Western Australia will rule cricket for one thousand years

Season 15, Episode 31: It's the season finale! That's because the Mr Sheffield Shield is done, and we don't need to tell you who won. Also, Western Australia has locked in the first Test of the summer for the next six years, with CA getting the schedules done well in advance. Go West, life is peaceful there. Plus we'll have a women's Ashes Test at the MCG. In other news, we go local with Carlton's incredible premiership performance against South Melbourne, we go England with Alec Stewart to hand over the running of Surrey, we go to the grudge match with twin tons as Sri Lanka tour Bangladesh, we go through the women's game with Australia in Bangladesh and England in New Zealand, and we go global with the first edition of The Final Word IPL Weekly Wrap of the Bits We Could Be Bothered Watching! Exciting. Your Nerd Pledge number this week: 8.64 - Dannish Babar Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Get that sweet Nord VPN discount - nordvpn.com/tfw Sort your super with CBUS on their 40th birthday Run or donate to the 2024 Edinburgh Marathon for the Lord's Taverners All links at linktr.ee/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices