Season 7, Ep 3: You know nothing gets the Final Word excited like policy. That's not even sarcasm. Cricket has had a big policy week: England announced a women's cricket plan worth £50million, Australia announced a world-best parental leave program, and there's the disparity between the men's and women's sides of The Hundred. We sat down with lawyer and cricketer Isabelle Westbury to thrash out the details.

Plus corruption charges against one of our favourite players, a wrap of Shield and Test and ODI action, a round of Nerd Pledge, and by far the most inventive live read about satphones that we've done yet.

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