The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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The Final Word Cricket Podcast
Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword. Get your big Nor...
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TFW Daily - Aussies vulnerable? Not yet - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 2
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 2, Scotland v Ireland and Australia v South Africa: Lots of chat from South Africans before this tournament about taki...
TFW Daily - England start furiously - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 1
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 1, England v Sri Lanka: There has been plenty of pressure on the England women's team coming into a home World Cup aft...
Emergency ep: Kane Williamson retires
Don’t say it’s over. After one last go around at Lord’s, Big Daddy Kane has left the arena, retiring from all New Zealand cricket. An abrupt decision...
Ben Stokes and the grown men under curfew
Season 20, Episode 16: Ben Stokes and trouble on a night out, is it? Deidre Chambers. But then, is there more to this, or less to this, than meets the...
Story Time 274 - Let’s all eat some ants
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the best performances that didn't go so well on...
TFW Daily – Should Archer come straight back?- England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Review
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Review: It’s the day after one of the shortest 40-wicket Tests on record and Adam has Daniel Norcross with him t...
TFW Daily – Crapshoot or new era? - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 4
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 4: What do England and New Zealand take away from this match? Do they even need to? Ben Jones joins Daniel N...
TFW Daily – Lunch stops play - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 3
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 3: The sun was out today, but the umpires had decided to take lunch. Before you roll your eyes, we try to ex...
TFW Daily – Does Lord’s have a problem? - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 2
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1:There'll be questions asked about another dicey pitch at Lord's in early June, with 33 wickets falling in...
TFW Daily - 16 wickets of madness - England NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Day 1: Marauding pace bowlers dominated the highly anticipated return of Test cricket for the summer, as momentu...
TFW Daily - How much pressure for Baz? - Eng v NZ, 1st Test, Lord’s, Preview
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 1st Test, Lord’s Preview: Adam has Ben Jones with him, who will be co-piloting the Daily eps from the first Test series of the En...
Virat Kohli and RCB double the fun
Season 20, Episode 15: A big week in India, as Virat Kohli led the way in second consecutive IPL win for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Also this week,...
Story Time 273 – The Monte Carlo black streak
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an ancient tradition that predates cricket enti...
The Final Word with Will Bosisto
Season 20 Episode 14: It has been a long time coming, but here we are: one of the Final Word’s all-time favourites, Will Bosisto, joins the show. Grac...
More drama as Cricket Australia exec leaves during spending scandal
Season 20 Episode 13: Cricket Australia are pushing a line about needing more money coming in, but that didn't stop a bunch of money going out, after...
Story Time 272 – One couldn't bat, the other couldn't keep
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, those rare away wins keep on coming up, as does...
The Final Word with Charlotte Edwards
Season 20 Episode 12: Charlotte Edwards is one of the most respected people in all of cricket. With her career in the game now entering a third decade...
Zak Crawley sails to Valinor
Season 20 Episode 11: England’s Test squad is out, and the end has indeed come for Bazball’s mascot. Elsewhere, Australia’s captain Pat Cummins gets s...
Story Time 271 – Forest Whittaker meets Dr Pierre Rock
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a cryptic dance that ended up being far more geographical, the historical evolut...
A master of cricket photography - TFW Book Club | Picture of England
Sports photography isn’t just about the right lighting or composition, but forging relationships with the subjects and an understanding of the context...
In Aussie cricket, who benefits from scaring the horses?
Season 20, Episode 10: A big news story this week claims discontent at the top of Australia's player ranks about the fact that private cash is not imm...
Story Time 270 – The man who slept at the non-striker's end
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Andrew Fidel Fernando joins the show for an unlikely tale of an unlikely nap, on...
James Vince and the unbearable sadness of batting – TFW Book Club
Jon Hotten is one of the most engaging writers our game is blessed with, so any topic he turns his pen to is going to be worth reading about. His late...
Ding dong, the Big Bash sale is dead
Season 20, Episode 9: Stand down, defenders of the realm. The brave Queenslanders have come to the aid of New South Wales (did we ever doubt them?) an...
Story Time 269 – Still the best run chase in history?
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a player we've just learned about who had a compelling tale either side of the G...
Father Marriott’s (Remarkable) Summer Hols – TFW Book Club
The mighty Max Bonnell returns to Book Club to discuss his acclaimed title from last year about an oft-discussed character on Story Time, leggie Charl...
Cricket Australia's chair is now running their major sponsor?
Season 20, Episode 8: Note: an earlier version of this podcast confused NRMA motoring association (not a CA sponsor) with NRMA insurance (CA's major T...
Story Time 268 – There's only one thing Kohli can't stand: the Dutch
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, the greatest run of free lunches in a particular journalist's history. An adopte...
This is W̶o̶m̶e̶n̶'̶s̶ cricket | The Final Word
Season 20, Episode 7: Live from Lord’s at the annual MCC Women’s Day. Adam Collins brings you a series of chats from prominent women in cricket, provi...
More corruption accusations in world cricket as ICC does nothing
Season 20, Episode 6: A new investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has brought to light the extremely serious risk that rottenness has...
Story Time 267 – When Mr Cricket passed The Don
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a 77-year dynasty of decent boring men, a piece of pure cricket slapstick in the...
Wisden 2026 with Lawrence Booth
Season 20, Episode 5: We love a tradition on The Final Word, with one of those our annual chat with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the little yellow bi...
Brazil's world record, and Dave Warner nicked on the drive
Season 20, Episode 4: Another big week, do we keep saying that? Laura Cardoso from our favourite cricket team claimed the best bowling figures in T20...
Story Time 266 – Why do bowlers only get 20 percent?
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, why is it accepted wisdom that bowlers in limited-overs formats should only get...
The Final Word with Jake Weatherald
Season 20, Episode 3: We find the Australian Test opener at The Oval, where he’s set to play for Leicestershire against Surrey in the county champions...
Red-ball cricket shoots emerge from frozen winter ground
Season 20, Episode 2: This won't be the practice every week, but why note spend half an hour talking about the county round to begin the first episode...
Story Time 265 – The Rastafarian Lion of Judah
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Bharat joins Geoff to realise how little they both know about Ethiopia, and to at...
The Final Word with Toby Roland-Jones
Season 20, Episode 1: A new season brings new faces and fresh storylines. But it’s also a time to admire those who have been on the circuit for a long...
New Aussie contract list braces for Test overload year
Season 19, Episode 39: It’s our season finale for the Australian cricket season of 2025/26, with a cracker of a Sheffield Shield final run and won ove...
The Final Word with Sam Cook - A Change is Gonna Come
Season 19, Episode 38: It’s impossible to avoid more investment in some players’ stories. One for us has been Essex and England seamer Sam Cook. Hs Te...