The Final Word Cricket Podcast: Recent Episodes
Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon
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.
England v New Zealand, 3rd ODI at The Oval: Ben Stokes, good grief. He was retired from this format until a week ago, and today at The Oval he’s smacked England’s highest-ever score in the format. It paved the way to another thumping win over New Zealand. Phil Walker, the big boss at Wisden Cricket Monthly, joins Adam to reflect on the carnage. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Sign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignup Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 14, Episode 40: It's easy to forget, but as soon as a few good one-dayers start up again, we get right back into it. Australia have been notching wins in South Africa thanks to the return of the Suber-Sub: did you know that Labuschagne also spells La Sub Change? England's heatwave* is over, Liam Livingstone figures out how to bat for a while, the Test team will be the second-tier ODI team to play Ireland, the Asia Cup is not really happening but a few overs have been bowled, and we said it couldn't happen but Sri Lanka's women beat England in a series. Rajasthan want to buy Yorkshire, there's a full county wrap, and we're joined for a chat by James Nordin and Will Flynn from England's physical disability team.
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If the plan over these four matches is for Jos Buttler to learn a few things and for players to put pressure on selectors, that’s exactly what he got in the series opener at Durham. It was a carve up of the Kiwis, nowhere near their best.
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Season 14, Episode 37: In the closing stages of a close ODI between two Full Member nations, a non-striker run out by the bowler is a big story but not the biggest of the match. The times are indeed changing. In other news, Heath Streak is much more alive than first anticipated, Virat Kohli's beep test is a state secret, Meg Lanning is on the comeback trail as the injury list swallows up Glenn Maxwell, Sophie Ecclestone and Tayla Vlaeminck, and the Hundred ends but not without a final helping of controversy.
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Season 2, Ep 5: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word, it's December 2015. West Indies have just been blown off Bellerive Oval as Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pile on 449, within a whisker of the record for the biggest Australian partnership. We have more mad stats for Voges, who has bettered Mike Hussey's first ten Tests. Also doing their thing were some up-and-coming bowlers named James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. There was Wobby's World versus Warner's World, with Little Davey close to becoming Australian captain. And Grace Harris made the first Women's Big Bash ton. This season was originally recorded for the ABC.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the greatest French cricketer you've never heard of? This story comes thanks to historian John Peck. Daniel Norcross tries to untangle a slew of distinguished 1930s signatures on a bat, we detour via Esther Williams and 1920s silent film, develop a heavy Dutch theme, and look at some of the maddest finishes to T20 matches. An unmissable Story Time.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: Jenny - 3.10 Rooto - 2.10 Richard Jones - 2.01 Sam Brown - 4.11 Ramaswamy - 4.20 Nick Dempsey - 3.65
Solutions: Joe McDavitt, Jeremy Bourke, Jack Jorgensen
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Season 14, Episode 36: Today’s episode is about Scotland, a nation we’ve not given enough time to over the years. Complicating this is the current mess surrounding Cricket Scotland off the field. Following allegations from national players, the board commissioned a report with its authors concluding in July 2022 that cricket in the country was institutionally racist. The board resigned en masse, and the churn of administrators has continued as reports of racist acts continue to occur and to be investigated. While this has played out publicly and bitterly, the Scottish men’s team came within a few balls of qualifying for the one-day World Cup, while Scotland’s women are on the road to professionalism with a generation of players aspiring to qualify for World Cups themselves.
It is here that we pick up our conversations featuring four guests. Toby Bailey - Cricket Scotland’s high-performance boss. Kathryn Bryce - gun all-rounder and captain of the women’s team. Matthew Cross - men’s vice-captain and a veteran behind the stumps. Pete Fitzboydon – Interim chief executive
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Season 14, Episode 35: As time wears relentlessly on, archives and artefacts begin to vanish. That is why this week brings about an important foray into a historical moment of great import: the cricketing intervention of Plucka Duck. Speaking of flightless birds, the Kiwis get overturned in one of the great upsets. Jasprit Bumrah is back ahead of the World Cup, the organising of which continues to be shambolic with more fixture changes, while the World Cup 'mascots' are a front for selling NFTs. Australia chop and change their white-ball squad for South Africa, the thrilling talent of Mahika Gaur will debut for England's women, with that squad drawing debate, South Africa's women are in more captaincy disarray, Harmanpreet Kaur doubles down on her Bangladesh meltdown, the Hundred and Metrobank comps roll on, and there's a new segment of Corporate Bullshit.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week is: 2.46 - Randolph Brazier
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Season 14, Episode 34: This has been on our wish list for a long time - Adam sits down with Indian great Cheteshwar Pujara. And contrary to reports, he's far from done as a Test batter, determined to get back into the side to add to his 19 tons. In this expansive conversation at Hove, where he's dominating for Sussex in county cricket, the 35-year-old goes back to the very start, explaining how both his father and late mother put in place the foundation for a career that has bucked modern trends in the most wonderful way, whilst never forgetting that his first responsibility is to be a good person.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. MCC Cowdrey walks down the MCC steps in the final over of the Test in 1963 against the fearsome Windies with a broken arm... one of the bravest acts in Test history, right? Daniel Norcross, in for Geoff with Adam this weekend, explains why this tale isn't quite how it seems. Then on to Chuck Fleetwood-Smith - distinctive name, striking career - and a couple of Aussie leggies, one better known than the other. Lastly, a challenge for our listeners that we reckon you'll relish.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.61 - Joe McDavitt 14.85 - Brendan Sharry 6.35 - Max Waters 2.85 - Jack Jorgensen 4.00 - Jeremy Bourke
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Season 2, Ep 4: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word, it's the end of 2015! Cue the streamers. Australia have just beaten West Indies at the MCG. Usman Khawaja is making bulk runs, but not as bulk as Adam Voges: averaging 542 against West Indies, moving towards 20 innings batted, averaging 86, over a thousand runs in half a year since debut. Could James Pattinson survive injury? Can Peter Siddle get back in the team? Can Peter Nevill not bat through an entire series? Is this our first tilt at Nathan Lyon passing Murali's 800 wickets? Mitchell Marsh is bowling heat, carrying the burden of being the only Mitchell and the only Marsh in the team. Then it's the inaugural TFW Best & Worst of the year. This season was originally recorded for the ABC.
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Season 14, Episode 33: The most predicable coming-out-of-retirement tale is complete, with Ben Stokes doing as we all knew he would – he’s going to India for the World Cup in October to help England defend their World Cup. A lot more, from our night at The Hundred for Adam’s birthday to Wahab Riaz’s own retirement from international cricket… which he hasn’t played for over three years. Throw in India getting rolled by the Windies, Steve Finn’s retirement and an existential crisis for South African Test cricket and it’s another busy week at Final Word HQ, which for the moment is Daniel Norcross’ sitting room in South London.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week is: 10.60 - Sam Davies
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Season 14, Episode 32: One of our favourites from the earliest days of the pod, and one of the most likeable people in the game - Grace Harris. A international career that started in a hurry before stopping just as quickly, the hard-hitting Queenslander is now back in business at the top level. She’s also making the very most of her opportunities on the short-form circuit, winning fans aplenty in India during the WPL and currently calling Lord’s her home as an overseas import for the London Spirit. Most importantly, a great egg.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Buongiorno from the Eternal City, where history never sleeps and neither does this history program. No Italian cricket on the show but for some reason a lot of Greg Chappell. He could have been one of those bearded Roman soldiers, right? Also, the White Lightning finishes off a classic one-dayer, we squeeze Jack Hobbs' numbers into a certain shape, and do you know which woman played both for and against India?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.07 - Tom Ford & Greg Upon Thames 2.60 - Ian Wolstenhome & Andrew Gardner 2.35 - Tom Lodewycke 6.28 - Rhubarb
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Season 2, Ep 5: Reloading lost episodes from the early Final Word, we're going all the way back to January 2016, where we spent a wet Sydney Test match thinking of songs involving rain rather than watching cricket. West Indies refuse to cook up a run chase, concentrating instead on making 300 in an innings, while James Pattinson gets clobbered by Carlos Braithwaite - remember the name. Nathan Lyon has to go to India, and of historic importance is the moment Steve O'Keefe gets out the glowsticks. Not to mention another major achievement: the week when Geoff wins Dan of the Day in Melbourne pub cricket.
This season was originally recorded for the ABC.
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Season 14, Episode 31: Bharat is home to meet his chickens, Geoff is notionally on holiday, but that doesn't mean there aren't still some cold Ashes ashes to rake over. Usman Khawaja has a curious interpretation of what efficiency means, and Mitchell Marsh has a new temp job. Australia have a preliminary World Cup squad, India still have NFI when the World Cup matches will be, and Alex Hales has no more time for England. West Indies spring a couple of surprises on India in the shortest format, and James Rew keeps surprising everyone.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week is: 7.43 - David Peacock
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Season 14, Episode 30: In their new book, White Hot, journalists (and Final Word regulars) Tim Wigmore and Matt Roller have documented the dominance of the England men's white-ball team, looking at how they went from relative easybeats at the 2015 World Cup in Australia to dual world champions in the same country seven years later. It's a great tale superbly told both in print and in this interview, with England's 50-over defence the next major assignment - starting in just two months from now.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back in the saddle after the Ashes, although technically this episode was not recorded after the Ashes. We bring in Wisden Cricket Monthly Phil Walker for his Mastermind subject, hear from the subject of one of the pledges himself, and take a long tour of northern Queensland trying to figure out just how far everywhere is from everywhere else.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 1.77 - Louis Jackson 3.33 - Phil Jeffs 30.98 - Ciaran O'Kane 5.30 - Steve Dodd
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Season 14, Episode 29: He is just about everybody's favourite, and it's obvious why. Stephen Fry has been a comedy and literary hero for Geoff and Adam, starting with his work on Blackadder and with Hugh Laurie, and building through the decades. He also adores cricket, even though from childhood he hated all other sport. So all these years later he ended up spending a year as president of the Marylebone Cricket Club - both part of and subject to a time of great change. We sit down with Stephen to talk about change, creativity, collaboration, and the difficulties of fighting any sort of system.
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Season 14, Episode 28: There are World Cups coming out our ears, with details of the schedule for the men's T20 version next year starting emerge even while the BCCI is still changing the 50-over schedule that is due to start in two months. "Relax!" they're saying. "Go with the flow!" We also check in with our USA correspondent Cam Ponsonby about Major League Cricket and the mysterious New York stadium - is it too much to hope that it's in Flushing, Queens? The Bangladesh women's team eyes off Test cricket, Australia's women tour Ireland, and the County Championship rolls on.
Your Nerd Pledge number for this week: 4.31 - Michael Fallon
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The Ashes, just in general: We knew it would be big. It always is. We didn't know that four of the five matches would be in balance into their final hour. So much conversation, irritation, celebration over the course of six weeks. Time to look back over it all.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 5: IT IS OVER. We started the day with a chaseable target remaining for Australia. We stopped in the middle for a long time for rain. But either side of that, the series built to the kind of climax that it deserved. Steve Smith was there. So was Moeen Ali. Ben Stokes was involved. As was Travis Head. Chris Woakes did his thing. Todd Murphy was terrific. And at the end, of course, there he was: Stuart Broad.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: It was all about Stuart Broad as the fourth day started at The Oval, but not so much when the bowling began. Australia were supposed to be cooked, but not yet. Usman Khawaja and David Warner put on their best stand of the series before rain once again intervened.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 4: While we were recording the Day 3 Daily show, Stuart Broad decided to retire. Not a helpful piece of timing for podcasters, but very good timing for Broad, who explained his decision as eloquently as ever and has a strong rationale. One of the great Ashes competitors, amongst a far broader career that deserves to be recognised as well, we thought that Stuart Broad was worth an episode of his own. Thanks for all the fun over the journey.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 3: Halfway through the last Test of the series and Bazball was still blazing. Pat Cummins battled, Todd Murphy performed beyond his years, but this was England's day, with Crawley and Duckett starting off the top before Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow had their say. We have one, perhaps two, bumper days to come. And yes, Stuart Broad announced his retirement while we were recording this, so we didn't know.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Fine, it hasn't exactly been weekly in the middle of the Ashes, but we didn't manage to put together this episode. Featuring an innings that left everybody speechless, a detour back to some very early Ashes stories, prodigious feats on a first visit to foreign soil, and another regular six-hitter tallies up.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 19.04 - Matthew Chapple 14.90 - Brett Birkenstock 2.43 - David Honeyball 10.00 - Nigel Browne
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 2: One team pushes ahead, the other pulls them back. So it has been all through this Ashes series. Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne had the go-slow. Stuart Broad got things moving. Steve Smith, was he run out or not? The umpires say no. Todd Murphy smokes some shots off Mark Wood. Pat Cummins is back in the runs. And by the end of day four we have a shootout.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 1: A ridiculous fast-forward day of Test cricket, is it? Of course, as usual in this series. Pat Cummins made a big call and bowled a huge spell, Harry Brook smoked some shots, Moeen Ali had a strange old time, Mitchell Starc was unbelievable, and Todd Murphy got involved. The final Ashes Test of 2023 is well underway.
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The Ashes, 5th Test at The Oval, Day 0: And so it comes to this. And so we face the final curtain. The Test season ends where it began, fittingly at The Oval. Time is a flat circle. The sun is out. The Australians are in the nets. Geoff and Adam are watching on. What is to come?
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Whenever we see someone from the creative world tweeting up a storm during the cricket, it gets our attention. So it has been over the last six weeks with Patrick Brammall, one of Australia's most recognisable and talented actors. His most recent show, Colin From Accounts, which he writes and stars in with his wife Harriet Dyer, has enjoyed enormous success both at home and in the UK as one of the most-watched comedies of 2023. Out of that, he's been nominated for two silver Logies. With that ceremony and the final Ashes Test in the same week, there was no better time to speak with him from Los Angeles. A lovely fella.
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Season 14, Episode 26: Crazy scenes, not just because Indian women's captain Harmanpreet Kaur smashed her stumps over in a rage, but because she and other teammates persisted in effectively calling the umpires cheats after the match. All because India tied a series with Bangladesh. Also this week, Ian Botham makes an arse of himself, we look at Nat Sciver-Brunt's hot streak against Australia, Pakistan roll over Sri Lanka, there's a very funny county round, and England Test century-maker Alice Davidson-Richards joins the show to speak about her family's experience with Alzheimer's.
Your Nerd Pledge number for this week: 1.35 - Jeremy Nash
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 6: Plenty going on after the Manchester washout, with emotions running high between two sets of supporters and between everybody else involved. It been another hectic series. We look over all of that, and what might be to come with one more engagement at The Oval.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 5: Curses. Oaths and castigations. For those hoping for a grandstand finish, you hoped in vain. The elements were victorious, as they will be when we are all gone. The destination of the trophy is determined. So what does that mean for the series? What is to come at The Oval for the deciding Test? Where to from here?
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West Indies v India, Port of Spain Day 3: With rain at Old Trafford, why not switch to Port of Spain where rain was less of a feature? Virat Kohli made Test century 29, while the old firm combined: Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin. Kraigg Braithwaite and Alick Athanaze battled away for West Indies.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 4: We were supposed to have a washout, and it looked that way. But after a lot of rain, the ground staff went to work and prised out 30 overs of play. Enough for a Test century against the grain, some fierce fast stuff, a spin-bowling anomaly, and a fashion statement from one of our most discussed umpires. This Test is still alive.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 3: It went big, it went big, and it went bigger. Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, sure. Then it was the Jonny Bairstow Entertainment Hour, with Alex Carey front and centre. Pat Cummins had a moment, Josh Hazlewood dug deep, and then it was time for Mark Wood to once again crank up the speedo and let fly. A third action-filled day in Manchester - now let's see what the weather gods have in store.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 2: It doesn't get more dominant than that. We were promised an England team that would try all-out attack against the Australian bowlers to get on top of a game. By the fourth Test, it unequivocally happened. Zak Crawley had one of the biggest Ashes days out, Joe Root rode shotgun, and Pat Cummins' team was left picking up the pieces after just two days of this match.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 1: A helter skelter game is promised, with rain on the weekend and England especially needing to make sure this does not end in a draw, so they went full tilt into Day 1, while Day 1 tilted one way and then the other. More Marsh Magic, Travis Head lays in, Stuart Broad takes his 600th wicket, Chris Woakes does the business once again. A brilliant day of Test cricket, back and forth.
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The Women's Ashes, 3rd ODI at Southampton, Day 11: It's all over! Seven matches, 11 days, and more tightly fought moments than we can even remember, England were not going away despite conceding the trophy and Australia had to get ready to brawl. It was a day when Natalie Sciver-Brunt achieved the unbelievable to cap off a historic personal streak, when Ellyse Perry had to shoulder the load again, and when maybe justice was done. Finish off the best Women's Ashes series that we've seen, with guest hosts Melissa Story and Phil Long.
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The Ashes, 4th Test at Old Trafford, Day 0: The Ashes are sitting at 2-1 with two to play. Everything riding on the next week in Manchester. We already know England's team, and there's been a lot of discussion about how Australia's should be formed. One person who knows more than most is Bharat Sundaresan, the Net Whisperer, as usual spending his days at training. Let's look ahead to the next five days.
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Season 14, Episode 25: The Manchester Test is looming this week, with selection questions ahoy - none more substantial than whether David Warner will open the batting for Australia. There are several configurations that could come into effect if he doesn't. Meanwhile, England go early on their XI again and we get that one right. The Women's Ashes trophy is no longer in the balance but the series is. Also this week, India in the Caribbean, Pakistan at the new home of Test cricket in Galle, T20 Finals Day, some news from the big ICC meeting, Big Bash developments, and a strange round of the County Championship.
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The Women's Ashes, 2nd ODI at Southampton, Day 10: There is no such thing as a normal match in this series. Again, it goes right down to the final ball. Again, it turns, turns, turns again. Again, there are standout performances: Nat Sciver-Brunt, Georgia Wareham, Sophie Ecclestone, Alana King, Ellyse Perry. Find out how it all unfolded.
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Season 14, Episode 24: You'd better believe it. One of the legends of the women's game, someone we talk about on Story Time every other week. She made a century on debut in both formats, took 10 wickets and made a hundred in the same Test, and was the key player in winning the first World Cup in 1973. All of this with no money, little help, a job to attend and a family to support. She is spectacular, and Enid Bakewell made time to join The Final Word.
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West Indies v India, Dominica Day 2: We won't get to see much of this Test match, but with a couple of slower days this week we did have time to check out another five-wicket bag for Ashwin and a century on debut for Yashasvi Jaiswal. Why not record a show?
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, after a bit too much Ashes madness to record the show as normal, we've managed to sneak one in. Title thanks to Winnie, and we'll find out about someone else who hit a lot of big ones, maybe more than anybody. We've got a masterpiece of placement, and we have an Englishman, an Irishman, and a South African walking into a bar.
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The Women's Ashes, 1st ODI at Bristol, Day 9: Another absolute thriller, right to the end. And, three in a row for England! A week ago they needed five in a row. Well, here they are, still in contention, and taking it up to the mighty Australians, who are still not their best selves. Something remarkable is happening, although Beth Mooney was her usual self with the bat, and Ash Gardner the same alongside Jess Jonassen and Georgia Wareham in the spin division. It all came down to Heather Knight and Kate Cross... Melissa Story joins Geoff with the tale.
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Season 14, Episode 23: Finally, a normal weekly show. Plenty going on, with both men's Ashes teams getting clobbered for slow over rates, deservedly, and the women's Ashes teams gearing up for the three ODIs that will decide the destination of the trophy. Also this week, India get ready for some Caribbean Test cricket, Dominica is back on the schedule after its awful hurricane, the Bangladesh Prime Minister gets herself involved in a Tamim Iqbal story, the Dutch reach the ODI World Cup, and we talk to Cam Ponsonby from Houston ahead of Major League Cricket.
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 5: No play on what would have been the last day, but plenty to think about. Three Tests, three close finishes, and a series that has been all twists and turns with barely a quiet hour. Who has come out of it well, who has struggled, what are some of the moves that might come next? We have it all on The Final Word.
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 4: Who doesn't love a last-day run chase? It was Day 4 at Headingley, it was a Sunday, and it wasn't quite 2019, but it wasn't a million miles away. Plenty of angst, tension, twists and turns from the final day of this third Ashes Test, with salutations to Harry Brook and Mitchell Starc.
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The Women's Ashes, 3rd T20 at Lord's, Day 8: The series is STILL alive! The mighty Australians have lost a T20 series for the first time in six years, England take them down for the second match running, in front of yet another record crowd, this time at Lord's. A triumph in general, and a triumph for the home team - now they need to keep on winning in the ODI series to follow. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 3: Rain, delays, leaden skies, then finally coming out to bat, it was all in favour of England. It was all going the way of Woakes, Broad, Wood. And then Travis Head happened, again. Just another chapter in this endlessly wild Ashes series. Perfectly set up for a finish on Day 4.
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 2: It was all set up with a Yorkshire pair coming to the middle in Yorkshire, but Pat Cummins had other ideas. Then Mark Wood had other ideas to that. Then Ben Stokes had the same idea as Ben Stokes usually has. Has there been a normal day of cricket in this series? No! The hits just keep on coming, as do the Steve Smith bright ideas. Until he started batting. Another truly bonkers day, get into it.
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Headingley, Day 1: Here we are in Leeds. A fast track, plenty of pace and bounce, and a fast bowler to make use of it with Mark Wood coming back. But, wait, a minute, what's that? Is that... is that Mitchell Marsh's music? What an opening day of the third Test!
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The Women's Ashes, 2nd T20 at Edgbaston, Day 7: The series is alive! England needed to win five in a row to have a shot at taking the trophy off Australia... and they have their first. A record-breaking night at The Oval: crowd, runs, and the bloody length of that Georgia Wareham six.
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The Ashes, 3rd Test at Lord's, Day 0: Just three days since Lord's and we'll be back in action at Leeds, in one of the more febrile Ashes environments imaginable. The day before play, Bharat Sundaresan has already been having some run-ins with the local Yorkshire police, and Adam is at Headingley with him while Geoff heads to the Women's Ashes game in London. England have made a stack of changes, Australia will make one and perhaps two - but is there a bigger surprise in the works?
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Season 14, Episode 22: A day after the wildness at Lord's, we look back and try to take its measure. Meanwhile, in the world beyond the ground, the story has only got bigger. Adam and Geoff try to puzzle out the conflict. Then we speak to Wisden's Yas Rana about English cricket's ICEC report into discrimination, and the recommendations to change it. Plus the World Cup qualifiers and - at last - a World Cup schedule.
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The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 5: What the absolute fridge. That was Headingley Mach II for a while, with Ben Stokes reaching heights that seemingly only he can find. It was a grudge match, too, with Lord's ridden with angst. And it was a fast bowling vindication in the end, as the bouncer war was finally won. Angry fans, discontent, invocations of the Spirit of Cricket, and some very ugly scenes in the Long Room - this end to the Test was extraordinary, unedifying, and all kinds of other things besides.
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The Women's Ashes, 1st T20 at Edgbaston, Day 6: A stunning day for women's cricket, with nearly 20,000 filling Edbgaston for the start of the T20 series. Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran were there with Geoff and Adam sidelined by the scheduling clash with the Lord's Test. A Sophia Dunkley milestone, an Amy Jones hometown moment, and another ice-cold Beth Mooney masterclass would follow.
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The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 4: The days don't get any quieter. Bouncer wars. Bizarro Steve Smith stuff. Nathan Lyon batting on one leg. A late burst from Mitchell Starc, a late burst from Pat Cummins. Another controversial catch, or non catch. The chance of a big chase, still alive overnight, with Ben Stokes still there. We had it all.
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The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 3: If life is all about about learning things and getting better, then England missed that directive. More madness on the third day at Lord's, before the Australians responded with sanity, though this came amidst a bowling contest that was as gripping as they come.
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The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 2: What on earth was that? Another manic day of Test match cricket as England were set a challenge and went after it in wild style. Nobody knew what they were seeing, but most of them had some fun. Plus a bunch of Steve Smith records, and an injury that could shape the series.
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The Ashes, 2nd Test at Lord's, Day 1: After a lot of talk, it's time for the second Test. England won the toss and bowled under cloudy skies, but things went every which way from there: some David Warner, a lot of Steve Smith, and a healthy dash of Joe Root involved. Quite the occasion in front of a packed crowd.
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Adam and Rachel's Wedding, Day 1: You asked, so you shall receive. Adam decided to get married in the middle of an Ashes series, so his wedding gets the regular TFW Daily treatment, from the rooftop drinks reception after the ceremony in central London. Thanks to previous TFW guest hosts Daniel Norcross, Bharat Sundaresan, Isabelle Westbury, Ben Jones and Henry Moeran. And yes, Geoff did his shopping at Westfield.
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Season 14, Episode 21: It’s all we talk about. Everyone who watches cricket will go on about the pitch - too flat, too fast, too dry, too green - and almost none of us knows anything about them How are they made? What do the adjectives mean? What is the process? In a special request episode for Legend Tier Nerd Pledger Simon Wallace, we find out, with Lord’s head groundsman, or curator if you will, Karl McDermott.
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Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 5: We're never got to type that before! It ended quickly on the fifth morning, but a memorable result with a very memorable Ash Gardner performance. A double ton plus two ten-wicket matches? Stop it.
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Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 4: Ok, the rollercoaster has started again. This match twisted and turned on Day 4 in ways that we would not have anticipated on the previous three. A glorious session from England, then a terrible one, a remarkable solo performance from Sophie Ecclestone, and a day of interesting work from Alyssa Healy. It's all to play for one Day 5.
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Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 3: A historic day: no England woman had ever made a double century before, in any format, and now that has changed forever. Tammy Beaumont, takes a bow. There was plenty of toil for the Australians, then some impressive bowling at the back end. Three days done, and this match could go anywhere from here.
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Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 2: Annabel Sutherland achieved something significant on the second day, and helped her team a long way in the process. But England have responded in barnstorming style as the runs continue to flow.
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Women's Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, Day 1: On a fast track with good bounce, the runs flowed and the wickets eventually came. Ellyse Perry made a stunning 99, Australia's next tier of all-rounders made their mark, and Sophie Ecclestone put in a huge shift. Thoroughly entertaining on Day 1.
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Season 14, Episode 20: Well, with a night and a day to think about, we can start to come to terms with what we saw in Birmingham yesterday. An extraordinary day, with some bigger themes to come out of it than what we could address in the Daily show looking more at the action on the field. Also this week, our preview of the Women's Ashes Test with Geoff at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, and we look at some remarkable results from the 2023 World Cup qualifiers.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 5: What a finish. What a day. One of the all-time great Test matches, one of the closest results. The rhymes of history were all there, but we didn't think it could be as good. We were wrong. Don't read any more, just listen.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 4: Hooollly schmackerel. We have a blazing Test match on our hands. England went utterly wild on the fourth day, brilliantly and mad-eyed, especially Joe Root. Australia fought like hell to hold them back, especially Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins. And then England set them 281 to win, when in 2005 this Test required 282. It's fate. There was still time for a Broad special. Don't miss the last act.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 3: There was rain, but it only added to the atmosphere in a brilliant short burst on the third afternoon. England were feeling pretty good with the ball but have early worries with the bat. Almost level on the first innings, the Test is brilliantly set up after three days.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a special episode recorded after the first day of the first Ashes Test. A little weariness makes for more contemplation, and a lot more being sidetracked. Come for the cricket, stay for the examination of historical conspiracy theories, and a journey through terrible sport team names.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 2: Another ridiculously good day, with a Broad morning and a Khawaja afternoon. Two in two, lots of misses, and the worst hat-trick ball in history - get it all on The Final Word.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 1: And we're away. England batted first and kinda tried to Bazball, but it didn't entirely come off. Joe Root played a blinder, Jonny Bairstow made a comeback, Harry Brook had one of the strangest dismissals you'll ever see. Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland impressed again, Josh Hazlewood looked good. And there was a real twist ending to the day. Find out about it all with The Final Word.
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The Ashes, 1st Test at Edgbaston, Day 0: We're almost ready. The day before the action starts, Adam and Geoff get together in the Hollies Stand - quiet now, but not for long.
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Season 14, Episode 19: It's only been 18 months since the last time the urn was played for but it feels like an eternity. For England, everything really has changed since Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes took over a broken side. Now, for the series this has all been leading up to - The Ashes. And they take this with Moeen Ali back in the team after having not touched a red ball for the better part of two years. Ali Martin, another Birmingham native, knows the England all-rounder well and joins us to piece that together. Also on the show: WTC washup, Bluey does cricket, the Lottie Cup stays put, and Heather Knight's side name their Test squad for Trent Bridge. Recorded on location at Westfield London.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a lot of different threads lead us back to a certain European autumn over a century ago. There is also a dusty week in Sydney, the 1008 names of Lord Shiva, one of the most forgotten domestic competitions ever, a pioneering slip catcher, and the biggest day in Birmingham. All recorded on a hot summer day in Adam's garden with the bumblebees bumbling about. Wholesome as, tuck in.
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World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 5: It started with expectation but it ended expeditiously. Scott Boland and those short bursts of time, hey? Find out how everything came together on the last day of the WTC final.
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World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 4: You'll hear a lot about controversy today, so let's rip into it first. The catch that was, from Cameron Green off Shubman Gill. Also, more important work from Carey, and some fire and ice from Kohli and Rahane.
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World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 3: A classic day at The Oval as India came back into the contest, throwing the bat and then delivering with the ball, while Australia went blow for blow at times but lacked the polish at key moments. Compelling, even though India remain behind in the contest. Ajinkya Rahane, Shardul Thakur, Pat Cummins and Scott Boland were all prominent.
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World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 2: It started in a hurry with a Steve Smith hundred, but the game changed several times from there. India's bowlers did some hard work, Alex Carey combined the classy and the comical, then Australia's bowlers found something extra. Don't miss a packed day from The Oval.
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World Test Championship, India v Australia Day 1: It was long awaited, then it was here. A high-octane morning session from Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj, then a spectacular riposte from Travis Head, and the anticipation was deserved. Find out all about day one from London.
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Season 14, Episode 18: Three years after his first appearance, Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom returns to the show for a conversation at Lord's, looking at the structural challenges as they now stand, and the possible impact of the new ICC revenue deal. Also this week, after your hosts played their own match at Alleyn Cricket Club, England's key spinner is out of the Ashes, Josh Hazlewood is out of the WTC final, and we have some very good news pertaining to a Test match that happened in 1977.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a show that could also have been titled Wally Grout is Grouse. Where did that word go? Before we ponder that big question, a true sensation of a tale that we had never heard before, about a player trying to take his place in the middle against all medical sense. Plus a couple of the most extraordinary revisit solutions for stubborn unsolved numbers, including more Ramaswamy than even Ramaswamy would have expected. Of all episodes, this week you must stay through to the end.
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Australia v West Indies Day 5 at Perth: the Australians notch a win to start the series after Nathan Lyon bagged six wickets. But it was not without some resistance from West Indies, notably Roston Chase and Alzarri Joseph. 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia v West Indies Day 4 at Perth, marked by twin tons for Marnus Labuschagne as his team set up a declaration, before Kraig Brathwaite made his first century against Australia.20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind us at finalwordcricket.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Day 3 at Perth, and Australia had to work hard against some dogged West Indies resistance. The hosts are still well on top though.20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind us at finalwordcricket.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Day 2 of the Australian Test summer, and the run twins went absolutely crazy. But perhaps not everything will go Australia's way after a good West Indies response?
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Day 1 of the Australian Test summer, with a building West Indies team arriving in the city of Perth that their predecessors used to own. Catch up on everything you might have missed.
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Season 13, Ep 9: With Australia's Test summer against West Indies about to start, captain Pat Cummins had some strong answers to the inevitable questions about Justin Langer's past week of activity. And after eight years of waiting, the Adelaide Strikers won their first WBBL trophy. Also this week, Tanya Aldred and Matt Oldfield talk about writing cricket books for kids, and we loop back to the Australian captain via Tanya's expert subject of how cricket relates to climate change.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the universe bends us unerringly back towards Rahul Dravid - but what was really his motivation? What was cricket's greatest period of stability? What really went on in the year before Billy Corgan wrote his hit, and what does the current Swedish coach have to do with anything? Find out from the only place tackling the big questions.
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Season 13, Ep 8: The day before the Melbourne ODI, England batter and sometime keeper Sam Billings sits down with us in the big seating bowl to talk life, opportunity, long road trips, posh schools, public perception, the sense of home, and the liberation of letting go. A great conversation with an eloquent player. Also this week: the crowded schedule, the women's Big Bash versus AFLW, and some local cricket fun with running out the non-striker.
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Wednesday November 23rd is the date, 6:30pm at the Mission to Seafarers on Flinders Street, for the most fun time you will have with a podcast this year. Yes, we're keeping expectations modest. Today we're at the MCG, recording the weekly show and trying not to freeze, so we thought we would ramble away for five minutes to entertain you and remind you at the same time. The Final Word LIVE in Melbourne with Chris Rogers: tickets are here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we've never recorded a show in the bath before, so why not change things up? That was after starting the episode at Reid Oval in Warrnambool, where Adam used to play cricket as a teenager. On the show, the dancefloor antics of Dodger Whysall, some Scott Boland detours on our way to Harrow, perfect squares, the GM Diamond, and some good Scottish times. As a one-off, this episode is also available as a video shot by Cam Fink. And it also begins with one of Cam's signature bizarre stories, which took place in front of us this very same day.
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A bonus Daily! Our road trip ended in Adelaide, so we shot one more video show with Cam Fink which is also an audio show here. Australia and England played in the not very highly anticipated ODI series, in which a number of interesting things did in fact happen.
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Season 13, Ep 7: A lot to get through in a short time: he ICC sponsorship with crypto has collapsed along with the FTX exchange, Glenn Maxwell breaks his leg, David Warner talks about his future, the T20 World Cup washes up, there's a sprinkling of domestic cricket. And we are on our road trip through country Victoria, recording the first half of this show in Port Fairy, then stopping by Pomborneit to find out how a tiny district of 191 people is building one of the most successful cricket clubs in Australia.
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Season 13, Ep 7: A lot to get through in a short time: he ICC sponsorship with crypto has collapsed along with the FTX exchange, Glenn Maxwell breaks his leg, David Warner talks about his future, the T20 World Cup washes up, there's a sprinkling of domestic cricket. And we are on our road trip through country Victoria, recording the first half of this show in Port Fairy, then stopping by Pomborneit to find out how a tiny district of 191 people is building one of the most successful cricket clubs in Australia.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a show bumped from the weekend by the T20 World Cup final, it's time to explore what is a wonderful phrase. Also, how does Muttiah Muralitharan link to Hungarian cricket, what happened in the Perth Under-13s, and would one of cricket's most elegant performers ever drive the Lube Mobile?
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, in a show bumped from the weekend by the T20 World Cup final, it's time to explore what is a wonderful phrase. Also, how does Muttiah Muralitharan link to Hungarian cricket, what happened in the Perth Under-13s, and would one of cricket's most elegant performers ever drive the Lube Mobile?
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England's men won their second T20 World Cup. Apologies for the audio quality - after tech problems at half past midnight, we didn't have the means to re-record this episode.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. It's time for the final! As long as the rain permits. We are back in Melbourne and ready to go, gathering some friends at the rooftop bar Johnny's Green Room on historic Lygon Street. Find this episode on the YouTube channel for some beautiful cinematography from Cameron Fink as the sky fades and the city lights up in Melbourne. What a night. Thanks to Visit Melbourne - plan your Melbourne moment at VisitMelbourne.com.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. It's time for the final! As long as the rain permits. We are back in Melbourne and ready to go, gathering some friends at the rooftop bar Johnny's Green Room on historic Lygon Street. Find this episode on the YouTube channel for some beautiful cinematography from Cameron Fink as the sky fades and the city lights up in Melbourne. What a night. Thanks to Visit Melbourne - plan your Melbourne moment at VisitMelbourne.com.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England cruised to the World Cup final after humiliating India in South Adelaide. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England cruised to the World Cup final after humiliating India in South Adelaide. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan played superbly against New Zealand to secure a play in the final at MCG on Sunday. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan played superbly against New Zealand to secure a play in the final at MCG on Sunday. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 13, Ep 6: As the Australians went out of the T20 World Cup last week, it was the chance that various Justin Langer allies in media jobs had been waiting for. Daniel Brettig of The Age joins the show to talk through why a certain chunk of the population is so pissed off in general with the current Australian team. Also this week, the PM's XI team was announced in support of the Test and ODI squads, and we catch up on the WBBL and Sheffield Shield.
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Season 13, Ep 6: As the Australians went out of the T20 World Cup last week, it was the chance that various Justin Langer allies in media jobs had been waiting for. Daniel Brettig of The Age joins the show to talk through why a certain chunk of the population is so pissed off in general with the current Australian team. Also this week, the PM's XI team was announced in support of the Test and ODI squads, and we catch up on the WBBL and Sheffield Shield.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan sealed a semi final spot after South Africa lost to the Netherlands, and India topped group 2. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan sealed a semi final spot after South Africa lost to the Netherlands, and India topped group 2. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England are through to the next stage after beating a resilient Sri Lanka side at the SCG.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, England are through to the next stage after beating a resilient Sri Lanka side at the SCG.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Australia beat Afghanistan but not by enough runs. They now need Sri Lanka to beat England to progress to the next round. Meanwhile, New Zealand beat Ireland.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan secured their second Super 12 win to keep their hopes alive.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, India held their nerve to beat Bangladesh in the rain in Adelaide, and the Netherlands clinched their first win in Group 2.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. England beat New Zealand again at a World Cup, by 20 runs, and Sri Lanka kept their hopes alive after beating Afghanistan.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. England beat New Zealand again at a World Cup, by 20 runs, and Sri Lanka kept their hopes alive after beating Afghanistan.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Australia did what they needed to do, beating Ireland by 42 runs, but were still well short of the margin they needed.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, South Africa shocked India in Perth. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, South Africa shocked India in Perth. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan claimed their first win and Zimbabwe narrowly lost to Bangladesh Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Pakistan claimed their first win and Zimbabwe narrowly lost to Bangladesh Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, if you were downloading a Queensland cricketer, who would it be? How does the Axel F theme song from Beverly Hills Cop relate to umpire Ross Emerson? What did Bradman say in his sleep? And can Geoff hunt down the revisit of his nemesis, Rob O'Neill?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.61 - Ciaran Wilcox 6.47 - Sexy Ryan Thomas 3.68 - Sam Litster 2.52 - Rahul Venkat 5.00 - Sarah Berman 12.33 - Chris Unwin
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, if you were downloading a Queensland cricketer, who would it be? How does the Axel F theme song from Beverly Hills Cop relate to umpire Ross Emerson? What did Bradman say in his sleep? And can Geoff hunt down the revisit of his nemesis, Rob O'Neill?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.61 - Ciaran Wilcox 6.47 - Sexy Ryan Thomas 3.68 - Sam Litster 2.52 - Rahul Venkat 5.00 - Sarah Berman 12.33 - Chris Unwin
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, there was only one match for a Saturday - a big Group A contest between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, there was only one match for a Saturday - a big Group A contest between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, the rain washed out Australia versus England, and New Zealand versus Afghanistan, with a range of repercussions fro Group A. Also, Geoff and Adam recap the previous night's very late match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Kohli lit up the big stage again, helping India beat the Netherlands, and South Africa sealed their first win after beating Bangladesh. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Kohli lit up the big stage again, helping India beat the Netherlands, and South Africa sealed their first win after beating Bangladesh. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 13, Ep 5.2: Not many people have a more varied cricket story than Ryan Campbell. A wicketkeeping-batting pioneer alongside Adam Gilchrist, a part of Australia's greatest era, an early retiree, a life in Hong Kong that culminated in playing for a second country, years coaching and forming close bonds with a third in Netherlands. After a near-death experience this year, his Dutch career is ending in Australia at a World Cup, as he comes to terms with the recent past and works out what might be next. A wonderfully open interview with Ryan Campbell.
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Season 13, Ep 5.2: Not many people have a more varied cricket story than Ryan Campbell. A wicketkeeping-batting pioneer alongside Adam Gilchrist, a part of Australia's greatest era, an early retiree, a life in Hong Kong that culminated in playing for a second country, years coaching and forming close bonds with a third in Netherlands. After a near-death experience this year, his Dutch career is ending in Australia at a World Cup, as he comes to terms with the recent past and works out what might be next. A wonderfully open interview with Ryan Campbell.
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Season 13, Ep 5.1: This was meant to be the intro to our interview with Ryan Campbell, the wicketkeeping-batting pioneer and Dutch coach, but predictably we talked for too long. So we've split the interview off from this half episode, in which upcoming book releases from Tim Paine and Faf du Plessis re-open recent unpleasant episodes, as Geoff and Adam convene in their home town of Melbourne.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.99 – Tim Harding & Dannish Babar.
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Season 13, Ep 5.1: This was meant to be the intro to our interview with Ryan Campbell, the wicketkeeping-batting pioneer and Dutch coach, but predictably we talked for too long. So we've split the interview off from this half episode, in which upcoming book releases from Tim Paine and Faf du Plessis re-open recent unpleasant episodes, as Geoff and Adam convene in their home town of Melbourne.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.99 – Tim Harding & Dannish Babar.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, there was another shock win…as Ireland beat England, and the rain wreaked havoc again, forcing the match between New Zealand and Afghanistan to be abandoned. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Australia claimed their first win at the World Cup, thanks to Marcus Stoinis’ superb knock in Western Australia. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an abandoned Adelaide department store takes centre stage, along with another City of Churches link to a pioneering family from Gujarat. We have 5-a-side goalkeepers, the West Gippsland Cricket Association, and Boris Johnson pulls out.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.37 - Alex Veljanovski 2.30 - Sebastian Greers 13.62 - Andrew Lowcock 1.43 - Matt Keane 5.50 - Joel Burton 16.10 - James Ralston
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an abandoned Adelaide department store takes centre stage, along with another City of Churches link to a pioneering family from Gujarat. We have 5-a-side goalkeepers, the West Gippsland Cricket Association, and Boris Johnson pulls out.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.37 - Alex Veljanovski 2.30 - Sebastian Greers 13.62 - Andrew Lowcock 1.43 - Matt Keane 5.50 - Joel Burton 16.10 - James Ralston
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Bangladesh started the tournament brilliantly, beating a resilient Netherlands side. Sadly, the rain halted play between South Africa and Zimbabwe, forcing the match to be abandoned. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, India edged past Pakistan in a thriller at the MCG and Sri Lanka cruised past Ireland. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, India edged past Pakistan in a thriller at the MCG and Sri Lanka cruised past Ireland. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, hosts and defending champions Australia were humbled by New Zealand. Brought to you by CBUS Super, making hard work pay off: cbussuper.com.au Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Ireland and Zimbabwe clinched spots in the Super 12. However, the West Indies crashed out.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Namibia failed to qualify for the Super 12 after losing a close one to the UAE. Sri Lanka and the Netherlands are through to the next stage. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Namibia failed to qualify for the Super 12 after losing a close one to the UAE. Sri Lanka and the Netherlands are through to the next stage. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, the West Indies dug deep to beat Zimbabwe, and Scotland are still in it after beating Ireland. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 13, Ep 4: As climate catastrophes worsen by the year, the International Cricket Council has decided to promote the world's biggest oil company as cricket's major sponsor. As a bonus, it's the company that bankrolls the murderous Saudi Arabian government, who are also hunting sportswashing opportunities through English football and their rebel golf tour. This is in the same week as Cricket Australia announces an end to its sponsorship from another major fossil fuel company, while Netball Australia alienates its players by taking the cash from Gina Rinehart's mining empire. Elsewhere this week, the WBBL starts with a bang, and the ultimate cricket veteran, Scyld Berry, joins the show despite never having listened to a podcast.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 6.48 – Matt Wust / Fake Patch Clapp.
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Season 13, Ep 4: As climate catastrophes worsen by the year, the International Cricket Council has decided to promote the world's biggest oil company as cricket's major sponsor. As a bonus, it's the company that bankrolls the murderous Saudi Arabian government, who are also hunting sportswashing opportunities through English football and their rebel golf tour. This is in the same week as Cricket Australia announces an end to its sponsorship from another major fossil fuel company, while Netball Australia alienates its players by taking the cash from Gina Rinehart's mining empire. Elsewhere this week, the WBBL starts with a bang, and the ultimate cricket veteran, Scyld Berry, joins the show despite never having listened to a podcast.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 6.48 – Matt Wust / Fake Patch Clapp.
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Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Sri Lanka secured their first win at the World Cup, beating the UAE with ease, and the Netherlands have won back-to-back matches. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, there was another major upset as Scotland comfortably beat the 2015 winners West Indies, and Zimbabwe eased past Ireland. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Namibia produced a stunning performance against Sri Lanka, and Netherlands went all the way to the line against the UAE. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Australia hosts the 2022 T20 World Cup, and we'll have every day covered for you. Today, Namibia produced a stunning performance against Sri Lanka, and Netherlands went all the way to the line against the UAE. Brought to you by Visit Melbourne. Plan your Melbourne Moment at visitmelbourne.com Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find us at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 3, Ep 9: Once upon a time, all we used to talk about on The Final Word was what had happened in cricket matches. This episode is from late January 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration week, in which Billy Stanlake was King of Geelong, Glenn Maxwell was switch-hitting to the moon, an exorcism was held against Marsh spirits, Peter Handscomb made his one-day debut, Allan Border was prohibited from getting old, Yuvraj Singh kept going for India aged 57, and Jess Cameron combined with Amy Satterthwaite for one of the wildest last-ball finishes ever.
This season was originally recorded for the ABC.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 3, Ep 9: Once upon a time, all we used to talk about on The Final Word was what had happened in cricket matches. This episode is from late January 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration week, in which Billy Stanlake was King of Geelong, Glenn Maxwell was switch-hitting to the moon, an exorcism was held against Marsh spirits, Peter Handscomb made his one-day debut, Allan Border was prohibited from getting old, Yuvraj Singh kept going for India aged 57, and Jess Cameron combined with Amy Satterthwaite for one of the wildest last-ball finishes ever.
This season was originally recorded for the ABC.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a trawl through the obituaries of yestercentury. A record that still stands by a mile, a woman who was outstanding at sequences, a duelling piano bar in Texas, and the second-best wicketkeeper in England.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.57 - Julian Campbell 3.92 - Laksmi 3.42 - Harry Chapman 3.60 - Mark Xerri 3.90 - Anna Forsyth
Revisits: Rosie Piper, Ian Colvin
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a trawl through the obituaries of yestercentury. A record that still stands by a mile, a woman who was outstanding at sequences, a duelling piano bar in Texas, and the second-best wicketkeeper in England.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.57 - Julian Campbell 3.92 - Laksmi 3.42 - Harry Chapman 3.60 - Mark Xerri 3.90 - Anna Forsyth
Revisits: Rosie Piper, Ian Colvin
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Season 13, Ep 3: There are not many cricket enthusiasts as knowledgeable and as garrulous as historian / comedian / chat-merchant Mark Steel. He has delved into the history of the game before, as we do every week, and he still turns up to play and watch on a regular basis, between making the many radio and television programs that fill his life. Time for us to sit back with a rum and let him roam free. Plus a historian's own Nerd Pledge.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 22.77 – Max Bryant.
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Season 13, Ep 3: There are not many cricket enthusiasts as knowledgeable and as garrulous as historian / comedian / chat-merchant Mark Steel. He has delved into the history of the game before, as we do every week, and he still turns up to play and watch on a regular basis, between making the many radio and television programs that fill his life. Time for us to sit back with a rum and let him roam free. Plus a historian's own Nerd Pledge.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 22.77 – Max Bryant.
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Season 13, Ep 2: There's a documentary sequel coming about the Australian men's team, but strangely this time Justin Langer is not positioned as the main character. Also, our listener Bryan R. Caine was the United States umpire officiating as Rakheem Cornwall bashed a double century in a T20 match this week. Bryan joins the show to tell the story. Cricket makes its pitch for the Olympics, the Maxwell Sheffield Shield is in full swing, and Jos Buttler opts for diplomacy. Should captains have to appeal for a dismissal? Do they have a responsibility to do so?
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 5.91 – Chris Arkle.
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Season 13, Ep 2: There's a documentary sequel coming about the Australian men's team, but strangely this time Justin Langer is not positioned as the main character. Also, our listener Bryan R. Caine was the United States umpire officiating as Rakheem Cornwall bashed a double century in a T20 match this week. Bryan joins the show to tell the story. Cricket makes its pitch for the Olympics, the Maxwell Sheffield Shield is in full swing, and Jos Buttler opts for diplomacy. Should captains have to appeal for a dismissal? Do they have a responsibility to do so?
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 5.91 – Chris Arkle.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 3, Ep 10: All the way back to when we used to record The Final Word for the ABC. No Urthboy, no stings, no improper language, just straight down the line. At the end of our third season in February 2017, Geoff comes back from New Zealand, Alastair Cook ditches the England captaincy, Marcus Stoinis produces a one-day miracle in Auckland, Sam Heazlett gets picked despite having never played for his state, New Zealand abandon a match for a lack of rain, and Jeremy Coney loses his rag.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 3, Ep 10: All the way back to when we used to record The Final Word for the ABC. No Urthboy, no stings, no improper language, just straight down the line. At the end of our third season in February 2017, Geoff comes back from New Zealand, Alastair Cook ditches the England captaincy, Marcus Stoinis produces a one-day miracle in Auckland, Sam Heazlett gets picked despite having never played for his state, New Zealand abandon a match for a lack of rain, and Jeremy Coney loses his rag.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we deal with no fewer than SIXTEEN revisits in quite possibly our longest Story Time yet. What didn’t we talk about? Ian Harvey features at least three times in very different contexts – it’s that kind of episode. If you’ve enjoyed a rambling history show in the past, this episode is especially for you. Your revisited Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.71 - Tane Aikman 2.06 - Ed Henty 3.14 - Dane Hansted 2.06 - WG Rumblepants 8.80 - Oscar Ratcliffe 3.20 - Edward Edgcumbe 3.20 - James Roder 5.72 - Rory Seymour 3.02 - Harry Liang 1.22 - Evan Granger 3.38 - Jake Schmidt 1.01 - Michelle Garland 9.75 - George Norman 1.52 - Jim Morrison 15.65 - Darryl Richarson 9.95 - Jeremy Le Roux
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we deal with no fewer than SIXTEEN revisits in quite possibly our longest Story Time yet. What didn’t we talk about? Ian Harvey features at least three times in very different contexts – it’s that kind of episode. If you’ve enjoyed a rambling history show in the past, this episode is especially for you. Your revisited Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.71 - Tane Aikman 2.06 - Ed Henty 3.14 - Dane Hansted 2.06 - WG Rumblepants 8.80 - Oscar Ratcliffe 3.20 - Edward Edgcumbe 3.20 - James Roder 5.72 - Rory Seymour 3.02 - Harry Liang 1.22 - Evan Granger 3.38 - Jake Schmidt 1.01 - Michelle Garland 9.75 - George Norman 1.52 - Jim Morrison 15.65 - Darryl Richarson 9.95 - Jeremy Le Roux
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Season 13, Ep 1: That's right, it's back to the start of an Australian summer, the end of an English one, and a new season of The Final Word. Who can believe we've done thirteen of them? We've also finished reloading the lost eps from Season 4, so we only have our first three short seasons to put back into the feed. The Sheffield Shield is starting up alongside the WNCL, the County Championship had a bonkers last day, and the T20 World Cup preparations are underway. Also, Jodie Hicks is racking up touches on the footy field.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.99 – Guy Hornsby.
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Season 13, Ep 1: That's right, it's back to the start of an Australian summer, the end of an English one, and a new season of The Final Word. Who can believe we've done thirteen of them? We've also finished reloading the lost eps from Season 4, so we only have our first three short seasons to put back into the feed. The Sheffield Shield is starting up alongside the WNCL, the County Championship had a bonkers last day, and the T20 World Cup preparations are underway. Also, Jodie Hicks is racking up touches on the footy field.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.99 – Guy Hornsby.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 1: Recorded in a Canberra park after midnight following the final T20 of the Women’s Ashes in November 2017, Geoff and Adam started a new season that would also be released as the Guardian's Ashes podcast. One part that wasn't recorded in a park after midnight was an interview with all-rounder Ellyse Perry, on the ‘tidal wave’ of interest in women’s sport and the ways she has honed her technique. The show also looks forward to the first men’s Ashes Test in Brisbane, England’s preparation for the toughest assignment on tour, and Australia's selection controversies around Cameron Bancroft, Tim Paine and Shaun Marsh.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 1: Recorded in a Canberra park after midnight following the final T20 of the Women’s Ashes in November 2017, Geoff and Adam started a new season that would also be released as the Guardian's Ashes podcast. One part that wasn't recorded in a park after midnight was an interview with all-rounder Ellyse Perry, on the ‘tidal wave’ of interest in women’s sport and the ways she has honed her technique. The show also looks forward to the first men’s Ashes Test in Brisbane, England’s preparation for the toughest assignment on tour, and Australia's selection controversies around Cameron Bancroft, Tim Paine and Shaun Marsh.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 2: Bancroft and Bairstow butting heads in Brisbane. In November 2017, Cameron Bancroft didn’t just make an unbeaten 80 to win an Ashes Test, he also defused an international incident while delivering a comedy routine. Not bad on debut. Geoff and Adam revisit that headbutt, and Jonny Bairstow’s explanation that failed to remotely explain anything. We also analyse everything from the first Ashes Test: Steve Smith genius, England letting chances slip, and the bouncer wars that may just be beginning.
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Reloading early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 2: Bancroft and Bairstow butting heads in Brisbane. In November 2017, Cameron Bancroft didn’t just make an unbeaten 80 to win an Ashes Test, he also defused an international incident while delivering a comedy routine. Not bad on debut. Geoff and Adam revisit that headbutt, and Jonny Bairstow’s explanation that failed to remotely explain anything. We also analyse everything from the first Ashes Test: Steve Smith genius, England letting chances slip, and the bouncer wars that may just be beginning.
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Season 12, Ep 32: We've been anticipating it, and here it was: a run-out of the non-striker between two major cricket nations, signalling the next phase of evolution of this much-maligned dismissal. On this episode we look at the current structure of the Laws, the details of what Charlie Dean and Deepti Sharma did on the day, and what the MCC might do next to help protect players and umpires from opprobrium. Also this week, the Strauss Recommendations signal a big shift for English county cricket, Cameron Green makes an all-but-too-late case for T20 World Cup selection, and Pakistan do some extraordinary things via Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan. Plus a belter of a Nerd Pledge.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.89 – Richard Jones.
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Season 12, Ep 32: We've been anticipating it, and here it was: a run-out of the non-striker between two major cricket nations, signalling the next phase of evolution of this much-maligned dismissal. On this episode we look at the current structure of the Laws, the details of what Charlie Dean and Deepti Sharma did on the day, and what the MCC might do next to help protect players and umpires from opprobrium. Also this week, the Strauss Recommendations signal a big shift for English county cricket, Cameron Green makes an all-but-too-late case for T20 World Cup selection, and Pakistan do some extraordinary things via Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan. Plus a belter of a Nerd Pledge.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.89 – Richard Jones.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Sometimes, being a secretary can be the best path forward. Just swap Maggie Gyllenhaal for Ian Peebles. Plus, the glottal magic of Dutch fielding positions, the best way for Northants players to get in the news, generation-spanning family feuds, and Bharat Sundaresan's relationship with Patrick Patterson, after some reflections on Geelong's flag in the AFL grand final. Bharat returns to join Geoff, while promising to keep his answers under 30 minutes.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 7.06 - Chris Dobbins 6.80 - Nic Savage 2.10 - Richard Jansz-Moore 18.84 - MJ Knoester 3.09 - Tim Gilkison & Ian Colvin
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Sometimes, being a secretary can be the best path forward. Just swap Maggie Gyllenhaal for Ian Peebles. Plus, the glottal magic of Dutch fielding positions, the best way for Northants players to get in the news, generation-spanning family feuds, and Bharat Sundaresan's relationship with Patrick Patterson, after some reflections on Geelong's flag in the AFL grand final. Bharat returns to join Geoff, while promising to keep his answers under 30 minutes.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 7.06 - Chris Dobbins 6.80 - Nic Savage 2.10 - Richard Jansz-Moore 18.84 - MJ Knoester 3.09 - Tim Gilkison & Ian Colvin
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Controversy after running out the non-striker helps India win the ODI series 3-0 and beat England by 16 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Controversy after running out the non-striker helps India win the ODI series 3-0 and beat England by 16 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harmanpreet Kaur stole the show in Canterbury, hitting an unbeaten 143 against England. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harmanpreet Kaur stole the show in Canterbury, hitting an unbeaten 143 against England. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 31: After three weeks in the desert, Geoff is back to find the outside world completely unchanged. Ha. So this week has Adam pacing him through what has gone on in the meantime. Also, Rachael Haynes finishes up for Australia after a distinguished career, England return to Pakistan after a long absence, and we may well talk too much about AFL Grand Final week for a cricket podcast.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.69 – Michael Fallon. Nice.
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Season 12, Ep 31: After three weeks in the desert, Geoff is back to find the outside world completely unchanged. Ha. So this week has Adam pacing him through what has gone on in the meantime. Also, Rachael Haynes finishes up for Australia after a distinguished career, England return to Pakistan after a long absence, and we may well talk too much about AFL Grand Final week for a cricket podcast.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.69 – Michael Fallon. Nice.
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India claim the opener after beating England by 7 wickets. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
India claim the opener after beating England by 7 wickets. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of the ODI in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We never mess with the order these numbers land in our in-tray: what comes up, comes up. So it must've been meant to be that in the same episode we'd deal with two spinners who changed the craft of slow bowling forever, Bernard Bosanquet and Jack Iverson. With Daniel Norcross joining Adam, there's time for a odd tale when Surrey were done over by the powers that be as they pressed for victory over their old rivals Middlesex at HQ. And if you ever wanted to learn about Geoff Humpage, well, this is your podcast. We also head back to the 19th century (a couple of times) before finishing with some love for Virat.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 8.80 - Oscar Ratcliffe 15.65 - Darryl Richardson 3.40 - Nigel Browne 4.50 - Xavier Bochat 3.18 - Max Hanlon 3.20 - James Roder & Edward Edgcumbe 5.58 - Angadh Oberoi
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We never mess with the order these numbers land in our in-tray: what comes up, comes up. So it must've been meant to be that in the same episode we'd deal with two spinners who changed the craft of slow bowling forever, Bernard Bosanquet and Jack Iverson. With Daniel Norcross joining Adam, there's time for a odd tale when Surrey were done over by the powers that be as they pressed for victory over their old rivals Middlesex at HQ. And if you ever wanted to learn about Geoff Humpage, well, this is your podcast. We also head back to the 19th century (a couple of times) before finishing with some love for Virat.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 8.80 - Oscar Ratcliffe 15.65 - Darryl Richardson 3.40 - Nigel Browne 4.50 - Xavier Bochat 3.18 - Max Hanlon 3.20 - James Roder & Edward Edgcumbe 5.58 - Angadh Oberoi
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Season 12, Ep 30: Who saw this coming four and a half years ago in Cape Town? Well, the world has turned a number of times since then. With Aaron Finch hanging up his ODI pyjamas after a distinguished career. and in the absence of a perfect alternative, the Bull might just be back in the ring. Adam has Dean Wilson from The Mirror with him to pace through that and plenty else, including another man making an unexpected comeback, Alex Hales. There are also good news stories from Rwanda and Sri Lanka, a throwback ODI series in Cairns, the county champo reaches the pointy end of the season and England’s women take on India to complete the northern international summer.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.56 – Josh Taylor
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Season 12, Ep 30: Who saw this coming four and a half years ago in Cape Town? Well, the world has turned a number of times since then. With Aaron Finch hanging up his ODI pyjamas after a distinguished career. and in the absence of a perfect alternative, the Bull might just be back in the ring. Adam has Dean Wilson from The Mirror with him to pace through that and plenty else, including another man making an unexpected comeback, Alex Hales. There are also good news stories from Rwanda and Sri Lanka, a throwback ODI series in Cairns, the county champo reaches the pointy end of the season and England’s women take on India to complete the northern international summer.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.56 – Josh Taylor
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England have beaten South Africa at the Oval, claiming the series 2-1. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England have beaten South Africa at the Oval, claiming the series 2-1. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England are on the cusp of winning the series against South Africa. Ben Stokes' side need 33 runs on Day 5 to win the Test match...and they have 10 wickets in the bank. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England are on the cusp of winning the series against South Africa. Ben Stokes' side need 33 runs on Day 5 to win the Test match...and they have 10 wickets in the bank. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An historical day in London, as God Save the King was sung at a sporting event for the first time in 70 years in the United Kingdom. Wickets and more wickets in South London. England bowled out South Africa for 118. Then the visitors responded, taking 7 wickets and left the hosts 154/7 at the end of the day. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An historical day in London, as God Save the King was sung at a sporting event for the first time in 70 years in the United Kingdom. Wickets and more wickets in South London. England bowled out South Africa for 118. Then the visitors responded, taking 7 wickets and left the hosts 154/7 at the end of the day. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. With Bharat Sundaresan on the show, strap yourself in for a trip on the long and winding road. Of particular note, his tale of how he debunked the absurd 1009 not out innings of Pranav Dhanawade. When it is Adam’s turn, we’re looking at big numbers in the South Pacific, a dusty old bastard who was one of the first true quick men and devote some time to somebody who we’ve never really given it to before – unless it’s been in the context of Vinoo Mankad.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.71 – Tane Aikman 5.72 – Andrew Nixon & Rory Seymour 1.52 – Jim Morrison 12.00 – Adam Jones 40.00 – Matt Fried 2.06 – David Jones & WG Rumblepants
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. With Bharat Sundaresan on the show, strap yourself in for a trip on the long and winding road. Of particular note, his tale of how he debunked the absurd 1009 not out innings of Pranav Dhanawade. When it is Adam’s turn, we’re looking at big numbers in the South Pacific, a dusty old bastard who was one of the first true quick men and devote some time to somebody who we’ve never really given it to before – unless it’s been in the context of Vinoo Mankad.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.71 – Tane Aikman 5.72 – Andrew Nixon & Rory Seymour 1.52 – Jim Morrison 12.00 – Adam Jones 40.00 – Matt Fried 2.06 – David Jones & WG Rumblepants
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Season 12, Ep 29: The Chevrons, for the first time, knock Australia off in Australia. But where will that leave them once the World Cup Super League comes to an end next year? Matt Roller, ESPNcricinfo T20 whizkid, joins Adam to consider that, and myriad developments in the short form world, as we gallop towards another World Cup next month. Jamie Cox, these days the MCC's assistant secretary, also drops by for a chat about delays in Test cricket.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 9.75 - George Norman
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Season 12, Ep 29: The Chevrons, for the first time, knock Australia off in Australia. But where will that leave them once the World Cup Super League comes to an end next year? Matt Roller, ESPNcricinfo T20 whizkid, joins Adam to consider that, and myriad developments in the short form world, as we gallop towards another World Cup next month. Jamie Cox, these days the MCC's assistant secretary, also drops by for a chat about delays in Test cricket.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 9.75 - George Norman
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross returns for a frolic in his front room on, among other things, the Mighty Misbah. Adam’s attention is an excellent Women’s Ashes series a generation or two ago and controversy in Sydney. And we need to stay ahead of Jimmy Anderson – we explain all that off the top. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 4.39 – Vanessa Collins 12.20 – Andy Thomas 2.47 – Will Cuckson 3.02 – Harry Laing 1.01 – Michelle Garland 1.22 – Evan Granger 6.81 – James Philbrook
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross returns for a frolic in his front room on, among other things, the Mighty Misbah. Adam’s attention is an excellent Women’s Ashes series a generation or two ago and controversy in Sydney. And we need to stay ahead of Jimmy Anderson – we explain all that off the top. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 4.39 – Vanessa Collins 12.20 – Andy Thomas 2.47 – Will Cuckson 3.02 – Harry Laing 1.01 – Michelle Garland 1.22 – Evan Granger 6.81 – James Philbrook
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Season 12, Ep 28: There is a lot to this impressive documentary, especially in relation to mental health - it is well worth your time. It’s called ‘Ben Stokes: Phoenix From the Ashes’ and it was directed by Chris Grubb and Luke Mellows, who we spoke to ahead of the release.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 3.14 - Peter Brown
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Season 12, Ep 27: With Geoff a long way from anywhere, Adam has Will Macpherson for company at The Oval after another busy week off the field as well as on. Of particular interest is the first iteration of the Strauss-led review, which was primarily set up to get to the bottom of why England's men don't win more often. They're going alright at the moment though under Ben Stokes, who has a documentary out about his altogether fascinating existence. Over in Australia, it's Zimbabwe in town - let's hope it's the start of something. Meanwhile, in short-form world, the Big Bash Draft didn't go quite to plan.
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Season 12, Ep 26: Let us level with you: we have done a poor job of covering Zimbabwean cricket. The easiest reason for that, however unsatisfactory, is that they haven't been as present as they should be, for a whole host of complicated reasons. So, with The Chevrons currently in Australia for their first bi-lateral series in nearly two decades, we've dedicated an entire episode to them. For this, Adam has acclaimed author and journalist Liam Brickhill with him as co-host, taking on the task of trying to get us up to speed. And he comes with good news: there are green shoots and they look real this time. Veteran all-rounder SIkandar Raza, in the form of his life at the moment and with one of the best backstories in the game - from fighter pilot training in Pakistan to university in Scotland to international cricket - also drops by for a detailed chat about his fascinating career.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 3.04 - Julian King
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England have won the 2nd Test match, winning by an innings and 85 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England have won the 2nd Test match, winning by an innings and 85 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, possibly our longest episode as we clear the decks before Geoff departs for three weeks in the wilderness. What did we talk about across a couple of hours? Bradman’s quadruple, Bob Taylor (a couple of times), one-eyed greats, Danes, Dusty Old Kiwis, ancient Wisdens, Big Brother, the Hawthorn/Geelong rivalry… you get the idea. Tuck in.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 6.85 – Michael Hall 6.39 – Jake Cuncliffe 9.95 – Jeremy Le Roux 6.87 – Aaron Hoskins
Revisits: Harry Bainton, Tanya Wintringham, Hamish Stares, Richard Bond McNally, Tom Humphreys, Emil Varghese, Jeremy Nash, Richard Jones, Nick Donovan, Elia Andrews, Ian H, Dom Philp, Jack Jorgensen Confirmations: Dannish Babar, Lee Geldard, Ian Wolstenholme, Jonathan Brand, Tim Unwin, Michael Fallon, Steve Dodd.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, possibly our longest episode as we clear the decks before Geoff departs for three weeks in the wilderness. What did we talk about across a couple of hours? Bradman’s quadruple, Bob Taylor (a couple of times), one-eyed greats, Danes, Dusty Old Kiwis, ancient Wisdens, Big Brother, the Hawthorn/Geelong rivalry… you get the idea. Tuck in.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 6.85 – Michael Hall 6.39 – Jake Cuncliffe 9.95 – Jeremy Le Roux 6.87 – Aaron Hoskins
Revisits: Harry Bainton, Tanya Wintringham, Hamish Stares, Richard Bond McNally, Tom Humphreys, Emil Varghese, Jeremy Nash, Richard Jones, Nick Donovan, Elia Andrews, Ian H, Dom Philp, Jack Jorgensen Confirmations: Dannish Babar, Lee Geldard, Ian Wolstenholme, Jonathan Brand, Tim Unwin, Michael Fallon, Steve Dodd.
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England have built a huge lead after Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes scored centuries in Manchester. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England have built a huge lead after Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes scored centuries in Manchester. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England started the Test match brilliantly, bowling out South Africa for 151. Then Ben Stokes' side avoided a batting collapse after being 43/3...but ended the day 113/3. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England started the Test match brilliantly, bowling out South Africa for 151. Then Ben Stokes' side avoided a batting collapse after being 43/3...but ended the day 113/3. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 25: Schedule geeks unite: the FTP for men's and women's cricket were released since the last time we recorded, and there is a lot to take in. More Test cricket for the usual suspects, less of it for most countries, though more matches in other formats overall. Some bright spots, plenty of concerns. Also, an extraordinary Nerd Pledge, and complications are afoot for the Big Bash involving David Warner, Steve Smith and an imminent comeback for Tim Paine. See you in the Platinum Lounge! Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.02 - Matt Smith.
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Season 12, Ep 25: Schedule geeks unite: the FTP for men's and women's cricket were released since the last time we recorded, and there is a lot to take in. More Test cricket for the usual suspects, less of it for most countries, though more matches in other formats overall. Some bright spots, plenty of concerns. Also, an extraordinary Nerd Pledge, and complications are afoot for the Big Bash involving David Warner, Steve Smith and an imminent comeback for Tim Paine. See you in the Platinum Lounge! Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.02 - Matt Smith.
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Reloading some early episodes that have since been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 3: The interview that started it all. It was December 9, 2017, when we sat down with Jason Gillespie by the boundary at Adelaide Oval as a charity game was being rained off. What was supposed to be a brief chat became our first long-form interview, as Jason was typically generous with his time and honesty. We were elated, and the Final Word style was born. Well worth a listen to this day, to one of the best human beings in the game.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a show recorded between London and Tulsa, Oklahoma, featuring the time the Swedes got hot and bothered, some unlucky players with last-minute successes, shenanigans with the follow-on, and the return of Monsiuer Madeleine, le Maire of Montreuil-sur-Mer,
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.14 - Peter Brown 1.63 - Doc Gowland 6.77 - Harry Wojciechowski 7.24 - Rob O'Neill 20.00 - David Eton 3.70 - Ian H & Dominic da Souza Correa 2.07 - Richard Jones
Revisits: Tom Humphreys, Lewis Tobia, Lauren Kandasamy
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South Africa annihilated England at the home of cricket, thrashing them by an innings and 12 runs. The visitors are now 1-0 up in the series. Next stop: Manchester on August 25th. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
South Africa have put themselves in the driver's seat at Lord's, leading England by 124 runs. The visitors finished day two 289/7. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The rain came to England's rescue, preventing South Africa from bowling them out at Lord's. The hosts face an uphill battle to secure a decent score against their opponents. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross preview the 1st Test match between England and South Africa at Lord's The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross preview the 1st Test match between England and South Africa at Lord's The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 24: The month of August is maddening for some in English cricket, yet for others, it's a chance to bankroll the rest of the year. Phil Walker of Wisden Cricket Monthly has written sensibly about this and joins us for a chat. As for Adam - on his birthday! Also, Chappelli retires from commentary, Meg Lannng hits pause on her career, and other big shifts keep coming in the game for men and women. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 5.32 - Jonathan Brand.
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Season 12, Ep 24: The month of August is maddening for some in English cricket, yet for others, it's a chance to bankroll the rest of the year. Phil Walker of Wisden Cricket Monthly has written sensibly about this and joins us for a chat. As for Adam - on his birthday! Also, Chappelli retires from commentary, Meg Lannng hits pause on her career, and other big shifts keep coming in the game for men and women. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 5.32 - Jonathan Brand.
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As we load up some of the early episodes that have been lost to the internet: Season 4, Ep 4: It was a warm night in Perth in 2017 when we left the WACA after its final Test match saw Australia win the Ashes, and we went to interview Vic Marks. The all-rounder actually played there for a couple of seasons in the 1980s, as a rare overseas player for Western Australia. But he is most known for his career with England, and his extensive post-playing career as a newspaper correspondent, radio broadcaster, and endless source of self-deprecation. One of The Final Word's earliest interviews. This season was produced for The Guardian.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon on a balcony in the French Quarter in New Orleans. It is Red Dress Day, a perfect time for tales of typhoid, Glenn Maxwell, and I ❤️ New York. Or is that Jeremy Coney on a road trip to Tennessee? Come with us across the continent, following the endless white lines of the interstate.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.59 - After Dinner Mint 2.58 - Rahul Venkat 1.91 - Jai Singh 1.16 - Jesse G. 1.28 - Ian Wolstenhome 8.10 - Prasanth Kannan 3.93 - Jeremy Bourke 4.86 - Emil Varghese 3.16 - Steve Dodd 1.02 - Jeremy Nash
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon on a balcony in the French Quarter in New Orleans. It is Red Dress Day, a perfect time for tales of typhoid, Glenn Maxwell, and I ❤️ New York. Or is that Jeremy Coney on a road trip to Tennessee? Come with us across the continent, following the endless white lines of the interstate.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.59 - After Dinner Mint 2.58 - Rahul Venkat 1.91 - Jai Singh 1.16 - Jesse G. 1.28 - Ian Wolstenhome 8.10 - Prasanth Kannan 3.93 - Jeremy Bourke 4.86 - Emil Varghese 3.16 - Steve Dodd 1.02 - Jeremy Nash
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Season 12, Ep 23: Seven years ago, when we first started listing names of guests we would like to get on the show for a chat, the first was Adam Zwar. It never happened - our fault. Well, a lot has happened for both him and The Final Word since 2015. That now includes his fantastic, funny and moving new book, 12 Summers. It’s the story of the life of one of Australia’s most engaging creative minds told through the tales of the game that has always inspired (and distracted) him. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.08 - Michael Fallon.
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Season 12, Ep 23: Seven years ago, when we first started listing names of guests we would like to get on the show for a chat, the first was Adam Zwar. It never happened - our fault. Well, a lot has happened for both him and The Final Word since 2015. That now includes his fantastic, funny and moving new book, 12 Summers. It’s the story of the life of one of Australia’s most engaging creative minds told through the tales of the game that has always inspired (and distracted) him. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.08 - Michael Fallon.
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Season 12, Ep 22: Daniel Norcross joins Geoff this week, after the success of the Commonwealth Games cricket tournament and the sad news arriving that former umpire Rudi Koertzen has died, after being one of the iconic figures of the 1990s and 2000s. Elsewhere, The Hundred is kinda sorta happening, the Asia Cup is approaching, and Sikandar Raza is on the streak of his life in making Zimbabwe win two series against Bangladesh.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.85 - Dom Philp.
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That's Aussie gold my friend, and don't you forget it. The result was what most people expected, but India made the journey to get there a special one. Before that, New Zealand mugged England. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
India and Australia will take each other in the final to decide who wins the gold medal. New Zealand and England will play each other for the bronze medal. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we raise the bat. Episode 100 means two years of wandering through the back lanes and byways of cricket history, solving cryptic nightmares, and revelling in the tales of the strangest and loveliest game. Ten of our favourite Nerd Pledgers helped fill out the show, recorded in front of a live online audience.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 8.29 - Lara Killick 8.81 - Crispn Crunch 6.40 - Tanya Wintringham 6.49 - Helen Maynard-Casely 7.00 - Simon Old Trafford and President Richard Bond McNally 5.41 - Tim Vanderpump, Party Liaison 3.52 - KB 2.14 - Pushkar Godbole 3.14 - Dane Hansted
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England will face India in the semis after beating New Zealand by 7 wickets. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pakistan and Barbados crash out! Australia beat Pakistan comfortably, winning by 44 runs. Then India thumped Barbados, winning by 100 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 21: Whether playing on the field or offering insight off it, they don't come any better than Katherine Brunt. A fast-bowling spearhead, the decades-long heartbeat of an England team, and a deeply thoughtful human being, she has become increasingly willing to speak about the complexities of life and the human condition. This is a special Final Word interview, just after her 100th T20 match for England during the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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England have won back to back matches at the Commonwealth Games after beating South Africa by 38 runs. Then New Zealand eased past Sri Lanka, winning by 45 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 20: Two big retirements from women's cricket raise a lot of questions about body image, team harmony, and the rising draw of domestic leagues compared to international contracts. Geoff and Adam meet up in Birmingham to talk through Lizelle Lee and Deandra Dottin giving the game away. Also this week, the problems for England men ahead of the T20 World Cup, another rousing Test victory for Sri Lanka, the end of the road for popular Australian coach Sri Sriram, and some questions about cricket finance. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.06 - Ed Henty.
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India bounced back after their loss to Australia, thrashing Pakistan by 8 wickets. Then Australia eased past Barbados, winning by 9 wickets The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England won their 1st match in the tournament, beating Sri Lanka by 5 wickets. Earlier, New Zealand edged past South Africa, winning by 13 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket match at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. One show away from our century, it's time to clear the decks with our biggest revisit show yet. Everything from the cryptic to the hidden to the forgotten to the untelevised, we humbly suggest that we have done some of our best detective work to date on this episode. Jump in.
Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week: 10.00 - Hayley Fuller 1.32 - Matthew Jones 5.31 - Jim Carnegie 3.82 - Thomas Havell 4.40 - Ben Helliwell 5.26 - Simon McInerney 4.36 - Dom Griffiths 13.33 - Anna Collins 5.18 - David Nicholls 4.66 - Ollie Chauhan 6.79 - Alex Crampton 10.88 - Mark Henderson 3.38 - Not That Tim Minchin 2.38 - Dannish Babar 6.18 - ED 2.48 - Lee Geldard 2.22 - Gopal B 4.58 - Fred Cowen
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Australia edged past India, winning by 3 wickets. Then Barbados beat Pakistan by 15 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every women's cricket matches at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 19: More runs in professional cricket than anyone, more runs in a single Test than anyone, setter of dozens of England records. For 27 years Graham Gooch played first-class cricket, and he's stayed around the game ever since. On the anniversary of his magnum opus 333, he sits down with The Final Word at his spiritual home of the Essex County Ground to go through it all: starting against Lillee and Thomson, troughs and peaks, South African rebel tours, looking after twins, World Cup heartbreaks, and the drive to keep being better.
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Season 12, Ep 19: More runs in professional cricket than anyone, more runs in a single Test than anyone, setter of dozens of England records. For 27 years Graham Gooch played first-class cricket, and he's stayed around the game ever since. On the anniversary of his magnum opus 333, he sits down with The Final Word at his spiritual home of the Essex County Ground to go through it all: starting against Lillee and Thomson, troughs and peaks, South African rebel tours, looking after twins, World Cup heartbreaks, and the drive to keep being better.
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Season 12, Ep 18: With Geoff out of action, Adam invited Vithushan Ethantharajah to his North London backyard to put the world to rights after Ravi Shastri's grim blueprint for Test cricket. There was celebration too after Sam's Northeast's stunning quadruple ton and a look ahead to cricket in the Commonwealth Games. Oh, and Nerd Pledge offers the perfect indie dancefloor / Pakistan Test cricket crossover for those who like that sort of thing. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.58 - Fred Cowen
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On this episode, the greatest Greek to swing a club since Heracles - and why he's connected to current Sri Lankan Kusal Mendis. A book gift that led us to a forgotten off-spinner, a wicketkeeper who outscored them all, a team that didn't score any, and an Ashes hat-trick that one of us naturally did not see. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 7.99 - Henry Branson 6.06 - Jake Cunliffe 2.42 - Lewis Tobia 5.23 - Susan Cain 10.40 - Rosie Piper 1.32 - Matthew Jones
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Season 12, Ep 17: Owner of one of the cleanest cover drives in the game, Laura Wolvaardt burst onto the scene as the Teen Wolf: the youngest cricketer to make an international century, shortly before lighting up the 2017 World Cup. These days she's a senior South African player by the age of 23, with a very evident determination that is taking her from strength to strength. She sits down with The Final Word during the Proteas' tour of England to talk us through the road to here.
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Season 12, Ep 16: It was melting outside, so we retreated inside to the air-conditioning at The Oval to record this week's episode. This week: Matt Roller from Cricinfo joins the show. The Big Bash is in real trouble with IPL teams buying out the competing South African league, while South Africans give up on the ODI World Cup. There was real Final Word flavour to the bizarre end of England's domestic T20 final. The Future Tours schedule gets leaked, Ben Stokes retires from ODIs, South Africa's women get steamrolled by a renewed England, Ireland fall just short against New Zealand, and Pakistan set up a Test epic in Sri Lanka. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.48 - Lee Geldard
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, a very rare QUADRUPLE HEADER. Not Travis Head crossed with the Hydra, but rarer still, as rare as a competent Travis Head shot against spin. We've got dodgy umpires, dodgy scorers, dodgy openers, and dodgy overs. We've got Younis Khan majesty, medical emergency, and David Guetta. And as you might have guessed, a lot about the box. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.13 - Ryan Smith 7.84 - Cam Again 1.08 - Geoff Price 2.22 - Pranav Lalan, Gopal B, Nick Dempsey & Matthew Share.
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Season 12, Ep 15: The second part of our long and winding conversation with former New Zealand skipper Jeremy Coney, recorded on tour in Sri Lanka. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
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Season 12, Ep 14: He's always up for a chat, and there are few more interesting people to listen to than Jeremy Coney, who has a much bigger story beyond his time as New Zealand captain in their most successful era of the mid 1980s. Family, theatre, song, musical instruments, travel, teaching, exploration - he sits down with us to talk through it all. Part two to follow tomorrow. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 48.00 - Kennedy H. Ross
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Sri Lanka levelled out the series after beating Australia by an innings and 39 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dinesh Chandimal’s superb unbeaten 118 helps Sri Lanka fight back against Australia. The hosts lead Australia by 67 runs and have 4 wickets in hand. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On this show, the way to our hearts is through the Conan O'Brien years. We have Irish captains of England, sesquicentenaries, some of New Zealand's maddest moments, the new name of Buckingham Palace, and the sound of a pig fainting.
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A people's revolution forced political change in Sri Lanka, with huge protests outside the cricket ground, as Steve Smith's unbeaten 145 led Australia before Dimuth Karunaratne responded in the 2nd test in Galle. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Marcus Labuschagne and Steve Smith scored centuries as Australia dominate day one in Galle The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Maxi might be back! We know it's a long shot, but this time it might actually happen. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Season 12, Ep 13: Jodie Hicks Watch. An beachside chat with Alex Carey. Channel Seven suing Cricket Australia again, with the inside word from the Brettig Box. A mighty good Nerd Pledge. Yes, of course, the happy madness coming over English Test cricket after a dire couple of years. The England women's Test team letting in fresh air via a new generation of players. The Sri Lankan women hosting India. Eoin Morgan's farewell, and inevitable installation on your commentary feeds for decades to come. All of that and more on a bumper episode of The Final Word, coming to you from the power cuts and sea breezes of Galle. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 10.11 - Tim Clarsen
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The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ England broke another recording. They completed a record chase of 378 to beat India in Birmingham.
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The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ England scored 259 runs off 57 overs and need 119 runs to win the match. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We gather this time on a breezy balcony in Galle, kicking back in lounge chairs as Adam returns to the show. There will be some divergences through Karachi, the standard-bearers of fast scoring, the bookends of spin, a day out in the Sunday leagues, and a return to Le Velodrome de Vincennes.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: Patrick McKeon: 15.80 Nick Donovan: 9.60 Daniel O'Connell: 5.18 Dannish Babar & Hamish Stares: 2.38 Michael Fitzgerald: 4.19 Tom Screen: 4.07 Ben Gleeson: 5.01
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The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Jonny Bairstow scored another century this summer. But it wasn't enough to stop India from taking control of this match in the Midlands. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Apologies for the audio quality. The Final Word Team had some technical issues at Edgbaston, so we had to use the back up audio. India are in control in Birmingham, leading England by 332 runs. Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes are at the crease, and England needs their help again. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Apologies for the audio quality. The Final Word Team had some technical issues at Edgbaston, so we had to use the back up audio. England put India on the back foot, but Rishabh Pant and Ravindran Jadeja's stellar partnership pulled them back into the match. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Daniel Norcross and Henry Moeran at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Australia are 1-0 up in the series after beating Sri Lanka by 10 wickets The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Australia are on top in Galle; they lead Sri Lanka by 101 runs. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Australia are in a comfortable position after bowling out Sri Lanka in Galle for 212. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ New Zealand's batting tail collapsed at Headingley, with Jack Leach taking another 5-wicket haul. England need 113 runs to sweep the series, and they have 8 wickets in the bank. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a new co-host, with Andrew Fidel Fernando taking the role for the first time in a confessional mood. Also, the mathematics of Nelson, the region of the Muruwari, an irrational broadside at Ian Bell, an Australian Test player we've never heard of, and a great name - literally, not figuratively - from New Zealand.
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The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ New Zealand eventually bowled out England for 360 in Yorkshire. The visitors ended the day 168/5 - with Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell still at the crease. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Daryl Mitchell hit another hundred in this series, becoming the first Kiwi to score three successive test centuries against England. New Zealand's bowling attack ripped England apart, taking 6 quick wickets in the afternoon session. However, England fought back. Debutant Jamie Overton and Jonny Bairstow hit an unbeaten 209 partnership to claw them back into the test match. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/ Groundhog Day! England started the day brilliantly in Yorkshire, picking up 4 wickets. But they struggled to remove Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell yet again who will be at the crease on day 2. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
Season 12, Ep 12: As England's one-day team blazed up, Adam headed for Amsterdam to meet a bevy of TFW listeners. Canal boats and picnics ensued. More of this please. Also this week, England's women prepare to meet South Africa in a rare Test, Australia's men struggle in one-day terms in Sri Lanka, and the show goes all Advanced Hair, yeah yeah. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: We ran out of time...
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Bharat Sundaresan joins the show again to talk us through Chandu Borde's forgetfulness, pretending to be Sundanan Lele's son, and the history of Indian caste politics. Other stories involve Lorraine Kutcher, Mushfiqur Rahim, Eric Rowan and Sophie Devine.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 6.18 - ED 1.72 - Jack Jorgensen 1.79 - Thomas Melia 3.06 - Tim Unwin 1.81 - Michael Gormley 3.66 - Lara Killick 23.22 - Elia Andrews 5.49 - Lachlan Smith 2.24 - Timothy Waud & Lauren Kandasamy
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Season 12, Ep 11: In a big Final Word day, Glenn Maxwell turned on a matchwinning performance in Sri Lanka just after Jonny Bairstow finished doing the same at Trent Bridge. Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon to talk through Steffan Nero emulating The Don in blind cricket, Gaby Lewis continuing her star trajectory in Irish cricket, Moeen Ali making a Test comeback, and the IPL scoring 6 billion clams. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 1.88 – Alan Simpson
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Here's Jonny! England win the series after Bairstow hit 136 off 92 balls! The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
It's set up to finish nicely on day five at Trent Bridge. New Zealand finished play 227/7, leading England by 238 runs. The hosts have a great chance of wrapping up the series with one test match left. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
It was another great day to bat in the Midlands, as England ended the day 473/5. Ollie Pope scored his first test century on home soil, scoring a well earned 145. But the run machine, Joe Root, secured his 27th test hundred and will be at the crease when play resumes on day 4. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find other episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy
Daryl Mitchell continued his fine form in this series, scoring a brilliant 190. The visitors were eventually bowled out for 553 and England ended the day 90-1, with Ollie Pope and Alex Lees at the crease. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon and Daniel Norcross at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, a double DOB comes back to one piece of major dustiness. We pay tribute to the pioneers of Guernsey, look at a Laker less celebrated, and consider both Mick Lewis and the cryptic crossword.
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England won the toss and elected to bowl first in Nottingham. New Zealand put on a fine batting displaying, finishing the day 318/4. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Today Adam is joined by Daniel Norcross. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Get 20% off Woodstock cricket bats with the code TFW20 The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy
Season 12, Ep 10: Sri Lankan writer Andrew Fidel Fernando and foreign correspondent Chris Barrett join the show for an update into what is happening with Sri Lanka's popular political unrest and economic chaos, ahead of Australia's tour there. Also this week, the wash-up from England's win at Lord's, Joe Root leaving the Former Fab Four behind, and ICC chair Greg Barclay's defeatist and deflating interview about the future of the game.
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Joe Root carried England home with a brilliant century which helped him reach a major milestone – 10,000 test match runs. He is the 14th batter to join the club. The hosts are now 1-0 up in the series.
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Ben Stokes and Joe Root's partnership boosts England's chances of winning the 1st test at Lord's. The hosts finished day 3 216/5 and need 61 runs to seal victory!
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Wickets tumbled again. But a superb unbeaten partnership between Tom Mitchell and Daryl Mitchell helped the Kiwis finish the day 236/4.
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England host New Zealand and on the first day the wickets tumble.
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Season 12, Ep 9: This week, world No1 bowler Sophie Ecclestone joins the show for an update on her busy career, including her recent stint in India. We have to confess that we didn't watch the men's IPL final, but we understand that they had a good time. Adam himself was teeing off during the week and can recount that in greater detail. The chase of 1000 first-class runs before the end of May took a savage twist, and Brendon McCullum is considering all options for England. Zimbabwe will head to Australia at last, Amy Satterthwaite ends her career as New Zealand Cricket make some weird calls, and five women's teams have newly been given ODI status in a shake-up that won't help everyone.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a giant fraud perpetrated upon an unsuspecting public. A club with claims to be the Dera Ismail Khan of New Zealand. A time when the gods of the Caribbean roamed around Melbourne grade cricket. And a competition for the worst matches of all time, featuring Final Word fave Pankaj Dharmani.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.82 - Thomas Havell 7.80 - Andrew West 2.15 - TDLF 5.31 - Jim Carnegie & Richard Jansz-Moore 13.33 - Anna Collins 2.11 - Big Geoff 7.46 - Matt Gaynor 6.79 - Alex Crampton
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Season 12, Ep 8: Always mix sport and politics, we say, so of course we had to start today's show with some reflections on Australia's federal election and the fact that a raft of dross has been washed downstream. What else? An interview with journo Tim Wigmore and economist Stefan Szymanski about their new collaborative book Crickonomics. Plus the cricket as Sri Lanka tour Bangladesh and the county champ reaches its season break.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 4.40 – Ben Helliwell
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, what a show this turned out to be. The Lion King returns, as does The Nanny, a fair bit of karaoke, Morticia Addams, some of the nerdiest areas that TFW listeners have ever led us to, and the missing Bowen Big Mango. Plus the wildest coincidence in the history of this show. Tune in.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.00 - Jonathon 3.62 - Bharat Agarwal 5.27 - Alex Brown 3.27 - Steve Lofthouse 5.18 - David Nicholls 2.04 - Vivek Arcot 5.26 - Simon McInerney 3.70 - Samuel Chappell
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Revisits: Owen, Edward Edgcumbe, George Pearson, Josh Goleby, Duncan Davies, Elliott Diamond, Chris Beattie, Matt May.
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Season 12, Ep 7: Another sad week for Australian cricket with the loss of Andrew Symonds, so we dialled in Queensland's own Robert Craddock, who watched that career from when Andrew was a brilliant youngster. Also this week, England name two new coaches for their men's teams, CEO Tom Harrison belatedly sees the door, and we speak with a 40-year-old cricketer on international debut, Gabor Torok.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.27 – Hugo Connery
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We're ready for Story Time but logistics got the better of us - back with cricket history next weekend. Instead, before Adam leaves Dubai, we thought it would be worth getting Associate Professor Deirdre McGhee to discuss her important work with Breast Research Australia, which she has been bolstering at the FairBreak Invitational.
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Season 12, Ep 6: Adam is roaming the Fairbreak International, bringing friends new and old onto the show: Brazil captain Roberta Moretti with her wicket-taker Laura Cardoso, Hong Kong player Mariko Hill, and Malaysian captain Winifred Duraisingam, who are all having a fine time.
On the darker side of the cricket coin, England authorities are clearly keen to pick Joe Clarke this year, despite his close link to an assault case. We look at the moral implications of choosing representative players.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 2.32 – Caroline S.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, tales of thwarted ambition, tales of brief moments in the sun, and tales of lengthy honeymoons with just a smidgen of cricket thrown in. Plus we go around at some crunchy revisits and sort them out right smart.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 6.53 - Daniel Maloney 5.86 - Al Saunders & Graham 2.14 - Sami Dowd 6.66 - Edward Edgecumbe 17.86 - Jacob Norton
Revisits: 5.13 - Stuart Akers 9.02 - Charlie Ryan 1.33 - Ed Simba 4.80 - Dave Brown 3.89 - Chris Beattie 11.33 - Pip Clark
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Season 12, Ep 5: Some books come along that command our attention, like when friend of the show Will Macpherson helped former cricketer Patrick Foster write his tale. It's a story of 2 million pounds lost to betting in 10 years, in a compulsion that overtook Patrick's life and the lives of those around him. Also this week, Australia's squads for Sri Lanka, Ben Stokes formalised as England captain, and Adam's county wrap.
Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 16.90 – Owen
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It's Story Time, our skip through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This weekend, the second part of our high-speed revisit round where we happen upon the tale of a man who was there with Bradman and co in 1948 but never on the main stage, before landing back on players like Boonie and Keppler Wessels who lived their careers in the limelight. Between times, we swing through Florida, find another Chesney and go back to where it all began for New Zealand.
Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:
1.76 - Sam Ashworth
2.27 - Sheetal Potdar
4.10 - Timothy O’Meara
3.46 - Keelan O’Reilly
2.70 - Daniel O’Connell
3.05 - Tim Manning
3.41 - Richard L
5.37 - Elliott Diamond
4.80 - Dave Brown
2.44 - Mike Dunn
1.92 - Shannon Blackmore
1.76 - Cameron Allen
8.81 - Glenn Finkelde
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Season 12, Ep 4: After 14 years wearing the national uniform, England's swing magician has decided to call it a day. Anya Shrubsole will be remembered for plenty of highlights, but is also the kind of person who is upfront about the low points as well. She joins The Final Word to look back on playing through an era of unprecedented change in the women's game.
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1.33 – Ed Barr-Simm
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's time to get dirty. The question is, with the pedal to the floor, just how many revisits can we charge through in a single show? The answer is... lots. Get ready for a different tempo Final Word.
Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:
5.12 - Paul Reeve
4.07 - Six Again
20.15 - Ramaswamy
2.19 - Matt Near the Gabba
4.17 - Rob Jean Valjean O'Neill
1.58 - Rooto
3.44 - Cameron M.
1.40 - Michael Ball (sans Michael Bell)
4.31 - Graeme Innes
5.24 - Brad Truter
4.64 - Adam Tunney
2.52 - Danny Strickland
2.78 - Rahul Venkat
3.41 - Conor Prendergast
1.84 - Indi
5.53 - Mark Bagworth
1.56 - Clint
2.83 - Claire Danny Daniel
5.28 - Michael Edelstein
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Season 12, Ep 3: As is now tradition, here's our annual conversation with Lawrence Booth alongside the release of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 2022. As ever, it's a thoughtful, sharp and vital read: on the topics that matter most, the good book doesn't miss. But of course, there's still ample room for fun, nostalgia and the rest.
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Season 12, Ep 2: Geoff and Adam reunite after a big news week. Joe Root quit England's captaincy, Anya Shrubsole quit England's team, Andrew McDonald got his inevitable promotion, and Rob Key got a rather more surprising one. Some truly bonkers stuff happened in county cricket, and Nerd Pledge features Lou Bega.
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3.45 – Harry Tognetti
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Joining Geoff for your long trips on your Easter weekend, Bharat Sundaresan is back on the show before his own long drive from Adelaide to Sydney, detouring via the birthplace of Justin Langer's favourite Australian, Albert Jacka. But on this episode we spend most of our time on the Teardrop Isle, in between visiting Darude, the MCG in 1903, and the brief time in the sun of Loretta Davis.
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4.35 - Aravind Rao Karanam
4.76 - Eranda Jayawickreme
1.93 - Tane Aikman
5.57 - Matt May
5.28 - Paul Murphy & Michael Edelstein
1.76 - Cameron Allen, Srikanth Agaram & Sam Ashworth
8.81 - Glenn Finkelde
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Season 12, Ep 1: Another season premiere! We go around for the twelfth time - can't and won't stop. With Geoff away (he's back next week), Daniel Norcross will play. And what better time for it with county cricket back? We go long on that, as we do the latest on the Jimmy and Stuart saga, before doing a lap of the planet. Then later, Adam talks to Justin Smith about his lovely cricketing novel, Cooper Not Out.
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3.46 – Keelan O’Reilly
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross is back but in the chair for Geoff this time. And both he and Adam end up landing on a similar topic: inappropriate post-war county captains and how they found themselves in the job. Specifically, a man named Mandy - it's worth sticking around for the end of the show, this tale is worth it. Also featured: Curtly, Warnie and Sexy David Hookes.
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4.51 - Joshua Goleby
2.05 - Sam Littlejohn
4.64 - Adam Tunney
4.10 - Sam Nemzer, Timothy O'Meara & Slim Johns
4.17 - Rob O'Neill & Andrew Donnison
2.83 - Claire Danny Daniel
2.69 - James Blundell
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Season 11, Ep 23: With Geoff taking a break to chill out after the Pakistan trip, Daniel Norcross is back in the chair alongside Adam, recording in London as a new English season prepares to bloom. For this, they are joined by Essex recruit Matt Critchley, who we are tipping will take the nation by storm over the coming months. But before coming to what’s ahead of us, there’s the little matter of Australia’s barnstorming World Cup win with some time taken to consider the challenges for those trying to catch the world champs three years from now.
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2.24 – Mike Dunn
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross hops in to give Adam some recovery time, and perhaps not coincidentally the show is all about leg-spinners and long-distant Caribbean cricket.
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3.47 - Paul Harmer
2.70 - Daniel O'Connell
11.33 - Philippa Clark
4.80 - Dave Brown
3.44 - Cameron M
5.37 - Will Cuckson & Elliott Diamond
5.46 - Richard Bond McNally
3.03 - Eric Parnis
7.51 - Ben Woolgar
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Season 11, Ep 22: We're back from Pakistan. Adam decidedly worse for wear after his car crash, but he'll still prop up on some cushions and record an ep of The Final Word. Can't stop, won't stop. The women's World Cup finals are imminent, so we look ahead to those contests. Also moves are afoot for women's T20 comps in Pakistan and India, while the England men's Test team get thumped once again, this time by West Indies.
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2.27 - Sheetal Potdar
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's our last night in Pakistan, so there's a very special configuration: with Adam already on the way to the airport and Geoff a few hours away from doing the same, Bharat Sundaresan joins TFW as a guest host for the first time. Safe to say that this episode gets extremely Bharat.
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1.84 - Indi
3.05 - Tim Manning
5.13 - Kieran & Stuart Akers
5.15 - Bharat Sundaresan
1.92 - Shannon Blackmore & Keith Williams
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Australia won the 3rd test against Pakistan, claiming the series 1-0.
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Usman Khawaja performed on the big stage yet again, knocking a superb unbeaten century as Australia take control in the 3rd test in Lahore.
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Australia put on a fine performance on day 3, bowling out Pakistan for 268. The visitors avoided losing a wicket in the evening session, ending the day 11/0.
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Pakistan bowled out Australia for 391, and the hosts ended day two 90/1 in Lahore.
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Usman Khawaja just missed out on another century in Pakistan, hitting 91 runs. The hosts claimed 3 wickets in the evening session, leaving Australia 232/5 on day one in Lahore.
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Season 11, Ep 21: Coming live from the lush city of Lahore, it's another Final Word. The Karachi epic done with and there is one Pakistan-Australia Test to come. We talk about the experience of this tour, the Women's World Cup, and what West Indies and Sri Lanka have been up to against England and India.
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4.31 - Graeme Innes
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Babar Azam produced a career-best 196 under pressure as Pakistan snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat in the second Test against Australia.
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Babar Azam and Abdullah Shafique stitched together an important partnership for Pakistan as they took the score to 192/2 at Stumps on Day 4, 314 runs needed for Pakistan to win on the final Day.
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Moving Day arrived ahead of schedule, with a dramatic few hours of cricket.
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Australia frustrate Pakistan as they end the second day on 508/8 in Karachi.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, even when Bharat Sundaresan is not on the show he can create general hilarity by being in the room. We're Story Timing you all the way from Karachi in the depths of the Pakistan tour. Plenty of tales from this part of the world and from much further afield.
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1.42 - Uzair Khan & Ross "River Fever" Davey
2.31 - Anna Peterson
1.58 - Rooto
2.58 - Danny Strickland & Rahul Venkat
5.63 - Michael Holden & Mark Bagworth
3.41 - Conor Prendergast & Richard L.
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Usman Khawaja returned to his family's home city, finishing the day with an unbeaten 127, as Australia close day one 3-251.
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Adam and Geoff preview the second Test from Karachi!
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Season 11, Ep 20: Farewell to the maestro. He could give us the irrits in the later years, but he created magic in a way that nobody else has done. He was one of us, and he was our cricketing childhood. Now he departs in his own dramatic style, with a gala surrounding him and plenty left in the tank. See ya round, Warnie.
Also, an excellent first week at the women's World Cup. This episode comes to you from the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Day 5 of the Test match ended in a draw after both teams failed to bowl out each other. It's all square heading into the 2nd Test which starts on March 12th.
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Day 4 of the Test match saw Australia close play at 7-449, still 27 runs behind Pakistan.
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Day 3 of the Test match saw a special opportunity for Usman Khawaja in the city of his birth.
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Day 2 of the Test match, and the first day of Test cricket since 1969 without the great Shane Warne in the world. Pakistan offered no reprieve to Australia before bad light came in.
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The series is underway, and it was the perfect start for the home side. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
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We're finally in Pakistan! Nobody fully expected this to happen but the Australian tour is going ahead. The Final Word will be at every day of Test cricket in this series, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action.
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Season 11, Ep 19: "His voice - sly and warm, laconic and sometimes frail - may be the closest thing we have to a national one." According to Robert Forster, that is Paul Kelly, whose music is well into its fifth decade of capturing audiences. He is associated with a complex national identity in a way that few can manage, through tales ranging from Vincent Lingiari's land protests to adolescent stupidity to the trials of the Melbourne-Sydney bus route. Paul Kelly also loves cricket, having sung about Don Bradman, Usman Khawaja and Shane Warne. After a summer steeped in the Ashes, we're warmed in the heart to welcome Paul to The Final Word.
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2.02 - Ian Colvin
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a low-profile figure on the bold frontier of New Zealand cricket. The new middle initial granted to one Francis Ward. The greatest day on record in Albury, the most lopsided partnership in Sydney, the most impactful career per match anywhere near St Kitts and Nevis, and some good days for an unmatched sports betting enthusiast.
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Season 11, Ep 18: Haven't you always wanted to see cricket on the stylish boulevards of gay Paris? Cricket near the Spanish beaches of Malaga? Cricket in the Norwegian snow or Belgian rain? It's happening now, and in large part due to the work of Dan Weston and his comrades at the European Cricket Network, with its continental club championship and now a championship of national teams. Pavel Florin was the breakout star first time around, and now the second edition is underway. Dan joins us live from a match in Spain to tell the tale. Also this week, Amelia Kerr has been training with Barry Bonds to dust up India, Matt Henry becomes South Africa's daddy, and Sri Lanka get a win back over Australia - but what to make of Aaron Finch?
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, time to delve into the scientific literature and figure out the formula rho upsilon delta / mu. You with us? Us neither. Also, locating Australia's least popular former captain, India's biggest rivalry, and history's biggest mirror image.
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Season 11, Ep 17: Winnie turned two! Big news. Aside from that, when big things happen in T20 franchise cricket, we turn to Ben Jones. Because he watches more of it and remembers all of it. This time Ben breaks down what went on in the mega auction with two new teams involved, and the points of difference with this season's concurrent PSL. Before that, we have Broad and Anderson dropped by England, the women's World Cup almost here, Will Pucovski's concussion #11, and some weird games between Australia and Sri Lanka's men.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, have we found the oldest Jodie Hicks of all? Have we found a rival for Bart King as the best player never to play Test cricket? Have we found a feat that has never been achieved before in the men's game? Have we solved a horrifically cryptic clue? And do we have a wonderful human tale for you about a man named Colin Blythe? You'll know the answers after this.
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Season 11, Ep 16: Over a year ago, Cricket Australia knew they had an issue with Justin Langer. Instead of working out a respectful, dignified solution, they put off doing anything until the whole thing fell in a heap. It has been bruising for Langer, for Patrick Cummins, and for anyone else invested in the issue. Goodwill has given way to bad faith. We try to unpick the disaster. Also this week, England's women fall apart to end the Ashes, England's men sack their own coaches, and Australia's squads for the women's World Cup and the Pakistan Tests are named.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we burn through a couple of months' worth of numbers that we didn't get right, but this time we're confident. We'll go back to Faisalabad, have a clash of continents, double up in Lancashire, and find the most prolific player to never have a Cricinfo biography. Were we right about Jeff Thomson's real average? What's the finest work done by an Antigua dentist? Why is the host of Bullseye in my hotel room? Find out!
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1.43 - Wayne Holloway
5.67 - Andrew Turner
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2.15 - Bryan R. Caine
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2.39 - Dane Hansted
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Season 11, Ep 15: After the wild Test finish in Canberra, it's time to look at what it might mean for women's cricket from here. After that, a busy week in which Cricket Australia has let the Justin Langer saga drag on. Deandra Dottin goes big in South Africa's one-dayers, and the Windies men sneak past England in their T20s.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. We're back in the swing of things, with the Australian summer's Test matches done with, and the English winter unrelenting. Today, The Kid can only mean one thing to Adam. There's never a bad time to talk about Captain Misbah, and who fancies a trip to Lismore?
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11.13 - Christopher Byrne
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This is The Final Word Women's Ashes Daily: Day 4 of the Test from Manuka Oval in Canberra. After an insane final hour, it all came down to the final ball and ended in a draw.
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This is The Final Word Women's Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the Test from Manuka Oval in Canberra.
England struck early, Australia declared. Then Australia struck early, and the English captain dug in. Heather Knight brought up her century as she led her side to 8 for 235 at stumps in reply to Australia's 9 declared for 337.
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This is The Final Word Women's Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the Test from Manuka Oval in Canberra.
England struck early, Australia fought back, then England struck late. Haynes and Lanning nearly brought up centuries as Australia ended the day on 7 for 327.
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Season 11, Ep 14: The women's Ashes Test match is about to start, so we were very fortunate to sit down for an hour with England's captain Heather Knight. A chat about leadership, development, and the wider world outside cricket. Also this week, Ireland's series win over the Windies, India's one-dayers in South Africa, and the last few bits of men's Ashes wash-up.
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Hello all - a reminder for Sydney folk to come down to Birchgrove Oval near Balmain on Wednesday the 26th if you want to be part of some safe wholesome outdoor fun. A beautiful turf wicket by the harbour.
An XI of Final Word listeners captained by Geoff will be taking on the Newtown Browns captained by Peter Lewis, playing 30 overs a side with an estimated start time of 11am. We will likely be there through the afternoon enjoying some Brick Lanes and good company.
The weather is set fair, and anyone is welcome, for the debut Australian outing of the TFW XI.
Season 11, Ep 13: It didn't seem like it would happen for years, but it happened quickly in the end. Virat Kohli is no longer India's captain in any format, resigning from the Test job after a hard-fought 2-1 loss in South Africa. He burned fiercely and for a long time, but perhaps in the end burned out. Harsha Bhogle has watched Kohli's life more closely than most, and joins us to help understand it. Also, men's Ashes aftermath and women's Ashes instability.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena
Another England batting collapse hands Australia a 4-0 Ashes victory. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena
England were bowled out in a day...again. Australia lost 3 wickets in the evening, but lead by 152 runs. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 5th Test at the Blundstone Arena
England started the day on top, leaving Australia 3-12. But a superb century from Travis Head saved the Aussies innings. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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Season 11, Ep 12: While we were busy in Sydney, Test cricket was going off elsewhere. Bangladesh! Completed a magnificent win in New Zealand, which felt entirely more important than a less magnificent loss to follow. But the second match said farewell to Ross Taylor, after so many years as the core of the Kiwi order. Also, India are in the middle of a ding-dong battle in South Africa. And the women's Ashes and World Cup could both be in some strife.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 5 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
England held on to avoid an Ashes whitewash. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 4 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The Usman Khawaja show continued as he hit another century for Australia, giving them the upper hand going into Day 5. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
England managed to bat out the whole day. Jonny Bairstow will return to the crease on Day 4 after finishing the day 103 not out at the SCG. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Usman Khawaja returned to the Australian side with a spectacular century at the SCG. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 4th Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The rain affected today's play, but England managed to grab two late Australian wickets before stumps. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Hello, 2022! It begins as you might expect, with isolation and covid tests (as well as covid Tests). Does Adam have a strong argument for the greatest match ever played? Has Geoff unravelled a unique clue about David Clarence Boon? Let's go via Faisalabad, visit one of the greatest dashers, after starting with an apt connection to the Sydney Cricket Ground. Happy New Year.
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Season 11, Ep 11: And a happy new year. As we always do on December 31, The Final Word takes a look back at the year that was. Also, Australia won the Ashes. After England went down 3-0 after barely two days in Melbourne, we get into the thick of the troubles of the game in that country with the perceptive journalist Rory Dollard.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Well that was quick! Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A day that started with drama and ended in drama, just one of those days in Ashes cricket. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the 3rd Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A cool and rainy day with some action in the middle. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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Season 11, Ep 10: Merry Christmas! As we love to do at this time of year, it's time to sit down for a long conversation with a much loved voice of the game. In years past we've had Jim Maxwell, Harsha Bhogle, and Mel Jones at Christmas, this year it's Michael Atherton. A voice of the game and a pen of the game after his years leading England through turbulent times.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam is recording under a blanket with booster chills, but: can't stop, won't stop. Want to know the silver lining of an Ashes whitewash? The link between Rust Cohle and Gareth Batty? Or learn about the life and times of Syed Abid Ali? Here you go.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 5 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
A defiant Jos Buttler nearly helped England clinch a draw, but sadly his 258-minute stint at the crease wasn't enough. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 4 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
Australia need 6 wickets on day 5 to lead the series 2-0. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
Joe Root and Dawid Malan built another solid partnership but as soon as they went, so did England's hope of winning this test match in South Australia. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
England's woes continue in South Australia. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
Australia is on top after some superb batting from David Warner & Marnus Labuschagne. England had their chances but failed to take them. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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Season 11, Ep 9: At last, at last, we're back together. Adam, Winnie and Rach have met up with Geoff in the City of Churches, and it feels good to be recording in the same room again. To add to the bonhomie, Ali Martin of the Guardian joins us to talk about England's precarious position heading into the Adelaide Test. Also, Virat Kohli gets punted as India's one-day captain, and Mohammed Rizwan continues a record-breaking year for Pakistan.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a sequence of unfortunate timing with some of our numbers - but here's your proof that we don't mess with the spreadsheet. We cover a bit of Lord Gower, the all-round skills of Jolet Hartenhof, when someone was better than Bradman, and the propensity of cricketers to get on the darts. Also don't miss our Aerosmith Broadway production with Derek Pringle.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 3 of the first Test at the Gabba.
England fight back after a stellar unbeaten 159-run partnership by Joe Root (86) and David Malan (80) at the Gabba. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 2 of the first Test at the Gabba.
Australia were head and shoulders above England at the Gabba today. Travis Head's superb century off 85 balls in a session helped pile on more misery on their opponents in Brisbane. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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This is The Final Word Ashes Daily: Day 1 of the first Test at the Gabba. Safe to say that it was not England's day. Overcast skies, a bit of green in the pitch, and some fierce fast bowling from Australia's new captain. Hear about it all with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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Season 11, Ep 8: Thank providence, this is our last pre-Ashes show. No more predictions and speculation. Except for this week. The teams, the tactics, the insecurities. Some Mariah Carey, some Happy Birthday Sachin, and a lot of time given to the ten wickets of Ajaz Patel. Plus, Tim Peach from the BBC joins the show to talk about the behind-the-scenes podcast he has spent a year making about the process of England's Ashes preparation.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a partially hidden Marsh whose work we have never touched on before. Not Jack, Geoff, Rod, Mitchell or Shaun. Also, back to Betty Wilson and Una Paisley, a visit to Brisbane's combination Lord Mayor and pitch curator, and Wasim in the pub in Manchester.
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6.28 - Declan Lawlor
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Season 11, Ep 7: With a new COVID variant causing panic in the ranks, the ICC cancelled its Women's World Cup qualifier that was underway in Zimbabwe. But there will be no rescheduling, just the promotion of countries that already sit at the top of the tree. Andrew Nixon joins the show to explain how Thailand, in particular, have been dudded. Also this week: the WBBL final, Ashes selections, and New Zealand hold off India in a classic Test.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross joins the show once again as Adam (read, Winnie) deals with jetlag, allowing the show to start with World War II and take a wintry perambulation through the fields of Daniel's imagination. We have some splendid parts of the story of Laurie Nash, the feats of two direct-hit specialists at cover, another peer through the smoky haze at Dion Nash, and the history of the Tamworth Big Golden Guitar. Plus, New Zealand's special secret...
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Season 11, Ep 6: There was one main story this week: another Australian captain resigning, claims and counterclaims, and a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. We sit down with The Age's Daniel Brettig to find some more clarity in the tale. Also this week: Nerd Pledge is back, the WBBL finals, Amanda Wellington for Australia, the Shield, and a new chief exec at the ICC.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Back from the hospital, stitched up and ready to run, here is the second part of our Revisits Only show to clean the slate before launching into the Australian summer. Adam is on a plane to Australia, Geoff will head to Brisbane shortly. And this episode was recorded before Tim Paine fell to an ill-advised stroke, so you won't hear about that here. You will hear about some other moments of impulsiveness, a debut rearguard, a first date made possible by Adam Gilchrist, and one of the most spiteful series ever played that is massively underrated in the shithousery stakes. As well, of course, as a very special night in Canberra.
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Season 11, Ep 5: Few bigger weeks for the show to return: this was the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a parliamentary hearing shook cricket in the UK, after years of him reporting racist conduct as a player at Yorkshire have been dismissed and covered up. It was an extraordinary moment of truth. The ramifications may be felt more widely than in one country. To take us through the story we have Taha Hashim, the journalist who first interviewed Rafiq about his treatment, as well as broadcaster and former player Nikesh Rughani.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 20
Australia-New Zealand. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.
Australia, given little chance when this competition started a few weeks ago, have taken the World Cup with ease over an uncharacteristically underwhelming New Zealand. Mitch Marsh had the night of his career in a decisive partnership with David Warner before Glenn Maxwell put the cherry on top, switch-hitting his team to the finish line.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 70, we planned to clear the decks and get through ever revisit in a BUMPER edition until Geoff had another bike accident before we had a chance to record part two. Don’t worry, he’s fine. Before that we did visit the dustbowl of Pune, returned the white-ball debuts of a couple of Aussie stars and re-lived some memorable moments from the beloved annual one-day tri-series. Further back in time, the day when it all fell apart for Sonny Ramadhin, Robert Croft’s finest hour and the origin of that defiant roar: QUEENSLANDER. Much, much more to come next week.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 19
Australia-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.
Australia have replicated New Zealand’s stunning comeback from 24 hours earlier to join their neighbours in the final, Pakistan crashing out. Matthew Wade sealed it with three sixes in a row - what a ridiculous and brilliant game.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 18
England-New Zealand. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon.
Everybody expected England to be in the final for this T20 World Cup. The biggest hitters, the biggest bowling range. But no matter how many times they do it, New Zealand keep taking people by surprise.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 16
Pakistan-Scotland & New Zealand-Afghanistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Geoff Lemon & Daniel Norcross.
It has been a long week of calculating net run rates, but at last New Zealand put it beyond doubt. The four semi-final spots are decided before the last group match is played. Meanwhile, Pakistan became the only team to finish with a perfect record.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 15
England-South Africa & West Indies-Australia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Daniel Norcross & Izzy Westbury.
Gayle and Bravo bow out. Jason Roy limps out, and South Africa go out as Australia join England in the semis.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On ep 69, it's time to follow the guidance of Missy Elliott: lay it down, flip it, and reverse it. We did consider doing the show backwards and forwards at the same time, but eventually went for the chronologically conventional. Still, given how much we enjoyed exploring some deep partnership data, more North American gallivanting, a meeting of wagering enthusiasts, a mid-match vanishing act, and the activities on Don Bradman's honeymoon, we trust that this episode will stay true to its name by giving us pleasure at the same time as doing so for you.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 13
Australia-Bangladesh & Sri Lanka-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
Australia needed a net run rate booster and that's what they got with a swift flogging of Bangladesh. The West Indies couldn't achieve anything close to that against Sri Lanka, well beaten and eliminated to leave just three teams left in contention for the two semi-final spots from in group 1.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 11
South Africa-Bangladesh & Pakistan-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Matt Roller from ESPNcricinfo.
A double header in Abu Dhabi. South Africa’s quicks went on the rampage against Bangladesh, securing an easy win and a net run rate boost. Then it was over to Pakistan, who exploded with the bat at just the right time before doing enough with the ball against Namibia to guarantee their progress to the final four.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 10
And here is the blurb: Heartbreak for Hasaranga, as Buttler tons up and England do the apparently impossible: bat first and win. Oh, and Daniel waxes lyrical over a lobster and scallop raviolo in 30 seconds.
England-Sri Lanka. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Daniel Norcross & Izzy Westbury.
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T20 World Cup Daily: Day 9
India-New Zealand & Afghanistan-Namibia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, time to head back to Los Angeles and work out what the airspace is used for. Also, did you ever hear about the game Acid Ninja, or when Betty Wilson cut sick, or the ways in which Ian Harvey is better than Wally Hammond? A less safe for work than usual Story Time, for a range of reasons.
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West Indies-Bangladesh & Afghanistan-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross.
The best day of the tournament so far, with a couple of thrillers. At Dubai, Pakistan did it in style over a gallant Afghanistan, all-but booking their semi-final berth. Earlier, at Sharjah, the West Indies kept the hopes alive - too good for Bangladesh in a slow, low scrap.
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Sri Lanka-Australia. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
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Pakistan-New Zealand. South Africa-West Indies. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon.
They’re top of the group and have seen off their two biggest rivals: Pakistan are on the surge. Meanwhile, new jobs for Aiden Markram make a difference for South Africa, but have the West Indies tanked? Low scores might become the norm of this World Cup, and Quinton de Kock pulls out of a match for all the wrong reasons.
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Afghanistan-Scotland. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross.
Goodness me, what a performance. Afghanistan launched six after six, a number of them ending up on the Sharjah streets. Then their spinners went to work, Mujeeb and Rashid claiming nine wickets between them in a truly dominant display, winning by 130 runs. Can they make the semi-finals? You’d be mad to rule it out.
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Sri Lanka-Bangladesh and India-Pakistan. The Final Word Daily for the 2021 T20 World Cup from the UAE, with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
Pakistan and India in World Cups - it has been a one-way story. Until now. Breaking a curse needs a powerful talisman to produce a moment of magic, and Shaheen Shah Afridi was just that. Also today, Sri Lanka were down and out against an organised Bangladesh, before producing something special.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, back to The Avenue nightclub in Perth, source of such good times. A flick through cricket magazines from before the First World War, some DOB material from Adam, than a contest as to which Test player had the shortest cricket career. JJ Ferris gets amongst it before Aftab Baloch does the same, in a real Old-Timey Story TIme.
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Season 11, Ep 4: Four wickets in four balls. The talking point of the cricket week, after Curtis Campher did it for Ireland. Scotland also had a win after a huge comeback, so we got Matt Roller from Cricinfo to make his Final Word debut, telling us all about the early T20 World Cup quallies, warm-ups, and the IPL final. Also on the show this week: Brazil's women start their next campaign, the Mr Sheffield Shield is back, the WBBL beings, the county champo has yet another format, and Cricket Australia are being pointlessly stubborn about making things much harder than they need to be. What a surprise.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, it's all about the city of Bruce Springsteen's song and Ben Simmons' nightmares: Philadelphia. Also, get set for the Triple Century Knob Index, and the start of our mission to learn more about Australian pioneer Una Paisley. If you know Val Slater, get in touch!
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Season 11, Ep 3: We have a guest co-host! And it's IPL finals time. In that three of the finals have already happened, and the playoff for the title takes place 24 hours after this show goes live. A great time to talk to CricViz maestro Ben Jones, who examines a ream of analytical data on every ball of the tournament. And with Adam on holiday, Ben sticks around for a spot of Nerd Pledge, a look at Shikha Pandey's wonderball, and some measurement of England's Ashes squad.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Let's learn about a whole lot of running without a lot of smiting, by the last person you would expect it from. How many international caps did Morne Morkel win WITHOUT playing for South Africa? Krejza goes Krazy, Gilchrist goes crazy, and there's a triple-header with a whole lot of permutations. But one question persists throughout: has there ever really been a Test at Adelaide?
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Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz, dragging themselves from hibernation and buzzing obnoxiously into view. What are some better things to talk about? India's women bossed their Test match against Australia but ran out of time to press for a win. Sound familiar? Five days please!
Then it's time for our feature interview with the lovely Phillip Brown. Best known on the internet as Dudley Platypus, Browny is an Australian-English hybrid and one of the world's best cricket photographers, someone who has spent the best part of 35 years going to the opposite end of the ground as everyone else, sitting in 50-degree heat, and watching every delivery to make sure he doesn't miss a shot. Now he's collected his best photos in a book, and talks us through our favourites.
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Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz, dragging themselves from hibernation and buzzing obnoxiously into view. What are some better things to talk about? India's women bossed their Test match against Australia but ran out of time to press for a win. Sound familiar? Five days please!
Then it's time for our feature interview with the lovely Phillip Brown. Best known on the internet as Dudley Platypus, Browny is an Australian-English hybrid and one of the world's best cricket photographers, someone who has spent the best part of 35 years going to the opposite end of the ground as everyone else, sitting in 50-degree heat, and watching every delivery to make sure he doesn't miss a shot. Now he's collected his best photos in a book, and talks us through our favourites.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today, an early theme emerges with the West Indies and Ireland, leading us to a true scorecard mystery from just a few years ago. Then a pledger becomes a subject before Julios are feted - likewise an underappreciated hero of 2005. Some stunning stats, as always, as we hit the revisits: the most runs off an over (more than you think) and the most economical Test spell ever sent down. Sit back and enjoy.
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5.68 – Luke Reynolds
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1.77 - Joel Emonsen
3.94 – Matt Laycock
1.05 - Bernhard Sayer
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Katy Morris
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Season 11, Ep 1: It's the start of Season 11! And to kick it off, a huge omnibus show after a busy week in the game. We saw two all-time classics in the Australia-India women's one-dayers, one extending the Aussie streak to 26, the next ending it at last. Our view of England's abandonment of touring Pakistan with no evident security concerns. HCL Technologies return to inspire. Moeen Ali retires from Test cricket. Indian players are coming en masse to the WBBL. Perth will not get an Ashes Test this year, but arrangements elsewhere continue apace. Close finishes in England's county championship and in the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy. Maxi makes runs in the IPL. Tasmania's Shield team pulls out of Queensland. England's women knock off New Zealand. What did we miss?
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: another Daniel Norcross visit, as we find out the things of which he was a keen observer. Live free or die. Also, a beautiful failure who is getting better bit by bit, a Nerd-Julio hybrid double header, another visit to the Shit List, and tangential Jack Fingleton. Don't forget bloody Benaud taking all the credit.
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Season 10, Ep 22: She wowed the world last week with her four run-outs of the non-striker while bowling for Cameroon. Now she's chatting with The Final Word: a little bit shy, and just home from school. Maeva Douma is joined by her national vice-captain, Cynerah Dibande, to translate from French.
Also this week: New Zealand cancels a men's tour of Pakistan at the 11th hour, and (in real time as we were recording the show) England announced they would follow suit for both their men's and women's teams. Yeesh. Virat Kohli quits as T20 captain for India and in the IPL, and there's a big wrap of women's international cricket around the world.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Adam is back properly, so we get stuck into the revisits that have been piling up during some otherwise busy weeks. Bags of ten wickets, bags of dodgy cash, and bags with Alex Hales - we've got the whole gamut covered. Then doubling back over pears, plums, and The New Pringle. Plenty of fun in an extra-long show.
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Season 10, Ep 21: Australia has cancelled on Afghanistan - not formally but in effect - to protest the Taliban's destructive attitudes to women. But identifying the right thing to do is difficult, given that choice also means abandoning Afghanistan's people to extremist rulers. Rather than advocating for one option, we try to look at different aspects to the problem in the hope of understanding it better.
Also this week: Nagraj Gollapudi joins the show to talk about the ongoing Old Trafford cancellation kerfuffle between the England and India boards. Cameroon teenager Maeva Douma became a cult hero with four run-outs of the non-striker in a match against Uganda. Matthew Hayden will deliver some fresh word salads as coach of Pakistan. Tim Paine gets his bulge addressed, ahead of a pending Ashes that continues being a will-they-won't-they, and Amy Satterthwaite is not able to wind back the clock.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what could be better than Shane Warne describing Shane Warne? You're in for a treat. Also, Norcross is back for another appearance, and going rogue with possible solutions once again. We remember one of South Africa's least enjoyable days, look at the biggest near-misses you can hope to find, locate the very best at a certain position, and try to figure out how a different player had a career at all. All new numbers this week, back to regular operations as of next weekend.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame.
It would appear to be a case of top work from Ravi Shastri. It is truly surprising that the guy who decided to rub faces with a few hundred people at a hotel while celebrating himself was also the guy who brought COVID into the team environment. Now the series is cancelled, at 2-1 India. Our thoughts on the sudden end. It probably would have rained anyway.
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Season 10, Ep 20: This week, Guardian writer Emma John joins the show to talk about her recent article drawing together interviews with many of the England team's Black cricketers. This came out alongside the outstanding documentary on Sky presented by Mark Butcher, titled You Guys Are History.
Before that, India's second Test win on their tour of England wrapped up at The Oval, and our mate Sachin Tendulkar knocked off Adam's iconic photo of the last wicket falling. Finally, some recognition from the King of the Tweets. Also, Virat Kohli's relationship with the Barmy Army, a preview of the Old Trafford Test, the touring fortunes of New Zealand's men and women, and the late-season county rounds.
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021, with Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.
England came into the fifth day with one eye on a win. Instead, a rare Indian series victory in England is within grasp, leading 2-1 after a dramatic final bowling day. Jadeja ragged it, Bumrah ignited it, Shardul had key moments of skill, and Umesh bowled with joyful ferocity. Burns and Hameed held firm for a time, but then the tide came in.
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Another day that surged one way and then the other. An important partnership. Two quick wickets from a beautiful man. A counterattack with a dash of responsibility. Another milestone for Shardul Thakur. Fun for Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah. Then a great start to a huge chase for Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed. It. Is. On.
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. With special guest Daniel Norcross.
Another tense and sometimes thrilling day, in the end defined by Rohit Sharma having made himself into a Test opener in English conditions: judging his leave, using his patience, imposing himself when the time is right. He also got out to a bonkers shot, to prove he is still him. And another key innings from Cheteshwar Pujara alongside. India on top, England still in the frame.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame.
It was very nearly the day when India missed Ashwin badly. Several times there were English partnerships forming that were about to take the match out of reach. Bit by bit, India’s bowlers were just able to keep the team in touch. First Umesh, then Siraj, then Thakur, then Jadeja. The lead was big without being insurmountable. But as we know, wickets can come in a rush...
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021.
Do you like your Test matches in fast forward? Try 13 wickets on the first day, and the fastest half-century ever hit in England. Chris Woakes was brilliant. Virat Kohli was brilliant. Anderson, Robinson, Overton, all quality. Shardul Thakur was destructively influential. He half turned the game around, then Jasprit Bumrah turned it the rest of the way. A first day that went everywhere, leaving us waiting for a second day that could go anywhere.
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Season 10, Ep 19: Happy Birthday Sachin is back in a big way, in a temporarily upside-down episode. There's a 7 in the morning now? The Australian summer is upside down, with the women's series against India suddenly moved to the Sunshine State. Plus all the wash-up from the Headingley Test, a farewell to Lord Ted Dexter, and England's domestic summer winds on.
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021.
Virat Kohli made a fifty, then the third Test disappeared faster than a tray of sandwiches. Ollie Robinson has just begun his career and has set a cracking wicket-taking piece. Jimmy Anderson is at the other end but gets no older. A fast last day sees England level the series 1-1 with two to play.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: when Adam met some gentlemen in the Caribbean who were working to uphold the reputation of Australians overseas, one Orchy bottle at a time. There's a detour from there up to Canada, and to see which number ended up as so many women's career best. When was the most Durham team that ever Durhamed? And would your favourite cricket podcast include the sentence "Hugh Tayfield loved to f**k"?
Also! Daniel Norcross rejoins us for a moment, for one last look at the famous 9.04.
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Season 10, Ep 18: It's far from the most important question facing the country. But given that Afghanistan's cricket team has been a consistent good-news story for the last couple of decades, those who follow the game worry about what will become of it with the Taliban back in power. Shadi Khan Saif is a journalist who has covered Afghanistan politics for years, and who escaped from Kabul the night before joining The Final Word.
Also this week: Justin Langer's tenure as Australian coach remains fraught, with players angry that Cricket Australia publicly backed him before meeting with them. Malcolm Conn of the Sydney Morning Herald also joins the show to talk through the developing story. Plus, we prepare for England and India's third Test, more runs for Fawad Alam as Pakistan play West Indies, Adam is back from holiday, and Ian Botham is the UK's new trade envoy to Australia. Mmmmkay.
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021.
He went from 41st on the list for runs in a year to 17th, in the space of a day. Test ton #23. And Joe Root has never made it look easier. What a difference an opening partnership makes, too. Dawid Malan slotted back in, Mohammed Shami did his best with Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja picked up wickets. But it was still a day that was really England’s to enjoy, taking an unassailable position in the Test with aeons yet to play.
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How quickly the world can change. India go from bowling victors on the last day at Lord’s to batting carnage on the first day at Leeds. Led as ever by the grand old man Jimmy Anderson, and the bright young thing Haseeb Hameed. How on earth did this happen? Find out.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins with panache and aplomb. Sounds delicious. And we have a huge amount of fun with a particularly dastardly number, a creative solution, a look at the world's biggest roundabouts, the best ducks, the most running, and a Trinidad legend of 1928. Jump in.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Daniel Norcross once more plays the role of Adam Collins with panache and aplomb. Sounds delicious. And we have a huge amount of fun with a particularly dastardly number, a creative solution, a look at the world's biggest roundabouts, the best ducks, the most running, and a Trinidad legend of 1928. Jump in.
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Season 10, Ep 17: Daniel Norcross joins the show this week, as Adam - for the first time in Final Word history - has a holiday. That allows Geoff and Dan to luxuriate in recalling the glorious last day of the England-India Test at Lord's, as well as the last-wicket win that West Indies somehow produced against Pakistan. You'll also learn just how passionate that night became between Daniel and former New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney.
Also this week: Justin Langer's troubles bubbling over, Australia and England release their players once more to the IPL, a schedule is out for the T20 World Cup, and we update how things have gone with the Hundred.
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Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. They can win games with the ball, but with the bat? That was how the match at Lord’s began to twist, from an almost certain England win to something else completely. Catch up on one of the great final days.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame.
Day 4 is done, and India stand with Rishabh Pant holding the key to their fortunes. England stand one wicket away from a likely win. The Indian lead is 154, and only the four fast bowlers can keep Rishabh company. But how did we get here, via Mark Wood, Cheteshwar Pujara, Moeen Ali and Ajinkya Rahane? Listen in.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame.
It couldn’t have got any better. India’s XI versus Joe Root, all through the third day at Lord’s. It ended with a wicket from the final ball, Root unbeaten, and the two teams to go toe-to-toe from an almost level position on day four. Quality from Siraj and Ishant, and a bizarre day from Jasprit Bumrah. Phil Walker guest stars on The Final Word today.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: someone who managed one sixtieth of a Test career, and someone who managed an average that no one else has matched. The lows into highs of a player we've loved to recall. And a magical mystery tour through some of the most wild selector logic.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name our Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame.
Down to London for the Lord’s experience. A bit of rain didn’t stop 90 overs, and England didn’t stop KL Rahu or Rohit Sharmal. After Joe Root chose to bowl, they made him regret the decision. But it wasn’t necessarily a bad decision at the time. India finish well on top after Day 1.
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Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the show, in a roundabout way, having spoken to Geoff for a Guardian interview that we thought TFW listeners would like to hear in full.
Also this week: the ICC confirms it will try to get cricket into the 2028 LA Olympics, and onwards. A huge shift in policy. We speak to acting CEO Geoff Allardice about how that came about. Plus the shambles of England's Test approach after the first India match, and the shambles of Australia's T20 thrashing in Bangladesh. Tigerland!
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After all the waiting, Day 4 was a classic. Early strikes from India, dogged resistance from England, that blossomed into one of Joe Root’s best tons. Every time it looked like England might pull away, India pegged them back. So the wrestle went, as England’s lead built. On the brink of Day 5, anything could yet happen.
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This is The Final Word Daily from the England-India Test series of 2021. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon sum up the action, name Player of the Day, and rank entries for our own Hall of Fame. Another action-filled day despite delays. KL Rahul batted on within sight of a century, in one of his most important Test innings. At the other end, there was plenty of nitro-fuelled fun from Pant, Jadeja, and an unexpected source in Jasprit Bumrah. Find The Final Word’s longer shows on podcast apps.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a faster episode because we're in the middle of a Test match, but that still leaves time for a Dusty Old Bastard influx. Who did some things first? What's the deal with Tasmania? Have we found another obscure record? And what did Neville Cardus have to say about it? All this and more, on Story Time.
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The Final Word Daily for the England-India Tests of 2021. With play limited play by rain, there was still time for the Test to twist and turn. Jimmy Anderson is as young as ever, Ajinkya Rahane has bought a new car, and KL Rahul now has to be Mr Reliable.
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Four seamers, big results. England chose to bat and India’s quicks finished them off not long after tea. Only Joe Root stood against the tide.
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Season 10, Ep 15: Most of us were kids who dreamed of being rock stars. None of us had the single-minded determination to set about making it happen. Felix did, taking a bunch of mates at uni in Bristol to No.1 on the UK charts with the Maccabees. What's even more unexpected is the part that cricket played in Felix's life, two obsessions forming an unlikely partnership.
Now he's written down that story, in a beautiful debut book that ties together ambition, grief, and loneliness, and the extraordinary power that any of those can have. Felix is a very special guest to talk through the tale of It's Always Summer Somewhere.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Nawabs come in all shapes and sizes. We respect them all. Or do we? There's also one of Adam's favourite weeks at a Test match, plus a little dash of Winnie, and some really really really niche Surrey stuff. No surprises there. Plus some of the biggest names and one of the smallest, for a second turn at being our DOB.
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Season 10, Ep 14: Like it, hate it, or ignore it, The Hundred is... hunderway? The stakes are high. The bills are high. So is the risk of a stumble. Henry Moeran has been watching more of the actual cricket than anyone, leading the BBC radio coverage. He joins The Final Word to talk through the possibilities and pitfalls of the ECB's big bet.
Also on the show this week: might England bail on the Ashes? Not likely but suggestions have begun. India's reserve team gets timed out by covid, so it's time for the reserve reserves - will Rahul Dravid have to strap on the pads? While Australia dodge their own covid brush in the Caribbean and board the plane for Bangladesh.
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A mini-episode to let people know about our Discord server, which is basically a website where listeners to the show can hang out. It's a bit like the old-school chat boards with different pages for different subjects, but way more high-tech with things like video embedding and voice-chat channels to supplement your keyboard.
Being a closed page where we know people's identities, it's a bit more safe and chilled out than public-facing social media. If you want somewhere to chat to people during cricket matches, for instance, without the Wild West elements, listen in for tips from Discord expert Anna Forsyth on what it's about and how to access it.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: more proof of the compelling case that the one-day tri-series must return. An understated and underrated turn from Allan Border. The numerical quirks of Bangladesh, and a big day for Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club. Then some long-term revisits take us around the Monopoly board via Arthur Shrewsbury's haunted house. And who's up for the vaccine game at London Fields?
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Season 10, Ep 13: From captaining boys' under-10s to captaining England goes the story. But retiring as a player brought much more. By now it's fair to say that no one person has driven as much progress for women in cricket as Clare Connor. Through the ECB and ICC, this is the story of that change. It's also the story of the human side of making it happen.
On the first day of the controversial Hundred competition, and soon after learning that she will become the first woman president of the Marylebone Cricket Club, we sit down with Clare for a full Final Word special.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a time when it all happened with ease for the Son of Swamp. And a time when Swamp himself didn't go too badly. Plus a freakish coincidence with a previous number, a time when WG had a good run, a hat-related Belfast incident, a visit to Ridley Jacobs, and an untelevised trip to Colombo. There's plenty for all.
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Season 10, Ep 12: It can be hard to follow Justin Langer's line of logic. The Australian men's coach has an extempore media style that over time can veer into inconsistency. After enough misgivings about his coaching style to prompt a formal review, and after talk about embracing the chance to grow, this week the coach had moved back to denying there was a problem to begin with. Let's try to untangle.
Also: Langer's team is being smashed up by the Windies in St Lucia. All of the English season is at risk of collapse thanks to COVID running through teams, with The Hundred and the India Tests particularly exposed. India's women played a blinder to stay in their series with England, Harleen Deol took flight, Sri Lanka's ODI series got delayed, and South Africa are in trouble against Ireland in the World Cup Super League. Meanwhile, the ICC chief executive has been quietly pushed out of the organisation.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: there's something about doctors and cricket, they just keep coming up. We try to measure up to the unmeasurable, then wind all the way back to a literary classic born before the First World War, taking in another glimpse of the Test triangular, and look at the most underrated of the underrated, as well as the biggest achievement by far. Plus our listeners Declan Lawlor and Nick Tewson are raising money by the sweat of their brows.
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Season 10, Ep 11: Remember when England's whole team got COVID? Or something like that, we're not big on detail. That's why we've got Will Macpherson on the show to tell us about England having to quarantine an entire squad who caught the bug at home, after pulling out of various trips overseas to avoid catching the same. How did it happen, what's happening, and why weren't more hilarious selections made among the Replacements.
Also: Mithali Raj and either the go-slow or the champion's perfect pace, depending which way you see it. Jimmy Anderson gets 1000 first-class wickets. Pavel Florin takes a stack in T20s as Romania runs the table. Ollie Robinson's case gets closed. And everyone loves a review these days - Justin Langer and his players face up to an independent look at his coaching style.
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Story Time is back, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the coolest band name of Adam's youth makes an unexpected appearance. We crunch some numbers on Lawrence Rowe, tackle a proper cryptic, and look at days when it was all about swinging for the fences, once by a Test player and once by TFW listener Osman Bahemia. There's also another appearance from Geoff's own Jean Valjean.
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Season 10, Ep 10: After much hand-wringing from us over poor over rates, the time has come to step back from the flame and take a closer look at what is happening, why it is happening and how it might be fixed. Andrew Samson, the BBC's master statistician/historian, joined us for part of that chat. Later, we worry about the state of India's women's team before finishing with a thoroughly wonderful story from South London where women and girls players are being looked after like never before. Oh, and we're very excited to welcome a new partner to The Final Word team... Brick Lane Brewing!
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Season 10, Ep 9: WTC #1 has been run and won, done and done, New Zealand are one from one. The next instalment has the same structure, but from 2023 things could change up. So at the earliest opportunity we're going to thrash out what could be improved, in a conversation with Wisden Cricket Monthly editor Phil Walker.
Also this week: Vinoo Mankad freaks, dance in the streets! After a most deserved gong. Ke$hav Maharaj gets a hat-trick, Danni Wyatt gets pushed out of England's ODI team, Eoin Morgan gets nowhere in addressing past faults, Charlotte Edwards gets an overdue honour, and England players get nervous about visiting Australia.
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They’ve done it: after a lot of near misses, the New Zealanders have won a major trophy. A historic one, too, in the first ever World Test Championship. A lot needed to go right for them on the sixth day after so much time was lost to rain, but they made sure that a lot did go right. Each of Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson, Neil Wagner and Trent Boult made an impression with the ball, before the old firm of Kane Williamson and Luteru Ross Taylor did the job with the bat. Rishabh Pant threatened to take the match away, but was stopped in time. All round a fine achievement.
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Yet another excellent day of Test cricket, with a gripping battle between bat and ball all through the morning session. The advantage swung from one team to the other. Kane Williamson produced a masterclass, Mohammed Shami produced some brilliance, Tim Southee produced key interventions, Cheteshwar Pujara produced his high standard. With the sixth day to come, there is still some hope of a win for either side.
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Another gripping day that again ended prematurely thanks to bad light. Kyle Jamieson set a Test record with another five-wicket haul, up against some fight from Ajinkya Rahane and Ravichandran Ashwin. Then it was New Zealand’s turn to be scrutinised against the moving ball, with India’s quicks starting the interrogation but Ashwin getting first results. The most important moment of the day happened in the last five minutes...
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What a rearguard, what a fight. Sneh Rana, Shikha Pandey, Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma were all among the stars as India fought back from following on to save the Test against England. Meanwhile, in the men’s final, New Zealand chose to bowl first and had some success with Kyle Jamieson and Neil Wagner after some flourish from Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill.
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We got one XI, we didn’t get the other XI, and we didn’t get a toss. Not much to report on after all the build-up to the match at Southampton. Lucky it goes for six days. Across the country though, India’s women were on the field in Bristol, and despite falling just short of the follow-on mark, Shafali Verma continued to break records.
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Season 10, Ep 8: Snehal Pradhan joins the show this week - the former India bowler has become an advocate for women in India, and co-wrote the the report An Equal Hue on the problems and solutions facing women's cricket in the country. Also, our preview of the World Test Championship, Shakib's meltdown in Bangladesh, Tim Paine on troubles with Australia's many-times-quarantining players, Ebony Rainford-Brent's gong, and a surprising appointment to the Cricket Australia board.
And yes, this episode came out late. It should have been on Wednesday. Errmm, technical difficulties? Sorry.
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What a breakneck day. First it was England’s tailenders swinging the cue with help from Sophia Dunkley. Then it was another player on debut, Shafali Verma, coming within one big hit of a Test century. Smriti Mandhana blazed off the back foot, then England surged back late with wickets aplenty. Short of the follow-on mark, there’s plenty in store on Day 3.
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It started fast, with Lauren Winfield-Hill launching sixes over the leg side and Tammy Beaumont playing strokemaker as ever. Heather Knight nearly made a ton, Natalie Sciver was in a bombastic mood, but then the wickets started to fall. Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma did most of the good work, while Sophia Dunkley had some work to do on a historic debut.
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The formalities were completed, and now New Zealand head into the World Test Championship final on a winning note. But which of their many bowling options will each team choose? Bumrah, Ishant, Shami, Ashwin, Jadeja, Siraj are all top-class for India. Boult, Southee, Wagner, Jamieson, Henry are the same for New Zealand, but space for a spinner is also required, and Ajaz Patel may have gone past Santner. So many options, so little time, as England try to make sense of such a comprehensive defeat.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: back to the Smokers v Non-Smokers match for a minute, via a trip to the West Country. An all-time great finish that you won't remember, an unwanted record for drink-mixing, and a whole lot of confusion about x and y and what happens in between.
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The fortress didn’t last for long. Day 3 featured another English batting collapse, too modest to even be especially dramatic, brought on by persistent quality from New Zealand’s bowlers. The Kiwis have almost got this match in their keeping, after a day in fast forward.
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Mark Wood had some fun with the bat as England surged on to 303, and Broad got Tom Latham out early. From then on, things stopped going England’s way. Dropped catches, overruled appeals, and a lack of luck for some quality bowling. On the other side, New Zealand just keep finding good new players. This time it was Will Young joining Devon Conway to gradually build up the runs. New Zealand are 74 behind with 7 wickets in hand.
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A proper twisting turning day of Test cricket started this match off, with a arm wrestle of a first session, a run of wickets in the second, and some tail-end fighting back in the third. England would have been worried earlier but will be fairly happy after Lawrence and Burns found some runs, while Boult returned with the ball for New Zealand to partner well with Matt Henry.
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Season 10, Ep 7: Vish joins the show in a busy week in England after Ollie Robinson was suspended following his Test debut. We talk through the purpose of his suspension, his history of racist jokes, and what part is played by age – either of the comments themselves or the person making them.
Also this week: Dan Christian for Australia! He's in the touring squad. But how many weeks of quarantine is it reasonable to ask of someone? The England women's contracts are announced, the Heyhoe-Flint trophy is full of runs, and Netherlands keep on winning against bigger teams.
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New Zealand set up the Test match beautifully on Day 5 at Lord’s but England refused to play ball. What gives? Ollie Robinson is out, and the draw leaves plenty of questions about who will feature in the second Test.
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What a tussle on the fourth day. Tim Southee finished with six wickets, Rory Burns finished with his best Test century, and England finished up just over a hundred runs behind on the first innings. But with the whole third day lost to rain, it will take something impressive for New Zealand to set up this match for a win.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: raise the bat. 50 episodes of this indulgence are somehow in the bag. We'll have both Mad Dogs and Englishmen, midday sun or otherwise. A closer look at the fitting finish to an epic Test series, an exhibition of T20 perfection, some pure filth from 100 years earlier, and the Final Word's party number gets another run. This is also the week for a chaotic attempt at Julio Pledge! The far less accomplished game on the show.
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He resumed the day on 136 and just kept going. But not everything was Conway’s way. Mark Wood started a speed spell for England, and the match rattled and rolled. Then came Neil Wagner to add some flourish in ways that only he can. NZ’s first innings is wrapped, and England have started a decent reply.
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Win the toss, bat first, and make a ton. It couldn’t be easier for Devon Conway, who is unbeaten overnight with the highest score ever made on debut at Lord’s. England went with an interesting bowling approach, and couldn’t break through often enough despite a fine show of quality. A proper tussle on the first day.
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Season 10, Ep 6: Daniel Brettig joins the show to discuss Cricket Australia's new and old appointment as CEO, as well as Dan's own appointment at The Age. We look at a crazy year in the life of Boom Boom Afridi, the upcoming Test between England and New Zealand, the arrival home at last for Australia's players, another round of political strife in Afghanistan cricket, the county wrap and the new World Cup format. Plus another Milk Round.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a trip across Australia's lines from the Brisbane to the Barassi. Some cryptic stuff about numbers that don't equal other numbers. A couple of the great counterattacks, and the fastest in the world in more ways than one. Jean Valjean is back, along with 1970s beer advertisements and even more time than usual in the 1800s.
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2.22 – Srikanth Agaram & John Tucker
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Season 10, Ep 5: Is he the first live-streaming superstar? The cricket world turned to a dodgy video feed from a gale-struck Canterbury as Darren Stevens produced one of the more audacious innings in the first-class game. Fifteen sixes later, he nearly reached a double ton while his batting partner made 1 run. It was just the latest in a series of scarcely believable episodes in an unusual cricketing life, having turned into a bowler at 35 years of age and still playing at 45. He joins the Final Word to talk through all of it.
Also! Friend of the show and sometime co-host Isabelle Westbury joins us to discuss a week of major stories about the treatment of women players by the Indian board, and we're back with some vintage Winnie News and a brand new Milk Round.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: the innings that even Robelinda agrees could have been the best of all. A player with the same number in a whole lot of categories. The genius behind the Doug Ring Cycle, another of the great comebacks, catching a few at the beach in Bellingen, and the Final Word's most shameful miss in the history of this show.
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4.29 - Daniel O'Connell & Brook Quinn
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5.40 - Jim Carnegie & Chris Prout
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Season 10, Ep 4: Horror movies teach us that if you don't nail the monster properly, it always comes back. Australia's ball-tampering story was never buried properly the first time around. This week we speak to Peter Lalor about the news side of the story that won't go away. We also cover various squads, the county championship, and have a breezy chat with Australia's nearly-there cult hero Michael Neser.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: how to rate a big day on the field against the big night preceding it. A look at Indian royalty next to an English character who was everything but. Some very early work from Ireland and from southern Africa. And we solve a couple of recalcitrant revisits that had traps laid in the clues along the way.
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3.17 - Matt Smith
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3.79 - Laksmi Govindasamy
1.24 - Eric Pritchard
5.06 - Matt May
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Season 10, Ep 3: This week on The Final Word, a long and uplifting conversation with a man who really has done it all in the professional game across nearly six decades, known around the cricketing world by a simple moniker: Bumble. Always ready with a laugh and a story, always willing to give a kind word, and loved accordingly. Before that we look at how Australia's players are getting on in the Maldives, the county champs round, and Pakistan's fun time against Zimbabwe.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a Dusty Old Bastard with a very particular trick. A deep dive into some of the finest slow merchants ever to operate out of India, a look at a couple of speedsters from either side of the ditch, and a Final Word familial link to Bodyline. All before a trip down Root 66.
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Declan Lawlor, what a guy! In conjunction with Lord's Taveners, he's running the length of the Thames. Get behind him if you can.
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Season 10, Ep 2: The IPL has been cancelled, Sri Lanka won a Test series, and there was a bonkers county round. But honestly all we really want to do this week is hang out and chat with Elly Oldroyd. She's done everything as a sports broadcaster, from a dozen Olympics to Ashes tours and major tournaments, having blazed her way into the job on the BBC back in the 1980s and 1990s. She's also become the expert commentator for royal weddings and funerals. And she's got stories for days. Stop by and spend some time.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll go from what kept Wally Hammond away from the game in 1926 onto Joe Denly's football career. Remember Jack Russell? Let's talk about the other one, the first Englishman to clock twin tons. Worcestershire's finest day on a rival's ground and Deano's final day for Victoria will come before finally answering a question that's kept us busy for weeks: who really is the best player to drop a catch from your bat? We also make amends for 5.66.
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2.01 - Sam Litster
4.15 - Ian Minors, Dave McRobbie & Luke Reynolds
4.25 - Joe Reinhard
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Declan Lawlor, what a guy! In conjunction with Lord's Taveners, he's running the length of the Thames. Get behind him if you can. http://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/dec-and-seb-thames-source-to-sea
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We didn't think it would come to this. By Week 4 of the IPL, Australia's government has barred flights from India until at least the middle of May. With several teammates having headed home just before the deadline, Glenn Maxwell has chosen to stay the course. He gives the view from inside the bubble.
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Season 10, Ep 1: This week Karunya Keshav wrote fiercely about the deafness of the Indian Premier League to the suffering outside its gates. She joins the show to explain the humanitarian disaster that has overtaken India during the biggest covid wave the world has seen.
This starts a new season of The Final Word, with the southern summer belatedly concluded in April, and the northern season already in full but chilly swing. We also cover the new Australian contract list, the removal of England selector Ed Smith, the highlights of the county championship, women's cricket at the Comm Games, Sri Lanka's Test against Bangladesh, and a very special round of Happy Birthday Sachin.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: an alliterative match whose final day was unexpectedly spectacular. The only player with a perfect record, nestled within an imperfect record. The return story of one of the most prolific, and diminutive, of all time. Plus our regular rounds through dusty old bastardry and Bannermania.
Also, this is the last episode of The Final Word Season 9! Luckily Season 10 starts next week.
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3.04 – Simon Butcher & Osman Bahemia
13.13 – Rob
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It's Week 3 of our series with Glenn Maxwell, India correspondent, as he takes us through the move from Chennai to Mumbai, and the increasing worry for players and teams about everybody facing an increasing virus crisis across India. It does seem strange but the TV-only show goes on. Looking back at the cricket, Glenn also tells us about the orange cap for the leading runscorer: how you get hold of one and what the etiquette is for wearing it.
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Season 9, Ep 30: The last show of Season 9, recorded on 420 day, on which we decide to let a live audience pile in via the Patreon page to watch the thing get made over video call. Compression session! Neil Manthorp also dials in to update us about the worsening political fight between a few Cricket South Africa holdouts and the national government, as well as the shock of Zimbabwe legend Heath Streak's long corruption ban. Also: Jodie Hawkins gets dudded by Cricket New South Wales, Cricinfo goes gender neutral, and there are hopeful signs about Olympic cricket, an expanded men's World Cup, and women's Tests.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: a number that has nothing to do with Stumpy Laird, and a number that has nothing to do with either of the Nawabs. As for the principality of Pataudi, where is it now? We'll find that KISS does not stand for Knights in Satan's Service, and that Jarrod Kimber isn't the only one to remember Ben Dunk. Plus Boonie, Bargearse, Borthwick, and a partnership that we prayed and prayed would end.
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4.44 – Shyam Sundaraman & Crispn Crunch
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3.06 – Slim Johns & Peta Dowling
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Disregard the parts about St Kilda hoping to win a match – that soon went a different way. But otherwise it was a great day to hear from Glenn Maxwell after two influential innings to help win RCB's first two matches of the season. We also got more updates on the advertising shoot schedule, which obviously takes priority over cricket, as well as the pastoral care focus of those running the team, and what it's like in the middle with the intensity of Virat Kohli.
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Season 9, Ep 29: It's that time again: the new Wisden Almanack time. In what has now become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we've sat down with Almanack editor Lawrence Booth to go through the pages of The Good Book and get his explanation of all that lies therein. A fascinating year in retrospect, with all of the uncertainty and improvisation that was so unlovely to live through, but will make absorbing history.
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We're busy recruiting for our tours to Brazil and Pakistan when (hopefully) the planet allows for such a thing in 2022: on The Final Word, we Dera to Dream. From there, straight into our work on Story Time for another weekend, looking at an unexpected captain then a peculiar omission following a Test double ton. We finish off with a trio of our favourites: Simon Katich, the Wild Thing and one of Pakistan's finest century-crushers.
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2.17 – Hamish Stares and Richard Casamento
2.46 – Christopher Byrne
3.84 – Will Day & Kris Swales
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It happened. Since the IPL is a biosecure fortress in 2021, we've got a contact on the inside. Glenn Maxwell, who is bunkered down at the Royal Challengers Bangalore hotel with his fiancee Vini, will be giving us that window in. First up, the escape from quarantine and the chaos of pre-tournament week, where capitalism matters more than cricket.
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Season 9, Ep 28: Tiger Tim of Ireland has quite the story. From bowling the first ball in Irish Test cricket, to triumphs with Middlesex, to missing out on World Cups by agonising margins. On the eve of his final contracted season, with his 40th birthday approaching fast, he sat down with us to talk through it all.
Also this week: the IPL approaches along with our new Glenn Maxwell plan. Australia's women set a world record winning streak. The Sheffield Shield finalists are decided after a busy final round. And there's a dash of Nerd Pledge and Bannerman Watch.
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Light and shade, in cricket as it is in life. So, on Story Time this weekend, learn about the batsman who spent three days presumed dead in no-man's-land only to become an unexpected Test cricketer 15 years later. Stick around to hear about WG's highest Test score and one of Jack Hobbs' finest hours. A classic Scottish name comes later, likewise a 1984 thriller. We also mark a place for a double that'll never be forgotten at Tallangatta CC.
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5.01 – Mark Henderson
2.58 – Abhilash Singh
3.85 – Ethan Morgan
3.52 – Pat McKeon
1.70 – Cameron Allen
7.27 – Elia Andrews
4.10 - Bernie Prins
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Season 9, Ep 27: Steve Smith wants back in as Australian captain. Over in New Zealand, is it Jeff Jeff or Microwave Jeff? A West Indies classic plays out in Antigua, and there's last-ball luck for the Kiwi women. Final Word fave Suwanji Madanayake needs a groundswell of support. Queensland notch a first in the WNCL. Cricket South Africa manage to screw things up again, with Karen Smithies in the shrapnel zone. Plus there's Nerd Pledge, Bannerman, and our most informative Zoleo adventure yet.
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4.21 – David Crock
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1.49 – Ash Parajuli
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(Language warning near the end of this show.) From deep inside the spreadsheets of cricket's past comes another edition of Story Time. This weekend, settle in to hear about when the USA fronted up against the might of Ricky Ponting's Australia, the tale of one of Hampshire's greatest sons, and what could be the first century ever made in first-class cricket? You tell us. And there's still time to revisit masterclasses from Imran Khan, Harmanpreet Kaur and the man who goes by the name of Bulbul.
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3.00 – Mrs. Sorby
5.34 – Matt
5.52 – Fred Cowen
1.36 – Andrew Turner
6.63 – Nick O’Connell
7.23 – Cam Again
1.71 – John Leather
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Season 9, Ep 26: In the early years of the colony, Irish politics were very much Australian politics. Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter, Catholics and Protestants brawled into the Bradman era. Now comes a modern intervention. CA chair Earl Eddings plays William Wallace in this version, calling in the Irish as reinforcements. Are they coming? Also this week, all the happenings in the Shield, in India, and the results that we recently pleaded for in the WNCL.
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Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what happens when Boony's biggest secret is revealed? Who slides into the Old Spinner category late in the piece? And a week after the most ridiculous scorecard we've yet discovered, a Bannerman that gives it a run for its money. We'll uncover the true story of Milo, the link between Steve Waugh and Paulan Umrigar, and the England XI that went on to run the world even though it didn't at the time.
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3.09 – Rob Richardson & Joel Burton
4.84 – President Richard Bond McNally
5.08 – Mel Shawley & Chris Unwin
5.57 – Will Cuckson
6.56 – Chris Unwin again?!
2.43 – One of the Tom Stewarts
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Walter Fagen
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Hannah Edmonds
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Pankaj Challa
Devashish Das
The Rev. Dylan Nichols
Plus revisits and confirmations.
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Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 women recently won the country's first central contracts. But the game has been afoot in Brazil for some time, using innovative ways to help cricket take root rather than being transplanted from overseas, and in the process helping young Brazilians from disadvantaged places. It's one hell of a tale, and we're joined by national captain Roberta Moretti and Cricket Brasil head Matt Featherstone to tell it.
Also this week: Afghanistan work hard to win a Test against Zimbabwe, while also becoming an unlikely bargaining chip between Channel Seven and Cricket Australia. South Africa's women and England's men put on a stirring display in limited-overs matches in India. And our humble show passes the 2 million mark.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
4.00 – Andrew Gilbertson
2.47 – Jono Haylen
5.71 – Sukrit Munjal
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Here is perhaps the greatest tale we have yet told on Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener challenges. Get ready to learn about the disco to end all discos, and a grand plan for next year. We'll feature the hottest vigil, some cryptic clippers, the longest gun in the West, the best in women's Tests, more mathematics clues that we're not qualified to solve, another trip to 1930s India, the sunniest day for Northamptonshire, and a visit with our old friend SE Marsh.
Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
2.99 – Rob Taylor
2.85 – Debashish Biswas
3.37 – Martin Blackburn & Alex Veljanovski
1.13 – Matthew Jones
3.25 – Bruce Walker
2.36 – Mike Lea
1.48 – Duncan Davies, Sebastian Greers & Sam Ashworth
Plus revisits and confirmations.
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Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests behind the microphone. His life before commentary included 71 Test matches, with a series of dramatic highs and drastic falls. Beyond cricket, he's a musician, a considered thinker, and someone who believes in the moral obligation to speak up for others. On The Final Word this week, a long conversation with Mark about life, family, and the wider world. Before that, our usual round-up of the cricket week.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers:
6.40 – Anthony Osborn
6.20 – Michael Fitzgerald
46.55 – Fran
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Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll visit a walk-up start for the Clem Hill Defenestration Club, one Charlie Parker. Go via the president of the Internet Cricket Club, as it was in the beginning. Check the weather conditions on Kunanyi. Do a medical check on the Boer War, while finding another totally different club that Clem was part of. And track down a 140-year-old coincidence.
Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
7.37 – Liam Dalton
2.14 – Paul Reeve & Anny Forsyth
6.96 – Edward Edgecumbe
5.68 – Cameron
2.04 – Chris Dobbins
2.97 – Panos, Paul Davenport & Alex Crampton
Plus some revisits and confirmations, while others have been held to next week.
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Day 3 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 2 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 1 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back and forth over the Tasman for a range of formats, with some Shield corkers and some T20 madness, some men's games and some women's, some England and New Zealand and India and Australia, as well a detour to Abu Dhabi for Afghanistan and Zimbabwe and their future on free to air. What else? Javed Miandad’s I ❤️ NY hat, Keith Miller's trip to the opera, and of course our old mate Charles Bannerman and those he inspires. It’s another sprawling weekly episode of The Final Word.
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2.11 – Rahul V
2.67 – Daniel Dabney
7.60 – Stewart Beamont
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Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Rob Quiney, healer of seagulls, was there anything he couldn't do? How are 229 and 257 the first and second record holders in two completely different categories? What kind of player took completism to unrivalled levels? Plenty of Tony Greig, for some reason, and Percy Holmes, for others. The most fun you can have at the Brabourne Stadium for 17 days. And why, why, how, do some teams possibly get first-class status? Plus some very important Winnie news off the top.
Your new Nerd Pledge numbers:
4.22 – Richard Jones & David Smith
2.50 – Maureen McCord
4.54 – Jack Firth & Ian Bounds
1.47 – Geoff Price
2.77 – Billy Frendo & Rory Seymour
2.42 – Pushkar Godbole
2.16 – Samuel Therkelsen & Jayaprakash
Plus plenty more revisits and confirmations.
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Day 2 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 1 of the Third Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
England won the toss, elected to bat, and that’s about as good as it got. India’s spinners once again dominated, with Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin doing the work between them, and only Zak Crawley making a score. Then it was over to Rohit Sharma, who continued his high-scoring form while Jack Leach took a couple of wickets.
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Season 9, Ep 22: A busy cricket week, aside from the final match in the Yarra Pub Cricket Association for the storied DOCCC (est. 2007). We also look at the mess of messaging from England around resting players that stitched up Moeen Ali, the lead-up to two simultaneous tours of New Zealand, a couple of remarkable results in the Sheffield Shield, a bit of Nerd Pledge and the latest from our Bannerman search, then TFW favourite Bharat Sundaresan joins the show to explain some of the confusing bits about the IPL auction.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
7.67 – Trev from Perth
3.16 – Brad Todd
1.41 – Tim Jones
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It's time for some spicy group action, on our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. This week we have the Jones-Off of '88, a bunch of Test dads, the 10-day match and how close it came to a win, how far Belinda Clark was ahead of her time, the cumulative size of various Peters, the most delightful day out for a recent guest, and what show would be complete without Our Father Vinoo and a selection of Nawabs?
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1.26 - Anirban Gupta-Nigam
3.42 - Declan Lawlor & Bernhard Sayer
2.31 - Alan Edgar, Brian Strain & Steve Lofthouse
1.16 - Chris Jones, Dane Hanstead & datGriffin
2.19 - Keiron Costello, Scott Lamprecht, Nick Tewson & Reg Wilson
2.29 - Michael Gormley & Mike Dunn
Plus revisits and confirmations from previous contributors.
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Season 9, Ep 21: Now the dust has settled in Chennai, we try to strip the parochial from the practical on the broader subject of pitch preparation, and figure out what the various positions of argument are actually about. Also this week some Glenn Maxwell time, a bit of West Indies and Ireland, more stories from our Bannerman Search, then a great chat with Angela Pippos about her new documentary The Record, about the Women's T20 World Cup final at the MCG.
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1.77 – Joel Emonsen
5.04 – Stuart Akers
1.83 – Rituraj
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Day 4 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 3 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 2 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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The game is afoot! Our long-time quarry Rob O'Neill is back with another twisting, turning number designed to push Geoff to the brink of madness. Will Prisoner 24601 succeed? This is our weekly walk through cricket history via the method of Nerd Pledge quiz.
Your new Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
3.27 – Jeremy Nash
2.05 – Kieran Barns-Jenkins
5.18 – John Pheby
1.05 – Thomas Melia
4.90 – Simon Ward
2.54 – Max Gillespie & Lachlan McKirdy
10.33 – Grant Cartledge
5.22 – Mary Stevens
2.23 – Joe Wozniczka-Wells
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Day 1 of the Second Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Season 9, Ep 20: Featuring Damien Fleming, Dermott Brereton, and Adam White in guest spots, this week's episode comes direct from the Media XI cricket match against the MCC. In the spirit of our accidental Aussie Rules tangents, the match also featured Nick Riewoldt, Brendon Goddard and Daniel Harford. On the show: the West Indies miracle starring Kyle Mayers, the increasing fallout from Australia cancelling on South Africa, medals for Beth Mooney and Steve Smith, domestic cricket ahoy, our wrap of the Big Bash, and a welcome return to Happy Birthday Sachin after a couple of months with attention elsewhere. An episode that was a lot of fun, recorded in a lovely location. Couldn't ask for more.
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Day 5 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
On today's show, England drive home a win that was thoroughly unexpected five days ago, with some vintage James Anderson material setting up a series lead.
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Day 4 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 3 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener number challenges. In a compact episode with some revisits left to future eps, we'll find out many relations or people with the same first names can pop up in one show. There's a very important moment registered on Old Father Time, a number that definitely needs to get bigger, the finest hour of a rhyming individual, and some queries on alternative timelines spiralling off our space-time continuum. Set your watches.
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2.15 – Simon Dolding
4.09 – Sam Littlejohn
3.39 – Fred Cowen
3.05 – Harry Woolley
2.39 – Harry Chalkley & Nick Garner
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Day 2 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Day 1 of the First Test at Chennai – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy.
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Season 9, Ep 19: Australia's tour to South Africa is off, just as England's Tests in India are about to begin. With three weeks to go, CA has chalked up another cancellation. Reasonable precaution, foreseeable disaster? Geoff and Adam don't agree on everything. For England's big task ahead, we chat with Vithushan Ehantharajah about what to watch for and what it might mean in viral Britain. Also this week: Pakistan's Karachi win over South Africa, new sources of heat on Justin Langer, the Windies gear up for Tests in Bangladesh, Aghanistan whitewashes Ireland, Australia's Hall of Fame gets some new entrants, and we kick off another Final Word campaign, this time around Charlie Bannerman.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.01 – MJ Knoester
2.90 – Andrew Singleton
1.56 – Alex Brown
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A little late due to squad illness and injury, but here we are: the weekly walk through cricket history via the means of listener quiz numbers. Start out by learning about our own Cam the Cameraman's cricket history, which is none: he played his first organised match on the weekend and there's a very good story there. On the show this week: Jean Valjean is back in our sights, some tips about what a 90s kid could see if they couldn't leave Brisbane, and some highly tenuous links between questions and answers.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
246.01 – Rob O'Neill
6.64 – Brent Simmonds
3.64 – Chris Unwin (again?)
17.03 – Andrew Morton
2.26 – Abbey Sim & Luke Appleton
5.33 – Dominic Bowes & Mark Stein
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Season 9, Ep 18: "How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle / To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?" So goes the A.B. Originals song January 26. This year Cricket Australia stopped using the term 'Australia Day' to promote matches, recognising that it's a day of mourning for a lot of Indigenous people. Predictably this small gesture was criticised by political antagonists. On the date in question, Munanjahli writer Dr Chelsea Watego joins us to talk about commemoration versus celebration, the complexity of history, and what progress might actually look like beyond platitudes.
Also this week, Sri Lanka's series against England wraps up, South Africa head to Pakistan for the first time in 13 years, and the World Test Championship possibilities become slightly more clear.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers:
2.24 – Peter Halton
1.68 – Jesse G
1.22 – James Ralston
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We spend a lot of time talking about our Nerds. But this weekend on Story Time, we pay tribute to our Julios. After that, we get to work solving the puzzles that have stumped us over the Christmas period, from Charlotte Edwards to Cam White; Pat Pocock to Min Patel. And we’re never far away from Clem Hill or Chesney Hawkes.
Our Julios are:
Peter Pohlman
Trent Grimes
Andy Slee
Tom Fisher
George Randell
Adam Towns
Cian Seymour
Adrian Samms
James Durey
Stephen Jones
Miraj Vora
Isaac Heming
John McGill
Mark Xerri
Ryan Thomas
Mich de Waal
Bharat Agarwal
Charlie Gresty
Robert Drummond
Brent Simmonds
Mike Brown
Matt Fried
Adrien Muller
Elliott Olivier
Peter Arnold-Nott
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Season 9, Ep 17: Sometimes an interview comes along that knocks our socks off. We all think that we know Marcus Stoinis: the big smile, the big sixes, the cheekiness, the time in the gym. We expected to talk to Marcus about his career, but instead the conversation went somewhere else: cricket as the backdrop to the rest of his life, the years of trying to take care of his family while nursing and losing his father. We often don't know how a conversation will turn out, and that was never more the case than here.
Also this week our reaction to India's final Test win over Australia, and England's nervous result against a determined Sri Lanka.
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Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba.
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Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show we go into the detail of that one which has been mostly overlooked. We also look at Tim Paine's apology for losing his cool, racism from the SCG stands, and England's upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka. Plus some Nerd Pledge and a very unexpected Super Performer of the Week.
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New year, new me. This is 2021's first Story Time, our dance through the history of cricket. This week returns to our favourite defenestrator, the most important runs in a run of five draws, and a new Dusty Old Bastard by the name of Septimus. And that’s just in the first half hour before we return to numbers we got wrong in the past, plus your correspondence from the Christmas and New Year break. It's great to be back.
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1.95 – Elliott Diamond.
1.73 – Cam Again & Jack Faine & Daniel Hill.
3.62 – Michelle Garland.
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Season 9, Ep 15:Few bowlers have enjoyed playing at Sydney more that Stuart MacGill, appropriately so given his iconic initials. So, ahead of this Harbour City Test Match, we present our interview with the former Australian leggie from our Patreon Live Show in November. He’s honest, forthright and emotional about what spinning for his country meant to him, with a deep love of the game that has never dimmed.
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Season 9, Ep 14: Happy New Year! Load up your glasses and turn on the show in the final hours of one year or the fresh ones of the next. The terrible times of 2020 are behind us, and the indistinct times of 2021 are ahead. So what were the best and worst, the highs and the lows? We'll head around the cricket world, to Bangladesh and South Africa, Southampton and Mount Maunganui, in and out of bubbles, to the players and matches and moments that defined the year for us. We'll also talk about the Sydney Test against India in a fashion that will already be out of date now that new COVID cases have been detected in Melbourne – but hey, that's 2020.
Thanks so much for listening this year, and here's hoping the next is as good on the podcast, and much better off it.
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Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 2nd Test, Australia v India, from the MCG.
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Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 2nd day of the 2nd Test from The MCG
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Season 9, Ep 13: At Christmas time, we like to sit down for a long chat with someone well loved by The Final Word. The first time was Harsha, last year was Mel Jones, and this time it had to be Jim Maxwell, who will be a rare absence from the Boxing Day Test. We also hope we can sit down with you, as you drive to distant places or take a break from family or settle in for the day on your own. This show is all about Jim's extraordinary life in cricket, as he shares those tales over a glass of crisp white wine. His gift to all of us – and the best of festive cheer or peace to you.
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Story Time is our weekly walk through cricket history. Jim Swanton had a hymn that he liked to sing, but you’ll never guess why. What about identifying the Godfather of Durham? John didn’t spell his the same as Evelyn. Who hit the pads but ate the pies? A little more Stan McCabe, a strange double from Steve Harmison, and the time that Mushtaq Mohammed did it all himself. After that we speak to the excellent Lisa Sthalekar, interviewed recently on the future of commentary for the documentary series Calling The Shots.
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5.15 – Chris Arkle.
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Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from the 3rd day of the 1st Test from Adelaide Oval
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Australia is hosting India for four Tests for the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Geoff and Adam bring you up to speed the day before the first Test starting in Adelaide.
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Season 9, Ep 12:There’s never been a higher ranked international T20 batsman than Dawid Malan and it just so happens to be that he is quarantining down the corridor from Adam. No better time, then, to get him on to pace through his eventful journey in the professional game over the last decade and a half. Before the interview, we take a look at Australia’s selection considerations ahead of the First Test against India, cross the ditch to recap New Zealand’s big win at Wellington and Daniel Norcross gets to the bottom of how the Coronavirus really got a head of stream.
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Another weekend, more stories – this time with a strong Australia v India theme ahead of the Test series. What’s Geoff’s Angel Number? When was the only time a ten-for was taken in the Ranji Trophy? The questions we also consider. There’s time for a Dusty Old Bastard and a Paul Kelly ode reimagined. After the break, from the Calling the Shots documentary we have our full interview with the man who makes Test Match Special sing, the programme’s long-term producer, Adam Mountford.
(Sorry about the audio quality in the first half an hour or so, blame it on quarantine)
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3.24 – Sami Dowd
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Season 9, Ep 11: First up this week listen out for an Urthboy giveaway. Geoff's new book is in shops across Australia and the UK, so we'll roleplay an interview. And so much cricket: Will Pucovski's injury, Maxi getting inside the Indians' heads, captaincy shuffles and Cam Green, tactical arguments, Test opening shuffles, England bailing from South Africa, Kane Williamson dominating the Fake Green Mamba, Jermaine Blackwood back on his style, some Glastonbury tinges to Nerd Pledge, and the Zoleo saves lives once again.
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19.17 – Danny McGee.
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This weekend The Final Word time machine takes us to visit Jack Ryder and Clem Hill, triple tons and prison. Also, a Sussex mainstay who couldn’t stop and wouldn’t stop. We solve the Venn Diagram question via a fellow who just could not sell a car. After those tales, we'll have the full interview for the first time with acclaimed comedian and BBC statistician, Andy Zaltzman, from the files of the documentary Calling The Shots.
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Season 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the Finch-Warner partnership, and Maxi's destruction at the end. The Women's Big Bash finals are over with the Sydney Thunder the surprise winners. England are winning in South Africa and a new chair was appointed to the ICC. Then there's our interview with Fiona Bollen, whose new book with the Bradman Museum brings together a trove of newly discovered photographs of women's cricket in Australia since the 1800s and tells those stories. We'll go all the way back to when the four nieces of Australia's first Test captain Dave Gregory proved their own skill on the field. And keep an ear out for 1930s Final Word favourite Peggy Antonio.
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5.67 – Jon Rees.
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All roads lead back to the 1909 Ashes on Story Time of late, and why wouldn’t we want to visit again via Charlie McCartney’s tweak? That man is still firing 12 years later, a series that included a Dusty Old Bastard with a tough old name. Also featured: Curtly, Finny and a cheesemonger from Baltimore. Stick around to hear from one of our Final Word faves, Vic Marks. His Calling the Shots contribution focused on ins and outs of Test Match Special, the most famous comm box cricket has known.
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4.61 – Clayton Lewis.
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2.27 – Joe Reinhard.
1.89 – Dale F. Adams.
5.16 – Anna Forsyth.
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Season 9, Ep 9: On his birthday! This episode is in fact released on Peter Siddle's birthday, and on the 10th anniversary of that birthday hat-trick. The day is now one of sadness as well as celebration for him, as he has explained before. The conflicting ways that life unfolds. Pete has had an extraordinary life, and he takes us through it: from Gippsland to Mohali to Essex, the need to grow and the need to do what's right, the myths of woodchopping and bananas, the texts he gets in the middle of the night, the state of mind to take on the best, and the surprises on the way. As ever, he tells these stories with honesty and a broad smile.
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How the Sheffield Shield came to be, Stan McCabe’s sculpture and one of the more curious Test careers. That’s where we begin on this weekend’s Story Time deep dive. Also, Marcus Trescothick’s mitts, twin tons with a difference and the night Ireland stunned the world. When that’s done, enjoy a conversation with Harsha Bhogle from Calling the Shots on the fascinating history of cricket broadcasting in India.
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1.50 – Sarah Vaile & Helen Maynard-Casely.
7.01 – Crispn Crunch.
1.19 – Finn opt Hoog
3.60 – Nick Miller.
4.14 – Oliver Cawley.
3.71 – Pat McKeon.
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Season 9, Ep 8: Australia’s Test season faces new turmoil, with any means necessary being considered to deploy cricketers across the length and breadth of the continent. The WBBL heads towards its business end with the previously busted-arse Stars now a lean mean scoring machine, whose only weakness is the biggest battlers in the comp. England’s men head to South Africa while the remnants of Cricket South Africa’s old regime do their best to destroy the tour. Plus the not-so-new Big Bash rule changes, the Pucovski Debate (a John Grisham novel), Adam exhumes another ancient cricketer’s memory, and we consider optimal lamb chop delivery.
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6.73 – Dominic Chapman
1.62 – Darragh O’Donovan
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The weekend means history on The Final Word, going as far back as the 1899 Ashes (a couple of times), via a couple of early Indian greats to Justin Langer’s birthday and Bill Bowes’ grandson. Also featured: Gus Fraser, Dizzy Gillespie, Simon Katich and Agit Agarkar – that’s some dinner party. Stick around for the full Calling the Shots interview with Test Match Special legend, Jonathan Agnew.
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1.23 – Michael Roberts
21.11 – Mark Martella
4.63 – James Philbrook & Rob
12.18 – Nick O’Connell
4.82 – Niall Duxbury
5.60 – Robert Dinsbury & Keith Williams
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Season 9, Ep 7: Final Word friend Bharat Sundaresan has spent the past month in Adelaide rocking out at the First Annual Sheffield Shield Party Carnival Fiesta. He joins us to fill in all the details we might have missed among the centuries and bags of wickets, having watched all the players in similar conditions. Who's up, who's down, who's in, who's out? Bharat and Katy Perry know.
Also, Virat Kohli's paternity leave, how the WBBL teams are faring, Winnie's citizenship, IPL finals week, Zimbabwe beat Pakistan in a Super Over, Joe Denly's time ends as England name a South Africa squad, somehow Graeme Hick gets a mention again, and plenty more.
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Don't forget, this Thursday is our Final Word Live show online with Stuart MacGill.
The biggest turner of the ball the game has seen, an exhilarating operator, with 208 Test wickets, the same initials as the cricket ground where he most excelled, and many more interesting facets to his life beyond cricket.
If you've ever wanted to sit in on a Final Word interview, now's the time. We'll interview Stuart via video call and leave time for you to ask your questions too. Should be some laughs and a great way to pass a Thursday.
The easiest way to attend is to subscribe on Patreon, and you can set your own price and whatever duration you prefer. It's easy to switch on and switch off.
That all happens at patreon.com/thefinalword.
Alternatively you can buy a one-off ticket for $10 here.
The show is Thursday 12th November, 8pm Australian Eastern time, 5pm Perth time, 9am UK time, or wherever you are in between. Come along!
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This week our history wander takes in the famous 1960-61 West Indies tour of Australia, two different times that Zimbabwe finished with scores level, some very cryptic clues, the bird with the largest wingspan, Adam’s Forgotten Fifties series, Metallica, and some times that Blocker Wilson would rather forget.
After that comes the Extended Edition interview from some months ago with Jarrod Kimber for the Calling The Shots doco. All of the extras that didn’t make the documentary have been polished up here for your listening enjoyment.
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1.17 – The History of the Netherlands
2.05 – Matthew Brown and Richard Turney
2.11 – Alica Daly
1.94 – Sean McGivern
6.33 – James Ryan
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Season 9, Ep 6: Our first long interview in 2020 was with Ebony Rainford-Brent, when the world looked very different. Nine months on, the former England player has been a prominent voice as cricket addresses the Black Lives Matter movement, and has received a big boost to the ACE program that she initiated to get more black English players into the game. It was another revealing conversation with one of the most dedicated people in cricket. Also this week, Shane Watson’s professional retirement, some WBBL, and one of the best Sheffield Shield rounds in modern memory.
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Another weekend with the world in flux, another edition of Story Time to take you back to a happier time, deep within the belly of cricket history. From the Battle of the Ridge to some of Lancashire’s finest, we have you covered this weekend. Then, a conversation with the always funny Dan Liebke, who has a new book out.
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5.65 – Niall Duxbury
6.06 – David WFG
5.75 – Toffee
31.94 – Iain Gordon
4.62 – Will Sandford
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Season 9, Ep 5: This week, the entire board at Cricket South Africa finally gave in to outside pressure and resigned. The extent of wrongdoing via a recent financial investigation remains hidden. Investigative journalist Lungani Zama joins us to analyse the developments and what comes next. In better news for South Africa, England’s tour will go ahead. India’s squads for Australia are named, the WBBL got started in the rain, the IPL heads towards finals, the Shield throws up some selection intrigue, and obnoxious former cricketers keep being obnoxious.
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For the footy fans in our ranks, it is Grand Final weekend! Geoff can’t be in Brisbane to watch his beloved Cats play off for the flag, in Sydney instead to call the WBBL. But before he turns to that, into cricket history we go once more. The highlight? Something to do with a fragrant harbour and some barramundi. Then a discussion with Tim Wigmore whose new book studies why some sportspeople are more likely to make it to the top.
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3.68 – Schmicko
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2.16 – Michael W. Fallon and Elia Andrews
2.61 – Sam Littlejohn
1.02 – Nathan Clulow
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Season 9, Ep 4: Last week we had the positives of T20 with the IPL up and firing. This week we’re looking at the downsides of the many other leagues, a newly developed Wild West that Jarrod Kimber has explored professionally and personally and can now offer a frank appraisal. Speaking of T20, we’ve got our full preview of all the teams in the Women’s Big Bash League which starts in the coming week. Plus Shield, scheduling, and a bag of other bits and pieces.
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A new podcast from Bad Producer Productions: The Bad Read.
The Bad Read explores first drafts of some of the biggest films. Season One featured 'The Star Wars' and Season Two 'The Batman' .
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Wil Anderson has been one of our biggest supporters and our interview with him was one of our most fun. Beforehand, fill your boots with cricket history – a strong Welsh theme, as well as both Kirsten brothers featuring alongside Ireland, Froggy Thompson, the first Test match, and a mysterious zero pledge that was worth more than zero in the end.
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Season 9, Ep 3: It’s the halfway point of the Indian Premier League, the time when you can start to see the trends, the patterns, the improvers, the declines. This week we get T20 analyst Ben Jones to give us the in-depth info on all of that and more. We’ll also look at the ODI winning streak from Australia’s women, the start of the Sheffield Shield, and top it off with Happy Birthday Sachin.
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It's Story Time, where we wander through the history of the game. This week, Slasher Mackay's less noted strength, the highs of cricket in Florida, why the 2010-11 Ashes didn't matter, what Emily Drum did for the Kiwis, another road back to the underarm, Fabian Allen going nuts, some 1950s Indian magic, when Tim Wall set an Australian record, and every cricketer mentioned by William McInnes. Once that's done, settle in for a long and enjoyable chat with master broadcaster Gerard Whateley from Port Elizabeth back in March 2018.
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1.33 - Divij Sinha
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Season 9, Ep 2: Steve Smith is giving out free love on the free love highway and good on him for it. Something about those Dubai hotel rooms. In the same part of the world, Ashwin is preparing himself to Mankad, we’re also with him all the way on The Final Word. Back in England, the strangest summer has come to a close – we speak with The Guardian’s Ali Martin about how it happened and what the future entails. And in Australia, Meg’s Lanning record-breaking team continue to do as they please.
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Gather round. It’s that time again, where we take you down the winding road of cricket history – it’s weekend Story Time on The Final Word! Check in to learn a thing or two about Jack Gregory and Warwick Armstrong, or Hugh Tayfield and Alan Border. They all make an appearance. As does Patterson Thompson, who kept his foot behind the line for us. And when that is all done, enjoy our chat with James Pattinson from Lord’s last year.
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8.69 – Christopher Byrne
7.46 – Reg Roberts & Jon Landsell
2.98 – Richard Clark & David Short
2.03 – Greg Sykes
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Season 9, Ep 1: It's a new season! Cricket starts in Australia and the dial turns. What did we do in the last week week? Geoff has been calling the Australia-NZ games in Brisbane, Adam the Bob Willis Trophy Final in London. Oh, and he also bought a Batmobile. That’s nowhere near as impressive as our guest Lloyd Scott doing the Three Peak Challenge in a deep-sea diving suit – to be filed under good cricket people doing good things. Nerd Pledge, Happy Birthday Sachin, it’s all in another week of Final Word frivolity.
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Dean Jones has left us. The One-Day King. There is nothing we’d rather do with this episode than talk about Deano: the career, the influence, the swagger, the way he made us feel. Thanks for everything.
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Season 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket around the world. That didn’t happen by accident. Starting nearly two decades ago when she was the runner on Richie Benaud’s TV broadcast, Ali has worked her way through the county reporting circuit and assignments in distant countries all the way to Test cricket and the Olympic Games. She talks us through the trip from then to now.
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Story Time! Many and varied they are today. Adam can't stop talking about George Headley. Geoff believes that at last, at last, he has caught up to a long-elusive quarry. What does US political analyst Nate Silver have to do with Mahendra Singh Dhoni? Why are we talking about Lionel Richie and a former host of Getaway? Who was the last player to join an exclusive club, and who was the fastest to join another one? Who inspired more love, The Freak or The Rug? And is that actually Daniel Norcross on the CBUS ad?
Plus we reboot our interview from last year with Matthew Renshaw about his rollercoaster career so far, and how he's tried to keep a handle on it at what is still a tender age.
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10.98 – David Nicholls
5.38 – Satchmo Distel
4.64 – Anthony Radford & Jeremy Nash
3.65 – David Bek
2.23 – Liam Williams
1.43 – Wayne Holloway
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Emergency! Maxi time! The Final Word's fave made one of the best hundreds we've seen in one-day cricket to win a ridiculous run chase and win a series decider in England. No big deal, right? We had to drop everything and record our response.
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Season 8, Ep 28: Two years ago the Seven Network bought TV rights to great fanfare. Now they're refusing to pay. The free-to-air broadcaster has Cricket Australia in a tough spot, by withholding the cash required to run the game unless CA agrees to rewrite the contract. And it all sounded so rosy when both parties were talking up the hundreds of millions to be spent not long ago. We have ESPNcricinfo's Daniel Brettig on to talk the details of what could turn into a legal war – or an old-fashioned stick-up job. Plus the one-day series between England and Australia, a bit of Nerd Pledge, and some dark days too for the ECB.
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1.07 – David Brooks.
1.45 – Travis Clark.
2.56 – Mick Flurry
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Heroes and villains. Rational or fair or otherwise, we have them on Story Time. Geoff meets his nemesis, Adam explains the greatest work of the greatest, we solve a Netherlands conundrum, and try to get lateral. Afterwards is a reboot of our conversation with Universe Jos – recorded at Lord’s during last year’s World Cup – to learn about the ridiculous things he does with bat in hand.
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1.76 – Luke Kneebone
2.54 – Deepthi Akila
2.94 – Andy Taylor
3.10 – Ethan Morgan
1.58 – David Nathan & Jesse G
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Season 8, Ep 27: That was quite the choke. Australia's T20 series against England started with a dominant position that somehow turned into a loss. England bossed the second, and Australia got one back via Mitchell Marsh when both teams were changed up for the third. Adam came straight from the comm box to this show via a few wrong turns on the motorway with all the details.
In other news this week, Dawlat Zadran lit up the Afghan T20 league with some lovely work at the non-striker's end, the last of the class of 2005 in the shape of Ian Bell said goodbye to first-class cricket, the women's Big Bash has a schedule, Yuvraj Singh is looking Australia's way, plus some overdue Happy Birthday Sachin and plenty more.
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Adam and Geoff will have a new episode of The Final Word very soon. In the meantime, if you like NFL or know someone who likes NFL, In the Pocket a weekly take on all things NFL that shares space with The Final Word on the Bad Producer Podcast Network.
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Pat Cummins is a special cricketer and a great fella. We had a lovely time talking with him in Derby this time last year, decked out in his skin-tight and long-sleeved Australian jumper - an image you quickly forget. En route to that, it’s a story time with a lesson: age is no barrier for tweakers with mad skills. Some sad tales from the history of the game, some fun ones too - it’s always a mixed bag when we hit record on the weekend.
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3.83 – Evan Willis
2.22 – Geoff Mouritz
1.16 – History of the Netherlands
4.72 – Chris Arkle
1.64 – Jake Schmidt
2.99 – Troy Smith
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Season 8, Ep 26: Trent Woodhill is one of the most versatile people in cricket: coach, trusted mentor, adviser, ideas man. This was a good time to pick his brain, from the bubble in Southampton where he is currently on tour as one of Justin Langer’s assistant coaches. Before getting to him, with Daniel Norcross riding shotgun, we looked at the T20 internationals this week and next, reviewed the legacy of Colin Graves as ECB supremo and got Ben Horne on the phone to look at Cricket Australia’s latest brawl.
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2.09 – Peter Hickey & James Roder.
2.85 – James Power.
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Story Time! We have a new chat with England opener Jason Roy about missing the IPL, which comes after the customary weekend wander through cricket history. In this episode, the link between ancient spinners Don Blackie and Bert Ironmonger, the record that Sachin couldn’t reach, Jenny Owens turning the ball both ways, Virat Kohli doubling up, the endless quest for 557, Curtly Ambrose cuts sick at the MCG, and one of our favourites in Bobby Peel is drunk in the shower again.
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4.44 – Geoff
5.18 – Dominic Richards
2.48 – Michael Pfitzner
5.55 – Daniel Hill
2.13 – Naama and Geoff Shang
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Season 8, Ep 25: That is the sound of inevitability. No matter who didn't believe it, James Anderson's march did not stop towards the mark that only three spinners had achieved before, 600 wickets in Tests. The Final Word this weeks looks at his work on the last day of the Pakistan-England series, as well as others like Azhar, Buttler, Crawley, Babar and Rizwan. The Australian men take the first ever chartered flight from Perth to Derby direct, the Australian women prepare for New Zealand, the Australian schedule remains a game of Guess Who, the West Indies women fill the breach in England, and Ricky Ponting goes toe to toe with the Patron Saint of The Final Word, Ravi Ashwin. Righteousness will prevail.
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2.57 – Adam Hewitt & Julian Campbell.
4.69 – Rohit Ramesh.
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Story Time! This week let us take you through more tales of Ravi "Careless Whisper" Bopara, the human sax solo; some Sehwag madness, an Anzac connection; the 2005 end of Australian Ashes dominance for the women's teams; the least successful promotion to Test level; a reason to love the Gabba; and some excursions back to the Wills Trophy when India used to host every team that was available.
Our encore interview is broadcaster Natalie Germanos in a wide-ranging conversation we had at Lord's in 2019 during the men's World Cup. Lots of revisits and correspondence, including our most special piece yet.
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3.19 – Gus Crouch.
8.71 – Daniel March.
4.06 – Basab Majumdar.
2.19 – Jack A & Harry Howard.
5.47 – Dan Walsh.
4.10 – Ben N.
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Season 8, Ep. 24: The great MSD has put the cue in the rack, for India at least. In the circumstances, there was nobody better to get back on the show than Bharat Sundaresan, author of The Dhoni Touch.
Earlier in the show, we got our light-meters out to measure the debate after a frustrating second Test between England and Pakistan at Southampton. That's where Australia's men are heading, their white-ball squad named during the week. Unfortunately the same can't be said for South Africa's women. We also return to the summer of 1894-95.
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1.99 - John Leather and Cumbrian
4.75 - Cameron Manning
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Hanif Mohammad! Brian Lara! We advance from 499 to 501 patrons and we couldn’t be happier. Your support has been quite outstanding. We celebrate in the usual way on Story Time with a long Nerd Pledge session. After that, we go back in time to Perth in December 2017 when we interviewed former England spinner, esteemed journalist and radio commentator Vic Marks. Appropriately so - he’s a man of stories.
Your Nerd Pledgenumbers this week:
2.90 – Sam Littlejohn & Will Day
2.91 – Satchmo Distel & Dane Hanstead
4.40 – Michael Reichstein
7.35 – Gregory Wellman
3.11 – Brook Quinn
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Season 8, Ep 23: Comebacks don’t get much more stylish. England's memorable turnaround in Manchester came when Woakes and Jos Buttler produced a partnership that will be long celebrated. Sleep deprived at both ends of the show, we run a half-closed eye over the Test that was, as well as Ireland’s one-day win over England just beforehand. The Women’s World Cup has been shunted back a year for reasons that don’t stack up. Time for a bit of Nerd Pledge, check in with Sachin, and remind you that months come in sets of twelve per year.
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6.43 – Sarah Berman
5.31 – Ryan Smith
2.26 – Elise Gane & Sam Ashworth
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It's our new show! Or, same show, new name. STORY TIME will be the weekend wander through the weeds, where we get into some of the more obscure and less obscure corners of cricket history to find the stories therein. This weekend, boxers and communists who were not jazz saxophonists, what really happened on Adam's 21st birthday, more info on which cricketers have punched selectors, and plenty more.
Our encore interview this week is with Barney Douglas, director of brilliant cricket documentary The Edge, which is on the BBC iPlayer right now if you want to watch it, and Felix White of the Maccabees who wrote the musical score.
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3.71 – David Windram
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6.79 – Anna Forsyth & Jono Baruch
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Season 8, Ep 22: As Ireland, one of cricket’s green machines, prepare to leave England, the other, Pakistan are ready to start their Test series at Old Trafford. We speak to Zainab Abbas, journalist and television presenter, about Azhar Ali’s men before looking at her own remarkable rise to fame in recent years. Earlier, we look at the comings and goings at both Cricket Australia and the WBBL while thinking ahead to the likely tour of England that Australia’s men will be making in September.
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2.10 – Mark Fenton
5.57 – Rob O’Neill
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One of our most heartfelt interviews with the man behind the music of The Final Word, and pioneer of the Australian hip hop scene, Urthboy. Of course, being a weekend edition of the show, you better believe we have a massive round of correspondence and Nerd Pledge to get us in the mood.
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Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.07 – Jamo.
7.54 – Michael Brown.
9.41 – Mark Henderson.
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Season 8, Ep 21: The Irish are coming, and what better time than before their games against England to sit down with their CEO Warren Deutrom to tell us their story from St Patrick’s Day at the 2007 World Cup to the present day as a Test nation. The problems and challenges though are as steep as they have ever been.
Before that, Stuart Broad takes his 500th Test wicket as England bounce back to beat West Indies 2-1, Ravi Ashwin makes himself the patron saint of this show, and Ian Botham responds to yet another gong in unimpressive style. Winnie is awake, and Adam is soon to be going into the bubble.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
7.05 – Alan Edgar.
3.76 – Peter Lewis.
1.18 – Tobias and Zak.
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"I certainly want to win this World Cup, but I can live with myself if we don’t," said Jimmy Neesham a few weeks before that famous final. One of the funniest and sharpest minds in cricket, he was also beautifully honest about his perfection and the unhappiness he had put himself through. "It started a downward spiral for me where my expectations were so far beyond reasonable that it wasn't possible for me to have a good day." One of the most perceptive conversations we've had on The Final Word, during a key few weeks in cricket history.
Our cover image today is Boonie, who recently wrapped up a long and happy life getting on the beers. Best friend of Paul, Melsie, and Alby.
Also, the weekend show is morphing into The Final Word History Hour, or whatever we end up calling it. That means lots of Nerd Pledge.
2.14 – Tamra Palmer
7.40 – Daniel Kelly & Stephen Sargeant
2.13 – Skye Raye
2.24 – Desmond Cave
2.35 – Hamish Colley
16.50 – FP Hicks
Plus our Julio pledges from Graham Hartley, Alex Durie, and John Landsell. Thanks everyone, you're the best.
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Season 8, Ep 20: It’s 1-1 and the Wisden Trophy is the series that keeps on giving. Another last-day finish, another good fight, another fine bit of comedic timing from Stuart Broad. We go through the best and and rest. An ICC meet has finally taken place, and it’ll be WorldCuppapalooza in the next three years now the 2020 edition has been delayed. India’s women can’t get to England with travel bans, Sachin has been busy as ever, Barry Jarman left this plane of existence, the deeply crook House of Lords welcomes David Brent as a member, and there’s of course a dash of Nerdism.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.14 – Tamra Palmer
3.45 – Nicholas Gordon
2.64 – Kerry Sandhu
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This time last year, we sat down with Kate Cross before a T20 International and she shared with us the details of some of the toughest moments of her sporting life. As part of our relationship with Lord’s Taverners, who are focussed squarely on mental health during this particularly challenging time, we thought this would be a good weekend to pop that conversation up again. Before coming to that, a big round of Nerd Pledge spanning 130 years of cricket history.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
4.90 – Phil Smith
1.32 – Bryan R. Caine
2.44 – Joel Wilson and Tom-Andre Andersen
3.51 – Jeremy Nash
1.29 – Guy Donovan
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Season 8, Ep 19: Exactly a year from that famous day at Lord's we're joined by Nick Hoult to discuss his new book that gives all the detail you didn't know about England’s triumph. We also, thankfully, get to talk about the first Test match of the covid era, as the West Indies rallied gloriously to knock off the hosts late on the final afternoon at Southampton. What a joy to have it back.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
3.92 – Cam Tero.
4.05 – Matthew Share.
3.31 – David Varley.
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Season 8, Ep 18. The end of the 2019 World Cup will remain inseparable from Ian Smith's description of it. He explained in depth to the Calling the Shots documentary how he has tried to prepare for and deliver the big moments, and his interview was too good not to share. Here is the full conversation, after some cricket history at the start to get us going.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
4.33 – Liz Brant & Jack Regester
2.06 – Paul Murphy & Sam King
2.16 – Harry Howard
3.04 – Adam Jones
5.44 – Rob (from the) Rich
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Season 8, Ep 17: Shout it from the rooftops! This week, England host West Indies in the first of three behind-closed-doors Tests and we couldn’t be happier on The Final Word. Vithushan Ehantharajah joins Adam and Geoff to discuss the Southampton Bio-Dome he’s about to enter and the most unusual series he’s about to cover. Back in Australia, the road ahead is a less clear after a troubling week on the Covid front.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
5.91 – Michael Ball
2.50 – Elliott Diamond and Scott Tutton
0.68 – Jordan Russo
4.25 (and 1.49) – Paul Batfay
5.17 – Tim Vanderpump
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This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. In this, our final episode, we bring you up to date as we explore how the commentary box has become a more inclusive domain over the last decade. We also investigate how advances in data capture are influencing broadcasters like never before then close the series by reflecting on what we’ve learnt from tracking cricket’s progress on the airwaves through the last three months.
To help tell that story, we once again have with us four guests.
Andy Zaltzman – comedian and Test Match Special statistician
Isa Guha – the newly appointed presenter of BBC cricket on TV
Lisa Sthalekar – World Cup winner and television broadcaster
Adam Mountford – the producer of Test Match Special since 2007
Calling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com.
And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020.
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Season 8, Ep 16: Amidst ongoing fighting that predates the virus crisis, South African cricket writer Telford Vice joins the show to explain the conflict in South African cricket. A long investigation into the suspended CEO will soon have a result while a carload of high-ranking staff have been sacked. The divisions are deep but as ever, it's complicated.
Meanwhile Covid continues to confuse matters in Australia, and England's men prepare to take on the West Indies in the first Tests since lockdown, in which West Indies players will bring the Black Lives Matter discussion to the centre of the ground.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
6.51 – Abhilash Singh
2.68 – Sarah Berman & Glenn Wilcox
2.75 – Mark Stein
2.86 – Alemelu
3.00 – David Jones
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In February 2018, we spoke to Dave in Durban a couple of days ahead of a Test series that would prove to be fateful in so many ways. This was an interesting and positive time in his cricketing life, before the world changed in the weeks that followed. In this weekend edition, we also take a look at Kim Garth’s decision to leave Ireland for Australia and get stuck into some excellent Nerd Pledges.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
6.49 – Max Keleher.
2.65 – Terry.
3.55 – Dan from the Sportress & Dan Gerritsen.
3.62 – Stephen Baxter, Ethan Morgan, Aaron Roberts.
3.80 – Miranda.
Guess away. Our answers are in the episode.
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Season 8, Ep 15: As promised, here it is – our chat with one of Australia’s favourite sons, William McInnes. You know him as an actor and a writer, but before that he was a cricket obsessive and remains one to this day. But our long and winding conversation went to more than simply why he cites Rick McCosker in the acknowledgement section of each book he writes - we also canvassed fatherhood, leadership, youth and grief. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we did recording it.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
6.35 – Blake Corbett
3.99 – Harrison Payne
4.34 – Peder Roberts
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This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. In previous episodes we’ve tracked cricket’s journey on TV and radio. They are stories that have been told before, albeit perhaps not quite in the same way. Today, we’re bringing you a story that has never been told about the disruptors; the men and women who wanted to live their lives in cricket and ended up doing exactly that.
To help tell that tale, we have with us four guests.
Geoff Lemon - poet, author and broadcaster
Jarrod Kimber - writer, talker and filmmaker.
Nigel Henderson - guerilla commentator.
Andrew Miller - editor of ESPNcricinfo.
C*alling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman*. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com.
And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020.
Why not buy a new bat? Visit our friends Bear Cricket and daydream of the next season, whenever it comes. Our listeners get 10% off with the code CALLINGTHESHOTS at checkout - BearCricket.co.uk
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Season 8, Ep 14: That happened fast. At the start of the corona crisis, all looked rosy at Cricket Australia with the women winning the World Cup in front of a packed MCG and the men’s Test team getting back to the top of the world. But was this always destined to be the new CEO's fate given the baggage he brought to the role? And how did he misread the room so badly over the last couple of months? Chris Barrett, the senior news hound from the Sydney Morning Herald – who broke the news of the chief executive’s demise – joins The Final Word to work out what happened. On the same day, the great cricket archivist Robelinda2 was saved from an unjust copyright shutdown.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
11.07 – Gusey K
4.79 – Andrew Wilson
3.61 – Sean Barry & Damien McLean
2.70 – Christopher Weinberg & Matt Gaynor
3.93 – Kerry O’Brien
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Season 8, Ep 13: Geoff is back with Adam for a little bit of Nerd Pledge before hopping into the second part of the extensive Calling the Shots interview with Mark Nicholas. The discussion this time focuses on the era where Mark was the front man for Channel Four’s innovative coverage before becoming a permanent member of the Nine team. He also gives his impression of how commentary has evolved since the India’s massive television presence changed the game forever.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.27 – Jon Tucker.
5.13 – Liam Dalton.
2.11 – Simon McInerney & Patrick Rodgers.
2.32 – Ravine Chandrapala, Samuel Therkelsen & Sam Littlejohn.
3.36 – Jessica Currie & Dane Hansted.
Guess away. Our answers are in the episode.
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Season 8, Ep 12: Daniel Norcross steps in for Geoff this week, reflecting with Adam on the Calling the Shots documentary project they have been working on through the lockdown period. As part of that research, they have recorded a number of long interviews – none more detailed than their conversation with Mark Nicholas; too good not to release in full. The extensive chat, broken over two parts, begins with Mark’s childhood fascination with commentary before moving through his own varied and celebrated career behind the microphone across the cricketing world over the last 25 years.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.45 - David.
3.24 - Julian Campbell
6.40 - Alex Brown
2.39 - Glenn Shepherd & Byron Cooper-Fogarty
2.83 - Laura Daw
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This interview with Jason Gillespie, recorded on the Adelaide Oval boundary edge at the day after the Ashes Test in 2017, was a turning point for show. Until then, we would talk to the occasional guest but only ever briefly. Because this conversation coincided with a rain delay, and Dizzy didn’t fancy helping with the covers in the game where he was playing in, we kept the tape running. It was well worth it, touching on topics that normally wouldn’t have otherwise made the show. It was really well received at the time, so we made it the model for The Final Word ever since.
Enjoy.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
7.08 - Jeremy Brown
11.96 - Elia Andrews
1.68 - Andrew Turner
3.03 - James Scambler.
3.77 - Laksmi Govindasamy
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Season 8, Ep 11: The BCCI is fuming after some sensitive correspondence found its way to the Times of India newspaper. Things the BCCI don’t want you to Be See(ing) with your See(ing) Eye. What got leaked, and why are they mad? Plans for the T20 World Cup still haven’t been finalised after an ICC meeting got cancelled in the aftermath. The detectives are on the case. Want to know more? Join us in this darkened underground car park.
Also this week we’ll look at the WACA cracking it, the newly released Australian schedule and the likelihood of it going ahead, the odds of seeing South Africa in 2021, back to the 1920s to visit a man who could have been one of the greats, Happy Birthday Sachin, a review of cricketing doctors, and all the Nerd Pledge history you can handle. Ted Dexter freaks get ready.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
1.80 – Bernhard Sayer.
3.07 – Nicky Young.
3.82 – Marianne Webb.
3.85 – Joey McGahan & Cameron Allen.
2.05 – Craig McGowen & Tom.
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This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Over the last two episodes, our attention was squarely on the development of radio commentary. Here, in part four, we shift gears to explore the television revolution in England, Australia and India.
To help tell that story, we have with us four guests.
Mark Nicholas, who for the last 25 years has been broadcasting international cricket around the world
Dan Waddell, prolific author and historian who wrote ‘And Welcome To The Highlights’
Jim Maxwell, who has called more than 300 Test Matches across 43 years.
And Harsha Bhogle, the definitive voice of Indian cricket.
Calling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com.
And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020.
Why not buy a new bat? Visit our friends Bear Cricket and daydream of the next season, whenever it comes. Our listeners get 10% off with the code CALLINGTHESHOTS at checkout - BearCricket.co.uk
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Season 8, Ep 10: It is one year since the start of the 2019 World Cup – the time of our cricketing lives. To mark the anniversary, we talk to a funny man we spent a lot of time with each Monday morning of the tournament, RadioX’s Toby Tarrant. Back in the present day, momentum continues to build for international cricket to return midyear and might even see Australia touring England again in September. Oh, and last week we hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS since moving to the Bad Producer Productions network. Thanks to all of you for being part of that remarkable ride.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
3.81 – Jack Quigley
3.06 – Patch Clapp & David Peterson
7.70 – Callum McLeod
6.18 – Chris Unwin
4.32 – Ryan Africa & Brendan Legg
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Our fourth encore edition, to enjoy through another socially-distanced weekend. Isa Guha is one of our favourite people in the game with one the best stories to tell as an acclaimed broadcaster and an outstanding England seamer, along with a PhD and a rich family background in India. We discussed all of this with her at Adelaide Oval back in January 2019.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
4.35 – Dink Wingleman
5.02 – Claire Daniel
4.16 – Jeames Withers
2.38 – Mark / Nicholas Tewson
1.89 – Andy Slee
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Season 8, Ep 9: We shouldn’t, but we couldn’t help ourselves. Somehow we all keep getting sucked in by Shane Warne being an old man yelling at a cloud shaped like Steve Waugh. There are numbers though, and reality checks. On things that matter, we bring back our old friend Bharat Sundaresan to give us the detail on what the world’s problems will mean for India, the IPL and the BCCI.
Nerd Pledge returns along with Happy Birthday Sachin, then we get the lowdown on how the hell schools have kept teaching kids in Australia, thanks to a chat with devoted teacher and longtime Final Word supporter Matthew Beggs.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers are:
4.41 - Nick Beaver & Simon
1.84 - Anthony Bienak
4.07 - Ben White & Archie Hood
4.16 - Dave Brown & Dechlan Brennan
2.58 - Timothy O’Meara
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This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode three, where Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins take you on a helter-skelter journey through the second half of the 20th Century as we pick up the story in the 1950s with the launch of the most successful and enduring brand radio sport has ever produced: Test Match Special.
To help us tell that story, we have three guests.
Jonathan Agnew. the BBC's Cricket correspondent and voice of TMS for the last 29 years;
Vic Marks, former England spinner, the cricket correspondent for The Guardian and a summariser on the programme since 1984; and
Peter Baxter, who steered the ship with distinction between 1973 and 2009.
Calling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com.
And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020.
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Season 8, Ep 8: We've been wanting to speak to Megan Schutt on the pod for years. It was worth the wait. The world’s top-ranked seamer told us her story, from tough times in the schoolyard to reaching the top of the cricketing world and everything in between. She’s a gem. Also, in the news: Warnie’s mural and Monty’s couch - both welcome distractions as we try to work out what will be of this English summer. There’s happier news for Australia, with India now very much on track to visit later this year.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers are:
5.66 – Michelle Garland
4.18 – Shane FitzGibbon
4.19 – Joe Lundy
2.84 – Michael Roder
2.37 – Mike Dunn
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Another encore edition for your weekend listening during lockdown. It was quite the mission getting up to visit Ian Chappell in early 2019, but it was absolutely worth it for this extensive chat about his life in cricket. The former Australian captain, and acclaimed writer and commentator on the game, truly has seen it all. He was a joy to interview.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers in this episode are:
1.94 – Tom Stewart & Faraz Khan
3.60 – Nick O'Connell
3.30 – Alex Crampton
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Season 8, Ep 7: More segments than a juicy Valencia orange this week. A new Statman chases the grandest cricket number of all. The Milk Round tests out new dairy abominations. Ever heard a man drink 1.8 litres of milk? Is this a cricket show or Who Dares Wins? Happy Birthday Sachin sees the Master back to doing what he does best. Nerd Pledge goes down a different tangent to usual.
Izzy Westbury joins the show to talk through English cricket cancelling The Hundred. Harbhajan Singh is chasing chemtrails. We’ll cover off the new Australian men’s and women’s contracts, and upheaval at Cricket Victoria. There’s everything you could want, all mixed into an audio heap.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers are:
2.13 – Laura Daw
2.61 – Patch Devereux Clapp
1.77 – Justin Gauder
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This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode two, where Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins go right back to the origins of cricket broadcasting, to the very first commentaries between the wars when radio was the only way to keep up and television is a pipe dream.
To help us tell that story, we have David Frith, the masterful Anglo-Australian historian and archivist, Jim Maxwell, the voice of cricket on the radio in Australia, and Peter Baxter, who spent four decades working as a producer and broadcaster on BBC’s Test Match Special Calling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com.
And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020.
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Season 8, Ep 6: It’s quiz time. Official brain genius J. Liew joins us from the Guardian for a proper dive into an overflowing heap of Nerd Pledge numbers. Before that we’ve got Daniel Brettig from Cricinfo for an update on Cricket Australia’s problems with its relationships and its money bin. We’ve got cricket up and running in Vanuatu with the mighty Mele Bulls taking a title over the Powerhouse Sharks.
We’ve got the most special episode yet of Happy Birthday Sachin, a career farewell to Pakistan’s pioneering captain Sana Mir, the possibility of legalised ball tampering, the ethics and etiquette of when to share a Chupa Chup, and Pauly Shore setting up cricket’s own biodome.
Our bumper Nerd Pledge round includes:
2.76 (from Slim Johns)
3.10 (Nick Dwyer)
2.13 (from Laura Daw)
2.36 (from Thilo Fob)
2.42 (from Mary Stevens)
1.05 (from Nick AMC)
2.25 (from Peta Dowling)
3.27 (from Tim Minchin, no, not that Tim Minchin)
2.17 (from Tim Andrews)
2.64 (from Clive Azavedo)
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Another encore edition for your weekend listening during lockdown. And who better to return to than the patron saint of The Final Word? On the eve of last year’s World Cup, we spent some in Bristol with Glenn Maxwell taking stock of his life so far. Funny, generous, and thoughtful, this is a cricketer who everyone has watched, showing a side that not many people would have got to know. It was one of our most popular interviews.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
7.12 – Joseph Brookshaw
1.02 – Kristian Karamfiles
3.76 – Seb Taylor
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Season 8, Ep 5: You thought cricket was safe in the south? Think again. CA is shutting down operations to avoid running out of cash. Questions and accusations abound. Are they broke yet? Will they stiff the players? Did they lose it all playing the stock market? We talk to newshound Peter Lalor to separate fact from misunderstanding.
Also: which of the Mighty Ducks actually deserved to play for Team USA? Will Glenn Maxwell captain Australia A in an unofficial Test against Steve Smith and company? Will the IPL take over the spot if the T20 World Cup leaves a vacancy? When can we watch a cricket match in Amsterdam? For an episode recorded on 4/20, we need to know.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
2.63 – Pharsicle
6.19 – Joseph Brookshaw
3.62 – Matt Boland
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This is Calling the Shots, new documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode one, where Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins begin to explore what makes a great broadcaster, and how they bring us the big defining moments that stay with us forever. For that, they are joined by Ian Smith and Alison Mitchell, two superb commentators who have both been behind the microphone calling some of the most celebrated moments in the modern history of the game.
Calling The Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net.
Thanks to the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for their support of Calling the Shots. To get the most out of the bible of the game, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020
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Season 8, Ep 4. With no cricket on, everyone in England watched replays of the Headingley Test over the weekend, so we look back at that day in our lives as well. Nathan Lyon has had to cancel a deal at Hampshire, and likes the idea of playing Virat Kohli in empty stadiums. Also this week, we talk to journalist Will Macpherson about how the current situation will hit English counties and the international season, and all countries in the Test Championship.
Winnie has started smiling. Yuvraj Singh is trying to do the same. The Nerd Pledge numbers are flowing in, and we do our best to answer them. Also this week, the STATMAN segment is back.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers this week are:
2.21 – Stephen Donohue, Sam Nemzer, & Thomas
2.07 – Harry Chapman
3.88 – Toby Miles)
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India's voice of cricket has a long relationship with Australia too, part of ABC radio since 1991. None of this happened by accident: Harsha Bhogle was the classic freelance pioneer, and still has the same attitude. For The Final Word 2018 Christmas special, Harsha settled down for a long chat with Adam and Geoff about the hustle and grind, the need to improvise, and the story of how he turned it into an extraordinary life. This is the encore repeat of that interview.
This is also the start of what eventually morphed into Story Time, our weekend show where we used Nerd Pledge numbers to journey through cricket history.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers this show:
2.24 (Abhilash Singh)
2.41 (Sarah Vaile)
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Season 8, Ep 3: The year of cricket ahead might look sparse, but the year before was one of the busiest. For 157 years the Wisden Almanack has been recording all things cricket, and the latest edition of the biggest small book in the game is out this week. As last year, we talk through the contents with editor Lawrence Booth.
Also on the show this week: Steve O’Keefe has to hang up his glowsticks as New South Wales give him a premature move-along. Dean Jones cracks the shits with Victoria. Bruce Dawe departs this world. NRL Island might be a goer. Plenty of Nerd Pledge, and our new segment Happy Birthday Sachin.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers for this week are:
2.33 (from Ajay)
6.70 (from Will Maclean)
2.72 (from Ben Raue)
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This is Calling the Shots, a new documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary, brought to you by The Pinch Hitter and hosted by Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins.
From the radio pioneers Rex Alston, Alan McGilvray and John Arlott through to TV stars of today like Ian Smith, Nasser Hussain and Isa Guha, we’ll look at how broadcasters have become as integral a part of the game as the players, and how the styles and demands of listeners have evolved over the last 100 years.
Over six episodes we’ll explore what makes a great broadcaster on radio and television. Who carved out those original and unwritten rules we all recognise? And how far have today’s broadcasters, technology shifting the rhythms of the modern game, transformed cricket itself?
Calling The Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. During this global uncertainty, the exciting new digital magazine will be released once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance cricket writers in the world.
Calling The Shots will arrive alongside each edition of The Pinch Hitter, which you can subscribe to at bit.ly/thepinchhitter on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into more cricket writing.
Jump straight onto bit.ly/thepinchhitter to get hold of edition one of The Pinch Hitter and tell your friends about the first full-length episode of Calling The Shots.
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Season 8, Ep 2: Nasser Hussain. He’s known for Karachi in the dark, for the toss at Brisbane, for Hansie’s leather jacket, so we talked about none of these things.
For over an hour we sat down and talked about everything else: about the boy who played in India’s Chepauk stadium but went on to captain England, about the teenage leg-spinner who was forced to change arts, about the young hothead who became a shrewd tactician. About rebuilding a broken side, building a team that went on to great things, then becoming one of the most respected commentators in the game.
Nasser was as forthright and thoughtful as you might expect if you’ve seen him interview anyone else. Listen through for a memorable Final Word.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers for this week are:
3.29 (from Alan)
5.59 (from Richard Johnson)
4.03 (from Will Sandford)
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Season 8, Ep 1: That’s right, it’s time for a new Final Word season. A season in which very little cricket may be played, but much cricket will be played in our hearts. A season in which the real cricket will be the friends we make along the way.
Thanks so much to everyone who has joined in to support the show in the last week. We’ll keep doing it.
One of the best pastimes in isolation has been watching the new documentary series The Test, a view from within the Australian men’s team in the 18 months after the sandpaper affair. Series director Adrian Brown joins Adam to tell how the show came to exist.
Also, have you ever wondered what someone sounds like trying to talk beneath a layer of custard? Geoff can demonstrate. Adam is in full UK lockdown. Daniel Norcross is reworking the dystopian alternate ending to World War II. Winnie is extremely vocal. Cat Cricket is sweeping the internet. Sachin Tendulkar has some birthday wishes. Shane Warne owns a gin company. The people cry in one voice for the 2005 Ashes. The man behind Robelinda2 emerges as the people’s champion. There’s Nerd Pledge, letters, and more.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers for this week are:
2.03 (from James Moosh)
3.69 (from Jake Garlick
2.21 (from Andrew Gilbertson)
3.29 (from Dane Hansted)
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Season 7, Ep 24. With COVID-19 stopping the world of sport, Dr Peter Brukner is who you want to hear from: having been the doctor for Australia’s cricket and football teams, Olympic athletics and swimming squads, AFL and Premier League clubs. The doc joins The Final Word to give us the answers, and to tell us when those answers don’t exist.
Season 7, Ep 24: We’d also like you all to know that we’ll keep podcasting weekly throughout the long shutdown. We’ve got a million ideas even without any cricket being played, and we’d like to be a source of company and comfort for those that want it.
Our Nerd Pledge numbers for this week are:
2.68 (from Paul Richards)
2.75 (from Tim Unwin)
2.94 (from Darren Smith)
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Season 7, Ep 23: World Cup finals do have that special sauce. A few years ago you could barely have assembled a dodgeball game out of the attendance at most women's international matches. This time they aimed to fill the MCG, and pretty well did. Alyssa Healy provided the fireworks, Katy Perry provided Firework. It was a night of joy.
Geoff and Adam have covered a lot of those less celebrated games over the years, so they won't pretend to be impartial about how well this one went. This week, a brief word with World Cup winners Beth Mooney and Megan Schutt. An epic new spot of Stat Man with a tale that defies belief. Daniel Norcross broadcasting his WWII update from occupied France. A new round of Nerd Pledge. The Lightning Round from around the world. And your favourite satellite phone providers are back.
Thanks to Henry Moeran for the cover artwork, titled: match report + Hot & Cold in concert.
This is the Final Word.
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Season 7, Ep 22: The T20 World Cup pool (party) stage is done, and the usual suspects are through to the semi-finals. But the last two pool matches in Sydney have been rained out, and the semi-finals might be too. Geoff and Adam run the ruler over the Cup so far, the teams that have made it to the knockouts, and those who missed out.
Also this week: Dan Norcross sends a double WWII update, Sunny Munn has been sighted in Fitzroy, Nerd Pledge gets deep into 1911, we have Winnie baby updates, Shashikala Siriwardene has retired after an epic Sri Lanka career, the CBUS Super Performer gets picked, India got thrashed in New Zealand, and the Shield had a crazy round of last-day finishes.
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Season 7, Ep 21: It's Thai time! And the first bilingual Final Word. People have wondered how Thailand made it to the World Cup, and we've got the full story in English and in Thai, with three of the women who have been on the journey for over a decade, and the man who designed the program from day one.
Sornnarin Tippoch, Nattakan Chantam and Naruemol Chaiwai are three of Thailand's longest-serving players. Shan Khader is the team manager and translator, and Harshal Pathak has been their coach since 2018.
Also this week, our broader tournament chat, Nerd Pledge, Lightning Round, the new Super Performer segment, Glenn Maxwell's engagement ring, backback bribery, and some other things we've forgotten.
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Season 7, Ep 20: Pardon the Caps Lock, but it's worth it. We've all been waiting for a long time, and now Winifred Mae Collins is with us thanks to some stellar work from Rachel. If you've ever wanted to hear a person newly suffused with the joy of parenthood be questioned by someone who is definitely not that, then your two hosts can supply your needs.
Also this week, the Women's T20 World Cup is about to start, so we got the most excellent Lisa Sthalekar on for a chat about its history and what might happen this time around.
Plus the segments you (possibly) love: The Daniel Norcross World War II update, Nerd Pledge, the Lightning Round, and whatever else we squeezed in.
Babies!
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The Women's T20 World Cup is about to start, and we've been wanting to do a few extra things for the lovely people on our Patreon page who make our show possible. So we're combining those two things, sending some extras and some Easter eggs to the Patreon-only part of our site. If you're already part of it, or you want to be, listen on for the details in 7 minutes.
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Season 7, Ep 19: The Allan Border Medal really made some people mad this week, as David Warner snaffled it by one vote from Steve Smith.
More cheerfully – they're from Tigerland. The mighty Bangladesh Tigers have won the kiddy World Cup, and we've got Bangladexpert correspondent Mohammad Isam on the phone from a Dhaka freeway to tell us what it means. There's also Naseem Shah's hat-trick, a WWII update from Dan Norcross, some Nerd Pledge and correspondence, and Geoff's new segment: THE STATMAN. Bee-up-bop bada bop, bup bup bada bop.
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Season 7, Ep 18: Ebony could have played a dozen sports. Cricket got her by chance. Now she's a popular commentator on Test Match Special, on the Surrey board, and is championing opportunities for black English kids in the game. She sits down with the Final Word for one of the most open and meaningful conversations we've had.
Also this week: a Vinoo Mankad Appreciation Ten Minutes (bless the Under-19 World Cup), some more Nerd Pledge, and a whip around the cricket world from Pakistan to Zimbabwe to South Africa, with monkey attacks, Test tons, and the women's tri-series, as well as the Australian men's selections for the white-ball team. In the voices of the Backstreet Boys: Maxi's back, alright.
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Season 7, Ep 17: Less than two years ago South Africa crushed Australia 3-1. Since then they've had a dire World Cup and consistent Test losses, while the national administration has fallen into chaos. With England having just polished off a series 1-3 in Johannesburg, the show this week features Neil Manthorp to explain the situation in the Rainbow Nation. Also Geoff is back from holiday, Daniel Norcross has sent notes on our progress through World War II, and there's Nerd Pledge and the early rumblings of the approaching Women's T20 World Cup.
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Season 7, Ep 16: Daniel Norcross joins Adam Collins from beneath a Douglas Jardine portrait to discuss England's success in South Africa and Australia's tour that never should have been in India. More importantly, Dan Christian joins The Final Word to detail the considerable strides being taken to better integrate Indigenous Australians into this great game.
Then back to the silly stuff: more Nerd Pledge, some additional phrases for our banned list and the finer details of Operation Mincemeat.
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Season 7, Ep 15: Daniel Norcross steps in for Geoff to join Adam Collins for The Final Word's weekly dance around the cricket universe. From Mumbai to Melbourne, then over to Port Elizabeth, they've got you covered. Of course, this episode includes another rousing edition of Nerd Pledge.
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Season 7, Ep 14: After hammering New Zealand one final time, the pause button is hit on the home international summer. But that doesn't mean the cricket world slows down: a magnificent finish at Newlands was perfectly timed as the debate surrounding four-day Tests heats up.
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Season 7, Ep 13: You know what New Year's Eve means on The Final Word? It's time for our biggest show of the year. We have our Best and Worst of 2019. Our highlights and lowlights, and some of our best memories. An Adam Baby Update. Some more Nerd Pledge. Several arguments. One apology. A farewell to Peter Siddle. The Boxing Day Test, and the other Boxing Day Test (in Melbourne and in Johannesburg). Our hard-fought WBBL All Time Team picked from the first five years of the comp. And given the week's discussion over the future of the Boxing Day Test, an interview with Paul Sinclair from the Australian Conservation Foundation. There's a lot here. Laughter. Tears. Singing. Ring in 2020 with us.
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Season 7, Ep 12: It's Christmas Eve, and like last year with Harsha Bhogle, we decided to settle down around the fire (of Australia's merciless record-breaking sun) for a long chat with someone good at long chats. Mel Jones won World Cups and made an Ashes ton on debut, but has had an even more distinguished career in cricket after her playing days. In demand as a commentator and mentor worldwide, she has just joined the board of Cricket Australia to try to be a voice for good. A lot of fun and a lot of insight in this conversation. Merry Christmas.
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Season 7, Ep 11: The ABC Investigations unit has just released its exposé of one of the biggest sports betting companies, whose name is all over cricket. This episode we speak to Steve Cannane, the Walkley-winning lead journalist on the case, about what he found. We also get to the Perth Test, the WBBL finals, Nerd Pledge, and a faint summer hint of a new segment.
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Season 7, Ep 10: Look, it's true: pretty much all triple hundreds been made against dross bowling on flat pitches. They're still amazing.
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Season 7, Ep 9: Three Test matches at the same time? Yes please. Adam and Geoff run the desert comb over Australia and Pakistan at the Gabba, India and Bangladesh at Eden Gardens, and New Zealand versus England at The Mountain, which the Kiwis won live while we were recording the show. Also, Harsha versus Manjrekar, which wasn't much of a contest, and the WBBL. And a closing tribute to Phillip Hughes, five years on.
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Season 7, Ep 8: After handing down Steve Smith's ban, Cricket Australia took the unusual step of linking the player with Maurice Duffy, an Irish academic who describes his job as a 'mindset coach'. The pair worked together throughout that year and through Smith's remarkable Ashes series that followed. We caught up with Maurice to talk about how the relationship.
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Season 7, Ep 7: The Australian Test squad is announced, and we have all the wash-up from that announcement and the week in cricket, plus Adam's adventures with lime milk in Tasmania and the time Geoff crashed their car.
Then: when you have the same name as your subject, it must make empathy easy. During Robin Smith's career the England batsman was famed for his bravery against fast bowling. After it, he found himself on the verge of jumping off a building. Rob Smyth has helped write Smith's story, and is our Final Word guest this episode.
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Season 7, Ep 6: What's that November sound? Snow in Hobart, Nat Fyfe at the beach, and the the pitter patter of early-season Marsh runs. "He's coming, he's coming, Shaun is coming home." What else happened this week? Pakistan crashed and burned against Australia in the T20s. Board appointments at Cricket Australia. England fell over against New Zealand, before another game with another super over. So many things that the episode went way too long and we've moved our interview segment back an episode. Oh, and Nerd Pledge. An excellent suite of numbers. And personalised football cards, and we need some merch ideas from you.
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Season 7, Ep 5: For all these years, the identity of a Twitter sensation was shrouded in mystery. Now the puppet master emerges. Dan Liebke has written another book full of obscure cricket jokes, so we had him in for a chat. Also: Shakib's corruption ban, Papua New Guinea's World Cup qualification, the rights and wrongs of Big Dances, the WBBL, new coaching appointments, and Australia smashing Sri Lanka in T20s.
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Season 7, Ep 4: As climate strikes increase around the world and the effects of climate change bite more deeply, cricket as a sport is yet to address the issue. But cricket is one of the most vulnerable sports in the face of droughts and storms and rising sea levels, and countries like Australia, South Africa, and those in the subcontinent and Caribbean will be some of the worst affected. Tanya Aldred, founder of the Next Test, joins the Final Word to talk about cricket's contribution to the problem and its response to the crisis.
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Season 7, Ep 3: You know nothing gets the Final Word excited like policy. That's not even sarcasm. Cricket has had a big policy week: England announced a women's cricket plan worth £50million, Australia announced a world-best parental leave program, and there's the disparity between the men's and women's sides of The Hundred. We sat down with lawyer and cricketer Isabelle Westbury to thrash out the details.
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Season 7, Ep 2: We talk to Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde, authors of Cricket 2.0, a new book tracing T20’s evolution so far. We also take a look at The Hundred, Sarah Taylor’s outstanding international career, and various series taking place around the world. There’s never a slow week in this game.
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Season 7, Ep 1: It's Season 7! We made it through the previous season with all 87 daily shows from the World Cup and the Ashes, plus the long weekly shows. Now it's time to calm things down a touch. Essex did the double, winning the county champs and the T20 comp, so we chat to the entertaining Derek Pringle about his old side. The Australian women's team is gearing up for a fast series, the men are playing the Marsh Cup (yesssss Shaun), Australia delays a Bangladesh tour, Greg Chappell retires as selector, and England announce their next Test squad. Plus a whack of Nerd Pledge as the end. Get into it, as the home Australian summer podcast season begins (in spring).
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Season 6, Ep 13: The end of an unforgettable summer. Before Geoff rushed to airport, he and Adam reflected on the four months that was, told the story of their adventurous videographer Cam Fink and welcomed Dan Norcross back for another round of Nerd Pledge.
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England win the fifth Ashes Test by 135 runs at The Oval.
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England lead by 382 runs at stumps on Day 3 of the fifth Ashes Test.
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Australia all out for 225 after Day 2 of the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval. England lead by 78 runs at stumps.
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England are 271/8 after Day 1 of the fift Ashes Test at The Oval.
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Season 6, Ep 12: The world's foremost (only?) cricket-stat comedian Andy Zaltzman joins Nerd Pledge Quiz to solve number riddles set by our listeners. God love him. If you want to set a Nerd Pledge challenge it's through patreon.com/thefinalword
Before that Adam and Geoff talk through events of the week including Afghanistan's Test thriller, the departed spinner Abdul Qadir, and the mess of the UK honours system. We also get Eliza Bartlett on the phone as she walks from Italy to Scotland.
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Australia retain the Ashes after winning the fourth Test by 185 runs in Manchester.
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England fell to 2/18 at stumps on Day Four of the Fourth Ashes Test in Manchester. Australia lead by 364 runs.
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England trail by 297 runs at the end of Day 3 of the Ashes Test at Manchester.
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England are 1/23 and trail by 474 runs after day two of the fourth Ashes Test. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon are in Manchester.
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Australia reached 3/170 at stumps on Day 1 of the fourth Ashes Test. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap up the day's events in another episode of the Final Word Ashes Daily.
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Season 6, Ep 11: The No.1 bowler in the world, the AB medallist, and wearing a cricket jumper so tight it must have been knitted while he was inside it. Pat Cummins sits down in a good mood for the full Final Word. Also, Adam and Geoff look at the after-effects of that Ashes stunner at Headingley, the vagaries of review systems, and inevitably once again the Sliders universe of Jerry O'Connell.
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England, impossibly, win the third Ashes Test. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap up the highs and lows from Headingley.
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England need 203 runs to win the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon break it all down.
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Australia lead by 283 runs after day 2 of the Third Ashes Test at Headingley.
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Australia is all out for 179 after a rain-affected first day. Adam and Geoff take you through the highs and lows of the third test.
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Season 6, Ep 10: The world's most delicate cricket statistical artist, Andrew Samson has been whirring the names and the numbers into deeply creative forms for over 25 years. In a decade on the BBC he has become a beloved part of Test Match Special, and still travels the world for cricket in South Africa, Australia and beyond. Today, he joins The Final Word to investigate our listener's number challenges in a special round of Nerd Pledge.
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It's a draw. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap up the Ashes Second Test from Lord's.
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A massive and dramatic Day 4 at Lord's. Geoff and Adam wrap it all up in 30 minutes or less.
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Australia is 4/80 after a rain shortened day three at Lord's.
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England all out for 258 on Day Two of the Ashes at Lord's. Australia 1/30 at stumps.
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Rain washes out day one of the second Test at Lord's.
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Season 6, Ep 9: Last week, James Pattinson made his international comeback in a famous Australian victory. It was a long time coming and required a punishing surgical procedure to fuse his back together. But as he explained to Adam and Geoff at Lord’s ahead of the Second Test, he has returned with a much better appreciation of where cricket sits within his life. After the interview, stay tuned for another round of Nerd Pledge.
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Live in London: on Monday August 12th the Final Word will team up with Jim Maxwell to tell the stories of 46 years of broadcasting cricket, and Mitchell Johnson to chart his Ashes history and give a glimpse behind the scenes. Jim joined us at the Ashes tour match at Worcester to give a glimpse of what you can expect when he's off the leash.
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Australia win the First Test at Edgbaston by 251 runs.
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Australia 7/487 declare on Day 4 of the First Ashes Test and set England a target of 398.
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Australia lead by 34 runs after Day 3 of The Ashes First Test at Edgbaston.
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England close the gap on Day 2 of The Ashes First Test at Edgbaston.
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Steve Smith's 144 carried Australia to 284 on Day 1. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon have The Final Word on the day's play.
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Adam and Geoff wrap up the Women's Ashes T20s and preview the men's Test in Birmingham.
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Season 6, Ep 8: Hard to find a better conversationalist than England fast bowler Kate Cross. She's from Manchester way, blunt as you like, good turn of phrase and funny as hell. And she's learned a lot about elite sport, the bridge from amateur to professional, and the difficulty in holding it all together. And she's so chilled out that she kicked back with Geoff and Adam at the ground in Hove just a couple of hours before taking on against Australia. On today's episode we also cover Ireland's fast-forward debut at Lord's, the Australia v Australia warm-up at Southampton, Meg Lanning's record-breaking hundred, and the Ashes squads for both men's sides.
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Season 6, Ep 7: The Edge is a new documentary about the urge to be the best in the world, and the human toll it can take to get there. Barney Douglas toured with the England team from their humiliation in the West Indies in 2009, through their gruelling years of training before winning in Australia in 2011, then their eventual collapse in Australia in 2013. He used his trove of archival footage along with new interviews to bring the story to life. Then he teamed up with Felix White, of the Tailenders cricket podcast and the Maccabees band, to write the score. Together they've produced a beautiful look at human strength and weakness through the lens of cricket, and they sat down to share that process with us.
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It's a draw. Day 4 of the Women's Ashes Test ends in a draw. Australia retain The Ashes. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins wrap it up from Taunton.
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Day 3 from the Women’s Ashes Test in Taunton.
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Day 2 from the Women’s Ashes Test in Taunton.
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Day 1 from Taunton of the Women's Ashes Test.
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Season 6, Ep 6: We all know what happened in the World Cup final. But the day before that, before everyone was consumed with euphoria or sadness, we spoke to everyone we could find about the tournament they had experienced. Here is New Zealand's voice of cricket Bryan Waddle, ESPN Cricinfo's Melinda Farrell, Wisden editor Lawrence Booth, Kiwi captain Jeremy Coney, Cricbuzz writers Vithushan Ehantharajah and Bharat Sundaresan, photographer Stu Forster, Guardian newsbreaker Ali Martin, and the World Cup's managing director Steve Elworthy.
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An incredible finish to the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap it up from Lord's.
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Geoff and Adam unveil the Final Word team of the tournament, and cast forward to the final tomorrow.
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Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon unveil the controversially named 'Gnarly Nine' of the Final World Daily Hall of Fame.
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England defeat Australia in the 2019 World Cup Semi-Final.
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New Zealand are through to the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap up the semi-final between India and New Zealand.
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The first semi-final between India and New Zealand may be only half complete, but that doesn't stop Adam and Geoff from delivering a full episode on day 41 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon preview the 2019 Cricket World Cup semifinals and launch the one and only Final Word Hall of Fame tournament. The tournament within a tournament to determine the greatest moment of the tournament. Vote now at finalwordcricket.com.
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Day 39 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon preview the World Cup semi-finals and review the Women's Ashes.
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South Africa and India win on the final day of group play at the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Pakistan defeat Bangladesh on Day 37 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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West Indies defeat Afghanistan on Day 36 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Season 6, Ep 5: It was 2005 when Nat started covering cricket on South African radio, and the next year she was commentating as South Africa stunned Australia by chasing 434 in Johannesburg. By now she's done 85 Test matches and hundreds of one-dayers, and is preparing to follow her World Cup with her first women's Test in the Women's Ashes. Natalie sits down with The Final Word at Lord's in London to talk about childhood dreams, the slowly changing nature of broadcasting, the importance of example, and the complicated society of South Africa.
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England defeat New Zealand on Day 35 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam and Geoff wrap up the day's match in this daily edition of The Final Word Cricket Podcast recorded from a couch in Birmingham and a pub in Dublin.
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Tiger time is at an end. India are through to the 2019 World Cup Semi-Finals with their win over Bangladesh on day 34 of the tournament.
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Sri Lanka defeat West Indies on Day 33 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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England defeat India on Day 32 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Australia defeat New Zealand and Pakistan win over Afghanistan on Day 31 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Season 6, Ep 4: Anytime you hit a 46-ball century, people tend to take notice. Jos Buttler is part of the new breed of batsmen changing the short forms of the game and influencing Test cricket as well, with a 360 degree range and a fearlessness of approach. Key to England's hopes of getting their World Cup campaign back on track, he took a minute to talk with The Final Word at Lord's.
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South Africa defeat Sri Lanka on Day 30 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wrap up the day on the 30th edition of the World Cup Daily.
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India defeat West Indies on Day 29 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Pakistan defeats New Zealand on Day 28 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Australia defeat England on Day 27 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Bangladesh defeat Afghanistan on Day 26 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup and keep their finals hopes alive.
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Pakistan defeat South Africa by 49 runs on Day 25 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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A double-header on Day 24 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross, in for Geoff Lemon, wrap up wins for India and New Zealand.
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Season 6, Ep 3: featuring Daniel Norcross. It's long past time for a full-length Final Word. The daily show has been occupying our attention but some topics can't be dealt with in 15 minutes. Cricket Australia has a new corporate buddy with a unique approach to the English language, the World Cup's format limitations are on show, and we grapple with time travel (that would have warned us of Sri Lanka's upset). Plus there's a new game in town: get ready for Nerd Pledge Quiz, with our guest contestant from the BBC commentary team.
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Sri Lanka keep their tournament alive with a win over England on Day 23 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Australia defeat Bangladesh on Day 22 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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New Zealand defeat South Africa on Day 21 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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England defeat Afghanistan on Day 20 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Tigers Win! Bangladesh beats West Indies on Day 19 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup keeping its hopes of a top four finish alive. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins have the latest in this daily edition of The Final Word Cricket Podcast.
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India defeats Pakistan on Day 18 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam and Geoff wrap everything up from a packed train leaving the station.
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Australia win over Sri Lanka and South Africa get their first win over Afghanistan on Day 17 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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England wins against West Indies on Day 16 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam and Geoff review the game with references to the Harlem Globetrotters, swimming pools and stand up comedy routines involving airline snacks.
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India and New Zealand leave Trent Bridge without a ball bowled as the rain strikes again in the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Australia defeats Pakistan on Day 14 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Another day, another day of rained out cricket. This time, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka don't face a ball on Day 13 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Another day of rain washes out West Indies vs South Africa after only 7.3 overs. Geoff and Adam discuss the washout, ways to cope with the rain, and numerous 90's pop references.
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A big win for India over Australia on Day 11 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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The latest from Day Ten of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon not only wrap up the results from England v Bangladesh and Afghanistan v New Zealand, they also take another shot at explaining Net Run Rate.
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Play abandoned because of rain on Day 9, but the rain doesn't stop The Final Word.
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A big win for Australia over West Indies on Day 8 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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Geoff and Adam wrap up all the play from Day 7 of the 2019 Cricket World Cup that featured matches between India and South Africa and New Zealand and Bangladesh.
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Season 6, Ep 2: Not many international cricketers are more famous for their internet jokes, but maybe there's one. Jimmy Neesham thinks over the nature of humour and whether to tweet like Sachin. But there's also a much more serious side, one that made him hate himself when his cricket wasn't perfect. It's been a tough few years for a player who has fought his way back to form in time for a World Cup. Conflict can rage in the one person. Jimmy Neesham isn't afraid to be honest about it.
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Everything you need to know from a rain-shortened session in Cardiff.
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One of the great high-scoring matches, with a record World Cup chase set for the world's highest-scoring team. Pakistan always do Pakistan things. We know it's a cliche, but they just keep doing it. After getting smashed by the West Indies, they've hit back with a fierce challenge to England.
Drama at Trent Bridge!
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Bangladesh took on South Africa at the Oval in London on Day Four, with a massive crowd of supporters. We've been waiting a while for a close game, and we got one.
Not many people have tipped Bangladesh to go far in this tournament, but they might have a few more supporters now.
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Day 3 comes to you from the back of a car on the motorway from Bristol, after the first double header of the World Cup.
Australia had their first hit-out of the Cup against crowd favourites Afghanistan, while a Green Mamba arose for the contest, very short contest, in Cardiff between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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Pakistan and West Indies: two teams without a lot of backers, but that might change after this performance. Both needed to get their World Cup off to a good start.
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England might have been nervous ahead of their home World Cup opener, but were trying not to show it as they headed to The Oval to face South Africa.
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Season 6, Ep 1: At last. After years of distant admiration, the guiding star of the Final Word has visited earth. Glenn Maxwell, on the eve of a World Cup in which he's one of the brightest in the firmament, took a moment out to sit down with Adam and Geoff in a Bristol garden, take a breath, and take stock of his life so far.
"You want to show people that you're a real person, and not just a 20-foot flag outside the MCG."
"If my career ended tomorrow I'd be ok. I'd be able to find other avenues in my life where I'd still get the same joy."
"I don't understand how I'm able to hit sixes."
"That was literally everything I could have dreamed of as a kid, happening in front of my eyes."
Funny, generous, and thoughtful, this is a cricketer who everyone has watched, showing a side that not many people would have got to know.
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Season 5, Ep 23: All ten World Cup captains gathered in a disused warehouse to announce their joint billing in a gritty new crime drama. Ben Stokes leapt around his own disused warehouse on an SAS cricket course. But the real attention this week went to Virat Kohli's musical crusade for clear skin, as he embarked on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of face spots. Geoff joins Adam in London ahead of cricket's global showdown, for what was supposed to be a half episode before the Matthew Renshaw interview but that has spiralled out of control into a being all of its own.
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Season 5, Ep 22: He had a dream start and some later struggles, but hasn't lost his head. Australia and Queensland opening batsman Matthew Renshaw is forthright about surviving the spotlight aged 20, filling gaps after the Cape Town debacle, and how to manage gastro in front of an international audience.
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Season 5, Ep 21: Well, maybe not quite. "It's very complex," he reckons. But Radio One's breakfast DJ will be doing his best to give airtime to the World Cup theme song. He speaks to the Final Word about cricket's chances of cutting through to a new audience in Britain, then we hear from Cricinfo's Daniel Brettig about his new book revealing the secret meeting between Don Bradman and Kerry Packer that ended the World Series Cricket war. We recorded this before the IPL final, so that'll come next week.
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Season 5, Ep 20: Sexuality, drugs, gender politics and criminal convictions. It's been a heavy week in cricket. James Faulkner caused a stir when people thought he'd come out as gay. Australia's best women players became a casualty of negotiations over the men's team. County cricketer Alex Hepburn was sentenced to five years in prison, while England booted a player from their World Cup squad for drug use. This episode couldn't wait, so Geoff and Adam did their best to untangle some of the above.
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Season 5, Ep 19: Catalyst. Author. Agitator. Commentator. Antagonist. Ian Chappell led Australia during the Test team's most iconic era, that of Lillee and Thompson. He took on Don Bradman and blew up the establishment. He rejects being associated with on-field aggression, and his sense of compassion led him to some unexpected post-career political action. Never afraid to say exactly what's on his mind, Ian sits down with The Final Word to talk about all of the above.
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Season 5, Ep 18: The Big Three have launched their World Cup squads, and Geoff and Adam were in London for the England announcement. Cricket writer Vithushan Ehantharajah joins them to run the rule over that squad, including the nearly-there situation of Jofra Archer, and then sticks around for a game of Nerd Pledge. Then it's time to look at what Australia and India are planning. We promise other teams will follow in the weeks to come.
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Season 5, Ep 17: Your hosts don't normally wear tuxedos to record – sorry to disappoint. But the black ties are on for the annual Wisden dinner to celebrate the launch of another mighty Almanack. For 156 years Wisden has been cricket's authority, and for the first of those years, editor Lawrence Booth sits down with Geoff and Adam to talk through the new issue, including the news that Geoff was awarded Book of the Year for his publication Steve Smith's Men. This episode comes with bonus live reports of Glenn Maxwell playing county cricket at Lord's.
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Season 5, Ep 16: It's hard growing up in Gippsland with a country cricket legend for a dad. But Australian comedian Wil Anderson still adores the game regardless, a feeling that has only been strengthened by years in distant countries. Mainly because the timezones are good for cable. Wil joins the Final Word to talk about life on the road, keeping safe what you love, when cricket becomes an affair, and how Matthew Hayden felt about a certain cover song.
Adam and Geoff also go through Australia's ODI series win over Pakistan, happenings in the IPL, England's response to the Buttler-Ashwin run-out, and have time for a bumper round of Nerd Pledge, the new game invented by subscribers on the Patreon page: patreon.com/thefinalword
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Season 5, Ep 15: Another day, another run-out of the non-striker causing worldwide debate. Geoff and Adam plough into the tale of the dismissal: where it comes from, how the Laws have evolved, and why it causes such a response, as well as Vinoo Mankad's place in history and how easily it gets obscured. Then we cover off the Sheffield Shield season, a year since the sandpaper saga, the historical versus practical considerations of numbering Test uniforms, and plenty more. Join in the Patreon community at patreon.com/thefinalword.
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Season 5, Ep 14: Set off the ticker-tape parades. One-day cricket once again rules the land, as Australia's men complete a crazy comeback in India, and the women sweep New Zealand for the 20th year in a row. Adam and Geoff cover the 50-over action, World Cup ramifications, and whether there's space for batsmen returning from bans, as well as looking over Shane Warne's big ideas for the future from the MCC Cricket Committee, and Kane Williamson's refusal to stop thrashing Bangladesh.
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Season 5, Ep 13: In 2015 Urthboy released a song commemorating Phillip Hughes, in an unlikely crossover between cricket and hip-hop. A founding member of record label Elefant Traks and band The Herd, Urthboy has become one of Australia's most respected songwriters. His wide-ranging Final Word conversation looks at the crossover between sport and art: as conduits for grief, stages for coming of age, means of representation, as well as sharing stories from the synthetic wickets and live gigs of the 1980s Blue Mountains.
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Season 5, Ep 12: Ashes winner, World Cup champ, and lead broadcaster. Isa Guha has got a lot done in a short time. She sits down with Adam and Geoff to talk history, heritage, change and ambition, and the advantages of fast bowling at five-foot-one. We also cover off the Big Bash final, the Kusal Perera miracle, and who is on Mark Waugh's grudge list this week.
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Season 5, Ep 11: Canberra's inaugural Test is over, with some heartening performances for Australia against Sri Lanka, but what does it all mean? The Ashes are a long way away. In the meantime it's white-ball season, with the Australian men's team going to India and the women tackling New Zealand in the Rose Bowl. Oh, and England got smashed by the West Indies again.
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Season 5, Ep 10: With Canberra about to become Australia's 11th venue for men's tests, Geoff and Adam visit the one forgotten cricket ground out of the other ten.
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Season 5, Ep 9: A special version of The Final Word recorded live at Fitzroy's Commercial Club Hotel on January 17, 2019. This episode features an oral history of Glenn Maxwell, an ode to Shaun Marsh and plenty of Q&A.
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Season 5, Ep 8: After 71 years, India wins a Test series in Australia. Adam and Geoff are joined by writer Bharat Sundaresan to talk through how it happened and what it means.
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Season 5, Ep 7: Geoff and Adam look back over the triumphs (and the odd disaster) of the year that was, as well as India's effort to go 2-1 up against Australia in the Boxing Day Test.
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Season 5, Ep 6: India's voice of cricket has a long relationship with Australia too, part of ABC radio since 1991. None of this happened by accident: Harsha Bhogle was the classic freelance pioneer, and still has the same attitude. This Christmas he settles down for a long chat with Adam and Geoff about the hustle and grind, the need to improvise, and the story of how he turned this into an extraordinary life.
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Season 5, Ep 5: India and Australia are 1-1, after a Perth Stadium pitch that was more WACA than the WACA. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins review the bouncer barrage, some brilliant batting, and the chirp-off between Virat Kohli and Tim Paine. Then we look at cricket's new world of stats analysis that could reinvent the game, with Freddie Wilde and Ben Jones, the whiz-kids from CricViz.
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Season 5, Ep 4: A gripping end followed a spongy middle in the first Test of Australia's 2018-19 summer. Geoff and Adam take a close look at India's win and Australia's resistance, as well as investigating whether that was Peter Russell Clarke moonlighting in the Adelaide press box; the physics of tangled headphones; and how the hell to tackle a word spelled "bamBoosALL".
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Season 5, Ep 3: New things abound. The Australian summer starts for real with the first Test against India imminent. The women's team win the World T20 with a total team performance. And Geoff is flooding bookshops with Steve Smith's Men, his book on the sandpaper saga and the broader story around it, which leads him and Adam to assess the turmoil and head-rolling that has happened since the sandstorm hit Cape Town last March.
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Season 5, Ep 2: Back to earth with a thud, as the Dubai draw is followed by an Abu Dhabi thrashing. Pakistan pull their biggest ever win over Australia out of the fire. Mohammad Abbas is statistically the most devastating bowler in history. There are a thousand unanswered questions ahead of the first home Test in a few short weeks. Geoff and Adam break down a densely packed UAE tour from a rose-tinted cabana with a cast of woodland animal friends.
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Season 5, Ep 1: Let's call it straight - one of the most remarkable batting performances ever in the fourth innings of a Test. Usman Khawaja batted more than 12 hours in the match to deny Pakistan a win, while Adam and Geoff commentated his Dubai epic on radio. Time to take a few deep breaths and look back over all of it, as The Final Word comes back from a break to start a new season.
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Season 4, Ep 10: What a week. Cape Town to Johannesburg, one of Australian cricket's biggest disasters, and a story that bounced across the world. Sandpaper, cameras, and recriminations. Geoff and Adam have already done so much talking, and they're completely spent, but somehow they're going to talk a bit more.
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Season 4, Ep 9: One of Australia's top broadcasters joins Adam and Geoff in South Africa's southern city of Port Elizabeth, in a long-form interview to discuss it all. The art of the call. The nature of stories. Choosing joy over angst. The 1989 Grand Final. How to pick an election, and how to call a Superbowl. Cool Runnings versus Rocky IV. Staying grateful in the grind. The importance of sport, and of a broader view. Then we look at the South Africa v Australia series, poised at 1-1 ahead of the Cape Town Test.
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Season 4, Ep 8: Why does cricket do this to itself? After a brilliant Test in Durban, the discussion is instead about which Australians and South Africans said what to whom. This episode includes David Warner's first public statements since his dispute with Quinton de Kock, as The Final Word looks at the complicated issue of how Australian behaviour on the field is viewed. Then it's thankfully back to a full review of the Durban Test.
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Season 4, Ep 7: After a mad dash from Auckland to Johannesburg, Australian vice-captain David Warner gives The Final Word. How can he succeed in South Africa? What constitutes being a cowboy? Does he want the captaincy, or maybe a political career? He covers that and everything from mental strength, masculinity, meditation, and Morne Morkel.
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One of the most interesting thinkers in cricket, Jason Gillespie can nerd out about fast bowling, or take on broader questions of ethics, empathy, and sticking to principles. An extensive interview with The Final Word covers the new movement of vegan cricketers, activism in unlikely environments, how to approach sports science, the development of Indigenous cricket, and what it's like dating Andrew Strauss.
Australian cricket star Ellyse Perry talks technique and public attention, as Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins review the women's Ashes and preview the men's.
Season 4, Ep 6: School's out for the summer. The Ashes are done, and BBC commentator Daniel Norcross joins Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon to sift through the fireplace, before we hand out The Final Word's End of Year 12 Formal awards. Next up, all of January's white-ball carnage.
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