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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics and cricket history as they follow the game they love around the world and run in-depth interviews with guests. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.

The Final Word Cricket Podcast Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon

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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics and cricket history as they follow the game they love around the world and run in-depth interviews with guests. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.

    The Green Marsh showdown

    The Green Marsh showdown

    Season 15, Episode 12: So it comes down to Mitchell Marsh vs Cameron Green - but does it make sense for David Warner to get his preferred farewell instead of making space in the Test XI against Pakistan? It's one question with Australia's Test summer around the corner. The T20 side is still in India instead of having a ticker-tape parade at home, where WBBL finals are about to start. Meanwhile, it's silly season in the IPL, the next England summer has started taking shape, and the most important cricket this week is being played in Namibia, where Zimababwe are likely to miss next year's T20 World Cup.

    Your Nerd Pledge number this week:
    7.04 - Sheahan Arnott

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    Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au
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    Title track by Urthboy

    • 1 hr 20 min
    England botches it – Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup

    England botches it – Greatest Season, ‘99 World Cup

    Episode 3 – Alec Stewart

    In 2019 on The Greatest Season That Was, Adam made a 12-part series exploring whether the 1999 ODI World Cup was the most interesting global tournament. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports), they spoke with many of the key players and administrators across seven weeks. This is the sorry story of the home team. For that, we had England’s captain of the day, Alec Stewart, as our forthright guest. It was the perfect way to start our show back then and he didn’t miss targeting what went wrong when they failed to make it out of the group – famously, eliminated before the official tournament song was officially released.

    Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:
    https://linktr.ee/thefinalword

    Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au
    Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word

    Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.
    Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword

    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Story Time 160 – Who is in the Story Time XI?

    Story Time 160 – Who is in the Story Time XI?

    It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus a man celebrated as one of the game's best captains. Modern England didn't invent nothing that Cyril Washbrook didn't already have covered, and there's the path from Blocker Wilson to Chucker Wilson. Plus who would make it into our all-time Story Time team?

    Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
    2.55 - Jonathan Potton
    4.65 - Peter Lenaghan
    3.79 - Dave Williams
    2.05 - Tim Henry

    Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:
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    For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw
    You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

    Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au
    Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word

    Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.
    Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword

    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy

    • 1 hr 26 min
    World Cup Daily 2023: The morning after

    World Cup Daily 2023: The morning after

    World Cup Daily 2023, Day 47: The lost episode has been found. We did record this the day after the final, both of us at airports in different countries on the way home to Australia. Somehow the audio disappeared but we've managed to salvage it since. So, clue the Quantum Leap music, and let's time travel a few days - back to our impressions the morning after the World Cup before.

    Get tickets for our live shows:
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    Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!
    https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london
    https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity

    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy

    • 39 min
    The Final Word Australian homecoming

    The Final Word Australian homecoming

    Season 15, Episode 11: It is a week of homecomings. Adam, Geoff, and the World Cup all arrived back in Australia within hours of one another, and nothing ever feels as good as home when you've been away. On the agenda this week: updates on a lost episode, two short interviews with Mitch Starc and Glenn Maxwell that Geoff recorded on the field just after the World Cup finished, there are Final Word live shows and live cricket matches coming up, the Sea Bus is back in business, Adam Zampa has receipts, David Warner might not retire after all, the most pointless T20s are next, our favourite 50-year-old first-class cricketer back at it, and some very significant changes and non-changes from the ICC's latest meeting.

    Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:
    https://linktr.ee/thefinalword

    For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw
    You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

    Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au
    Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word

    Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.
    Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword

    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy

    • 1 hr 21 min
    The Final Word with David Gower

    The Final Word with David Gower

    Season 15, Episode 10: David Gower’s composure at the crease, combined with his perennially relaxed disposition, have contributed to a sense that he’s forever young. But it’s now the better of half a century since he pulled his first ball in Test cricket for four, going on to become, for a time, England’s leading run-scorer. A life in cricket has been his, but not at the expense of wider curiosity. It’s what has made him such a force as a broadcaster since hanging up the boots and, also, how effective he is as the long-term chair of the Lord’s Taverners. A great guest. Enjoy.

    Get tickets for our live shows:
    Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429
    Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638

    Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au
    Run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs: www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word

    Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.

    For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw
    You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

    Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword

    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy

    • 1 hr 42 min

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