Selling the summer, Pakistani exclusion and Imran, with Greg Chappell
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Record breaking innings in women's grade cricket, T20 World Cup, New South Wales are NOT producing enough cricketers and Greg Chappell joins the show to chat Imran Khan, Tom Hanks and the future of cricket in Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | What's a point of cricket? |
| 0:01.0 | 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. We're the good cricket team. The grey's cricket says real brats. If you're going to do it, do it to England. He's out now. We got 40. Who's the fuck in my lap? The sky fell in the week before the footy season, but it was behind a paywall and in a format really care about but why does it kind of feel like we're on the rocks with everything we've |
| 0:23.9 | ever known? We react to the fallout of Australia's ultimate slow death in the T20 World Cup while looking ahead to who we like and who we hate as the tournament rolls on into the Super 8s. Greg Chaplin is on the show to give us an update Imran Cards status in a Pakistan jail and gives an insight into the future of cricket in this country. There's also the news that Pakistani players not being bought by Indian owners in the 100. Australia is suffering their first series lost at home since 2017. Tour dates for Australia and England and South Africa this year. Victoria locking in a home shield filed. What's getting you hot? |
| 0:54.6 | Ask TjC, everything in between Pezza. |
| 0:57.5 | It feels like we're about to slip into a wintry abyss. |
| 1:02.5 | And I'm kind of scared because that's when I feel like change will happen the most, though |
| 1:06.8 | it'll be whilst we're asleep in the winter time. |
| 1:10.0 | That's right. As Richard Flanagan said, most words are designed to put you to sleep. |
| 1:14.8 | Go to bed, Ian. |
| 1:16.1 | It's bedtime. |
| 1:17.4 | One brings two here, boys. |
| 1:18.7 | One brings two. |
| 1:20.2 | Forty winks. |
| 1:22.6 | 40-odd winks. |
| 1:24.4 | 40-od winks. |
| 1:25.7 | Not being confused, of course, with the horse. |
| 1:28.1 | I suppose big week in the cricket world. |
| 1:30.6 | It feels like, though, that, you know, people will stop watching the news because it's all bad news. |
| 1:35.6 | And I feel like a lot of this week is not good news. |
| 1:40.6 | Unless you're Africa. |
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