The Final Word Cricket Podcast

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. One show away from our century, it's time to clear the decks with our biggest revisit show yet. Everything from the cryptic to the hidden to the forgotten to the untelevised, we humbly suggest that we have done some of our best detective work to date on this episode. Jump in.Your Nerd Pledge revisits this week:10.00 - Hayley Fuller1.32 - Matthew Jones5.31 - Jim Carnegie3.82 - Thomas Havell4.40 - Ben Helliwell5.26 - Simon McInerney4.36 - Dom Griffiths13.33 - Anna Collins5.18 - David Nicholls4.66 - Ollie Chauhan6.79 - Alex Crampton10.88 - Mark Henderson3.38 - Not That Tim Minchin2.38 - Dannish Babar6.18 - ED2.48 - Lee Geldard2.22 - Gopal B4.58 - Fred CowenSend us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind other episodes at finalwordcricket.com20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Australia edged past India, winning by 3 wickets. Then Barbados beat Pakistan by 15 runs. The Final Word Daily is brought to you by Advanced Hair Studio. To receive 15% off click on the link! http://advancedhairstudio.com/finalword/The Final Word will be at every women's cricket matches at the Commonwealth Games, with Geoff Lemon & Natalie Germanos at stumps doing The Day in 30 Seconds, The Hall of Fame, and covering all of the action. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPu3kR3EfUaKwOzwzgHPUOg/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 19: More runs in professional cricket than anyone, more runs in a single Test than anyone, setter of dozens of England records. For 27 years Graham Gooch played first-class cricket, and he's stayed around the game ever since. On the anniversary of his magnum opus 333, he sits down with The Final Word at his spiritual home of the Essex County Ground to go through it all: starting against Lillee and Thomson, troughs and peaks, South African rebel tours, looking after twins, World Cup heartbreaks, and the drive to keep being better.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 18: With Geoff out of action, Adam invited Vithushan Ethantharajah to his North London backyard to put the world to rights after Ravi Shastri's grim blueprint for Test cricket. There was celebration too after Sam's Northeast's stunning quadruple ton and a look ahead to cricket in the Commonwealth Games. Oh, and Nerd Pledge offers the perfect indie dancefloor / Pakistan Test cricket crossover for those who like that sort of thing. Your Nerd Pledge number this week:4.58 - Fred CowenSend us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. On this episode, the greatest Greek to swing a club since Heracles - and why he's connected to current Sri Lankan Kusal Mendis. A book gift that led us to a forgotten off-spinner, a wicketkeeper who outscored them all, a team that didn't score any, and an Ashes hat-trick that one of us naturally did not see. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:7.99 - Henry Branson6.06 - Jake Cunliffe2.42 - Lewis Tobia5.23 - Susan Cain10.40 - Rosie Piper1.32 - Matthew JonesSend us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind other episodes at finalwordcricket.com20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 17: Owner of one of the cleanest cover drives in the game, Laura Wolvaardt burst onto the scene as the Teen Wolf: the youngest cricketer to make an international century, shortly before lighting up the 2017 World Cup. These days she's a senior South African player by the age of 23, with a very evident determination that is taking her from strength to strength. She sits down with The Final Word during the Proteas' tour of England to talk us through the road to here.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 16: It was melting outside, so we retreated inside to the air-conditioning at The Oval to record this week's episode. This week: Matt Roller from Cricinfo joins the show. The Big Bash is in real trouble with IPL teams buying out the competing South African league, while South Africans give up on the ODI World Cup. There was real Final Word flavour to the bizarre end of England's domestic T20 final. The Future Tours schedule gets leaked, Ben Stokes retires from ODIs, South Africa's women get steamrolled by a renewed England, Ireland fall just short against New Zealand, and Pakistan set up a Test epic in Sri Lanka.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:2.48 - Lee GeldardSend us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This time, a very rare QUADRUPLE HEADER. Not Travis Head crossed with the Hydra, but rarer still, as rare as a competent Travis Head shot against spin. We've got dodgy umpires, dodgy scorers, dodgy openers, and dodgy overs. We've got Younis Khan majesty, medical emergency, and David Guetta. And as you might have guessed, a lot about the box.Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:3.13 - Ryan Smith7.84 - Cam Again1.08 - Geoff Price2.22 - Pranav Lalan, Gopal B, Nick Dempsey & Matthew Share.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind other episodes at finalwordcricket.com20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 15: The second part of our long and winding conversation with former New Zealand skipper Jeremy Coney, recorded on tour in Sri Lanka. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 12, Ep 14: He's always up for a chat, and there are few more interesting people to listen to than Jeremy Coney, who has a much bigger story beyond his time as New Zealand captain in their most successful era of the mid 1980s. Family, theatre, song, musical instruments, travel, teaching, exploration - he sits down with us to talk through it all. Part two to follow tomorrow.Your Nerd Pledge number this week:48.00 - Kennedy H. RossSend us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW2015% off treatment at AdvancedHairStudio/FinalWordThe Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast NetworkTitle track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices