Podcasts by The Final Word Cricket Podcast

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 28, NZ South Africa from 2023-11-30T15:45:23.835210

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 28: The third tough assignment in a row for the Black Caps, and a chance for South Africa to continue winning ways and beat a team with a strong record over them in World ...

TFW Book Club – Dan Liebke from 2023-11-29T19:00

Dan Liebke - The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket Dan Liebke emerged as a cricket satirist in what we might now, with hindsight, refer to as the glory era of twitter. From his early days ...

The Green Marsh showdown from 2023-11-27T19:00

Season 15, Episode 12: So it comes down to Mitchell Marsh vs Cameron Green - but does it make sense for David Warner to get his preferred farewell instead of making space in the Test XI against Pak...

England botches it – Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup from 2023-11-26T19:00

Greatest Season That Was, Episode 3 – Alec Stewart: Back to the 1999 World Cup, this is the sorry story of the home team. England’s captain of the day, Alec Stewart was our forthright guest, who di...

Story Time 160 – Who is in the Story Time XI? from 2023-11-24T23:18

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus a man celebrated as one of the game's ...

World Cup Daily 2023: The morning after from 2023-11-23T19:00

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 47: The lost episode has been found. We did record this the day after the final, both of us at airports in different countries on the way home to Australia. Somehow the au...

The Final Word Australian homecoming from 2023-11-22T19:00

Season 15, Episode 11: It is a week of homecomings. Adam, Geoff, and the World Cup all arrived back in Australia within hours of one another, and nothing ever feels as good as home when you've been...

The Final Word with David Gower from 2023-11-21T00:53

Season 15, Episode 10: David Gower’s composure at the crease, combined with his perennially relaxed disposition, have contributed to a sense that he’s forever young. But it’s now the better of half...

World Cup Daily 2023 Final: Australia India from 2023-11-19T19:02

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 46: The final! It's over! Australia with one of the biggest surprises ever sprung in a tournament decider. India struggling to work out how it went wrong. Get tickets for...

World Cup Daily 2023: The final preview from 2023-11-18T13:10

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 45: One more day until the storm. On the barricades of freedom. Or something like that. India are red-hot favourites, Australia are perhaps the only team that might challe...

Story Time 159 – Scoring 588 in a day from 2023-11-17T10:04

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, if you take the A358 far enough south you'll find something with a lot of stories, and a river...

World Cup Daily 2023: Australia South Africa, 2nd semi-final from 2023-11-16T18:51

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 43: Was it going to be 1999 all over again? With 213 in the mix, a nervy chase, and more twists and turns than the Italian Job, it sure felt like for long periods of the g...

World Cup Daily 2023: India NZ, 1st semi-final from 2023-11-15T18:02

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 42: It was a messy slew of stats spattered all over Mumbai as the runs flowed today. Would Kohli get the Great Big Record that everyone was waiting for? Well, you can kind...

World Cup Daily 2023: Semi-final previews from 2023-11-14T19:00

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 41: It's a knockout! A knockout game, that is - India and New Zealand at the Work Rest and Play in Mumbai, then Australia and South Africa at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Time...

Meg Lanning, the best to do it from 2023-11-13T23:38

Season 15, Episode 9: In a way it's not a surprise, she's been around forever. And in a way it's a total surprise that Australia's captain of five World Cup wins is done by the age of 31. She has o...

Oral History of the ‘99 semi-final tie - Greatest Season from 2023-11-13T03:00

Episode 2 - The Oral History of the ‘99 semi-final tie In 2019 on The Greatest Season That Was, Adam made a 12-part series exploring whether the 1999 ODI World Cup was the most interesting global ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 39, India Netherlands from 2023-11-12T17:31:33

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 39: India have completed their clean sweep of the group stage with another near-perfect performance at Chinnaswamy, all of their top five getting to raise the bat at least...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 38.2, England Pakistan from 2023-11-11T17:08:09

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 38.2: England, Pakistan, battle of the teams who are going home - at least that much was clear as soon as the coin fell. Could England remember how to bat? Could Shaheen l...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 38.1, Australia Bangladesh from 2023-11-11T14:25:40

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 38.1: Australia are purring their way into the business end of this tournament, easily accounting for Bangladesh, even after the Tigers posted what looked to be a half-dec...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 37, South Africa Afghanistan from 2023-11-10T16:58:52

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 37: A closer game than it looked it would be at different points, the Proteas getting there in the end. But have they answered any of the outstanding questions about their...

Story Time 158 – The great eccentric educator from 2023-11-10T06:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam has the tale of a truly bonkers and brilliant man, named Rollo on his birth certificate, ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 36, New Zealand Sri Lanka from 2023-11-09T16:16:05

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 36: Barring something totally ridiculous, the Black Caps are into a fifth World Cup semi-final in a row. To make sure of it, they had to knock Sri Lanka over after losing ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 35, England Netherlands from 2023-11-08T16:26

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 35: Two chances remaining for a win in the tournament, and England did not want to fumble this one. But suddenly they looked around and were six down for nothing much. Daw...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 34, Glenn Maxwell v Afghanistan from 2023-11-07T19:19:35

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 34: MAXWELLBALL. What else can we say? Is this the greatest night of our lives? Perhaps it is. The most extraordinary innings in the history of one-day cricket was played ...

Save Robelinda2 from 2023-11-07T05:33

Season 15, Episode 8: Imagine someone dynamiting the Louvre. The cricket equivalent has happened, with the magical YouTube channel Robelinda2 being brought down by some vandals with spurious copyri...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 33, Sri Lanka Bangladesh from 2023-11-06T17:23

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 33: Sri Lanka and Bangladesh already hated each other before, so they really hate each other now. In Delhi late in a frustrating campaign for both teams, Angelo Mathews be...

Greatest Season - Why the 1999 World Cup? from 2023-11-06T05:30

Episode 1 - Why 99? In 2019 on The Greatest Season That Was, Adam made a 12-part series exploring whether the 1999 ODI World Cup swas the most interesting global tournament. With Dan Brettig (The A...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 32, India South Africa from 2023-11-05T16:54

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 32: Has a team ever bossed the group stage of World Cup to the extent India have this one? Cam Ponsonby and Adam consider this question after the men in blue handed out th...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 31,2, Australia England from 2023-11-04T19:06

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 31.2: Pakistan kept England alive for a couple of hours, but then they had to do their own work to stay there. Australia battled early, Smith and Labuschagne took us on ho...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 31.1, Pakistan New Zealand from 2023-11-04T15:30

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 31: Pakistan make half the runs and win the game? Cricket, it's a beautiful thing. The poor old Black Caps, meanwhile, have smashed 401 and lost. The difference: Final Wor...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 30, Afghanistan Netherlands from 2023-11-03T16:09

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 30: A match that a few weeks ago looked uneventful ended up with a lot riding on it. The two unfancied teams of the tournament had their most realistic shot at points agai...

Story Time 157 – The tragic death of Johnny Douglas from 2023-11-03T06:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam has Bharat Sundaresan in the co-hosting chair and they settle into a theme: fathers and s...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 29, India Sri Lanka from 2023-11-02T16:30:19

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 29: There are thrashings. There are bashings. Then there is this. Kohli, Gill, Shreyas. Shami, Bumrah, Siraj. Everyone got in on the act, on a statistically historic night...

Mathematically possible from 2023-11-01T05:00

Season 15, Episode 7: We've reached the stage of the World Cup where very few teams have been eliminated yet it is the four who are currently in the semi-final positions who would need to trip up b...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 27, Pakistan Bangladesh from 2023-10-31T17:21

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 27: After dropping four on the trot, Pakistan are alive again. Well, they'll need everything to go right to make the semis, but they have easily accounted for Bangladesh, ...

TFW Book Club - Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult from 2023-10-31T04:00

Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult - Bazball, The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution. The Bazball era demanded a book, and there’s nobody better for the task than two senior reporters who have be...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 26, Afghanistan Sri Lanka from 2023-10-30T18:06

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 26: They've done it again! Every time we think that Afghanistan's tournament of beating more established teams is done, they knock off another. Three excellent wins now, t...

Story Time 156 - Monkey Hornby and the Sydney riot from 2023-10-30T07:07

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the best yarn we've ever happened upon? For the characters involved, and the sheer madness of ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 25, England India from 2023-10-29T17:19

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 25: We know that England's campaign has been a disaster, but this was a final exclamation mark. What looked like it would be a thrashing in one direction became a thrashin...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 24.2, Netherlands Bangladesh from 2023-10-28T17:24

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 24.2: What a performance from the Dutch. Bouncing back from an Australian hiding and early trouble with the bat, they’ve gone on to dish out a thrashing of their own to th...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 24.1, Australia NZ from 2023-10-28T14:44

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 24: A stone cold classic! Two in two days for this World Cup, as Australia racked up a huge total before New Zealand were set fair pursuing an impossible chase. Rachin Rav...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 23, Pakistan South Africa from 2023-10-27T18:28

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 23: At last, after 23 days of the tournament, we finally had a close finish. Nine wickets down, drama and nerves as a chase unfolded. Rizwan, Babar, Shadab and Saud Shakee...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 22, England Sri Lanka from 2023-10-26T15:28

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 22: England, it's been wonderful. They've been the best white-ball team for the better part of the last eight years, dual world champions and all the rest, but that ended ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 21, Australia Netherlands from 2023-10-25T17:55

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 21: Is this the best day of our lives? Anyone who has heard this show knows that we love Glenn Maxwell. Today, as part of a stunning Australian performance in Delhi, he st...

England - the collapse of a one-day champion from 2023-10-25T05:00

Season 15, Episode 6: From world champions to the cusp of elimination with a month to go in this tournament - England are, by any measure, under the pump. Vithushan Ehantharajah jumps back in the c...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 20, South Africa Bangladesh from 2023-10-24T18:04

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 20: How do you stop Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller in the final ten overs? That's going to be the question on the mind of all other contenders in this tournament after ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 19, Afghanistan Pakistan from 2023-10-23T18:30

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 19: Afghanistan and Pakistan at Chennai, and it was spin time - four of them picked by Afghanistan, who went into a slow-bowling battle with Babar Azam and Abdullah Shafiq...

Story Time 155 – Lost archives of the Oz Brothers from 2023-10-23T05:46:36

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the Oz Brothers and their religious persuasion is only missing a founding document - we know w...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 18, India NZ from 2023-10-22T18:04

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 18: With guest host Carlos Braithwaite. A man who knows all about playing with and against India's best runs his eye over yet another masterclass from Virat Kohli, who fel...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 17.2, England South Africa from 2023-10-21T16:08

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 17.2: England. South Africa. Two sides looking to bounce back after surprise losses to lower-ranked opposition. Although after this result, those lower in the rankings mig...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 17.1, Netherlands Sri Lanka from 2023-10-21T14:18

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 17.1: At last, Sri Lanka are on the board in this World Cup. The Dutch gave it a good shake after losing six early wickets batting first, but in the chase, the experienced...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 16, Australia Pakistan from 2023-10-20T18:15

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 16: At the Chinnaswamy in Bengaluru without the floodlights from Waverly Park, it was all about massive opening partnerships. David Warner and Mitchell Marsh went ballisti...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 15, India Bangladesh from 2023-10-19T17:04:42

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 15: India move to four from four with style, easily accounting for Bangladesh in Pune. And better still for fans of the men in blue, victory was raised by a huge Virat Koh...

The other side of the World Cup from 2023-10-19T03:00

Season 15, Episode 5: Outside the pageantry on the field, there are currents and undercurrents influencing this World Cup beyond the play. Senior journalists Daniel Brettig and Anand Vasu join to t...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 14, NZ Afghanistan from 2023-10-18T17:00

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 14: Two weeks into this tournament, and only one team has an unblemished record after four games. New Zealand kept on banking points with this result over Afghanistan, tho...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 13, Netherlands South Africa from 2023-10-17T18:18:36

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 13: Two major upsets in three days! It's the Dutch this time, who have had to scrap so hard to make this tournament, doing the business against South Africa at a World Cup...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 12, Australia Sri Lanka from 2023-10-16T18:54

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 12: Two World Cup finals have involved this pairing, and two World Cup campaigns this year depended heavily on this result. Both teams were winless heading into it, and Ku...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 11, England Afghanistan from 2023-10-15T17:12:44

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 11: England rolled into Delhi expecting to keep on rolling after Afghanistan, and it did not quite work out the way they expected. Rahmanullah Gurbaz batted explosively, t...

Story Time 154 – From the cricket ground to prison from 2023-10-15T03:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, our many recent tales of crooks and jailbirds add three more notable entries, from plotters to...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 10, India Pakistan from 2023-10-14T15:28

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 10: India and Pakistan! That's the big one. Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique started well. Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan kept it going. Then Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Y...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 9, NZ Bangladesh from 2023-10-13T17:42

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 9: After missing two games, it was time for Big Daddy Kane Williamson. But don't call it a comeback - he's been here for years. Mahmudullah did himself a mischief, the old...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 8, Australia South Africa from 2023-10-12T18:02

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 8: Two games in to this World Cup, and the Australians are in trouble. Strange selections being made, players with no backups struggling for effect. Meanwhile for South Af...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 7, India Afghanistan from 2023-10-11T17:13:48

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 7: It was an important first innings from an Afghanistan team that manged to counter one of its consistent weaknesses. But then it changed abruptly into National Rohit Sha...

Traitors to the Sheffield Shield from 2023-10-11T05:00

Season 15, Episode 4: In an effort to spend more time talking about the Sheffield Shield this Australian summer, we have Louis Cameron, one of the best in the business, with us to set up the season...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 6.2, Pakistan Sri Lanka from 2023-10-10T17:53:27

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 6.2: Another day of batting purity, with blazing centuries from Kusal Mendis and Sadeera Samarawickrama up against another two from Abdullah Shafique and Mohammed Rizwan. ...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 6.1, England Bangladesh from 2023-10-10T14:09

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 6.1: England in the board with a thumping victory over the Tigers, Dawid Malan continuing his absurd run as an ODI opener - that's six tons in 23 hits, the quickest ever t...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 5, NZ Netherlands from 2023-10-09T17:24

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 5: The Battle of the Ns, as the Dutch take on the Kiwis in an alphabetical head to head. The venue is Hyderabad, with just a glimmer of sports betting enthusiasm twinkling...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 4, India Australia from 2023-10-08T19:39

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 4: We're going down to Chennai, where the pitch is crusty and slow, the humidity is through the roof, and visitors struggle. Australia faced India and a triple spin interv...

Story Time 153 – Crashing the night cart from 2023-10-08T04:26:31

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we find that military service is not for everyone, or perhaps some just have a different metho...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 3.2, South Africa v Sri Lanka from 2023-10-07T18:13

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 3.2: The most runs ever scored in a World Cup match? Go on, then. A bananas day of cricket at Delhi as the South Africans went full Spirit of AB de Villiers on the Sri Lan...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 3.1, Bangladesh v Afghanistan from 2023-10-07T12:18

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 3.1: In the first of our Saturday double-header, the Tigers are on the board in style with a thumping win over a lacklustre Afghanistan at Dharamshala. Vithushan Ehanthara...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 2, Pakistan Netherlands from 2023-10-06T16:34

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 2: The Dutch were far more in this than the 81-run margin suggests but when it mattered most, Pakistan did as they had to in their tournament opener at Hyderabad. Adam has...

World Cup Daily 2023: Day 1, England NZ from 2023-10-05T16:18

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 1: Expect the unexpected. The first day of this year's tournament and it was already worth the wait. Jonny Bairstow started in style, Joe Root recovered his best, Jos Butt...

World Cup Daily 2023: The ten-team preview from 2023-10-04T22:26:15

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 0: It's about to land. Ten teams, a dozen cities, the best part of seven weeks. Take a deep breath and dive in with us, and the expert help of ESPNCricinfo's young gun Mat...

The ICC: blazed and on the tonk from 2023-10-04T00:36:58

Season 15, Episode 2: With only a day or two before the World Cup, the press releases are coming thick and stupid, and we are the only podcast with the courage to tell you why the ICC mascots shoul...

The Mitchell Johnson Show with Bharat Sundaresan from 2023-10-02T14:22:20

It's The Mitchell Johnson Cricket Show, with our great friend and regular co-host, Bharat Sundaresan. This is a new project for the two of them, which has been some time in planning. It will be whe...

Story Time 152 – Three captains and no idea from 2023-09-30T06:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, our second revisit special before we get into the World Cup. Have you ever heard of the Fake O...

Calling The Shots, Director's Cut: Today from 2023-09-29T09:00

Episode 5 - Today The final revisited episode of our multi-part audio documentary on the 100-year history of cricket broadcasting brings us up to the modern day. To do so, Adam and Daniel Norcross ...

Calling The Shots, Director’s Cut: The Disruptors from 2023-09-28T09:00

Episode 4 - The Disruptors: This was an awkward one to prepare because it told our stories. Not only Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross, but many others who, in one way or another, messed with the us...

Josh Hazlewood learns to bat from 2023-09-26T12:08:33

Season 15, Episode 1: Spring is springing in Melbourne, domestic cricket has begun, and you know what that means. A new season of The Final Word. Just in time for a fresh World Cup. Australia's war...

Calling The Shots Director's Cut: On TV from 2023-09-25T12:05:09

Episode 3 - On TV In the third installment of our revisit of the documentary series made by Adam and Daniel Norcross during the first Covid lockdowns of 2020 we shift medium, from radio to televisi...

Story Time 151 – Hopper Read, not Chopper Read from 2023-09-22T20:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a bumper revisit special, have we found the cricketer whose career was most unfairly influe...

Calling The Shots, Director's Cut: Test Match Special from 2023-09-21T20:00

Episode 2 - Test Match Special: Our revisited documentary series began between the World Wars, where radio and cricket started their beautiful relationship. The next logical step was to chart the g...

The Final Word with Kumar Sangakkara from 2023-09-17T22:50

Season 14, Episode 42: Kumar Sangakkara is not only one of the greatest cricketers to ever play the game but also one of the most thoughtful. In turn, his life in the sport is one that continues to...

Story Time 150 – The best possible war from 2023-09-16T05:19

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. For the non-milestone episode of 150, we got everybody together, recording this in front of a live online...

England NZ Daily - 4th ODI, Lord's 2023 from 2023-09-15T20:01

England v New Zealand, 4th ODI at Lord's: Dawid Malan might’ve thought the selectors were a chance of trading him in for a flashier model a couple of weeks ago. Well, that won’t be happening any ti...

Calling The Shots, Director's Cut: How It All Began from 2023-09-15T05:00

Episode 1 - How it all Began: In March 2020, the world stopped as human tragedy unfolded. To that backdrop, a lockdown project started small and got way out of hand, as Adam Collins and Daniel Norc...

The Final Word with Ian Bell from 2023-09-14T01:47

Season 14, Episode 41: A child prodigy, a five-time Ashes winner, and the man with the finest cover drive you could ever wish to see - Ian Bell's fine career brought a lot of joy to onlookers as he...

England NZ Daily - 3rd ODI, The Oval 2023 from 2023-09-13T19:57

England v New Zealand, 3rd ODI at The Oval: Ben Stokes, good grief. He was retired from this format until a week ago, and today at The Oval he’s smacked England’s highest-ever score in the format. ...

Turns out we actually do love one-day cricket from 2023-09-12T02:47

Season 14, Episode 40: It's easy to forget, but as soon as a few good one-dayers start up again, we get right back into it. Australia have been notching wins in South Africa thanks to the return of...

England NZ Daily - 2nd ODI, Southampton 2023 from 2023-09-10T19:23

England v New Zealand, 2nd ODI at Southampton: It was all going so well for New Zealand, romping through England’s top order in a rain-reduced affair at Southampton. Enter Liam Livingstone, who tur...

Story Time 149 – When Warney met Dannii Minogue from 2023-09-09T05:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. And sometimes, we have to go all in on a certain subject. Sometimes, it takes half an hour to get to the ...

England NZ Daily - 1st ODI, Cardiff 2023 from 2023-09-08T21:44:22

England v New Zealand, 1st ODI at Cardiff: What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, New Zealand’s batting was in a world of pain, bowled out in 14 overs. Tonight, they chased 292 in a canter at...

The Final Word with Sai Sudharsan from 2023-09-08T00:00

Season 14, Episode 39: It's not often we get the chance to talk to India's cricketers, especially young guns on the way up. So with Sai Sudharsan playing county cricket at Surrey, it was a treat to...

The golden months of Mitchell Marsh from 2023-09-06T06:07:38

Season 14, Episode 38: A huge week of international men's white-ball cricket, with the Asia Cup complemented by Australia's tour of South Africa and New Zealand in England. If only West Indies had ...

England NZ Daily - 4th T20, Trent Bridge 2023 from 2023-09-06T00:18

England v New Zealand, 4th T20 at Trent Bridge: Another day, another new Final Word host, with Andy Zaltzman steering the ship for the first time alongside the newly minted Jeremy Coney. And anothe...

Archive ep: The very first day-night Test from 2023-09-04T05:00

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...

England NZ Daily - 3rd T20, Edbgaston 2023 from 2023-09-03T19:46

England v New Zealand, 2nd T20, Birmingham 2023: Jeremy Coney, our newest co-host, is thrilled that New Zealand are back in the series but isn't best pleased at spilling something on his new shirt....

Story Time 148 – Zaheer Abbas multiball from 2023-09-02T05:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Zaheer Abbas extravaganza that ends up having nothing to do with Zaheer Abbas. Confused? So ...

England NZ Daily - 2nd T20, Old Trafford 2023 from 2023-09-01T21:07

England NZ Daily - 1st T20, Manchester 2023: If Harry Brook is the best, then how doesn't he go to India for the World Cup? We consider this, New Zealand's struggles and Cam Ponsonby getting into a...

TFW Book Club - Tom Hicks from 2023-09-01T05:17

Book Club 1: Tom Hicks - Bowler's Name? The Life of a Cricketing Also-Ran. Welcome to a new version of The Final Word! The plan is to feature books and authors that capture the game from a wider p...

England NZ Daily - 1st T20, Durham 2023 from 2023-08-30T21:32

England v New Zealand, 1st T20 at Durham: If the plan over these four matches is for Jos Buttler to learn a few things and for players to put pressure on selectors, that’s exactly what he got in th...

The Mankad goes mainstream from 2023-08-29T22:30

Season 14, Episode 37: In the closing stages of a close ODI between two Full Member nations, a non-striker run out by the bowler is a big story but not the biggest of the match. The times are indee...

Story Time 147 – The greatest French cricketer and violinist of all from 2023-08-26T08:52

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the greatest French cricketer you've never heard of? This story comes thanks to histori...

The Final Word Scotland special from 2023-08-24T05:00

Season 14, Episode 36: Today’s episode is about Scotland, a nation we’ve not given enough time to over the years. Complicating this is the current mess surrounding Cricket Scotland off the field. F...

The slowly vanishing adventures of Plucka Duck from 2023-08-22T20:00

Season 14, Episode 35: As time wears relentlessly on, archives and artefacts begin to vanish. That is why this week brings about an important foray into a historical moment of great import: the cri...

The Final Word with Cheteshwar Pujara from 2023-08-21T01:55

Season 14, Episode 34: This has been on our wish list for a long time - Adam sits down with Indian great Cheteshwar Pujara. And contrary to reports, he's far from done as a Test batter, determined ...

Story Time 146 – Busting the Colin Cowdrey myth from 2023-08-19T05:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. MCC Cowdrey walks down the MCC steps in the final over of the Test in 1963 against the fearsome Windies w...

Shock us! Ben Stokes’ pretend ODI retirement is over from 2023-08-17T01:17

Season 14, Episode 33: The most predicable coming-out-of-retirement tale is complete, with Ben Stokes doing as we all knew he would – he’s going to India for the World Cup in October to help Englan...

The Final Word with Grace Harris from 2023-08-14T19:55

Season 14, Episode 32: One of our favourites from the earliest days of the pod, and one of the most likeable people in the game - Grace Harris. A international career that started in a hurry before...

Story Time 145 – Roman Holiday from 2023-08-12T02:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Buongiorno from the Eternal City, where history never sleeps and neither does this history program. No It...

Beergate, Ballgate, Gabriel Gaté from 2023-08-08T20:01

Season 14, Episode 31: Bharat is home to meet his chickens, Geoff is notionally on holiday, but that doesn't mean there aren't still some cold Ashes ashes to rake over. Usman Khawaja has a curious ...

How England took over the white-ball world from 2023-08-06T20:00

Season 14, Episode 30: In their new book, White Hot, journalists (and Final Word regulars) Tim Wigmore and Matt Roller have documented the dominance of the England men's white-ball team, looking at...

Story Time 144 – Right in the Gooch from 2023-08-04T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in the saddle after the Ashes, although technically this episode was not recorded after the Ashes. W...

The Final Word with Stephen Fry from 2023-08-03T05:00

Season 14, Episode 29: He is just about everybody's favourite, and it's obvious why. Stephen Fry has been a comedy and literary hero for Geoff and Adam, starting with his work on Blackadder and wit...

How to fail to organise a World Cup from 2023-08-02T05:00

Season 14, Episode 28: There are World Cups coming out our ears, with details of the schedule for the men's T20 version next year starting emerge even while the BCCI is still changing the 50-over s...

The Ashes Daily farewell - a look back at the series we saw from 2023-08-01T14:00

The Ashes, just in general: We knew it would be big. It always is. We didn't know that four of the five matches would be in balance into their final hour. So much conversation, irritation, celebrat...

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 5, 2023 from 2023-07-31T19:47

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 5: IT IS OVER. We started the day with a chaseable target remaining for Australia. We stopped in the middle for a long time for rain. But either side of that, t...

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 4, 2023 from 2023-07-30T16:42

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: It was all about Stuart Broad as the fourth day started at The Oval, but not so much when the bowling began. Australia were supposed to be cooked, but not ye...

Ashes Daily - Stuart Broad retirement special from 2023-07-30T09:18

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: While we were recording the Day 3 Daily show, Stuart Broad decided to retire. Not a helpful piece of timing for podcasters, but very good timing for Broad, w...

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 3, 2023 from 2023-07-29T18:37

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 3: Halfway through the last Test of the series and Bazball was still blazing. Pat Cummins battled, Todd Murphy performed beyond his years, but this was England'...

Story Time 143 – The fastest hundred ever from 2023-07-29T04:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Fine, it hasn't exactly been weekly in the middle of the Ashes, but we didn't manage to put together this...

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 2, 2023 from 2023-07-28T18:18

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 2: One team pushes ahead, the other pulls them back. So it has been all through this Ashes series. Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne had the go-slow. Stuart ...

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 1, 2023 from 2023-07-27T18:41

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 1: A ridiculous fast-forward day of Test cricket, is it? Of course, as usual in this series. Pat Cummins made a big call and bowled a huge spell, Harry Brook sm...

Ashes Daily - The Oval preview, 2023 from 2023-07-26T13:12

The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 0: And so it comes to this. And so we face the final curtain. The Test season ends where it began, fittingly at The Oval. Time is a flat circle. The sun is out....

The Final Word with Patrick Brammall from 2023-07-26T05:00

Season 14, Episode 27: Someone from the creative world tweeting up a storm during the cricket gets our attention. So it has been over the Ashes with Patrick Brammall, one of Australia's most recogn...

How to abuse umpires and get away with it from 2023-07-25T05:00

Season 14, Episode 26: Crazy scenes, not just because Indian women's captain Harmanpreet Kaur smashed her stumps over in a rage, but because she and other teammates persisted in effectively calling...

Ashes Daily - the Old Trafford aftermath from 2023-07-24T17:11

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 6: Plenty going on after the Manchester washout, with emotions running high between two sets of supporters and between everybody else involved. It been anot...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 5, 2023 from 2023-07-23T17:12

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 5: Curses. Oaths and castigations. For those hoping for a grandstand finish, you hoped in vain. The elements were victorious, as they will be when we are al...

West Indies India Daily - Port of Spain Day 3 from 2023-07-23T13:48

West Indies v India, Port of Spain Day 3: With rain at Old Trafford, why not switch to Port of Spain where rain was less of a feature? Virat Kohli made Test century 29, while the old firm combined:...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 4, 2023 from 2023-07-22T18:56

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 4: We were supposed to have a washout, and it looked that way. But after a lot of rain, the ground staff went to work and prised out 30 overs of play. Enoug...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 3, 2023 from 2023-07-21T18:23

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 3: It went big, it went big, and it went bigger. Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, sure. Then it was the Jonny Bairstow Entertainment Hour, with Alex Carey front and...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 2, 2023 from 2023-07-20T18:27

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 2: It doesn't get more dominant than that. We were promised an England team that would try all-out attack against the Australian bowlers to get on top of a ...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 1, 2023 from 2023-07-19T18:24

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 1: A helter skelter game is promised, with rain on the weekend and England especially needing to make sure this does not end in a draw, so they went full ti...

Women's Ashes Daily - 3rd ODI, Taunton 2023 from 2023-07-18T20:49

The Women's Ashes, 3rd ODI at Southampton, Day 11: It's all over! Seven matches, 11 days, and more tightly fought moments than we can even remember, England were not going away despite conceding th...

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford preview, 2023 from 2023-07-18T15:46

The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 0: The Ashes are sitting at 2-1 with two to play. Everything riding on the next week in Manchester. We already know England's team, and there's been a lot o...

David Warner for Manchester, yes or no? from 2023-07-17T10:41:58

Season 14, Episode 25: The Manchester Test is looming this week, with selection questions ahoy - none more substantial than whether David Warner will open the batting for Australia. There are sever...

Women's Ashes Daily - 2nd ODI, Southampton 2023 from 2023-07-16T18:22

The Women's Ashes, 2nd ODI at Southampton, Day 10: There is no such thing as a normal match in this series. Again, it goes right down to the final ball. Again, it turns, turns, turns again. Again, ...

The Final Word with Enid Bakewell from 2023-07-15T05:00

Season 14, Episode 24: You'd better believe it. One of the legends of the women's game, someone we talk about on Story Time every other week. She made a century on debut in both formats, took 10 wi...

West Indies India Daily - Dominica Day 2 from 2023-07-14T17:06

West Indies v India, Dominica Day 2: We won't get to see much of this Test match, but with a couple of slower days this week we did have time to check out another five-wicket bag for Ashwin and a c...

Story Time 142 – "I want to hit a big one!" from 2023-07-13T13:32

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, after a bit too much Ashes madness to record the show as normal, we've managed to sneak one in...

Women's Ashes Daily - 1st ODI, Bristol 2023 from 2023-07-12T20:25

The Women's Ashes, 1st ODI at Bristol, Day 9: Another absolute thriller, right to the end. And, three in a row for England! A week ago they needed five in a row. Well, here they are, still in conte...

Over rate police, arrest this man from 2023-07-11T03:29

Season 14, Episode 23: Finally, a normal weekly show. Plenty going on, with both men's Ashes teams getting clobbered for slow over rates, deservedly, and the women's Ashes teams gearing up for the ...

Is... this the 2005 Ashes yet? from 2023-07-10T17:02

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 5: No play on what would have been the last day, but plenty to think about. Three Tests, three close finishes, and a series that has been all twists and turns...

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 4, 2023 from 2023-07-09T17:23

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 4: Who doesn't love a last-day run chase? It was Day 4 at Headingley, it was a Sunday, and it wasn't quite 2019, but it wasn't a million miles away. Plenty of...

Women's Ashes Daily - 3rd T20, Lord's 2023 from 2023-07-08T22:20

The Women's Ashes, 3rd T20 at Lord's, Day 8: The series is STILL alive! The mighty Australians have lost a T20 series for the first time in six years, England take them down for the second match ru...

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 3, 2023 from 2023-07-08T20:16

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 3: Rain, delays, leaden skies, then finally coming out to bat, it was all in favour of England. It was all going the way of Woakes, Broad, Wood. And then Trav...

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 2, 2023 from 2023-07-07T18:16

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 2: It was all set up with a Yorkshire pair coming to the middle in Yorkshire, but Pat Cummins had other ideas. Then Mark Wood had other ideas to that. Then Be...

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 1, 2023 from 2023-07-06T19:00

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 1: Here we are in Leeds. A fast track, plenty of pace and bounce, and a fast bowler to make use of it with Mark Wood coming back. But, wait, a minute, what's ...

Women's Ashes Daily - 2nd T20, The Oval 2023 from 2023-07-05T21:44

The Women's Ashes, 2nd T20 at The Oval, Day 7: The series is alive! England needed to win five in a row to have a shot at taking the trophy off Australia... and they have their first. A record-brea...

Ashes Daily - Headingley 2023 preview from 2023-07-05T15:59

The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 0: Just three days since Lord's and we'll be back in action at Leeds, in one of the more febrile Ashes environments imaginable. The day before play, Bharat Su...

Frothing over in the Lord's Long Room from 2023-07-04T00:28:05

Season 14, Episode 22: A day after the wildness at Lord's, we look back and try to take its measure. Meanwhile, in the world beyond the ground, the story has only got bigger. Adam and Geoff try to ...

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 5 from 2023-07-02T17:41

The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 5: What the absolute fridge. That was Headingley Mach II for a while, with Ben Stokes reaching heights that seemingly only he can find. It was a grudge match, too...

Women's Ashes Daily - 1st T20, Edgbaston 2023 from 2023-07-02T02:00

The Women's Ashes, 1st T20 at Edgbaston, Day 6: A stunning day for women's cricket, with nearly 20,000 filling Edbgaston for the start of the T20 series. Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran were there...

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 4 from 2023-07-01T19:32

The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 4: The days don't get any quieter. Bouncer wars. Bizarro Steve Smith stuff. Nathan Lyon batting on one leg. A late burst from Mitchell Starc, a late burst from Pa...

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 3 from 2023-06-30T18:29:45

The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 3: If life is all about about learning things and getting better, then England missed that directive. More madness on the third day at Lord's, before the Australi...

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 2 from 2023-06-29T18:51

The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 2: What on earth was that? Another manic day of Test match cricket as England were set a challenge and went after it in wild style. Nobody knew what they were see...

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 1 from 2023-06-28T19:44

The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 1: After a lot of talk, it's time for the second Test. England won the toss and bowled under cloudy skies, but things went every which way from there: some David ...

The Final Word Wedding Daily from 2023-06-28T00:07:01

Adam and Rachel's Wedding, Day 1: You asked, so you shall receive. Adam decided to get married in the middle of an Ashes series, so his wedding gets the regular TFW Daily treatment, from the roofto...

How do cricket pitches work? The complete guide, with Lord’s pitch boss Karl McDermott from 2023-06-27T09:34

Season 14, Episode 21: It’s all we talk about. Everyone who watches cricket will go on about the pitch - too flat, too fast, too dry, too green - and almost none of us knows anything about them How...

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 5 from 2023-06-26T13:24

Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 5: We're never got to type that before! It ended quickly on the fifth morning, but a memorable result with a very memorable Ash Gardner performance. A double t...

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 4 from 2023-06-25T19:17:24

Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 4: Ok, the rollercoaster has started again. This match twisted and turned on Day 4 in ways that we would not have anticipated on the previous three. A glorious...

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 3 from 2023-06-24T19:26

Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 3: A historic day: no England woman had ever made a double century before, in any format, and now that has changed forever. Tammy Beaumont, takes a bow. There ...

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 2 from 2023-06-23T19:19

Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 2: Annabel Sutherland achieved something significant on the second day, and helped her team a long way in the process. But England have responded in barnstormi...

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 1 from 2023-06-22T23:33

Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 1: On a fast track with good bounce, the runs flowed and the wickets eventually came. Ellyse Perry made a stunning 99, Australia's next tier of all-rounders ma...

Looking back at the Edgbaston miracle from 2023-06-21T17:02

Season 14, Episode 20: Well, with a night and a day to think about, we can start to come to terms with what we saw in Birmingham yesterday. An extraordinary day, with some bigger themes to come out...

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 5 from 2023-06-20T19:51

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 5: What a finish. What a day. One of the all-time great Test matches, one of the closest results. The rhymes of history were all there, but we didn't think it ...

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 4 from 2023-06-20T10:18:08

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 4: Hooollly schmackerel. We have a blazing Test match on our hands. England went utterly wild on the fourth day, brilliantly and mad-eyed, especially Joe Root....

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 3 from 2023-06-18T19:02:10

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 3: There was rain, but it only added to the atmosphere in a brilliant short burst on the third afternoon. England were feeling pretty good with the ball but ha...

Story Time 141 – The dead Kennedys from 2023-06-18T08:10:57

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a special episode recorded after the first day of the first Ashes Test. A little weariness mak...

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 2 from 2023-06-17T20:36:04

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 2: Another ridiculously good day, with a Broad morning and a Khawaja afternoon. Two in two, lots of misses, and the worst hat-trick ball in history - get it al...

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 1 from 2023-06-16T18:31

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 1: And we're away. England batted first and kinda tried to Bazball, but it didn't entirely come off. Joe Root played a blinder, Jonny Bairstow made a comeback,...

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023 preview from 2023-06-15T16:33:40

The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 0: We're almost ready. The day before the action starts, Adam and Geoff get together in the Hollies Stand - quiet now, but not for long. Support the show with...

At last, it's time for The Ashes from 2023-06-14T09:19:41

Season 14, Episode 19: It's only been 18 months since the last time the urn was played for but it feels like an eternity. For England, everything really has changed since Brendon McCullum and Ben S...

Story Time 140 – One September in 1917 from 2023-06-13T02:20:14

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a lot of different threads lead us back to a certain European autumn over a century ago. There...

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 5 from 2023-06-11T13:42:38

World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 5: It started with expectation but it ended expeditiously. Scott Boland and those short bursts of time, hey? Find out how everything came together on ...

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 4 from 2023-06-10T18:21:59

World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 4: You'll hear a lot about controversy today, so let's rip into it first. The catch that was, from Cameron Green off Shubman Gill. Also, more importan...

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 3 from 2023-06-09T18:18:45

World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 3: A classic day at The Oval as India came back into the contest, throwing the bat and then delivering with the ball, while Australia went blow for bl...

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 2 from 2023-06-08T18:07:53

World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 2: It started in a hurry with a Steve Smith hundred, but the game changed several times from there. India's bowlers did some hard work, Alex Carey com...

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 1 from 2023-06-07T17:57:38

World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 1: It was long awaited, then it was here. A high-octane morning session from Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj, then a spectacular riposte from Travis...

World Test Championship Daily - Oval preview from 2023-06-06T15:44

WTC Final, India v Australia - preview: Two years after India slipped up in the decider against New Zealand they've made it again, this time up against Pat Cummins' Australians in a true heavyweigh...

More Ashes injuries, and Cricket Ireland's obstacle course from 2023-06-05T05:19:54

Season 14, Episode 18: Three years after his first appearance, Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom returns to the show for a conversation at Lord's, looking at the structural challenges ...

Story Time 139 – Here comes the injured No. 11 from 2023-06-03T21:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a show that could also have been titled Wally Grout is Grouse. Where did that word go? Before ...

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 3 from 2023-06-03T17:16

England v Ireland, Lord's Day 3: The Irish had some real fun at last. The match is over in three days but not before Mark Adair and Andy McBrine got to have one of their more enjoyable days with th...

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 2 from 2023-06-02T19:06:36

England v Ireland, Lord's Day 2: Catch your breath after that one. More than 350 runs in two sessions of batting, most of them off the blades of two players, each of whom set a record in his own wa...

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 1 from 2023-06-01T18:52:24

England v Ireland, Lord's Day 1: With very little surprise, we announce that it was a Stuart Broad Day. Not that the Irish didn't show some resistance, especially at the top with McCollum v McCullu...

The Final Word with ECB boss Richard Gould from 2023-06-01T05:01

Season 14, Episode 17: Running the ECB is one of the toughest gigs in cricket and one that Richard Gould signed up for when returning to the game this year. With a long history as CEO at Somerset a...

England Ireland Daily - Lord's preview from 2023-05-31T16:07

England v Ireland, Lord's Test 2023: It's almost upon us. The one-off Test at Lord's will repeat the fixture played before the Ashes of 2019, with Andrew Balbirnie's team ready to tackle England fr...

The Final Word's England adventure begins from 2023-05-31T05:25:10

Season 14, Episode 16: Geoff has landed in London and he's straight to Lord's to join Adam, who has just returned from Edinburgh where The Final Word runners did a brilliant job over the long weeke...

Story Time 138 – Influence of the male ejaculate on prezygotic barriers in field crickets from 2023-05-27T05:58

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a chance diversion takes us to Dr Erica Larson's work on insects. Adam's childhood dreams of B...

The Final Word with Gideon Haigh from 2023-05-25T07:02:35

Season 14, Episode 15: Ahead of his seventh tour to England, Gideon Haigh has been collecting his writings on the rivalry for a new book, On The Ashes. It's a good time to sit down in Melbourne wit...

Josh Hazlewood is the next bowler to fall from 2023-05-23T08:50

Season 14, Episode 14: Another week, another Ashes bowler in trouble: Josh Hazlewood only has "side soreness" according to CA, but we know how that has panned out for him lately. In the meantime, M...

Story Time 137 – Wild times in the Births, Deaths and Marriages registry from 2023-05-19T14:01

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Geoff and Bharat put their Serious Historian hats on to go trawling through Victorian public r...

How the BCCI plans to grab cricket's cash - with Osman Samiuddin from 2023-05-18T07:00:37

Season 14, Episode 13: Cricket is getting rich, which means the BCCI is getting richer. Over the last week a huge yet unsurprising story broke that India's board is angling to take a huge share of ...

Jofra Archer is out of the Ashes from 2023-05-17T05:35

Season 14, Episode 12: England's fast bowlers are going down. One by one, and all at once, in a familiar story ahead of the Ashes. What does Archer's future hold, four years on from his furious deb...

Story Time 136 – Anil Kumble: sex symbol from 2023-05-12T14:48

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's hat-tricks, the state upper house, and the Centenary Test... a couple of times. It's a tr...

The Final Word with Andrew Balbirnie from 2023-05-11T06:50:05

Season 14, Episode 11: Go back 20 years, and Irish cricket was considered a contradiction in terms. Now Ireland is one of the game's success stories, rising to Full Member status and trying to grow...

Ashes warm-ups are for squares from 2023-05-10T05:37:29

Season 14, Episode 10: Who needs to play tour matches before a major Test engagement, anyway? Its not like Australia's most recent tour was affected by a team taking time to adjust. Time to play ot...

Story Time 135 – Let's Get Physical from 2023-05-05T21:25:19

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, let's begin with the apocryphal contributions of Olivia Newton-John, and work our way down to ...

The Final Word with Dennis Amiss from 2023-05-04T06:00:40

Season 14, Episode 9: When it comes to the second half of the 20th century, few figures had a bigger influence on English cricket than Dennis Amiss. But those born in recent decades might not know ...

Wait... is England ditching The Hundred? from 2023-05-03T05:42

Season 14, Episode 8: Nick Hoult from the Telegraph leads this show, after a huge news week in England that includes suggestions from the top of the ECB of abandoning the new format and league that...

Story Time 134 – King George is dead from 2023-04-28T14:51

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with a coronation coming up, let's go back to the last time one was necessary. In step with th...

The Final Word with Peter Handscomb from 2023-04-27T05:46

Season 14, Episode 7: Victorian captain, back in the Test side for India, then not in the Ashes squad, Peter Handscomb's cricket career is still the proverbial rollercoaster. These days he is learn...

The Saudi move on cricket, with Daniel Brettig from 2023-04-26T04:47

Season 14, Episode 6: After our initial conversation last week about Saudi Arabia wanting to buy Indian cricket, it's time to talk to Daniel Brettig, who did some substantial reporting for The Age....

Story Time 133 – Happy Birthday, Sachin from 2023-04-24T07:30

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a very unusual Story Time. It's not the weekend. It's a Monday. But it's not just any Monday, ...

Story Time 132 – Caddick keeps up with the Kardashians from 2023-04-22T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a Story Time double is coming your way, so for the entree we have a round of revisits to finis...

Farewell, Faith Thomas from 2023-04-21T06:04

Season 14, Episode 5: Cricket farewelled someone truly special this week, Faith Thomas, who played a Test match in 1953 as Faith Coulthard when she became the first Indigenous woman to represent Au...

The 160th Wisden Cricketers' Almanack from 2023-04-19T16:46

Season 14, Episode 4: Four years ago, we sat with Lawrence Booth, the editor of cricket's bible, to discuss his most recent edition on the night that Geoff won the gong as Wisden's book of the year...

FairBreak Special - a truly good thing from 2023-04-18T17:52

Season 14, Ep 3: We're lucky to work on a lot of cricket around the world each year and never take that for granted. But what I (Adam here) didn't have on my radar until last year was a tournament ...

Story Time 131 – The worst run chase ever from 2023-04-15T22:17

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat Sundaresan makes his suggestion for most iconic commentary duo, we find out about Test ...

Choose a career in marketing, where words mean literally nothing! from 2023-04-13T22:35

Season 14, Ep 2: This week, some more exciting corporate nonsense from the cash-chasing division of the ICC, making up both milestones and meanings. All that we're asking for is Michael Bevan Day t...

Story Time 130 – In the pipe, five by five from 2023-04-10T02:52

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a couple of chunky revisits get mixed through the new numbers as we look at why so many Pakist...

All episodes should be recorded in castles from 2023-04-06T07:59

Season 14, Ep 1: It's a new season of The Final Word. More importantly, the Australian board has a new pay deal in place with huge significance for the women's game, and the English board has finis...

Story Time 129 – The varied children of Mr T from 2023-03-31T13:07

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a time when Zimbabwe ruled the world and Henry Olonga set it alight. Which of the great player...

The first big-money Women's Premier League is done from 2023-03-29T11:44

Season 13, Ep 29: This week, reporter Annesha Ghosh updates us about the WPL that she has spent the past few weeks watching more closely than anyone, after Harmanpreet Kaur's Mumbai Indians took do...

Story Time 128 - The big one (revisit special) from 2023-03-25T09:02

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. It isn't often that we breach the two-hour barrier, but this was worth it. A BUMPER revisits special with...

The many Prime Ministers of Eton are displeased from 2023-03-22T13:17

Season 13, Ep 28: This week, the MCC gets swarmed by Eton and Harrow fans , and Emma John joins the show to help explain this especially English toff barney. Before we get to that, Australia is sti...

Story Time 127 – Revenge at Wattle Flat from 2023-03-17T18:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a new record for single largest pledge provokes a ridiculous voyage into the obscurities of th...

Departure through the Gateway of India from 2023-03-16T08:19:24

Season 13, Ep 27: And with that, it was done. Ahmedabad receded into the distance. Mumbai vanished into the night. Those weeks were left behind. So we turn out attention to Bangladesh, where the Ti...

Story Time 126 – Australia's answer to C. B. Fry from 2023-03-14T16:04

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a host of sports betting enthusiasts get involved across a range of matches, there are some Dj...

India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 5 from 2023-03-13T11:54

India v Australia, Ahmedabad Day 5, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. The best thing we can say about that is, it is over. Day five was about as tedious as it promised to be, but luckily down in New Zea...

India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 4 from 2023-03-12T12:59

India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 4, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, and after people talking about it for three years, Kohli made a Test hundred. Not his toughest condition...

India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 3 from 2023-03-11T12:54

India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 3, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. A long day where the scoreboard won't suggest that much action, but the playing field begged to differ. Shubman Gill made a breakou...

India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 2 from 2023-03-10T12:51

India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 2, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, where Usman Khawaja batted his way to one of the longest innings ever played in India, and Cameron Green...

India Australia Daily - Ahmedabad Day 1 from 2023-03-09T12:33

India vs Australia, Ahmedabad Day 1, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. It's The Final Word Daily, coming from a deeply weird day where the Test match was taken over by politicians at the start of the da...

The Yorkshire hearings, with George Dobell from 2023-03-07T06:52

Season 13, Ep 26: With the ECB's hearing into Yorkshire's racism charges underway, we spend the second part of the show speaking to the reporter who has done more work on this story than any, The C...

Story Time 125 – Every Story Time host, everywhere, all at once from 2023-03-05T08:22

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. And this week it's a special. Geoff and Adam get together with our other hosts, Bharat Sundaresan and Dan...

India Australia Daily - the Indore aftermath from 2023-03-04T09:31

India vs Australia, Delhi Not Day 4: Another day four, another day of nothing happening. Except for press conferences and ICC ratings for the pitch, which was deemed no good. Adam and Bharat rake t...

India Australia Daily - Indore Day 3 from 2023-03-03T07:17

India vs Australia, Indore Day 3: It's The Final Word Daily. It's all over, before lunch on day three. That makes seven and a half days of cricket across three Test matches. But the kicker: the Aus...

India Australia Daily - Indore Day 2 from 2023-03-02T13:04

India vs Australia, Indore Day 2: It swung back and forth, it spun one way and another, and eventually another huge day of Test cricket came to an end. Handscomb and Green did some batting, Ashwin ...

India Australia Daily - Indore Day 1 from 2023-03-01T12:51

India vs Australia, Indore Day 1: After two massive batting collapses for Australia, the tables turned. India got bowled out for 109 after Australia's three spinners joined forces. But the pitch is...

India Australia Daily - Indore preview from 2023-02-28T12:49

India vs Australia, Indore Day 0: After a long break with some time to clear their heads, the Australians will approach Indore with some team changes, while India don't need to make any, but might ...

Five wickets in an over in Hobart, three World Cups in Cape Town from 2023-02-28T07:23

Season 13, Ep 25: While the Women's T20 World Cup final might have gone entirely as expected to complete a hat-trick, the domestic WNCL final did not - an astonishing game of cricket even before th...

T20 World Cup Daily: South Africa Australia women's final from 2023-02-26T19:26:43

2023 T20 Women's World Cup: After a short sharp tournament full of upsets and close calls, the final went to form. Not without some magic from Laura Wolvaardt and Chloe Tryon. Beth Mooney, Megan Sc...

Story Time 124 – The Olympic gold medal for kidnapping from 2023-02-25T09:45

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, one of the dodgiest characters we've yet had the pleasure to meet on the show, plus a one-day ...

T20 World Cup Daily: Australia India women's semi-final from 2023-02-23T20:16:03

India vs Australia again, but in the women's T20 World Cup semi in Cape Town. A day of brilliance for Jemima Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur, the usual high standards from Beth Mooney, and a coming-...

On racism far from home, with Andrew Wu&Bharat Sundaresan from 2023-02-23T08:52

Season 13, Ep 24: On his last trip to India covering cricket in 2017, Australian reporter Andrew Wu was surprised to be targeted by anti-Chinese abuse. On returning in 2023 he wrote about the exper...

Story Time 123 – Rage Against the Machine play the Greg Chappell Cricket Centre from 2023-02-22T04:25

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. In the grip of the Delhi Flu, Bharat Sundaresan nonetheless gamely tackles this late-night episode from I...

India Australia Daily - the Delhi aftermath from 2023-02-20T00:24

India vs Australia, Delhi Not Day 4: With the match done, Geoff and Bharat headed down to the ritzy Lalit Hotel to hear from head coach Andrew McDonald. What has gone so badly wrong for Australia i...

India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 3 from 2023-02-19T10:09

India vs Australia, Delhi Day 3: In a match that has gone in fast forward, the fastest forward was saved for the end. A historic collapse, 10 wickets for Jadejashwin, and the Australians turned int...

India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 2 from 2023-02-18T13:03

India vs Australia, Delhi Day 2: In the Test that just keeps giving, the match swung back and forth on the second day. Nathan Lyon had another day out, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin played ano...

India Australia Daily - Delhi Day 1 from 2023-02-17T12:40

India vs Australia, 2nd Test, Delhi Day 1: That was fun. A wild day of Test cricket, starting with an unexpected bouncer barrage, a reverse-sweep-a-thon, and two of the biggest brains in the game g...

India Australia Daily - Delhi preview from 2023-02-16T08:25

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Delhi: When you get the chance to record an episode at the Feroz Shah Kotla Fort, one of the most impressive ancient structures in India, why not? Adam has been scrutin...

Story Time 122 – Michael Atherton cooks you pork belly from 2023-02-15T06:49

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's finally time to get amongst the revisits, which means that this is a bumper show. Go for ...

The Final Word has got to go to India from 2023-02-13T07:26

Season 13, Ep 23: Coming to you at sunset from the old VCA ground in Nagpur, where Damien Martyn hit that six onto the press box roof in 2004, this is at last our first weekly show from India. The ...

The Final Word with Gary Kirsten from 2023-02-12T08:10

Season 13, Ep 22: The Nagpur Test is over early, so what better time to speak to the man who coached India to the 2011 World Cup, Gary Kirsten. He also took India and South Africa to No.1 in the Te...

India Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 3 from 2023-02-11T10:49

India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 3: They don't come much more comprehensive than that. India's lower order kept bringing the pain, having some fun for themselves at Australia's expense, befo...

India Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 2 from 2023-02-10T13:04

India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 2: There were five wickets on debut for Todd Murphy, but at the other end that Jadeja feller did it again. Find out about a tough and often brilliant second ...

India Australia Daily - Nagpur Day 1 from 2023-02-09T12:35

India v Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur Day 1: It's been a long build-up, but finally the contest began and the pitch was put to the test. As expected it was Australia up against things on a tough open...

Story Time 121 - Understudy to Bryan Brown from 2023-02-07T08:21

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Bharat is in Nagpur after some time in the nets in Bangalore, and Geoff is on the way to meet ...

Let Dane van Niekerk play from 2023-02-02T10:01

Season 13, Ep 21: It’s been a while, but the weekly show comes to you from Daniel Norcross’ front room in South London with Geoff having a brief spell before joining Adam in India next week for the...

Story Time 120 – The remarkable life of Enid Bakewell from 2023-01-28T18:41

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week Daniel Norcross returns to join Geoff for a long meander through bad beginnings. Plus a south L...

Running out the non-striker, with the MCC from 2023-01-27T02:41

Season 13, Ep 20: Because it remains very much the cricketing topic de jour, it's time for another visit to the non-striker's end to take off the bails. This week the Marylebone Cricket Club, as cu...

Round the world via Bridge on the River Kwai from 2023-01-25T05:10

Season 13, Ep 19: The cricket world was teeming this week, and so was our show. Everything from the Cherry Tree's first ever victory in Melbourne pub cricket to $100million for the Women's IPL. Rwa...

Afghanistan and fading hope from 2023-01-24T06:21

Season 13, Ep 18: A special episode. First we speak to Homaira Mershedi, Afghan community leader and veteran of humanitarian work, to get some sense of the current situation on the ground in Afghan...

The Test Part II, with director Adrian Brown from 2023-01-17T18:00

Season 13, Ep 17: With the second season of The Test documentary out in the world, Adrian Brown joins the show for a second time to talk through the differences and complexities of repeating the do...

Story Time 119 – The tale of Lord Ram and Bharat from 2023-01-14T17:34

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff on babysitting duty, and is the perfect guide through Indian myth...

Welcome to Peggy Antonio Collins from 2023-01-13T01:35

Season 13, Ep 16: Ok, that's not really her middle name (yet) but we're working on it. The Final Word family has grown by one. Who knew when we told that great story about 1930s leg-spinner Peggy A...

Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 5 from 2023-01-08T07:20

Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 5: It's all over! We watched the rain for four days but it was all worthwhile for this thrilling... draw. Oh well, what do you do? Luckily there were many fun m...

Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 4 from 2023-01-07T09:12

Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 4: After a full day of rain, we got back on the field again. Meaning we recorded the show again: on the politics of declaring near milestones, umpiring consiste...

Story Time 118 – The one we made while going into labour from 2023-01-06T07:17

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam's baby may be arriving before the end of the show, but podcasting has to be done. We have...

Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 2 from 2023-01-05T07:54

Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 2: Steve Smith day! Yet another one of them. The guy who just kept making hundreds has started being almost as relentless as he once was. Here was another, on t...

Australia South Africa Daily - Sydney Day 1 from 2023-01-04T09:15

Australia v South Africa, Sydney Day 1: Lots of rain, but a fair bit of cricket, and two life's constants were on show: Labuschagne runs, and Labuschagne luck. And eventually some bad luck too. The...

The Best&Worst of 2022 from 2022-12-31T05:06

Season 13, Ep 15: It's New Year's Eve! And as per Final Word tradition, we gather for a look back at the year that was. The good, the bad, the highs, the lows. It was an eventful one. Also this wee...

Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 4 from 2022-12-29T07:10

Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 4: It's all over, and so is the result of the series, with one match yet to play. Temba Bavuma had what you could call a mixed day, and at least South Africa...

Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 3 from 2022-12-28T08:21

Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 3: Some more Nortje snorters to start the day, but it turned into another long one for South Africa. A Test century for Alex Carey and some real surprises on...

Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 2 from 2022-12-27T09:21

Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 2: David Warner Day. Under pressure, stinking hot day, unbeaten double hundred. Just David Warner things. Also Nortje bowling fire, very few wickets but very...

Australia South Africa Daily - Melbourne Day 1 from 2022-12-26T08:47

Australia v South Africa, Melbourne Day 1: Big day, big occasion, and an effort that wasn't up to it. South Africa's batting fell over once again, but it was a special day for Cameron Green. With A...

Scott Boland, Unaarramin, and the Mullagh Medal from 2022-12-26T00:18

Season 13, Ep 14: A Boxing Day special. You may know that within three days in 2021, Scott Boland became the second Aboriginal man to play Test cricket for Australia, and then the first Australian ...

The Final Word Christmas with Simon Katich from 2022-12-24T02:42:27

Season 13, Ep 13: It's Christmas! And as is now tradition, we sit down for a long conversation with a person who we like and respect, and who has been a good friend to the show. Previous years had ...

Story Time 117 – Made in heaven from 2022-12-23T01:22

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a searing injustice with a divine tinge gets another look. As does one of the greatest of the ...

Riding the Test rollercoaster from Brisbane to Karachi from 2022-12-21T02:35:53

Season 13, Ep 12: An unexpected weekly show given the two-day Test, but we probably have to talk about the two-day Test. Also, English writer Cameron Ponsonby joins us from the hotel in Karachi whe...

Australia South Africa Daily - Brisbane Day 2 from 2022-12-18T08:04

Australia v South Africa, Brisbane Day 1: Two day Test! What the hell? We haven't seen one of those in Australia since 1931. Which we did not see personally. Wickets galore, 19 of them, and a wild ...

Australia South Africa Daily - Brisbane Day 1 from 2022-12-17T09:23

Australia v South Africa, Brisbane Day 1: What a day of Test cricket! South Africa were overwhelmed while batting, then fought back while bowling, either side of Travis Head producing another wild ...

Story Time 116 - Are we human or are we dancer? from 2022-12-16T08:40:46

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in Melbourne with Adam and Geoff sitting across the coffee table together, neither of us on the brin...

England back it up, Warner backs out from 2022-12-14T03:56

Season 13, Ep 11: A huge news week. England have done it again - another bonkers victory after careening like a 70s car chase through the second Test in Multan. Let's look at the carnage of the pas...

Story Time 115 – This episode is cursed from 2022-12-12T03:14:56

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Well, it's supposed to be weekly, when the forces of evil themselves don't conspire to destroy the entire...

Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 4 from 2022-12-11T08:01

Australia v West Indies Day 4 at Adelaide: Sadly, it was always going to be this way. The West Indies are a rabble and unless this is taken seriously by administrators across the world, they won't ...

Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 3 from 2022-12-10T12:54

Australia v West Indies Day 3 at Adelaide: A Scott Boland triple wicket maiden is it? Of course it is. Australia have set the West Indies 497 but all eyes are on the Victorian, who has his average ...

Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 2 from 2022-12-09T13:06

There was only one way Travis Head was getting out - run out. And so it was when cruising towards his first Test double. Australia still had the runs to declare when they wanted before taking four ...

Australia West Indies Daily - Adelaide Day 1 from 2022-12-08T13:56

Australia v West Indies Day 1 at Adelaide: It's Marnus yet again, a hat-trick of tons for him, this time against the pink ball. Meanwhile, Travis Head becomes the first South Australian to hit a Te...

The Final Word with Robert DiPierdomenico from 2022-12-07T09:12:03

Season 13, Ep 10: Yes, this is a cricket podcast and Dipper was a footballer - a mighty one at that. But at this time of year, we turn our attention to the MCG and each September for over a decade,...

Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 5 from 2022-12-04T08:07

Australia v West Indies Day 5 at Perth: the Australians notch a win to start the series after Nathan Lyon bagged six wickets. But it was not without some resistance from West Indies, notably Roston...

Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 4 from 2022-12-04T02:18

Australia v West Indies Day 4 at Perth, marked by twin tons for Marnus Labuschagne as his team set up a declaration, before Kraig Brathwaite made his first century against Australia. 20% off primo...

Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 3 from 2022-12-02T11:51

Day 3 at Perth, and Australia had to work hard against some dogged West Indies resistance. The hosts are still well on top though. 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20Send...

Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 2 from 2022-12-01T12:12

Day 2 of the Australian Test summer, and the run twins went absolutely crazy. But perhaps not everything will go Australia's way after a good West Indies response? 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.c...

Australia West Indies Daily - Perth Day 1 from 2022-11-30T11:48

Day 1 of the Australian Test summer, with a building West Indies team arriving in the city of Perth that their predecessors used to own. Catch up on everything you might have missed. 20% off primo...

'No cowards in the Australian cricket team' from 2022-11-29T19:07:06

Season 13, Ep 9: With Australia's Test summer against West Indies about to start, captain Pat Cummins had some strong answers to the inevitable questions about Justin Langer's past week of activity...

Story Time 114 – Rahul Dravid didn't want it bad enough from 2022-11-28T17:34

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the universe bends us unerringly back towards Rahul Dravid - but what was really his motivatio...

The Final Word with Sam Billings from 2022-11-22T03:19

Season 13, Ep 8: The day before the Melbourne ODI, England batter and sometime keeper Sam Billings sits down with us in the big seating bowl to talk life, opportunity, long road trips, posh schools...

Story Time 113 – Live from the bath from 2022-11-19T04:03

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we've never recorded a show in the bath before, so why not change things up? That was after st...

TFW Daily - Australia v England, Adelaide ODI from 2022-11-17T12:38

A bonus Daily! Our road trip ended in Adelaide, so we shot one more video show with Cam Fink which is also an audio show here. Australia and England played in the not very highly anticipated ODI se...

The triumph of the Pomborneit Bulls from 2022-11-16T15:22

Season 13, Ep 7: A lot to get through in a short time: he ICC sponsorship with crypto has collapsed along with the FTX exchange, Glenn Maxwell breaks his leg, David Warner talks about his future, t...

Story Time 112 – Hakuna Matata from 2022-11-15T00:13

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a show bumped from the weekend by the T20 World Cup final, it's time to explore what is a w...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 26, The Final from 2022-11-13T00:08

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you.  Today, England's men won their second T20 World Cup. Apologies for the audio quality - after tech problems at half...

T20 World Cup Daily 25: Previewing the final from 2022-11-12T05:50:26

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you.  It's time for the final! As long as the rain permits. We are back in Melbourne and ready to go, gathering some fri...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 24, India-England semi-final from 2022-11-10T12:30

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you.  Today, England cruised to the World Cup final after humiliating India in South Adelaide. Brought to you by CBUS Su...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 23, Pakistan-NZ semi-final from 2022-11-09T12:53

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you.  Today, Pakistan played superbly against New Zealand to secure a play in the final at MCG on Sunday. Brought to you...

Joining the JL protection racket from 2022-11-07T23:47

Season 13, Ep 6: As the Australians went out of the T20 World Cup last week, it was the chance that various Justin Langer allies in media jobs had been waiting for. Daniel Brettig of The Age joins ...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 22 from 2022-11-06T12:30

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you.  Today, Pakistan sealed a semi final spot after South Africa lost to the Netherlands, and India topped group 2. Bro...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 21 from 2022-11-05T12:56

Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England are through to the next stage after beating a resilient Sri Lanka side at the SCG. Brought to you b...

The Final Word with Jeremy Coney - part 1 from 2022-07-13T02:56

Season 12, Ep 14: He's always up for a chat, and there are few more interesting people to listen to than Jeremy Coney, who has a much bigger story beyond his time as New Zealand captain in their mo...

Story Time 92 – Alex Tudor and the perfect day out from 2022-06-11T01:28:31

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, a double DOB comes back to one piece of major dustiness. We pay tribute to the pioneers of Gue...

TFW Daily - England v NZ, Trent Bridge Day 1 from 2022-06-10T21:03

England won the toss and elected to bowl first in Nottingham. New Zealand put on a fine batting displaying, finishing the day 318/4. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this seri...

A window into Sri Lanka's unrest from 2022-06-07T22:24

Season 12, Ep 10: Sri Lankan writer Andrew Fidel Fernando and foreign correspondent Chris Barrett join the show for an update into what is happening with Sri Lanka's popular political unrest and ec...

England Daily - Lord's Day 4 from 2022-06-05T13:50:38

Joe Root carried England home with a brilliant century which helped him reach a major milestone – 10,000 test match runs. He is the 14th batter to join the club. The hosts are now 1-0 up in the ser...

England Daily - Lord's Day 3 from 2022-06-04T20:01:31

Ben Stokes and Joe Root's partnership boosts England's chances of winning the 1st test at Lord's. The hosts finished day 3 216/5 and need 61 runs to seal victory! The Final Word will be at every d...

England Daily - Lord's Day 2 from 2022-06-03T19:54:12

Wickets tumbled again. But a superb unbeaten partnership between Tom Blundell and Daryl Mitchell helped the Kiwis finish the day 236/4. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this ...

England Daily - Lord's Day 1 from 2022-06-02T20:59:19

England host New Zealand and on the first day the wickets tumble. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 3...

Greetings from Salmon Arm from 2022-05-31T22:12:29

Season 12, Ep 9: This week, world No1 bowler Sophie Ecclestone joins the show for an update on her busy career, including her recent stint in India. We have to confess that we didn't watch the men'...

Story Time 91 – The great Billy Murdoch fraud from 2022-05-27T15:19:39

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a giant fraud perpetrated upon an unsuspecting public. A club with claims to be the Dera Ismai...

The Final Word election special from 2022-05-25T10:12:29

Season 12, Ep 8: Always mix sport and politics, we say, so of course we had to start today's show with some reflections on Australia's federal election and the fact that a raft of dross has been wa...

Story Time 90 – Vote 1 Maxwell Sheffield from 2022-05-21T05:01:07

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, what a show this turned out to be. The Lion King returns, as does The Nanny, a fair bit of kar...

The Andrew Symonds Experience from 2022-05-19T07:16:45

Season 12, Ep 7: Another sad week for Australian cricket with the loss of Andrew Symonds, so we dialled in Queensland's own Robert Craddock, who watched that career from when Andrew was a brilliant...

Not Story Time – Bras and cricket from 2022-05-14T09:50:56

We're ready for Story Time but logistics got the better of us - back with cricket history next weekend. Instead, before Adam leaves Dubai, we thought it would be worth getting Associate Professor D...

Joe Clarke and cricket ethics from 2022-05-12T10:40:51

Season 12, Ep 6: Adam is roaming the Fairbreak International, bringing friends new and old onto the show: Brazil captain Roberta Moretti with her wicket-taker Laura Cardoso, Hong Kong player Mariko...

Story Time 89 – Bradman on the job from 2022-05-06T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, tales of thwarted ambition, tales of brief moments in the sun, and tales of lengthy honeymoons...

Inside gambling addiction, with Patrick Foster from 2022-05-05T03:26:24

Season 12, Ep 5: Some books come along that command our attention, like when friend of the show Will Macpherson helped former cricketer Patrick Foster write his tale. It's a story of 2 million poun...

Story Time 88 – The Invisible Invincible from 2022-04-30T10:35:39

It's Story Time, our skip through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This weekend, the second part of our high-speed revisit round where we happen upon the tale of a man who was the...

The Final Word with Anya Shrubsole from 2022-04-28T06:11:26

Season 12, Ep 4: After 14 years wearing the national uniform, England's swing magician has decided to call it a day. Anya Shrubsole will be remembered for plenty of highlights, but is also the kind...

Story Time 87 – Warwick Armstrong style from 2022-04-23T00:52:01

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's time to get dirty. The question is, with the pedal to the floor, just how many revisits c...

The 159th Wisden Cricketers' Almanack from 2022-04-20T21:35

Season 12, Ep 3: As is now tradition, here's our annual conversation with Lawrence Booth alongside the release of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 2022. As ever, it's a thoughtful, sharp and vit...

Out: Root, Shrubsole, du Preez. In: McDonald, Key. from 2022-04-20T06:13:23

Season 12, Ep 2: Geoff and Adam reunite after a big news week. Joe Root quit England's captaincy, Anya Shrubsole quit England's team, Andrew McDonald got his inevitable promotion, and Rob Key got a...

Story Time 86 – The Vengaboys are going to Sri Lanka from 2022-04-15T01:43:36

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Joining Geoff for your long trips on your Easter weekend, Bharat Sundaresan is back on the show before hi...

The Shires, Critchley for England, Branderson and fantasy from 2022-04-13T01:11:35

Season 12, Ep 1: Another season premiere! We go around for the twelfth time - can't and won't stop. With Geoff away (he's back next week), Daniel Norcross will play. And what better time for it wit...

Story Time 85 - Hayfever: a career-ending affliction from 2022-04-08T06:31:10

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross is back but in the chair for Geoff this time. And both he and Adam end up land...

It’s Australia, by a mile. Also: a new season arrives. from 2022-04-05T22:32:35

Season 11, Ep 23: With Geoff taking a break to chill out after the Pakistan trip, Daniel Norcross is back in the chair alongside Adam, recording in London as a new English season prepares to bloom....

Story Time 84 – The weighting of dice cricket from 2022-04-03T01:56:41

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross hops in to give Adam some recovery time, and perhaps not coincidentally the sh...

The Shoaib Akhtar seatbelt method from 2022-03-29T04:16:49

Season 11, Ep 22: We're back from Pakistan. Adam decidedly worse for wear after his car crash, but he'll still prop up on some cushions and record an ep of The Final Word. Can't stop, won't stop. T...

Story Time 83 – The last night in Pakistan from 2022-03-26T10:54

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's our last night in Pakistan, so there's a very special configuration: with Adam already on...

Pakistan Daily - Lahore Day 5 from 2022-03-25T13:37

Australia won the 3rd test against Pakistan, claiming the series 1-0.  The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The 30 ...

Pakistan Daily - Lahore Day 4 from 2022-03-24T15:01:44

Usman Khawaja performed on the big stage yet again, knocking a superb unbeaten century as Australia take control in the 3rd test in Lahore.  The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in ...

Pakistan Daily - Lahore Day 3 from 2022-03-23T13:56

Australia put on a fine performance on day 3, bowling out Pakistan for 268. The visitors avoided losing a wicket in the evening session, ending the day 11/0. The Final Word will be at every day of...

Pakistan Daily - Lahore Day 2 from 2022-03-22T14:20:23

Pakistan bowled out Australia for 391, and the hosts ended day two 90/1 in Lahore. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps d...

Pakistan Daily - Lahore Day 1 from 2022-03-21T13:51:03

Usman Khawaja just missed out on another century in Pakistan, hitting 91 runs. The hosts claimed 3 wickets in the evening session, leaving Australia 232/5 on day one in Lahore. The Final Word will...

The many marvels of digestion from 2022-03-18T07:00

Season 11, Ep 21: Coming live from the lush city of Lahore, it's another Final Word. The Karachi epic done with and there is one Pakistan-Australia Test to come. We talk about the experience of thi...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 5 from 2022-03-16T15:10

Babar Azam produced a career-best 196 under pressure as Pakistan snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat in the second Test against Australia. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket i...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 4 from 2022-03-15T16:42

Babar Azam and Abdullah Shafique stitched together an important partnership for Pakistan as they took the score to 192/2 at Stumps on Day 4, 314 runs needed for Pakistan to win on the final Day. T...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 3 from 2022-03-15T04:38

Moving Day arrived ahead of schedule, with a dramatic few hours of cricket. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing Th...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 2 from 2022-03-13T14:16

Australia frustrate Pakistan as they end the second day on 508/8 in Karachi. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing T...

Story Time 82 – Walking like a dude, feeling all cool from 2022-03-13T07:38:25

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, even when Bharat Sundaresan is not on the show he can create general hilarity by being in the ...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 1 from 2022-03-12T14:13

Usman Khawaja returned to his family's home city, finishing the day with an unbeaten 127, as Australia close day one 3-251. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with...

Pakistan Daily - Karachi Day 0 from 2022-03-11T22:06

Adam and Geoff preview the second Test from Karachi! The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, Th...

The Final Word on Shane Warne from 2022-03-11T07:21:18

Season 11, Ep 20: Farewell to the maestro. He could give us the irrits in the later years, but he created magic in a way that nobody else has done. He was one of us, and he was our cricketing child...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 5 from 2022-03-08T13:48:46

Day 5 of the Test match ended in a draw after both teams failed to bowl out each other. It's all square heading into the 2nd Test which starts on March 12th.  The Final Word will be at every day o...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 4 from 2022-03-07T14:00

Day 4 of the Test match saw Australia close play at 7-449, still 27 runs behind Pakistan. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at s...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 3 from 2022-03-06T14:18

Day 3 of the Test match saw a special opportunity for Usman Khawaja in the city of his birth.  The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 2 from 2022-03-05T20:09:23

Day 2 of the Test match, and the first day of Test cricket since 1969 without the great Shane Warne in the world. Pakistan offered no reprieve to Australia before bad light came in. The Final Word...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 1 from 2022-03-04T17:10

The series is underway, and it was the perfect start for the home side. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day...

The Final Word Pakistan Daily | Islamabad Day 0 from 2022-03-03T12:29

We're finally in Pakistan! Nobody fully expected this to happen but the Australian tour is going ahead. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geo...

The Final Word with Paul Kelly from 2022-03-03T07:37

Season 11, Ep 19: "His voice - sly and warm, laconic and sometimes frail - may be the closest thing we have to a national one." According to Robert Forster, that is Paul Kelly, whose music is well ...

Story Time 81 - The only good NFT is a No Frank Team from 2022-02-28T06:34

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a low-profile figure on the bold frontier of New Zealand cricket. The new middle initial grant...

The super-chic European cricket revolution from 2022-02-23T11:23

Season 11, Ep 18: Haven't you always wanted to see cricket on the stylish boulevards of gay Paris? Cricket near the Spanish beaches of Malaga? Cricket in the Norwegian snow or Belgian rain? It's ha...

Story Time 80 – Indian symmetry and the pursuit of ?U?d/? from 2022-02-18T22:10:07

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, time to delve into the scientific literature and figure out the formu...

The IPL mega auction and the Pakistan Super League from 2022-02-16T04:47:50

Season 11, Ep 17: Winnie turned two! Big news. Aside from that, when big things happen in T20 franchise cricket, we turn to Ben Jones. Because he watches more of it and remember...

Story Time 79 - The life and times of Colin Blythe from 2022-02-12T04:03:49

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, have we found the oldest Jodie Hicks of all? Have we found a rival fo...

The inevitable exit of Justin Langer from 2022-02-09T04:39:45

Season 11, Ep 16: Over a year ago, Cricket Australia knew they had an issue with Justin Langer. Instead of working out a respectful, dignified solution, they put off doing anyth...

Story Time 78 – The 4am revisit special from 2022-02-08T05:05:13

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we burn through a couple of months' worth of numbers that we didn't g...

Canberra magic, and the Langer story with Tom Morris from 2022-02-02T04:16:33

Season 11, Ep 15: After the wild Test finish in Canberra, it's time to look at what it might mean for women's cricket from here. After that, journalist Tom Morris joins the show...

Story Time 77 – The double and the double-double from 2022-02-01T03:41:55

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We're back in the swing of things, with the Australian summer's Test matches don...

The Final Word with Heather Knight from 2022-01-25T20:55:58

Season 11, Ep 14: The women's Ashes Test match is about to start, so we were very fortunate to sit down for an hour with England's captain Heather Knight. A chat about leadershi...

Final Word XI match in Sydney on the 26th from 2022-01-24T12:01:47

Hello all - a reminder for Sydney folk to come down to Birchgrove Oval near Balmain on Wednesday the 26th if you want to be part of some safe wholesome outdoor fun. A beautiful turf wicket by th...

Virat Kohli hands back the crown - with Harsha Bhogle from 2022-01-19T03:55:06

Season 11, Ep 13: It didn't seem like it would happen for years, but it happened quickly in the end. Virat Kohli is no longer India's captain in any format, resigning from the T...

Ashes Daily - Hobart Day 3 from 2022-01-16T16:55:25

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena

Another England batting collapse hands Australia a 4-0 Ashes victory. Hear about it all with Adam Coll...

Ashes Daily - Hobart Day 2 from 2022-01-15T13:58:58

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena

England were bowled out in a day...again. Australia lost 3 wickets in the evening, but lead by 152 run...

Ashes Daily - Hobart Day 1 from 2022-01-14T13:24:13

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena

England started the day on top, leaving Australia 3-12. But a superb century from Travis Head saved th...

Aotearoa is Tigerland as Rossco says goodbye from 2022-01-11T23:25:44

Season 11, Ep 12: While we were busy in Sydney, Test cricket was going off elsewhere. Bangladesh! Completed a magnificent win in New Zealand, which felt entirely more important ...

Ashes Daily - Sydney Day 5 from 2022-01-09T10:58:47

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 5 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

England held on to avoid an Ashes whitewash. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon...

Ashes Daily - Sydney Day 4 from 2022-01-08T09:34:52

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 4 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The Usman Khawaja show continued as he hit another century for Australia, giving them the upper ...

Ashes Daily - Sydney Day 3 from 2022-01-07T10:07:18

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

England managed to bat out the whole day. Jonny Bairstow will return to the crease on Day 4 afte...

Ashes Daily - Sydney Day 2 from 2022-01-06T10:05:43

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Usman Khawaja returned to the Australian side with a spectacular century at the SCG. Hear about ...

Ashes Daily - Sydney Day 1 from 2022-01-05T12:02:54

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The rain affected today's play, but England managed to grab two late Australian wickets before s...

Story Time 76 – A brand new year from 2022-01-03T02:24:51

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Hello, 2022! It begins as you might expect, with isolation and covid tests (as w...

The Best & Worst of 2021 from 2021-12-31T02:12:12

Season 11, Ep 11: And a happy new year. As we always do on December 31, The Final Word takes a look back at the year that was. Also, Australia won the Ashes. After England went ...

Ashes Daily - Melbourne Day 3 from 2021-12-28T04:48:40

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Well that was Quick! Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

Win your ...

Ashes Daily - Melbourne Day 2 from 2021-12-27T09:07:37

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

A day that started with drama and ended in drama. It was just one of those days in Ashes Cri...

Ashes Daily live recording in Melbourne tonight - come along from 2021-12-27T02:23:07

Geoff and Adam will be recording a live version of the Ashes Daily tonight, December 27, along with a few Brick Lane beverages. Come along, it's free and open and covid-safe rules will be followed....

Ashes Daily - Melbourne Day 1 from 2021-12-26T10:09:06

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

A cool and rainy day with some drama in the middle. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and G...

The Final Word Christmas with Michael Atherton from 2021-12-24T03:31:03

Season 11, Ep 10: Merry Christmas! As we love to do at this time of year, it's time to sit down for a long conversation with a much loved voice of the game. In years past we've ...

Story Time 75 – Booster shot blues from 2021-12-22T07:09:14

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam is recording under a blanket with booster chills, but: can't sto...

Ashes Daily - Adelaide Day 5 from 2021-12-20T12:41:10

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 5 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

A defiant Jos Buttler nearly helped England clinch a draw, but sadly his 258-minute stint at the crea...

Ashes Daily - Adelaide Day 4 from 2021-12-19T17:36:02

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 4 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

Australia need 6 wickets on day 5 to lead the series 2-0. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geo...

Ashes Daily - Adelaide Day 3 from 2021-12-18T12:42:53

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

Joe Root and Dawid Malan built another solid partnership but as soon as they went, so did England's h...

Ashes Daily - Adelaide Day 2 from 2021-12-17T12:34:29

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

England's woes continue in South Australia. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

Ashes Daily - Adelaide Day 1 from 2021-12-16T13:18:43

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

Australia is on top after some superb batting from David Warner & Marnus Labuschagne. England had...

The Adelaide reunion special - with Ali Martin from 2021-12-15T10:55:26

Season 11, Ep 9: At last, at last, we're back together. Adam, Winnie and Rach have met up with Geoff in the City of Churches, and it feels good to be recording in the same room ...

Story Time 74 – On the nature of death in the Buffy universe from 2021-12-12T00:12:42

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a sequence of unfortunate timing with some of our numbers - but here'...

Ashes Daily - Brisbane Day 4 from 2021-12-11T08:09:04

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the first Test at the Gabba.

It's all over on Day 4. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

Win your own ZOLEO sate...

Ashes Daily - Brisbane Day 3 from 2021-12-10T09:02:15

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the first Test at the Gabba.

England fight back after a stellar unbeaten 159-run partnership by Joe Root (86*) and David Malan (80*) at the...

Ashes Daily - Brisbane Day 2 from 2021-12-09T09:12:10

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the first Test at the Gabba.

Australia were head and shoulders above England at the Gabba today. Travis Head's superb century off 85 balls ...

Ashes Daily - Brisbane Day 1 from 2021-12-08T11:58:37

This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the first Test at the Gabba.

Safe to say that it was not England's day. Overcast skies, a bit of green in the pitch, and some fierce fast b...

The day of Ajaz Patel, and the last pre-Ashes show from 2021-12-07T00:06:02

Season 11, Ep 8: Thank providence, this is our last pre-Ashes show. No more predictions and speculation. Except for this week. The teams, the tactics, the insecurities. Some Mar...

Story Time 73 – On the discovery of yet another Marsh from 2021-12-03T23:01:39

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a partially hidden Marsh whose work we have never touched on before. ...

How the ICC screwed Thailand from 2021-12-01T03:35:57

Season 11, Ep 7: With a new COVID variant causing panic in the ranks, the ICC cancelled its Women's World Cup qualifier that was underway in Zimbabwe. But there will be no resch...

Story Time 72 – Laurie Nash and the hat-trick ball from 2021-11-27T00:29:50

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins the show once again as Adam (read, Winnie) deal...

Taking apart the Tim Paine story - with Daniel Brettig from 2021-11-25T08:37:14

Season 11, Ep 6: There was one main story this week: another Australian captain resigning, claims and counterclaims, and a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. We sit dow...

Story Time 71 – Oversized shorts and a filthy polo from 2021-11-20T11:46:20

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back from the hospital, stitched up and ready to run, here is the second part of...

The day Azeem Rafiq testified - with Taha Hashim and Nikesh Rughani from 2021-11-18T06:09:23

Season 11, Ep 5: Few bigger weeks for the show to return: this was the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a parliamentary hearing shook cricket in the UK, after years of him r...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 20 from 2021-11-14T20:47:07

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 20

Australia-New Zealand. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.

Australia, given little ...

Story Time 70 - Geoff fell off his bike again from 2021-11-13T09:13:53

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 70, we planned to clear the decks and get through ever revisit in a BUMPER...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 19 from 2021-11-11T19:40:57

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 19

Australia-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.

Australia have replicated N...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 18 from 2021-11-10T19:40:10

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 18

England-New Zealand. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.

Everybody expected England...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 16 from 2021-11-08T22:21:41

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 16

Pakistan-Scotland & New Zealand-Afghanistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Geoff Lemon & Daniel Norcross.

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 17 from 2021-11-08T18:37:30

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 17

India-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.

It didn't count for much but Ind...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 15 from 2021-11-06T19:44:04

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 15

England-South Africa & West Indies-Australia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Daniel Norcross & Izzy Westbury. Listen

Story Time 69 – Nice from 2021-11-05T18:50:32

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 69, it's time to follow the guidance of Missy Elliott: lay it down, flip i...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 14 from 2021-11-05T18:17:10

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 14

New Zealand-Namibia & Scotland-India. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross.

The...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 13 from 2021-11-04T19:15:27

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 13

Australia-Bangladesh & Sri Lanka-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 12 from 2021-11-03T20:17:11

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 12

New Zealand-Scotland & India-Afghanistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon

It t...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 11 from 2021-11-02T19:48:44

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 11

South Africa-Bangladesh & Pakistan-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Matt Ro...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 10 from 2021-11-01T20:21:40

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 10

And here is the blurb: Heartbreak for Hasaranga, as Buttler tons up and England do the apparently impossible: bat first and win. Oh, and Daniel waxes lyrica...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 9 from 2021-10-31T19:09:46

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 9

India-New Zealand & Afghanistan-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 8 from 2021-10-30T18:20:09

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 8

England-Australia & Sri Lanka-South Africa. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Daniel Norcross and Isabe...

Story Time 68 – Drug choppers in Hollywood from 2021-10-30T03:50:29

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, time to head back to Los Angeles and work out what the airspace is used f...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 7 from 2021-10-29T19:52:38

West Indies-Bangladesh & Afghanistan-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross.

The best day of the tournament s...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 6 from 2021-10-28T19:21:19

Sri Lanka-Australia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalwo...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 5 from 2021-10-27T18:50:38

England-Bangladesh. Scotland-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross. 

England in cruise control again, is it?...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 4 from 2021-10-26T19:01:54

Pakistan-New Zealand. South Africa-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.

They’re top of the group and have seen...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 3 from 2021-10-25T18:35:20

Afghanistan-Scotland. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross. 

Goodness me, what a performance. Afghanistan launched s...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 2 from 2021-10-24T18:55:26

Sri Lanka-Bangladesh and India-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins. 

Pakistan and India in World Cups - it ha...

T20 World Cup Daily: Day 1 from 2021-10-23T19:28:31

Australia-South Africa and England-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.

Australia took on South Africa in a low...

Story Time 67 – Hello, my name is Flooi du Toit from 2021-10-23T00:10:57

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, back to The Avenue nightclub in Perth, source of such good times. A flick...

Yes, it most certainly is a double hat-trick from 2021-10-20T04:42:12

Season 11, Ep 4: Four wickets in four balls. The talking point of the cricket week, after Curtis Campher did it for Ireland. Scotland also had a win after a huge comeback, so we...

Story Time 66 – The Gentlemen of Philadelphia from 2021-10-17T00:46:23

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, it's all about the city of Bruce Springsteen's song and Ben Simmons' nigh...

IPL finals and England squads: the Ben Jones analysis version from 2021-10-14T09:03:41

Season 11, Ep 3: We have a guest co-host! And it's IPL finals time. In that three of the finals have already happened, and the playoff for the title takes place 24 hours after t...

Story Time 65 – There has never been a Test match in Adelaide from 2021-10-07T20:45:56

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's learn about a whole lot of running without a lot of smiting, by the last p...

No, FFS, they won't cancel the Ashes from 2021-10-06T01:16:12

Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz, dragging themselv...

No, FFS, they won't cancel the Ashes - with Phillip Brown from 2021-10-05T13:41

Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz, dragging themselves from hibernation ...

Story Time 64 - The Dublin scorecard mystery from 2021-10-02T12:57:26

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, an early theme emerges with the West Indies and Ireland, leading us to a ...

26 wins and the end of cricket's longest streak from 2021-09-29T08:29:39

Season 11, Ep 1: It's the start of Season 11! And to kick it off, a huge omnibus show after a busy week in the game. We saw two all-time classics in the Australia-India women's ...

Story Time 63 – The best off-spinner in New Hampshire from 2021-09-26T04:41:23

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: another Daniel Norcross visit, as we find out the things of which he was a kee...

The Final Word with Maeva Douma from 2021-09-22T06:02:21

Season 10, Ep 22: She wowed the world last week with her four run-outs of the non-striker while bowling for Cameroon. Now she's chatting with The Final Word: a little bit shy, a...

Story Time 62 – The bumper comeback 10-wicket clearance show from 2021-09-17T07:12:44

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Adam is back properly, so we get stuck into the revisits that have been piling...

The Afghanistan dilemma from 2021-09-15T09:00:49

Season 10, Ep 21: Australia has cancelled on Afghanistan - not formally but in effect - to protest the Taliban's destructive attitudes to women. But identifying the right thing ...

Story Time 61 – Shane Warne's "sparkling green eyes and glittery grin" from 2021-09-11T06:30:10

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what could be better than Shane Warne describing Shane Warne? You're in for a ...

TFW Daily: Old Trafford Test cancelled but at least we got this cool book launch from 2021-09-10T14:15:47

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Listen

The week of watching You Guys Are History, with Emma John from 2021-09-08T09:15:11

Season 10, Ep 20: This week, Guardian writer Emma John joins the show to talk about her recent article drawing together interviews with many of the England team's Black crickete...

TFW Daily: Bumrah blasts out England - 4th Test, The Oval, Day 5 from 2021-09-06T17:32:33

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021, with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins. 

England came into the fifth day with one eye on a win. Instead, a rare Indian series ...

TFW Daily: Rishabh and Haseeb set up a classic - 4th Test, The Oval, Day 4 from 2021-09-05T19:56:17

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021

Another day that surged one way and then the other. An important partnership. Two quick wickets from a beautiful man. A counter...

TFW Daily: Rohit Sharma’s mad genius blooms - 4th Test, The Oval, Day 3 from 2021-09-04T18:18:28

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. With special guest Daniel Norcross.

Another tense and sometimes thrilling day, in the end defined by Rohit Sharma having made ...

Where in the world is Ravichandran Ashwin? - 4th Test, The Oval, Day 2 from 2021-09-03T19:11:48

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Listen

TFW Daily: Woakes and Shardul in crazy first day - 4th Test, The Oval, Day 1 from 2021-09-02T19:23:50

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

Do you like your Test matches in fast forward? Try 13 wickets on the first day, and the fastest half-century ever hit in...

The Double Don Sachin sandwich from 2021-09-01T09:13:34

Season 10, Ep 19: Happy Birthday Sachin is back in a big way, in a temporarily upside-down episode. There's a 7 in the morning now? The Australian summer is upside down, with th...

TFW Daily: Ollie Robinson is the new top dog - 3rd Test, Headingley, Day 4 from 2021-08-28T13:53:47

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

Virat Kohli made a fifty, then the third Test disappeared faster than a tray of sandwiches. Ollie Robinson has just begu...

TFW Daily: Pujara’s flawless counter - 3rd Test, Headingley, Day 3 from 2021-08-27T18:15:18

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

We might not have been expecting it, but someone walked out and looked a million dollars. KL Rahul has done good work in...

Story Time 60 – Red Stripe and Jamaican green from 2021-08-27T14:01:44

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: when Adam met some gentlemen in the Caribbean who were working to uphold the r...

TFW Daily: Root continues record run - 3rd Test, Headingley, Day 2 from 2021-08-26T18:27:50

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

He went from 41st on the list for runs in a year to 17th, in the space of a day. Test ton #23. And Joe Root has never ma...

TFW Daily: India demolished at Leeds - 3rd Test, Headingley, Day 1 from 2021-08-25T18:51:35

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

How quickly the world can change. India go from bowling victors on the last day at Lord’s to batting carnage on the firs...

Cricket and the Taliban from 2021-08-25T08:38:34

Season 10, Ep 18: It's far from the most important question facing the country. But given that Afghanistan's cricket team has been a consistent good-news story for the last coup...

The Final Word 59 - Rally round Rakheem, Clifford, and Jerome from 2021-08-22T02:37

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins with panache and aplomb. Sounds delicious...

Story Time 59 – Rally round Rakheem, Clifford, and Jerome from 2021-08-21T05:12:47

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins with panache and aplomb. Sounds delici...

The glory of a long fifth day from 2021-08-18T07:50:43

Season 10, Ep 17: Daniel Norcross joins the show this week, as Adam - for the first time in Final Word history - has a holiday. That allows Geoff and Dan to luxuriate in recalli...

TFW Daily: One of the great fifth days - 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 5 from 2021-08-16T20:30:51

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. They can win games with the ball, but with the bat? That was how the match at Lord’s ...

TFW Daily: Rishabh Pant holds the key with one day left - 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 4 from 2021-08-15T19:42:18

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Listen

TFW Daily: India vs Root in epic Test battle - 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 3 from 2021-08-14T20:22:46

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Listen

Story Time 58 – When Uncle Rod Marsh was king from 2021-08-14T08:21:39

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: someone who managed one sixtieth of a Test career, and someone who managed an ...

TFW Daily: Anderson takes five - 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 2 from 2021-08-13T21:04:25

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. 

The start of the day moved fast. Wickets early, inevitable counterattacking from Pant, and an Indian tail tha...

TFW Daily: KL Rahul gets on Lord’s honour board - 2nd Test, Lord’s, Day 1 from 2021-08-12T20:20:43

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Listen

The Final Word with John Doyle / Roy Slaven from 2021-08-11T07:56:43

Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the show, in a roun...

TFW Daily: Bumrah's wickets v Root’s ton - 1st Test, Nottingham, Day 4 from 2021-08-09T10:22:43

After all the waiting, Day 4 was a classic. Early strikes from India, dogged resistance from England, that blossomed into one of Joe Root’s best tons. Every time it looked like England might pul...

TFW Daily: Slogging from the tail - 1st Test, Nottingham, Day 3 from 2021-08-09T10:20:21

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Anothe...

Story Time 57 - The dusty old bastards club from 2021-08-09T10:02:48

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a faster episode because we're in the middle of a Test match, but that still l...

TFW Daily: Slogging from the tail - 1st Test, Nottingham, Day 3 from 2021-08-07T08:34

This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Another a...

TFW Daily: Kohli’s golden duck in collapse - 1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 2 from 2021-08-05T19:25

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. With play limited play by rain, there was still time for the Test to twist and turn. Jimmy Anderson is as young as ever, Ajinkya Rahane ...

TFW Daily: England rolled for 183 - 1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 1 from 2021-08-04T19:14

The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021.

Four seamers, big results. England chose to bat and India's quicks finished them off not long after tea. Only Joe Root stood again...

The Final Word with Felix White from 2021-08-04T13:14:21

Season 10, Ep 15: Most of were kids who dreamed of being rock stars. None of us had the single-minded determination to set about making it happen. Felix did, taking a bunch...

Story Time 56 – Yeah Nawab from 2021-07-30T20:55

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Nawabs come in all shapes and sizes. We respect them all. Or do we? There's also one of Adam's ...

Betting the house on The Hundred from 2021-07-29T11:14

Season 10, Ep 14: Like it, hate it, or ignore it, The Hundred is... hunderway? The stakes are high. The bills are high. So is the risk of a stumble. Henry Moeran has been watchi...

The Final Word community page is live from 2021-07-26T14:42

A mini-episode to let people know about our Discord server, which is basically a website where listeners to the show can hang out. It's a bit like the old-school chat boards with different pages...

Story Time 55 – Dion Nash invents the scoop from 2021-07-23T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: more proof of the compelling case that the one-day tri-series must return. An understated and u...

The Final Word with Clare Connor from 2021-07-22T10:58

Season 10, Ep 13: From captaining boys' under-10s to captaining England goes the story. But retiring as a player brought much more. By now it's fair to say that no one person ha...

Story Time 54 – The Shaun Marsh glory days from 2021-07-16T17:27

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a time when it all happened with ease for the Son of Swamp. And a time when Swamp himself didn'...

Justin Langer and the spiral of confusion from 2021-07-14T12:57

Season 10, Ep 12: It can be hard to follow Justin Langer's line of logic. The Australian men's coach has an extempore media style that over time can veer into inconsistency. Aft...

Story Time 53 – The world's best Tinder profile from 2021-07-09T14:35

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: there's something about doctors and cricket, they just keep coming up. We try to measure up to ...

Ben Stokes and The Replacements from 2021-07-08T04:02

Season 10, Ep 11: Remember when England's whole team got COVID? Or something like that, we're not big on detail. That's why we've got Will Macpherson on the show to tell us abou...

Story Time 52 – Chocolate Starfish live at the Hallam Hotel from 2021-07-02T16:05

Story Time is back, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the coolest band name of Adam's youth makes an unexpected appearance. We crunch some numbers...

Slow over rates, fixed once and for all from 2021-06-30T08:26

Season 10, Ep 10: After much hand-wringing from us over poor over rates, the time has come to step back from the flame and take a closer look at what is happening, why it is hap...

Solving the World Test Championship from 2021-06-25T10:42

Season 10, Ep 9: WTC #1 has been run and won, done and done, New Zealand are one from one. The next instalment has the same structure, but from 2023 things could change up. So a...

TFW Daily: New Zealand win big at long last, on WTC Day 6 from 2021-06-24T04:44

They've done it: after a lot of near misses, the New Zealanders have won a major trophy. A historic one, too, in the first ever World Test Championship. A lot needed to go right for them on the ...

TFW Daily: Shami & Williamson fight with one day to go, WTC Day 5 from 2021-06-22T20:16

Yet another excellent day of Test cricket, with a gripping battle between bat and ball all through the morning session. The advantage swung from one team to the other. Kane Williamson produced a...

TFW Daily: Jamieson rolls India before Ishant hits back from 2021-06-20T21:34

Another gripping day that again ended prematurely thanks to bad light. Kyle Jamieson set a Test record with another five-wicket haul, up against some fight from Ajinkya Rahane and Ravichandran A...

TFW Daily: India Women save Day 4, Kohli battles on WTC Day 2 from 2021-06-20T05:46

What a rearguard, what a fight. Sneh Rana, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma were all among the stars as India fought back from following on to save the Test against ...

TFW Daily: World Test Champs Day 1, England India Day 3 from 2021-06-18T20:11

We got one XI, we didn't get the other XI, and we didn't get a toss. Not much to report on after all the build-up to the match at Southampton. Lucky it goes for six days. Across the country thou...

World Test Champs and making change for women in India from 2021-06-18T05:29

Season 10, Ep 8: Snehal Pradhan joins the show this week - the former India bowler has become an advocate for women in India, and co-wrote the the report An Equal Hue on the pro...

TFW Daily: England v India Women, Bristol Day 2 from 2021-06-17T23:51

What a breakneck day. First it was England's tailenders swinging the cue with help from Sophia Dunkley. Then it was another player on debut, Shafali Verma, coming within one big hit of a Test ce...

TFW Daily: England v India Women, Bristol Day 1 from 2021-06-17T07:33

It started fast, with Lauren Winfield-Hill launching sixes over the leg side and Tammy Beaumont playing strokemaker as ever. Heather Knight nearly made a ton, Natalie Sciver was in a bombastic m...

TFW Daily: England NZ, Edgbaston Day 4 from 2021-06-13T14:19

The formalities were completed, and now New Zealand head into the World Test Championship final on a winning note. But which of their many bowling options will each team choose? Bumrah, Ishant, ...

Story Time 51 – Geoff learns algebra from 2021-06-13T00:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: back to the Smokers v Non-Smokers match for a minute, via a trip to the West Country. An all-ti...

TFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 3 from 2021-06-12T20:40

The fortress didn't last for long. Day 3 featured another English batting collapse, too modest to even be especially dramatic, brought on by persistent quality from New Zealand's bowlers. The Ki...

TFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 2 from 2021-06-12T01:37

Mark Wood had some fun with the bat as England surged on to 303, and Broad got Tom Latham out early. From then on, things stopped going England's way. Dropped catches, overruled appeals, and a l...

TFW Daily: 2nd Test, England NZ, Day 1 from 2021-06-11T07:14

A proper twisting turning day of Test cricket started this match off, with a arm wrestle of a first session, a run of wickets in the second, and some tail-end fighting back in the third. England...

Robinson and racism, with Vithushan Ehantharajah from 2021-06-09T05:38

Season 10, Ep 7: Vish joins the show in a busy week in England after Ollie Robinson was suspended following his Test debut. We talk through the purpose of his suspension, his hi...

TFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 5 from 2021-06-07T13:08

New Zealand set up the Test match beautifully on Day 5 at Lord's but England refused to play ball. What gives? Ollie Robinson is out, and the draw leaves plenty of questions about who will featu...

TFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 4 from 2021-06-05T20:15

What a tussle on the fourth day. Tim Southee finished with six wickets, Rory Burns finished with his best Test century, and England finished up just over a hundred runs behind on the first innin...

Story Time 50 – A gentle wave of the bat from 2021-06-04T18:14

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: raise the bat. 50 episodes of this indulgence are somehow in the bag. We'll have both Mad Dogs ...

TFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 2 from 2021-06-03T20:43

He resumed the day on 136 and just kept going. But not everything was Conway's way. Mark Wood started a speed spell for England, and the match rattled and rolled. Then came Neil Wagner to add so...

TFW Daily: 1st Test, England NZ, Day 1 from 2021-06-02T22:21

Win the toss, bat first, and make a ton. It couldn't be easier for Devon Conway, who is unbeaten overnight with the highest score ever made on debut at Lord's. England went with an interesting b...

Boom Boom boom boom, I want Shahid Afridi in my room from 2021-06-02T06:08

Season 10, Ep 6: Daniel Brettig joins the show to discuss Cricket Australia's new and old appointment as CEO, as well as Dan's own appointment at The Age. We look at a crazy yea...

Story Time 49 – The Brisbane Line and the Barassi Line from 2021-05-28T16:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a trip across Australia's lines from the Brisbane to the Barassi. Some cryptic stuff about numb...

Stevo for England! with Darren Stevens from 2021-05-26T06:55

Season 10, Ep 5: Is he the first live-streaming superstar? The cricket world turned to a dodgy video feed from a gale-struck Canterbury as Darren Stevens produced one of the mor...

Story Time 48 – The hardest shot of all from 2021-05-21T16:38

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the innings that even Robelinda agrees could have been the best of all. A player with the same ...

Jeeeesus, it's sandpaper again from 2021-05-19T07:35

Season 10, Ep 4: Horror movies teach us that if you don't nail the monster properly, it always comes back. Australia's ball-tampering story was never buried properly the fi...

Story Time 47 – Finding your place on the hangover scale from 2021-05-15T02:55

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: how to rate a big day on the field against the big night preceding it. A look ...

The Final Word with David Bumble Lloyd from 2021-05-12T09:35

Season 10, Ep 3: This week on The Final Word, a long and uplifting conversation with a man who really has done it all in the professional game across nearly six decades, known a...

Story Time 46 – The ol' wozzler from 2021-05-08T07:25

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a Dusty Old Bastard with a very particular trick. A deep dive into some of the finest slow merc...

The Final Word with Eleanor Oldroyd from 2021-05-05T07:59:58

Season 10, Ep 2: The IPL has been cancelled, Sri Lanka won a Test series, and there was a bonkers county round. But honestly all we really want to do this week is hang out and c...

Story Time 45 – You can't play cricket with the clap from 2021-04-30T17:41

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll go from what kept Wally Hammond away from the game in 1926 onto Joe Denly's football career. ...

Story Time 45 – You can't play cricket with the clap from 2021-04-30T17:41

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll go from what kept Wally Hammond away from the game in 1926 onto Joe Denly's football caree...

Glenn Maxwell's IPL – The borders have closed from 2021-04-29T17:09:18

We didn't think it would come to this. By Week 4 of the IPL, Australia's government has barred flights from India until at least the middle of May. With several teammates having headed home just...

India's deepening disaster, with Karunya Keshav from 2021-04-28T06:42

Season 10, Ep 1: This week Karunya Keshav wrote fiercely about the deafness of the Indian Premier League to the suffering outside its gates. She joins the show to explain the hu...

Story Time 44 – Ravi Shastri goes nuclear from 2021-04-23T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: an alliterative match whose final day was unexpectedly spectacular. The only player with a perf...

Glenn Maxwell's IPL – The move to Mumbai from 2021-04-22T10:25:58

It's Week 3 of our series with Glenn Maxwell, India correspondent, as he takes us through the move from Chennai to Mumbai, and the increasing worry for players and teams about everybody facing a...

The Nanny is filmed in front of a live studio audience from 2021-04-21T12:07

Season 9, Ep 30: The last show of Season 9, recorded on 420 day, on which we decide to let a live audience pile in via the Patreon page to watch the thing get made over video ca...

Story Time 43 – How to get fired as the drummer from KISS from 2021-04-16T19:00

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a number that has nothing to do with Stumpy Laird, and a number that has nothing to do with eit...

Glenn Maxwell's IPL – The wins in Week 2 from 2021-04-16T03:21

Disregard the parts about St Kilda hoping to win a match – that soon went a different way. But otherwise it was a great day to hear from Glenn Maxwell after two influential innings to help...

The Final Word reviews the Wisden Almanack 2021 from 2021-04-14T21:30

Season 9, Ep 29: It's that time again: the new Wisden Almanack time. In what has now become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we've sat down with...

Story Time 42 – Selfish batting from 2021-04-10T06:44

We're busy recruiting for our tours to Brazil and Pakistan when (hopefully) the planet allows for such a thing in 2022: on The Final Word, we Dera to Dream. From there, straight into ou...

Glenn Maxwell, India correspondent from 2021-04-08T11:16

It happened. Since the IPL is a biosecure fortress in 2021, we've got a contact on the inside. Glenn Maxwell, who is bunkered down at the Royal Challengers Bangalore hotel with his fiancee Vini,...

The Final Word with Tim Murtagh from 2021-04-07T07:39:40

Season 9, Ep 28: Tiger Tim of Ireland has quite the story. From bowling the first ball in Irish Test cricket, to triumphs with Middlesex, to missing out on World Cups by agonisi...

Story Time 41 – Three days in no-man's land from 2021-04-02T15:45

Light and shade, in cricket as it is in life. So, on Story Time this weekend, learn about the batsman who spent three days presumed dead in no-man's-land only to become an unexpected Test cricketer...

Story Time 41 – Three days in no-man's land from 2021-04-02T15:45

Light and shade, in cricket as it is in life. So, on Story Time this weekend, learn about the batsman who spent three days presumed dead in no-man's-land only to become an unexpected Test cricke...

Microwave stops play from 2021-03-31T05:24:01

Season 9, Ep 27: Steve Smith wants back in as Australian captain. Over in New Zealand, is it Jeff Jeff or Microwave Jeff? A West Indies classic plays out in Antigua, and there's...

Story Time 40 - Ruthless, perhaps, but necessary from 2021-03-26T17:58

(Language warning near the end of this show.) From deep inside the spreadsheets of cricket's past comes another edition of Story Time. This weekend, settle in to hear about when the USA fronted ...

William Wallace gets the Irish onside from 2021-03-24T06:41

Season 9, Ep 26: In the early years of the colony, Irish politics were very much Australian politics. Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter, Catholics and Protestants brawled in...

Story Time 39 – David Boon on the 8 Mile from 2021-03-19T18:00

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what happens when Boony's biggest secret is revealed? Who slides into the Old Spinner category late in the piece...

The Final Word goes to Brazil from 2021-03-17T05:18

Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 women recently won the country's first central contracts. But the game has been afoot in Bra...

Story Time 38 – The Dera Ismail Khan disco from 2021-03-13T01:48

Here is perhaps the greatest tale we have yet told on Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener challenges. Get ready to learn about the disco to end all discos, and ...

The Final Word with Mark Butcher from 2021-03-10T10:38

Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests behind the micropho...

Story Time 37 – Charlie Parker, jazz communist from 2021-03-07T00:49

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll visit a walk-up start for the Clem Hill Defenestration Club, one Charlie Parker. Go via the president of th...

The India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 3 from 2021-03-06T13:00:55

Day 3 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort ...

The India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 2 from 2021-03-05T15:13:56

Day 2 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort ...

The India-England Daily – Fourth Test, Day 1 from 2021-03-04T13:31:29

Day 1 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort ...

Somebody please beat the Breakers from 2021-03-03T11:15

Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back and forth over the Tasman for ...

Story Time 36 – Dr Quiney, Medicine Woman from 2021-02-28T04:30:06

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Rob Quiney, healer of seagulls, was there anything he couldn't do? How are 229 and 257 the first and second reco...

The India-England Daily – Third Test, Day 2 from 2021-02-25T17:19:52

Day 2 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort t...

The India-England Daily – Third Test, Day 1 from 2021-02-24T19:10:39

Day 1 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort t...

Farewell to the Dan O'Connell Cricket Club from 2021-02-23T06:07

Season 9, Ep 22: A busy cricket week, aside from the final match in the Yarra Pub Cricket Association for the storied DOCCC (est. 2007). We also look at the mess of messaging fr...

Story Time 35 – Keys in the bowl from 2021-02-20T01:02

It's time for some spicy group action, on our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. This week we have the Jones-Off of '88, a bunch of Test dads, the 10-day ma...

Test cricket's pitch politics – below the surface from 2021-02-17T07:06

Season 9, Ep 21: Now the dust has settled in Chennai, we try to strip the parochial from the practical on the broader subject of pitch preparation, and figure out what the vario...

The India-England Daily – Second Test, Day 4 from 2021-02-16T08:55:50

Day 4 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nom...

The India-England Daily – Second Test, Day 3 from 2021-02-15T13:16:50

Day 3 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nom...

The India-England Daily – Second Test, Day 2 from 2021-02-14T12:43:53

Day 2 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nom...

Story Time 34 – Javert's hunt for Jean Valjean from 2021-02-14T03:21:58

The game is afoot! Our long-time quarry Rob O'Neill is back with another twisting, turning number designed to push Geoff to the brink of madness. Will Prisoner 24601 succeed? This is our weekly ...

The India-England Daily – Second Test, Day 1 from 2021-02-13T14:00:51

Day 1 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nom...

Caught Collins, bowled Brereton from 2021-02-11T05:47:34

Season 9, Ep 20: Featuring Damien Fleming, Dermott Brereton, and Adam White in guest spots, this week's episode comes direct from the Media XI cricket match against the MCC. In ...

The India-England Daily – First Test, Day 5 from 2021-02-09T11:15

Day 5 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nomi...

The India-England Daily – First Test, Day 4 from 2021-02-08T14:12:36

Day 4 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nomi...

The India-England Daily – First Test, Day 3 from 2021-02-07T14:34

Day 3 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nomi...

Story Time 33 from 2021-02-06T19:00

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. In a compact episode with some revisits left to future eps, we'll find out many relations or people with the same fir...

The India-England Daily – First Test, Day 2 from 2021-02-06T14:00:13

Day 2 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nomi...

The India-England Daily – First Test, Day 1 from 2021-02-05T14:20

Day 1 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day's action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nomi...

England gets ready while Australia bails from 2021-02-04T05:29

Season 9, Ep 19: Australia's tour to South Africa is off, just as England's Tests in India are about to begin. With three weeks to go, CA has chalked up another cancellation. Re...

Story Time 32 – The feats of Cam the Cameraman from 2021-02-01T05:22

A little late due to squad illness and injury, but here we are: the weekly walk through cricket history via the means of listener quiz numbers. Start out by learning about our own Cam the Camera...

The January 26 problem from 2021-01-27T05:56

Season 9, Ep 18: "How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle / To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?" So goes the A.B. Originals song January 26. This year Cricket Au...

Story Time 31 – a tribute to Julios from 2021-01-24T03:21

We spend a lot of time talking about our Nerds. But this weekend on Story Time, we pay tribute to our Julios. After that, we get to work solving the puzzles that have stumped us over the Ch...

The Final Word with Marcus Stoinis from 2021-01-20T05:36

Season 9, Ep 17: Sometimes an interview comes along that knocks our socks off. We all think that we know Marcus Stoinis: the big smile, the big sixes, the cheekiness, the time i...

India Daily - Brisbane Day 5 from 2021-01-19T09:21

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.

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India Daily - Brisbane Day 4 from 2021-01-18T09:12

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.

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India Daily - Brisbane Day 3 from 2021-01-17T09:05

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.

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India Daily - Brisbane Day 2 from 2021-01-16T08:16

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 2 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.

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India Daily - Brisbane Day 1 from 2021-01-15T09:43

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 1 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.

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Steve Smith's scuff and nonsense from 2021-01-13T10:19

Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show we go into the de...

India Daily - Sydney Day 5 from 2021-01-11T09:25

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG.

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India Daily - Sydney Day 4 from 2021-01-10T08:19

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG.

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Story Time 30, the bumper 2021 beginning from 2021-01-09T22:25

New year, new me. This is 2021's first Story Time, our dance through the history of cricket. This week returns to our favourite defenestrator, the most important runs in a run of five draws, and...

India Daily - Sydney Day 3 from 2021-01-09T08:49

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG.

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India Daily - Sydney Day 2 from 2021-01-08T09:28

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 2 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG.

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India Daily - Sydney Day 1 from 2021-01-07T09:18

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 1 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG.

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The Final Word with Stuart MacGill from 2021-01-06T03:59

Season 9, Ep 15: Few bowlers have enjoyed playing at Sydney more that Stuart&...

The Final Word New Year – Best & Worst of 2020 from 2020-12-31T02:48

Season 9, Ep 14: Happy New Year! Load up your glasses and turn on the show in the final hours of one year or the fresh ones of the next. The terrible times of 2020 are behind us...

India Daily - Melbourne Day 4 from 2020-12-29T05:11

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 2nd Test, Australia v India, from the MCG.

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India Daily - Melbourne Day 3 from 2020-12-28T08:23

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 2nd Test, Australia v India, from the MCG.

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India Daily - Melbourne Day 2 from 2020-12-27T08:08

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 2nd day of the 2nd Test from The MCG

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India Daily - Melbourne Day 1 from 2020-12-26T08:36

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 1st day of the 2nd Test from The MCG

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The Final Word Christmas with Jim Maxwell from 2020-12-23T04:19

Season 9, Ep 13: At Christmas time, we like to sit down for a long chat with someone well loved by The Final Word. The first time was Harsha, last year was Mel Jones, and this t...

Story Time 29, plus Lisa Sthalekar on commentary from 2020-12-20T07:00

Story Time is our weekly walk through cricket history. Jim Swanton had a hymn that he liked to sing, but you'll never guess why. What about identifying the Godfather of Durham? John didn't spell...

India Daily - Adelaide Day 3 from 2020-12-19T09:29

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 3rd day of the 1st Test from Adelaide Oval

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India Daily - Adelaide Day 2 from 2020-12-18T13:05

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 2nd day of the 1st Test from Adelaide Oval

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India Daily - Adelaide Day 1 from 2020-12-17T12:56

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 1st day of the 1st test from Adelaide Oval

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India Daily – Test series preview from 2020-12-16T07:16

Australia is hosting India for four Tests for the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Geoff and Adam bring you up to speed the day before the first Test starting in Adelaide.

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The Final Word with Dawid Malan from 2020-12-15T08:42

Season 9, Ep 12: There's never been a higher ranked international T20 batsman than Dawid Malan and it just so happens to be that he is quarantining down th...

Story Time 28, plus Adam Mountford on the future of commentary from 2020-12-12T05:50

Another weekend, more stories – this time with a strong Australia v India theme ahead of the Test series. What's Geoff's Angel Number? When was the only time a ten-for was taken in the&nbs...

The Comeback Summer – Geoff's new book from 2020-12-09T03:07:18

Season 9, Ep 11: First up this week listen out for an Urthboy giveaway. Geoff's new book is in shops across Australia and the UK, so we'll roleplay an interview. And so much cri...

Story Time 27, plus Andy Zaltzman on scoring from 2020-12-05T06:26

This weekend The Final Word time machine takes us to visit Jack Ryder and Clem Hill, triple tons and prison. Also, a Sussex mainstay who couldn't stop and wouldn't stop. We solve the Venn Diagra...

Glenn Maxwell mayhem & 150 years of women's cricket from 2020-12-01T07:18

Season 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the Finch-Warner partner...

Story Time 26, plus Vic Marks on Test Match Special from 2020-11-28T07:36

All roads lead back to the 1909 Ashes on Story Time of late, and why wouldn't we want to visit again via Charlie McCartney's tweak? That man is still firing 12 years later, a series that include...

The Final Word with Peter Siddle from 2020-11-24T13:20:24

Season 9, Ep 9: On his birthday! This episode is in fact released on Peter Siddle's birthday, and on the 10th anniversary of that birthday hat-trick. The day is now one of sadne...

Story Time 25, with Harsha Bhogle on India’s TV revolution from 2020-11-21T00:47

How the Sheffield Shield came to be, Stan McCabe's sculpture and one of the more curious Test careers. That's where we begin on this weekend's Story Time deep dive. Also, Marcus Trescothick...

Jasprit Bumrah arrives by parachute from 2020-11-18T19:25:18

Season 9, Ep 8: Australia's Test season faces new turmoil, with any means necessary being considered to deploy cricketers across the length and breadth of the continent. The WBB...

Story Time 24, plus Jonathan Agnew from 2020-11-14T05:17:17

The weekend means history on The Final Word, going as far back as the 1899 Ashes (a couple of times), via a couple of early Indian greats to Justin Langer's birthday and Bill Bowes' grandson. Al...

I want to rock all night and attend the Sheffield Shield every day from 2020-11-11T07:44

Season 9, Ep 7: Final Word friend Bharat Sundaresan has spent the past month in Adelaide rocking out at the First Annual Sheffield Shield Party Carnival Fiesta. He joins us to f...

TFW Live with Stuart MacGill, this Thursday from 2020-11-09T11:09:26

Don't forget, this Thursday is our Final Word Live show online with Stuart MacGill.

The biggest turner of the ball the game has seen, an exhilarating operator, with 208 Test wickets, the s...

Story Time 23, plus Jarrod Kimber from 2020-11-07T02:22

This week our history wander takes in the famous 1960-61 West Indies tour of Australia, two different times that Zimbabwe finished with scores level, some very cryptic clues, the bird with the l...

Cricket and BLM, with Ebony Rainford-Brent from 2020-11-04T06:47

Season 9, Ep 6: Our first long interview in 2020 was with Ebony Rainford-Brent, when the world looked very different. Nine months on, the former England player has been a promin...

Story Time 22, with Dan Liebke from 2020-10-31T03:34

Another weekend with the world in flux, another edition of Story Time to take you back to a happier time, deep within the belly of cricket history. From the Battle of the Ridge to some of Lancas...

Sacking South Africa, with Lungani Zama from 2020-10-28T06:00

Season 9, Ep 5: This week, the entire board at Cricket South Africa finally gave in to outside pressure and resigned. The extent of wrongdoing via a recent financial invest...

Story Time 21, plus Tim Wigmore’s new book from 2020-10-23T21:48

For the footy fans in our ranks, it is Grand Final weekend! Geoff can't be in Brisbane to watch his beloved Cats play off for the flag, in Sydney instead to call the WBBL. But before he turns to...

The T20 Disease, with Jarrod Kimber from 2020-10-21T21:45

Season 9, Ep 4: Last week we had the positives of T20 with the IPL up and firing. This week we're looking at the downsides of the many other leagues, a newly developed Wild...

NEW POD: The Bad Read from 2020-10-18T19:00

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Story Time 20, with Wil Anderson encore from 2020-10-16T23:48

Wil Anderson has been one of our biggest supporters and our interview with him was one of our most fun. Beforehand, fill your boots with cricket history – a strong Welsh theme, as well as ...

Into the IPL, with Ben Jones from 2020-10-14T09:16

Season 9, Ep 3: It's the halfway point of the Indian Premier League, the time when you can start to see the trends, the patterns, the improvers, the declines. This week we get T...

Story Time 19, with Gerard Whateley encore from 2020-10-10T07:35

It's Story Time, where we wander through the history of the game. This week, Slasher Mackay's less noted strength, the highs of cricket in Florida, why the 2010-11 Ashes didn't matter, what Emil...

Smithy, get the guitar from 2020-10-07T05:57

Season 9, Ep 2: Steve Smith is giving out free love on the free love highway and good on him for it. Something about those Dubai hotel rooms. In the same part of the w...

Story Time 18, with James Pattinson encore from 2020-10-03T00:29

Gather round. It's that time again, where we take you down the winding road of cricket history – it's weekend Story Time on The Final Word! Check in to learn a thing or two about Jack...

The Batmobile, Bob Willis, and summer Down Under from 2020-09-30T07:32

Season 9, Ep 1: It's a new season! Cricket starts in Australia and the dial turns. What did we do in the last week week? Geoff has been calling the Australia-NZ games in Brisban...

Story Time: Bring Back Deano from 2020-09-25T22:54

Dean Jones has left us. The One-Day King. There is nothing we'd rather do with this episode than talk about Deano: the career, the influence, the swagger, the way he made us feel. Thanks for eve...

The Final Word with Alison Mitchell from 2020-09-23T05:44

Season 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket around the world....

Story Time 16, with Matt Renshaw encore from 2020-09-20T03:55

Story Time! Many and varied they are today. Adam can't stop talking about George Headley. Geoff believes that at last, at last, he has caught up to a long-elusive quarry. What d...

Emergency episode: Glenn Maxwell's century from 2020-09-17T20:16

Emergency! Maxi time! The Final Word's fave made one of the best hundreds we've seen in one-day cricket to win a ridiculous run chase and win a series decider in England. No big...

Channel Seven's big cash heist from 2020-09-16T08:31

Season 8, Ep 28: Two years ago the Seven Network bought TV rights to great fanfare. Now they're refusing to pay. The free-to-air broadcaster has Cricket Australia in a tough spo...

Story Time 15, with Jos Buttler encore from 2020-09-13T04:58

Heroes and villains. Rational or fair or otherwise, we have them on Story Time. Geoff meets his nemesis, Adam explains the greatest work of the greatest, we solve a Netherlands conundrum, and tr...

Australia's choke, the Afghan Mankad, and farewell Bell from 2020-09-09T09:48

Season 8, Ep 27: That was quite the choke. Australia's T20 series against England started with a dominant position that somehow turned into a loss. England bossed the second, an...

Bad Producer Podcast Network: In the Pocket - NFL from 2020-09-08T09:48

Adam and Geoff will have a new episode of The Final Word very soon. In the meantime, if you like NFL or know someone who likes NFL, In the Pocket<...

Story Time 14, with Pat Cummins encore from 2020-09-06T04:40

Pat Cummins is a special cricketer and a great fella. We had a lovely time talking with him in Derby this time last year, decked out in his skin-tight and long-sleeved Australian jumper - an ima...

The Final Word with Trent Woodhill from 2020-09-02T12:07

Season 8, Ep 26: Trent Woodhill is one of the most versatile people in cricket: coach, trusted mentor, adviser, ideas man. This was a good time to pick his brain, from the ...

Story Time 13, plus Jason Roy from 2020-08-28T21:33

Story Time! We have a new chat with England opener Jason Roy about missing the IPL, which comes after the customary weekend wander through cricket history. In this episode,...

You hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of 600 wickets from 2020-08-26T07:45

Season 8, Ep 25: That is the sound of inevitability. No matter who didn't believe it, James Anderson's march did not stop towards the mark that only three spinners had achieved ...

Story Time 12, with Natalie Germanos encore from 2020-08-22T05:35

Story Time! This week let us take you through more tales of Ravi "Careless Whisper" Bopara, the human sax solo; some Sehwag madness, an Anzac connection; the 2005 end of Australian Ashes dominan...

The Dhoni Touch, by the Bloodhound Gang from 2020-08-19T08:11

Season 8, Ep. 24: The great MSD has put the cue in the rack, for India at least. In the circumstances, there was nobody better to get back on the show than Bharat Sundaresa...

Story Time 11, with Vic Marks encore from 2020-08-14T22:21

Hanif Mohammad! Brian Lara! We advance from 499 to 501 patrons and we couldn't be happier. Your support has been quite outstanding. We celebrate in the usual way on Story Time with a long Nerd P...

Behold, the week when Chris Woakes wakes from 2020-08-11T06:26

Season 8, Ep 23: Comebacks don't get much more stylish. England's memorable turnaround in Manchester came when Woakes and Jos Buttler produced a partnership that will be long ce...

Story Time 10, with The Edge documentary encore from 2020-08-08T04:20

It's our new show! Or, same show, new name. STORY TIME will be the weekend wander through the weeds, where we get into some of the more obscure and less obscure corners of cricket history to fin...

Green Machines from 2020-08-04T23:31

Season 8, Ep 22: As Ireland, one of cricket's green machines, prepare to leave England, the other, Pakistan are ready to start their Test series at Old Trafford. We speak to Zai...

Story Time 9, with Urthboy encore from 2020-08-01T02:26

One of our most heartfelt interviews with the man behind the music of The Final Word, and pioneer of the Australian hip hop scene, Listen

An Irish episode with no Irish clichés from 2020-07-29T09:55

Season 8, Ep 21: The Irish are coming, and what better time than before their games against England to sit down with their CEO Warren Deutrom to tell us their story from St Patr...

Story Time 8, with Jimmy Neesham encore from 2020-07-25T02:06

"I certainly want to win this World Cup, but I can live with myself if we don't," said Jimmy Neesham a few weeks before that famous final. One of the funniest and sharpest minds in cricket, he w...

England level the Windies, and every Cup is on the move from 2020-07-21T09:59

Season 8, Ep 20: It's 1-1 and the Wisden Trophy is the series that keeps on giving. Another last-day finish, another good fight, another fine bit of comedic timing from Stuart B...

Story Time 7, with Kate Cross encore from 2020-07-17T22:31

This time last year, we sat down with Kate Cross before a T20 International and she shared with us the details of some of the toughest moments of her sporting life. As part of our relations...

How England won the World Cup (and lost the first Test back) from 2020-07-14T07:50

Season 8, Ep 19: Exactly a year from that famous day at Lord's we're joined by Nick Hoult to discuss his new book that gives all the detail you didn't know about England's trium...

Commentary with Ian Smith: By the barest of margins from 2020-07-10T18:27

Season 8, Ep 18. The end of the 2019 World Cup will remain inseparable from Ian Smith's description of it. He explained in depth to the Calling the Shots documentary how he has ...

Cricket is back! England prepares the Bio-Dome from 2020-07-08T08:55

Season 8, Ep 17: Shout it from the rooftops! This week, England host West Indies in the first of three behind-closed-doors Tests and we couldn't be happier on The Final Word. Vi...

Calling the Shots: Today (series finale) from 2020-07-03T05:00

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The many sides of South Africa's political brawl from 2020-07-01T07:52

Season 8, Ep 16: Amidst ongoing fighting that predates the virus crisis, South African cricket writer Telford Vice joins the show to explain the conflict in South African cricke...

Story Time 6, with David Warner encore from 2020-06-26T23:05

In February 2018, we spoke to Dave in Durban a couple of days ahead of a Test series that would prove to be fateful in so many ways. This was an interesting and positive time in his cricketing l...

The Final Word with William McInnes from 2020-06-24T07:30

Season 8, Ep 15: As promised, here it is – our chat with one of Australia's favourite sons, William McInnes. You know him as an actor and a writer, but before that he was ...

Calling the Shots: The Disruptors from 2020-06-19T04:00

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Exit Kevin Roberts, pursued by a bear from 2020-06-17T07:41

Season 8, Ep 14: That happened fast. At the start of the corona crisis, all looked rosy at Cricket Australia with the women winning the World Cup in front of a packed MCG and th...

Commentary with Mark Nicholas - Part II from 2020-06-12T23:23

Season 8, Ep 13: Geoff is back with Adam for a little bit of Nerd Pledge before h...

Commentary with Mark Nicholas - Part I from 2020-06-09T23:32

Season 8, Ep 12: Daniel Norcross steps in for Geoff this week, reflecting with Adam on the Calling t...