The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon

Covering cricket around the globe

  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    TFW Film Club – Ange and the Boss, with Tony Wilson

    A variation on our Book Club, this time we turn to film with a man well known to Final Word listeners, Tony Wilson. We change sports too, to (round ball) football. Why? The tale of Ange Postecoglou is fascinating one, and the influence of all-time great Ferenc Puskás - when they combined together at South Melbourne in the ‘90s - is central to it. With Cam Fink having shot and edited Ange and the Boss, who has also worked with us on many Final Word mission, this felt like a perfect fit. A joyous story with Melbourne migration at its core.


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    10 March 2025, 4:00 pm
  • 44 minutes 10 seconds
    TFW Daily - India had to win this trophy - Champions Trophy Final, India New Zealand

    Champions Trophy Final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: A tournament tailor-made for Indian success has ended with just that, the best team getting the trophy they came to the UAE for. The Black Caps earned themselves a route to victory with their spinners after dark, but they just didn't have enough runs. Daniel Norcross and Danyal Rasool recap the Dubai decider.


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    9 March 2025, 5:40 pm
  • 34 minutes 52 seconds
    TFW Daily - Surely India can't botch this one? - Champions Trophy Final preview, India v New Zealand

    Champions Trophy Final preview semi-final, India v New Zealand, Dubai: The time has come. A tournament on a platter for the men in blue, they simply must stick the landing against the Black Caps, right? Andrew Fidel Fernando is at Dubai Sports City, and having heard the pre-game press conferences, he's with Daniel Norcross to preview the big one!


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    8 March 2025, 5:08 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    Story Time 218 – Shane Warne helped my wife with the pond

    It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we're obviously going to end up at Shane Warne's sideline as a handyman, but before we get there it's going to be a meander through several facets of the career of someone who ended up on the wicket tally right behind him, and another of somebody who should have had a Test tally closer to those two than the number he ended up with.


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    8.96 - Lesley M

    6.00 - David Martin

    4.90 - Miranda Debeljakovic


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    7 March 2025, 3:41 am
  • 28 minutes 7 seconds
    TFW Daily - NZ trounce South Africa... India awaits - Champions Trophy 2nd semi-final, New Zealand South Africa

    Champions Trophy 2nd semi-final, New Zealand v South Africa, Lahore: What a performance from the Black Caps with the bat, storming into another ICC trophy decider against India. At Lahore, we have Danyal Rasool from cricinfo, and he's joining Cameron Ponsonby.


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    5 March 2025, 6:09 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Kuhnemann in the clear

    Season 17, Ep 27: While the Champions Trophy semi-finals happen around us, Adam and Geoff try to stay focused on the rest of the week's matters at hand. Jos Buttler finally gives up the eternal sadness of England captaincy, Matt Kuhnemann gets cleared by the University of Western Australia (don't start with us), Cam Green is held back from the Shield, David Boon joins the CA board, Jimmy Anderson signs up for The Hundred, and Australia's women gear up for yet another tour of New Zealand.


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    5.74 - Jacob Norton


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    5 March 2025, 6:21 am
  • 24 minutes 47 seconds
    TFW Daily - India pushed by Aussies, but too strong when it mattered - Champions Trophy 1st semi-final, India Australia

    Champions Trophy 1st semi-final, India v Australia, Dubai: Australia changed their blueprint and their attack but neither quite worked as India did enough with the ball and had too much depth with the bat, advancing to the final with Virat Kohli front and centre. In the thick of things at Dubai Sports City for us, it's Daniel Norcross with Andrew Fidel Fernando.


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    4 March 2025, 4:48 pm
  • 36 minutes 42 seconds
    TFW Daily - India out for revenge against depleted Australia - Champions Trophy 13, semi-final preview

    Champions Trophy Day 13, semi-final preview: Everyone is where they need to be for the final stages of this tournament, with Australia's configuration the main point of interest - the underdogs by any measure in Dubai against India on Tuesday. From there, it'll be South Africa and New Zealand duking it out in Lahore on Wednesday. Might it be the Proteas against the men in blue as it was in last year's T20 decider? Daniel Norcross and Andrew Fidel Fernando have plenty to chew over in their preview of what is to come.


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    3 March 2025, 5:03 pm
  • 24 minutes 37 seconds
    TFW Daily - India book mega Australian semi with NZ win - Champions Trophy 12, England South Africa

    Champions Trophy Day 12, India v New Zealand, Dubai: We knew who had made the final four of this tournament, but now - after India flexed their muscles in an impressive bowling performance against New Zealand - it's clear who gets who in the semis. Daniel Norcross and Andrew Fidel Fernando are on duty for the final game of the group stage in the UAE.


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    2 March 2025, 5:53 pm
  • 30 minutes 8 seconds
    TFW Daily - Proteas are through; England save their worst for last - Champions Trophy 11, England South Africa

    Champions Trophy Day 11, England v South Africa, Karachi: South Africa have successfully made it through to another semi-final, annihilating Jos Buttler’s sorry side on his final day in charge. To work through it all, we have Danyal Rasool at the National Stadium in Karachi joining Cameron Ponsonby.


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    1 March 2025, 6:07 pm
  • 1 hour 30 minutes
    StoryTime 217 – The Leadbeater possum lights a dart

    It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we head to South Africa for the first big explosion in a career of big explosions, we pop by Headingley and the MCG for a career that was something more than what might have been, head through India and the West Indies for a career of frustration that finally had its fulfilment, and go back to Western Australia for something that definitely happened at the wrong time.


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    8.61 - Sami Dowd

    5.56 - Jack Hughes

    71.43 - Ken Edwards

    1.04 - Michael Fallon


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    1 March 2025, 4:51 am
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