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 days trying to set up the commentary position in Galle.
If you haven't visited Sri Lanka, let's give you some background. One, of course there is the major economic crisis that we've talked about...
2022-06-30 05:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The Daily shows from England haven't yet stopped, because the final New Zealand Test (see above) has not yet finished, but Adam has still skipped the country to get to Sri Lanka where Geoff is already in place, so they can set up the SEN radio broadcast. Just an average week in Final Word land. We'll ai...
2022-06-27 05:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Bridge. This week Daniel Norcross joined Geoff, which of course meant that they had to talk about Aristotle and monitor lizards before getting to the cricket. There were also matters of Steffan Nero emul...
2022-06-19 23:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 political unrest and economic chaos, ahead of Australia's tour there. Also this week, the wash-up from England's win at Lord's, Joe Root leaving the Former Fab Four behind, and ICC chair Greg Barclay's defe...
2022-06-09 00:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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, learning to do farm things before heading to Sri Lanka for the upcoming Test matches.
Season 12, Ep 9: World No1 bowler Sophie Ecclestone joins the show for an update on her busy c...
2022-06-06 18:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 journo Tim Wigmore and economist Stefan Szymanski about their new collaborative book Crickonomics. Plus the cricket as Sri Lanka tour Bangladesh and the county championship reaches its season break. Did an...
2022-05-27 03:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Andrew was a brilliant youngster. Also this week, England name two new coaches for their men's teams, CEO Tom Harrison belatedly sees the door, and we speak with a 40-year-old cricketer on international de...
2022-05-19 08:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Cardoso, Hong Kong player Mariko Hill, and Malaysian captain Winifred Duraisingam, who are all having a fine time.
On the darker side of the cricket coin, England authorities are clearly keen to pic...
2022-05-19 07:44:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 and concerts and the rest. Even the quiet times don't stay quiet. Here we go.
Season 12, Ep 5: Some books come along that...
2022-05-19 07:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 is also the kind of person who is upfront about the low points as well. She joins The Final Word to look back on playing through an era of unprecedented change in the women's game.
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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 after the usual weekly.
Also we had Final Word meetups with listeners in both London and Melbourne, which was super nice.
2022-04-23 11:46:11 +0000 UTC
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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 go long on that, as on the latest chapter of the Jimmy and Stuart saga, before doing a lap of the planet. Later, Adam talks to Justin Smith about his lovely cricketing novel, Cooper Not Out.
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2022-04-13 05:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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's weekly show, coming just after the Women's World Cup final, which makes this episode the very last for Season 11 of The Final Word.
Our seasons move with the cricket, changing over as northern...
2022-04-13 05:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 home in London and will be ok. And was still keen to prop up on some cushions and record:
Season 11, Ep 22: Can't stop, won't stop. The story of that particular night sta...
2022-03-31 03:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 broadcasters. Three of the hardy souls are staying on for the one-dayers but the rest of us are heading home. It has been a special and memorable thing to be a part of in an off-field sense, and the ...
2022-03-26 11:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the experience of this tour - the pleasant and the decidedly less palatable.
Also this week, the Women's World Cup so far, and what West Indies and Sri Lanka have been up to against England...
2022-03-19 12:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 important to both of us. And yes, he often gave us the irrits in the later years. He created magic on the field in a way that nobody else has done. He was one of us, and he was our cricketing childhood. ...
2022-03-11 07:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 11, Ep 19: "His voice - sly and warm, laconic and sometimes frail - may be the closest thing we have to a national one." According to Robert Forster, that is Paul Kelly, whose music is well i...
2022-03-02 09:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 other bits and pieces from there.
Two, we're shifting host platforms away from Acast and back to Omny. Tried it out but it wasn't a good fit. That means old URLs that link to Acast episode pages ...
2022-02-24 06:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 watches more of it and remembers all of it. This time Ben breaks down what went on in the mega auction with two new teams involved, and the points of difference with this season's concurrent Pakistan...
2022-02-21 01:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 until the whole thing fell in a heap. It has been bruising for Langer, for Patrick Cummins, and for anyone else invested in the issue. Goodwill has given way to bad faith. We try to unpick the disast...
2022-02-09 05:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 accurate.
Season 11, Ep 15: After the wild Test finish in Canberra, it's time to celebrate the goodness and look at what it might mean for women's cricket from here. Deandra Dottin...
2022-02-09 05:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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: Given this recording happened shortly before the women's Ashes Test, we were very lucky to chat for an hour with England's captain Heather Knight. About leadership, personal development, and...
2022-01-27 14:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in Canberra. Before all that, we managed to record our last show together until Pakistan, which will be here before we know it.
With live shows off the table, outd...
2022-01-20 08:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A few things going on at the moment, with the Ashes Daily wrapping up in Hobart with customary earliness. See the final clip above.
This is going ahead. Turf pitch, cold beers, good times, against Peter Lewis' team. Outdoors in Sydney and thus relatively safe. January 26, without the flag-waving. Hit us up on the Discord page if you want to play or att...
2022-01-19 05:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Ashes Daily video is up the top, or the audio versions are in your feed.
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 adaptations of old ones. But as for this small corner of the internet, all we can say is a huge thank-you for being part of it, and helping us make something that means a lot to us and a bunch of other people...
2021-12-31 02:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 our show possible this year - you all are The Final Word, simple as that. We're already looking forward to what we can do in 2022.
Season 11, Ep 10: As we love to do at thi...
2021-12-25 11:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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 and Geoff are actually back together, mostly.
Wisden Cricket Monthly put together a huge Ashes digital mag, for free, and it would make them happy as a sponsor if you dow...
2021-12-22 08:32:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the fifth Test. Tickets are transferable or refundable. Hopefully though it just means more people will have time to come. The discount codes for those of you receiving this message are 2021-12-07 00:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
