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 - A heartbreaking ending – Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan vs. England
Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan v England: Who benefited
most from the rain? There’ll be arguments back and forth, but it seemed like we were...
Cummins and Head reject 10 million IPL bucks to ditch Australia
Season 19, Episode 2: The Ashes runway continues, the Women's World Cup is mid-flight, and the Indian men's team are about to land in Australia for a...
TFW Daily – Lanka's fastest fifty – Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka vs New Zealand: A 26-ball fifty from Nilakshika Silva lit up a stormy Colombo evening, in a game which saw seen In...
TFW Daily - Bangladesh gift SA nail-biting victory - Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh v South Africa: After being dismantled by New Zealand, Bangladesh's batting found a new level of resolve, topped...
TFW Daily - World record run chase - Women's World Cup Day 13, Australia India
Women’s World Cup Day 13, Australia India: That was quite something. India set Australia the biggest ever run chase in women's ODIs... and then you'll...
TFW Daily – The Nat Sciver-Brunt show – Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka England
Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka v England: Nat Sciver-Brunt
led from the front again, with Sri Lanka on the receiving end this time. There w...
Story Time 243 - The Inexpressibles
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, what is are "inexpressibles", and what do they tell us...
TFW Daily - Devine melts in the heat - Women's World Cup Day 11, NZ Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 11, New Zealand v Bangladesh: It's getting hot in Guwahati, hotter by the game, as Sophie Devine found out when her diabetes nee...
TFW Daily - Battle of the power hitters - Women’s World Cup Day 10, India South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 10, India v South Africa: What a battle, and from unexpected sources. Today saw the two biggest scores ever made from No8 in wom...
TFW Daily - Pakistan give Australia huge fright - Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia v Pakistan: For a second consecutive day, there was a very real chance of the biggest cricketing upset of all time....
Marnus Labuschagne on the comeback trail
Season 19, Episode 1: It is officially the start of the southern season, because we say so, and what more fitting way to start than with a huge Sheffi...
TFW Daily - Heather Knight prevents huge upset – Women’s World Cup Day 8, England Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 8, England v Bangladesh. Whilst it looks like a routine victory on the scorecard, this was anything but comfortable for England,...
TFW Daily – Brits turns SA's tournament around - Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa New Zealand
Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa New Zealand: Tazmin Brits belatedly kicked off South Africa’s tournament, and in some style. Have
they don...
TFW Daily – Termites stop play before India flex - Women’s World Cup Day 6, India Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 6, India v Pakistan. It’s the biggest event of any ICC tournament, and the action off the pitch was yet again as much of a focus...
TFW Daily - Will rain dampen India-Pakistan fire? - Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka Australia
Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka v Australia: Sri Lanka will be the happier of the two teams as they come away with an unexpected point against Aust...
Story Time 242 – When Sachin took down India
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, dare we suggest a very slight case of pledger error, o...
TFW Daily - England create carnage - Women’s World Cup Day 4, England South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 4, England v South Africa: England have arrived at the World Cup with a resounding victory over a South Africa team that many t...
TFW Daily - They’re from Tigerland - Women’s World Cup Day 3, Bangladesh Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 3, Pakistan v Bangladesh: The first upset of the tournament comes in only its third game, and the first of 11 matches in Colombo...
Gardner masterclass upstages Devine ton – WWC Aus v NZ – TFW Daily
Women’s World Cup Day 2, Australia v New Zealand: It was a
battle of class v experience and century versus century, thanks to Ash Gardner and So...
India stutter then strive - Women's World Cup Daily 1
2025 Women's World Cup, Day 1, India v Sri Lanka: It wasn't always easy, but India's muscle and skill showed through when it mattered most, overcoming...
England abandon spin for Ashes plans
Season 18, Episode 35: It's the end of our season (with another to start tomorrow). We'll be covering the Women's World Cup on every match day. But f...
Story Time 241 – The Bradman song, hot or not?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, let's go to the work of Jack O'Hagan, who loved writin...
The future of Lord’s, with Rob Lynch
Season 18, Episode 34: The Home of Cricket will forever be a special and revered place, but how does it ensure its future? Rob Lynch, MCC’s director o...
It turns out Pakistan-India can go lower
Season 18 Episode 33: We said that last week’s Asia Cup nonsense was a new low, but we spoke too soon. And as the IPL and BBL flirting gets heavier, a...
Story Time 240 – Free Fred Tate
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's time to right another cricketing wrong. You may n...
India-Pakistan cricket relations reach a new low
Season 18, Episode 32: Despite all the political posturing, India and Pakistan are still playing each other in tournaments, currently the Asia Cup. B...
Story Time 239 – The Percy Fender Stratocaster
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we start with a heavy-hitting pledge looking at one of...
TFW Book Club - Gilbert Jessop’s mysterious ton, with Simon Wilde
Shrouded in myth and mystery, Gilbert Jessop’s 76-ball century is an English cricket record that has stood since 1902. Renowned cricket journalist and...
Australia launches a World Cup spin juggernaut
Season 18, Episode 31: As they ready for their warm-up series ahead of the Women's World Cup, Australia's squad is out and it is a formidable collect...
Story Time 238 – David Bowie meets Matthew Wade
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff start off with a tale full of incident...
Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes
Season 18, Episode 30: Last week we asked whether Australia had a depth problem with fast bowling. A week later, it's suddenly more likely that they...
Story Time 237 – Father Marriott II: The Quickening
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back to normal with a few great tal...
Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves a problem?
Season 18, Episode 29: Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured in the last week, with Spencer Johnson again withdrawn from dut...
Story Time 236 – A Scottish cry for justice, with Sean McGivern
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we complete the set, having now had each current membe...
The faces of England’s 2005 Ashes heroes, with Philip Brown
Season 18, Episode 28: Philip Brown is one of the game’s great photographers, having covered more than 300 Tests since 1988. Two decades ago, he had o...
Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!)
Season 18, Episode 27: Our inaugural podcast all-star fundraiser at Wormsley was a hit, with The Final Word team getting over the line with one wicke...
Story Time 235 – The chase for Skase remains
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back together and heading back to I...
TFW's 10th Anniversary Special! The lost pilot episode
Season 18, Episode 26: It is true: The Final Word has turned 10. Technically our first episode was released on July 23, 2015, but July 23 this year wa...
Umpire Bharat is better than your umpire
Season 18, Episode 25: Top End cricket is happening with Australia and South Africa in Darwin, but our attention is on Leicestershire league cricket w...
Story Time 234 – Brazil's Smoking Cobras beat the Axis Powers
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an unexpected detour into the World War II battle for...