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On the wild moods of Galle

Our final Wednesday of the month has passed, though we decided against making the weekly show for it given that Adam had just arrived off a plane exhausted and that Geoff and Bharat had spent two d...

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Switching horses midstream

The Daily shows from England haven't yet stopped, because the final New Zealand Test (see above) has not...

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Maxwellball, Bairstowball, Aristotleball

Season 12, Ep 11: It was a big Final Word day, what with Glenn Maxwell turning on a matchwinning performance in Sri Lanka right after Jonny Bairstow did the same thing at Trent Bri...

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A window into Sri Lanka's unrest

Season 12, Ep 10: Sri Lankan writer Andrew Fidel Fernando and foreign correspondent Chris Barrett join the show for an update into what is happening with Sri Lanka's popular politi...

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Greetings from Salmon Arm

If your first thought in response to that title is that salmon don't have arms: correct. This has not stopped the citizens of a small town in British Columbia. Geoff is here for a little while, lea...

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The Final Word election special

Season 12, Ep 8: Always mix sport and politics, we say, so of course we had to start today's show with a tangent on Australia's federal election. What else? An interview with journ...

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The Andrew Symonds Experience

Season 12, Ep 7: Another sad week for Australian cricket with the loss of Andrew Symonds, so we dialled in Queensland's own Robert Craddock, who watched that career from when Andre...

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Joe Clarke and cricket ethics

Season 12, Ep 6: Adam was roaming the Fairbreak International last week, bringing friends new and old onto the show: Brazil captain Roberta Moretti with her wicket-taker Laura Card...

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From gambling millions to the Invisible Invincible

Whoops again. It's time (for us, at least) to catch up with the last couple of weeks of Final Word. We've been busy, Adam in Dubai for the Fairbreak and Geoff zinging around the country to weddings...

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The Final Word with Anya Shrubsole

Season 12, Ep 4: After 14 years wearing the national uniform, England's swing magician has decided to call it a day. Anya Shrubsole will be remembered for plenty of highlights, but...

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Wisden arrives, Joe Root leaves, Lou Bega is eternal

Three episodes for the price of one this week. Adam sat down for our now-traditional chat with Wisden Almanack editor Lawrence Booth about the new edition, so we've added that as an extra episode a...

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... and the start of Season 12

Season 12, Ep 1: It's another premiere! We go around for the twelfth time - can't and won't stop. What better time for it with county cricket back? Adam and Daniel will of course g...

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The end of Season 11

That's right. We're catching up a bit here, with Daniel Norcross doing some swing shifts to allow Adam and Geoff each some post-Pakistan rest for body and soul. If you missed it, here is last week'...

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The Shoaib Akhtar seatbelt method

Most of you would have heard that Adam was a passenger in a bad car crash on the way to the airport in Lahore. Thanks to everyone for the good wishes that have been sent our way. He's recovering at...

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Our trip to Pakistan is over

As you'll see from the video still, our final Pakistan Daily pulled in everybody from our touring group on the last day of the Test series, along with some clobber we souvenired from the television...

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The many marvels of digestion

Season 11, Ep 21: Coming live from the lush city of Lahore, it's another Final Word. The Karachi epic is done with and there is one Pakistan-Australia Test to come. We talk about t...

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The Final Word on Shane Warne

It's been a huge week, a strange week, and we're sure that some of you will be entirely Shane Warned out by now. But we wanted to take some extra time to take a breath, then think about someone imp...

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The Final Word with Paul Kelly

This show has given us the chance to do some absurdly fun things, and this is right up there. An hour sitting down with one of the musical greats to talk about the game. 

Season ...

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The super-chic European cricket revolution

Hello team. A few bits of news. One, we're off to Pakistan on Monday, which has very much been made possible by the support here on Patreon, so thanks again. We'll be sending back daily shows and o...

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The endless weirdness of IPL auctions

Season 11, Ep 17: Most importantly, Winnie turned two! Big news. Aside from that, when big things happen in T20 franchise cricket, we turn to Ben Jones. Because he...

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The inevitable exit of Justin Langer

Season 11, Ep 16: Over a year ago, Cricket Australia knew they had an issue with Justin Langer. Instead of working out a respectful, dignified solution, they put off doing anything...

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The magic of Canberra

We're running a week behind with the Patreon posts, so this week's new episode is about to publish, and here was last week's. The good news is that our talk with Tom Morris has turned out to be acc...

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The Final Word with Heather Knight

It turns out that both of your hosts recorded the show with covid this week, so forgive the scratchiness, but we got there. And didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Season 11, Ep 14:...

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Kohli hands back the crown

Lots happening in Final Word world. Adam has landed back in London to tackle Winifred. Geoff is sitting in Hobart doing the covid thing, well timed after the fifth Test and before the women's Test ...

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Farewell Ashes, farewell Ross, hello Tigerland

A few things going on at the moment, with the Ashes Daily wrapping up in Hobart with customary earliness. See the final clip above.

TFW XI playing at Birchgrove

This is going ahead. T...

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Wild Sydney Test, Melbourne show cancelled. Not related.

Well, that was fun. At last an Ashes contest that was worth the sweat, as Jimmy A and Steven S went head to head in the final over, but not in the way that you'd expect. Our excited and rather long...

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The Best & Worst of 2021

Well, we made it. Those of us who made it. We've reached the end of 2021, the second of a very rough couple of years worldwide. Some things are better, some leave us full of new worries or adaptati...

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TFW Christmas with Michael Atherton

A very happy Christmastime to all of you, whether winding up your Christmas in Australia, starting in the UK, or at any point anywhere else in between. 

Thanks so much for helping make o...

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Adelaide, it's Adelaide

Above is one of the few videos we could actually record in Adelaide, given we had a tech fail on day one and covid cleared out the press box on days four and five. But here it is. Proof! That Adam ...

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Melbourne show date change, and our Ashes preview

Aloha, Hawaii. The old Omicron has got the better of us, with South Australia's restrictions on those incoming from Melbourne, so we've had to move Chris Rogers and TFW Live to January 12, before t...

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