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
- 1400
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Stuart MacGill's very strange court case
Season 17, Ep 29: It wasn't a good week for Stu MacGill, with a guilty verdict in court but on a pretty minor criminal count. That doesn't begin to reflect how strange the story was though, with fami…
01:19:51 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Story Time 219 – Dark Jo Angel, starring Jessica Alba
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an all-time thrilling finish involving a classic Australian side, a trip back to rare winter cricket un…
01:26:54 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
The Australia/India rivalry: what we learned making Final Frontier
The Greatest Season That Was - The Final Frontier season finale
During the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia, The Greatest Season That Was pod focused its attention on the relation…
00:43:30 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
What idiot put the 150th anniversary Test at night?
Season 17, Ep 28: We've been excited about the 150th anniversary Test scheduled for 2027, so it was deflating to see the news that Cricket Australia have planned for it to be day-night. A range of sp…
01:32:09 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
TFW Film Club – Ange & The Boss, with Tony Wilson
A variation on our Book Club, this time we turn to film with a man well known to Final Word listeners, Tony Wilson. We change sports too, to (round ball) football. Why? The tale of Ange Postecoglou i…
00:50:30 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - India had to win this one - Champions Trophy 17, the final
Champions Trophy Final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: A tournament tailor-made for Indian success has ended with just that, the best team getting the trophy they came to the UAE for. The Black Caps ear…
00:42:10 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - India stand on the brink - Champions Trophy 16, final preview
Champions Trophy Final preview semi-final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: The time has come. A tournament on a platter for the men in blue, they simply must stick the landing against the Black Caps, rig…
00:32:52 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Story Time 218 – Shane Warne helped my wife with the pond
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're obviously going to end up at Shane Warne's sideline as a handyman, but before we get there it's g…
01:30:55 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - NZ and SA dream of droughts breaking - Champions Trophy 15, 2nd semi
Champions Trophy 2nd semi-final, New Zealand v South Africa, Lahore: What a performance from the Black Caps with the bat, storming into another ICC trophy decider against India. At Lahore, we have Da…
00:26:07 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Kuhnemann in the clear
Season 17, Ep 27: While the Champions Trophy semi-finals happen around us, Adam and Geoff try to stay focused on the rest of the week's matters at hand. Jos Buttler finally gives up the eternal sadne…
01:09:40 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - Kohli versus Smith in legend battle - Champions Trophy 14, 1st semi
Champions Trophy 1st semi-final, India v Australia, Dubai: Australia changed their blueprint and their attack but neither quite worked as India did enough with the ball and had too much depth with th…
00:22:47 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - India out for revenge - Champions Trophy 13, semi-final previews
Champions Trophy Day 13, semi-final preview: Everyone is where they need to be for the final stages of this tournament, with Australia's configuration the main point of interest - the underdogs by an…
00:34:42 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - India have a date with their nemesis - Champions Trophy 12, India NZ
Champions Trophy Day 12, India v New Zealand, Dubai: We knew who had made the final four of this tournament, but now - after India flexed their muscles in an impressive bowling performance against Ne…
00:22:37 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - Proteas storm into semis - Champions Trophy 11, England South Africa
Champions Trophy Day 11, England v South Africa, Karachi: South Africa have successfully made it through to another semi-final, annihilating Jos Buttler’s sorry side on his final day in charge. To wo…
00:28:08 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Story Time 217 – The Leadbeater possum lights a dart
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we head to South Africa for the first big explosion in a career of big explosions, we pop by Headingley…
01:24:08 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
TFW Daily - Australia through with Head flying - Champions Trophy 10, Australia Afghanistan
Champions Trophy Day 10, Australia v Afghanistan, Lahore: More rain ruined the result for the men in gold (canary yellow?), but it matters little - they are going to be playing in another semi-final …
00:27:41 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
TFW Daily - Pakistan's sorry tournament washed away - Champions Trophy 9, Pakistan Bangladesh
Champions Trophy Day 9, Pakistan v Bangladesh, Rawalpindi: What a mess. Pakistan, tournament hosts, were already bundled out after two dreadful losses and now their third and final game, against Bang…
00:22:42 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
TFW Daily - Buttler's team gone in straight sets - Champions Trophy 8, England Afghanistan
Champions Trophy Day 8, England v Afghanistan, Lahore: For a third ICC tournament in a row, England are going home before the business end. It was a thriller in Lahore with many twists and turns, but…
00:25:59 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Josh Inglis, Australian Test captain?
Season 17, Ep 26: Back with the weekly show, with Adam back home, and there's always plenty to go through. Bharat's Australian Story episode went up, our show managed to win the podcast award from th…
00:59:22 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
TFW Daily - What does a washout mean? - Champions Trophy 7, Aus SA
Champions Trophy Day 7, Australia v South Africa, Rawalpindi: No toss, no game - the rain won. But what does that mean for the two teams in the context of a rapid-fire group stage? Daniel Norcross an…
00:24:36 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
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