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
- 1396
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
TFW Daily - Rishabh Pant's rare twin tons - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 4
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 4: It is impossible not to talk about Rishabh Pant. Twin tons for a wicketkeeper? That has only happened once before, but let's make it twice. It's a bad…
00:32:23 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Bumrah again keeps the balance - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3: What was Harry Brook thinking? And before that, the same question applies to Jamie Smith. Also, how have England reached parity with only one ton comp…
00:27:10 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Rishabh flourishes but Pope hangs on - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2: Rishabh Pant made it three tons for India on Day 2 with a rollicking century. But with an Ollie Pope blinder, England fought back to limit the damage,…
00:29:45 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Jaiswal and Gill are gen next - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1: “We’ll have a bowl.” It's not done yet, but Ben Stokes may live to regret that call, as a new generation of India batters feast on listless bowling. …
00:27:57 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Series preview - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 0: It's about to begin. Five Test matches between two huge teams, with Ben Stokes and the bish-bash brigade versus a new-look India with Shubman Gill at …
00:32:51 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
No gods, no masters
Season 18, Episode 19: Still in the afterglow of South Africa’s World Test Championship win, apparently the real hero is… board chair Jay Shah? You may think we’re talking about him a lot lately, but…
01:21:19 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Story Time 232 – "The summer from hell"
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go back to the northern summer of 1990 when the pitches and balls were as flat as each other, ruinin…
01:03:33 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Why South Africa's WTC win means so much, with Dan Gallan
World Test Championship Final, the day after: When South Africa fell short in the T20 World Cup Final last year, it was Dan Gallan who we called upon to explain the deep hurt. So, as promised, he ret…
00:34:09 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - South Africa are World Champions - WTC Final, Day 4
World Test Championship Final, Day 4: They bloody well did it. South Africa and winning finals - that hasn't been a pairing that has seen much airtime in international cricket. Things didn't look goo…
00:29:05 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - South Africa surely win this? - WTC Final, Day 3
World Test Championship Final, Day 3: South Africa have looked the underdog throughout this WTC final, but halfway through the third day, that all changed. Even the torment that Starc and Hazlewood p…
00:29:07 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Game on a knife edge - WTC Final, Day 2
World Test Championship Final, Day 2: If Rabada fired on day one, Cummins fired back on day two, in a battle of fast-bowling quality that any preview could and should have predicted. Then it was Lu…
00:32:05 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Stumps splayed everywhere - WTC Final, Day 1
World Test Championship Final, Day 1: South Africa needed to do some damage with their quick bowlers early to challenge Australia, and they did exactly that. It set up a tight contest through the da…
00:28:25 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
TFW Daily - Marnus and Hazlewood in - WTC Final, Day 0
World Test Championship Final, Day 0: It's here. Two years of Test cricket ends with a decider at the ground where it was always designed to be when it was first dreamed up - Lord's. The teams are as…
00:22:24 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
The Final Word with Todd Greenberg
Season 18, Episode 18: Cricket Australia's new CEO came ready to talk when sitting down with Adam at Lord's two days before the WTC Final. Typically at this point, we list what was discussed but thi…
01:15:08 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Story Time 231 – The best player without a Cricinfo page?
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the most significant Test cricketer who doesn't even have one line of a Cricinfo bio? We've got …
01:22:24 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
After 18 long seasons, Kohli and RCB finally win one
Season 18, Episode 17: The IPL turned 18 this year, old enough for Royal Challengers Bangalore to finally buy a celebratory drink after falling short in every season. Virat Kohli and co will be happ…
01:38:00 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Glenn Maxwell retires from ODI cricket
Season 18, Episode 16: A special ep today – yes, Glenn Maxwell has retired from One Day International cricket. In this exclusive conversation, he explains that decision in his own words, the timing …
00:54:15 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Story Time 230 – The Malcolm Marshall LP
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, almost silent and almost deadly, was Malcolm Marshall the best to ever fire down the ball at pace? Also…
01:44:10 |
Fri 30 May 2025
At last, India's prince has come along
Season 18, Episode 15: As England took care of Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, India's new-look Test squad has arrived, with glamour option Shubman Gill leading the side, but we're much more excited about…
01:49:14 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Story Time 229 – Adam Gilchrist's trail of destruction
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, one of the peaks of the peak, that isn't talked about as often as some others. Also, another run-looter…
01:24:08 |
Sun 25 May 2025
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