Two-for-One on TFW Weekly
March 24, 2026
We’ve adopted the sales technique of a warehouse owner with an inventory problem and are giving you a BOGOF deal on Weekly shows this week. Coming in to look for an opinion on the sale of the Big Bash? Have some musings on the Sheffield Shield Final, thrown in for free. This value won’t be beat.
To mark the return of the prodigal son of TFW, and in no small part to the deluge of new across the cricketing universe, we’re releasing another weekly show on Thursday this week. Our Australia-facing show will already be in your feeds, and then Geoff will reconvene with Daniel Norcross to run the rule over the rest of the cricketing world.
Story Time will run as usual on the weekend, with another dose of Daniel and his pyjamas to round us out. Also, at the risk of spoiling you, we have an interview done with England and Essex seamer Sam Cook in the can, which will be deployed next week.
Switching to the week that was, there was the tried and tested combination of the old and the new, with the potential of a Jersey national playing Test cricket in the future with Glamorgan's Asa Tribe, and a trip back 30 years to commemorate Dean Jones' World XI ton at the MCG v Australia, with the invaluable insight of his 16yo son Koby Hamilton-Jones. We've received some touching feedback from listeners, as well as from Koby's mother, Kerri-Anne, and Dean's brother, Paul, who were both kind enough to drop us a note.
It was also a treat to welcome one of the closest friends of the show, Shannon Gill, to host his first ever full episode of The Final Word. Shannon has been on the show and also hosted TFW-adjacent series The Greatest Season That Was, so it felt like a homecoming of sorts.
Finally, we're up for the Best Podcast award at the Cricket Writers Club function on Tuesday, 31st. Wish us luck. It'll be a great way to mark the start of another county season.
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Cricket Australia to sell the farm? The moment of truth
Season 19, Episode 36: Geoff and Adam are back together at last, after weeks of travel difficulty, and a huge news week means a two-part weekly show. Later this week will come the two-day meeting between Cricket Australia and the state associations to decide whether they should go ahead with trying to sell off the Big Bash League. Of course most involved have spent months positioning the conversation to make sure that happens. Is anyone against it, and has anyone given proper weight to the likely drawbacks? This week we get into the matter in depth, as well as more of the amateur-hour stuff we've come to expect from New Zealand Cricket, and some strange moves in the Australian women's team.
Dean Jones’ World XI Stunner, 30 years to the day, with his son Koby
Season 19, Episode 35: It was on this day, 21 March 1996, that the great Dean Jones stepped out in front of his adoring MCG crowd to play against the Australian team he was so desperately unlucky not to be at the World Cup. The century that followed, in most challenging of conditions, was a marker of just how good he been since selectors parted ways with the controversial talisman. To mark the 30th anniversary of the knock, two true believers there that afternoon, Adam Collins and Shannon Gill, are joined by Deano’s teenage son Koby Hamilton-Jones to discuss what the innings meant to the man himself, and those who were so invested in his trailblazing career.
England’s Next Big Thing: The Final Word with Asa Tribe
Season 19, Episode 34: It takes a bit to wear the Next Big Thing tag in English Cricket, which is what Asa Tribe has quickly become. A breakout 2025, both for Glamorgan, and terrific performances with Jersey – with whom he’s been playing internationals since he was a teenager – saw him vaulted into an England Lions squad, which he made the very most of rattling off a classy ton against a strong Australia A. Also earning franchise opportunities overseas, this 21-year-old as the cricketing world at his feet in 2026, with the next stop championship action in division one with his promoted county. He spoke with Adam about all this and plenty more.
Player auctions are absolutely bonkers
Season 19 Episode 33: Does anyone understand how players end up valued in auctions, like what we saw for The Hundred last week? Daniel Norcross has a crack at explaining it to Adam. They’re on more comfortable ground talking all things Shield and debating controversial dismissals. Later, will the BBL be privatised? Sounds like we’ll know by Easter. Which is when the county championship returns, which will warm us inside and out as the IPL begins its marathon.
Story Time 263 - Paradise is a 1979 Lord’s Final
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, the hope of Queensland and the spirit of Somerset, as we return to happier times for domestic cricket. A tale of a Lord’s final of Daniel Norcross’ youth is told with care, as is the career of England’s big boss when he was a big boy plundering runs. Later, an old friend has a clue in for Adam, which relates to yet another book he’s written about the Golden Era of the game. In the middle of all this, a time jump followed by lengthy TV review section – maybe we do this every weekend?
Your Nerd Pledge numbers for this week:
2.71 – Darren Wright
6.40 – Hugh Carson
5.45 – Jeremy Nash
6.37 – Pat Rodgers
Get yourself a copy of Pat Rodgers’ book on Bert Folkard by emailing him at: PRodgers@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
We'll see you next week, which will be the first round of the County Championship,
All our lovin'
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