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Jasprit Bumrah arrives by parachute

Season 9, Ep 8: Australia’s Test season faces new turmoil, with any means necessary being considered to deploy cricketers across the length and breadth of the continent. The WBBL...

The Final Word Live with Stuart MacGill - full video

For those who couldn't be there live, our session with the wonderfully honest SCG MacGill. 

This video is set to patrons only, so please do us a favour and keep it to yourselves. Thanks ...

I want to rock all night and attend the Sheffield Shield every day

Season 9, Ep 7: Final Word friend Bharat Sundaresan has spent the past month in Adelaide rocking out at the First Annual Sheffield Shield Party Carnival Fiesta. He joins us to fill...

TFW Live with Stuart MacGill

Here we go! The show will start at 8pm AEDT or on the relevant hour in your timezone. This link will take you into the waiting room from 15 minutes before the hour.

There will be a text chat ...

Cricket and BLM, with Ebony Rainford-Brent

We may not have sent out last week's episode yet given the US election came along, but it featured an eye-opening interview.

Season 9, Ep 6: Our first long interview in 2020 ...

Sacking South Africa, with Lungani Zama

Season 9, Ep 5: This week, the entire board at Cricket South Africa finally gave in to outside pressure and resigned. The extent of wrongdoing via a recent financial investigation ...

The T20 Disease, with Jarrod Kimber

Season 9, Ep 4: Guess who forgot to post the episode last week? It was... someone else! If you missed it, it's a good one. Previously on the show we talked about the positives of T...

Into the IPL, with Ben Jones

Season 9, Ep 3: It’s the halfway point of the Indian Premier League, the time when you can start to see the trends, the patterns, the improvers, the declines. This week we get T2...

Smithy, get the guitar

Season 9, Ep 2: Steve Smith is giving out free love on the free love highway and good on him for it. Something about those Dubai hotel rooms. In the same part of the world, Ashwin ...

The Batmobile, Bob Willis, and summer Down Under

Season 9, Ep 1: It's a new Final Word season. Cricket starts in Australia and the dial turns. What did we do in the last week week? Geoff has been calling the Australia-NZ games in...

The Final Word with Alison Mitchell

Season 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket around the world. That d...

Channel Seven's big cash heist

Season 8, Ep 28: Two years ago the Seven Network bought TV rights to great fanfare. Now they're refusing to pay. The free-to-air broadcaster has Cricket Australia in a tough spot, ...

Australia's choke, the Afghan Mankad, and farewell Bell

Season 8, Ep 27: A bit late posting this week, sorry, it's been a hectic one. Casting our minds back, we saw quite the choke. Australia's T20 series against England started with a ...

The Final Word with Trent Woodhill

Season 8, Ep 26: Trent Woodhill is one of the most versatile people in cricket: coach, trusted mentor, adviser, ideas man. This was a good time to pick his brain, from the bub...

You hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of 600 wickets.

Season 8, Ep 25: That is the sound of inevitability. No matter who didn't believe it, James Anderson's march did not stop towards the mark that only three spinners had achieved bef...

The Dhoni Touch, by The Bloodhound Gang

Season 8, Ep 24: The great MSD has put the cue in the rack, for India at least. In the circumstances, there was nobody better to get back on the show than Bharat Sundaresan, author...

Geoff's preview chapter

Hi all, here's that chapter we mentioned from my new manuscript. We're mid-editing now and this chapter might end up being split and moved around a bit, so this is likely the only look at it the wa...

The week when Chris Woakes wakes

Season 8, Ep 23: Comebacks don’t get much more  stylish. England's memorable turnaround in Manchester came when Woakes  and Jos Buttler produced a partnership that will...

The Green Machines

Season 8, Ep 22: As Ireland, one of cricket’s green machines, prepare to leave England, Pakistan are ready for their Test series at Old Trafford. Zainab Abbas, journalist and TV ...

An Irish episode with no Irish clichés

Season 8, Ep 21: A bonus episode for Patreon folk, being the fifth in the month. The Irish are coming, and what better time than before their games against England to sit down with...

England level the Windies, and every Cup is on the move

It’s 1-1 and the Wisden Trophy is the series that keeps on giving. Another last-day finish, another good fight, another fine bit of comedic timing from Stuart Broad. We go through the best and an...

How England won the World Cup (and lost the first Test back)

Season 8, Ep.19: Exactly a year from that famous day at Lord's we're joined by Nick Hoult to discuss his new book that gives all the detail you didn't know about England’s triump...

Cricket is back! England prepares the Bio-Dome

Season 8, Ep. 17: At last. England are hosting West Indies this week in the first of three Tests and we couldn’t be happier. Vithushan Ehantharajah joins us to talk about the Sou...

The many sides of South Africa's political brawl

Season 8, Ep 16: Amidst ongoing fighting that predates the virus crisis, South African cricket writer Telford Vice joins the show to explain the conflict in South African cricket. ...

The Final Word with William McInnes

Season 8, Ep 15: As promised – our chat with one of Australia’s favourite sons, William McInnes. You know him as an actor and a writer, but before that he was a cricket obsessi...

Exit Kevin Roberts, pursued by a bear

Season 8, Ep 14: That happened fast. At the start of the corona crisis all looked rosy at Cricket Australia with the women winning the World Cup in front of a packed MCG and the me...

VAT tax info for Europe, and Tsar Nicholas II

We think we've worked out a tax solution. People in Australia and in the USA are not liable to begin with, so let us know if you see any charges. People in EU countries and the UK are already payin...

The Final Word with Mark Nicholas, Part I

Season 8, Ep 12: While working on their Calling The Shots documentary, Adam and Daniel Norcross recorded an extremely detailed conversation with Mark Nicholas. We decided it was to...

CrickiLeaks

Season 8, Ep 11: The BCCI is fuming after some sensitive correspondence found its way to the public. Things the BCCI don’t want you to Be See(ing) with your See(ing) Eye. What go...

New tax info (not scary) and a poem (also not scary)

Hey all. Patreon says they'll email you shortly about a bunch of countries and US states adding sales tax (or GST or VAT) to pledges.

This shouldn't be a problem for us, because we've set our...