The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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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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TFW Daily - Root concerns as Pakistan wither - England Pakistan, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 2
England Pakistan Daily, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 2: The second morning of the second Test began with promise for Pakistan. An injury before play, a waggin...
TFW Daily - Abbas fillets England - England Pakistan, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 1
England Pakistan Daily, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 1: Leaden skies, rain delays, ‘keeper up and a bit of swing and seam on offer gave Day 1 at the Lord’s Te...
TFW Daily – Lord’s pitch under the microscope - England Pakistan, 2nd Test, Lord’s preview
England Pakistan Daily, 2nd Test, Lord’s preview: England and Pakistan head into the 2nd Test with the series on the line, but it’s issues on the per...
Nightclubs, drinking, cops: guess which team it is?
Season 20, Episode 27: Brydon Carse’s nightclub handcuffs are the latest on the England incident conveyor belt, while Pakistan’s bigger problems seem...
Story Time 283 – Can you hit a clay walnut 300 yards?
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, exploring some games that ended up with a slightly lower profile than cricket, le...
TFW Daily - The second-shortest Test - Australia Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Day 2
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 2nd Test, Mackay Day 2: The carnage from Day 1 continued apace as the second-shortest Test ever played on Australian soil...
TFW Daily - Another day of chaos - Australia Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Day 1
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 2nd Test, Mackay Day 1: The world’s newest Test venue was christened with more chaotic cricket, with 18 wickets falling on...
TFW Daily - At least it's over - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3
England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3: England returned to the winners' dais for the first time in the Root 2.0 era, with Ollie Robinson...
TFW Daily - Crazy bad fielding - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2
England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2: A few things went right for Pakistan: Ali Usman grafted his way to a five-wicket day, and they're...
TFW Daily - Tongue licks tail - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1
England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1: England wanted to bowl, Pakistan wanted to bat, and while both sides were happy at the toss, only...
TFW Daily - Captain Root returns - England Pakistan, 1st Test preview
England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley preview: It's about to start, and we have no idea how to think about what's going to happen. Do Pakistan...
Among Test chaos, Australia and England face what's next
Season 20, Episode 26: Australia have just gone down to Bangladesh, and England have to pull themselves together against Pakistan. What will be the co...
TFW Daily - Cricket's greatest upset - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 4
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 4: Spoiler alert, but the most immense upset in cricket history has been completed. The Test arena is...
Story Time 282 – Paul Kelly channels Bradman
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, it's difficult to capture sport in song, so let's have a look at Paul Kelly's eff...
TFW Daily - Cam Green's big chance - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 3
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 3: Can Bangladesh hold their nerve? They're still well ahead of the game, but by now in a position wh...
TFW Daily - Bangers stay dominant - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 2
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 2: The show goes on. Bangladesh winning three sessions in a row in Australia was big news, but now th...
TFW Daily - Aussies get rissoled - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 1
Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 1: We didn't see this one coming! Bangladesh arrived in the Top End underclubbed, understaffed, and g...
Aussie’s odyssey begins
Season 20, Episode 25: Australia’s legacy-defining 21 Test run begins in the Top End, with Bangladesh keen to stifle the run to the WTC Final, and may...
Story Time 281 - Even when it’s not Laxman, it’s Laxman
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. Yas Rana Returns with Geoff Lemon
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John Arlott, Tim Key, & 9/11 – A new anthology of cricket poetry, TFW Book Club
Cricket attracts romantics. Whatever the form, so much of the game’s prose is dedicated to reflection and understanding. Whilst many fine writers have...
After a fat New Zealander, a thin New Zealander
Season 20, Episode 24: The ECB enclave elects their new leader, and they won’t make the same mistake this time. They jump in the DeLorean to go back t...
Story Time 280 – How to take a terrible selfie
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Yas Rana makes his Story Time debut, and has to wrestle with the degree of diffic...
The 2027 Ashes schedule: hot or not?
Season 20 Episode 23: The next twin Ashes series has dates and locations finalised, and it's safe to say there are hairs on the whole schedule. Why is...
Story Time 279 – A white whale breaches the foam at last, at last
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, this show has had many distant dreams, but this week we finally have sweet closur...
TFW Book Club - How cricket inspired Sherlock and Peter Pan
The Final Word Book Club: No other cricket team can boast of selling millions of books, let alone inspiring classic characters like Sherlock Holmes, J...
Justin Langer for… England??
Season 20 Episode 22: Say it ain’t so. Would JL, the most intensely parochial of all the wearers of the Baggy Green, really try to help England to an...
TFW Daily - Kohli, Rohit attempt final heist - England India 3rd ODI
England v India, 3rd ODI, Lord's: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma threw everything at pulling off a record heist in what many assume to be their final ga...
Story Time 278 – How to kill a Prince of Wales
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, if you need a very roundabout method to dispose of a member of a royal family, we...
TFW Daily - Joe Root's edging session – England India, 2nd ODI
England v India, 2nd ODI, Cardiff: A proper old-fashioned one-dayer on a proper old-fashioned one-day pitch needed a proper old-fashioned one-day inni...
Cricket’s hottest rivalry, at Wormsley on August 10th
After the success of last year’s event, The Final Word will be taking on Wisden Cricket Weekly at Wormsley on August 10th, in support of the Lord’s Ta...
The end of Bazball
Season 20, Episode 21: It's finally over. Brendon McCullum has gone, Ben Stokes has gone (at least for now), and Rob Key is incongruously the last man...
TFW Daily – Big boys are back in town – England India 1st ODI
England v India, 1st ODI, Edgbaston: The ODI series kicked off with some familiar foes returning to the fore. Bumrah, Kohli, and Rohit are returning f...
TFW Daily - A triumph of organisation - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 4
Only Test, Lord's, Day 4: A hot day, a crumbling pitch taking turn, and a raft of spinners ready to use it: this was proper. And it will be a result l...
TFW Daily – ECB spoils their own party - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 3
Only Test, Lord's, Day 3: India continued their ruthless march to a historic victory in the first-ever Women’s Test at the Home of Cricket, but the da...
TFW Daily – Heather Knight retires. India in control - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 2
Only Test, Lord's, Day 2: Kranti Gaud became the first woman on the Lord’s honours board with a five-wicket haul as India spoiled England’s homecoming...
TFW Daily - India still stuck in traffic - England India 5th T20
England v India, 5th T20, Trent Bridge: Jos Buttler roared back into form with a scintillating century, condemning India to their fourth heavy loss of...
TFW Daily - The last first - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 1
Only Test, Lord's, Day 1: A huge week for women's cricket in England continued at Lord's, with the first women's Test at the venue. It was, to some ex...
Story Time 277 – Who else has clinched the Ashes on debut?
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a scenic backdrop as Adam dials in from another London cricket club, before we wi...
TFW Daily - Brook blasts away sorry India - England India 4th T20
England v India, 4th T20, Trent Bridge: A chastened India team limped to Bristol after 4 demoralising defeats and produced another limp display to be...
TFW Daily – Gambhir gets angry - England India 3rd T20
England v India, 3rd T20, Trent Bridge: An angry Gautam Gambhir has faced the press after a winless start to a tour that held untold promise for Indi...