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Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor have been writing about cricket, and talking about music, books, movies, television and life, for nearly fifteen years. Now they do it with a podcast recorder handy, which sometimes they remember to turn on. Stand by for a podcast full of insights and lacking in organisation.
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Pete and Gid survey the wreckage of a grim day for Australian cricket, as Pat Cummins’s men surrender the Cape Town Test to South Africa by 176 runs, and the series 1-2. Framed with the help of the blokes from The Test and joined by spontaneous special guest Pommie Mbangwe, they ask how good are South Africa and where Australia go from here? Andrew McDonald walks past, the Proteas drop in: it’s all happening at the end of this amazing tour. Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid luxuriate in a Test match that refuses to die, with South Africa batting all the fourth day to set Australia 288 to win on the fifth. A record-breaking partnership by Ryan Rickelton and Wiann Mulder almost broke the visiting attack before brilliant fielding wound up the innings. But what about the bowling? And who would you rather be going in to the climax of one of the great modern series? Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid watch a classic series go down to the wire, with each of Australia and South Africa going into the fourth day of the Third Test a chance of securing the number one ranking in the World Test Championship. What is Josh Inglis’s unique record? How many balls has Pat Cummins bowled without taking a wicket? How good is Mitchell Starc, and how poor were the shots by Aiden Markram and David Bedingham? Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid watch Australia dig right in at Newlands on a day of defiant and increasingly positive batting by Josh Inglis, Alex Carey, Matthew Renshaw and Cameron Green. But whither Marnus Labuschagne after another failure, and Steve Smith in his enigmatic absence? Also: scenery! Plus: a TGC podbombing…. Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid bear witness to a three-session Jane Saville Day - we’ll explain - with Australia almost out of it before they surged back into it thanks to Mitchell Starc and South Africa squandered a brilliant opening partnership. Also: Chris Tavare and david Warner, separated at birth? Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Australia have a mountain to climb in Cape Town, and so do Pete and Gid, who ascend Table Mountain to produce the podcast from a record altitude. Then they return to the scene of the crime, recalling the events of 2018 from the same press conference location in which Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft tangled themselves in deception. What fate awaits Pat Cummins's Australians this time round? Only a day til we find out. Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid head off the beaten track to bring you highlights of their road trip on the Western Cape, starting in a tree and ending in a graveyard - South Africa’s first post office, the Bartolomeo Dias Maritime Museum, CP Roasters, Marloth Nature Reserve and Swellendam Cemetery Central - while occasionally touching on cricket and related matters. Includes a boot, a caravel and Pete’s expert handling of the selfie stick. Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube Channel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pete and Gid peer through the rain and clouds to see South Africa trounce Australia by an innings and 31 runs at St George's Park, with Kagiso Rabada eclipsing Steve Smith, Scott Boland impersonating Horatius on the bridge to no avail, and Pat Cummins equivocal about the future of the batting unit. To Capetown at one-all: what a prospect. Support Independent Journalism at Cricketetal.com Check out our YouTube ChannelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Gideon Haigh and Pete Lalor have been writing about cricket, and talking about music, books, movies, television and life, for nearly fifteen years. Now they do it with a podcast recorder handy, which sometimes they remember to turn on. Stand by for a podcast full of insights and lacking in organisation.
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