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
Tampering, sackings, a week of disaster
Season 4, Ep 10: What a week. Cape Town to Johannesburg, one of Australian cricket's biggest disasters, and a story that bounced across the world. Sandpaper, cameras, and recriminations. Geoff and Ad…
00:50:56 |
Fri 30 Mar 2018
The Final Word with Gerard Whateley
Season 4, Ep 9: One of Australia's top broadcasters joins Adam and Geoff in South Africa's southern city of Port Elizabeth, in a long-form interview to discuss it all. The art of the call. The nature…
01:38:06 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Warner gets into de Kock fight
Season 4, Ep 8: Why does cricket do this to itself? After a brilliant Test in Durban, the discussion is instead about which Australians and South Africans said what to whom. This episode includes Dav…
00:45:51 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
The Final Word with David Warner
Season 4, Ep 7: After a mad dash from Auckland to Johannesburg, Australian vice-captain David Warner gives The Final Word. How can he succeed in South Africa? What constitutes being a cowboy? Does he…
00:36:18 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
End of School Formal with Daniel Norcross
Season 4, Ep 6: School's out for the summer. The Ashes are done, and BBC commentator Daniel Norcross joins Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon to sift through the fireplace, before we hand out The Final Wor…
00:44:32 |
Wed 17 Jan 2018
The Best & Worst of 2017
Season 4, Ep 5: It is New Year's Eve in 2017, and we may be in the middle of an Ashes series but it is also time to run our eye over the year that was.
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00:45:06 |
Sun 31 Dec 2017
The Final Word with Vic Marks
Season 4, Ep 4: It was a warm night in Perth when we left the WACA after its final Test match saw Australia win the Ashes, and we went to interview Vic Marks. The all-rounder actually played there fo…
01:02:12 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
The Final Word with Jason Gillespie
Season 4, Ep 3: The interview that started it all. It was December 9, 2017, when we sat down with Jason Gillespie by the boundary at Adelaide Oval as a charity game was being rained off. What was sup…
00:57:37 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
Headbutts and buttheads
Season 4, Ep 2: Bancroft and Bairstow butting heads in Brisbane. In November 2017, Cameron Bancroft didn’t just make an unbeaten 80 to win an Ashes Test, he also defused an international incident whi…
00:41:30 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
The Final Word with Ellyse Perry
Season 4, Ep 1: Recorded in a Canberra park after midnight following the final T20 of the Women’s Ashes in November 2017, Geoff and Adam started a new season that would also be released as the Guardi…
00:54:12 |
Mon 20 Nov 2017
The Stoinis Arrival Symphony
Season 3, Ep 10: All the way back to when we used to record The Final Word for the ABC. No Urthboy, no stings, no improper language, just straight down the line. At the end of our third season in Feb…
01:00:59 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Allan Border is banned from getting old
Season 3, Ep 9: It is late January in 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration week, in which Billy Stanlake is King of Geelong, Glenn Maxwell is switch-hitting to the moon, an exorcism is held against Mars…
01:13:26 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017
In Spanish, this show is La Palabra Ultima
Season 3, Ep 8: Stop us if this sounds familiar: it's January, around the Sydney Test, there's a tour to India coming up any minute, and we're wondering whether Mitchell Swepson is good enough to fea…
00:55:20 |
Tue 17 Jan 2017
Warner's century in a session, Younis Khan the batting god
Season 3, Ep 7: With Pakistan's Test series wrapped up in Sydney, let's spend a moment on the great undersung career of Younis Khan: on the occasion of his 34th Test ton, having reached the rare club…
01:16:07 |
Fri 13 Jan 2017
The Best & Worst of 2016
Season 3, Ep 6: Happy New Year for 2017! Our new NYE segment is Best & Worst. Admittedly it is a short segment at the end of the show, but before that we have to talk about a wonderful Boxing Day Tes…
01:10:32 |
Mon 02 Jan 2017
Pakistan just miss a Gabba miracle
Season 3, Ep 5: It's the Gabba just before Christmas in 2016, a match in which Pakistan get set 490 to win... and damn near run it down. Asad Shafiq, Yasir Shah and Mitchell Starc play the defining h…
01:20:18 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
Deadwood, Preacher, and the cheese cube method
Season 3, Ep 4: David Warner is on one of the hottest batting streaks in one-day cricket history. After saying that it was his worst format, he has finally cracked the code - and we wonder what his c…
00:55:56 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
Glengarry Glen Ross Glenn Maxwell
Season 3, Ep 3: Glenn Maxwell exiled from the one-day team for answering a question about batting higher up the order? Yep. It's the middle of the Steve Smith era as cricket supremo, while making a s…
00:56:17 |
Mon 05 Dec 2016
When they sacked half the Australian team
Season 3, Ep 2: After the Hobart debacle and the Australia's Got Talent round of the Sheffield Shield, a new-look Australian team takes the field in Adelaide. Faf du Plessis plays smarter, not harder…
00:47:32 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Destroyed in Hobart, Australia hits rock bottom
Season 3, Ep 1: What a week this was. Early November, 2016, Donald Trump has just been elected US President, Geoff returns from following the circus in the US, and we go straight into Hobart where So…
00:48:55 |
Fri 11 Nov 2016
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