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
Bashir gets the better of a fighting Zim | England v Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge, Day 3
England v Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge Test, Day 3: Ben Jones joins Daniel Norcross.
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Is Shoaib Bashir coming of age? Can Ben Duckett see over Blessing
Muzarabani’…
00:25:14 |
Sat 24 May 2025
TFW Daily - Brian Bennett, Pleasure Machine - England Zimbabwe, Trent Bridge Day 2
England v Zimbabwe, 1st Test, Trent Bridge Test, Day 2: Cameron Ponsonby joins Daniel Norcross.
Zimbabwe put up the fight that many thought was beyond them, or did they? Depends on the time of day …
00:23:25 |
Fri 23 May 2025
TFW Daily - Zak Crawley love & hate day - England Zimbabwe Test, Day 1
England Zimbabwe Daily, Lord's Test, Day 1: It's England Test season, with Zimbabwe back for the first time in 22 years - but they may wish they'd given it a miss, after England piled up the runs. So…
00:22:33 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Cam Green, ton machine, keeps WTC pot boiling
Season 18, Episode 14: It's almost northern Test summer time, with Ben Stokes out of hibernation, Zimbabwe playing warm-ups, and the Australian and South African IPL players... heading back to India…
01:45:56 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Story Time 228 – The Murali of the 1890s
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we discover a player who we should have known more about, with a bendy wrist and a knack for controvers…
01:26:17 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Virat Kohli: Test match great
Season 18, Episode 13: To those who question Kohli's place as a Test great because he didn't average enough or quite make enough career runs, it is fair to say we do not agree. And his old teammate …
01:28:08 |
Wed 14 May 2025
The Final Word with Kyle Abbott
Season 18, Episode 12: Why did one of South Africa’s best, Kyle Abbott, pack in international cricket at the peak of his powers at age 29 in favour of going full-time as a county cricketer? It’s a q…
01:08:28 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Story Time 227 – Butt juice
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we find that sometimes when researching something else about cricket, the tangent becomes unstoppable. …
01:42:45 |
Sat 10 May 2025
TFW Book Club – Tim Wigmore: Test Cricket, A History
Over the years, Tim Wigmore has penned several superb books, and this might be his best yet. Joining Daniel Norcross at lunch during a recent Surrey game, he sat down to discuss the book he wrote bec…
00:43:23 |
Thu 08 May 2025
English cricket surrenders as the "most inclusive" sport
Season 18, Episode 11: A charged political atmosphere this week, with Australia's election having just taken place, while the ECB fold to the current campaign to push transgender people to the margi…
01:42:50 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Story Time 226 - Sandpaper Day, as it happened
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's Daniel Norcross guest hosting, so he begins with a proverb to live by for running between the wick…
01:39:47 |
Sat 03 May 2025
The Final Word with Marcus Harris
Season 18 Episode 10: A left-handed opener from Perth who grew up idolising Justin Langer, in Marcus Harris you have a player who was meant to fit a certain mould. But over his long professional care…
01:14:57 |
Thu 01 May 2025
What were you doing at age 14?
Season 18, Episode 9: With the power outage in Lisbon it’s Daniel Norcross stepping in this week as Adam returns to a familiar sofa under the Jardine portrait in Tooting. Fronting the agenda are off-…
01:46:27 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Story Time 225 – Diego Maradona's dinner party
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, there's only one thing on the menu at Diego's dinner, but would a modern-day Plum Warner have been on t…
01:34:47 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Wisden 2025 with Lawrence Booth
Season 18, Episode 8: We like forging traditions on the pod and one of those is speaking with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, at Lord's on the day the little yellow won…
01:07:41 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
“TFW remains the gold standard of cricketing podcasts” - Wisden
Season 18, Episode 7: Call it a mutual admiration society: given the way we respect Wisden, it's nice to get an observation back. More importantly this week, the kind of wild net-run-rate ending that…
01:40:58 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
The Final Word with Richard Gould - two years on
Season 18, Episode 6: Richard Gould has always been up for a lively chat over the years, whether that was in his previous gig as the boss at Surrey or since taking over England cricket's top administ…
00:58:36 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The Final Word with Dan Worrall of the 2025 Wisden Five
Season 18, Episode 5: It’s official: Dan Worrall is one of the five cricketers of the year in the 2025 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, following a third dominant season as Surrey completed a county thre…
00:58:18 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Story Time 224 – The Australian who shot the Duke of Edinburgh
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a wild tale from early colonial history about Australia's first political assassination, and how it lin…
01:23:29 |
Sun 20 Apr 2025
The Final Word with Mervyn King
Season 18, Episode 4: Over the years, we’ve had the company of many people for whom cricket is not their day job, but none with as many letters after their name. Mervyn King’s life in economics invol…
01:03:42 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
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