Dean Jones has left us. The One-Day King. There is nothing we’d rather do with this episode than talk about Deano: the career, the influence, the swagger, the way[…]
Season 8, Ep 30: The Final Word with Alison Mitchell
Season 8, Ep 30: Measured, erudite, and always the best prepared in the game – Alison Mitchell has become one of the most broadly heard voices on cricket around[…]
Season 8: Story Time 16, with Matt Renshaw encore
Story Time! Many and varied they are today. Adam can’t stop talking about George Headley. Geoff believes that at last, at last, he has caught up to a long-elusive[…]
Season 8, Ep 29: Emergency episode – Glenn Maxwell’s century
Emergency! Maxi time! The Final Word’s fave made one of the best hundreds we’ve seen in one-day cricket to win a ridiculous run chase and win a series decider[…]
Season 8, Ep 28: Channel Seven’s big cash heist
Season 8, Ep 28: Two years ago the Seven Network bought TV rights to great fanfare. Now they’re refusing to pay. The free-to-air broadcaster has Cricket Australia in a[…]
Season 8: Story Time, with Jos Buttler encore
Heroes and villains. Rational or fair or otherwise, we have them on Story Time. Join us for another Final Word weekend gallop around the history of our great game.[…]
Season 8, Ep 27: Australia chokes, the Afghan Mankad, and farewell Bell
Season 8, Ep 27: That was quite the choke. Australia’s T20 series against England started with a dominant position that somehow turned into a loss. England bossed the second,[…]
Season 8: Story Time, with Pat Cummins encore
Story time! Pat Cummins is a special cricketer and a great fella. We had a lovely time talking with him in Derby this time last year, decked out in[…]
Season 8, Ep 26: The Final Word with Trent Woodhill
Season 8, Ep 26: Trent Woodhill is one of the most versatile people in cricket: coach, trusted mentor, adviser, ideas man. This was a good time to pick his brain,[…]