T20 Is Mostly Luck, with Finn Allen

The Grade Cricketer

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Comedy, Sports, Cricket

4.7 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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That bloke there in the red shirt can f**k off - Steve Smith
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0:00.0	This is a point of cricket.
0:01.0	Oh, how 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.
0:05.4	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. He's got 40. Who the fucking in my back? Planes, trains, automobiles and blokes moving behind the sight screen. these are some of the things that caught the eyes of Australia's favourite artists this week.
0:23.5	Steve Smith is some of the most sublime, mercurial, obscene, nasty, saucy touch as he sends Babar back at the non-strikers then before doing the weird V-thing for eternity. Now we're into the blobby league finals. We find out who was good this time. And we're also into the time of year what we care about. Deeply we care about. The Under 19 World Cup is Japan a new thing. Hugo Tani Kelly says yes, but Bangladesh and India say no to handshakes. So I guess it is like the real thing. There's also our Anzac brethren winning in India. Our new favorite Kiwi Finn Allen is on the show. There's no drinking culture in England. The T20 World Cup, ask TDC, what's getting your hot pezzar? The Ashes. They feel like they were five years ago and now it's just white ball forever. Oh, hell yeah. Nice one, bro. Yeah. Yeah, keep it going. Whole show whole show oh yeah uh i need it
1:11.9	jawing the other side of the room stuff yeah the ashes was two weeks ago so um can
1:17.6	scarcely remember what happened yeah to be honest um because it's it's bloby time
1:21.4	it's purely blobby bobby time Exactly. It's deep summer.
1:29.9	People are back at work, largely.
1:33.3	But it's sleepy, you know?
1:37.6	People are going into work, and it's butcher's paper and it's strategy sessions and maybe an early knockoff.
1:38.8	I don't mean to generalise for everybody, though I have.
1:42.6	The big boys are coming to play in the blobby league.
1:46.4	There's a World Cup on the horizon.
1:48.7	I think the general view of Australians is I'll have a look at winning a World Cup.
1:54.7	Yeah.
1:55.0	It doesn't rise further above that.
1:56.9	Yeah.
1:57.0	That's about the attitude that we want to have as well.
2:00.0	Yeah.
2:00.3	You know what I mean? I'll have a look at, I'll have a look at a trophy. I we want to have as well. Yeah. You know what I mean?
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