Guess who forgot to post the episode to Patreon last week? It was... Adam, let's blame him. Yes. But you probably already found Season 11, Ep 7:
With a new COVID variant causing panic in the ranks, the ICC cancelled its Women's World Cup qualifier that was under...
2021-12-06 23:31:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 11, Ep 6: There was one main story this week: another Australian captain resigning, claims and counterclaims, and a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. We sit down with The Age's Daniel Brettig to find some more clarity in the tale. Also this week: Nerd Pledge is b...
2021-11-26 06:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back with some live shows in Australia this summer, when and where we can fit them in. Apologies to Brisbane and Perth, where quarantine requirements make it impossible.
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Season 11, Ep 5: The normal show returns, and it couldn't have been a more important week in which to do it. This is the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a UK parliamentary hearing shook cricket, after years of him reporting racist conduct to players at Yorkshire have been di...
2021-11-18 06:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
At the time of sending, in Week 2 of November. Australia and New Zealand are less than two hours away from the T20 World Cup final. Two unexpected finalists, with a lot of repeat players from 2015 at the So Big MCG. We've been busy during the week on the World Cup Daily for a couple of belting se...
2021-11-14 12:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Week one of November, and how did that happen so soon? This embedded video from last weekend is not to further trouble those watching the tournament from Australia, but to acknowledge one small but special moment. Namely:
2021-11-07 02:26:25 +0000 UTC
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Yes, it's well into stride. If you didn't catch the first episode, which Winnie gatecrashed after banging on the door for long enough to be let outside where Adam was filming, then you have some adorableness to catch up on.
The Daily will be a multi-handed effort, with Daniel Norcross...
2021-10-28 13:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 11, Ep 4: Four wickets in four balls. The talking point of the cricket week, after Curtis Campher did it for Ireland. Scotland also had a win after a huge comeback, so we got Matt Roller from Cricinfo to make his Final Word debut, telling us all about the early T20 World C...
2021-10-20 14:51:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 11, Ep 3: With Adam on holiday, his spot for this week's show was taken by the delightful Ben Jones, the CricViz whiz-kid - and just in time for IPL finals week. And yes, we should have posted this episode here before the final happened, but still - if you're interested in...
2021-10-17 01:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sightings of trademarked Ashes Bantz, dragging themselves from hibernation and buzzing obnoxiously into view...
2021-10-08 06:53:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 11, Ep 1: Time to kick off a new season, as cricket begins again in Australia. The audio is here.
A huge omnibus show after a busy week in the game. We saw two all-...
2021-09-29 16:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 22: First of all, let's manage expectations. She's 16 years old, very shy, just home from school, and talking to us via translation from French, thanks to her national vice-captain Cynerah Dibande. So this chat is brief and breezy. But it's lovely to see where crick...
2021-09-22 06:28:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 21: Australia has cancelled on Afghanistan - not formally but in effect - to protest the Taliban's destructive attitudes to women. But identifying the right thing to do is difficult, given that choice also means abandoning Afghanistan's people to extremist rulers. R...
2021-09-17 10:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
... is over for now, with the 5th Test at Old Trafford cancelled before it began. We talk about that whole *gestures wildly* thing in the video up top, or the audio 2021-09-11 11:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 19: Happy Birthday Sachin is back in a big way, in a temporarily upside-down episode. There's a 7 in the morning now? The Australian summer is upside down, with the women's series against India suddenly moved to the Sunshine State. Plus all the &nb...
2021-09-03 15:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 18: It's far from the most important question facing the country. But given that Afghanistan's cricket team has been a consistent good-news story for the last couple of dec...
2021-08-27 13:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 17: Astonishing news for The Final Word this week: Adam had a holiday. The first time he's missed in 362 shows. Daniel Norcross fills in with Geoff, and luxuriates in recalling the glorious last day of the England-India Test at Lord's, as well as the las...
2021-08-20 06:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the show, in a roundabout way, having spoken to Geoff for a Guardian interview about his book that we thought TFW listener...
2021-08-11 06:47:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 15: Most of were kids who dreamed of being rock stars. None of us had the single-minded determination to set about making it happen. Felix did, taking a bunch of mates at uni in Bristol to No.1 on the UK charts with the Maccabees. What's even more unexpected is the ...
2021-08-05 09:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 14: Like it, hate it, or ignore it, The Hundred is... hunderway? The stakes are high. The bills are high. So is the risk of a stumble. Henry Moeran has been watching more of the actual cricket than anyone, leading the BBC radio coverage. He joins The Final Word to t...
2021-07-29 13:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Going behind the scenes, plus an extra serving. For most people twice a week is adequate, but maybe some special ones are fiending for more TFW?
After interviewing Clare Connor last week, all the cricket chat that we had already recorded felt pretty superfluous. It got cut.
But we kno...
2021-07-26 14:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 13: From captaining boys' under-10s to captaining England goes the story. But retiring as a player brought much more. By now it's fair to say that no one person has driven as much progress for women in cricket as Clare Connor. Through the ECB and ICC, this is the st...
2021-07-22 11:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Episode 12: It can be hard to follow Justin Langer's line of logic. The Australian men's coach has an extempore media style that over time can veer into inconsistency. After enough misgivings about his coaching style to prompt a formal review, and after talk about embr...
2021-07-14 13:09:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Episode 11: Remember when England's whole team got COVID? Or something like that, everyone was watching football. That's why we got Will Macpherson on the show to tell us about England having to quarantine a squad who caught the bug at home, after pulling out of trips ...
2021-07-08 13:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 10: Welcome to July! We've talked about it, argued about it, and done some hand-wringing about it, so now it's time to look at the subject in detail. What is happening with slow (and ever slowing) over rates? Does it matter? Why or why not? What is happening, ...
2021-07-01 10:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The biggest six-day three-day event in cricket came to an end this week, and we were all over it like a Las Vegas buffet. Congratulations to New Zealand, and we hope our Kiwi supporting listeners are enjoying this week's warm glowing warming glow. All of our TFW Daily shows are up on the video tu...
2021-06-25 11:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post
There are a lot of DKs in cricket these days. Delissa Kimmince. Dinesh Karthik. Davis Karashani Arinaitwe, who has torn up some batting line-ups for Uganda. But the original will always be Dennis Keith Lillee. The other week on the show we mentioned a photo of a young Shane Fagg, decades before h...
2021-06-22 12:27:14 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been watching the England-India women's Test, you may have noticed a familiar voice on commentary. Adam has been calling the match for Sky and doing an excellent job. Geoff is now living out his dream of being able to directly message disagreements to commentators while watching the TV....
2021-06-18 05:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 7: Vish joins the show in a busy week in England after Ollie Robinson was suspended following his Test debut. We talk through the purpose of his suspension, his history of racist jokes, and what part is played by age – either of the comments themselves or the pers...
2021-06-09 06:34:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Another large week has begun. We decided spur of the moment to do the Final Word Daily for the England-NZ Test at Lord's, because why not with Adam at the ground and Geoff in lockdown for those 5am finishes. The video is above, the audio 2021-06-03 03:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post