Women's T20 World Cup, Day 5 - England/South Africa: It was tougher than it looked. Chasing anything over a run-a-ball in this comp will be, and that's what South Africa set England at Sharjah. In the power play it looked like loads, but then the hyphenated pair sorted it out to give Heather Knight's side a second win. Cam Ponsonby is with Daniel N…

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we start by looking back at how Bangladesh went from destruction to a seat at cricket's top table. From there, the stories of two Queenslanders - a Slasher and a leggie. We finish with some cryptic fun that takes us back to Jamaica in 1995 where the Waug…

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 4 - India/Pakistan, West Indies/Scotland: What is it about India and Pakistan at World Cups? It went as predicted, with Harman's team bouncing back from their loss to the White Ferns. Later, it was the Windies' turn to get on the board after dropping their tournament opener. Over to Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby at Dub…

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 3 - Australia/Sri Lanka, England/Bangladesh: Not the most clinical performances from Australia nor England, but the favourites did enough to overcome Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively in their tournament-openers. It’s in Sharjah where Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby are with you tonight for their recap. Support the s…

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 2 - New Zealand/India, South Africa/West Indies: Well, well. India, the team everyone thought might give it a shake and challenge Australia have been hammered by New Zealand in the White Ferns' most significant World Cup victory in over a decade. Meanwhile, South Africa were just as ruthless in dispatching the Windies. Th…

Women's T20 World Cup, Day 1 - Bangladesh/Scotland, Pakistan/Sri Lanka: A crucial opening night win in this World Cup for Pakistan’s women, seeing off the dangerous Sri Lanka. Earlier, Scotland did a lot right with the ball against Bangladesh but didn’t have enough with the bat. For the first of our daily eps, coming thick and fast every day from t…

Season 17, Episode 1: Is Hampshire but the first domino to fall? Now sold to the conglomerate that owns the Delhi Capitals in the IPL, county cricket could be set to change in ways that would've been barely believable a decade ago. It's the start of a very busy agenda that takes us around the World Test Championship, to domestic competitions near a…

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 5th ODI, Bristol: We got there. Five matches, five results. This one could have fallen either way, with both teams walking the tightrope of imminent rain. It was another contest that went wildly one way or another. Sometimes bowlers looked unplayable, other times they looked unusable. But a flurry of boundaries dec…

It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, after orbiting her at a distance for several months, Adam and Geoff spend some time with one of Daniel's favourites, Betty Snowball. Also this week, a tale of Scotland, a one-day match that is both famous but remembered in almost no detail, and an equall…

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 4th ODI, Lord's: Series level. What a spectacle. Rain first, shortened to 39 overs a side, then one of the most bizarre matches you will ever see. Explosive hitting, supreme fast bowling, 2023 callbacks, 2019 callbacks, 2013 callbacks, and more besides. Jofra Archer, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Liam Livingston…

Season 16, Episode 39: The Australian season begins, even as the English season continues to a chilly end. We’ve been busy with our TFW match and a book deadline - find out all about both. And everything else has been busy, with the county championship nearing its end, the 50-over silverware decided, Test matches around the world with another Ashwi…

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 3rd ODI, Durham: We got a game! They said it would rain, but Chester-le-Street had sunshine in patches and we got most of the overs in. It was tough going against the local seamers early, but Steve Smith did his thing and Alex Carey saved the day again for Australia. Then it was over to England, where Will Jacks an…

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 2nd ODI, Headingley: No, there was no Daily for the 1st ODI. Sometimes, even Can't Stop Won't Stop is defeated by a deadline. But we're back on the horse for the second match, with Cameron Ponsonby joining Geoff in Leeds. Last time Alex Carey came here, he got a very hostile reception. This time, he showed them wha…

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 cou…

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…

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, …

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…