Season 8, Ep 10: Bonus episode for May, no charge.
It's one year since the start of the 2019 World Cup – the time of our cricketing lives. To mark the anniversary, we ...
2020-05-27 08:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
At the start of last year, Adam and I took the show independent. We had been with a couple of big news publications, but they had conventions that were limiting. So we joined the small podcast label Bad ...
2020-05-22 03:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 8, Ep 9. A quick FYI for supporters who donate per episode – this will be the last for May, given it's our fourth. There will be a fifth episode published in May but we don't charge for five in a month. Let's think of them as bonus eps. Much love to you all.
This w...
2020-05-21 02:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 8, Ep 8: We've been wanting to speak to Megan Schutt on the pod for years. It was worth the wait. The world’s top-ranked seamer told us her story, from tough times in the schoolyard to reaching the top of the cricketing world and everything in between. She’s a gem. Als...
2020-05-12 12:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, what a night. Thanks to everyone who came along into the Zooper Dooper Zoom Room, we had a fine old time.
If you couldn't be there, or you want to revisit the magic, or if you want to excise part of our chat for your wedding march or your funeral song, here's the video in full. 2020-05-08 08:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 8, Ep 7. More segments than a juicy Valencia orange. A new Statman chases the grandest cricket number of all. The Milk Round tests out new dairy abominations. Ever heard a man drink 1.8 litres of milk? Is this a cricket show or Who Dares Wins? Happy Birthday Sachin sees the Master back to ...
2020-05-07 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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2020-05-04 11:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Bruce Dawe died on April 1, we read his perfect football poem on the show. A few people have asked about it since, so here is Geoff's version on its own.
2020-05-03 11:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 8, Ep 6: It’s quiz time. Official brain genius J. Liew joins us from the Guardian for a proper dive into an overflowing heap of Nerd Pledge numbers. Before that we’ve got Daniel Brettig from Cricinfo for an update on Cricket Australia’s problems with its relationship...
2020-05-01 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
May 7 is our online Final Word Live, with Damien Fleming. If you've ever wanted to sit in on one of our interviews, now's your chance.
This will be available to everyone who joins our Patreon before or during the show. You can set whatever $ amount you like and can cancel anytime. We'll put...
2020-04-24 01:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
S8, Ep5. You thought cricket was safe in the south? Think again. CA is shutting down operations to avoid running out of cash. Questions and accusations abound. Are they broke yet? Will they stiff the players? Did they lose it all playing the stock market? We talk to newshound Pet...
2020-04-22 04:30:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Lara is down! We were aiming for 375 supporters and we passed it today. You’re all utterly wonderful, helping two idiots do something they love.
As our way of thanks, here is friend of the show (FOTS) Sunny Munn doing his lockdown version of Marvellous, complete with stunts. What timing....
2020-04-16 11:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
S8, Ep4. With no cricket on, everyone in England watched replays of the Headingley Test over the weekend, so we look back at that day in our lives as well. Nathan Lyon has had to cancel a deal at Hampshire, and likes the idea of playing Virat Kohli in empty stadiums. We solve at ...
2020-04-16 03:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A few weeks ago we speciously discussed the likely Hong Kong cricket career of one David Varley. It turns out we were right, and here he is snagging a couple of wickets with some spectacular leg-spin, just before the world went to shit. Areas, Dave.
2020-04-13 12:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post
A glimpse at the extremely high-tech, high art methods we currently employ to make a long-distance lockdown show. Hello from us both.
2020-04-10 04:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post
S8, Ep3. The year ahead looks sparse but the year before was one of the busiest. For 157 years the Wisden Almanack has been recording all things cricket, and the latest edition of the biggest small book in the game is out this week. As last year, we talk through the contents with editor Lawrence ...
2020-04-09 12:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
S8, Ep 2. He’s known for Karachi in the dark, for the toss at Brisbane, for Hansie’s leather jacket, so we talked about none of these things.
Instead we sat down and talked about everything else: about the boy who played in India’s Chepauk stadium but went on to captain En...
2020-04-02 11:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 8 of the Final Word begins today. A time of renewal. A season in which little cricket may be played, but much cricket will be played in our hearts. A season in which the real cricket may be the friends we make along the way.
Thanks so much to everyone who has joined in to suppo...
2020-03-25 18:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In these uncertain times you must know how to wash your hands. Daniel Norcross channels the spirit of Ian Smith to show you how.
2020-03-20 16:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 7, Ep 25. With COVID-19 stopping the world of sport, Dr Peter Brukner is who you want to hear from: having been the doctor for Australia’s cricket and football teams, Olympic athletics and swimming squads, AFL and Premier League clubs. The doc joins The Final Word to give us the answers,...
2020-03-19 05:21:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Since we won't be seeing any crowds for a while, you might want to look back on the most recent one. A few snippets from the grandstand won't win any film awards but they can give some sense of what it was like on the day. There was definitely some snark about booking Katy Perry to play, but when...
2020-03-17 17:50:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 7, Ep 24: World Cup finals do have that special sauce. A few years ago you could barely have assembled a dodgeball game out of the attendance at most women's international matches. This time they aimed to fill the MCG, and pretty well did. Alyssa Healy provided the fireworks, Katy Perry pr...
2020-03-12 15:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post
You wouldn’t believe it at the final, but more dark shenanigans were afoot.
2020-03-12 15:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostOur first exclusive article on Patreon for subscribers, via Geoff.
Thailand's day out
You go to watch cricket because most of the days won’t be special. You get yourself up out of bed and along to the ground because probably the game will be a standard affair. Some ...
2020-03-03 13:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 7, Episode 23. Lousy Smarch weather. It's a new month! The T20 World Cup pool (party) stage is done, the usual suspects are in the semis. But the last two games were rained off and the semis might be too. Geoff and Adam run the ruler over the Cup so far, the teams that made it and those wh...
2020-03-03 12:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Backflips: if they come at the right moment they work a treat. We need one right now from the ICC on a semi-final reserve day. Winnie insists on it.
2020-03-03 11:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Thailand! They were so, so good today. Robbed by the rain, but deserving of such praise. An immediate response from a damp Sydney.
2020-03-03 10:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
