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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 NordVPN discount: https://nordvpn.com/tfw

Story Time 191 – The day that Don Bradman cut sick

71 hours 0 mins; June 25, 2024

Afghans knock out Aus again - T20 World Cup Daily 24.2

19 mins; June 25, 2024

Rohit leaves Aussies teetering - T20 World Cup Daily 24.1

32 mins; June 24, 2024

South Africa face the choke - T20 World Cup Daily 23.2

19 mins; June 24, 2024

England are through! - T20 World Cup Daily 23.1

30 mins; June 23, 2024

Afghanistan shock Australia! - T20 World Cup Daily 22.2

29 mins; June 23, 2024

Are India unbeatable? - T20 World Cup Daily 22.1

25 mins; June 22, 2024

Here come the Windies - T20 World Cup Daily 21.2

18 mins; June 22, 2024

Harry Brook v South Africa - T20 World Cup Daily 21.1

24 mins; June 21, 2024

Patrick hat-trick - T20 World Cup Daily 20.2

19 mins; June 20, 2024

SKY goes blue - T20 World Cup Daily 20.1

27 mins; June 20, 2024

Bairstow is annoyed - T20 World Cup Daily 19.2

18 mins; June 19, 2024

Respect the USA - T20 World Cup Daily 19.1

28 mins; June 19, 2024

A night for muscles - T20 World Cup Daily 18

25 mins; June 18, 2024

Climate change will keep hurting our game

62 hours 18 mins; June 18, 2024

NZ v PNG, Netherlands v SL

31 mins; June 17, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 16

27 mins; June 16, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 15.2

27 mins; June 15, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 15.1

27 mins; June 15, 2024

Story Time 190 - "Long live Victoria!"

59 mins; June 15, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 14

30 mins; June 14, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 13

25 mins; June 13, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 12

26 mins; June 13, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 11

25 mins; June 11, 2024

Bumble for England (over 70s)!

65 hours 30 mins; June 11, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 10

33 mins; June 10, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 9

27 mins; June 09, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 8.2

22 mins; June 08, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 8.1

30 mins; June 08, 2024

Story Time 189 – The Marsh Supremacy

87 hours 7 mins; June 08, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 7

29 mins; June 07, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.2

14 mins; June 06, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 6.1

32 mins; June 06, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.2

22 mins; June 06, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 5.1

25 mins; June 05, 2024

The search for cricket-loving Americans

60 hours 1 min; June 04, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 4

25 mins; June 04, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 3

30 mins; June 03, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 2

17 mins; June 02, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 1

26 mins; June 02, 2024

T20 World Cup Daily: 2024, Day 0

14 mins; May 31, 2024

Story Time 188 – Why 150 is nonsense

63 hours 15 mins; May 31, 2024

IPL season meets election season

98 hours 58 mins; May 29, 2024

French fraud: the ghost games of Paris

36 mins; May 27, 2024

Story Time 187 – How Sachin changed the calendar

82 hours 14 mins; May 25, 2024

TFW Book Club – Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes with Harry Ricketts

88 hours 17 mins; May 24, 2024

Story Time 186 – Jim Laker, Australian Test spinner?

89 hours 12 mins; May 24, 2024

Launching our Final Word ad-free feed

85 hours 59 mins; May 22, 2024

The Test documentary part 3, with director Adrian Brown

60 hours 31 mins; May 21, 2024

The Final Word: Episode One

53 mins; May 20, 2024

Story Time 185 - Paul Nixon writes his own Wikipedia

87 hours 44 mins; May 18, 2024

Story Time 184 – Eddie Gilbert sits Bradman on his arse

91 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2024

The James Anderson exit: right or wrong?

101 hours 6 mins; May 15, 2024

A poster of Charles Bannerman

30 mins; May 13, 2024

Story Time 183 – German bombing doesn't stop play

103 hours 35 mins; May 12, 2024

EMERGENCY POD: Jimmy calls time

36 mins; May 11, 2024

Story Time 182 – Bob Hawke and the death penalty

79 hours 43 mins; May 10, 2024

This is The Final Word - ONE THOUSAND

83 hours 46 mins; May 08, 2024

Archive ep: Canterbury tales, the Women's Ashes Test of 2015

34 mins; May 06, 2024

Story Time 181 – Threads of the Caribbean tapestry

86 hours 12 mins; May 03, 2024

Vanuatu’s Women, an extraordinary tale

40 mins; May 02, 2024

English cricket sells the family silver

83 hours 43 mins; April 30, 2024

The Final Word with Greg James

61 hours 20 mins; April 28, 2024

Story Time 180 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club of Nerds

66 hours 15 mins; April 27, 2024

Story Time 179 - The Fake Test Telegram

84 hours 50 mins; April 26, 2024

Archive: The 2015 Ashes - throwing up at a house party

41 mins; April 26, 2024

Chamari Athapaththu launches into space

89 hours 23 mins; April 24, 2024

What's the craic in Ireland at the moment? With CEO Warren Deutrom

86 hours 13 mins; April 22, 2024

Story Time 178 – Wherever you go, there is Gary Pratt

80 hours 59 mins; April 20, 2024

Archive ep: The beginnings of T20 cricket, from a Cardiff pub

43 mins; April 19, 2024

Wisden 2024 with Lawrence Booth

69 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2024

A new Indigenous gathering at an ancient place

92 hours 12 mins; April 16, 2024

TFW Book Club – Ben Bloom

33 mins; April 14, 2024

Story Time 177 – The path to the Elefant graveyard

102 hours 27 mins; April 12, 2024

Damien Fleming, World Champion - Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup

95 hours 1 min; April 11, 2024

Marcus Harris prepares to commit a murder

86 hours 17 mins; April 10, 2024

The Final Word with Michael Bevan - live in Sydney

73 hours 37 mins; April 08, 2024

Story Time 176 – The first plane to land in Fiji

101 hours 40 mins; April 06, 2024

The Final Word with David Wiese

42 mins; April 04, 2024

Is this the end for Michael Neser?

89 hours 2 mins; April 02, 2024

TFW Book Club - Steve Cannane

60 hours 12 mins; March 31, 2024

Story Time 175 – The fastest hundred ever made against Jeff Thomson*

71 hours 40 mins; March 29, 2024

Lance Klusener, never better - Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup

99 hours 54 mins; March 28, 2024

Western Australia will rule cricket for one thousand years

91 hours 16 mins; March 27, 2024

Tim Lane has the best seat in the house - Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup

44 mins; March 24, 2024

Story Time 174 – What is the plural of nemesis?

103 hours 43 mins; March 22, 2024

Tassie, Queensland, and the brawl for new stadiums

96 hours 39 mins; March 20, 2024

The Final Word with Glenn Turner

82 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2024

Story Time 173 – Victoria versus Perth

106 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2024

Story Time 172 – The long slow birth of The Walrus

93 hours 44 mins; March 13, 2024

Watto for Pakistan? The Big Rig might just turn that joint around

61 hours 52 mins; March 12, 2024

New Zealand Australia Daily - Christchurch Day 4

31 mins; March 11, 2024

The series wash-up, with Cam and Vish

27 mins; March 10, 2024

New Zealand Australia Daily - Christchurch Day 3

27 mins; March 10, 2024

India England Daily 2024 - Dharamsala Day 3

27 mins; March 09, 2024

New Zealand Australia Daily - Christchurch Day 2

28 mins; March 09, 2024

India England Daily 2024 - Dharamsala Day 2

30 mins; March 08, 2024

New Zealand Australia Daily - Christchurch Day 1

25 mins; March 08, 2024

India England Daily 2024 - Dharamsala Day 1

25 mins; March 07, 2024

New Zealand Australia Daily - Christchurch preview

25 mins; March 06, 2024

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