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
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October 5, 2026 • 94 mins
Season 21, Episode 1: Another week, a new season, as the southern hemisphere summer swings into action. All things South Africa lead the show, with both that team and Australia making squad changes, some more controversial than others. The one-day World Cup schedule for 2027 is out a year ahead of time, with some surprises and some very unsurprising elements. Mohammed Rizwan is still being hassled by Pakistani cops, Sophie Molineux...
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October 2, 2026 • 105 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, one question: was there any game played in the 19th century that wasn't at Lord's? A self-styled pioneer with a pseudonym certainly got his fill of pavilion lunches. Also, do South Australians play for South Australia? We test facts against myth, as well as an unlikely trip to Los Angeles, and a clean sweep even rarer than we imagined.
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September 30, 2026 • 30 mins
South Africa Australia Daily, 3rd ODI, Potchefstroom: South Africa gave some of their younger players a gallop in the North-West University town, and Australia let their big names stretch their legs. Alex Carey and Pat Cummins made Australia look comfortable, but Oliver Peake and Xavier Bartlett might get the country excited for the future, and Ryan Rickelton and gave South Africa huge momentum. It was set up for another box-office...
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September 29, 2026 • 92 mins
Season 20, Episode 32: We called it: CA chair Mike Baird has been knocked off by New South Wales, and the cricket privatisation war could now turn in any directions Can we short-circuit the conflict by crowdfunding the Renegades, and signing Will Bosisto into the bargain? Over in South Africa, the Aussies are floundering in the pyjamas, Kagiso Rabada has been in the hyperbaric chamber with Kouta, and Pat Cummins may not be fit. Ple...
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September 28, 2026 • 97 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we might need some help to get this one across the line, but there's a world record that need reclaiming from some dubious operators, and it involves Australia's greatest Test captain. Come with us to find out more. Also this week, will the pitchforks need to come out for a contentious TFW opinion? Plus an Oxford student with a wild life and lineage, and a p...
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September 27, 2026 • 36 mins
South Africa Australia Daily, 2nd ODI, Johannesburg: Australia were bullish at the Bullring, talking about levelling the series. South Africa's batters levelled the Australians. The chase was hefty, but the chasing was just as Bison-sized. So could the visitors correct their course this time around, and make use of another massive opening stand? Not when Australia's middle order is busted. Call it Cam Green syndrome.
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September 24, 2026 • 31 mins
South Africa Australia Daily, 1st ODI, Durban: In the lead-up to the Test series, this one-day series has extra significance. Starc was here, so was Hazlewood, with Cummins in the wings. And in true one-day style, this first game twisted, turned, drifted, and dipped. Matthew Breetzke and Big Marco Jansen had a time, then Mitchell Marsh went into overdrive. The result would rely on how to deal with spin. Hello, Ke$hav Maharaj.
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September 22, 2026 • 100 mins
Season 20, Episode 31: With Mike Baird's CA board seat at risk, a resignation has seen an independent spot open up. Deidre Chambers, what a coincidence. Stephen Fleming arrives as England’s adult in the room, while Mark Wood announced his retirement much more slowly than he bowled. Australia have a fun tussle with Zimbabwe on their way to South Africa, Leicestershire’s pitch rating sees them relegated, and Somerset fum...
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September 19, 2026 • 97 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, a massive tangent from Argentine cricket into Argentine global conspiracy theories. Does it make sense? Not sure, come with us anyway. Also this week, a very puzzling New Zealand story that starts in the 1960s, and a burly and bombastic figure who briefly reached the top. Adam and Geoff are at the controls.
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September 17, 2026 • 88 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, what happens when you find a Buttercup Bread scratchie featuring Courtney Walsh from either 1996 or 2000? You find out if we won. Also this week, a disappearing act, tales of the North, and how the best debut wasn't much valued a game later.
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5.39 - Sam Brown
4.07 - Patch Clapp
8.43 - Kevin Cooper
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September 14, 2026 • 89 mins
Season 20, Episode 30: Does anyone have deja vu yet? Another week, another Cricket Australia announcement that they have approved selling the Big Bash even though they can't sell it yet, another round of smashing the panic button to say that if they don't sell now it will be TOO LATE. Also this week, UK race rioters target Pakistani cricketers, but so does the Pakistani cybercrime unit. Indian and Pakistani administrators continue...
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September 13, 2026 • 84 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Geoff and Adam were meant to do four numbers rather than two, but with the Sandpaper Redux tour looming, it seemed an apt time to revisit 2018 in detail. Also this week, a spot of Bradman mythbusting.
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September 12, 2026 • 35 mins
England Pakistan Daily, 3rd Test, Edgbaston Day 4: For a final intoxicating moment, the chance of a miracle continued to beckon. But it would take more than a shock comeback to solve the problems of Pakistan cricket. It is telling that our first reaction after a sensational debut is to fear for that player's future. Such is the mess of mismanagement and disaster. Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon.
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September 11, 2026 • 26 mins
England Pakistan Daily, 3rd Test, Edgbaston Day 3: The obituaries of this Pakistan tour to England will mourn the lack of flair, passion, and the unknown of old, but in Razaullah they have unearthed a player who can swashbuckle with the best of them. Nine sixes on debut, to add to his four first-innings wickets, have the true believers whispering that something special could happen on Day 4. Danyal Rasool joins Adam Collins.
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September 10, 2026 • 32 mins
England Pakistan Daily, 3rd Test, Edgbaston Day 2: There is, for a moment, something to cheer for: a tall charismatic young fast bowler with tungsten hair and a silken wrist. Enter Test cricket, for at least a moment, Razaullah. Indeed, if you started this match halfway through the day, you would say that Pakistan have put up some fight. Their bowlers did. Just try not to think about their preceding innings with the bat, because th...
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September 9, 2026 • 39 mins
England Pakistan Daily, 3rd Test, Edgbaston Day 1: There is, for a moment, something to cheer for: a tall charismatic young fast bowler with tungsten hair and a silken wrist. Enter Test cricket, for at least a moment, Razaullah. Indeed, if you started this match halfway through the day, you would say that Pakistan have put up some fight. Their bowlers did. Just try not to think about their preceding innings with the bat, because th...
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September 8, 2026 • 25 mins
England Pakistan Daily, 3rd Test, Edgbaston preview: As the news of new-look teams gets prepared for the third Test, nobody has any idea who Pakistan might pick to play, or whether any of those players has a future beyond one Test match. Is it time to call for Shahid Afridi? As for England, they can fly under the radar, with the only pressure being on Emilio Gay's season tally and Joe Root's pads. With Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon....
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September 7, 2026 • 97 mins
Season 20, Episode 29: It's always Labuschagne season in Australia. We all thought that his time was done for now, but somehow he's been picked on the trip to his country of birth. What is the rationale from George Bailey and his selection troupe? Also this week, Kevin Pietersen is back for England, Hampshire make an inexplicably bad decision, Brydon Carse gets read the riot act, Mohsin Naqvi keeps digging the hole for the Pakista...
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September 5, 2026 • 67 mins
It’s Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Geoff and Adam ask if batting on all five days of a Test really is the feat we build it up to be? We look at Mali’s brief and unusual international frolic before reflecting on the second glory period of Australian one-day cricket - the mighty Matador Cup.
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September 3, 2026 • 44 mins
Zaheer Abbas is an all-time great. An illustrious international career on top of his first-class exploits in Pakistan and England combined for 46,000 professional runs, telling the story in a line. As the only Asian player to score 100 centuries, he was a ton machine as well as a stylist. His new book, A to Zed, tells those tales, and speaking with Daniel Norcross at The Oval, he adds his dismay at the state of Pakistani cricket no...
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