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Our 1000th episode! 🥳
Can’t stop, won’t stop.
Ep in feeds now.
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"There's a point at which a leader stops being a leader and becomes a ruler. And that was the discomfort here today." 🇮🇳🇦🇺
Our daily from a politics and diplomacy dominated day one at Ahmedabad is on YouTube.
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"Bairstow is not looking because he's not concentrating. That's on him."
Jonny Bairstow☝️
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Ravichandran Ashwin for India captain. The campaign starts here. 🧠
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🗣️ "The BCCI must be the most incompetent major sporting body in the world."
Less than three months out from the men's 50 over World Cup and the schedule is set to change all over again.
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Mitchell Starc catch. Out? Or not out?
Not out ❌☝️
#TheAshes
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🗣️ "Pick James Anderson in a few days time at Trent Bridge, you absolute cowards." -
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🗣️ "You see him running into bowl and you're like. He is still quite good here isn't he!" -
@cameronponsonby
#ENGvWI
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When we first started doing this off the telly in the
@WhiteLineWire
Box of Dreams nearly a decade ago, calling an
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Test wasn’t even a pipe dream. That happens today on
@SEN_Cricket
with Geoff joining Adam for the rest of the match at Leeds.
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Adam Zampa - 🏆 2 x World Cup winner and team receipt keeper 🧾
🗣️ “It’s like they’re talking on a big WhatsApp group.”
🗣️ “Why are you being such fuckwits about it? I get to sing the song now and I lead it with those receipts."
#FinalWord
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Has the cultural differences between Australian and English club cricket played a role in the response to the Carey/Bairstow stumping?
#TheAshes
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A Glenn McGrath story for Jane McGrath day.
Bharat lifts the curtain on the press box with a behind the scenes tale.
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"They show so much respect to Ashwin, because he commands it."
The magician himself took his 32nd Test five-wicket haul for India at Ahmedabad 🇮🇳🧙♂️
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🗣️ "Test cricket is the purest form of the game."
Just like Virat Kohli, Sai Sudharsan is prioritising the longest form of the game alongside T20 cricket. Music to the ears of fans all over the world.
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🗣️"My understanding is that Bairstow didn't want Sangakkara involved in the interview because he'd been critical of his footwork."
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"Just looking around the ground you would think it's a cricket match being played during a political rally."
Our preview of the Modi/Albanese International Summit is up live on YouTube 🇮🇳🇦🇺🏏
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Left-arm wrist spinners are the result of people who have made poor life decisions.
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🚨 NEW WEEKLY EP: Save Robelinda2
Imagine someone dynamiting the Louvre. The cricket equivalent has happened, with the magical YouTube channel
@robelinda2
being brought down. We speak to Rob about his life's cricketing work.
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Adam and Rach got married♥️🍾💍
Naturally, we did a Wedding Daily with the help of some our friends.
.
@beastieboy07
, as ever, with the pinpoint 30 second summary of the day.
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🧑🔬 "Who else has a thought process that elaborate!?"
Ashwin was magic against England. Changing his bowling style because he was bowling in the east of India rather than the west.
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"Test cricket in India is a lot like life in India." 🇮🇳🇦🇺
Where did Australia win it? And where did India lose it? Our latest daily is up now on YouTube 🏏
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🗣️ "Do NOT put County Cricket Streams behind a paywall, ffs"
🗣️ "You've got an audience. Sell adverts"
#FinalWord
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🚨 A fresh EP has dropped 😁
➡️
@collinsadam
&
@GeoffLemonSport
back together this week!
🎂 Plenty to cover on Adam’s 40th birthday 🥳
🎧 Listen 👉
#FinalWord
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🗣️ "The pitch change shows complete contempt from the BCCI to every other team at this World Cup."
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Electricians. Uber Eats drivers and New Zealand basketball players.
The Netherlands team have come from all across the globe to combine for one of the great World Cup victories.
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Shubman Gill. Future India captain - but most importantly - a very sexy batter 🇮🇳💏
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Holi in Ahmedabad gave us a chance to do our three favourite things: celebrate, learn, and be hot pink.
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"MS Dhoni went on to describe you as the best thing to ever happen to Indian cricket." 🇮🇳
Our exclusive interview with 2011 World Cup winning head coach
@Gary_Kirsten
is out now on YouTube.
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Australia's left handers made 67 for 10. India's made 154 for 2. We're blaming the pitch 🤷
Full TFW Daily ep up on YouTube and all your podcast providers 🇮🇳🇦🇺
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Rob’s response when the late Deano got in touch asking about his Test twin tons v Pakistan?
“Give me five minutes. It was my quickest upload ever!”
Nobody seems to have any idea how as yet, but… Save
@robelinda2
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🚨 NEW WEEKLY EP: Save Robelinda2
Imagine someone dynamiting the Louvre. The cricket equivalent has happened, with the magical YouTube channel
@robelinda2
being brought down. We speak to Rob about his life's cricketing work.
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Masterful Pujara 🇮🇳🏏
A half-century that combined defensive solidity and grandma rapping 👵
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"Rohit Sharma is going to make a hundred tomorrow. Have you seen a bloke more rusted on for a ton?"
Was it ever in doubt?
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Welcome to Peggy Antonio Collins
Season 13, Ep 16: Ok, that's not really her middle name (yet) but we're working on it. The Final Word family has grown by one.
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🏆Our episode on Shane Warne has been named as
@WisdenAlmanack
's podcast of the year! 🏆
"This was no hagiography: true to form, they embraced controversy and complexity. Warne was the boyhood idol who 'ended up giving you the shits as an adult'."
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This is The Final Word IPL Daily, with guest host Sachin Tendulkar.
Sach, first of all can you sum up the day’s play in 30 seconds?
We witnessed 2 wonderful knocks by
@Russell12A
and Klaasen today.
@PhilSalt1
led the charge first, followed by some brilliant power hitting by Russell.
Heinrich Klaasen ensured that Sunrisers Hyderabad came close to the target but some courageous bowling in the final over by
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Glenn Maxwell Ashes bolter? 😯
He's playing County Championship for Warwickshire. Don't rule it out.
#Ashes
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Our Jimmy T20 news mentioned on the BBC comms during
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final ... (sorry,
@TailendersPod
❤️)
@gregjames
: "The first thing I thought was I was surprised to hear that on another cricket podcast!"
@felixwhite
: "Shout out to The Final Word."
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Sarfaraz Khan averages over 100 in the last three seasons of the Ranji Trophy 🏏
Why can't he get a game for India? 🇮🇳
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We've made the final of the Australian Sports Commission awards. Don't for a minute think we'll win, but nice recognition.
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"One thing about MS Dhoni is he's such a big believer in his own destiny."
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reviews the origins of Dhoni's Midas touch.
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Short-term thinking is seeing 50-over cricket being put under the gun. Let's remember nights like tonight - Afghanistan's famous victory - as a reason why it must be protected.
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History at Lord's as England beat Australia to keep the Ashes alive and kicking. All brought to you by brand new co-hosts
@AlexHartley93
and
@melissagstory
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“This is my favourite place just to be.”
In our interview with
@gregjames
he explains why days at the cricket with his dad are some of the best of his life.
It sets the tone for a lovely chat. Enjoy.
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“Is the reason we’re allowing this to happen that people are scared of standing up to India?”
Upon the release of the 2024
@WisdenAlmanack
, editor
@BoothCricket
cuts straight to the point with how the ICC carved up the pie last year.
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“The Tailenders community is one of the best things I’ve done with my life… I’ll never not be immensely proud of it.”
Here’s
@gregjames
on the origin of
@TailendersPod
and why it means so much to him.
Listen to the full ep in our pod feed.
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🪙 "Did you just misspeak?"
The greatest, most surprising call at the toss in history? Fair play, Pat Cummins.
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Our podcast documenting our first week in India is out now and the feedback has been amazing so far. Thanks all 🇮🇳
Full link below to the ep which we recorded live from the VCA Ground, Nagpur.
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🔔 NEW EP: Joy and Neil Maxwell.
What's it like to watch your son make 201* in a World Cup? Mum would know. Dad was asleep...
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"This claim that cricket is the second most loved sport in the world is absolute BS...you're not trying to grow the game."
Listen to the full interview on the latest ICC proposals with the excellent
@OsmanSamiuddin
below.
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🗣️ON HIS BIRTHDAY! 🎂
As the clock strikes midnight in Melbourne, this cherub turns 4️⃣0️⃣!
🤎💛 Happy Birthday
@collinsadam
– The Final Word World loves you! 🤎💛
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"It is up there with the worst shot I've seen in my life.”
That’s
@norcrosscricket
on Stokes - difficult to dispute. England really are cooked. As for India, they roll on… easily.
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The tales of Bharat Sundaresan are back 📖
This time he's all across Alex Carey's search for a maiden Test stumping 🏏
Full audio of the latest Story Time below.
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NEW: Katherine Brunt joins The Final Word! A superb chat covering the length of her fine career. And as she says here, on more than one occasion, injuries nearly finished her.
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"Even though their top-order batting is crap, they keep winning!"
The analysis of cameo guest
@jimmaxcricket
who swung by as we recorded.
#NZvAUS
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💬 “The schedule does not allow people to play three formats for a sustainable period.”
💬 “Test cricket is the best form.”
@sambillings
, as expected, was a thoughtful guest on many topics.
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🎂Winnie has turned three 🎂
Happy birthday to our TFW cameo extraordinaire. On her finest form here crashing our recording two years ago.
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❌No more clashing Ashes series❌
"Women's cricket is more than strong enough to be on its own two feet and it doesn't need the context of a men's Ashes to make it worthwhile."
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“Can I just say, I fucken hate it.”
Geoff straight to the point on the Anderson decision but Adam doesn’t agree with him. They thrash it out.
S16E02 now in your pod feeds!
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Nitin Menon's not out decision for the Steve Smith run-out was fair.
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The growth of cricket as it relates to the spread of the tomato as a key part of national dishes around the world…
Only
@stephenfry
could make this point so well. A magnificent guest - thanks to everyone who has listened.
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Our first TFW Daily of India is out now! 🇮🇳🇦🇺
Everyone's getting around it on YouTube. Come and join.
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"I think T20 has gone further than we thought and to the detriment of the game as a whole."
.
@WisdenAlmanack
editor Lawrence Booth (
@BoothCricket
) joined us from Lord's to discuss the new edition and as well as the ever turning wheels of the game.
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The religious component to Indian cricket fandom is “very different” to 15/20 years ago, says distinguished writer
@anandvasu
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“Being an Indian cricketer meant religion did not matter… but I don’t get that sense anymore.”
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"G'day, Lloyd Pope, mate. You haven't been talking to the cops have you mate?"
Leg-spin meets
@AuntyDonnaBoys
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“Chris Woakes winning runs tomorrow.”
Don’t say we didn’t call it.
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"There are a less well equipped Test side five years after becoming a full member, which is scandalous."
Adam on Ireland's Test struggles and how they could - and should - have been prevented.
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The Final Word family grows one bigger 💕
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Is Bazball 'saving' Test cricket? Or is all the chatter a bit cringeworthy? Adam and Geoff disagree.
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🇮🇳 India have the best fast bowlers in the world and Mohammed Shami is a World Cup great.
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Geoff's debut for the Big V!
After a couple of injury withdrawals on Day 2,
@GeoffLemonSport
had the honour of filling in for Victoria at the Harrow Cricket Festival
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Michael Bevan - what a treat!
The perfect guest for our first Sydney hit out, packing The Comedy Store.
We’ll be back with a full national tour next summer in Australia, with shows in the UK between times.
Thanks to everyone who came along. ❤️
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Ajinkya Rahane Appreciation Society at stumps tonight - we’re so glad he’s back and back in business.
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Our full interview with Bharat Sundaresan and Andrew Wu is now live on YouTube.
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In a special weekly episode, Andrew Wu (
@wutube
) and Bharat Sundaresan (
@beastieboy07
) joined Geoff to discuss experiencing racism far from home.
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"The BCCI want close to a billion dollars from the next four years...Let's see how we can work backwards from that figure."
.
@OsmanSamiuddin
joins us to discuss the big story of the ICC's new proposed finance model.
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Interview here mostly about how Geoff and Adam ended up doing what they are now.
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Cheers, James. Nice to be invited into ABC Canberra to discuss what I’ve been up to in the decade since leaving Parliament House.
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📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT
Of course... it's Maxi!!
Following his extraordinary time in India, Glenn is joining us on stage at The Corner for our SOLD OUT Melbourne show on 11 December.
Sydney guest coming soon for 7 January - get your tickets now:
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Ravichandran Ashwin and Nathan Lyon got there together 🇮🇳🇦🇺💯
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"It seemed pre-destined that he would break those records."
It's Sachin Tendulkar's 50th birthday 🎂🏏
And to celebrate, we recorded a special Story Time episode featuring
@beastieboy07
and this famous Sunil Gavaskar tale.
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Michael Hogan is 41 years old and has batted over 300 times in professional cricket🏏
He has never been out LBW.
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🗣️ "I've described it before as a sort of mix between a regimental mascot, like a goat, and the Queen Mother."
The great
@stephenfry
joins us on The Final Word and talks us through taking on his role as MCC President.
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💯 Ollie Pope has just produced a modern Test classic. Incredible.
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"Cricket isn't played on spreadsheets...the whole thing seems too clever by half."
Ravichandran Ashwin looks set to miss out on selection for the WTC final.
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🗣️ "A lot of being better involves imagination, putting yourself in the shoes of others and trying to see the world as they see it."
Stephen Fry on how we can all help the game move forward from its racism scandals.
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“The closer we get Test cricket vanishing from the non-Big Three teams the punchier we need to be. Without Test cricket our world becomes a less diverse, less rich place. We need all formats helping each other.”
Spot on,
@BoothCricket
. Our annual
@WisdenAlmanack
ep is now live.
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🌴 Shamar Joseph. West Indies. You've made one very happy man and boy in Bharat Sundaresan.
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Adam trying not to lose it on commentary while Norcross goes for gold...
From the new Final Word Weekly fresh in your pod feeds.
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The future of
@fairbreakglobal
and the women central to it.
.
@AlexBlackwell2
🇦🇺
.
@mir_sana05
🇵🇰
.
@MdpMinx22
🇿🇦
Our special episode reviewing Fairbreak International is out now and the first of the clips is with founder Shaun Martyn.
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