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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

How to fail to organise a World Cup

80 hours 52 mins; August 02, 2023

The Ashes Daily farewell - a look back at the series we saw

38 mins; August 01, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 5, 2023

32 mins; July 31, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 4, 2023

17 mins; July 30, 2023

Ashes Daily - Stuart Broad retirement special

23 mins; July 30, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 3, 2023

25 mins; July 29, 2023

Story Time 143 – The fastest hundred ever

47 mins; July 28, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 2, 2023

25 mins; July 28, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval Day 1, 2023

21 mins; July 27, 2023

Ashes Daily - The Oval preview, 2023

18 mins; July 26, 2023

The Final Word with Patrick Brammall

52 mins; July 26, 2023

How to abuse umpires and get away with it

74 hours 39 mins; July 25, 2023

Ashes Daily - the Old Trafford aftermath

34 mins; July 24, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 5, 2023

20 mins; July 23, 2023

West Indies India Daily - Port of Spain Day 3

21 mins; July 23, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 4, 2023

20 mins; July 22, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 3, 2023

25 mins; July 21, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 2, 2023

25 mins; July 20, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford Day 1, 2023

24 mins; July 19, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 3rd ODI, Taunton 2023

18 mins; July 18, 2023

Ashes Daily - Old Trafford preview, 2023

20 mins; July 18, 2023

David Warner for Manchester, yes or no?

69 hours 31 mins; July 17, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 2nd ODI, Southampton 2023

23 mins; July 16, 2023

The Final Word with Enid Bakewell

39 mins; July 15, 2023

West Indies India Daily - Dominica Day 2

22 mins; July 14, 2023

Story Time 142 – "I want to hit a big one!"

59 mins; July 13, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 1st ODI, Bristol 2023

20 mins; July 12, 2023

Over rate police, arrest this man

71 hours 54 mins; July 10, 2023

Is... this the 2005 Ashes yet?

34 mins; July 10, 2023

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 4, 2023

27 mins; July 09, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 3rd T20, Lord's 2023

13 mins; July 08, 2023

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 3, 2023

19 mins; July 08, 2023

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 2, 2023

23 mins; July 07, 2023

Ashes Daily - Headingley Day 1, 2023

26 mins; July 06, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 2nd T20, The Oval 2023

20 mins; July 05, 2023

Ashes Daily - Headingley 2023 preview

17 mins; July 05, 2023

Frothing over in the Lord's Long Room

79 hours 19 mins; July 03, 2023

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 5

29 mins; July 02, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - 1st T20, Edgbaston 2023

17 mins; July 01, 2023

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 4

29 mins; July 01, 2023

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 3

25 mins; June 30, 2023

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 2

21 mins; June 29, 2023

Ashes Daily - Lord's 2023, Day 1

26 mins; June 28, 2023

The Final Word Wedding Daily

14 mins; June 27, 2023

How do cricket pitches work? The complete guide

41 mins; June 27, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 5

22 mins; June 26, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 4

26 mins; June 25, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 3

23 mins; June 24, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 2

24 mins; June 23, 2023

Women's Ashes Daily - Trent Bridge, Day 1

22 mins; June 22, 2023

Looking back at the Edgbaston miracle

61 hours 25 mins; June 21, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 5

26 mins; June 20, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 4

24 mins; June 20, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 3

24 mins; June 18, 2023

Story Time 141 – The dead Kennedys

75 hours 31 mins; June 18, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 2

26 mins; June 17, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023, Day 1

19 mins; June 16, 2023

Ashes Daily - Edgbaston 2023 preview

22 mins; June 15, 2023

At last, it's time for The Ashes

77 hours 37 mins; June 14, 2023

Story Time 140 – One September in 1917

63 hours 50 mins; June 12, 2023

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 5

20 mins; June 11, 2023

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 4

24 mins; June 10, 2023

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 3

27 mins; June 09, 2023

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 2

23 mins; June 08, 2023

WTC Daily - The Oval Day 1

21 mins; June 07, 2023

World Test Championship Daily - Oval preview

16 mins; June 06, 2023

More Ashes injuries, and Irish cricket's obstacle course

77 hours 10 mins; June 05, 2023

Story Time 139 – Here comes the injured No. 11

80 hours 11 mins; June 03, 2023

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 3

22 mins; June 03, 2023

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 2

21 mins; June 02, 2023

England Ireland Daily - Lord's Day 1

22 mins; June 01, 2023

The Final Word with ECB boss Richard Gould

55 mins; June 01, 2023

England Ireland Daily - Lord's preview

18 mins; May 31, 2023

The Final Word's England adventure begins

73 hours 12 mins; May 31, 2023

Story Time 138 – Influence of the male ejaculate on prezygotic barriers in field crickets

98 hours 10 mins; May 27, 2023

The Final Word with Gideon Haigh

54 mins; May 25, 2023

Josh Hazlewood is the next bowler to fall

84 hours 48 mins; May 23, 2023

Story Time 137 – Wild times in the Births, Deaths and Marriages registry

83 hours 59 mins; May 19, 2023

How the BCCI plans to grab cricket's cash - with Osman Samiuddin

55 mins; May 18, 2023

Jofra Archer is out of the Ashes

78 hours 12 mins; May 17, 2023

Story Time 136 - Anil Kumble: sex symbol

74 hours 12 mins; May 12, 2023

The Final Word with Andrew Balbirnie

69 hours 56 mins; May 11, 2023

Ashes warm-ups are for squares

97 hours 25 mins; May 10, 2023

Story Time 135 – Let's Get Physical

90 hours 28 mins; May 05, 2023

The Final Word with Dennis Amiss

60 hours 5 mins; May 04, 2023

Wait... is England ditching The Hundred?

93 hours 4 mins; May 03, 2023

Story Time 134 – King George is dead

83 hours 50 mins; April 28, 2023

The Final Word with Peter Handscomb

69 hours 6 mins; April 27, 2023

The Saudi move on cricket, with Daniel Brettig

88 hours 58 mins; April 25, 2023

Story Time 133 – Happy Birthday, Sachin

110 hours 56 mins; April 24, 2023

Story Time 132 - Caddick keeps up with the Kardashians

89 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2023

Farewell, Faith Thomas

91 hours 55 mins; April 21, 2023

The 160th Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

66 hours 21 mins; April 19, 2023

FairBreak Special - a truly good thing

74 hours 11 mins; April 18, 2023

Story Time 131 – The worst run chase ever

75 hours 43 mins; April 15, 2023

Choose a career in marketing, where words mean literally nothing!

73 hours 37 mins; April 13, 2023

Story Time 130 – In the pipe, five by five

85 hours 44 mins; April 09, 2023

All episodes should be recorded in castles

72 hours 10 mins; April 06, 2023

Story Time 129 – The varied children of Mr T

95 hours 22 mins; March 31, 2023

The first big-money Women's Premier League is done

81 hours 11 mins; March 29, 2023

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