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*PREVIEW* Britainology 28: Cricket feat Alan White

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This might be one of the most inscrutably British things we've ever covered, and the fact is: Milo doesn't even know that much about it. So, to aid with understanding, we got Politics Home editor and cricket enthusiast Alan White (@aljwhite) to explain it to us. That doesn't necessarily mean Nate came away understanding it any more than before, but it was a fun discussion. Get the whole thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59754709 *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think another thing we should address about the, you know, the sportsmanship in cricket is sledging, which is bizarrely a great tradition of cricket, which is abusing the opposite team in an attempt to put them off.

0:14.7

I have a story about this.

0:16.3

So there's a very famous English cricketer called Phil Tufnell, who is sort of renowned for being a personality

0:21.7

more than he's renowned for being a cricketer, was telling some story about how, like, his most

0:26.9

hated people of all time are the Australian cricket team of the early 90s, because they just

0:31.9

used to, like, brutally sledge the England team all the time. And he said that one time he was,

0:36.1

he's a bowler, but he's going out to bat.

0:38.2

So he's like low down the bang order

0:39.4

somewhere they're losing.

0:40.7

And then one of the Australian fielders yelled at him,

0:43.5

Oit Tavis,

0:44.1

lend us your brain,

0:45.3

I'm building an idiot.

0:48.7

That is it.

0:49.5

That is a good one.

0:50.2

Yeah.

0:50.9

But they, yeah but they the Australians take that to an entirely unheard of level um so they they invented a

0:58.1

thing which was known as mental disintegration they could they would actually be you know so

1:04.0

I guess sort of doing their research on people so they could stand around them talking about you

1:07.8

know marital breakups you know, problems with the inland

1:11.3

revenue, I don't know, like stuff like that.

1:14.2

And apparently, I think, I think I'm right in saying that some Australians, because we had

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