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The Grade Cricketer

Season Finale, with Alex Malcolm

The Grade Cricketer

RARE

Comedy, Sports, Cricket

4.7518 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Well thats a wrap on the 25/26 Summer of Cricket (sort of, the Shield is still on). Alex Malcolm fills in for father Higgos as we chat T20 World Cup, Alyssa Healy's retirement and the future of both our mens and women's squads. 

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0:00.0

What's a point of cricket?

0:01.0

Oise.

0:01.4

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. We're the good cricket team. The grey's cricket says real brats. Dixie said, if you're going to do it, do it to England. He's out now. We've got 40. Sunrise, sunset as the Australian day shortened and with it the cricket season itself, we draw the curtain with a season finale episode,

0:24.0

contemplating the end of some things and the start of others.

0:27.9

On the cricket front, the Asian century roars back to inevitable life

0:31.9

after Boomer and Co lay unapologetic waste to the skeletons,

0:36.5

breaking barriers to leave home fans ecstatic and the

0:39.0

rest of us indeed crying more if we have any tears left to give. England decides to persist

0:44.9

with McCullum after capitulating the Ashes, but on the plus side, running India close-ish in a

0:49.5

T20 semi. Four more years, they say, I think there's two on his contract. Australia apparently

0:54.1

agrees with England to bin day-night Ashes tests. Elisa Healy bows out after Skipper semi. Four more years, they say. I think there's two on his contract. Australia apparently agrees

0:54.5

with England to bin day night ashes tests. At least Haley bows out after skippering a win. Queensland

0:59.3

and the Sackers will battle it out to meet Victoria at the junction, Big Dan's. There's our

1:03.0

TGC with featuring former test cricketers and dad's stuff. And on that note, on behalf of the

1:09.9

entire TGC community, a big shout out to Ian Pupper Higgins,

1:16.6

who with his beautiful wife, LJ, welcome to baby Oliver William last Thursday.

1:21.2

I'm very pleased to report.

1:22.6

He did the news breaking on Instagram first, of course.

1:26.3

You have to wait for that news to be broken first.

1:28.3

With permission,

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