The Grade Cricketer

Australian cricket has caved in, again. We talk Warner, culture, Peever, Taylor, and everything else, before Dan Brettig helps us wade through the vagaries of cricket administration. Of course, we only deal in Test Captains now, so we locked horns with the greatest keeper-batsman of all time, Adam Gilchrist. Nothing more needs to be said: it's a bona fide must listen. We take your questions to round things out.

Our live shows are on sale now, too. Dates:

Adelaide 6 December, Rhino Room

Perth 14 December, WACA Boundary Room

Melbourne 27 December, Corner Hotel

Sydney 3 January, Comedy Store

Special thanks to Toby Shain for mixing our show again. He is also the voice behind Chop King Cologne and all the other (good) fake ads we do, which he will not mind us saying.

Finally, if you're looking for post-1975 after-dinner material, contact us at [email protected]. We're probably affordable, and we travel.

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It was lively, it was special, and the audio worked. On this week's show, we spoke with the 40th and 46th Test Captains of Australia. Tim Paine joined first; we talked about culture, change, and Shaun Young sledging his frosted tips as a fourteen year-old. Steven Roger Waugh came next, and regaled us with stories about Bankstown Oval, Baggy Green mythology, and why Dave should consider buying a teddy bear. Tugger also spoke about The Captains Ride 2018, and how he's focusing on that, not book promotion. #AskTGC rounds things out, as ever.

Special thanks to Toby Shain for mixing this week's show, as well as his voiceovers. We thank Adrian Leung for the music.

We also MC events now. If you're looking for post-1975 after-dinner material, contact us at [email protected]. We're affordable, and we travel.

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Adam Collins - 22m:26s

Jason 'Dizzy' Gillespie - 36m:47s

#AskTGC - 1hr:56s

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Identity. Culture. The Australian Way. It’s all up for grabs this summer as we launch season three of the TGC cast in customary too-long and too-loose fashion. Tune in for Gideon’s shakedown of the true sandpaper cause, stay for Ed’s take on JL's new regime. Only AskTGC remains the same. There’s a new fake ad, and there's a new real home: The Diamantina Podcast Network. It's great to be on board.

Special thanks to Toby Shain for the voiceovers, and Adrian Leung for the music.

We also MC events now. If you're looking for post-1975 after-dinner material, contact us at [email protected]. We can travel.

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Our Southern Summer finale. We talk Clarke, Waugh, the culture review and being on Wikipedia. We ask the ABCs Paul Kennedy about his ‘Caught Out’ investigation before he asks us about being champed by umpires. Trent Copeland makes his long awaited bow, discussing nicking off Jayawardene and the 140s club. We close with AskTGC, where Dr Happy provides welcome clinical advice on, well, Dad.

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Australia lost its Captain, Vice Captain and Coach this week. In doing so they ushered in a new Beta era that frankly frightens us all. We went another ninety minutes on this, and couldn’t have done it without Adam Collins in Jo’berg and of course Damien Fleming, who knows more about shaping deliveries than anyone else.  

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It’s big. 60 minutes of irresistible darkness punctuated by 30 minutes of light. Come for the cheating, stay for Ellyse Perry.  Doyen Sports Writer Peter Lalor brings us comment from Cape Town  before Australia's foremost cricketing role model and adult, Ellyse Perry, joins us from Mumbai to provide a ray of light. Finally, we welcome clinical psychologist Dr Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, for some overdue help with #AskTGC. 

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The South Africa-Australia Alpha Wars roll on as Smith feels contact and gets Rabada sent. Or does he? Yes. Meanwhile TGC calls for a crowd-sourced Wikipedia page, before Adam Collins brings actual insights and tells of actual guests on his own cast (it’s a good cast). We finish with the most expansive #AskTGC yet – pondering the important questions about rigs, Dads, alphadom and other new territory. It’s a show.

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Let’s be honest, this show’s about sledging. Along the way you’ll hear from Cricinfo’s Dan Brettig, Ed Cowan joins to take your questions, talk retirement, and reinforce his deep affection for George Bailey, and we finish with the most abstract AskTGC yet, where Higgos raises something called The Experience Machine, and the rest of us contemplate the impact of Brexit on rigs.

Thanks as always to Adrian Leung for the intro tune and Toby Shain for the ads and voiceovers.

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We return for the clash of the Alpha nations to talk Qantas shares, post capitalism, Andrew Daddo, Ivan Milat, and Dele Alli. Adam Collins helpfully guides us through the cricket itself, and Merv delivers as Merv does. 

* Tea and No Sympathy will be out in the UK on June 7. 

** We do events now too. For all your bespoke club cricket entertainment needs in Australia or the UK, talk to us. 

Big thanks to Toby Shain for music and Julia Dowe for graphics. 

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