

The Final Word Cricket Podcast
Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon
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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Nov 2, 2025 • 44min
TFW Daily - History for India - Women's World Cup Day 34, the final
Women’s World Cup 2025, Day 34, the final, India South Africa: After two iconic semi-finals, the double underdogs that triumphed in those contests moved to the final chapter of the tournament. And if you thought the Jemimah Rodrigues story was a good one, the Shafali Verma comeback tale gives it a run for its money. A starring influence with bat and ball saw her give Harmanpreet Kaur's team the advantage in one innings, then the other, while the South Africans battled hard with Laura Wolvaardt again leading from the front. A historic day in Mumbai.
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Nov 1, 2025 • 28min
TFW Daily - Women's World Cup final preview - India South Africa
Women’s World Cup final preview, South Africa India: It’s the big one, and it’s the matchup that nobody expected. Both of these teams pulled out astonishing semi-final performances, but who can repeat the dose? Will India ride the hometown wave, or will it all be too overbearing? Can South Africa, after such a disastrous opening to the tournament, make this the greatest cricketing year in their proud history? Firdose Moonda joins Geoff Lemon.
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Oct 30, 2025 • 45min
TFW Daily - The greatest chase - Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia
Women’s World Cup Semi Final 2, India Australia: Two duelling hundreds between Phoebe Litchfield and Jemimah Rodrigues lit up an already electric atmosphere at a sold out semi final in Navi Mumbai. It was a night for breaking records, thrilling batting, and jaw-dropping cricket as both teams left it all out on the field. Firdose Moonda joins Geoff Lemon.
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Oct 29, 2025 • 38min
TFW Daily – The innings of a lifetime - Women’s World Cup Semi-Final 1, South Africa England
Women’s World Cup Day 30, 1st semi-final, South Africa England: After England humiliated South Africa to open the tournament, this knockout rematch was always going to be spicy. What nobody anticipated was an innings for the ages by Laura Wolvaardt, one that will never be forgotten. Firdose Moonda joins Geoff Lemon.
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Oct 29, 2025 • 1h 1min
Is it Weatherald versus Renshaw now to open the batting?
Season 19, Episode 4: The women's World Cup semis are around the corner, so first up it's time to run the rule over the four remaining teams, and get a sense of what might happen and what might not between England, South Africa, India and Australia. Also this week, Pat Cummins is confirmed to miss the first Ashes Test, Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon to offer informed theories about what might follow that, while the rest of the field jockeys for position.
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Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy.
For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here.
For Melbourne, just roll up.
Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
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Oct 28, 2025 • 1h 24min
Story Time 245 – 1990s Australia is another country
It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, an inadvertent detour into just how distant the 1990s version of Australia feels from today, in maturity and tone and the possibility of change. The reconciliation journey that stalled, the television broadcasts that foundered, and the scope that narrowed. Also this week, the first burst of many from a burst expert, and the puzzling world of cricket slash fiction.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
2.61 - Jeffrey Gabriel
5.23 - Nick Donovan
4.60 - Anna Forsyth
9.10 - Leigh Couchman
Pre-order your copy of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: linktr.ee/tfwbook
Our book launches are in London, November 10 at the Jolly Gardeners in Vahxuall, and Melbourne, November 27 at the Commercial Club in Fitzroy.
For London, RSVP to matt.thacker@forwardpress or grab a spot here.
For Melbourne, just roll up.
Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword
Learn about Lacuna Sports - bespoke female cricket wear, created by women for women: lacunasports.co.uk
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Oct 27, 2025 • 21min
TFW Daily - Can India now push Australia? - Women's World Cup Day 27, Eng NZ + India Bang
Women's World Cup Day 27, England New Zealand & India Bangladesh: Not a day they will be making a commemorative DVD from, it is fair to say. Appropriately enough, it ended in yet another washout after England did as you might expect to New Zealand who were already eliminated, sad as that will be for Sophie Devine playing her final ODI. It's Daniel Norcross and Firdose Moonda with you as we now look ahead to the business end.
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Oct 26, 2025 • 30min
TFW Daily - Alana King’s astonishing 7fa - Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia South Africa
Women's World Cup Day 26, Australia v South Africa: What a performance, what a bowler. Alana King’s 7 for 18 defined Australia’s annihilation of South Africa, making sure the best team in the world will qualify in top spot for the pointy end of the tournament. Firdose Moonda and Daniel Norcross watched the magician at work.
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Oct 25, 2025 • 38min
TFW Daily - Virat and Rohit light up one last time - Australia India, 3rd ODI, Sydney
TFW Daily, Australia India 3rd ODI, Sydney: For one last time in Australia, the old partnership did it again. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scoured back the rust and wound back the clock with a vintage partnership that set the SCG alight. Just as well, in a game that had its flat points thanks to an indifferent Australian performance, but in the end it was all about the star power - and Ravi Shastri's metaphors. Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon.
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Oct 24, 2025 • 22min
TFW Daily - Zero scrutiny of washout shambles - Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka Pakistan
Women's World Cup Day 25, Sri Lanka v Pakistan: Another washout. Another one. What a shambles. It makes three abandoned games each for Sri Lanka and Pakistan as their tournaments end with 26 balls in Colombo. Adam has Andrew Fidel Fernando with him to lament just how a significant portion of this marquee tournament was somehow scheduled in a monsoon season.
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