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.
Episodes
December 9, 2024 • 29 mins
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide review: All square in the Border-Gavaskar, 1-1 heading to Brisbane. And now India are the team with some questions to ponder: what's their best bowling attack? Can Kohli and Rohit still carry their batting? Is it time to make some moves? Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon down at Glenelg beach.
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Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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December 8, 2024 • 24 mins
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 3: It didn't take long on Day 3 to finish off this game, as Mitchell Starc added to his tally and Cummins went hostile at the tail. A mighty turnaround in two and a half days from an Australian team that was on the ropes. Geoff and Adam are in Adelaide.
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Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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TFW Daily - England wallop New Zealand by 323 runs to win series - NZ ENG 2nd Test, Wellington Day 3
December 8, 2024 • 26 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 3: That's a paddlin.
Blimey. And just like that England have romped home. Joe Root and Tom Blundell make tons, but it's England's match and series. Their first in New Zealand since 2008. Jeremy Coney and Cameron Ponsonby review the highs and lows for each team respectively.
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Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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December 7, 2024 • 34 mins
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 2: If we thought Day 1 was hectic, Day 2 did not slow down at all. We thought it had for a while in the first session as Marnus Labuschagne rebuilt his game, but when wickets started to fall then it was time for Travis Head to change gears as only he can. Whooshka. Fights with Siraj, booing and carrying on, more Bumrah moments, then a fiery final session as Australia's bowlers showed th...
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December 7, 2024 • 23 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 2: England's day. England's match. England's series.
Day two finishes with England 533 ahead and showing no signs of stopping. Atkinson takes a hat-trick. Is Bethell England's next No.3? And what on earth has happened to New Zealand. Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.
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Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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December 6, 2024 • 29 mins
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 1: Goodness. Australia came into this game with an advantage in pink-ball cricket, and they needed somebody to take it. Well, Mitchell Starc did. But that was only half of the equation. Could the Aussies withstand Bumrah with the ball? Well, kinda. Meanwhile, we love Nitish Reddy more with each knock, Scotty Boland was back in action, and there was Hall of Fame action galore. A rollicki...
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December 6, 2024 • 22 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 1: Have England already won the series?
On a day where only three batters made above 20, Brook got 123 and was amazing. England looked in all sorts of trouble at numerous points in time, but somehow, a late Brydon Carse burst has them on the brink of victory.
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Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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December 5, 2024 • 22 mins
Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 0: After India battered Australia in Perth, there has been a 10-day break for the home team to get their breath back. They're down one bowler in Josh Hazlewood, and we know who the replacement will be. India, meantime, could pick just about anybody. And is Jaiswal enjoying his final months of low-profile living before stepping into Kohli's spotlight?
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December 3, 2024 • 84 mins
Season 17, Episode 14: Before taking off for Adelaide, Adam and Geoff reflect on an Australian attack that might be in transition earlier than we thought. Beyond the BGT, we farewell Ian Redpath, who has passed away at age 83, celebrate the Renegades, who have won the WBBL for the first time, and congratulate the incoming CA boss - he has a big job ahead. Plenty more, from WTC implications to the Adam Zampa selection stoush to Jay ...
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December 2, 2024 • 95 mins
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, sat in the Sherrin Stand at Victoria Park, Adam goes back to Napoleonic times for one of the most unpleasant characters in the history of the game then Geoff dives into the huge numbers of Imran Khan and Mike Hussey. Also featured, Ben Holioake's magical start and tragic passing.
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November 30, 2024 • 23 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 4: England cruise to an eight-wicket win to go one-nil up in the series.
New Zealand had their chances at the start, but eight drops later and England had a comfortable win. Should Tim Southee play in Wellington? Should Ollie Pope keep the gloves? How good are Brydon Carse and Jacob Bethell? All this and more from Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney.
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November 30, 2024 • 21 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 3: Turns out if you drop eight catches, it's hard to win.
England dominate day three in Christchurch and finish close to securing a win. Only a near-miracle will save New Zealand now. Runs for Ben Stokes. Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse are good and Chris Woakes had a good day overseas. Who'd have thunk it. Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.
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November 29, 2024 • 21 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 2: Use your hands New Zealand. What are you doing!?
Harry Brook is very good at batting, so the Kiwis let him ton up and England get ahead in the game. Should Ollie Pope have actually scored runs or is that silly? Nathan Smith was good on debut.
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Adelaide December 5
Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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TFW Daily - Shoaib Bashir takes four on day one. Is that good? - NZ ENG 1st Test, Christchurch Day 1
November 28, 2024 • 24 mins
New Zealand England Daily, 1st Test, Christchurch Day 1: New Zealand chuck it away. From 199 for three to 319 for eight, it's level, but England are happier.
Kane Williamson is back and in the runs, Shoaib Bashir takes 4fer on a day one green top. But, was it good bowling or did the Black Caps just get it wrong after tea. Cameron Ponsonby is joined by Jeremy Coney to discuss it all.
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November 27, 2024 • 89 mins
Season 17, Episode 13: Okay, we didn't get the dots on, but we did record at Perth's gorgeous campus where for two decades bowlers with suspect actions visited from everywhere. Aaron Chin, a biomechanist who worked on the project, tells us all about it. Earlier, it is everything-other-than-the-BGT on our agenda, including a trip over to Christchurch with Cam Ponsonby. There's also a light-touch IPL auction chat, comparisons between...
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November 26, 2024 • 32 mins
Australia India Daily, 1st Test, Perth review: With the Test done in four days, the dust has not remotely settled. Australia got smashed, the people want change, and the McDonald-Cummins management team wants calm and stability. Those things don't align. Adam and Geoff run over some of the things Australia need to consider, and the good selection problems in India's future.
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November 25, 2024 • 35 mins
Australia India Daily, 1st Test, Perth Day 4: It happened, not exactly in the way we thought it might, but it happened. There was plenty of fun on the fourth and final day for Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh, time for a little more artistry from Jasprit Bumrah, and some fine backup work from Mohammad Siraj and Harshit Rana. A result in Perth that will live long in Test annals.
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November 24, 2024 • 32 mins
Australia India Daily, 1st Test, Perth Day 3: The way things seemed to be going was the way they continued, as India made Australia work in the way that Australia usually makes visiting teams work. This match could have huge ramifications within the sport, but let's focus on the here and now: a day for Jaiswal first, Kohli second, and Bumrah third, with its dramatic denouement.
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November 23, 2024 • 29 mins
Australia India Daily, 1st Test, Perth Day 2: This match was spiralling out of control, and now it has been dragged back to an even keel. An abrupt gear shift in Test cricket, featuring one of the longer and slower last-wicket partnerships you're likely to see, then one of the longer and slower opening stands that modern cricket is likely to produce. Day 2 ends with India with a great chance to shake up expectations for this series...
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November 22, 2024 • 34 mins
Australia India Daily, 1st Test, Perth Day 1: Whooo was expecting that? Was it a good bowl-first day? We still don't know, because everybody got out, on both teams. A fast-bowling clinic from across the world united, in a day full of thrills and not very many spills.
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Adelaide December 5
Brisbane December 12
Melbourne December 22
Sydney January 7
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