{"podcast":{"title":"The Final Word Cricket Podcast","slug":"the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414","podcast_index_feed_id":525414,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/COMG4127829564","website_url":"https://finalwordcricket.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f7154f26-e7e3-11ec-9ff7-77e8d22e84e2/image/image.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Final Word","episode_count":1649,"summary":"Cricket for everyone – your friendly guide to the world's strangest sport. Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins combine match analysis with irreverence, politics, interviews and history as they follow the game they love around the world. You can support the show at patreon.com/thefinalword. Get your big NordVPN discount: https://nordvpn.com/tfw","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:19:29.581953+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414"},"episode":{"title":"TFW Daily - King Henry’s 11 - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 5","slug":"tfw-daily-king-henry-s-11-england-nz-2nd-test-oval-day-5","published_at":"2026-06-21T14:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414/tfw-daily-king-henry-s-11-england-nz-2nd-test-oval-day-5","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG7903150028.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG7903150028.mp3","summary":"Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 5: England needed a miracle performance without their miracle man. Realistically, any of the three sessions or near 300 runs required were going to take Herculean efforts against the Kiwis high-quality attack, and it was their leader, Matt Henry, who took the best figures for a New Zealander against England. The post-mortems will be wide-ranging. Does Brendan McCullum have one Test to save his job? Ben Jones joins Daniel Norcross. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/thefinalword⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and win a signed copy of Wisden, or a case of Stomping Ground: browse their range at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stompingground.beer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Welcome back Step One! Get 15% off with code FINALWORD15: ⁠⁠⁠⁠uk.stepone.life⁠⁠⁠⁠ Experience England’s cricket tour of South Africa 2026/27 LIVE with Gullivers Sports Travel. Find out more and book at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gulliverstravel.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out the Lord's Performance Centre for School Holiday activities and courses: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lords.org/lords/performancecentre⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stop snoring with 10% off a Zeus device: use code TFW2026 at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zeussleeps.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get your This is W̶o̶m̶e̶n̶'̶s̶ Cricket t-shirt here, and learn about Lacuna Sports bespoke cricket wear, created by women for women:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lacunasports.co.uk/en/shop/limited-edition/world-cup-t-shirt/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…","meta_description":"Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 5: England needed a miracle performance without their miracle man. Realistically, any of the three sessions or ne…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1757,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414/episodes/tfw-daily-king-henry-s-11-england-nz-2nd-test-oval-day-5/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-final-word-cricket-podcast-525414/tfw-daily-king-henry-s-11-england-nz-2nd-test-oval-day-5.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}