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.
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Geoff Lemon Podcasts
Just making it through the absurdities of modern life one good tune at a time. Geoff Lemon hosts interviews, sketches, news/current events, music and much more.
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Geoff Lemon and guests get together every week during the 2015 Cricket World Cup to dissect the latest from the tournament in Australia and New Zealand with insightful, intelligent and interesting analysis
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TFW Daily - Bumrah again keeps the balance - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3
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England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 3: What was Harry Brook thinking? And before that, the same question applies to Jamie Smith. Also, how have England reached parity with only one ton compared to three? But here we are, dare we say evenly poised, after an inspired bowling change just before tea by Shubman Gill. You may be able to guess w…
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TFW Daily - Rishabh flourishes but Pope hangs on - England India, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2
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England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 2: Rishabh Pant made it three tons for India on Day 2 with a rollicking century. But with an Ollie Pope blinder, England fought back to limit the damage, then held their grip despite some Bumrah blows. They could be out of it tomorrow, but they’re still in it right now. Ben Jones joins Daniel Norcross. …
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TFW Daily - Jaiswal and Gill are gen next - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
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England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 1: “We’ll have a bowl.” It's not done yet, but Ben Stokes may live to regret that call, as a new generation of India batters feast on listless bowling. What’s England’s way back into the game? Ben Jones thinks there could be an opening. And for India, were the new superstars already here, and has Rishab…
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TFW Daily - Series preview - England India, 1st Test, Headingley
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England India Daily, 1st Test, Headingley Day 0: It's about to begin. Five Test matches between two huge teams, with Ben Stokes and the bish-bash brigade versus a new-look India with Shubman Gill at the helm, and Rishabh Pant as the devil on his shoulder. It could go absolutely anywhere. Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon. Support the show with a Ne…
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Season 18, Episode 19: Still in the afterglow of South Africa’s World Test Championship win, apparently the real hero is… board chair Jay Shah? You may think we’re talking about him a lot lately, but ask the ICC camera crews that slavishly followed him around. Also this week, Virat Kohli chooses a very pointed moment to back Test cricket, the new c…
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Story Time 232 – "The summer from hell"
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go back to the northern summer of 1990 when the pitches and balls were as flat as each other, ruining bowlers across the UK. Earlier, Adam explored the forgotten hero of the first Test ever played and Geoff told the unhappy story of three siblings who…
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Why South Africa's win means so much, with Dan Gallan - WTC Final, the day after
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World Test Championship Final, the day after: When South Africa fell short in the T20 World Cup Final last year, it was Dan Gallan who we called upon to explain the deep hurt. So, as promised, he returns the day after a massive celebration to put into words why the Proteas' triumph means so very much. Also, an eye to Australia's "reset", which begi…
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TFW Daily - South Africa are World Champions - WTC Final, Day 4
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World Test Championship Final, Day 4: They bloody well did it. South Africa and winning finals - that hasn't been a pairing that has seen much airtime in international cricket. Things didn't look good this time around either. But after a remarkable final push, it is offical: South Africa are the World Test Champions. It matters for so many reasons,…
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TFW Daily - South Africa surely win this? - WTC Final, Day 3
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World Test Championship Final, Day 3: South Africa have looked the underdog throughout this WTC final, but halfway through the third day, that all changed. Even the torment that Starc and Hazlewood put them through with the bat was washed away, as Aiden Markram put together the innings of his life. But they're not done yet, and for South Africa, th…
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TFW Daily - Game on a knife edge - WTC Final, Day 2
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World Test Championship Final, Day 2: If Rabada fired on day one, Cummins fired back on day two, in a battle of fast-bowling quality that any preview could and should have predicted. Then it was Lungi Ngidi's turn to exert an influence, in a match hurtling towards a conclusion but that could easily go either way. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge…
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TFW Daily - Stumps splayed everywhere - WTC Final, Day 1
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World Test Championship Final, Day 1: South Africa needed to do some damage with their quick bowlers early to challenge Australia, and they did exactly that. It set up a tight contest through the day, with Lord's in fine voice, before Australia's quicks had their own say by the close. A shootout might well be on. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge…
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TFW Daily - Marnus and Hazlewood in - WTC Final, Day 0
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World Test Championship Final, Day 0: It's here. Two years of Test cricket ends with a decider at the ground where it was always designed to be when it was first dreamed up - Lord's. The teams are as ready as they're ever going to be, the XIs named, and we're ready to roll with Adam enjoying Bharat Sundaresan's company as they run through the lot o…
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Season 18, Episode 18: Cricket Australia's new CEO came ready to talk when sitting down with Adam at Lord's two days before the WTC Final. Typically at this point, we list what was discussed but this time, but it'd be easier to identify what didn't come up in one of the busiest eps we've ever recorded. What's obvious: Todd Greenberg is a man determ…
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Story Time 231 – The best player without a Cricinfo page?
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, who is the most significant Test cricketer who doesn't even have one line of a Cricinfo bio? We've got a top contender, then it's over to you. Also this week, a different twist on Pakistani marathons, the Irish-India connection, and one of the worst to w…
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After 18 long seasons, Kohli and RCB finally win one
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Season 18, Episode 17: The IPL turned 18 this year, old enough for Royal Challengers Bangalore to finally buy a celebratory drink after falling short in every season. Virat Kohli and co will be happy, as will Ben Jones in our IPL segment, after picking Krunal Pandya way back at the start of the season to be the difference. Before that, World Test C…
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Glenn Maxwell retires from ODI cricket
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Season 18, Episode 16: A special ep today – yes, Glenn Maxwell has retired from One Day International cricket. In this exclusive conversation, he explains that decision in his own words, the timing and wider context. From there, we went back to the beginning to the tell the story of Maxi the one-day mainstay, in a mighty career that in this format …
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Story Time 230 – The Malcolm Marshall LP
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, almost silent and almost deadly, was Malcolm Marshall the best to ever fire down the ball at pace? Also, when a couple of Australians went big, the one with a triple and the one who threw it away. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.15 - Liam Fallon 3.…
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