The Final Word Cricket Podcast

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 47: The lost episode has been found. We did record this the day after the final, both of us at airports in different countries on the way home to Australia. Somehow the audio disappeared but we've managed to salvage it since. So, clue the Quantum Leap music, and let's time travel a few days - back to our impressions the morning after the World Cup before.Get tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 15, Episode 11: It is a week of homecomings. Adam, Geoff, and the World Cup all arrived back in Australia within hours of one another, and nothing ever feels as good as home when you've been away. On the agenda this week: updates on a lost episode, two short interviews with Mitch Starc and Glenn Maxwell that Geoff recorded on the field just after the World Cup finished, there are Final Word live shows and live cricket matches coming up, the Sea Bus is back in business, Adam Zampa has receipts, David Warner might not retire after all, the most pointless T20s are next, our favourite 50-year-old first-class cricketer back at it, and some very significant changes and non-changes from the ICC's latest meeting.Get 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'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

Season 15, Episode 10: David Gower’s composure at the crease, combined with his perennially relaxed disposition, have contributed to a sense that he’s forever young. But it’s now the better of half a century since he pulled his first ball in Test cricket for four, going on to become, for a time, England’s leading run-scorer. A life in cricket has been his, but not at the expense of wider curiosity. It’s what has made him such a force as a broadcaster since hanging up the boots and, also, how effective he is as the long-term chair of the Lord’s Taverners. A great guest. Enjoy.Get tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.auRun 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.For 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.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

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 46: The final! It's over! Australia with one of the biggest surprises ever sprung in a tournament decider. India struggling to work out how it went wrong.Get tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 45: One more day until the storm. On the barricades of freedom. Or something like that. India are red-hot favourites, Australia are perhaps the only team that might challenge them. How can it happen? When will be know? And where have we mislaid the 1992 World Cup? Get it all on the second-last day of this tournament.Get tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind 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, if you take the A358 far enough south you'll find something with a lot of stories, and a river who could be your friend. We go back to a pivotal moment of Daniel Norcross' childhood, the greatest cricket moments for Canada, and a dominant display by one of the best South African sides.Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:3.58 - Joe Vaitilingam5.25 - Tom Kelly5.88 - Jill8.71 - Kieran Powyer3.65 - Alexander ThalisGet tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordSign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignupFor 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.Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 43: Was it going to be 1999 all over again? With 213 in the mix, a nervy chase, and more twists and turns than the Italian Job, it sure felt like for long periods of the game today. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood were perfect. Australia's fielding was too. David Miller was remarkable. Gerald Coetzee hung tough, then bowled with heart. David Warner and Travis Head exploded. Tabraiz Shamsi and Keshav Maharaj wove webs. And on and on it went. Take the ride with The Final Word.Get tickets for our live shows:Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 42: It was a messy slew of stats spattered all over Mumbai as the runs flowed today. Would Kohli get the Great Big Record that everyone was waiting for? Well, you can kind of guess. Nobody was expecting Mohammed Shami's record though, nor the remarkable effort in between times of The Sweatiest Man Alive, Daryl Mitchell. Quite the day and quite the night.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 41: It's a knockout! A knockout game, that is - India and New Zealand at the Work Rest and Play in Mumbai, then Australia and South Africa at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Time for Geoff and Adam to run the ruler over the four teams that have made it and how they match up.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary!https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/londonhttps://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcityFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 15, Episode 9: In a way it's not a surprise, she's been around forever. And in a way it's a total surprise that Australia's captain of five World Cup wins is done by the age of 31. She has other things to do. Also this week, Sri Lanka Cricket arranges its own expulsion from the ICC, French cricket is under investigation for being too ooh la la, England plans become clearer with squads for the next men's and women's tours, and a feller took a quadruple hat-trick. Read it and weep. Plus some WBBL and Shield.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:11.80 - Simon TamblynGet your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees.For 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.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordSign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignupFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices