Podcast Episodes

TFW Ashes Daily - The Smith machine turns on - 5th Test, Sydney Day 3

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 3: In truth, it has been a long time coming in Ashes cricket, but in the Year of Our Lord 2026, Steve Smit…

2 months ago

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TFW Ashes Daily - Root & Head on the same day - 5th Test, Sydney Day 2

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 2: It was a day for batting, in both camps, as the SCG provided some challenges but also some opportunitie…

2 months ago

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TFW Ashes Daily - The engine room arrives - 5th Test, Sydney Day 1

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 1: For a moment it looked like we would have another crazy fast Test innings, but then things changed. Joe…

2 months ago

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TFW Ashes Daily - Khawaja's done, Smith isn't - 5th Test, Sydney Day 0

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 0: It's been a busy couple of days in the SCG press conference room with Usman Khawaja pulling the pin and…

2 months ago

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Michael Bevan's New Year's Miracle, 30 years on

Season 19 Episode 20

Season 19, Episode 20: On this day, three decades ago. New Year's Day. Michael Bevan, Roger Harper... you know it. To recognise this cherished momen…

2 months ago

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The Best & Worst of 2025

Season 19 Episode 19

Season 19, Episode 19: Happy New Year! Time for another Final Word tradition, the best and worst in cricket of 2025. This past year was one with a lo…

2 months ago

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No retirement signal from Usman Khawaja

Season 19 Episode 18

Season 19, Episode 18: With another longer than expected pause between Tests, thoughts turn to Sydney and the end of the series. But there is no sign…

2 months ago

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Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp

Season 19

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII…

2 months ago

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TFW Ashes Daily - the MCG aftermath

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3 wrap: The whole country is fixated on one thing: 22 yards of grass in the middle of the MCG, and how …

2 months, 1 week ago

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TFW Ashes Daily - England break the drought - 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2

Season 19

The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2: Once again, we are left to survey a field of smoking wreckage and ask, what the hell was that? Anoth…

2 months, 1 week ago

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