The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Season 15, Episode 15: The Perth Test is coming, and once again the local authorities are apparently worried about whether people will show up unless JL waves the sceptre. One person on the way out is WACA boss Christina Matthews, soon to end her long tenure. Shan Masood makes a double ton as Pakistan's new skipper while Matthew Renshaw tons up in the PM's XI runfest. Rain wrecks the Big Bash, Amazon hoovers up yet more property with a broadcast rights deal, Lou Vincent gets a reprieve, and there is damp cricket from all over the world.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:7.20 - Jessica CurrieSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordGet Sydney live show tickets for for 7 JanuarySort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthdayGet involved with the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon for the Lord's TavernersAll at linktr.ee/thefinalwordFor a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfwYou can also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, with Geoff and Adam away from the desk it's Daniel Norcross and Bharat Sundaresan in charge - the first ep in Story Time history with not one but two summer newsreaders. What did they get up to? I'm looking forward to finding out when listening to the episode myself. What I know is they spoke for nearly two hours, which can only be a good thing.Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:8.38 - Yvann Stephens5.03 - Matthew Price6.55 - Hayden2.57 - Robert Cocking & Dave McRobbieGet tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greatest Season That Was, Episode 4 – Andrew Flower: It never got better for Zimbabwe than their run at the 1999 World Cup, storming into the Super Six stage after thrilling wins over South Africa and India. Their star wicketkeeper-bat from that memorable campaign, Andy Flower, joined us for an extensive and tender conversation about the tournament, his homeland, and his career's abrupt end at the next World Cup. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports).Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 15, Episode 14: A short ep, but a very sweet one too. A conversation with Neil and Joy Maxwell – the parents of you know who. Recorded in the family home where Glenn grew up in South Belgrave, this will give you a sense of how it is riding the wave of his career from their unique perspective, and the thrill of what it’s like for them when everything clicks – as it did so spectacularly against Afghanistan during the World Cup. Lovely people. Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 15, Episode 13: Mitchell Johnson can still steam in - which he did this week, aiming some pelters at David Warner and George Bailey. But perhaps his perspective has more nuanced picture than has been presented? What is not nuanced is that Pakistan's cricket political brawling is a disaster - hello and goodbye again to Salman Butt. Adelaide win the WBBL final inspired by Amanda Wellington, Glenn Maxwell signs off from India with one more wild ton, and is now heading to the Corner Hotel for our live show, and there were two boilovers in women's cricket from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Plus a hectic Shield round - Lawrence Neil-Smith is coming for your batters.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:3.80 - Les CorsonSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordGet Sydney live show tickets for for 7 January.https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordSort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthdaywww.cbussuper.com.auRun the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or part of it) for the Lord's Tavernerswww.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the creation and fate of the Adelaide Oval rollercoaster, and the rollercoaster that was the CAXI. A look at a West Indies star turn that did not belong to Brian Lara, the carnage of Argentina and Chile, Murali takes on a non-fave, and what truly constitutes a diamond duck, as Adam prepares his future best-selling book on Will Bosisto.Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:2.41 - Evan Granger18.89 - Nick Ibis14.10 - Chris Unwin12.32 - Glenn Finkelde3.75 - Anirban4.27 - Jim AllenGet tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordFor a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfwYou can also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan Liebke - The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian CricketDan Liebke emerged as a cricket satirist in what we might with hindsight call Twitter's glory days. From being Fake Nathan Hauritz to writing jokes in his own name, he has been a staple of that peculiar part of the internet. He has become a prolific author too, especially around Christmas, and this time it's ‘The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket.’ As a long-term believer that funny cricket is better than good cricket, this is the book he was destined to write and it’s great to have a good friend back with us for the third edition of TFW Book Club.Get the book: http://liebcricket.com/100funniestGet tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 15, Episode 12: So it comes down to Mitchell Marsh vs Cameron Green - but does it make sense for David Warner to get his preferred farewell instead of making space in the Test XI against Pakistan? It's one question with Australia's Test summer around the corner. The T20 side is still in India instead of having a ticker-tape parade at home, where WBBL finals are about to start. Meanwhile, it's silly season in the IPL, the next England summer has started taking shape, and the most important cricket this week is being played in Namibia, where Zimababwe are likely to miss next year's T20 World Cup.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:7.04 - Sheahan ArnottGet tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greatest Season That Was, Episode 3 – Alec Stewart: Back to the 1999 World Cup, this is the sorry story of the home team. England’s captain of the day, Alec Stewart was our forthright guest, who didn’t miss targeting what went wrong when they failed to make it out of the group – famously, eliminated before the official tournament song was officially released. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports).Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January:https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordWelcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus a man celebrated as one of the game's best captains. Modern England didn't invent nothing that Cyril Washbrook didn't already have covered, and there's the path from Blocker Wilson to Chucker Wilson. Plus who would make it into our all-time Story Time team?Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:2.55 - Jonathan Potton4.65 - Peter Lenaghan3.79 - Dave Williams2.05 - Tim HenryGet Sydney live show tickets for for 7 January.https://linktr.ee/thefinalwordFor a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfwYou'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee.Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auSign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-wordGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices