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  • Season 18, Episode 11: A charged political atmosphere this week, with Australia's election having just taken place, while the ECB fold to the current campaign to push transgender people to the margins of society. Meanwhile, India and Pakistan tensions reach their highest level in years, with cricket relations sure to be further affected. Otherwise, Kagiso Rabada is back after a spell on the Plum Warners, Bangladesh level the Test series with Zimbabwe, and there's our county wrap plus IPL with Ben Jones.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠⁠⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠⁠⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Wisden and never pay full price for the Almanack again: ⁠www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe⁠Get your big NordVPN discount: ⁠⁠⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠⁠⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠⁠⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠⁠⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠⁠⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠⁠⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠⁠⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠⁠⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interest rates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rate applies to the portion within that range. New members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠⁠⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠⁠⁠Claim £100 cash back (on a £5k deposit) at: ⁠⁠⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠⁠⁠Find previous episodes at ⁠⁠⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠⁠⁠Title track by ⁠⁠⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, it's Daniel Norcross guest hosting, so he begins with a proverb to live by for running between the wickets. What exactly happened on Sandpaper Day? Adam tells the story from his vantage point in the radio box. Later, they move on to Steve Waugh's farewell, with Bharat slotting in to explain why it was someone else's final outing in Australia too - his cousin.Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:4.12 - Brendan Crabb1.50 - Andrew Pelechaty6.85 - Tom Bustin1.80 - IndiSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and never pay RRP for it again: ⁠⁠www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribeGet your big NordVPN discount: ⁠⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at ⁠⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠⁠Title track by ⁠⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  • Season 18 Episode 10: A left-handed opener from Perth who grew up idolising Justin Langer, in Marcus Harris you have a player who was meant to fit a certain mould. But over his long professional career, which started in 2011 when he smashed a big ton as an 18-year-old in his third game for WA, the 32-year-old has been on a journey that has seen his game evolve into the finished product following stints in the Test team. County cricket has been a significant part of that. He is currently at Lancashire in his fifth championship season, developing consistency that has confounded expectations of what his best might look like if he gets the chance for Australia again. A most engaging guest, he takes us through the rollercoaster ride and the calm that has followed.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠⁠⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠⁠⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and never pay RRP for it again: ⁠www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe⁠Get your big NordVPN discount: ⁠⁠⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠⁠⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠⁠⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠⁠⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠⁠⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠⁠⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠⁠⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠⁠⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠⁠⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠⁠⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠⁠⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠⁠⁠Find previous episodes at ⁠⁠⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠⁠⁠Title track by ⁠⁠⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 9: With the power outage in Lisbon it’s Daniel Norcross stepping in this week as Adam returns to a familiar sofa under the Jardine portrait in Tooting. Fronting the agenda are off-field discussions following our Richard Gould interview, extending to how the English game might look after its latest review. The County Championship is never dull, with the Foxes of Leicestershire hunting for their first promotion as the Surrey machine clicks into top gear for the first time in 2025. There’s also plenty of action to recap in the Women’s One Day Cup before Ben Jones (on his 30th birthday!) takes us to India where the rest of the world is so focused – a staggering 35-ball ton by 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi in the IPL.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and never pay RRP for it again: www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribeGet your big NordVPN discount: ⁠⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠⁠Find previous episodes at ⁠⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠⁠Title track by ⁠⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, there's only one thing on the menu at Diego's dinner, but would a modern-day Plum Warner have been on the gear? That aside, this is a wholesome family episodes with links through both pledges and answers, plus the history of Argentina and some myth investigation about the biggest name in wrestling. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:8.75 - Samuel Chappel18.96 - Richard Jansz-Moore7.38 - Elliott Brannen2.30 - Andrew NixonSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠ Get your big NordVPN discount: ⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit https://tide.co/savingsClaim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: https://tide.co/offers/tfwFind previous episodes at ⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠Title track by ⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 8: We like forging traditions on the pod and one of those is speaking with Lawrence Booth, the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, at Lord's on the day the little yellow wonder is released each year. We go through the 162nd edition in the usual way, published at a moment when there is much up for grabs in the global game - documented with care and caution in the editors' notes. From there, the chance to celebrate the best of the game in all its forms and from every corner of the cricket world. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠Tickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: ⁠uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025⁠ Get your big NordVPN discount: ⁠nordvpn.com/tfw⁠Sort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: ⁠odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-word⁠Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: ⁠mauriceblackburn.com.au⁠Get 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: ⁠t20vision.com/FINALWORD⁠Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at ⁠finalwordcricket.com⁠Title track by ⁠UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 7: Call it a mutual admiration society: given the way we respect Wisden, it's nice to get an observation back. More importantly this week, the kind of wild net-run-rate ending that we've been anticipating for some time came to pass in the women's World Cup qualifiers. The new English women's domestic system got started, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh played a stunner in their Test series, and Bangladesh's 10 and 11 remain the most entertaining batters in world cricket. Jason Gillespie tackles the Pakistan board, and there are moments worth looking at in a county round dampened by rain. Then, Ben Jones in the IPL warns against the rise of our robot overlords.Your Nerd Pledge revisit for this week:5.30 - Claire Danny DanielSupport the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordTickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025 Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfwSort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-wordMaurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.auGet 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORDSave more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 6: Richard Gould has always been up for a lively chat over the years, whether that was in his previous gig as the boss at Surrey or since taking over England cricket's top administrative job in 2022 and this is no different. Here, two years after our previous visit to his office, the chief executive at ECB towers talks through what is shaping up as a vital period ahead both at home and on the global stage. A worthwhile conversation - we got through plenty.Tickets for the 18th of August - get them quick and bring your mates: uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordGet your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfwSort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-wordMaurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.auGet 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORDSave more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 5: It’s official: Dan Worrall is one of the five cricketers of the year in the 2025 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, following a third dominant season as Surrey completed a county threepeat. From a lower-grade club spinner in Melbourne to the South Australian Shield team to the Aussie one-day team to going full-time in England, he’s the definition of a modern journeyman. Now the 33-year-old finds himself in the mix for an England Test call-up, having met the eligibility to change countries. There was a fair bit to sink our teeth into when he took us through his unorthodox and intriguing journey in the professional game.Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordTickets for our Wormsley match, August 18: uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025 Get your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfwSort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-wordMaurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.auGet 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORDSave more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, a wild tale from early colonial history about Australia's first political assassination, and how it links to the first Test match in 1877. Also, a heatwave with an Arctic deviation, the masters of so near and yet so far, and a tribute to the influence of Shannon Doherty and Tori Spelling. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:Lachlan K - 4.80Simon Rae-Woods - 4.77Angus Calder - 4.16James Ralston - 9.02Mike Wood (revisit) - 4.63Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordGet your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfwOr 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORDFind help from Odin Mortgage & Tax: odintax.comContact Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.auSave more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 4: Over the years, we’ve had the company of many people for whom cricket is not their day job, but none with as many letters after their name. Mervyn King’s life in economics involved teaching at some of the finest universities, going on to become the long-standing governor of the Bank of England. That term included the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, as one of the world’s most important figures in finding a way out of that shock. Now retired, he’s able to give to the game he’s loved since growing up in the 1950s, serving this year as president of MCC. In the Lord’s pavilion, he spoke with Adam about a complex period of transition in the international game, and his own vast career.Tickets for the 18th of August - get them quick and bring your mates: uk.emma-live.com/WormsleyFinal2025 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalwordGet your big NordVPN discount: nordvpn.com/tfwSort out expat finances with Odin Mortgage & Tax: odinmortgage.com/partner/the-final-wordMaurice Blackburn Lawyers - fighting for the rights of workers since 1919: mauriceblackburn.com.auGet 10% off Glenn Maxwell's sunnies: t20vision.com/FINALWORDSave more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interestrates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rateapplies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠https://tide.co/savings⁠Claim your £100 cash back (for a £5k deposit) at: ⁠https://tide.co/offers/tfw⁠Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.comTitle track by UrthboyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Season 18, Episode 3: Great news this week that after years of campaigning, the ICC board has agreed to support Afghanistan’s women cricketers in exile. Details aren’t yet clear but the principle is. Also this week, more Olympic news, James Anderson is made a knight, a hefty county round includes some sizzling finishes, and there was an even better one in the unofficial Australia-England Test starring Charli Knott.

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  • That's right, we've been kindly offered the chance to play on Wormsley, one of the most beautiful cricket grounds in the world, with The Final Word XI set to take on our mates at Zero Ducks Given on Monday the 18th of August. It's a superb opportunity for us to raise money for The Lord's Taverners, the charity close to both podcasts, so we came together for this chat (a collaboration, if you will) with Toby Tarrant and Daniel Norcross. Tickets are available in the below link: £20 to watch or £90 to have a day out in the marquee. Book the day off work now!

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  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Adam and Geoff reunite from The Oval in London, and as luck would have it, this show includes two separate stories featuring a great Oval moment and a great Oval player. It also, rather less expectedly, includes the story of the Australian Shahid Afridi, who did so many miles from Traralgon to Doncaster that he earned the right to tweak a birth certificate or two.

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    2.21 - Kennedy H. Ross
    4.62 - Jim Carnegie
    4.53 - Paddy Considine
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  • Season 18, Episode 2: It can’t be easy putting red-ball cricket first as a modern West Indian cricketer, but that’s exactly what Kemar Roach has done. Throughout a long and winding international career the start in 2008, and is still going strong 17 years later, the quick from Barbados has always given complete commitment across 85 Test Matches. Back in London for his fifth stint with Surrey, after playing a key role in their county threepeat, he joined Adam at The Oval to reflect on his adventures in the game. In doing so, he wasn’t short of an opinion about the importance of financing Caribbean cricket in a way that gives them the best chance to enjoy consistent success once again. And all done with a big smile on his face – a terrific guest.

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  • Season 18, Episode 1: The new season begins! It begins with a triple century in the county championship, among a slate of brilliant finishes. It also begins with a sad formal farewell to the sport from Will Pucovski. And as tends to be the way, our episode finds its way through governance changes and scheduling questions into some peak 90s light entertainment. Settle in for Season 18: we can vote, but we still can't drink in America.

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    3.43 - Sam Ashworth

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  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, Daniel Norcross is back with Geoff for a short and sweet Story Time that somehow turned into this. It begins with Jeremy Coney's preferred method of staving off hyenas, and goes on through pondering who is Daddy, why we remember certain names, who was on the verge of weeping through his entire long career, and who may have wept after his very short one. The ticket is free, take the ride.

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    5.08 - Elliott Hoffman
    16.28 - Rafael Szumer
    7.14 - Chris Holt
    4.44 - Martin Smith
    3.70 - Damo B

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  • Season 17, Episode 35: Welcome to episode three in our series of interviews with county cricketers at the top of their games. It’s opening day today with Lancashire visiting Lord’s. After being relegated at the end of 2024, the job for the men representing the Red Rose is obvious – to bounce straight back up. And when it comes to posting their runs over the next six months, it’ll be their skipper who sets the tone. Keaton Jennings has enjoyed a great run over the last five seasons at the top of the list. At age 32, he’s now deep into a career that has taken him from captaining the South African Under 19s to making a Test ton on debut for England. It’s been a while since his last international cap, but he’s never been far from the thoughts of selectors given he’s shown that he can cut it with the best. In this interview, he provides great insight to what it’s like trying to master the mental side of the game and how that’s liberated him to play his best cricket in recent years. Intelligent and self-aware, he’s another outstanding guest.

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  • Season 17, Episode 34: As the Mighty South Aussies finally took home another Sheffield Shield and completed the domestic double, Australia's national contracts came out, which raises interesting questions about who will be defending the World Test Championship title in June. In other matters this week, Ben Stokes' body is not a wonderland, James Anderson stuns the world by straining a calf, St Kilda punish Carlton in grade cricket, and the end for the Gabba becomes clear.

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  • Season 17, Episode 33: Welcome to our second interview in a series with county pros at the top of their game as season 2025 begins. Jack Leach’s career has been an unusual one - a Test spinner best known for the most significant 1 not out in modern Test nistory. But when he has the ball in his hand, he's been a matchwinner or England. And when he’s had the backing of the powers that be, he’s seen as one of the most important players in the dressing room. In our conversation, we speak with one of Taunton’s favourite sons as he prepares for another crack at getting the county championship trophy to Somerset for the first time. A great guest.

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