The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Season 3, Ep 10: All the way back to when we used to record The Final Word for the ABC. No Urthboy, no stings, no improper language, just straight down the line. At the end of our third season in February 2017, Geoff comes back from New Zealand, Alastair Cook ditches the England captaincy, Marcus Stoinis produces a one-day miracle in Auckland, Sam Heazlett gets picked despite having never played for his state, New Zealand abandon a match for a lack of rain, and Jeremy Coney loses his rag.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 9: It is late January in 2017, Donald Trump's inauguration week, in which Billy Stanlake is King of Geelong, Glenn Maxwell is switch-hitting to the moon, an exorcism is held against Marsh spirits, Peter Handscomb makes his one-day debut, Allan Border is prohibited from getting old, Yuvraj Singh keeps going for India aged 57, and Jess Cameron combines with Amy Satterthwaite for one of the wildest last-ball finishes ever.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 8: Stop us if this sounds familiar: it's January, around the Sydney Test, there's a tour to India coming up any minute, and we're wondering whether Mitchell Swepson is good enough to feature. Matthew Renshaw is coming into the side, Glenn Maxwell is vying for a spot with Travis Head. But this is 2017. Also on this episode: Minty Panesar (sic), Javed Miandad and his I Love New York hat, Kim Garth arrives in the Big Bash, and the most runs you could score and wickets you could lose in the same Super Over.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 7: With Pakistan's Test series wrapped up in Sydney, let's spend a moment on the great undersung career of Younis Khan: on the occasion of his 34th Test ton, having reached the rare club with more hundreds than fifties. David Warner made his own hundred in the first session of the Test, backing it up with the fastest Australian fifty, while we made wildly inaccurate predictions about his future. Matt Renshaw is trying to get to India, Peter Handscomb has never been dismissed short of fifty, Hilton Cartwright debuted. Plus an early Adam use of "private collection" and a sitcom starring Viv Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq. In T20s, Deandra Dottin is the Terminator, the Beth Mooney and Kirby Short partnership is growing, and we get in early to demand that Michael Klinger captains the Australian side.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 6: Happy New Year for 2017! Our new NYE segment is Best & Worst. Admittedly it is a short segment at the end of the show, but before that we have to talk about a wonderful Boxing Day Test. Mitchell Starc has missed a lot of them, but reserved his best all-round performance for this one against Pakistan, despite the best efforts of Azhar Ali.Also this week: Gusatvo Kuerten, Thomas Muster, and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, a night for Steve O'Keefe at Revolver, and the first Dream Dinner Party on The Final Word. And with Matthew Wade struggling with the gloves, this question: "If we want to go really left field, is Tim Paine starting to lurk again?"This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 5: It's the Gabba just before Christmas in 2016, a match in which Pakistan get set 490 to win... and damn near run it down. Asad Shafiq, Yasir Shah and Mitchell Starc play the defining hands in the first pink-ball match played in Brisbane, including the first appearance of a swimming pool in the stands, and one of the most joyful fifth days in Test cricket. Experience the magic.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com 20% off primo WoodstockCricket.co.uk bats with the code TFW20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 4: David Warner is on one of the hottest batting streaks in one-day cricket history. After saying that it was his worst format, he has finally cracked the code - and we wonder what his character would be like in anime. Our ABC colleague Brittany Carter joins us to talk WBBL in its second season, and we work out how to measure the relative numerousness of 637,000 people, using snacks.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 3: Glenn Maxwell exiled from the one-day team for answering a question about batting higher up the order? Yep. It's the middle of the Steve Smith era as cricket supremo, while making a squillion runs in every format. Also this week , Amanda-Jade Wellington debuts for Australia to take a wicket with her first ball. Matthew Mott is played this week by Emilio Estevez, Travis Head makes a case in the one-day middle order, and we give a detailed team-by-team WBBL preview. Ah, granular.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 2: After the Hobart debacle and the Australia's Got Talent round of the Sheffield Shield, a new-look Australian team takes the field in Adelaide. Faf du Plessis plays smarter, not harder, to set an all-time Test record, Usman Khawaja demonstrates that him opening the batting might just be a great idea, Adam suffers from a case of delirium, we talk about "hardness" and Handscomb subverting cliches of masculinity, and The Quiney Nine is joined by the Renshaw Ten.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordFind previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 3, Ep 1: What a week this was. Early November, 2016, Donald Trump has just been elected US President, Geoff returns from following the circus in the US, and we go straight into Hobart where South Africa demolish the home side in seven sessions. We wondered if it was the lowest point for the Test team in our lifetimes. At the time, maybe. Get all the wash-up with The Final Word.This season was originally recorded for the ABC.Send us a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find more episodes at finalwordcricket.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices