It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, the creation and fate of the Adelaide Oval rollercoaster, and the rollercoaster that was the CAXI. A look at a West Indies star turn that did not belong to Brian Lara, the carnage of Argentina and Chile, Murali takes on a non-fave, and what truly constitutes a diamond duck, as Adam prepares his future best-selling book on Will Bosisto. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.41 - Evan Granger 18.89 - Nick Ibis 14.10 - Chris Unwin 12.32 - Glenn Finkelde 3.75 - Anirban 4.27 - Jim Allen Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You can also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Dan Liebke - The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket Dan Liebke emerged as a cricket satirist in what we might now, with hindsight, refer to as the glory era of twitter. From his early days as the Fake Nathan Hauritz to writing jokes in his own name, he has been a staple of that weird, but occasionally wonderful, part of the internet. In recent years, he’s become a prolific author too – especially at this time of year. Every time he releases a book we get him on and this is no different, currently promoting his latest work ‘The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket.’ As a long-term believer that funny cricket is better than good cricket, this is the book he was always destined to write and it’s great to have a good friend back with us on this the third edition of our relatively new TFW Book Club. Buy the book: http://liebcricket.com/100funniest Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Season 15, Episode 12: So it comes down to Mitchell Marsh vs Cameron Green - but does it make sense for David Warner to get his preferred farewell instead of making space in the Test XI against Pakistan? It's one question with Australia's Test summer around the corner. The T20 side is still in India instead of having a ticker-tape parade at home, where WBBL finals are about to start. Meanwhile, it's silly season in the IPL, the next England summer has started taking shape, and the most important cricket this week is being played in Namibia, where Zimababwe are likely to miss next year's T20 World Cup. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 7.04 - Sheahan Arnott Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Greatest Season That Was, Episode 3 – Alec Stewart: Back to the 1999 World Cup, this is the sorry story of the home team. England’s captain of the day, Alec Stewart was our forthright guest, who didn’t miss targeting what went wrong when they failed to make it out of the group – famously, eliminated before the official tournament song was officially released. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports). Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we look at one of Test cricket's rarer team feats, plus a man celebrated as one of the game's best captains. Modern England didn't invent nothing that Cyril Washbrook didn't already have covered, and there's the path from Blocker Wilson to Chucker Wilson. Plus who would make it into our all-time Story Time team? Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 2.55 - Jonathan Potton 4.65 - Peter Lenaghan 3.79 - Dave Williams 2.05 - Tim Henry Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 47: The lost episode has been found. We did record this the day after the final, both of us at airports in different countries on the way home to Australia. Somehow the audio disappeared but we've managed to salvage it since. So, clue the Quantum Leap music, and let's time travel a few days - back to our impressions the morning after the World Cup before. Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Season 15, Episode 11: It is a week of homecomings. Adam, Geoff, and the World Cup all arrived back in Australia within hours of one another, and nothing ever feels as good as home when you've been away. On the agenda this week: updates on a lost episode, two short interviews with Mitch Starc and Glenn Maxwell that Geoff recorded on the field just after the World Cup finished, there are Final Word live shows and live cricket matches coming up, the Sea Bus is back in business, Adam Zampa has receipts, David Warner might not retire after all, the most pointless T20s are next, our favourite 50-year-old first-class cricketer back at it, and some very significant changes and non-changes from the ICC's latest meeting. Get tickets for our live shows. Melbourne 11 December, Sydney 7 January: https://linktr.ee/thefinalword For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Sign up to run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Season 15, Episode 10: David Gower’s composure at the crease, combined with his perennially relaxed disposition, have contributed to a sense that he’s forever young. But it’s now the better of half a century since he pulled his first ball in Test cricket for four, going on to become, for a time, England’s leading run-scorer. A life in cricket has been his, but not at the expense of wider curiosity. It’s what has made him such a force as a broadcaster since hanging up the boots and, also, how effective he is as the long-term chair of the Lord’s Taverners. A great guest. Enjoy. Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Welcome back CBUS Super! Great to have them back with us this Australian summer. www.cbussuper.com.au Run the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon (or less) for the Lord's Tavs: www.lordstaverners.org/the-final-word Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 46: The final! It's over! Australia with one of the biggest surprises ever sprung in a tournament decider. India struggling to work out how it went wrong. Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 45: One more day until the storm. On the barricades of freedom. Or something like that. India are red-hot favourites, Australia are perhaps the only team that might challenge them. How can it happen? When will be know? And where have we mislaid the 1992 World Cup? Get it all on the second-last day of this tournament. Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, if you take the A358 far enough south you'll find something with a lot of stories, and a river who could be your friend. We go back to a pivotal moment of Daniel Norcross' childhood, the greatest cricket moments for Canada, and a dominant display by one of the best South African sides. Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week: 3.58 - Joe Vaitilingam 5.25 - Tom Kelly 5.88 - Jill 8.71 - Kieran Powyer 3.65 - Alexander Thalis Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Sign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignup For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 43: Was it going to be 1999 all over again? With 213 in the mix, a nervy chase, and more twists and turns than the Italian Job, it sure felt like for long periods of the game today. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood were perfect. Australia's fielding was too. David Miller was remarkable. Gerald Coetzee hung tough, then bowled with heart. David Warner and Travis Head exploded. Tabraiz Shamsi and Keshav Maharaj wove webs. And on and on it went. Take the ride with The Final Word. Get tickets for our live shows: Melbourne, Dec 11: https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/c70d1ce4-1afa-482e-9618-5ede8f933429 Sydney, Jan 7: https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/116638 Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 42: It was a messy slew of stats spattered all over Mumbai as the runs flowed today. Would Kohli get the Great Big Record that everyone was waiting for? Well, you can kind of guess. Nobody was expecting Mohammed Shami's record though, nor the remarkable effort in between times of The Sweatiest Man Alive, Daryl Mitchell. Quite the day and quite the night. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 41: It's a knockout! A knockout game, that is - India and New Zealand at the Work Rest and Play in Mumbai, then Australia and South Africa at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Time for Geoff and Adam to run the ruler over the four teams that have made it and how they match up. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Season 15, Episode 9: In a way it's not a surprise, she's been around forever. And in a way it's a total surprise that Australia's captain of five World Cup wins is done by the age of 31. She has other things to do. Also this week, Sri Lanka Cricket arranges its own expulsion from the ICC, French cricket is under investigation for being too ooh la la, England plans become clearer with squads for the next men's and women's tours, and a feller took a quadruple hat-trick. Read it and weep. Plus some WBBL and Shield. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 11.80 - Simon Tamblyn Get your Final Word / Glenn Maxwell shirt re-release from League Tees. For a huge discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com/tfw You'll also get 4 months free on a 2-year plan, and no risk with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Sign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignup Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

Episode 2 - The Oral History of the ‘99 semi-final tie In 2019 on The Greatest Season That Was, Adam made a 12-part series exploring whether the 1999 ODI World Cup was the most interesting global tournament. With Dan Brettig (The Age) and Shannon Gill (Code Sports), they spoke with many of the key players and administrators across seven weeks. The first time around, the episode that you’re about to hear – The Oral History of the 1999 semi-final tie between Australia and South Africa – was the series finale, with some brilliant guests from both teams who took the field that fateful day at Edgbaston. Given we’re now at the semi-final stage again in 2023, with the Aussies and Proteas drawn to play once more – it made sense to pop this our now. So, enjoy the detailed story of, perhaps, the most significant one-day international ever played.  Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Sign up to learn about all the Lord's Taverners projects at bit.ly/tavssignup Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 39: India have completed their clean sweep of the group stage with another near-perfect performance at Chinnaswamy, all of their top five getting to raise the bat at least once - a couple of excellent tons in there too; one record-breaking - before doing as they pleased in defence of 410. The Dutch didn't throw in the towel but their promising campaign comes to an end. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 38.2: England, Pakistan, battle of the teams who are going home - at least that much was clear as soon as the coin fell. Could England remember how to bat? Could Shaheen learn how to catch? Who would trump the battle of the leg-spinners? Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff in another bathrobe special. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! For Santa tickets, get on Twitter and message SheahanSolo! Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 38.1: Australia are purring their way into the business end of this tournament, easily accounting for Bangladesh, even after the Tigers posted what looked to be a half-decent score. But Mitch Marsh never let it become a contest, completing a monster unbeaten ton... South Africa awaits. Adam has Cam Ponsonby with him in his back yard. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 37: A closer game than it looked it would be at different points, the Proteas getting there in the end. But have they answered any of the outstanding questions about their ability to chase under pressure? Unclear. As for Afghanistan, they go home now but what a brilliant campaign. Adam has Vithushan Ehantharajah (and Winnie) for company. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Find out what's fun at Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City – More extra, less ordinary! https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/stratfordcity Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy