Season 10, Ep 5: Is he the first live-streaming superstar? The cricket world turned to a dodgy video feed from a gale-struck Canterbury as Darren Stevens produced one of the more audacious innings in the first-class game. Fifteen sixes later, he nearly reached a double ton while ...
2021-05-26 13:41:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 4: Horror movies teach us that if you don't annihilate the monster, it always comes back. Australia's ball-tampering story was never buried properly the first time around. This week we speak to Peter Lalor about the news side of the story that won't go away. Also, v...
2021-05-20 03:09:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Look at this lovely chap. Go on, have a look. There he is. What a good egg.
For Season 10, Ep 3, we settled in for what we expected would be a decently long conversation, and hit stop on the tape an hour and a half later. The magic of Bumble, a man who really has done...
2021-05-13 14:22:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy smoke, it's May already. That happened fast. Adam is flat out doing the Middlesex cricket commentary stream. It also ended up on Sky Cricket once the IPL went under. Geoff is working on a few projects in Melbourne. A few days ago, this episode went up.
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2021-05-08 11:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 10, Ep 1: This week Karunya wrote fiercely about the deafness of the Indian Premier League to the suffering outside its gates. She joins the show to explain the humanitarian disaster that has overtaken India during the biggest covid wave the world has seen.
We thorou...
2021-04-29 09:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
That's Glenn Maxwell up the top, who has made good on calling through to us from the heart of the IPL for three weeks running. Good follow-through from him. They've just moved from Chennai to Mumbai and are very aware of the harsh realities outside the bubble. You can watch that video, or find th...
2021-04-23 12:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostA reminder that you can join an (online) audience for the weekly Final Word show on Tuesday April 20. Neil Manthorp will also be joining us to give an update on dramatic recent political developments in South African cricket.
The medium will be a video call on Zoom, and we'll be openi...
2021-04-19 12:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 29: It's that time again: new Wisden Almanack time. In what has become a tradition – three years makes a tradition, right? – we sat down with Almanack editor Lawrence Booth to go through the pages of The Good Book and get his explanation of all that lies therein....
2021-04-15 05:48:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It happened. With the IPL is a biosecure fortress, Maxi has agreed to be our contact on the inside. First up is the escape from quarantine, and the chaos of pre-tournament week, where capitalism matters more than cricket. The video is above, the audio pod is 2021-04-08 11:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh hey. You look nice. Good to see you. Really should have posted this episode last week, but then Easter happened and we actually turned off the computers for a few days. Hope you found it in the podcast feed. Or on the video, up top.
Since we're trying to catch ...
2021-04-05 12:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello world. Up the top of the post you might recognise Harsha. If you're a long-time listener (first-time caller), you will have heard this interview from our Christmas 2018 show. But you won't have seen it, because we did take a video in case we ever had a use for it. Now we have a video channe...
2021-03-27 11:04:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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 s...
2021-03-18 03:07:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 fa...
2021-03-11 05:41:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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, s...
2021-03-05 12:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
You may have heard on a recent show about a particular shot over cover played by a particular person very unlikely to do so. By chance the square leg umpire Michael Olle decided to film Geoff's first ball at the crease, presumably anticipating something funny. So if you'd like to share in it, thi...
2021-03-03 11:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the fourth and final TFW post for February.
Season 9, Ep 22: A busy cricket week, even aside from the final match in the Yarra Pub Cricket Association for the storied DOCCC (e...
2021-02-23 09:07:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly, if you'd like to see what happens when Sydney rain threatens Adam's laptop and hair (choose your order of priority) you'll have to see what happens at the end of this TFW Daily video. Quite the entertainment.
Cam Fink has extended his skills from shooting to animating for thi...
2021-02-19 08:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 20: Featuring Damien Fleming, Dermott Brereton, and Adam White in guest spots, this week's episode comes direct from the Media XI cricket match against the MCC. In the spirit of our accidental Aussie Rules tangents, the match also featured Nick Riewoldt, Brendon Godd...
2021-02-12 07:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, we should have posted this here a few days ago but... here is last week's episode! Also at the top is one of our Final Word Daily videos, if you haven't found ...
2021-02-09 08:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 18: "How you wanna raise a flag with a rifle / To make us want to celebrate anything but survival?" So goes the A.B. Originals song January 26. This year Cricket Australia stopped using the term 'Australia Day' to promote matches, recognising that it's a day of mourn...
2021-01-27 10:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 17: Sometimes an interview comes along that knocks our socks off. We all think that we know Marcus Stoinis: the big smile, the big sixes, the cheekiness, the time in the gym. We expected to talk to Marcus about his career, but instead the conversation went somewhere ...
2021-01-21 02:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 16: One of the more pointless furores of our time must be about Steve Smith scraping his foot on the pitch in the Sydney Test. On this week's show we go into the detail of that one which has been mostly overlooked. We also look at Tim Paine's apology for losing his c...
2021-01-17 12:44:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Belated on some of this, but it's a been a hectic Test match week, and we have a million things to share. All made possible by you wonderful lot on Ye Olde Patreone. Thank you.
First up, the most recent weekly show. If you weren't there for our Stuart MacGill interview late last year, the e...
2021-01-11 17:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 14: Happy New Year! Load up your glasses and turn on the show in the fresh hours of the next. The terrible times of 2020 are behind us, and the indistinct times of 2021 are ahead. So what were the best and worst, the highs and the lows? We'll head around the cricket ...
2021-01-01 11:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A little optional extra, because we have our ace videographer Cam the Cameraman Fink with us at the MCG this week, so he's filmed our Daily Show podcasts in his usual lovely style. We've used a few different locations and included bits that didn't make it onto the final audio.
We may ...
2020-12-28 11:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 13: At Christmas time, we like to sit down for a long chat with someone well loved by The Final Word. The first time was Harsha, last year was Mel Jones, and this time it had to be Jim Maxwell, who will be a rare absence from the Boxing Day Test. We also hope we can ...
2020-12-24 05:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The Daily Show has started. And Adam is here! It's Day 2 at Adelaide at the time of posting, and we're together at last. We won't post them on this page, but check your pod feed for the short dailies during the four Australia-India Tests.
We will post:
Season 9, Ep 12: 2020-12-18 09:26:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 11: Geoff's new book is in shops across Australia and the UK, so we'll roleplay an interview. And so much cricket: Will Pucovski's injury, Maxi getting inside the Indians' heads, captaincy shuffles and Cam Green, tactical arguments, Test opening shuffles, England bai...
2020-12-12 04:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 10: It seems Glenn likes the SCG. The Aussie men's summer is underway, and the one-dayers have been spectacular with Steve Smith centuries, the Finch-Warner partnership, and Maxi's destruction at the end. The Women's Big Bash finals are over with the Sydney Thunder t...
2020-12-01 07:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 9, Ep 9: This episode is in fact released on Peter Siddle's birthday, and on the 10th anniversary of that birthday hat-trick. The day is now one of sadness as well as celebration for him, as he has explained before. The conflicting ways that life unfolds. Pete has had an e...
2020-11-24 13:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post