The Final Word Cricket Podcast

Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 1: Not much play on a wet first day, but it was a brave call from Rohit Sharma as India chose to bowl first. Will that prove to be a great idea or less so? We don't know yet, but we'll sure talk about it, and plenty of other things besides.

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Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING

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New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 2: Both teams will be disappointed but we have a hell of a Test match ahead.

Day one ebbed and flowed in Hamilton, with both teams ahead at certain stages, but it finishes in the balance after some sixes from the Sexy Camel. Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.

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Melbourne December 22

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Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 0: Can't wait to get you to the Gabba? Well, we're back, but Australia haven't recently been the same force here. But then, they've kept playing in January rather than November or December. Does that make a difference? Who knows. Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon to puzzle things out.

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Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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Season 17, Episode 15: We're in Brisbane, where Bharat joins Geoff to look around the non-Australia-India-series world. The World Test Championship standings, Glenn Maxwell's Test ambitions and first-class misadventures, Australia's women back to beating up all comers, and Jason Gillespie's ongoing Pakistan saga.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, across the river from Adelaide Oval on a sunny afternoon full of birdsong, it's a nice time to welcome a member of our sleuth crew to the show for the first time. Matt May has a remarkable collection of cricket memorabilia: kits, cards, cassettes, the lot. And he gets to flex his catalogue by tackling Ramaswamy with an Adelaide twist.

Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:

2.18 - Gary Murphy

3.56 - Ramaswamy

2.19 - Sam Brown

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide review: All square in the Border-Gavaskar, 1-1 heading to Brisbane. And now India are the team with some questions to ponder: what's their best bowling attack? Can Kohli and Rohit still carry their batting? Is it time to make some moves? Bharat Sundaresan joins Geoff Lemon down at Glenelg beach.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 3: It didn't take long on Day 3 to finish off this game, as Mitchell Starc added to his tally and Cummins went hostile at the tail. A mighty turnaround in two and a half days from an Australian team that was on the ropes. Geoff and Adam are in Adelaide.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 3: That's a paddlin.

Blimey. And just like that England have romped home. Joe Root and Tom Blundell make tons, but it's England's match and series. Their first in New Zealand since 2008. Jeremy Coney and Cameron Ponsonby review the highs and lows for each team respectively.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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Australia India Daily, 2nd Test, Adelaide Day 2: If we thought Day 1 was hectic, Day 2 did not slow down at all. We thought it had for a while in the first session as Marnus Labuschagne rebuilt his game, but when wickets started to fall then it was time for Travis Head to change gears as only he can. Whooshka. Fights with Siraj, booing and carrying on, more Bumrah moments, then a fiery final session as Australia's bowlers showed their experience of the conditions. A major turnaround, with Rishabh Pant the remaining chance for a late twist.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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New Zealand England Daily, 2nd Test, Wellington Day 2: England's day. England's match. England's series.

Day two finishes with England 533 ahead and showing no signs of stopping. Atkinson takes a hat-trick. Is Bethell England's next No.3? And what on earth has happened to New Zealand. Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.

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Brisbane December 12

Melbourne December 22

Sydney January 7

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