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 - Perry power locks up Aussie semi - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 10
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 10, Australia v Pakistan, Sri Lanka v Ireland, Scotland v New Zealand: Australia are locked in at the top of Group A,...
We're in the Lord's penthouse, Baz is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon
Season 20, Episode 18: Coming to you from the absurd penthouse terrace with a clear view of the Lord's pitch, Adam and Geoff are back together. Englan...
TFW Daily - South Africa flip the table - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 9
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 9, India v South Africa, West Indies v Sri Lanka, England v Scotland: Marizanne Kapp has turned Group A upside down wi...
TFW Daily - King Henry’s 11 - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 5
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 5: England needed a miracle performance without their miracle man. Realistically, any of the three sessions o...
TFW Daily - The first Aussie-Dutch stoush - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 8
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 8, Australia v Netherlands, Pakistan v Bangladesh: Australia have never played the Dutch in a T20 before, and the Auss...
TFW Daily - Kiwis soar high - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 4
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 4: A day where New Zealand’s much vaunted attack showed why they garner so much respect. Only Joe Root, again...
TFW Daily - Ireland fumble a heist - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 7
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 7, Ireland v West Indies: Just the one game today, but it was the closest one we've had yet, and for almost all of it,...
TFW Daily - Henry & Nicholls make England wilt - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 3
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 3: It was a red-letter day for the return of Henry Nicholls, who notched up a classy century to put a flat E...
TFW Daily - Two absolute belters - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 6
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 6, Scotland v West Indies, South Africa v Pakistan: Two absolute belters on two consecutive nights, as mistakes and pr...
TFW Daily - Cricket’s favourite son tons up - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 2
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 2: Glenn Phillips, seemingly the cricketer that everyone loves, finally scaled the mountain to score his maid...
TFW Daily - England's attack a study of inexperience - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 1
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 1: A day that opened up for England but couldn't quite stick with an attack finding its way against a batting...
TFW Daily - Run rate for Aus & India - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 5
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 5, Australia v Bangladesh, India v Netherlands: Not competitive games, but there was some enjoyment to be had from the...
TFW Daily - Defending champs on the brink - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 4
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 4, Sri Lanka v New Zealand, England v Ireland: What a finish, and what a refusal to lay down. People still underestima...
TFW Daily - Root Ashes 2027 captain? - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Preview
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Preview: For England, it’s hard to imagine how their time since Lord’s could’ve been more chaotic. So much drama,...
CA sell-off hits more roadblocks, Ben Stokes hits the showers
Season 20, Episode 17: Cricket Australia emerged from an all-states meeting claiming a consensus agreement to sell some Big Bash clubs, but there are...
TFW Daily - The India Pakistan formula - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 3
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 3, India v Pakistan, West Indies v New Zealand, and Netherlands v Bangladesh: The big one in terms of attention, rarel...
TFW Daily - Aussies vulnerable? Not yet - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 2
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 2, Scotland v Ireland and Australia v South Africa: Lots of chat from South Africans before this tournament about taki...
TFW Daily - England start furiously - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 1
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 1, England v Sri Lanka: There has been plenty of pressure on the England women's team coming into a home World Cup aft...
Emergency ep: Kane Williamson retires
Don’t say it’s over. After one last go around at Lord’s, Big Daddy Kane has left the arena, retiring from all New Zealand cricket. An abrupt decision...
Ben Stokes and the grown men under curfew
Season 20, Episode 16: Ben Stokes and trouble on a night out, is it? Deidre Chambers. But then, is there more to this, or less to this, than meets the...
Story Time 274 - Let’s all eat some ants
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the best performances that didn't go so well on...
TFW Daily – Should Archer come straight back?- England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Review
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Review: It’s the day after one of the shortest 40-wicket Tests on record and Adam has Daniel Norcross with him t...
TFW Daily – Crapshoot or new era? - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 4
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 4: What do England and New Zealand take away from this match? Do they even need to? Ben Jones joins Daniel N...
TFW Daily – Lunch stops play - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 3
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 3: The sun was out today, but the umpires had decided to take lunch. Before you roll your eyes, we try to ex...
TFW Daily – Does Lord’s have a problem? - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 2
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1:There'll be questions asked about another dicey pitch at Lord's in early June, with 33 wickets falling in...
TFW Daily - 16 wickets of madness - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1: Marauding pace bowlers dominated the highly anticipated return of Test cricket for the summer, as momentu...
TFW Daily - How much pressure for Baz? - Eng v NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s, Preview
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Preview: Adam has Ben Jones with him, who will be co-piloting the Daily eps from the first Test series of the En...
Virat Kohli and RCB double the fun
Season 20, Episode 15: A big week in India, as Virat Kohli led the way in second consecutive IPL win for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Also this week,...
Story Time 273 – The Monte Carlo black streak
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an ancient tradition that predates cricket enti...
The Final Word with Will Bosisto
Season 20 Episode 14: It has been a long time coming, but here we are: one of the Final Word’s all-time favourites, Will Bosisto, joins the show. Grac...
More drama as Cricket Australia exec leaves during spending scandal
Season 20 Episode 13: Cricket Australia are pushing a line about needing more money coming in, but that didn't stop a bunch of money going out, after...
Story Time 272 – One couldn't bat, the other couldn't keep
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, those rare away wins keep on coming up, as does...
The Final Word with Charlotte Edwards
Season 20 Episode 12: Charlotte Edwards is one of the most respected people in all of cricket. With her career in the game now entering a third decade...
Zak Crawley sails to Valinor
Season 20 Episode 11: England’s Test squad is out, and the end has indeed come for Bazball’s mascot. Elsewhere, Australia’s captain Pat Cummins gets s...
Story Time 271 – Forest Whittaker meets Dr Pierre Rock
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a cryptic dance that ended up being far more geographical, the historical evolut...
A master of cricket photography - TFW Book Club | Picture of England
Sports photography isn’t just about the right lighting or composition, but forging relationships with the subjects and an understanding of the context...
In Aussie cricket, who benefits from scaring the horses?
Season 20, Episode 10: A big news story this week claims discontent at the top of Australia's player ranks about the fact that private cash is not imm...
Story Time 270 – The man who slept at the non-striker's end
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Andrew Fidel Fernando joins the show for an unlikely tale of an unlikely nap, on...
James Vince and the unbearable sadness of batting – TFW Book Club
Jon Hotten is one of the most engaging writers our game is blessed with, so any topic he turns his pen to is going to be worth reading about. His late...
Ding dong, the Big Bash sale is dead
Season 20, Episode 9: Stand down, defenders of the realm. The brave Queenslanders have come to the aid of New South Wales (did we ever doubt them?) an...