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 - Australia restore the timeline - Women's T20 World Cup final
Women's T20 World Cup 2026 final: England v Australia: A new record crowd for women's cricket in England came down to Lord's, beating the 2017 mark on...
TFW Daily - The Kid debuts! Sooryavanshi time - England India 2nd T20
England v India, 2nd T20, Old Trafford: The day has finally come! Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made his full international debut for India, becoming their you...
Story Time 276 – Who is Piccolo Jim, and why will his centenary be 2029?
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, there will be plenty of centenaries and sesquicentenaries coming up over the next...
TFW Daily - England are Australia's challenger - Women's T20 World Cup, semi-final 2
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, 2nd Semi-Final: England v South Africa: Another huge crowd, with 21,000 in at The Oval leaning strongly towards the home t...
Hubris and the fall: the sad, mad end of Ben Stokes, Test cricketer
Season 20, Episode 19: It's been a mad old week in cricket. We took a beat to consider the weekend exit of Ben Stokes from international cricket, at l...
TFW Daily - Perry's final fitness scare - Women's T20 World Cup, 1st Semi Final
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, 1st Semi-Final: Australia v West Indies: A start like no other, where West Indies batter Deandra Dottin appeared to faint...
Story Time 275 – Once again, stump becomes weapon
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Adam and Geoff catch up in London to look at a special but ill-fated career, a sl...
TFW Daily - Ben Stokes chaos ends in superb Kiwi win - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 5
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 5: There was a collective weariness at Trent Bridge on Day 5 from all apart from the impressive New Ze...
TFW Daily – Stokes retires, England go BIZARRE - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 4
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 4: News of Ben Stokes’ retirement at the end of this Test was released in the middle of an over just p...
TFW Daily - India's last chance - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 15
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 15, Australia v India, South Africa v Bangladesh: Two matches to decide one semi-final spot, with so many permutations...
TFW Daily - NZ greats bow out - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 14
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 14, England v New Zealand: Already qualified, against a team motivated by not just a place in the semi-finals but by e...
TFW Daily – Seesaw rocks Kiwis way - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 3
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 3: A Test that continues to confound expectations swung violently in New Zealand’s direction on an eng...
TFW Daily - The longest final over - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 13
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 13, Sri Lanka v Scotland: It was the battle of Final Word faves: our fascination with Sri Lanka's improvement versus t...
TFW Daily - England’s best day for a year? - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 2
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 2: The headline may be recency bias, but England will be delighted with their day’s work. Considering...
TFW Daily - Latham & Conway smash records – England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 1
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 1: Another UK scorcher saw England toil under blue skies. A day that was meant to be triumphant for th...
TFW Daily - Stuttering India stay alive - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 12
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 12, India v Bangladesh: India got the result they needed to keep their hopes of back-to-back ICC trophies alive, but t...
TFW Daily - England seal a semi-final - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 11
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 10, England v West Indies: A record June day of heat in England, and a crowd of 14,000 at Lord’s: the thermostat was u...
TFW Daily - Bazball's last Test? - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Preview
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge, Preview: A wild series comes to its unmissable conclusion this week at Trent Bridge. For New Zealand, de...
TFW Daily - Perry power locks up Aussie semi - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 10
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 10, Australia v Pakistan, Sri Lanka v Ireland, Scotland v New Zealand: Australia are locked in at the top of Group A,...
We're in the Lord's penthouse, Baz is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon
Season 20, Episode 18: Coming to you from the absurd penthouse terrace with a clear view of the Lord's pitch, Adam and Geoff are back together. Englan...
TFW Daily - South Africa flip the table - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 9
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 9, India v South Africa, West Indies v Sri Lanka, England v Scotland: Marizanne Kapp has turned Group A upside down wi...
TFW Daily - King Henry’s 11 - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 5
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 5: England needed a miracle performance without their miracle man. Realistically, any of the three sessions o...
TFW Daily - The first Aussie-Dutch stoush - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 8
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 8, Australia v Netherlands, Pakistan v Bangladesh: Australia have never played the Dutch in a T20 before, and the Auss...
TFW Daily - Kiwis soar high - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 4
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 4: A day where New Zealand’s much vaunted attack showed why they garner so much respect. Only Joe Root, again...
TFW Daily - Ireland fumble a heist - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 7
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 7, Ireland v West Indies: Just the one game today, but it was the closest one we've had yet, and for almost all of it,...
TFW Daily - Henry & Nicholls make England wilt - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 3
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 3: It was a red-letter day for the return of Henry Nicholls, who notched up a classy century to put a flat E...
TFW Daily - Two absolute belters - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 6
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 6, Scotland v West Indies, South Africa v Pakistan: Two absolute belters on two consecutive nights, as mistakes and pr...
TFW Daily - Cricket’s favourite son tons up - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 2
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 2: Glenn Phillips, seemingly the cricketer that everyone loves, finally scaled the mountain to score his maid...
TFW Daily - England's attack a study of inexperience - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 1
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 1: A day that opened up for England but couldn't quite stick with an attack finding its way against a batting...
TFW Daily - Run rate for Aus & India - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 5
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 5, Australia v Bangladesh, India v Netherlands: Not competitive games, but there was some enjoyment to be had from the...
TFW Daily - Defending champs on the brink - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 4
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 4, Sri Lanka v New Zealand, England v Ireland: What a finish, and what a refusal to lay down. People still underestima...
TFW Daily - Root Ashes 2027 captain? - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Preview
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Preview: For England, it’s hard to imagine how their time since Lord’s could’ve been more chaotic. So much drama,...
CA sell-off hits more roadblocks, Ben Stokes hits the showers
Season 20, Episode 17: Cricket Australia emerged from an all-states meeting claiming a consensus agreement to sell some Big Bash clubs, but there are...
TFW Daily - The India Pakistan formula - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 3
Women's T20 World Cup 2026, Day 3, India v Pakistan, West Indies v New Zealand, and Netherlands v Bangladesh: The big one in terms of attention, rarel...
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...