The Final Word Cricket Podcast

India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 2: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and sorts the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all through the four Tests for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword Title track by Urthbo...

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 War...

India v England, 2nd Test, Chennai Day 1: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and sorts the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all through the four Tests for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword Title track by Urthbo...

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...

India v England, 1st Test, Chennai Day 5: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and sorts the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all through the four Tests for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword Title track by Urthbo...

India v England, 1st Test, Chennai Day 4: The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon wraps each day’s action, decides the Player of the Day, and sorts the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all through the four Tests for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword Title track by Urthbo...

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. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out...

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 alt...

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. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out...

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. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw. Check out...

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 th...

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...

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...

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  Ge...

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...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 2 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at  https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 1 of the 4th Test, Australia v India, from the Gabba. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

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 unexp...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 5 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 4 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

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....

Geoff and Adam bring you the daily update from Day 3 of the 3rd Test, Australia v India, from the SCG. Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...