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Laurie Nash's hat-trick ball, and how the ICC screwed Thailand

Guess who forgot to post the episode to Patreon last week? It was... Adam, let's blame him. Yes. But you probably already found Season 11, Ep 7:

With a new COVID variant caus...

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Taking apart the Tim Paine story

Season 11, Ep 6: There was one main story this week: another Australian captain resigning, claims and counterclaims, and a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. We sit down w...

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The Final Word Live - Patreon discounts

We're back with some live shows in Australia this summer, when and where we can fit them in. Apologies to Brisbane and Perth, where quarantine requirements make it impossible.

Adelaide on Dec...

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The day Azeem Rafiq testified

Season 11, Ep 5: The normal show returns, and it couldn't have been a more important week in which to do it. This is the week when Azeem Rafiq's testimony to a UK parliamentary hea...

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Tournament crashes and bike crashes

At the time of sending, in Week 2 of November. Australia and New Zealand are less than two hours away from the T20 World Cup final. Two unexpected finalists, with a lot of repeat players from 2015 ...

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The T20 World Cup rolls on

Week one of November, and how did that happen so soon? This embedded video from last weekend is not to further trouble those watching the tournament from Australia, but to acknowledge one small but...

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The T20 World Cup Daily

Yes, it's well into stride. If you didn't catch the first episode, which Winnie gatecrashed after banging on the door for long enough to be let outside where Adam was filming, then you have some ad...

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Yes, it most certainly is a double hat-trick

Season 11, Ep 4: Four wickets in four balls. The talking point of the cricket week, after Curtis Campher did it for Ireland. Scotland also had a win after a huge comeback, so we go...

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TFW with guest co-host Ben Jones

Season 11, Ep 3: With Adam on holiday, his spot for this week's show was taken by the delightful Ben Jones, the CricViz whiz-kid - and just in time for IPL finals week. And yes, we...

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The Final Word with Philip Brown

Aka: No, FFS, they won't cancel the Ashes

Season 11, Ep 2: It's all we keep hearing about - will the Ashes happen? Spoiler alert: yes. We already have early season sighting...

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Season 11! And the end of The Streak

Season 11, Ep 1: Time to kick off a new season, as cricket begins again in Australia. The audio is 2021-09-29 16:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post

The Final Word with Maeva Douma

Season 10, Ep 22: First of all, let's manage expectations. She's 16 years old, very shy, just home from school, and talking to us via translation from French, thanks to her nationa...

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The Afghanistan dilemma

Season 10, Ep 21: Australia has cancelled on Afghanistan - not formally but in effect - to protest the Taliban's destructive attitudes to women. But identifying the right thing to ...

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India's cancellation, and the stories of England's Black cricketers

TFW Daily

... is over for now, with the 5th Test at Old Trafford cancelled before it began. We talk about that whole *gestures wildly* thing in the video up top, or the audio 2021-09-11 11:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post

The Double Don Sachin sandwich

Season 10, Ep 19: Happy Birthday Sachin is back in a  big way, in a temporarily upside-down episode. There's a 7 in the  morning now? The Australian summer is upside down...

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Cricket and the Taliban

Season 10, Ep 18: It's far from the most important question facing the country. But gi...

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The glory of a long fifth day

Season 10, Ep 17: Astonishing news for The Final Word this week: Adam had a holiday. The first time he's missed in 362 shows. Daniel Norcross fills in with Geoff, and luxuriates in...

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The Final Word with John Doyle / Roy Slaven

Season 10, Ep 16: No surprise that the work of Roy & HG has informed the comic sensibility of the Final Word. The voice behind Rampaging Roy Slaven joins the show, in a roundab...

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The Final Word with Felix White

Season 10, Ep 15: Most of were kids who dreamed of being rock stars. None of us had the single-minded determination to set about making it happen. Felix did, taking a bunch of mate...

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Betting the house on the Hundred

Season 10, Ep 14: Like it, hate it, or ignore it, The Hundred is... hunderway? The stakes are high. The bills are high. So is the risk of a stumble. Henry Moeran has been watching ...

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Bonus episode for patrons

Going behind the scenes, plus an extra serving. For most people twice a week is adequate, but maybe some special ones are fiending for more TFW?

After interviewing Clare Connor last week, all...

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The Final Word with Clare Connor

Season 10, Ep 13: From captaining boys' under-10s to captaining England goes the story. But retiring as a player brought much more. By now it's fair to say that no one person has d...

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Justin Langer and the spiral of confusion

Season 10, Episode 12: It can be hard to follow Justin Langer's line of logic. The Australian men's coach has an extempore media style that over time can veer into inconsistency. A...

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Ben Stokes and The Replacements

Season 10, Episode 11: Remember when England's whole team got COVID? Or something like that, everyone was watching football. That's why we got Will Macpherson on the show to tell u...

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Fixing slow over rates once and for all

Season 10, Ep 10:  Welcome to July! We've talked about it, argued about it, and done some hand-wringing about it, so now it's time to look at the subject in detail. What is ha...

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The World Test Championship (finale, problems, solutions)

The biggest six-day three-day event in cricket came to an end this week, and we were all over it like a Las Vegas buffet. Congratulations to New Zealand, and we hope our Kiwi supporting listeners a...

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This week's show, and a visit from DK

There are a lot of DKs in cricket these days. Delissa Kimmince. Dinesh Karthik. Davis Karashani Arinaitwe, who has torn up some batting line-ups for Uganda. But the original will always be Dennis K...

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World Test Champs and making change for women in India

If you've been watching the England-India women's Test, you may have noticed a familiar voice on commentary. Adam has been calling the match for Sky and doing an excellent job. Geoff is now living ...

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Robinson and racism, with Vithushan Ehantharajah

Season 10, Ep 7: Vish joins the show in a busy week in England after Ollie Robinson was suspended following his Test debut. We talk through the purpose of his suspension, his histo...

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Boom Boom, Barassi, and Kiwis at Lord's

Another large week has begun. We decided spur of the moment to do the Final Word Daily for the England-NZ Test at Lord's, because why not with Adam at the ground and Geoff in lockdown for those 5am...

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