Cricket analysis with the lid off.
The Grade Cricketer is cricket coverage with the lid taken off: match detail, online reaction, running jokes, and sudden seriousness all moving at speed. It suits fans who know the names already and want the week’s absurdity argued over, not politely recapped.
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The Grade Cricketer is cricket commentary for people who do not need the sport cleaned up before it reaches them. It takes the match, the reaction, the memes, the broadcast oddities, and the sponsorship furniture, then throws them into one fast-moving argument. The result is loose, sharp, and deeply cricket-literate. One minute the show is tracing the tactical problem of facing Bumrah’s slower ball; the next it is turning an IPL robot dog or a glove-change delay into evidence of the sport’s ridiculous future. That is the appeal. The jokes do not replace the cricket. They are the method by which the cricket gets processed. Recent episodes move heavily through IPL storylines, India’s T20 World Cup dominance, England’s anxieties, Australian cricket insecurity, and the endless churn of fan opinion online. The show is very comfortable with names arriving in a rush: Rohit, Dhoni, Kohli, Cam Green, Surya Vanchi, Mitchell Stark, Finn Allen, Axar, Bethel, and Bumrah all become part of the week’s running theatre. It also makes room for guests and substitutes when regular voices are absent, with Alex Malcolm brought in around World Cup and season-finale conversations and Tim Hewitt appearing on The Circus. That wider sports format stretches the tone across AFL, the Tillies, Formula One, football, and Australian public spectacle. Still, cricket remains the gravitational force. The show’s strongest episodes are not calm post-match reports; they are comic pressure systems built out of grievance, admiration, mock prophecy, and fan comments read as cultural evidence. Listeners get analysis, but not the polished seminar version. They get the pub argument. They get tactical praise and emotional overreaction in the same breath. They get a show that knows cricket is serious because it is so often absurd. Anyone looking for orderly match notes may find it noisy. Anyone who follows cricket through scorecards, comments, and national sporting dread will understand the rhythm immediately.
Made for: For cricket fans who already know the players, formats, and grudges, and want coverage that moves as quickly as the discourse. It especially suits IPL, India, Australia, England, and white-ball obsessives who enjoy comedy with their cricket detail.
What sets it apart: The show uses fan comments, online sentiment, sponsor-era weirdness, and match specifics as one continuous field of play. It can make a serious point about Bumrah’s release or India’s dominance without dropping the running argument for long.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed cricket judgment meets unruly match-day comedy, with tactics, pressure and public reaction all kept in play.
The Grade Cricketer turns cricket review into a running argument between technical judgment, fan emotion and irreverent comedy. Pez and Higgos move across the IPL, T20 World Cup and Test cricket, treating a calamitous run-out or a disputed bat measurement with the same attention…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Ian Higgins turns IPL oddities into an unruly solo rant.
With Sam Perry absent, Ian Higgins carries the episode solo and gives the IPL's strangest material room to breathe: Champak the robot dog, Tristan Stubbs' gloves, Kruna Pandya's bouncers, and the complaint that the games already run too long.
A loud IPL week that turns scorecards, Twitter noise, and Cam Green's price into one long argument.
It holds to an IPL week-in-review rhythm, opening with eight teams having won the first 11 games, then a washout, before moving through Sunrisers, Lalit Modi's Twitter noise, Josh thanking KP, and early calls on RCB, Punjab, CSK, and KKR.
IPL 2026 opens with sharp cricket talk, pub-argument energy, and deliberate chaos.
The Grade Cricketer comes back for IPL 2026 in its familiar combative register, turning Rohit's bat-gauge moment, Mumbai's opening-game win, and the recurring habit of needling overseas players the hosts do not rate into a fast, barbed exchange.
An emphatic Indian celebration, with Bumrah's slower ball and release mechanics doing the serious work.
The Grade Cricketer treats India's T20 World Cup win as a loud, emphatic celebration, opening with the blunt reminder that 255 was nowhere near enough and that listeners came for the names delivered.
India's seven-run win gets sharp, loose treatment: Bumrah praise, bowling talk, and unruly fan sentiment.
The Grade Cricketer frames India's seven-run win over England as a game decided in the less glamorous corners of a 499-run spectacle: bowling, fielding, and the small margins that survive all the batting noise.
Root and Brook leave England 35 runs from a 3-1 win, with the cricket still gloriously ungovernable.
England's chase of 35 with four wickets left gives this single-episode review an easy tension: Root and Brook have pushed the side close to a 3-1 series win, but the final stretch still has just enough edge to resist tidiness.
A lively IPL temperature check built around form, fan pressure, and Cam Green's uneasy redemption setup.
The Grade Cricketer frames the IPL week as a form guide and a stress test, tracking who looks settled and who is already drifting. RCB and Punjab come out well, CSK and KKR are treated as finished, and Sanjiv Goenka's side enters the chat on the back of a couple of sharp…
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket’s global week, argued with context.
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This episode features cricket analyst Alex Malcolm discussing the intense rivalry between Australia and England, criticizing Australia's team and exploring the contrasting values of Baz Ball versus traditional Australian cricket.
The IPL is warming up, apparently.
The day leaves England 35 runs from a 3-1 series win.
Cricket Australia’s proposed club privatization leaves the ACA and Cricket Australia divided over whether players receive 27.5% of sale proceeds.
Ian Higgins comes out swinging, firing off names, jokes, and the missing Sam Perry before the episode has even found its feet.
IPL is the center of gravity here.
The Grade Cricketer opens its IPL 2026 coverage with a quick run through the week’s loudest cricket noise.
This episode discusses recent sports events including the Tilly's Asian Cup success, AFL updates, and the intersection of sports and comedy culture in Melbourne.
This season finale episode reflects on cricket season endings, discusses recent matches like the Ashes and T20 semi-finals, and shares personal news about a team member's paternity leave.
India own the room.
Jasprit Bumrah’s four overs go for 7, 12, 8, and 6 in a 499-run match.
This episode discusses the current crisis in Australian cricket, covering recent losses by both the men's and women's national teams in the T20 World Cup and analyzing the state of the sport.
This episode features Beau Webster discussing Australia's 4-1 Ashes series win over England, exploring cricket culture, rivalry, and the emotional highs of the sport.