The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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.

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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. 

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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.

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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!

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7.02 - Matt Smith.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross preview the 1st Test match between England and South Africa at Lord's

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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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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pakistan and Barbados crash out! Australia beat Pakistan comfortably, winning by 44 runs. Then India thumped Barbados, winning by 100 runs.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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48.00 - Kennedy H. Ross

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Sri Lanka levelled out the series after beating Australia by an innings and 39 runs. 

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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. 

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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.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:

1.61 - Mary Stevens & Patch Clapp

2.49 - Daniel Hill

3.50 - Jim Locke, Steve Moore & Brook Quinn

1.50 - Luke Kneebone

1.58 - Darcy Matthews

2.13 - Rahul Venkat

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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.

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Marcus Labuschagne and Steve Smith scored centuries as Australia dominate day one in Galle

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Maxi might be back! We know it's a long shot, but this time it might actually happen.

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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.

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10.11 - Tim Clarsen

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England broke another recording. They completed a record chase of 378 to beat India in Birmingham.

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England scored 259 runs off 57 overs and need 119 runs to win the match.

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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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Jonny Bairstow scored another century this summer. But it wasn't enough to stop India from taking control of this match in the Midlands.

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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.

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England put India on the back foot, but Rishabh Pant and Ravindran Jadeja's stellar partnership pulled them back into the match.

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Australia are 1-0 up in the series after beating Sri Lanka by 10 wickets

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Australia are on top in Galle; they lead Sri Lanka by 101 runs.

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