From the creators of beloved cricket podcast The Final Word, Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon bring together the stories that most surprised, shocked and inspired them, from the 1879 riot in Sydney sparked by a controversial umpire’s call, to the legendary bowler who (allegedly) drunkenly urinated on the field, to the biggest defeat in first-class cricket history and much more. 

Adam Collins is an award-winning cricket commentator and writer, having previously worked in Australian federal politics advising a Prime Minister and a Treasurer. Forever a Melbourne sports nut but now living in London, he follows cricket and footy first, but plenty more besides. He was named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year, and has covered international cricket on radio and television around the world for a decade. In 2024, he co-authored Glenn Maxwell’s autobiography.

Geoff Lemon founded pirate commentary 
station White Line Wireless, graduated to ABC and BBC 
ball-by-ball around the world, and has spent the last dozen 
years as the principal cricket writer for Guardian Australia. 
His book Steve Smith’s Men, on the Cape Town sandpaper 
scandal, won multiple awards. Outside cricket, he was the 
longtime editor of literary anthology Going Down Swinging
and director of the National Young Writers Festival. He has 
published books of poetry and essays, and still writes on 
politics, literature, and music.