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The Final Word Cricket Podcast
Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword. Get your big Nor...
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TFW Daily - The greatest chase - Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia
Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia: Two duelling hundreds between Phoebe Litchfield and Jemimah Rodrigues lit up an already electric atmo...
TFW Daily – The innings of a lifetime - Women’s World Cup Semi-Final 1, South Africa England
Women’s World Cup Day 30, 1st semi-final, South Africa England: After England humiliated South Africa to open the tournament, this knockout rematch wa...
Is it Weatherald versus Renshaw now to open the batting?
Season 19, Episode 4: The women's World Cup semis are around the corner, so first up it's time to run the rule over the four remaining teams, and get...
Story Time 245 – 1990s Australia is another country
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an inadvertent detour into just how distant the 1990s...
TFW Daily - Can India now push Australia? - Women's World Cup Day 27, England New Zealand + India Bangladesh
Women's World Cup Day 27, England New Zealand & India Bangladesh: Not a day they will be making a commemorative DVD from, it is fair to say. Appropria...
TFW Daily - Alana King’s astonishing 7fa - Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia South Africa
Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia v South Africa: What a performance, what a bowler. Alana King’s 7 for 18 defined Australia’s annihilation of South...
TFW Daily - Virat and Rohit light up one last time - Australia India, 3rd ODI, Sydney
TFW Daily, Australia India 3rd ODI, Sydney: For one last time in Australia, the old partnership did it again. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scoured bac...
TFW Daily - Zero scrutiny of washout shambles - Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka Pakistan
Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka v Pakistan: Another washout. Another one. What a shambles. It makes three abandoned games each for Sri Lanka and...
TFW Daily - Then there were four - Women's World Cup Day 24, India New Zealand
Women's World Cup Day 24, India v New Zealand: It was always likely that today would seal the last semi-final spot in this edition of the World Cup, a...
TFW Daily - The onfield casualty ward - Australia India, 2nd ODI, Adelaide
TFW Daily, Australia India 2nd ODI, Adelaide: It was a full game this time around, and it involved a proper battle between old foes Starc and Hazlewoo...
TFW Daily - Punch and counterpunch - Women’s World Cup Day 23, England Australia
Women's World Cup Day 23, England v Australia: England began both innings full of purpose and daring and ready to rattle some Australian
cages b...
His cuffs are bone dry: everything's coming up Marnus
Season 19, Episode 3: Round 2 of the Shield has come and gone, and you won't believe it, but there was another big Marnus ton. The Premier Jake Weathe...
TFW Daily – A new number one - Women's World Cup Day 22, South Africa Pakistan
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 22, South Africa Pakistan: Once again, rain affected the game in Colombo, but the amazing groundstaff ensured a result. Th...
TFW Daily - Disaster at the last - Women's World Cup Day 21, Sri Lanka Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 21, Sri Lanka Bangladesh: Once again, we came down to the final over in this World Cup, in an absorbing tussle throughout....
TFW Daily - India on the brink - Women’s World Cup Day 20, India England
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 20, India England: Another nerve-shredder of a match involving India. There was high quality across the park from both tea...
TFW Daily - Kohli and Rohit bomb out - Australia India, 1st ODI, Perth
Australia v India, 1st ODI, Perth: They're back, the big dogs who retired from Tests in Australia earlier this year after flaming out in that format....
TFW Daily – Harmanpreet’s week of destiny – Women’s World Cup Day 19, Women’s World Cup Day 19, Pakistan New Zealand
Women’s World Cup Day 19, Pakistan v New Zealand: With the counter ticking over to 350 overs lost in Colombo during the tournament, we turn our attent...
Story Time 244 - To lose the County Championship by 10 feet
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, have you heard the one about the three-time premiershi...
TFW Daily – Why play in a Monsoon? – Women’s World Cup Day 18, Sri Lanka v South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 18, Sri Lanka South Africa: Another day, another rain-affected game in Colombo. We examine the extent of play lost in the Sri La...
TFW Daily – Healy: World Cup Boss – Women’s World Cup Day 17, Australia v Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 17, Australia Bangladesh: Alyssa Healy loves the big dances. Is she the best of all time? Bangladesh were commendable and valian...
TFW Daily - A heartbreaking ending – Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan vs. England
Women’s World Cup Day 16, Pakistan v England: Who benefited
most from the rain? There’ll be arguments back and forth, but it seemed like we were...
Cummins and Head reject 10 million IPL bucks to ditch Australia
Season 19, Episode 2: The Ashes runway continues, the Women's World Cup is mid-flight, and the Indian men's team are about to land in Australia for a...
TFW Daily – Lanka's fastest fifty – Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka NZ
Women’s World Cup Day 15, Sri Lanka vs New Zealand: A 26-ball fifty from Nilakshika Silva lit up a stormy Colombo evening, in a game which saw seen In...
TFW Daily - Bangladesh gift SA nail-biting victory - Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 14, Bangladesh v South Africa: After being dismantled by New Zealand, Bangladesh's batting found a new level of resolve, topped...
TFW Daily - World record run chase - Women's World Cup Day 13, Australia India
Women’s World Cup Day 13, Australia India: That was quite something. India set Australia the biggest ever run chase in women's ODIs... and then you'll...
TFW Daily – The Nat Sciver-Brunt show – Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka England
Women’s World Cup Day 12, Sri Lanka v England: Nat Sciver-Brunt
led from the front again, with Sri Lanka on the receiving end this time. There w...
Story Time 243 - The Inexpressibles
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, what is are "inexpressibles", and what do they tell us...
TFW Daily - Devine melts in the heat - Women's World Cup Day 11, NZ Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 11, New Zealand v Bangladesh: It's getting hot in Guwahati, hotter by the game, as Sophie Devine found out when her diabetes nee...
TFW Daily - Battle of the power hitters - Women’s World Cup Day 10, India South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 10, India v South Africa: What a battle, and from unexpected sources. Today saw the two biggest scores ever made from No8 in wom...
TFW Daily - Pakistan give Australia huge fright - Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 9, Australia v Pakistan: For a second consecutive day, there was a very real chance of the biggest cricketing upset of all time....
Marnus Labuschagne on the comeback trail
Season 19, Episode 1: It is officially the start of the southern season, because we say so, and what more fitting way to start than with a huge Sheffi...
TFW Daily - Heather Knight prevents huge upset – Women’s World Cup Day 8, England Bangladesh
Women’s World Cup Day 8, England v Bangladesh. Whilst it looks like a routine victory on the scorecard, this was anything but comfortable for England,...
TFW Daily – Brits turns SA's tournament around - Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa New Zealand
Women’s World Cup Day 7, South Africa New Zealand: Tazmin Brits belatedly kicked off South Africa’s tournament, and in some style. Have
they don...
TFW Daily – Termites stop play before India flex - Women’s World Cup Day 6, India Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 6, India v Pakistan. It’s the biggest event of any ICC tournament, and the action off the pitch was yet again as much of a focus...
TFW Daily - Will rain dampen India-Pakistan fire? - Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka Australia
Women’s World Cup Day 5, Sri Lanka v Australia: Sri Lanka will be the happier of the two teams as they come away with an unexpected point against Aust...
Story Time 242 – When Sachin took down India
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, dare we suggest a very slight case of pledger error, o...
TFW Daily - England create carnage - Women’s World Cup Day 4, England South Africa
Women’s World Cup Day 4, England v South Africa: England have arrived at the World Cup with a resounding victory over a South Africa team that many t...
TFW Daily - They’re from Tigerland - Women’s World Cup Day 3, Bangladesh Pakistan
Women’s World Cup Day 3, Pakistan v Bangladesh: The first upset of the tournament comes in only its third game, and the first of 11 matches in Colombo...
Gardner masterclass upstages Devine ton – WWC Aus v NZ – TFW Daily
Women’s World Cup Day 2, Australia v New Zealand: It was a
battle of class v experience and century versus century, thanks to Ash Gardner and So...
India stutter then strive - Women's World Cup Daily 1
2025 Women's World Cup, Day 1, India v Sri Lanka: It wasn't always easy, but India's muscle and skill showed through when it mattered most, overcoming...