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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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Justin Langer for… England??
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...
TFW Daily - Kohli, Rohit attempt final heist - England India 3rd ODI
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 ga...
Story Time 278 – How to kill a Prince of Wales
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...
TFW Daily - Joe Root's edging session – England India, 2nd ODI
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 inni...
Cricket’s hottest rivalry, at Wormsley on August 10th
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 Ta...
The end of Bazball
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...
TFW Daily – Big boys are back in town – England India 1st ODI
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 f...
TFW Daily - A triumph of organisation - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 4
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 l...
TFW Daily – ECB spoils their own party - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 3
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 da...
TFW Daily – Heather Knight retires. India in control - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 2
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...
TFW Daily - India still stuck in traffic - England India 5th T20
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...
TFW Daily - The last first - England India, Women's Test, Lord's Day 1
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 ex...
Story Time 277 – Who else has clinched the Ashes on debut?
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 wi...
TFW Daily - Brook blasts away sorry India - England India 4th T20
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...
TFW Daily – Gambhir gets angry - England India 3rd T20
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 Indi...
Australia wins, but who was watching?
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 gre...
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...