
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TFW Daily - Shoaib Bashir takes four on day one. Is that good? - NZ ENG 1st Test, Christchurch Day 1
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 1: New Zealand chuck it away. From 199 for three to 319 for eight, it's level, but England are happier…