The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Everything you need to know from a rain-shortened session in Cardiff.  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the great high-scoring matches, with a record World Cup chase set for the world's highest-scoring team. Pakistan always do Pakistan things. We know it's a cliche, but they just keep doing it. After getting smashed by the West Indies, they've hit back with a fierce challenge to England.  Drama at Trent Bridge!  Geoff and Adam have the rundown.  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bangladesh took on South Africa at the Oval in London on Day Four, with a massive crowd of supporters. We've been waiting a while for a close game, and we got one.  Not many people have tipped Bangladesh to go far in this tournament, but they might have a few more supporters now.  This episode of The World Cup Daily comes to you from Vauxhall Street.  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 comes to you from the back of a car on the motorway from Bristol, after the first double header of the World Cup.  Australia had their first hit-out of the Cup against crowd favourites Afghanistan, while a Green Mamba arose for the contest, very short contest, in Cardiff between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pakistan and West Indies: two teams without a lot of backers, but that might change after this performance. Both needed to get their World Cup off to a good start.  Adam and Geoff can bring you the short and sweet version of a short and sweet game.  Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

England might have been nervous ahead of their home World Cup opener, but were trying not to show it as they headed to The Oval to face South Africa.  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 6, Ep 1: At last. After years of distant admiration, the guiding star of the Final Word has visited earth. Glenn Maxwell, on the eve of a World Cup in which he's one of the brightest in the firmament, took a moment out to sit down with Adam and Geoff in a Bristol garden, take a breath, and take stock of his life so far. "You want to show people that you're a real person, and not just a 20-foot flag outside the MCG." "If my career ended tomorrow I'd be ok. I'd be able to find other avenues in my life where I'd still get the same joy." "I don't understand how I'm able to hit sixes." "That was literally everything I could have dreamed of as a kid, happening in front of my eyes." Funny, generous, and thoughtful, this is a cricketer who everyone has watched, showing a side that not many people would have got to know. 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 5, Ep 23: All ten World Cup captains gathered in a disused warehouse to announce their joint billing in a gritty new crime drama. Ben Stokes leapt around his own disused warehouse on an SAS cricket course. But the real attention this week went to Virat Kohli's musical crusade for clear skin, as he embarked on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of face spots. Geoff joins Adam in London ahead of cricket's global showdown, for what was supposed to be a half episode before the Matthew Renshaw interview but that has spiralled out of control into a being all of its own. Join in the Patreon community at patreon.com/thefinalword. 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 5, Ep 22: He had a dream start and some later struggles, but hasn't lost his head. Australia and Queensland opening batsman Matthew Renshaw is forthright about surviving the spotlight aged 20, filling gaps after the Cape Town debacle, and how to manage gastro in front of an international audience. Join in the Patreon community at patreon.com/thefinalword. 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 5, Ep 21: Well, maybe not quite. "It's very complex," he reckons. But Radio One's breakfast DJ will be doing his best to give airtime to the World Cup theme song. He speaks to the Final Word about cricket's chances of cutting through to a new audience in Britain, then we hear from Cricinfo's Daniel Brettig about his new book revealing the secret meeting between Don Bradman and Kerry Packer that ended the World Series Cricket war. We recorded this before the IPL final, so that'll come next week. Join in the Patreon community at patreon.com/thefinalword. Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices