The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Season 16, Episode 38: They form the most Final Word adjacent domestic team in the world, and after a long winless streak The Freaks have done it. Some silverware courtesy of the T20 Blast. Take that, Freak haters. Also this week, baseless news gets all the attention out of Afghanistan although the real news is worse. South Africa is the latest country to grapple with the ethics of playing a Taliban-backed team. Kamindu Mendis keeps making tons, Ireland's women take down England a second time, Marli Beardman has the next great Australian name, and the ICC have dropped a fresh new track for your commute.

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The 2024 England Australia Daily, 3rd T20, Manchester: It was a washout in Manchester: colour us surprised. But does that mean we won't record a Final Word Daily? Hell no! We still have to decide who now holds the T20 Ashes, and we have plenty to talk about ahead of the ODI series with new England captains, weird squad substitutions, and some reanimated corpses stumbling towards 2027. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon from the Old Trafford scorer's box.

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The 2024 England Australia Daily, 2nd T20, Cardiff: Wales has not been a happy hunting ground for Australia, and it looked like that might change on a brisk night when Travis Head and Matt Short again got flying. The contest didn't end there though, with a returning Brydon Carse having a say before the influence of Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, and a truly mad finish. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon.

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we heed the Pet Shop Boys with their good advice to Go West, with double answers from Australia's less populous seaboard. There we seek the answer to an endless question: was a certain person Long, Big, or both? And how far could he shotput the stomach of a sheep? Also this week, the size of the back of a fag packet, and the world's least playable wrong 'un from the world's most fragile shoulder.

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3.40 - Jack Jorgensen
2.87 - Matt Wing
4.56 - Stu G
4.42 - Angus Digby (revisit)

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The 2024 England Australia Daily, 1st T20, Southampton: Travis Head has been on a different planet for the last year. When he's not pinging golden ducks, he's pinging record fifties and tons. So it was on a cold night in Southampton where other than Travioli, leg-spinners ruled. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon.

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