Podcast Episodes

Story Time 238 – David Bowie meets Matthew Wade

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff start off with a tale full of incident but plenty of heaviness, before moving on to one …

Published on 9 hours ago

Captain Cummins a chance to miss the Ashes

Season 18, Episode 31: Last week we asked whether Australia had a depth problem with fast bowling. A week later, it's suddenly more likely that they might, with Pat Cummins under observation after b…

Published on 3 days, 13 hours ago

Story Time 237 – Father Marriott II: The Quickening

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back to normal with a few great tales and a major statistical quirk. We go back to b…

Published on 6 days, 19 hours ago

Are Australia's fast-bowling reserves really an Ashes problem?

Season 18, Episode 30: Another couple of next-gen fast bowlers have gone down injured in the last week, with Spencer Johnson again withdrawn from duty and Lance Morris out for a least a year with ma…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Story Time 236 – A Scottish cry for justice, with Sean McGivern

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we complete the set, having now had each current member of our Sleuth Group join the show, as we catch …

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

The faces of England’s 2005 Ashes heroes, with Philip Brown

Season 18, Episode 28: Philip Brown is one of the game’s great photographers, having covered more than 300 Tests since 1988. Two decades ago, he had one of the best vantage points possible for the gr…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Our most wholesome day of cricket (and a one-wicket win!)

Season 18, Episode 28: Our inaugural podcast all-star fundraiser at Wormsley was a hit, with The Final Word team getting over the line with one wicket to spare, a big crowd turning out, and money ra…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Story Time 235 – The chase for Skase remains

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff are back together and heading back to Italy in the 1940s, via a detour to Spain in the 2…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

TFW's 10th Anniversary Special! The lost pilot episode

Season 18

Season 18, Episode 26: It is true: The Final Word has turned 10. Technically our first episode was released on July 23, 2015, but July 23 this year was in the middle of a rather busy Test match and T…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Umpire Bharat is better than your umpire

Season 18 Episode 25

Season 18, Episode 25: Top End cricket is happening with Australia and South Africa in Darwin, but our attention is on Leicestershire league cricket where the umpiring controversy of the millennium h…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago