The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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

Episodes

Story Time 266 – Why do bowlers only get 20 percent?

April 10, 2026 • 79 mins
It's Story Time, your weekly walk through cricket history. This week, why is it accepted wisdom that bowlers in limited-overs formats should only get 20 percent of the overs each? Let's have a look. Also this week, a little-known WACA classic, a storied ground whose stories have run out, and the curse of the Mitchells. 2.00 - Joel Emonson 9.10 - Ben Connor 12.10 - David Salter 3.77 - Jack Jorgensen Support the show with a...
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The Final Word with Jake Weatherald

April 9, 2026 • 43 mins
Season 20, Episode 3: We find the Australian Test opener at The Oval, where he’s set to play for Leicestershire against Surrey in the county championship – a gig he only found out he had a couple of weeks ago. It’s emblematic of the 31-year-old’s fascinating and unconventional career so far, which has taken the left-hander far and wide from his Northern Territory home, all in pursuit of his Test dream. Now realised, the Ashes-winni...
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Red-ball cricket shoots emerge from frozen winter ground

April 7, 2026 • 76 mins
Season 20, Episode 2: This won't be the practice every week, but why note spend half an hour talking about the county round to begin the first episode of county season? Red-ball cricket is back in the north, baby, and past Final Word guests are outdoing everyone else. Also this week, tremulous responses to Pat Cummins' back scan, Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the talk of the IPL, South Africa have some contract surprises, and the Women's ...
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Story Time 265 – The Rastafarian Lion of Judah

April 4, 2026 • 87 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Bharat joins Geoff to realise how little they both know about Ethiopia, and to attempt a correction. Is there a cricket link? Of course there is. Also this week, hometown heroes, golden boys, injustices whose sting will never fade, and more than one significant dip in the pool. Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week 6.60 - Terry Hogan 3.63 - Tom McCulloch 2.03...
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The Final Word with Toby Roland-Jones

April 3, 2026 • 57 mins
Season 20, Episode 1: A new season brings new faces and fresh storylines. But it’s also a time to admire those who have been on the circuit for a long time, dedicating themselves summer after summer. Heading into his 17th professional season, a man who has done this with distinction for Middlesex is their big quick and standard-bearer, Toby Roland-Jones. A decade on from his magical hat-trick to win the county championship on the f...
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New Aussie contract list braces for Test overload year

April 1, 2026 • 106 mins
Season 19, Episode 39: It’s our season finale for the Australian cricket season of 2025/26, with a cracker of a Sheffield Shield final run and won over five days, and a new Australian central contract list moving well away from white-ball formats and investing everything in the extraordinary glut of 21 Tests between this August and the following July. Also this week, separate administrator madness in both Pakistan and India, an al...
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The Final Word with Sam Cook - A change is gonna come

March 29, 2026 • 50 mins
Season 19, Episode 38: It’s impossible to avoid more investment in some players’ stories. One for us has been Essex and England seamer Sam Cook. Hs Test debut was a triumph for everyone who believes that hitting the same spot while nipping it around is worthy, regardless of the speed gun. He did so in all conditions for his county and banged down the Test door. That first game at Trent Bridge audition wasn’t enough to keep him ther...
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Story Time 264 - Wave cash at me in the Brunswick Ballroom

March 28, 2026 • 93 mins
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. A fresh combo this week, as Daniel Norcross joins Geoff to discuss one of the least orthodox Nerd Pledges we’ve had - not in content, but in method of delivery. Also, how do you track down someone who has a more illustrious namesake? Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week 50.00 - Kamal Mann 4.21 - Handsome Hammy Goodman and Glamorous Gary Goodman 3.51 - Mathew 3.74 -...
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Much review about nothing: England Ashes accountability falls flat

March 26, 2026 • 71 mins
Season 19, Episode 37: In a necessary two-part weekly show, the first dealt with Australian matters, and now Daniel Norcross joins Geoff to look at England’s supposed review of their Ashes disaster. Also this week, the BCCI released a schedule for next year’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which has surprised everyone; Pakistan’s PSL is in trouble again, and Amelia Kerr is going up yet more gears. Support the show with a Nerd Pledg...
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Cricket Australia to sell the farm? The moment of truth

March 24, 2026 • 88 mins
Season 19, Episode 36: Geoff and Adam are back together at last, after weeks of travel difficulty, and a huge news week means a two-part weekly show. Later this week will come the two-day meeting between Cricket Australia and the state associations to decide whether they should go ahead with trying to sell off the Big Bash League. Of course most involved have spent months positioning the conversation to make sure that happens. Is a...
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Story Time 263 – Paradise is a 1979 Lord’s final

March 22, 2026 • 91 mins
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, the hope of Queensland and the spirit of Somerset, as we return to happier times for domestic cricket. A tale of a Lord’s final of Daniel Norcross’ youth is told with care, as is the career of England’s big boss when he was a big boy plundering runs. Later, an old friend has a clue in for Adam, which relates to yet another book he’s written about the Golden Era of...
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Deano's World XI stunner: 30 years to the day, with his son Koby

March 20, 2026 • 79 mins
Season 19, Episode 35: It was on this day, 21 March 1996, that Dean Jones stepped out in front of his adoring MCG crowd to play against the Australian team that he was so unlucky not to be picked in for the World Cup. The century that followed, in most challenging of conditions, was a marker of just how good he had been since selectors dropped him. Two true believers who were there that afternoon, Adam Collins and Shannon Gill, are...
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The Final Word with Asa Tribe

March 18, 2026 • 63 mins
Season 19, Episode 34: It takes a bit to wear the Next Big Thing tag in English cricket, which is what Asa Tribe has quickly become. A breakout 2025 for Glamorgan and Jersey, with whom he’s played internationals since he was a teenager, saw him vaulted into an England Lions squad, which he made the most of rattling off a classy ton against a strong Australia A. Also earning franchise opportunities overseas, this 21-year-old has the...
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Player auctions are absolutely bonkers

March 16, 2026 • 91 mins
Season 19 Episode 33: Does anyone understand how players end up valued in auctions, like what we saw for The Hundred last week? Daniel Norcross has a crack at explaining it to Adam. They’re on more comfortable ground talking all things Shield and debating controversial dismissals. Later, will the BBL be privatised? Sounds like we’ll know by Easter. Which is when the county championship returns, which will warm us inside and out as ...
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Story Time 262 – A megastar footballer’s weird Shield cameo

March 14, 2026 • 80 mins
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a detailed analysis of every Adam to turn out in a first class game, with the most interesting tale of them all the guy who played only once, yet had time to run into a Final Word fave. Speaking of them, a double from a former guest is featured by Daniel Norcross, who is with Adam this week in the co-host seat. To finish, The Great Barrie Robran’s unexpected Sheff...
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Clare Connor's exit interview

March 12, 2026 • 42 mins
Season 19 Episode 32: Three months from the start of the Women's T20 World Cup, there's nobody better to chart the rise of the women's game in the nine years since England last hosted a global tournament. Clare Connor's fingerprints are all over the transformation ; her ambition, in so many ways, now realised. She speaks with Adam about nearly two decades as managing director of the women's game at the ECB, after announcing she's f...
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HOWMADSCRICKET? (sic)

March 10, 2026 • 68 mins
Season 19 Episode 31: Normal service resumes, kind of, with Geoff joining Adam fresh off a trip to Meredith for a news week headlined by Gulf air routes being shut down, and first-class cricket's first ever triple hat-trick. Plenty on the women's game, with Amelia Kerr setting records while West Indies players get dudded, as well as some boiled-frog World Cup aftermath and another big Shield round. Get 15% off Step One men’s or...
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Story Time 261 – Monty never knew he was a Test captain

March 9, 2026 • 76 mins
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, the man who was Test captain but never knew – an emblem of his peculiar life, told wonderfully by Daniel Norcross. Adam finds an excuse to go back to a beautiful line on contemporary of Bradman who had the knack of stepping up when it mattered most. Later, some love for the long lost tour game, those played in Australia and some others played by Shane Warne. Y...
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TFW Daily - India the GOAT - T20 World Cup 2026, Final

March 8, 2026 • 45 mins
T20 World Cup Daily, 2026, Final – India/New Zealand: It was an all-round display of near-perfection from an Indian team who were too strong, too skilled, and too smart for their opponents on the day that counted the most. Carrying the weight of 1.5bn supporters? No problem. Bharat Sundarsen joins Daniel Norcross. Get 15% off Step One men’s or women’s underwear at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠uk.stepone.life/discount/TFW148⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...
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TFW Daily - Midge leaves a winner - Australia v India Women’s Test 2026

March 8, 2026 • 26 mins
Australia v India Women’s Test, 2026, Perth, Day 3: Alyssa Healy capped off a remarkable career with a final victory. The result was a foregone conclusion, but not before India let the Aussies know that they weren't for rolling over. Despite the respective retirements and results, the future looks bright for both sides. Bharat Sundaresan joins Daniel Norcross. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...
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