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.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 1395
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes
Season 18, Episode 31: Last week we asked whether Australia had a depth problem with fast bowling. A week later, it's suddenly more likely that they might, with Pat Cummins under observation after b…
01:25:08 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
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 tales and a major statistical quirk. We go back to b…
01:21:09 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves a problem?
Season 18, Episode 30: Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured in the last week, with Spencer Johnson again withdrawn from duty and Lance Morris out for a least a year with ma…
01:31:20 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
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 member of our Sleuth Group join the show, as we catch …
01:11:34 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
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 one of the best vantage points possible for the gr…
01:02:05 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!)
Season 18, Episode 28: Our inaugural podcast all-star fundraiser at Wormsley was a hit, with The Final Word team getting over the line with one wicket to spare, a big crowd turning out, and money ra…
01:18:23 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
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 Italy in the 1940s, via a detour to Spain in the 2…
01:33:09 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
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 was in the middle of a rather busy Test match and T…
01:10:05 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
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 where the umpiring controversy of the millennium h…
01:38:30 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
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 the Gothic Line in Italy, via a search for a capt…
01:29:25 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket
Season 18, Episode 24: The Hundred is here – a competition that divides opinion and likely always will. But what do the players think? Especially those who’ve made careers in the shorter forms? Benn…
00:50:29 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - Looking back at the Anderson-Tendulkar jamboree
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 6: It's all over bar the podcast reviews. A intense few weeks with 25 days of Test cricket, much of high quality, some of it less so, but all of it entert…
00:48:41 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - Siraj and Woakes in thrilling finish - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 5
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 5: A series as good as this deserved a finish as good as this. It should have been a stroll for England on the final day, needing 35 runs with four wicket…
00:34:41 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - One final stanza remains - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 4
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 4: So we go to Day 25 of the series, with 35 runs or 3 wickets to decide the fate of the series. Unless Chris Woakes can bat? For most of Day 4 it looked …
00:27:44 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - Can the Bazballers do it? - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 3
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 3: It was Yashasvi Jaiswal’s day at The Oval, as India pressed home the advantage of a weakened and inexperienced England attack. What a knock from the o…
00:27:46 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - Bonkers/brilliant Test Cricket - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 2
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 2: An emotional day at The Oval, honouring recently departed legend Graham Thorpe, saw some of the most riveting passages of a gripping series. Momentum s…
00:27:48 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
TFW Daily - Spicy deck fun - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 1
England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 1: Rain threatened to spoil the party, then an extended final session saw plenty happen for both teams before the close, but what is a good score on a pi…
00:27:08 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
TFW Daily - Stokes out, Bumrah maybe - England India 5th Test, The Oval preview
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Review: They're dropping like flies after 20 days of Test cricket in this series. Ben Stokes had his arm fall off, Jofra Archer and Brydon Carse won't bowl…
00:32:37 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Olympic pathway is set, as Tests are pushed further back
Season 18, Episode 23: With each meeting of the ICC board, the direction of travel becomes clearer. Two tiers of Test cricket, with less time to play it, thanks to the return of the Champions League,…
01:16:44 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
TFW Daily - Tensions high after bitter end - England India 4th Test, Old Trafford aftermath
England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 6: The reactions to the final hour of play at Old Trafford have been plentiful and wild. We take a deep dive into what this means for the upcoming fift…
00:35:23 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
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