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  • Australia India Daily, 4th Test, Melbourne preview: Merry Christmas! We've never recorded a show on the 25th of December before but a BGT series poised as well as this requires it. Adam has Bharat with him, who has been at the 'G all week keeping his eye on the new man Sam Konstas while playing media peacemaker. Drive safe everyone, see you tomorrow!

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    Sydney January 7 - with SIMON KATICH and GLENN MAXWELL
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  • Merry Christmas, all. Continuing our Christmas series of sitting down with a much-loved cricket person, let's do it once again with Australia's greatest pure wicketkeeper, Ian Healy.

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    Sydney January 7 - with Simon Katich and Glenn Maxwell
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  • It's Story Time, our walk through cricket history via your listener quiz challenges. This week, following on from searching for the biggest bastard in the game, we've instead found the nicest one. Or at least, that's our guess. Also, the tale of a man named Huge Massive (at least by us), a candidate for India's unluckiest batter, and somebody who was the best at most things but also the worst at one thing.

    Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
    2.49 - Bernhard Sayer
    2.62 - Rahul Venkat
    3.10 - Will Day
    2.06 - Darryl Richardson
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    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING and Glenn Maxwell
    Sydney January 7 - with SIMON KATICH and Glenn Maxwell
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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  • Season 17, Episode 16: It's been a tough entree to Test cricket, but it looks like Nathan McSweeney's time is up. For now. At least, that's the reporting, while we wait for the Australian camp to confirm. Geoff and Adam talk through another opening batting experiment. Also this week, the washup from England v New Zealand including Ben Stokes bowling himself towards more injury, the women's Test in South Africa, World Test Championship ramifications, Jason Gillespie's formal departure from the Pakistan job, and a cricketing world wrap from the Big Bash to Bulawayo.

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    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING (and Maxi)
    Sydney January 7 - with SIMON KATICH (and Maxi)
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  • Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane review: One day after a rare Test to actually span the five days - thanks to the weather rather than the hectic speed of play - there are various storylines bubbling along in the Australian camp ahead of Boxing Day. Biggest of all, though, the very strange mid-series departure of Ravichandran Ashwin. Much more has come to light about the champion spinner quitting the game, so we look at that, as well as his mighty career and why we enjoyed his work so fully.

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    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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  • Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 5: It was wet, but it was wild. Rain kept playing its part on the last day at Brisbane, but not before an absolutely manic session that may have implications for the whole series going forward. Jasprit Bumrah can't stop being unbelievable, Australia have more questions to consider, and as if that wasn't enough, Ravichandran Ashwin announced a snap retirement.

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    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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    Get 10% off the brilliant Maxi sunnies - the perfect Christmas gift
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    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy
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  • Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 4: God bless the follow-on! What could have been a fairly dull day of cricket between rain delays became a wholesome and delightful one thanks to one simple thing: a team trying to finish fewer than 200 runs behind another team. Whoever came up with that plan, a blessing on your head. Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins took on a huge job after Josh Hazlewood went down injured, KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja did the spadework, then it was all down to Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep.

    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING and GLENN MAXWELL
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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    Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com
    Title track by Urthboy
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  • New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 4: England's series, New Zealand's day.

    Bethell got some more runs, but Will O'Rourke's spell was special. In the end, New Zealand win by loads. For one last time, Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.

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    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7

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  • Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 3: Rain, yes, but not so much that we didn't get some very important play. First of all from Carey, doing another useful job with the bat, then the showdown between Australia's fast bowlers and India's top order. Suddenly the Gabba track went full speed ahead, jumping and jagging as Starc and Hazlewood did their work. How can India steer a path to safety, and just what is going on with Virat Kohli?

    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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  • New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 3: What on earth was that, cricket?

    On a day where Jacob Bethell and Shoiab Bashir bowled forever, Ben Stokes pulled him hamstring and New Zealand finished roughly a million ahead. Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.

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    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7

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  • Australia India Daily, 3rd Test, Brisbane Day 2: It has been a long wait, but Steve Smith finally returned to the century-makers list with career ton #33, going past Steve Waugh into his own place in Australian Test history. And it might have been one of his hardest fought innings, as Jasprit Bumrah once, twice, three times rocked Australia. Not to mention another wild day from Travis Head, as Rohit Sharma ponders his decisions.

    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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  • New Zealand England Daily, 3rd Test, Hamilton Day 2: What on earth was that, England?

    NZ are on en route to a win after trouncing England in all departments in Hamilton. It was weird, it was wonderful, and Cameron Ponsonby and Jeremy Coney have it all.

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    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7

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  • 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.

    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22 - with RICKY PONTING
    Sydney January 7
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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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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.


    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7

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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.

    Come to our live shows!
    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7
    Tickets at linktr.ee/thefinalword

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    Catch the Pro Kabaddi League next to the MCG on December 28
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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.

    Come to our live shows!
    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

    Come to our live shows!
    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.

    Come to our live shows!
    Brisbane December 12
    Melbourne December 22
    Sydney January 7

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