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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 Nor...
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Story 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 com...
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 ba...
Story 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 Fede...
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...
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 b...
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. Som...
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...
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 Aust...
TFW Ashes Daily - Is Pat Playing?! Gabba Intrigue - 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...
Khawaja is out - two hours after we recorded this
Season 19, Episode 13: With Usman Khawaja's back injury seeing him left out of the Brisbane Test, that may be it for Australia's opening bat. Not that...
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 ga...
Story 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...
The 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 bee...
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,...
Story Time 257 – 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 playe...
Is Khawaja done? Are England capable of humility? Our Perth wash-up
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 al...
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 o...
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 t...
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'...
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...
TFW Book Club - Steven Finn's Ashes Files
So much of Steven Finn's story is wrapped up in Ashes cricket, from his first trip to Australia in 2010-11 through to playing a major hand in regainin...
Story 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...
TFW Book Club - Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics
One for those who couldn’t make the launch of our history book, Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics (out now; links below). Take a listen as regular co-...
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...
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 quar...
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 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 le...
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 mo...
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 aston...
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 atmo...
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 wa...
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...
Story 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...
TFW Daily - Can India now push Australia? - Women's World Cup Day 27, England New Zealand + India Bangladesh
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. Appropria...
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...
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 bac...
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...
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, a...
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 Hazlewoo...
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
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