The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: what happens when Boony's biggest secret is revealed? Who slides into the Old Spinner category late in the piece? And a week after the most ridiculous scorecard we've yet discovered, a Bannerman that gives it a run for its money. We'll uncover the true story of Milo, the link between Steve Waugh and Paulan Umrigar, and the England XI that went on to run the world even though it didn't at the time. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 3.09 – Rob Richardson & Joel Burton 4.84 – President Richard Bond McNally 5.08 – Mel Shawley & Chris Unwin 5.57 – Will Cuckson 6.56 – Chris Unwin again?! 2.43 – One of the Tom Stewarts Your new Julio Pledges: Walter Fagen Shyam Sundaraman Andrew Barker Hannah Edmonds Divyanshu Agrawal Sean Williamson Pankaj Challa Devashish Das The Rev. Dylan Nichols Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword  Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  Check out the Lord's Taverners programs to help kids at lordstaverners.org CBUS Super is at cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 9, Ep 25: You may not associate Brazil with cricket. You may not know that 14 women recently won the country's first central contracts. But the game has been afoot in Brazil for some time, using innovative ways to help cricket take root rather than being transplanted from overseas, and in the process helping young Brazilians from disadvantaged places. It's one hell of a tale, and we're joined by national captain Roberta Moretti and Cricket Brasil head Matt Featherstone to tell it. Also this week: Afghanistan work hard to win a Test against Zimbabwe, while also becoming an unlikely bargaining chip between Channel Seven and Cricket Australia. South Africa's women and England's men put on a stirring display in limited-overs matches in India. And our humble show passes the 2 million mark. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 4.00 – Andrew Gilbertson 2.47 – Jono Haylen 5.71 – Sukrit Munjal The Cricket Brasil fundraising link is gogetfunding.com/cricketbrazil Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Message from anywhere on earth with your ZOLEO, at zoleo.com Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Get Geoff’s new book, The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by  Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here is perhaps the greatest tale we have yet told on Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener challenges. Get ready to learn about the disco to end all discos, and a grand plan for next year. We'll feature the hottest vigil, some cryptic clippers, the longest gun in the West, the best in women's Tests, more mathematics clues that we're not qualified to solve, another trip to 1930s India, the sunniest day for Northamptonshire, and a visit with our old friend SE Marsh. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 2.99 – Rob Taylor 2.85 – Debashish Biswas 3.37 – Martin Blackburn & Alex Veljanovski 1.13 – Matthew Jones 3.25 – Bruce Walker 2.36 – Mike Lea 1.48 – Duncan Davies, Sebastian Greers & Sam Ashworth Plus revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com CBUS Super is at cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 9, Ep 24: At least one England cricketer came back from India with reputation enhanced: Mark Butcher, who was noticed for an excellent couple of Tests behind the microphone. His life before commentary included 71 Test matches, with a series of dramatic highs and drastic falls. Beyond cricket, he's a musician, a considered thinker, and someone who believes in the moral obligation to speak up for others. On The Final Word this week, a long conversation with Mark about life, family, and the wider world. Before that, our usual round-up of the cricket week. Your Nerd Pledge numbers: 6.40 – Anthony Osborn 6.20 – Michael Fitzgerald 46.55 – Fran Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword  Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  Get a discount Wisden Cricket Monthly subscription at bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today we'll visit a walk-up start for the Clem Hill Defenestration Club, one Charlie Parker. Go via the president of the Internet Cricket Club, as it was in the beginning. Check the weather conditions on Kunanyi. Do a medical check on the Boer War, while finding another totally different club that Clem was part of. And track down a 140-year-old coincidence. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 7.37 – Liam Dalton 2.14 – Paul Reeve & Anny Forsyth 6.96 – Edward Edgecumbe 5.68 – Cameron 2.04 – Chris Dobbins 2.97 – Panos, Paul Davenport & Alex Crampton Plus some revisits and confirmations, while others have been held to next week. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com CBUS Super is at cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day 3 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day 2 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day 1 of the Fourth Test at Ahmedabad – The Final Word Daily with Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon will wrap up each day’s action, decide the Player of the Day, and sort the nominations for the Final Word Hall of Fame, all throughout the four Test matches for the coveted Anthony de Mello Trophy. For a discount on a digital subscription for Wisden Cricket Monthly, the magic key is bit.ly/wcmtfw Check out CBUS Super at https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword   Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network  Title track by  Urthboy  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 9, Ep 23: NSW win the 50-over comp every bloody year, but just for a moment the Breakers are fifth. Enjoy the novelty. This week we go back and forth over the Tasman for a range of formats, with some Shield corkers and some T20 madness, some men's games and some women's, some England and New Zealand and India and Australia, as well a detour to Abu Dhabi for Afghanistan and Zimbabwe and their future on free to air. What else? Javed Miandad’s I ❤️ NY hat, Keith Miller's trip to the opera, and of course our old mate Charles Bannerman and those he inspires. It’s another sprawling weekly episode of The Final Word. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.11 – Rahul V 2.67 – Daniel Dabney 7.60 – Stewart Beamont Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com Message from anywhere on earth with your ZOLEO, at zoleo.com Check out CBUS Super at   https://www.cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword Get Geoff’s new book, The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the  Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by  Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. Today: Rob Quiney, healer of seagulls, was there anything he couldn't do? How are 229 and 257 the first and second record holders in two completely different categories? What kind of player took completism to unrivalled levels? Plenty of Tony Greig, for some reason, and Percy Holmes, for others. The most fun you can have at the Brabourne Stadium for 17 days. And why, why, how, do some teams possibly get first-class status? Plus some very important Winnie news off the top. Your new Nerd Pledge numbers: 4.22 – Richard Jones & David Smith 2.50 – Maureen McCord 4.54 – Jack Firth & Ian Bounds 1.47 – Geoff Price 2.77 – Billy Frendo & Rory Seymour 2.42 – Pushkar Godbole 2.16 – Samuel Therkelsen & Jayaprakash Plus plenty more revisits and confirmations. Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword  Find previous episodes at  finalwordcricket.com  Check out the Lord's Taverners programs to help kids at lordstaverners.org CBUS Super is at cbussuper.com.au/thefinalword  Get Geoff’s new book The Comeback Summer The Final Word is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network Title track by Urthboy Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices