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
Brendon McCullum becomes King of the World
Season 2, Ep 9: It's February 2016. Brendon McCullum is playing his last Test match, and decides to sign off with the world record for the fastest century of all time. Up to the front of the Titanic …
00:32:45 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
The no-ball that changed the world
Season 2, Ep 8: To end the 2015-16 summer, Australia head to New Zealand. With the one-dayers done it's time for the first Test at Wellington. Would it be defined by the bat? By the ball? No, by the …
00:46:47 |
Tue 16 Feb 2016
Shane Robert Watson, Australian captain
Season 2, Ep 7: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word.
In its second season in early 2016, The Final Word got spicy - it covered white-ball cricket. Having only been about Test matches to…
00:37:55 |
Wed 10 Feb 2016
Steve O'Keefe hits the dancefloor at Revolver
Season 2, Ep 6: In January 2016, we spend a wet Sydney Test match thinking of songs involving rain rather than watching cricket. West Indies refuse to cook up a run chase, concentrating instead on ma…
00:32:15 |
Mon 11 Jan 2016
The Best & Worst of 2015
Season 2, Ep 5: It's the end of 2015! Cue the streamers. Australia have just beaten West Indies at the MCG. Usman Khawaja is making bulk runs, but not as bulk as Adam Voges: averaging 542 against Wes…
00:39:33 |
Thu 31 Dec 2015
Chasing Australia's biggest records at Wobby's World
Season 2, Ep 4: It's December 2015. West Indies have just been blown off Bellerive Oval as Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pile on 449, within a whisker of the record for the biggest Australian partnershi…
00:34:36 |
Mon 14 Dec 2015
The very first day-night Test
Season 2, Ep 3: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word. Proof of concept. That's what it was all about in 2015, when Australia hosted New Zealand in Adelaide for the very first day-night T…
00:33:02 |
Tue 01 Dec 2015
Ross Taylor versus Tip Foster
Season 2, Ep 2: In 2015, the deadest WACA track in history made Mitchell Johnson retire on the spot. Dave Warner belted a million while wearing a WWII moustache, then Ross Taylor went back before WWI…
00:32:15 |
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Memories of the Gabba past
Season 2, Ep 1: To start their visit in 2015, New Zealand got first use of a Gabba pitch against a new-look Australian batting order, and fluffed it. That Test also marked the start of the first home…
00:34:36 |
Wed 11 Nov 2015
Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage
Season 1, Ep 6: At the end of Australia's 2015 tour of England, after the one-day series to follow the Ashes, it was great to be joined by our friends Jesse Hogan from the Fairfax papers and Stephan …
00:39:48 |
Thu 17 Sep 2015
The beginnings of T20 cricket, from a Cardiff pub
Season 1, Ep 5: Partway through a busy Australian tour of England in 2015, it's time to take stock of the short format. We started in The Cricketers pub in Cardiff, recording with Melinda Farrell aft…
00:43:17 |
Fri 04 Sep 2015
The 2015 Ashes = throwing up at a house party
Season 1, Ep 4: The 2015 Ashes came to a close, after a series of batting collapses and bowling blowouts. Australia out for 60 in Nottingham and 136 in Birmingham, England out for 103 at Lord's - no …
00:41:19 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
Canterbury tales: the Women's Ashes Test of 2015
Season 1, Ep 3: This is the show's first engagement with women's cricket, and you can hear how much we've learned since.
Down in Canterbury, amid a men's Test series of batting collapses, the only w…
00:34:54 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
The Edbgaston Ashes collapse (A poster of Charles Bannerman)
Season 1, Ep 2: Our second episode ever comes after Australia got shot out of the sky in Birmingham during the 2015 Ashes, for England to take a lead 2-1 with two to play. Geoff was joined by writers…
00:30:38 |
Sun 02 Aug 2015
This is The Final Word
Season 1, Ep 1: London 2015, with our new Ashes podcast project not signed off in time to cover the first Test in Cardiff, we got started after the second Test at Lord's. Australia had been beaten ba…
00:53:40 |
Thu 23 Jul 2015
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