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The Grade Cricketer

11 Days

The Grade Cricketer

RARE

Comedy, Sports, Cricket

4.7518 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Picking at the carcass after Australia win the Ashes in 11 days. 

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0:00.0

What's a point of cricket?

0:00.9

Oh, is what do you do it?

0:02.0

Great cricket is a present.

0:03.0

We're going to look at the perils of sweeping.

0:05.4

We're the good cricket team.

0:06.5

The grey's cricket says real brats. If you're going to do it, do it to England. He's out now. We've got 40. Who the fucking people in my back? Well, guys, we did it. We contributed to online discourse while 15-ish blokes that get to wear the green hats that we've always dreamed of, systematically dismantle England in a way that Brexit can only dream.

0:27.6

Is this a story of how bad England have been or just how good this Australian side have played?

0:33.2

Is this a story of comeuppance after attempting to speak success into existence, or is this this Australian's Christmas coming early, after calling out the bullshit for years on end, only to see a victory in the kind of speed that's only ever been seen once before? It's Adelaide, it's South Australia, it's legends in the sheds, it's old blokes, barely hanging on, it's vertigo, it's hamstring glute tie-ins, it's golf, it's true blue, it's polls about mustaches. It's old blokes barely hanging on. It's vertigo. It's hamstring glute tie-ins.

0:54.7

It's golf. It's true blue. It's poles about mustaches. It's photos of an unselected

0:59.2

spinner taking a photo of a deck he'll never play on. It's a spin bowling coach during

1:03.5

presses. It's the biggest series in all of our lives. But I guess that we made that up.

1:07.7

Australia are 3-0 up in the ashes. The blobby league is getting into full swing. The skeletons are absolutely dominating the windies. There's what's getting your hot-ass TGC. Christmas is on Thursday. I can't believe how well things are going, Pezzo. It's too good to be true. It's too good to be true. This time of year as well, just let it wash over you. It's 3-0. The drubbing has happened, okay?

1:28.7

And you're tuning in because you want more anger entertainment from the echo chamber.

1:33.0

And here's the fucking chamber.

1:35.1

And there's bullets in it.

1:36.6

More?

1:38.4

And now we're getting vision of boys having a piss up.

1:42.1

Feed bag strapped on.

1:43.3

Feed bag.

1:48.2

That is a metaphorical uh device to for horses now um we've got ron ball t-shirts and we got fallout we got fallout from the ashes

1:55.0

three nil fallout 11 days record set um you know was it the right kind of loss from England?

2:01.5

Cam Ponsonby spoken so well, Cam of Cricket Aetale and friend of the show.

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