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
Greg James and the World Cup song (feat. Bradman and Packer)
Season 5, Ep 21: Well, maybe not quite. "It's very complex," he reckons. But Radio One's breakfast DJ will be doing his best to give airtime to the World Cup theme song. He speaks to the Final Word a…
01:31:03 |
Sun 12 May 2019
The 2019 Issues Edition
Season 5, Ep 20: Sexuality, drugs, gender politics and criminal convictions. It's been a heavy week in cricket. James Faulkner caused a stir when people thought he'd come out as gay. Australia's best…
01:04:54 |
Fri 03 May 2019
The Final Word with Ian Chappell
Season 5, Ep 19: Catalyst. Author. Agitator. Commentator. Antagonist. Ian Chappell led Australia during the Test team's most iconic era, that of Lillee and Thompson. He took on Don Bradman and blew u…
01:42:38 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
Your first Hotmail address
Season 5, Ep 18: The Big Three have launched their World Cup squads, and Geoff and Adam were in London for the England announcement. Cricket writer Vithushan Ehantharajah joins them to run the rule o…
01:12:15 |
Thu 18 Apr 2019
An otter in a golf cart – the 2019 Wisden dinner
Season 5, Ep 17: Your hosts don't normally wear tuxedos to record – sorry to disappoint. But the black ties are on for the annual Wisden dinner to celebrate the launch of another mighty Almanack. For…
01:12:03 |
Sun 14 Apr 2019
The Final Word with Wil Anderson
Season 5, Ep 16: It's hard growing up in Gippsland with a country cricket legend for a dad. But Australian comedian Wil Anderson still adores the game regardless, a feeling that has only been strengt…
01:34:48 |
Sun 07 Apr 2019
The Vinoo Mankad Appreciation Society
Season 5, Ep 15: Another day, another run-out of the non-striker causing worldwide debate. Geoff and Adam plough into the tale of the dismissal: where it comes from, how the Laws have evolved, and wh…
01:23:05 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
So it turns out Australia is going to win the World Cup?
Season 5, Ep 14: Set off the ticker-tape parades. One-day cricket once again rules the land, as Australia's men complete a crazy comeback in India, and the women sweep New Zealand for the 20th year i…
01:04:50 |
Fri 15 Mar 2019
The Final Word with Urthboy
Season 5, Ep 13: In 2015 Urthboy released a song commemorating Phillip Hughes, in an unlikely crossover between cricket and hip-hop. A founding member of record label Elefant Traks and band The Herd,…
01:05:59 |
Thu 07 Mar 2019
The Final Word with Isa Guha
Season 5, Ep 12: Ashes winner, World Cup champ, and lead broadcaster. Isa Guha has got a lot done in a short time. She sits down with Adam and Geoff to talk history, heritage, change and ambition, an…
01:00:18 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Test season is dead, long live one-dayers
Season 5, Ep 11: Canberra's inaugural Test is over, with some heartening performances for Australia against Sri Lanka, but what does it all mean? The Ashes are a long way away. In the meantime it's w…
00:44:00 |
Wed 06 Feb 2019
The Final Word from Australia's forgotten Test venue
Season 5, Ep 10: With Canberra about to become Australia's 11th venue for men's tests, Geoff and Adam visit the one forgotten cricket ground out of the other ten.
This week covers Australia's Test …
01:09:39 |
Mon 28 Jan 2019
Live from Fitzroy: The Ballad of Glenn Maxwell
Season 5, Ep 9: A special version of The Final Word recorded live at Fitzroy's Commercial Club Hotel on January 17, 2019. This episode features an oral history of Glenn Maxwell, an ode to Shaun Marsh…
01:32:37 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
No formal wear required
Season 5, Ep 8: After 71 years, India wins a Test series in Australia. Adam and Geoff are joined by writer Bharat Sundaresan to talk through how it happened and what it means.
Thanks to our sponsor…
01:04:45 |
Tue 08 Jan 2019
Best & Worst of 2018 (and India's MCG masterclass)
Season 5, Ep 7: Geoff and Adam look back over the triumphs (and the odd disaster) of the year that was, as well as India's effort to go 2-1 up against Australia in the Boxing Day Test.
We'll have o…
00:58:16 |
Sun 30 Dec 2018
The Final Word Christmas with Harsha Bhogle
Season 5, Ep 6: India's voice of cricket has a long relationship with Australia too, part of ABC radio since 1991. None of this happened by accident: Harsha Bhogle was the classic freelance pioneer, …
00:51:20 |
Sun 23 Dec 2018
Pure Perth pace, and a dive into cricket's Moneyball
Season 5, Ep 5: India and Australia are 1-1, after a Perth Stadium pitch that was more WACA than the WACA. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins review the bouncer barrage, some brilliant batting, and the chi…
01:01:34 |
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Adelaide action, and the Secret Life of Peter Russell Clarke
Season 5, Ep 4: A gripping end followed a spongy middle in the first Test of Australia's 2018-19 summer. Geoff and Adam take a close look at India's win and Australia's resistance, as well as investi…
01:04:14 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
Welcomes: to summer, Geoff's book, and the World T20 trophy
Season 5, Ep 3: New things abound. The Australian summer starts for real with the first Test against India imminent. The women's team win the World T20 with a total team performance. And Geoff is flo…
01:00:44 |
Wed 05 Dec 2018
Australia stares into the Abbas
Season 5, Ep 2: Back to earth with a thud, as the Dubai draw is followed by an Abu Dhabi thrashing. Pakistan pull their biggest ever win over Australia out of the fire. Mohammad Abbas is statisticall…
00:55:22 |
Sun 21 Oct 2018
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