The Grade Cricketer

We're asking if there’s any danger of Pakistan winning a game in England or if Eoin Morgan’s career best form and the weather will sweep Babar.

Stuart Broad puts himself first by saying there aren’t enough runs in the Test team. Australia are dancing in the gym in the bio bubble. Cricket is on free to air in England but will it be in Australia.

A couple of fantastic chats this week with Sam Billings and Harry Conway to discuss money, hat-tricks, Dhoni, James Faulkner, Rigs and salads.

#AskTGC involves steroids, Kingston creams and wicket exchange rates.

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We wrap up the England summer with Crawley, Anderson, Ali and catching chat, trying to figure out what any of this means and if we feel safe yet.

Australia are masked up and on the plane to England to "save England's summer" but can Smith score runs when no one is booing him?

Jacques Kallis enters the hall of fame, so we’ll find his place in the game according to us, two idiots from the internet.

Trent Boult is on the show to discuss World Cup finals, bowling with the Duke and Australian sledging.

Ryan Sidebottom is on the show to discuss being given nicknames by Darren Gough, meeting Harry Potter at Lord's and celebrity life post-cricket.

And #AskTGC comes from some very confused English men.

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It rained for 4 days in Hampshire during the 2nd Test between England and Pakistan but how do we get more cricket when the floods of 2020 commence the next apocalypse?

Stuart Broad is fined by daddy, MyCricket let’s you hide your failures, Dhoni retires and everyone in the history of the game kisses the ring, Steve Smith wears his Aussie lid to state training and we celebrate India’s finest ever player, Suresh Raina.

Ricky Ponting (AO) is on the show to tell us about getting unplayable balls at Mowbray cricket Club, Flintoff 05, Ashwin mankads and pranking Steve Waugh on a qantas flight. You can get 15% off Ricky's wines at pontingwines.com.au by using the code gradecricketer15 at checkout.

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And Manscaped who are offering 20% of your purchase using the code TGC at checkout.

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We’re talking Pakistani players of promise, who the big 4 bats are, climaxing to Babar and what makes us feel good.

Ireland beat England in the 3rd ODI after Tom Blanton says the England team are the hardest sports team in the world to get in to.

Who gets the Boxing Day Test, where the world cups are being played and when and Shane Warne’s new cologne.

Rob Key is on the show to discuss playing Poker with Warney during a County game, being yelled at by Nasser and scoring runs in front of the Queen.

The alpha's alpha, Brendon Julian is on the show to discuss legalising ball scratching, cricket meaning nothing and pitch invasions in Guyana where Steve Waugh wanted to take on the crowd.

Finally, we answer the #AskTGC about love in North Yorkshire.

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England win their ODI series against Ireland with 10 other blokes that aren’t nearly as interesting as Johnny Bairstow, as the rarest of rare unite goes past 3000 ODI runs and scores a 21 ball fifty.

We’re dissecting the new step 4 restrictions to club cricketers in the UK, that include wearing whites to games and no warm ups.

The IPL has a start and finish date in the UAE and the BCCI want to kill the WBBL.

Matthew Hayden is on the show to talk about sledging styles of Australian cricketers in the 90s and 2000s, His 380 against Zimbabwe and Shaoib.

Steven Finn is on the show to discuss being welcomed by the locals when having dinner in Australia, having a law named after you, bloodlust and how to get rid of Broad and Anderson.

#AskTGC is about TGC vs Tailenders, getting alpha’d by 2020.

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England claim the Wisden trophy 2-1 after some gorgeous, clean Ollie Pope runs, Stuart Broad’s 10-fa - thus taking him past 500 Test wickets - and Chris Woakes’ underrated salad. We're dissecting the Broad 'celebrappeal', if/when he'll go past McGrath and whether he catch Jimmy Anderson as the games highest ever pace-bowling wicket-taker.

BUT HE DIDN'T WALK!?

Rahkeem Cornwall didn’t do anything but we need to talk about one of the the ultimate rig-based selections. A man once scouted by the NFL and 2K gamers creating their own player now bowls off-spin and looks damn good doing it. Should be more of it.

Jack Leach is on the show from the bubble in Manchester to talk about the NHS and a surprising defence of his own rig.

Mitchell Starc is also on the show from a car in the northern beaches to discuss baiting Kohli, Warner’s TikToks and "Golden Balls" Cummins.

#AskTGC centres around umpires with criminal convictions, being called “daddy-kisser” by your beta friends, and what to do if a love interest asks if you like cricket.

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England level the series 1-all thanks to Dom Sibley yucking his way to 120 and Ben Stokes doing literally everything in the same game. This is of course after Jofra goes to see "a friend" and breaks bio security measures.

There’s also 3 men on a podium in South Africa in the 3TC Solidarity cup, Australia’s 26 man squad, some Big Bash fixtures and the T20 World Cup is officially postponed.

Josh Hazlewood is on the show to talk Tamworth, Pat Cummins not being country enough, playing second fiddle to his talented brother and Tim Paine shitting himself.

Sam Robson is on to talk Sydney Test Cricket, actual Test Cricket and being seen in the Daily Mirror in a SOHO street party.

Barney Roney calls in fresh from creating a life event with his 13 year old son, to tell us about Jofra, if England are good or bad and Ian Botham’s imminent entrance to the House of Lords.

#AskTGC is about names of future Test players, having your Hen’s party at the MCG on Boxing Day and another instalment of have I been alpha’d.

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The West Indies go 1-0 up in the series thanks mostly to Stuart Broad not being picked and Jason Holder now usurping Faf du Plessis as the greatest rig in world cricket. How do you get on the front dog to the great man!? We're talking England going all-in on the pace-train, Ollie Pope looking good at all times (and costs), Shannon Gabriel castling blokes for fun and how everything is a little bit 'private-school'.

Monty Panesar makes his debut on the show and we get into all sorts of Oliver Twist, apple watches at mid-off, smoke-bombing spinners in Brighton, Greg Matthews, being abused in grade cricket and leg pressing his couch.

Jason Gillespie is on the show to talk about back sweat, Jofra and everything yet to come, how to make it swing and BLM.

#AskTGC gets into dealing with sad news, Army vs Navy vs Air Force and how to get a girl to like you.

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An important announcement up top before we get into the usual rareness.

Ben Stokes is set to become the 81st Test Captain of England but where’s the gritty salad that took him to the top? Mark Wood is singing ‘Jerusalem’ from the rafters while Robelinda2 reminds us of Steve Waugh’s best BBQs. Dave Warner’s doing TikToks and does hand sanitizer make the Dukes hoop?

Steve O’Keefe is on to talk about great circuits, who’s good, ominous texts from people about to tell you that you’ve lost your contract and how grim it is to go from Test cricket to doing the covers for your club side.

Jonathan Wilson tells us about natural vectors of disease, West Indies greats playing league cricket in villages in Sunderland and the return of club cricket in the UK after his shoulder rehab.

And Tim Bresnan takes time out of his first half an hour at Warwickshire training to speak to us about changing clubs, only talking to England players and the hierarchy of peacocks..... before hanging up on us to do some sprints.

#AskTGC is from all over the globe and ranges from breaking up with your girlfriend for lost love, never being as good as your dad, and hating your mates because of their stick.

Feels good to be going around again.

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We commence our farewell to the season in the only way we know how: by discussing safety, Fathers, MyCricket and Shane Warne. That’s all before Justin Langer is finally granted the privilege of joining our fair show, whereupon he muses on his early club cricket forays with Dennis Lillee, kicking over the bin at Headingley, TikTok with his daughters, players he thought were knobs but turned out okay, and the pandemic-inducing destruction of professional sport as we know it. All normal stuff.

Aaron Finch follows, and we wisely use that time to walk through WhatsApp politics, his axing at the hands of Fox Sports, and how to correctly ‘blow up’ post-dismissal when an Amazon camera is filming you, among other things.

AskTGC has questions about the definition of veteran status, dealing with an abhorrent client who does fielding drills at the gym, and a girlfriend’s face smelling like a cricket bat.

Finally, our live-streamed, (Virtual) End of Season Presentation to the nation is taking place Thursday April 9 at 8pm AEST. We are calling on anyone who’s played club cricket this year to nominate for:

- Best batting

- Best bowling

- Best overseas player

- Most frightening cricket dream

- Leading alpha

- Best rig

- Best rare unit

- Best circuit story (that is not defamatory, unsavoury or libellous)

There are 8 categories – submissions are open now – please send them either to [email protected], or our Facebook DMs.

Special guests include: Justin Langer, Mitch Starc and Alyssa Healy, Adam Zampa, George Bailey, Ed Cowan, Dan Christian, and many more to be announced.

To finish: This is the last TGC podcast episode for this season. A huge thanks to everybody who’s tuned in, supported, written in, attended a live show, sledged us, called out our names at the cricket, complimented Higgos’ rig etc. We are very grateful for your support and will continue to ply the cricket world with this material so long as its valued.

On that note, please know that The Grade Cricketer intends to keep casting through isolation. We will announce a new venture soon, especially because there’s a good chance our English audience may not see much cricket, if any, through the summer. Stay tuned.

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