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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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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The Final Word with Benny Howell: ADHD and pro cricket
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Season 18, Episode 24: The Hundred is here – a competition that divides opinion and likely always will. But what do the players think? Especially those who’ve made careers in the shorter forms? Benny Howell is one of them. At the start of his journey he was an opening bat, but over the last decade or more he’s been the man with a million slower bal…
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TFW Daily - Looking back at the Anderson-Tendulkar jamboree
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 6: It's all over bar the podcast reviews. A intense few weeks with 25 days of Test cricket, much of high quality, some of it less so, but all of it entertaining. Daniel Norcross has been your steadfast guide through those weeks, and joins Geoff Lemon for an outside view of what has been a truly memorable…
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TFW Daily - Siraj and Woakes in thrilling finish - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 5
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 5: A series as good as this deserved a finish as good as this. It should have been a stroll for England on the final day, needing 35 runs with four wickets in hand - even if one of those wickets was Chris Woakes with his arm in a sling. The fact that Woakes had to walk out to bat will tell you that thing…
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TFW Daily - One final stanza remains - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 4
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 4: So we go to Day 25 of the series, with 35 runs or 3 wickets to decide the fate of the series. Unless Chris Woakes can bat? For most of Day 4 it looked like another England miracle was panning out, thanks largely to Harry Brook and Joe Root, as Mohammed Siraj and company toiled. But with wickets fallin…
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TFW Daily - Can the Bazballers do it? - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 3
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 3: It was Yashasvi Jaiswal’s day at The Oval, as India pressed home the advantage of a weakened and inexperienced England attack. What a knock from the opener. 50s from Akash Deep and Ravindra Jadeja, and late fireworks from Washington Sundar kept the foot on the throat of the weary hosts. And to top it …
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TFW Daily - Bonkers/brilliant Test Cricket - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 2
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 2: An emotional day at The Oval, honouring recently departed legend Graham Thorpe, saw some of the most riveting passages of a gripping series. Momentum swung back and forth as runs came quickly and wickets fell in clusters. But which team has the upper hand? And will the tension boil over on what should…
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TFW Daily - Spicy deck fun - England India 5th Test, The Oval Day 1
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England India Daily, 5th Test, The Oval, Day 1: Rain threatened to spoil the party, then an extended final session saw plenty happen for both teams before the close, but what is a good score on a pitch offering plenty? A wild but rewarding return for Josh Tongue, but a concerning end for Chris Woakes, who was in significant pain from a shoulder inj…
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TFW Daily - Stokes out, Bumrah maybe - England India 5th Test, The Oval preview
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Review: They're dropping like flies after 20 days of Test cricket in this series. Ben Stokes had his arm fall off, Jofra Archer and Brydon Carse won't bowl for England, Rishabh Pant will miss for India, and Jasprit Bumrah will be a morning-one decision. Adam and Daniel Norcross look at all the permutation…
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Olympic pathway is set, as Tests are pushed further back
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Season 18, Episode 23: With each meeting of the ICC board, the direction of travel becomes clearer. Two tiers of Test cricket, with less time to play it, thanks to the return of the Champions League, the likely sale of the Big Bash, and the upcoming focus on Olympic qualifiers - all of that is now more likely, as the reports come in and the working…
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TFW Daily - Tensions high after bitter end - England India 4th Test, Old Trafford aftermath
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 6: The reactions to the final hour of play at Old Trafford have been plentiful and wild. We take a deep dive into what this means for the upcoming fifth Test on Thursday. Firstly, who shook whose hand and when? What could have been done differently to end yesterday’s game? And who will England choose …
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TFW Daily - Defiant India keep series alive– England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 5
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 5: How did India turn this around? After losing two wickets in the opening over, only two more were lost across five sessions and 143 overs. Why is England so ineffective with the old ball? And will it be three new quick bowlers for The Oval? And will the bitter ending, as Ravindra Jadeja and Washingt…
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TFW Daily - Rahul and Gill cling on – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 4
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 4: KL Rahul and Shubman Gill dug in after the series looked over when losing two immediate wickets in their second dig. Can they keep India’s series hopes alive tomorrow? Ben Stokes scored a typically pugilistic century, but at what cost to his fitness? Will he be able to bowl tomorrow? With the serie…
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TFW Daily - Root sets course for Tendulkar – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 3
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 3: Joe Root moved into second spot on the list of all-time Test run-makers on a day where India’s bowlers toiled. What has changed in England’s batting mindset this series? And how do you explain the diminishing returns of Jasprit Bumrahagainst the top-order? The day belongs to Root, with his 150 taki…
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TFW Daily - Stokes the machine - England India, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 2
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 2: Zak Crawley continued his love of the Old Trafford pitch as he and Ben Duckett set up a potential first innings lead for England, but can they arrest their aversion to centuries? India’s bowlers shook off a sleepy start to finish the day strongly, however, and Jasprit Bumrah (who else) caused troub…
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TFW Daily – Rishabh injury sours first day – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 1
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Day 1: A return to the more familiar slate skies of cricket in England, but will India’s mood be made greyer by the foot injury to their talisman Rishabh Pant? A hard-fought day, but who ended up on top? It was a rewarding one for Sai Sudharshan and Liam Dawson, and tomorrow shapes as pivotal with Ravindr…
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TFW Daily – Bumrah plays, Touchpaper lit – England India 4th Test, Old Trafford, Preview
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England India Daily, 4th Test, Old Trafford Preview: How is the better team down 2-1 in this series? This Test is massive, and India has reinforced the point by selecting Jasprit Bumrah for the third time this series. We mythbust the Old Trafford pitch and wonder if that means India revert to Ravindra Jadeja as the sole spinner. And what about the …
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TFW Book Club - Max Bonnell on the 1964 Ashes
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As Max Bonnell details early on in his new book Brick by Brick, the Australian Cricketers in England 1964, the Ashes series of that summer gets a pretty bad rap. To an extent, that’s understandable given only one of the five Tests had a winner and one of the draws, the Old Trafford batathon, is seen as an emblem of where much of that decade was les…
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