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Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword.
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Volley.FM presents Daily Funny Word History A fun, daily podcast that will help expand your vocabulary knowledge, learn common English colloquialisms, useful words, definitions, origins (etymology), and examples of how to use them. American English is full of very weird words, expressions, phrases, and slang. But how often do we use a word without knowing what it really means or where it came from? Words and phrases like ghetto, funk, stool pigeon, or kick the bucket? We use these all the ti ...
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Who retains the T20 Ashes? - TFW Daily, England Australia 2nd T20
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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 reani…
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Livingstone comes off - TFW Daily, England Australia 2nd T20
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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, …
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Story Time 201 – The world record for hurling haggis
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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 o…
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Head butts England - TFW Daily, England Australia 1st T20
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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. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at …
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Season 16, Episode 37: With Australia back in the UK for a major white-ball tour, Adam and Geoff are together again in London. After a week in which Sri Lanka produced an epic Test win, England also have the major loss of Mark Wood injured for months. Quelle surprise. England also have a team for the Australia T20, a squad for their Pakistan tour, …
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Sri Lanka teach England a lesson - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 4
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 4: Pathum Nissanka enjoyed his finest moment as a Test opener, leading Sri Lanka to a stirring come-from-behind triumph. And so the post-mortems begin, with England finishing their red-ball summer with such a poor showing. Nobody better than Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby for that, coming to you from…
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England hand Test to Sri Lanka - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 3
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 3: The extent to which England have botched this deserves as much discussion as celebrating Sri Lanka for thrusting themselves into such a strong position - go you good things. Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsbony are on the tools at The Oval to tell you the story and they do not miss. Support the show wit…
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Sri Lanka are in this - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2: Bad light, bad cricket, a big boy on debut and some offies from Chris Woakes. The day that was at The Oval, which Sri Lanka did well to get back into, with Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins who were together on the balcony. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Wes…
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Pope's ton silences critics - England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1: Ollie Pope had a shocker last week at Lord's but across the river to his dear old home ground, he was back to his best with a fine ton. It defined the opening exchanges of England's third and final Test against Sri Lanka, which was otherwise marred by autumnal rain and gloom. Cam Ponsonby has Daniel…
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If cricket isn't just for rich people, stop pricing it for rich people
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Season 16, Episode 36: A big week, beginning with the very sad and seemingly inevitable confirmation that Will Pucovski's career will end early after one Test for Australia. A different kind of retirement too, at the end of a very long career, as the consummate newsbreaker Malcolm Conn finishes up. Elsewhere, back to a topic that needs to come up m…
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Story Time 200 – Raising the double ton
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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go from Peggy Antonio on episode 200 to another pioneer from the other side of the world. There's some love for a very early Final Word fave who also knew his way around some tunes, a return to one of the nights of Adam's formative (absence of) memory…
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More honours for Atkinson - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4: There wasn't much chance for Sri Lanka, and despite some effort to make a scrap of things, the margin was a big one. It did however give Gus Atkinson another chance at the honours boards at Lord's. Daniel Norcross joins Cameron Ponsonby. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword …
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Root's Twin Tons - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3: A day that went just as we all predicted needed something special, and Joe Root provided it by backing up his day one ton with another, breaking a host of records in the process - he is some cricketer. Adam Collins watched it all at Lord's, and he has Daniel Norcross for company. Support the show with…
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Gus tons up! He can do no wrong - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2: Gus Atkinson's staggering Test summer continues, crushing a run-a-ball maiden ton to get on the Lord's boards for a third time. From there, once the hosts got the ball, Sri Lanka never looked like it and are a mile behind after two days. On the pod tonight, TMS stats wizard Andy Zaltzman returns, join…
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Roooooot does it a 33rd time - England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1
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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1: Joe Root, ton machine. Lord's day one, England need someone to stand up, and there he is with a 33rd Test century to his name. It defined an opening day that got away from Sri Lanka at the end with fast bowler Gus Atkinson 74 not by the close of play. There's nobody better to talk all things Gus than …
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Surprise! Jay Shah is the boss of cricket
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Season 16, Episode 35: In a dramatic twist that nobody saw coming, the most powerful man in cricket continues to be the most powerful man in cricket. The only thing being that he is leaving his job at the BCCI to do much the same job at the ICC. See ya, Greg Barclay. But there is some encouragement in recent comments from the new boss about support…
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The Final Word with Mark Nicholas
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Season 16, Episode 34: August has been a great run for interviews on the pod. And today, to end this busy month, we bring you an hour with a man who has been making a contribution to the game in many varied and interesting ways for the better part of half a century, Mark Nicholas. As a player, captain, journalist and one of the most well-regarded t…
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