Forza Azzurri! 🇮🇹 TGC x the Manenti and Mosca brothers
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Team Italia’s Manenti and Mosca brothers pile onto one screen to talk Sydney Grade Cricket, meeting Balotelli, facing Jofra, and what happened with Giuseppe Burns.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's so fucking awesome to have Italia at a cricket World Cup. |
| 0:06.4 | Azuri. |
| 0:06.7 | He goes. |
| 0:07.7 | The Azuri. |
| 0:09.0 | And a good portion of their arrival at this World Cup is down to four blokes we're about to talk to today, |
| 0:15.9 | who have piled into one room onto one screen. |
| 0:19.7 | We've got the Menente brothers, Ben and Harry, the Mosca brothers, AJ and Justin. |
| 0:24.4 | Now, I just want to say from the top, there's a lot of people who are going to do stories on these guys. |
| 0:30.1 | They've done stories on these guys. |
| 0:31.9 | There's going to be heartwarming stories about Italy and how good it is. |
| 0:36.1 | And it's going to be a bit condescending and it's going to be a little bit, you know, |
| 0:40.1 | like head patty. |
| 0:41.9 | These guys shouldn't be treated like that in any way. |
| 0:44.3 | And I want to explain why. |
| 0:46.2 | They have a particularly special relationship to the grade cricketer. |
| 0:50.1 | Each of them are like famous, strong contributors to, and former members of the Sydney |
| 0:55.7 | Tigers Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket, formerly Boundame, which is where I played |
| 1:01.5 | the majority of my grade cricket. |
| 1:03.7 | And it's a club that, like, if we're honest, is a club whose characters and culture |
| 1:10.0 | formed about 90% of the original inspiration for the grade cricketer. |
| 1:14.3 | So like we all share something in common of having played at this debauched place |
| 1:18.1 | and none of these guys deserve any kind of heartwarming conversation in any way. |
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