The Grade Cricketer

Australia lose at The Gabba for the first time since 1988. This calls for an immediate culture review.

This is the Asian Century and we are now all just playing for best of the rest.

We need answers. We need hope. We need runs and safety.

Sam Curran is on the show to tell us about Randy Caddick doing a DJ set in Galle and Tim Southee lets us know that there are skeletons in the New Zealand closet.

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With The Australian-Indian series levelled at 1-1, both teams get into some psychological war mongering. 5 Indians just want to go for a succulent Chinese meal in Melbourne, but did Rishant Pant get a hug afterwards?

Has David Warner earned the right to just play SCG home tests now, as his groin comes under more scrutiny than a thirsty DM slide.

Who opens the batting? Does Head play? How do you play Ashwin? Who the fuck would go to the SCG and will they go to Brisbane?

New Zealand are the number one test team in the world, so we ask what grade their team would play in Australia?

There’s Williamson hundreds, Kyle Jamieson bags, South Africa’s new found wheels and Dean Elgar tons.

Calum Ferguson is on the show to talk about the highs and lows of his career, the IPL, the Big Bash and being run out on your Test debut.

Glenn McGrath is on the show to discuss the McGrath Foundation and how we can all get around the Pink Test from home. You can support the McGrath Foundation at https://www.pinktest.com.au to help raise funds for breast care nurses for the next year.

#AskTGC begins with “The Chestnut Incident” and ends with a softball premiership.

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India bounce back from Adelaide thanks to a hundred from ‘Jinks’ Rahane and the man with a more rubbery arm than a 4th grader being tempted by a Friday night circuit, Jasprit Bumrah.

The nation is in panic as Smith is officially out of form and Joe Burns has probably lost his job, but how many times can a man get out in the space of 10 balls?

Net footage of Warner running twos in the nets appear online, so will his 18 Test hundreds at home start to mean something soon?

There’s BBL thrillers, Kane Williamson tons, Faf-Daddy hundreds (and rigs), height based selections, and we question the balance of the ICC teams of the decade for matches that they’re not actually playing.

Josh Lalor is on the show to tell us what Pat Cummins is really like, playing for 5 BBL clubs and Caribbean Premier League circuits.

Captain of the West Indies Jason Holder is on the show to tell us which grade player is asking for free kit and the conversations he didn’t need to have with Ben Stokes in the IPL.

#AskTGC asks about new sticks, old sticks, infidelity and greatest ever regrets.

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Australia systematically dismantle the Indian cricket team with a humiliation that most of us have already pretty much forgotten about, but will long live in the memory of our Indian friends. We do what we always do after another historic success: we pick apart the flaws and weaknesses of an Australian team that just bowled Kohli, Pujara et al out for 36.

Who plays in the next test and why; how good are second innings runs; will COVID deny Sydney a non-dead-rubber Test; are India absolutely gone; was their fielding coach at a wedding this week; and will Tim Paine cure COVID?

Dan Christian hits a 15 ball 50 in the BBL, Jaques Kallis joins England in preparation for Sri Lanka, New Zealand are still good at home and Shane Warne’s wearing a hat now.

Michael Bevan is on the show to discuss scoring 1400 runs in a shield season, hitting 4s off the last ball on New Years Day against the West Indies and wearing full kit in the shower after a low score. You can follow Bevo on Instagram at @bevo_michaelbevan for updates on his coaching and mentoring in the coming weeks and months.

#AskTGC asks if securing a chop equals a superior circuit and should you play cricket you enjoy or cricket you can be proud of?

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Summer truly begins this week with the Adelaide Test commencing on Thursday, which also means we’re close to smoke, floods, bushfires and runs that make us feel safe and good.

We’re talking about three different blokes with concussion, injuries, batting orders, granddad losing his shit at Australia A and are India actually good?

Ian Chappell, a man who never lost a series as Captain of Australia, is on the show to talk about tubbing with Ashely Mallett, meeting the Queen, Pucoksvki concussions and Joe Burns hundreds.

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#AskTGC involves meeting Steve Smith’s dad, dad-dynamics watching your son play and bumping into Indian cricketers.

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Australia claim the ODI series and we get a first, enormous look at the biggest of big boys Cameron Green, before Pandya changes his bat and India take the T20 series in Canberra and Sydney.

We’re talking concussion laws, blow ups, Captain Wade, Australia A, Dawid Malan, England’s COVID tour of South Africa, Kane Williamson’s 251 on a fake news green deck and the BBL kicking off on Thursday.

The Honourable Kevin Rudd AC, 26th Prime Minister of Australia, joins The Grade Cricketer Podcast to discuss PMs XI’s, handball, China, sledging and petitions for Royal Commissions.

#AskTGC involves a wonderful story about seeing your heroes on the circuit.

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Each week on Patreon on #AskTGC Fridays we delve into the absurd, the dark, the definitely illegal and the outlandish. It highlights the rawness and the darkness we all feel while playing this games that, as Pez once described it, "couldn't be invented by aliens."

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We are now underway into the Pandemic Summer of 2020/21, with Dettol sponsorships, switch hits, Smith runs and Australia’s pursuit of 400, so long as India can get their overs in before Boxing Day. There’s safety, 40 degree days in November, Warner’s injury and the race against time.

England are in South Africa and Bairstow’s runs are breaking TGC hearts as Dawad Malan dismisses home town runs after abdication.

The Thunder are WBBL champions, NZ are winning against the West Indies and Cam Green’s height is confirmed.

Mark Waugh is on the show to discuss Group 1 Blood Lines, having great legs, teammates not being able to catch and keeping us on time.

#AskTGC involves hating nice people, being called big fella and MyCricket’s name change.

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Greg Chappell discusses playing grade cricket at 14 and nearly filling up his shorts, Sir Donald getting rid of chuckers, how Indian players make it to the national team, seeing Dhoni play for the first time, West Indies crowds in the 1970s and what his policy of talent over youth actually means.

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