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World's best cricket chat, according to people who like it. Adam Collins & Geoff Lemon plus a deep roster: Bharat Sundaresan, Daniel Norcross, Izzy Westbury, Cameron Ponsonby, Ben Jones, many more. Help us make the show: patreon.com/thefinalword
It has been announced that we’re again in the final at the ASC Media Awards for Best Sports Podcast… a chance to go back-to-back after winning it this year. We always appreciate this recognition of our work from the Sports Commission.
04.12.2025 22:51 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mitchell Starc surpasses Wasim Akram to become the most successful left-arm pacer in Test history!
Adam Collins dives in on @BBCNews during the Dinner break.
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With England going ok, you may want to read Wisden Cricket Monthly's digital Ashes edition, which is now online for free. Geoff has a piece in there.
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Moderate drinking and the social benefits that come with it are explicitly healthy by most reports. At some point it's up to people to make choices that work for them
04.12.2025 05:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Strange decisions from Australia. Not so much Neser, he's a Moneyball pick in these conditions with a sound basis. But effectively they're picking Doggett over Lyon, with a huge gulf in record, when most pink-ball matches have benefited from heavy overs of spin. It might work but it's not logical.
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Also this week, India's drubbing by South Africa, Kohli's return to century-making, and a milestone for Amanda-Jade Wellington
Emma John also joins us for her first segment on visiting Australia from the UK, supported by @TourismAus
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“The Baggy Green doesn’t hold the same pull for players now, 60% of players around the world would forego an international contract for domestic T20 competitions.”
Adam and Geoff sit down with Paul Marsh, ACA chief executive. Full interview in your podcast feeds and YouTube.
When a teenage Banjo Paterson stormed the pitch during the 1879 SCG riot!
Geoff and Adam dived into this on ABC News Breakfast with Catherine Murphy and James Glenday.
Of course, a story from Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics - out now in both Australia and the UK.
Love the fact that two of my favourite things have come together. Cricket (and @finalwordcricket.bsky.social ) with beer with The Final Word brewing a beer with Stomping Ground. Already pre-ordered a case. #beer #ozbeersky www.stompingground.beer/collections/...
26.11.2025 09:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Final Word beer is here!🍻
We have teamed up with @SGBrewCo for
a LIMITED EDITION hazy pale that’s “refreshingly crisp, juicy, and golden”- just like the show.. right? And all this in a clever TFW-style can!
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"If they can't show some humility about the way you play in Australia, about the way you play on faster, bouncier pitches, this is going to be a long, long seven weeks."
22.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 6Khawaja would also have made 50 from 37 balls
22.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Scott Boland’s Test bowling average is back down to 17
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We thought that things were going in one direction when Mitchell Starc went on a rampage through the first half of the day, but then Ben Stokes went on one himself through the back half. We are into this series with a bang!
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 1st Test, Day 0:
We've all been hearing about the Green Monster, but it looks a bit more like a cricket pitch now that we're one day out from play. Geoff and Adam are back together at Perth stadium in an unseasonably cool week
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Adam and Geoff are in London this week, where it's freezing and awful, and the dream of Perth summer beckons like a mirage. But this vision is real, as England are learning after arriving there themselves. We'll be not far behind.
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From England's hopes of an upset, Ollie Pope clinging on at No. 3 and a potential Australia debut for Jake Weatherald - @finalwordcricket.bsky.social's Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon join #SwitchHit to look ahead to the Ashes 🎧
11.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Australia is definitely gonna win the WBBL
09.11.2025 12:03 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0JAKE WEATHERALD’S ASHES
05.11.2025 00:52 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pakistan's one oversight in taking seven early Australian wickets is that Beth Mooney wasn't one of them
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Asia Cup drama gets worse. IPL/BBL flirting raises talk of "Mumbai Melbourne" & "Rising Sydney Super Giants." Also this week: Adam’s best county match, Maxwell’s Vic ton, Aus/Ind WODIs & Cummins’ $50M climate deal.
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Sikandar Raza, one of our best ever guests, is now ICC’s No.1 ODI allrounder!
Back in 2022 we sat with him to learn his story, one of the most compelling in the game — from fighter pilot training, to now being on top.
GO YOU GOOD THING!
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If the Aussie skipper and strike bowler is not fit for a home Ashes, suddenly everything changes. Also this week, Mitchell Starc's retirement, Jamie Overton quits red-ball cricket, and much more only on our latest episode!
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It's Story Time!
This week, Adam and Geoff are back to normal with a few great tales and a major statistical quirk: how can the most frequent one-day score also be so unlikely, and how did one Australian number become an Indian nemesis?
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Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured. Is there an emerging problem for Aussie quicks? Pujara retires from all Indian cricket, Ashwin leaves the IPL, and India's board makes a mess of organising a World Cup.
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It’s Story Time!
Our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges — completes the set this week: we’ve now had every current member of our Sleuth Group on the show as we catch up with Sean McGivern in his home town of Edinburgh.
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Jacob Bethell as England Captain?! And what’s the deal with Beau Webster? Dive into the latest Weekly for all the answers.
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