The Final Word Cricket Podcast
Kanaal Besonderhede
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 – Zimbabwe top the group - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 13
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 13 – Zimbabwe/Sri Lanka, Afghanistan/Canada, West Indies/Italy: Zimbabwe go through to the Super 8 stage unbeaten. They...
TFW Daily - Can the Proteas do it? - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 12
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 12 – South Africa/UAE, Pakistan/Namibia, India/Netherlands: If it's universally accepted India are the team to beat, ar...
TFW Daily – Australia head home - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 11
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 11 – Zimbabwe/Ireland, Scotland/Nepal,
New Zealand/Canada: It’s not often that the story of the day doesn’t
...
India-Pakistan has become cricket's Death Star
Season 19 Episode 28: The big game happened, and once again the cricket was a non-event, but have we finally reached a tipping point where something m...
TFW Daily - Sri Lanka sink Australia - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 10
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 10 – UAE/Afghanistan, England/Italy, Sri Lanka/Australia: A quite stunning run-chase, led by the brilliant Pathum Nissa...
TFW Daily - India annihilate Pakistan, again - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 9
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 9 – Nepal/West Indies, USA/Namibia, India/Pakistan: Was there ever any doubt? India charges on after another Pakistan c...
TFW Daily - Are England any good? - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 8
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 8 – Ireland/Oman, England/Scotland, South Africa/New Zealand: Are England going to be a contender? Does anyone know? Th...
TFW Daily - Zimbabwe destroy abject Australia - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 7
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 7 – Zimbabwe/Australia, UAE/Canada, USA/Netherlands: What a performance from Zimbabwe, shocking Australia at a World Cu...
Story Time 258 – Group chats in the 19th century
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, how did group chats work in the 1800s? Plus, the 1800s Facebook friend, the all-s...
TFW Daily - Super Mosca Bros. - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 6
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 6 – India/Namibia, Italy/Nepal, Oman/Sri
Lanka: A red-letter day for cricket in Italy, taking points at this stag...
TFW Daily - Double Super Over madness - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 5
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 5 – Afghanistan/South Africa,
Australia/Ireland, England/West Indies: The tournament roared into
action on...
By god, that's Pakistan's music
Season 19 Episode 27: They're back, baby. Pakistan were never going to stay away, were they? After a big pow-wow, they have agreed to play India afte...
TFW Daily - Can Pakistan out-spin India? - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 4
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 4 – Netherlands/Namibia, New Zealand/UAE, Pakistan/USA: Pakistan are on the board, but do they have what it takes to to...
TFW Daily - Proteas fire in to the tournament - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 3
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 3 – South Africa/Canada, Zimbabwe/Oman, Scotland/Italy: South Africa were eager to show that they weren’t going to suff...
TFW Daily – England avoid catastrophe... just - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 2
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 2 – New Zealand/Afghanistan, England/Nepal, Sri Lanka/Ireland: England nearly turned back the clock to become an associ...
TFW Daily – SKY prevents India caving in - T20 World Cup 2026, Day 1
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Day 1 – India USA, Scotland West Indies, Pakistan Netherlands: An expectant full house at the Wankhede fell silent early on...
Story Time 257 – There are too many celebrities in Britain, please eliminate 3000
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, why are there so many allegedly famous people in the UK who nobody else has ever...
Covering 500 Test Matches with Scyld Berry - TFW Book Club
Book Club 16: Scyld Berry - 500 Declared: The Joys of Covering 500 Cricket Tests
A book that, because of the title, can only have been wr...
FFS, now Pakistan want to boycott the World Cup
Season 19 Episode 26: We have more drama ahead of the T20 World Cup, with Pakistan's government saying the national team will boycott India during the...
Story Time 256 – From 90s hero to less than zero
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, it's not a fun start but an important one as we look at years of accusations agai...
From refugee to England hopeful - The Final Word with Tawanda Muyeye
Season 19 Episode 25: Last week, we had Sonny Baker with us, casting an eye to the future of England fast bowling. Today, a player similarly highly-r...
Lies about the Harry Brook story emphasise England's problems
Season 19 Episode 24: It's official, Bangladesh have refused to play in the T20 World Cup, meaning Scotland will come in. Justice for Jersey! Pakistan...
Story Time 255 – The Summer of George
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a clue about a show about nothing - but can that be right? Two long-time contribu...
Story Time 255 – The Summer of George
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a clue about a show about nothing - but can that be right? Two long-time contribu...
World cricket splinters further with World Cup boycott likely
Season 19 Episode 23: Cricket's small group of nations continues to fracture, with news firming even as we recorded this episode that Bangladesh will...
Ban Australians from county cricket? Ben Stokes, you got punk'd
Season 19 Episode 22: The seasons are changing, and after a white-clothing summer, Steve Smith is dressed in hot pink and smacking balls into orbit. H...
The Final Word with Sonny Baker
Season 19 Episode 21: If you listened to the pod through 2025, Sonny Baker's name won’t be new to you - we spoke about him practically every week afte...
Story Time 254 – The Irishman who became a Chinese general
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, another vast and sprawling tale of a 20th century life that hardly seems true, fr...
Australia’s (likely) ADHD pre-war leggie – TFW Book Club with Pat Rodgers
Book Club 15: Pat Rodgers - From Macdonaldtown To Lords: The Erratic Syd Emery
Pat Rodgers, great friend of the pod, dives into many a st...
As the Australians relax, England brace for review season
Season 19, Episode 20: It's the weekly show. Normal programming is back. Except for programming at the T20 World Cup, where India's government is now...
Story Time 253 – An honorary degree from the University of WA
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a quick one from the SCG before it's time to pack up and ship out, but we have ti...
TFW Ashes Daily - The Ashes are over! Time to look back
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 6: Toll the bells, it is over. And for this series at least, this is the final Final Word Ashes Daily. What...
TFW Ashes Daily - Behold, a nervous chase - 5th Test, Sydney Day 5
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 5: Get a score on the board and it can make for a nervous chase. So it proved for Australia on the final da...
TFW Ashes Daily - Bethell makes history - 5th Test, Sydney Day 4
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 4: They said it couldn't happen. Ok, maybe we said it couldn't happen. Either way, that was said. Picking a...
TFW Ashes Daily - The Smith machine turns on - 5th Test, Sydney Day 3
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 3: In truth, it has been a long time coming in Ashes cricket, but in the Year of Our Lord 2026, Steve Smith...
TFW Ashes Daily - Root & Head on the same day - 5th Test, Sydney Day 2
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 2: It was a day for batting, in both camps, as the SCG provided some challenges but also some opportunities...
TFW Ashes Daily - The engine room arrives - 5th Test, Sydney Day 1
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 1: For a moment it looked like we would have another crazy fast Test innings, but then things changed. Joe...
TFW Ashes Daily - Khawaja's done, Smith isn't - 5th Test, Sydney Day 0
The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 0: It's been a busy couple of days in the SCG press conference room with Usman Khawaja pulling the pin and...
Michael Bevan's New Year's Miracle, 30 years on
Season 19, Episode 20: On this day, three decades ago. New Year's Day. Michael Bevan, Roger Harper... you know it. To recognise this cherished moment...
The Best & Worst of 2025
Season 19, Episode 19: Happy New Year! Time for another Final Word tradition, the best and worst in cricket of 2025. This past year was one with a lot...