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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, 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 NordVPN discount: https://nordvpn.com/tfw
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cricket's current arguments and buried stories meet in conversations that make scorecards, selection decisions and sporting memory feel connected.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast treats cricket as both a live argument and a deep store of memory. Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon range from international results and domestic competitions to player auctions, coaching decisions and the legal questions surrounding team selection.
A Susie Bates headline turns into a grandfather paradox; your cricket brain gets the scenic route.
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A grounded pathway story about a batter who has forced England to take notice.
Asa Tribe is framed as a proper rise story: a Glamorgan and Jersey batsman who put together a breakout 2025, earned an England Lions call, and drew the sort of notice that can follow a first-class hundred in Australia.
England beat Pakistan, but the bigger question is whether this side is really worth trusting.
England's win over Pakistan gives this episode its frame, but the stronger pull is the argument over what this England side actually is. Harry Brook's 100 off 51 balls at number three carries the chase, and the rest of the scorecard never really catches him.
A steady cricket conversation about a Test debut, internal pressure, and how one spell changes in hindsight.
The piece follows a bowler's Test debut and keeps its attention on a simple tension: the day may have looked better in hindsight than it felt while it was happening. He comes across as settled going in, sure he had earned the spot, but the pressure sits mostly inside him.
A busy cricket week, with wins, records, detours, and dry edge.
Adam Collins and Jeff Lemon work through a crowded cricket week, moving from Australia's strong women's Test win over India to New Zealand's one-day win over Zimbabwe, with a few women's cricket records folded in along the way. The pace stays busy.
A testimonial, a comeback question, and enough 90s cricket theatre to keep the scorebook open.
It follows a cricketer's testimonial at the MCG, where media pressure to unretire and return to the Aussie team complicates what should have been a simple celebration.
A dry tour story that turns a double hundred and a wrong wicket into folklore.
Story Time 262 opens with a county-lines warning, then settles into the familiar Final Word mix of banter, housekeeping, and a long cricket-history digression.
Odd-number banter, cap-trivia framing, and a dry junior-cricket comeback.
Story Time 261 opens by leaning into 261 itself, with Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross setting the number up before the episode moves on to Freddie Brown and a listener's North Nowra junior-cricket tale.
A record-book cricket chat that drifts through jokes, hair, and giant scores.
Story Time 260 opens with a joke about the number 260 before settling into cricket talk, with a strange three-way call, hair, and an ongoing fascination with records and odd little details.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket analysis with the lid off.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
The hosts analyze day two of the Australia vs.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast daily on T20 World Cup 2026, Day 23 centers on India chasing 196 against West Indies and Sanju Samson making 97 off 50.
South Africa reached the semifinals with six wins from six, while Zimbabwe's loss to India kept India alive for a decisive meeting with West Indies in Kolkata.
Claire Connor explains why she is leaving the ECB after 18 years, calling the decision “agonizing” and saying she wants to see who she is beyond cricket administration.
Adam Collins and Will McPherson record from the Oval on 3 March, exactly one month before the season starts on Good Friday, 3 April.
The episode opens with a county lines warning that describes a young person receiving trainers, a new iPhone, and an e-bike before being threatened about a little sister’s school routine.
India beat England by seven runs in a T20 World Cup semi-final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai after a 499-run match.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast daily covers Australia women versus India women at the WACA, where only about an hour and a half of play left Bharat Sundaresan and Daniel Norcross with a 10-wicket result to discuss.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast on 24 February focuses on Australia’s Olympic cricket path, with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon explaining how World Cup results and rankings could affect qualification.
New Zealand beat South Africa by nine wickets in 12.5 overs at a World Cup semi-final, chasing 173 with 10 sixes and 9 wickets in hand.
The show opens with a county lines warning and the usual sponsor-and-housekeeping sprawl before the cricket talk properly kicks in.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast closes its Men's T20 World Cup coverage with India beating New Zealand in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium and finishing on 255 for 5.
Story Time 262 starts with a county-lines warning, then Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross settle into their familiar back-and-forth.
Adam Collins sits down with Asa Tribe.
The Final Word opens with a county lines warning, then drifts into travel purgatory and the small relief of knowing the host is actually there.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast opens with a week already running hot.
Story Time 261 starts by teasing the number itself.
Show 260 opens with a number joke.
Adam Collins and Jeff Lemmon open Storytime 259 with the usual mix of number jokes, sponsor chatter, and housekeeping.
The Final Word stays in its familiar lane: cricket talk that begins as banter and settles into something useful.
The bowler talks through the mixed feelings around his first Test appearance.
Adam Collins is joined by Shannon Gill and Koby to unpack a testimonial game and the awkward pressure around a retirement, years after the fact.
Adam Collins and Andrew Fidel Fernando analyze Sri Lanka's crushing defeat to New Zealand in the T20 World Cup, highlighting Mitchell Santner's match-winning innings and Sri Lanka's batting collapse.
Adam Collins and Daniel Norcross open with their usual loose, live-wire banter before the cricket history takes over.
West Indies hit 254 for 6 against Zimbabwe, with Shimron Hetmyer making 85 off 34 balls, Rovman Powell scoring 59 off 35, and Shefane Rutherford adding 31 in 13.
The Final Word Cricket Podcast episode on Australia v India Women’s Test 2026 centers on a scrappy first day at the WACA, where India were 198 all out and Australia finished with pressure still on the visitors.
Adam Collins and Andrew Fidel Fernando frame the T20 World Cup 2026 final as India’s test of nerve at Ahmedabad, where 80,000 fans and a home crowd expectation hang over Suryakumar Yadav’s first final as captain.
England beat Pakistan, and the obvious question comes up straight away.
South Africa beat India by 76 runs in Ahmedabad after posting 187 for 7 and bowling India out for 111 in the 19th over.
Jeff Lemon and Andrew Fidel Fernando break down England's three-wicket win over New Zealand in Colombo, where a chase that looked shaky was rescued by Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed.
The episode analyzes Pakistan's T20 World Cup loss to Sri Lanka, focusing on their batting collapse after a strong start, Syed Zardar Farhan's record-breaking innings, and a controversial umpiring decision that denied Sri Lanka a last-ball win.
A cricket podcast discussing county championship matches, player awards, and cricket news with analysis and irreverence.
A cricket podcast discussing match analysis, history, and interviews with a focus on independent coverage.
The episode previews the 2026 county championship season and features an interview with Middlesex bowler Toby Roland-Jones.
A cricket podcast offering match analysis, irreverent commentary, and interviews, with a focus on making the sport accessible to all.
Adam Collins and Bharat Sundaresan analyze Australia's final group stage match against Oman in the T20 World Cup, discussing their disappointing exit.
This episode covers recent cricket news, including interviews with Heather Knight and Glenn Maxwell, and discussions on various T20 leagues around the world.
Interview with England fast bowler Sonny Baker about his career, experiences, and future prospects.
Adam Collins introduces a book club episode featuring Pat Rogers' biography of cricketer Sid Emery from the golden age of cricket.
The hosts discuss the upcoming T20 World Cup, squad announcements, and a major news story from India that could affect the tournament.
A cricket podcast Christmas special featuring an interview with comedian Andy Zaltzman, blending match analysis with irreverent banter and cultural observations.