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Stevo for England!

Season 10, Ep 5: Is he the first live-streaming superstar? The cricket world turned to a dodgy video feed from a gale-struck Canterbury as Darren Stevens produced one of the more a...

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Jesus, it's sandpaper again

Season 10, Ep 4: Horror movies teach us that if you don't annihilate the monster, it always comes back. Australia's ball-tampering story was never buried properly the first time ar...

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The Final Word with David Lloyd

Look at this lovely chap. Go on, have a look. There he is. What a good egg. 

For Season 10, Ep 3, we settled in for what we expected would be a decently long conversatio...

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The Final Word with Eleanor Oldroyd

Holy smoke, it's May already. That happened fast. Adam is flat out doing the Middlesex cricket commentary stream. It also ended up on Sky Cricket once the IPL went under. Geoff is working on a few ...

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India's deepening disaster, with Karunya Keshav

Season 10, Ep 1: This week Karunya wrote fiercely about the deafness of the Indian Premier League to the suffering outside its gates. She joins the show to explain the humanitarian...

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A week of live audiences and live crosses

That's Glenn Maxwell up the top, who has made good on calling through to us from the heart of the IPL for three weeks running. Good follow-through from him. They've just moved from Chennai to Mumba...

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The Final Word in front of a live studio audience

A reminder that you can join an (online) audience for the weekly Final Word show on Tuesday April 20. Neil Manthorp will also be joining us to give an update on dramatic recent political developmen...

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The Final Word reviews Wisden 2021

Season 9, Ep 29: It's that time again: new Wisden Almanack time. In what has become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we sat down with Almanack editor Lawre...

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Glenn Maxwell, India correspondent – plus TFW live

It happened. With the IPL is a biosecure fortress, Maxi has agreed to be our contact on the inside. First up is the escape from quarantine, and the chaos of pre-tournament week, where capitalism ma...

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What we're doing with the Patreon page

Oh hey. You look nice. Good to see you. Really should have posted this episode last week, but then Easter happened and we actually turned off the computers for a few days. Hope you found it in the ...

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Earl Eddings, William Wallace, Harsha Bhogle

Hello world. Up the top of the post you might recognise Harsha. If you're a long-time listener (first-time caller), you will have heard this interview from our Christmas 2018 show. But you won't ha...

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The Final Word goes to Brazil

Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 w...

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The Final Word with Mark Butcher

Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests behind the microphone....

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Somebody please beat the Breakers

Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back and forth over the Tasman for a r...

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First ball, no worries. Plus the Bannerman Quotient.

You may have heard on a recent show about a particular shot over cover played by a particular person very unlikely to do so. By chance the square leg umpire Michael Olle decided to film Geoff's fir...

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Farewell to the Dan O'Connell Cricket Club

It's the fourth and final TFW post for February.

Season 9, Ep 22: A busy cricket...

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Pitch politics, the Final Word way

Firstly, if you'd like to see what happens when Sydney rain threatens Adam's laptop and hair (choose your order of priority) you'll have to see what happens at the end of this TFW Daily video. Quit...

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Caught Collins, bowled Brereton

Season 9, Ep 20: Featuring Damien Fleming, Dermott Brereton, and Adam White in guest spots, this week's episode comes direct from the Media XI cricket match against the MCC. In the...

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Australia bails on South Africa

Ok, we should have posted this here a few days ago but... here is l...

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The January 26 problem

Season 9, Ep 18: "How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle / To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?" So goes the A.B. Originals song January 26. This year Cricket Austr...

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The Final Word with Marcus Stoinis

Season 9, Ep 17: Sometimes an interview comes along that knocks our socks off. We all think that we know Marcus Stoinis: the big smile, the big sixes, the cheekiness, the time in t...

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Steve Smith's scuff and nonsense

Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show we go into the detai...

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Stuart MacGill, new videos, and Story Time is back

Belated on some of this, but it's a been a hectic Test match week, and we have a million things to share. All made possible by you wonderful lot on Ye Olde Patreone. Thank you.

First up, the ...

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The Final Word New Year Special

Season 9, Ep 14: Happy New Year! Load up your glasses and turn on the show in the fresh hours of the next. The terrible times of 2020 are behind us, and the indistinct times of 202...

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The India Daily is also on bonus video

A little optional extra, because we have our ace videographer Cam the Cameraman Fink with us at the MCG this week, so he's filmed our Daily Show podcasts in his usual lovely style. We've used a few...

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The Final Word Christmas, with Jim Maxwell

Season 9, Ep 13: At Christmas time, we like to sit down for a long chat with someone well loved by The Final Word. The first time was Harsha, last year was Mel Jones, and this time...

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TFW India Daily, and the show with Dawid Malan

The Daily Show has started. And Adam is here! It's Day 2 at Adelaide at the time of posting, and we're together at last. We won't post them on this page, but check your pod feed for the short daili...

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The Comeback Summer – Geoff's new book

Season 9, Ep 11: Geoff's new book is in shops across Australia and the UK, so we'll roleplay an interview. And so much cricket: Will Pucovski's injury, Maxi getting inside the Indi...

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Glenn Maxwell mayhem & 150 years of women's cricket

Season 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the Finch-Warner partnershi...

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On his birthday! The Final Word with Peter Siddle

Season 9, Ep 9: This episode is in fact released on Peter Siddle's birthday, and on the 10th anniversary of that birthday hat-trick. The day is now one of sadness as well as celebr...

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