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Australia lose game, series, hearts and minds | Day 5 | SA v AUS | Cape Town
So. Was this a good use of our collective Saturday nights? Sitting at home watching whatever this was?
It's a take-your-licks kind of result. A commanding win for the Saffas. A seismic, humiliating defeat for the Aussies.
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Rickelton and Mulder tons spell day 5 pain | Day 4 | SA v AUS | Cape Town
How good is Test cricket? It's great if you're an Aussie who loves to feel pain on a Saturday night.
Maybe the Aussies could convince the Saffas to head to Maverick's tonight for the second best steak in town?
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Australia make runs. Grippers? | Day 2 | SA v AUS | Cape Town
How many times does this Aussie team need to hurt TGC? Don't they understand they're costing us downloads every time they win a session? No Marnus, no Smudge, the future is here and it's at Mavericks.
Although it is sad what's happened to South African cricket.
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End of a dynasty, Australia slightly ahead | Day 1 | SA v AUS | Cape Town
Just when you thought it was all over for this team. Just when you switch the TV off on a Tuesday night thinking "I think I'm finally done with this sport". We get whatever this was.
Turns out this Australian team just needs obscene levels of kink to get itself going.
Is Cape Town 'Choke City'? Is Toorak shopping called off? Is Table Mountain cancelled?
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Live from Cape Town, with Simon Harmer
We sniff an ambush, but who's ambushing whom? Can't say, but there's something about South Africa that brings Australian cricket to a screeching halt. And as we close in on the deciding third Test we ask: Wouldn't everything be easier if Australia just made Smudge our Olympic Games bearer? Someone get Kitty Flanagan on the phone.
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Faf du Plessis on towels, mints and returning to Cape Town
Faf du Plessis joined TGC live and in the flesh ahead of the Cape Town Test with the stunning Table Mountain as the backdrop as the boys discuss towels, mints, the series thus far and a deep dive into what actually happened here in 2018. We also got a first hand look at his Proteas baggy cap.
And yes, he looked amazing.
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Australia suffers historic innings defeat | Day 5 | SA v AUS | Gqeberha Test
Was this the worst loss under this Australian leadership? No, that was 3 tests ago in Darwin. Scott Boland is the greatest all rounder in test cricket history? It takes a lot to get this team out of bed. WE ARE IN AFRICA.
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Dreadful capitulation in Australia’s day of disaster | Day 4 | SA v AUS | Gqeberha Test
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TGC’s beach house fundraiser. One of the most bitter days in this teams journey. David fires up the Twitter account again. Jansen looks impossible to score off.
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Bavuma masterpiece turns Test on its head | Day 3 | SA v AUS | Gqeberha Test
South Africa balls deep in this match. Is it Australia’s time to park the bus? There is no win in this match for Australia. Temba Bavuma enters the crease facing a hat trick ball on day 1 and leaves the crease with his highest ever test score on day 3.
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Renshaw worldie, Australia on top | Day 2 | SA v AUS | Gqeberha Test
A race against time for Australia. Hoff takes a rest with a stomach bug. Now that Renshaw has a WWI style moustache, he is allowed to take screamers in slip. Bavuma holds it together for South Africa. Batters caught in no mans land. Is this just what cricket looks like in other nations?
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Boland takes 2 on hessian-less deck | Day 1 | SA v AUS | Gqeberha Test
The day ends 2/20 after 12.2 overs. Boland goes bang, bang after Pat Cummins practically chooses to bowl before the toss. It's very wet with more rain to come. There will be no early tee times.
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There is NO interest in an Australian victory | TGC Raw Teaser
Australia wins and the world gives it crickets. Renshaw's 272 runs are just paper and the deepest aims of Australian cricket are to restore the warm hues of our childhood.
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The right kind of win, with Alex Malcolm
Credit where it's due or is Bailey kissed on the d**k? Matthew Renshaw is the greatest middle order batter has ever seen. Endless depth of Australian quicks. Can we expect to see more out of South Africa in the 2nd test or will this series fizzle out to a 3-0 win for Australia. Alex Malcolm joins the show to break down what actually happened in Durban.
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Hazlewood deletes feedbag, Australia 1-0 | Day 5 | SA v AUS | Durban Test
AUSTRALIA WIN. AUSTRALIA WIN. AUSTRALIA WIN. And the thanks need to go to the former players who gave these guys the shove they needed to actually pull their socks up and give a damn for once!!!
The day moved slow then fast thanks to career-best figures from Josh Hazlewood as he got the ball to reverse…somehow…in South Africa. We’re not asking any questions there.
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Renshaw, Australia create early tee time options | Day 4 | SA v AUS | Durban Test
Who’s winning? Sure, we don’t ask that in Test cricket. But if we were to ask it, which we are, then Australia is winning.
For the first time since the early 2000s, Australia’s batting looks good. Matt Renshaw looks good, he knows how to play the spinners and he knows how to get past 50. We don’t want to jinx it at all, but with 6 wickets Australia are definitely winning this Test match and the series and everything forever.
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Smith reclaims record, Cartel goes to work | Day 3 | SA v AUS | Durban Test
Don’t listen to what others are saying and don’t look at the lead of 139 runs at the end of Day 3. Australia are unders are we are filthy.
Are South Africa’s batters feeling the effects of not playing Test cricket in about 120 months?
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Renshaw’s historic 190 EXPOSES selector frauds | Day 2 | SA v AUS | Durban Test
It’s Renshaw, it’s always been Renshaw but especially now with a Daddy hundred on foreign soil to turn the match around. So he’ll go ahead and join the back of the queue to bat at 5 for Australia. Doesn’t matter, Mitch Marsh is probably going to take everyone’s spot by the end of the series anyway.
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Old man Australia unders again, expect lead | Day 1 | SA v AUS | Durban Test
It’s the same game we’ve watched from Australia in the last 10 years, we’re completely unhappy with the scoreline and we still wholeheartedly believe that Australia will take a three-figure first innings lead.
Meanwhile, Bailey bamboozles us with his latest Magic Eye trick. Maybe there's something there to see, we don't see it, but we've never been good with these things.
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Aussie team fires shots ahead of HOT South Africa Test series | TGC Raw Teaser
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Bailey's really done it this time
The sandpaper reduxes are running dry and it's almost time for Australia to return to South Africa for the first time since 2018. Australian's are never satisfied so even a 3-0 win may seem like a failure. Marnus tons up in a 'low intensity' warm up game, Martin Guptill is playing Sydney test cricket and miraculously India and Pakistan are in the same group again for the ODI World Cup.
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Cricket Victoria CEO Nick Cummins on why they’re selling the Renegades
Main podcast out tomorrow. In the meantime we sit down with Cricket Victoria CEO Nick Cummins to break down why they’re selling the Renegades, what fans stand to gain or lose, the threat of monopoly ownership, the changing economics of international and T20 cricket and what this all means for domestic cricket in Victoria.
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Baird out, Saffas win and Japanese wides
Around the world of cricket in around 2 hours. Today's episode is a TGC megamix of guests. Firdose Moonda joins us from South Africa to preview their upcoming summer. Peter Lalor calls in from Sydney to chat all things Mike Baird and Australian cricket governance. Dan Cherny swings by the studio for a whip round on Australia A, the South Africa series and where all the runs are. Ali Martin wraps up the England summer from Birmingham and Japan's own Declan Suzuki gives us the lowdown on Japan cricket and THAT wide call against India.
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Private bunce, Razaullah jawline, Zimbabwe favourites, with Alex Malcolm
Alex Malcolm from Cricinfo sits in this week to help us wave goodbye to the UK summer as the clubbies begin wheeling out their bowling machines across Australia.
Meanwhile, a lidless Razaullah offers up inevitable comparisons to Pakistani greats, the Aussies face off with a team that has had the wood over them in recent times and Steve Smith gives us his middling indifference on playing in next year's Ashes series.
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Gideon Haigh joins as special co-host to discuss “the most important strategic decision that Australian cricket will make for a generation”. Also: Australia’s team for South Africa, Marnus stuff, KP, England-Pakistan, and AskTGC.
Join Cricket et al to catch Gideon at his thunderous best, and Peter Lalor leading the news on these historic developments in Australian cricket.
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PCB Clown Show, with Vithushan Ehantharajah
TGC go past Bradman. The longest run up for a delivery ever. A village cricketer wants to helicopter to Lords after his wedding.
Are England the greatest ever test team or are Pakistan just at a generational low.
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Batting issues, Carse handcuffs, Jaiswal headbutt, with Greg Chappell
Is it the decks? Is it TikTok? Or is it just an inherent lack of ability rendering Test batters mostly useless in this country? Do we need to compulsorily acquire suburban land so that middle class kids can have a backyard?
Also, Brydon Carse proves that it actually is quite difficult to go out and not end up in handcuffs, Tugga has some thoughts on franchise cricket and Jaiswal and Asitha cop fines after their heads come together...somehow.
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Dreadful Australia win by an innings | Day 2 | AUS v BAN | Mackay Test
Australia lost to this team. Nathan Lyon bowled well, turns out he is still pretty good when he's given the chance to bowl. A big day for Slug and not for particularly good reasons. Bowling averages in Australia are low and so are the batting averages, so what's going on?
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Embarrassing Australia take massive first innings lead | Day 1 | AUS v BAN | Mackay Test
Australia are a disgrace, they won't bat again. We simply just don't do big runs any more.
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Beheadings, Tiki Torches, Guillotines, with Alex Malcolm
Never underestimate how test cricket can make you feel. Alex Malcolm from Cricket Information.com joins the show to deconstruct everything that happened in Darwin and what happens next.
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One of the greatest wins in Test cricket history | Day 4 | AUS v BAN | Darwin Test
Gather your guillotines and tiki torches, it's time to march as Bangladesh pull off what could be the biggest upset in the history of the game.
Donald Robert Argus, please stand by your phone.
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Bangladesh on the brink of history | Day 3 | AUS v BAN | Darwin Test
Bangladesh close in on a historic test match win on Australian soil, while the Aussies seem to do everything in their power to ensure their own annihilation. Is this a sign of the next 20 (read:19) tests for the Aussies?
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Tanzid and Bangladesh put Australia to the sword | Day 2 | AUS v BAN | Darwin Test
Bangladesh put Australia to the sword. Tanzid Hasan's first Test century leads to a second day of domination over Australia in the Darwin Test.
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Now We Know Their Names | Day 1 | AUS v BAN | Darwin Test
One of the greatest days in Bangladesh Cricket history means Australia may never win again. Now we know their names...
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Darwin Test, England squad, Stokes interview
Test cricket is back in Australia and most of the country have no idea it's happening. Doesn't matter because The Cartel™ is back together for a couple of one-day tests. Will Father Time remain undefeated? Cam Green break the home hundred hoodoo? Will we all be talking about "carry percentages" by the time summer rolls around?
Meanwhile, England has announced its zany 16-man squad to take on Pakistan, Sam Curran looks forward to the end of The Hundred and Rishabh tries to buy property via Twitter.
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Disappointing and sensible, with Matt Roller
Missionary works, especially for England. Their new appointments of Stephen Fleming and Joe Root are sensible but boring. Is Root just a placeholder until Harry Brooks' diet evolves past eating crayons. Is Stokes' potential move to the Sydney Sixers a sign he's not quite done with cricket yet and we hear from fans who actually enjoy the hundred. Matt Roller joins the show to chat England and the Hundred before AskTGC covers weak men and penalties for hitting the dog.
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Moises Henriques on cricket anxiety, privatisation and the best player he’s ever seen
The boys sit down with Moises Henriques for a special one hour chat in Sydney. Fresh from concluding a 22 year career with Cricket NSW and the Sydney Sixers, Moises opens up his relationship to cricket, the future of the game, and the best he's seen live.
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The dark arts of club cricket | Raw & Order
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Clicking at first slip, with Tom Holland
Controversies abound at first slip as an entire country of grade cricketers ask "why didn't I think of that?" Meanwhile, England still have no idea who's going to lead their test team on the field or off the field as the north of England is SNUBBED from next year's Ashes schedule.
And we chat to esteemed historian Tom Holland from The Rest Is History to find out which wars offered the best batting decks and what Jesus would have thought about Bairstow's stumping.
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True Blue or Jerusalem, with Alex Malcolm
Who will be the next coach of England? Everybody outside of England would love to see JL in the job for a range of reasons. Joe Root is the GOAT of ODI cricket now and Australia stick with safety for the upcoming test series in Bangladesh. Alex Malcolm joins on the show to tell us what's been happening ion the 6 months Australia hasn't played cricket.
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Bazball: Forever in the Memory
Thank you Baz, thank you England. The King of Beers departs from Englands test set up whilst those stuck inside the camp have to deal with a Prohibition era style ban on drinking. The England womens team are solving Rubik's cubes on the balcony whist Ausrtalias womens team are caught up in a cheating scandal. Will Sutherland is also being considered by the Geelong Cats, apparently.
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