Are we being punished by a benevolent God? With Barney Ronay
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Now we're all curators all of a sudden as we step in and replace what should be the gentle hum of a soundtrack filling your living rooms during this otherwise meaningless time of year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a point of cricket. |
| 0:00.8 | Oh, why 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. |
| 0:05.0 | We're the good cricket team. |
| 0:06.0 | The grey's cricket says real brats. Dixie's head. If you're going to do it, do it to England. He's out now. He's got 40. Who's the fuck you in my back? Has life ever felt emptier than it does right now? Sun shining, no sense of days, weight piling on and New Year's plans being formed. |
| 0:22.6 | And here we are without the soundtrack of the silly song. than it does right now. Sun shining, no sense of days, weight piling on, and New Year's plans being formed. |
| 0:22.6 | And here we are without the soundtrack of the silly season going on in the background. |
| 0:26.7 | There is no gentle hummer the Melbourne crowd, no rustling through effects microphones of bowlers, |
| 0:31.3 | busing through creases, and fading calls of no runs slipping through the ears. |
| 0:35.4 | There is no accompanying commentary of cricket on the radio on the way to the beach. |
| 0:39.3 | Wicked notifications on smartphones on Boxing Day dreams being achieved in 4K. |
| 0:44.3 | We are bereft of cricket in this, the most meaningful time of meaninglessness. |
| 0:50.3 | We are now pitch experts, weather experts and defence experts. |
| 0:55.7 | Why is this happening to us? |
| 1:00.0 | Are we being punished by a benevolent god that's really just a big T20 fan? |
| 1:02.3 | Is our Sky Daddy as mean as our real daddy? |
| 1:07.8 | Is this series petering out to being voided because no one can play a fucking forward defence? |
| 1:12.3 | Or are we to blame the Jim's Mowing franchise for not taking a litter more off the top barney ronais on the show to bask in the glory of england's win there's bbbl bovuma's |
| 1:17.4 | peace ask t gc what's getting you hot and we'll try to make sense of it all ozy tears pezza |
| 1:23.1 | ozy tears why is this happening to me? I'm sad. Oh, |
| 1:28.4 | completely agree. |
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