Season 10, Ep 18: It’s far from the most important question facing the country. But given that Afghanistan’s cricket team has been a consistent good-news story for the last[…]
10: Triple Test Treat
Three Test matches at the same time? Yes please. Adam and Geoff run the desert comb over Australia and Pakistan at the Gabba, India and Bangladesh at Eden Gardens,[…]
9: Maurice Duffy on Steve Smith
After handing down Steve Smith’s ban, Cricket Australia took the unusual step of linking the player with Maurice Duffy, an Irish academic who describes his job as a ‘mindset[…]
8: Smith versus Smyth
The Australian Test squad is announced, and we have all the wash-up from that announcement and the week in cricket, plus Adam’s adventures with lime milk in Tasmania and[…]
7: Shaun Marsh is coming home
What’s that November sound? Snow in Hobart, Nat Fyfe at the beach, and the the pitter patter of early-season Marsh runs. “He’s coming, he’s coming, Shaun is coming home.”[…]
6: Fake Nathan Hauritz: Revealed
For all these years, the identity of a Twitter sensation was shrouded in mystery. Now the puppet master emerges. Dan Liebke has written another book full of obscure cricket[…]
5: Cricket and climate change
As climate strikes increase around the world and the effects of climate change bite more deeply, cricket as a sport is yet to address the issue. But cricket is[…]
4: Policy Week is like Book Week but with no costumes
By Season 7, you know nothing gets the Final Word excited like policy. That’s not even sarcasm. Cricket has had a big policy week: England announced a women’s cricket[…]
3: Live in Melbourne and Adelaide
No, this isn’t a live show, it’s about the live shows. Want to know our special guests? Want to meet a sailor? Want to find a happy hour that[…]