The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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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. Get your big Nor...
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The Final Word with Sonny Baker
Season 19 Episode 21: If you listened to the pod through 2025, Sonny Baker is a name that won’t be new to you - Adam spoke about him practically every...
Story Time 254 – The Irishman who became a Chinese general
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, another vast and sprawling tale of a 20th century life that hardly seems true, fr...
Australia’s (likely) ADHD pre-war leggie – TFW Book Club with Pat Rodgers
Pat Rodgers – The Erratic Syd Emery
It’s always a joy when Pat Rodgers, great friend of the pod, dives into a story from cr...
As the Australians relax, England brace for review season
Season 19, Episode 20: It's the weekly show. Normal programming is back. Except for programming at the T20 World Cup, where India's government is now...
Story Time 253 – An honorary degree from the University of WA
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a quick one from the SCG before it's time to pack up and ship out, but we have ti...
TFW Ashes Daily - The Ashes are over! Time to look back
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 6: Toll the bells, it is over. And for this series at least, this is the final Final Word Ashes Daily. What...
TFW Ashes Daily - Behold, a nervous chase - 5th Test, Sydney Day 5
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 5: Get a score on the board and it can make for a nervous chase. So it proved for Australia on the final da...
TFW Ashes Daily - Bethell makes history - 5th Test, Sydney Day 4
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 4: They said it couldn't happen. Ok, maybe we said it couldn't happen. Either way, that was said. Picking a...
TFW Ashes Daily - The Smith machine turns on - 5th Test, Sydney Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 3: In truth, it has been a long time coming in Ashes cricket, but in the Year of Our Lord 2026, Steve Smith...
TFW Ashes Daily - Root & Head on the same day - 5th Test, Sydney Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 2: It was a day for batting, in both camps, as the SCG provided some challenges but also some opportunities...
TFW Ashes Daily - The engine room arrives - 5th Test, Sydney Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 1: For a moment it looked like we would have another crazy fast Test innings, but then things changed. Joe...
TFW Ashes Daily - Khawaja's done, Smith isn't - 5th Test, Sydney Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 0: It's been a busy couple of days in the SCG press conference room with Usman Khawaja pulling the pin and...
Michael Bevan's New Year's Miracle, 30 years on
Season 19, Episode 20: On this day, three decades ago. New Year's Day. Michael Bevan, Roger Harper... you know it. To recognise this cherished moment...
The Best & Worst of 2025
Season 19, Episode 19: Happy New Year! Time for another Final Word tradition, the best and worst in cricket of 2025. This past year was one with a lot...
No retirement signal from Usman Khawaja
Season 19, Episode 18: With another longer than expected pause between Tests, thoughts turn to Sydney and the end of the series. But there is no sign...
Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII...
TFW Ashes Daily - the MCG aftermath
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3 wrap: The whole country is fixated on one thing: 22 yards of grass in the middle of the MCG, and how i...
TFW Ashes Daily - England break the drought - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2: Once again, we are left to survey a field of smoking wreckage and ask, what the hell was that? Anothe...
TFW Ashes Daily - One insane Boxing Day - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 1: What a ridiculous day. For years Melbourne was the most boring pitch in the country, but there will b...
TFW Ashes Daily - Jhye flies; Jofra grounded - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 0: It's been four years since Jhye Richardson stood at the top of his mark in a Test match but that look...
The Final Word Christmas with Andy Zaltzman
Season 19, Episode 16: Merry Christmas to all. In carrying on our tradition of a festive interview with a much-loved contributor to the game, not many...
Story Time 251 – Chariots of Fire from 0.2 seconds back
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we're still in Adelaide as we discover by tangent the tale of one of the 20th cen...
TFW Ashes Daily - End of an era - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 6
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 6: Quiet settles on the Adelaide hills, as Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross take a beat to consider the en...
TFW Ashes Daily - Ashes are done, with a twist - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 5
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 5: The expected result came in, but not in the expected way. For some periods of time on the final day, t...
TFW Ashes Daily - She's going the distance! - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 4
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 4: We're going to make to a fifth day! Not, admittedly, one with a whole lot riding on it, but if there's...
TFW Ashes Daily - Adelaide was jumping, jumping - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 3: Sometimes, Test cricket offers the chance for rare resistance. We saw that through the morning session...
TFW Ashes Daily - Perfect bowling in the heat - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 2: The hottest day of the Test by far, and somehow the bowling side were not the ones who wilted. An asto...
TFW Ashes Daily - Carey's hometown class - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 1: It's blazing hot in Adelaide, although the oracles say it will only get hotter, and the Test match is...
TFW Ashes Daily - England's last chance - 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 3rd Test, Adelaide Day 0: We are down to England's last chance to stay in the series, and they've elected to take on Adelaide Ov...
The one time that Beth Mooney couldn't do it
Season 19, Episode 15: This week, from Brunswick Street Oval in Melbourne during our TFW XI match, more Ashes chatter and chunter with Usman Khawaja s...
Story Time 250 – Billy Corgan introduces decimal currency
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Adam and Geoff get together at Stomping Ground Beer Hall to watch our TFW ale com...
The week that Noosa entered cricket folklore
Season 19, Episode 14: The Ashes players keep on dropping, with Australia and England each losing a vital bowler for the rest of the Ashes, while a ba...
Story Time 249 – The man who named Bodyline
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, an extraordinary figure whose efforts spanned two sports, four jobs, and the Fede...
TFW Ashes Daily - Wait, you prepared too much? - 2nd Test, Brisbane wrap
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 5: We're wrapping things up from Brisbane the day after the Test, down by the church to say a prayer for...
TFW Ashes Daily - Resistance (if futile) - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4: Something strange happened on the fourth day at the Gabba. Test cricket broke out. Quality defensive b...
TFW Ashes Daily - Send England home - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3: England got the start they wanted, but then Australia played the perfect day of pink-ball cricket. Som...
TFW Ashes Daily - Jake Weatherald's Ashes - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2: It's a tight one in Brisbane, with England not just soiling the bed but throwing it out the window in...
TFW Ashes Daily - Joe Root versus the hex - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1: This whole series has been set up to see Joe Root face down one giant hoodoo: can he make tons in Aust...
TFW Ashes Daily - Is Pat Playing?! Gabba Intrigue - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0: Is that Pat Cummins' walk-on music? Is he running into the ring? It had a wrestling feel to it at the...
Khawaja is out - two hours after we recorded this
Season 19, Episode 13: With Usman Khawaja's back injury seeing him left out of the Brisbane Test, that may be it for Australia's opening bat. Not that...