Join Max Rushden and Geoff Lemon for a weekly dose of the smartest commentary and the best analysis from the Guardian's cricket experts in both England and Australia throughout the Ashes series
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Geoff Lemon Podcasts
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
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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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The one time that Beth Mooney couldn't do it
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Season 19, Episode 15: This week, from Brunswick Street Oval in Melbourne during our TFW XI match, more Ashes chatter and chunter with Usman Khawaja stepping up to the press conference mic, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon to come back for Australia, England to deal with their batting problems in time-honoured fashion by picking the same top seven and d…
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Story Time 250 – Billy Corgan introduces decimal currency
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, Adam and Geoff get together at Stomping Ground Beer Hall to watch our TFW ale come off the canning line. After that, it's time for a tale about how a crooked priest blew his cash on one of the earliest notable first-class matches, and how the first of the first in another category…
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The week that Noosa entered cricket folklore
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Season 19, Episode 14: The Ashes players keep on dropping, with Australia and England each losing a vital bowler for the rest of the Ashes, while a backup ball-striker in Mitch Marsh retires from first-class cricket. The England team though are hanging in Noosa, where some onlookers will find that being a prankster is not as easy as most participan…
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Story Time 249 – The man who named Bodyline
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, an extraordinary figure whose efforts spanned two sports, four jobs, and the Federation of Australia. Also, a number puzzle that leads us neatly from one of the greats to one of the great moments. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 5.00 Pat McKeon 7.08 - Stephen Elliott-Nicholls …
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Starc shines for Australia as England slump again – Ashes Weekly podcast
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Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and James Wallace to discuss another humbling defeat for England as Australia took full control of the series in Brisbane, with Mitchell Starc starringBy The Guardian
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TFW Ashes Daily - Wait, you prepared too much? - 2nd Test, Brisbane wrap
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 5: We're wrapping things up from Brisbane the day after the Test, down by the church to say a prayer for England's campaign. The captain says they were weak at key moments, the coach says they tried too hard, and now they're off for more golf. How to decode this England effort? In the meantime, what does…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Resistance (if futile) - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 4: Something strange happened on the fourth day at the Gabba. Test cricket broke out. Quality defensive batting met quality probing bowling, and as the day wore on, the slight glimmer of a contest began to glow like a coal. As for the chaotic final session, let us walk you through it. A podcast from unde…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Send England home - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 3: England got the start they wanted, but then Australia played the perfect day of pink-ball cricket. Sometimes having much more experience in something really does make the difference. Mitchell Starc is finding new ways to torment the visitors, even after England's openers finally find some mojo. Tune i…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Jake Weatherald's Ashes - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 2: It's a tight one in Brisbane, with England not just soiling the bed but throwing it out the window in the first session, only to haul it back in the window and do the laundry in the third, before starting to tip things back out the window by stumps. Weatherald and Head had fun, Jofra Archer bowled som…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Joe Root versus the hex - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 1: This whole series has been set up to see Joe Root face down one giant hoodoo: can he make tons in Australia? Today, it was a familiar tale after early wickets, but the chance got closer and closer... another wild Ashes day with more Starc jaffas, some pulverising late batting blows, remarkable stupidi…
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TFW Ashes Daily - Is Pat Playing?! - 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 2nd Test, Brisbane Day 0: Is that Pat Cummins' walk-on music? Is he running into the ring? It had a wrestling feel to it at the Gabba as Steve Smith hasn't at all ruled out Australia's skipper making a shock return to the Brisbane XI from outside of the original squad. But what about Josh Inglis? Or the opening position? Or Be…
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Can England bounce back in Brisbane? – Ashes Weekly podcast
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Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Emma John and Sam Perry to preview the second Test, a day-night affair at the Gabba, with England looking to recover from their embarrassing defeat in PerthBy The Guardian
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Khawaja is out - two hours after we recorded this
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Season 19, Episode 13: With Usman Khawaja's back injury seeing him left out of the Brisbane Test, that may be it for Australia's opening bat. Not that we knew this when we recorded two hours before the announcement. So stand by for some chat from another universe when he was still in the squad and would have been in the team. Also this week, India'…
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The Final Word with Paul Marsh, ACA chief executive
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Season 19, Episode 12: The decisions made about international cricket over the next couple of years are likely to have a major influence on how the game is played for decades to come. With much on the line and much up in the air, Paul Marsh decided it was time to come back to the sport that was his first love, returning to again lead the Australian…
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Story Time 248 – Nepotism is fine when it's your brother
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're looking at shit brothers: one who genuinely was terrible, and one who might have been hard done by in the long term. Also this week, a note of appreciation for a player who is currently under the cosh, because two things can be true at the same tim…
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The Grade Cricketer x The Final Word
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Season 19, Episode 11: For years, people have asked about the BEEF between us and The Grade Cricketer. The reality is, for a decade now, we've all been in this together. So, sure enough, here's the collab ep hosted by Sam Perry and Ian Higgins in their Melbourne studio as we both forget to talk about our new books. Instead: back stories, politics, …
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Mark Wood driving to Brisbane is the only driving England is allowed
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Season 19, Episode 10: No, that's not true, they're back driving on the golf course. But we're not going to talk too much about Ashes wash-up... ok, only a little. The wider world is still waiting, where South Africa are dominating India in the second Test of their series, where there are comebacks for Final Word faves Kemar Roach and Dane van Niek…
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Story Time 247 – The best fourth-innings bat of all?
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're looking at one of the great fourth-innings players, and a player whose marks of greatness were early enough that some of the milestones have been less acknowledged. Also this week, a wild start to a belated Ranji career, Geoff's favourite subject o…
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England collapse and Travis Head steals the show – Ashes Weekly podcast
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Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and Jim Wallace to discuss a humbling defeat for England in the first Test in Perth that ended three days earlyBy The Guardian
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