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The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon

300 episodes

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

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  1. TFW Daily - Abbas fillets England - England Pakistan, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 1

    · 31 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 2nd Test, Lord’s Day 1: Leaden skies, rain delays, ‘keeper up and a bit of swing and seam on offer gave Day 1 at the Lord’s Test a familiar county cricket feel, and England struggled to deal…

  2. TFW Daily - Lord’s pitch under the microscope - England Pakistan, 2nd Test, Lord’s preview

    · 23 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 2nd Test, Lord’s preview: England and Pakistan head into the 2nd Test with the series on the line, but it’s issues on the periphery that are dominating the narrative. England’s lingering…

  3. Nightclubs, drinking, cops: guess which team it is?

    · 1 h 51 min · S20 E27

    Season 20, Episode 27: Brydon Carse’s nightclub handcuffs are the latest on the England incident conveyor belt, while Pakistan’s bigger problems seem endemic. Have Bangladesh seen off Marnus as a Test cricketer? David…

  4. Story Time 283 – Can you hit a clay walnut 300 yards?

    · 1 h 28 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, exploring some games that ended up with a slightly lower profile than cricket, let's get into the world of Scottish clay walnut beating. Also, an…

  5. TFW Daily - The second-shortest Test - Australia Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Day 2

    · 27 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 2nd Test, Mackay Day 2: The carnage from Day 1 continued apace as the second-shortest Test ever played on Australian soil came to a conclusion, with almost the entire final session remaining…

  6. TFW Daily - Another day of chaos - Australia Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Day 1

    · 26 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 2nd Test, Mackay Day 1: The world’s newest Test venue was christened with more chaotic cricket, with 18 wickets falling on Day 1, 12 of them shared by two supreme left-arm quicks in Shoriful…

  7. TFW Daily - At least it's over - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3

    · 28 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3: England returned to the winners' dais for the first time in the Root 2.0 era, with Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue filleting a soft Pakistan underbelly in under 90…

  8. TFW Daily - Crazy bad fielding - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2

    · 28 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2: A few things went right for Pakistan: Ali Usman grafted his way to a five-wicket day, and they're very distantly still in the game overnight, if they can have an…

  9. TFW Daily - Tongue licks tail - England Pakistan, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1

    · 26 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1: England wanted to bowl, Pakistan wanted to bat, and while both sides were happy at the toss, only one side was later. There was a moment though, a lovely moment...…

  10. TFW Daily - Captain Root returns - England Pakistan, 1st Test preview

    · 34 min

    England Pakistan Daily, 1st Test, Headingley preview: It's about to start, and we have no idea how to think about what's going to happen. Do Pakistan have any players? Does the new Mohammed Ali know what Test record he…

  11. Among Test chaos, Australia and England face what's next

    · 1 h 15 min · S20 E26

    Season 20, Episode 26: Australia have just gone down to Bangladesh, and England have to pull themselves together against Pakistan. What will be the consequences of Darwin? Also this week, more strangeness out of…

  12. TFW Daily - Cricket's greatest upset - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 4

    · 36 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 4: Spoiler alert, but the most immense upset in cricket history has been completed. The Test arena is where these results just do not happen, and yet, this is what we're…

  13. Story Time 282 – Paul Kelly channels Bradman

    · 1 h 47 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, it's difficult to capture sport in song, so let's have a look at Paul Kelly's effort. Also, did we find the career with the highest proportion of…

  14. TFW Daily - Cam Green's big chance - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 3

    · 30 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 3: Can Bangladesh hold their nerve? They're still well ahead of the game, but by now in a position where they can see how Australia might work their way into it. At the…

  15. TFW Daily - Bangers stay dominant - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 2

    · 34 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 2: The show goes on. Bangladesh winning three sessions in a row in Australia was big news, but now they've gone to make it six, or at leave five and a tie. Australia are…

  16. TFW Daily - Aussies get rissoled - Australia Bangladesh, 1st Test, Day 1

    · 22 min

    Australia Bangladesh Daily, 1st Test, Darwin Day 1: We didn't see this one coming! Bangladesh arrived in the Top End underclubbed, understaffed, and got smashed in a warm-up game by a bunch of kids they'd never heard…

  17. Aussie odyssey begins

    · 1 h 24 min · S20 E64

    Season 20, Episode 25: Australia’s legacy-defining 21 Test run begins in the Top End, with Bangladesh keen to stifle the run to the WTC Final, and maybe even some careers. England point towards a Test revival for Dan…

  18. Story Time 281 – Even when it’s not Laxman, it’s Laxman

    · 1 h 09 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, it's episode 281, but we don't have a story about Geoff's favourite innings, because we've talked about so many times before. And yet, even when…

  19. John Arlott, Tim Key, & 9/11 – A new anthology of cricket poetry, TFW Book Club

    · 46 min

    Cricket attracts romantics. Whatever the form, so much of the game’s prose is dedicated to reflection and understanding. Whilst many fine writers have penned creative words, poetry isn’t as strongly associated.…

  20. After a fat New Zealander, a thin New Zealander

    · 1 h 21 min

    Season 20, Episode 24: The ECB enclave elects their new leader, and they won’t make the same mistake this time. They jump in the DeLorean to go back to the Root-ure as captain, whilst we get knocked down by the dual…

  21. Story Time 280 – How to take a terrible selfie

    · 1 h 26 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Yas Rana makes his Story Time debut, and has to wrestle with the degree of difficulty that our audience has built up over six years of tricks and…

  22. The 2027 Ashes schedule: hot or not?

    · 1 h 04 min · S20 E23

    Season 20 Episode 23: The next twin Ashes series has dates and locations finalised, and it's safe to say there are hairs on the whole schedule. Why is one Test at the least accessible ground on the circuit? Why can't…

  23. Story Time 279 – A white whale breaches the foam at last, at last

    · 1 h 18 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, this show has had many distant dreams, but this week we finally have sweet closure on what may be our dearest of them all. Also, a new rival for Jack…

  24. TFW Book Club - How cricket inspired Sherlock and Peter Pan

    · 29 min

    The Final Word Book Club: No other cricket team can boast of selling millions of books, let alone inspiring classic characters like Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves & Wooster, and Peter Pan. Authors Cricket Club was formed in…

  25. Justin Langer for… England??

    · 1 h 08 min

    Season 20 Episode 22: Say it ain’t so. Would JL, the most intensely parochial of all the wearers of the Baggy Green, really try to help England to an Ashes win? The rumours are swirling. Also this week, Australia’s…

  26. TFW Daily - Kohli, Rohit attempt final heist - England India 3rd ODI

    · 38 min

    England v India, 3rd ODI, Lord's: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma threw everything at pulling off a record heist in what many assume to be their final game in England, after Ben Duckett set the record for the highest…

  27. Story Time 278 – How to kill a Prince of Wales

    · 1 h 04 min · S20 E22

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, if you need a very roundabout method to dispose of a member of a royal family, we have the advice for you. Also, a celebration of birth, and the…

  28. TFW Daily - Joe Root's edging session - England India, 2nd ODI

    · 28 min

    England v India, 2nd ODI, Cardiff: A proper old-fashioned one-dayer on a proper old-fashioned one-day pitch needed a proper old-fashioned one-day innings. Joe Root is the man for that task. Virat Kohli, too, knows his…

  29. Cricket’s hottest rivalry, at Wormsley on August 10th

    · 16 min · Trailer

    After the success of last year’s event, The Final Word will be taking on Wisden Cricket Weekly at Wormsley on August 10th, in support of the Lord’s Taverners. Adam Collins sits down with Cameron Ponsonby, formerly of…

  30. The end of Bazball

    · 1 h 44 min · S20 E21

    Season 20, Episode 21: It's finally over. Brendon McCullum has gone, Ben Stokes has gone (at least for now), and Rob Key is incongruously the last man standing, tasked with looking for a sensible adult to lead the…

  31. TFW Daily - The big boys are back - England India 1st ODI

    · 30 min

    England v India, 1st ODI, Edgbaston: The ODI series kicked off with some familiar foes returning to the fore. Bumrah, Kohli, and Rohit are returning for the boys in blue, and Joe Root is holding together another…

  32. TFW Daily - A triumph of organisation - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 4

    · 37 min

    Only Test, Lord's, Day 4: A hot day, a crumbling pitch taking turn, and a raft of spinners ready to use it: this was proper. And it will be a result long remembered in India, as the first women's Test at Lord's ended,…

  33. TFW Daily - ECB crash their own party - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 3

    · 45 min

    Only Test, Lord's, Day 3: India continued their ruthless march to a historic victory in the first-ever Women’s Test at the Home of Cricket, but the day will be remembered for another sabotage of a showpiece women’s…

  34. TFW Daily - Heather Knight retires. India in control - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 2

    · 42 min

    Only Test, Lord's, Day 2: Kranti Gaud became the first woman on the Lord’s honours board with a five-wicket haul as India spoiled England’s homecoming party on Day 2 of the Lord’s Test. A record crowd saw England wilt…

  35. TFW Daily - India still stuck in traffic - England India 5th T20

    · 39 min

    England v India, 5th T20, Trent Bridge: Jos Buttler roared back into form with a scintillating century, condemning India to their fourth heavy loss of the series. Harry Brook continued his great run in the format, with…

  36. TFW Daily - The last first - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 1

    · 31 min

    Only Test, Lord's, Day 1: A huge week for women's cricket in England continued at Lord's, with the first women's Test at the venue. It was, to some extent, the last major first for the women's game in the UK. And it…

  37. Story Time 277 – Who else has clinched the Ashes on debut?

    · 1 h 07 min

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a scenic backdrop as Adam dials in from another London cricket club, before we wind all the way back to the beginning of the 1900s, and a bowler who…

  38. TFW Daily - Brook blasts sorry India - England India 4th T20

    · 26 min

    England v India, 4th T20, Trent Bridge: A chastened India team limped to Bristol after 4 demoralising defeats and produced another limp display to be blasted away at the hands of Harry Brook and Phil Salt, but not…

  39. TFW Daily - Gambhir gets angry - England India 3rd T20

    · 29 min

    England v India, 3rd T20, Trent Bridge: An angry Gautam Gambhir has faced the press after a winless start to a tour that held untold promise for India’s T20 dominance. With a record-breaking loss condemning them to a…

  40. Australia wins, but who was watching?

    · 54 min · S20 E20

    Season 20, Episode 20: The morning after the night before, Adam and Geoff discuss a clinical Australian victory over England in a final that was a great event, but circumstances conspired to keep in the back of public…

  41. TFW Daily - Australia restore the timeline - Women's T20 World Cup final

    · 35 min

    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 a perfect sunny afternoon. For Australia, the final test after a…

  42. TFW Daily - The Kid debuts! Sooryavanshi time - England India 2nd T20

    · 32 min

    England v India, 2nd T20, Old Trafford: The day has finally come! Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made his full international debut for India, becoming their youngest player to do so. And what did he do? Walked out and started…

  43. Story Time 276 – Who is Piccolo Jim, and why will his centenary be 2029?

    · 1 h 01 min

    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 few years, but we have found a rather more niche one than the first…

  44. TFW Daily - England are Australia's challenger - Women's T20 World Cup, semi-final 2

    · 21 min

    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 team, and South Africa gave them plenty to worry about. A rollicking…

  45. Hubris and the fall: the sad, mad end of Ben Stokes, Test cricketer

    · 1 h 17 min

    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 least for now, but the time that has passed hasn't made it make any…

  46. TFW Daily - Perry's final fitness scare - Women's T20 World Cup, semi-final 1

    · 32 min

    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 during the national anthems, seemed to galvanise superstar Hayley…

  47. Story Time 275 – Once again, stump becomes weapon

    · 1 h 26 min

    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 slow build from a difficult beginning, and the greatest first day of…

  48. TFW Daily - Ben Stokes chaos ends in superb Kiwi win - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 5

    · 37 min

    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 Zealand team. A sparse, quiet crowd saw the Kiwis' depleted attack…

  49. TFW Daily - Stokes retires, England go bizarre - England NZ, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge Day 4

    · 36 min

    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 prior to the tea break. In an amazing, Stokesian piece of theatre,…

  50. TFW Daily - India's last chance - Women's T20 World Cup, Day 15

    · 28 min

    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 depending on each of the possible results. India needed to beat the…

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