The Final Word Cricket Podcast

The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 4: Pathum Nissanka enjoyed his finest moment as a Test opener, leading Sri Lanka to a stirring come-from-behind triumph. And so the post-mortems begin, with England finishing their red-ball summer with such a poor showing. Nobody better than Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsonby for that, coming to you from The Oval.

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 3: The extent to which England have botched this deserves as much discussion as celebrating Sri Lanka for thrusting themselves into such a strong position - go you good things. Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponsbony are on the tools at The Oval to tell you the story and they do not miss.

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 2: Bad light, bad cricket, a big boy on debut and some offies from Chris Woakes. The day that was at The Oval, which Sri Lanka did well to get back into, with Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins who were together on the balcony.

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, The Oval Day 1: Ollie Pope had a shocker last week at Lord's but across the river to his dear old home ground, he was back to his best with a fine ton. It defined the opening exchanges of England's third and final Test against Sri Lanka, which was otherwise marred by autumnal rain and gloom. Cam Ponsonby has Daniel Norcross with him, who was calling the action on BBC radio at The Oval.

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Season 16, Episode 36: A big week, beginning with the very sad and seemingly inevitable confirmation that Will Pucovski's career will end early after one Test for Australia. A different kind of retirement too, at the end of a very long career, as the consummate newsbreaker Malcolm Conn finishes up. Elsewhere, back to a topic that needs to come up more often: how can English grounds charge music-festival prices for a day of Test cricket? Plus it's Tiger Time, with a rollicking Bangladesh win, Brendon McCullum doubles his England job, the WBBL and BBL drafts took place, and the English domestic comps for men and women roll on.

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It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, we go from Peggy Antonio on episode 200 to another pioneer from the other side of the world. There's some love for a very early Final Word fave who also knew his way around some tunes, a return to one of the nights of Adam's formative (absence of) memory, and a cameo from our favourite four-year-old. Who would have thought we would reach 200 of these? And we still have some stories we can tell you.

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2.50 - Caroline Swan

4.55 - Richard Jansz-Moore

158.20 - Elia Andrews

5.70 - Alex Brown

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 4: There wasn't much chance for Sri Lanka, and despite some effort to make a scrap of things, the margin was a big one. It did however give Gus Atkinson another chance at the honours boards at Lord's. Daniel Norcross joins Cameron Ponsonby.

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 3: A day that went just as we all predicted needed something special, and Joe Root provided it by backing up his day one ton with another, breaking a host of records in the process - he is some cricketer. Adam Collins watched it all at Lord's, and he has Daniel Norcross for company.

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 2: Gus Atkinson's staggering Test summer continues, crushing a run-a-ball maiden ton to get on the Lord's boards for a third time. From there, once the hosts got the ball, Sri Lanka never looked like it and are a mile behind after two days. On the pod tonight, TMS stats wizard Andy Zaltzman returns, joining a very happy Cam Ponsonby (he played club cricket with Gus, don't you know).

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The 2024 England Sri Lanka Daily, Lord's Day 1: Joe Root, ton machine. Lord's day one, England need someone to stand up, and there he is with a 33rd Test century to his name. It defined an opening day that got away from Sri Lanka at the end with fast bowler Gus Atkinson 74 not by the close of play. There's nobody better to talk all things Gus than his old club teammate Cam Ponsonby, and he's with Adam Collins in London.

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