Farewell, Midge. Not that easy is it?
3/3/20261 hr 7 min
Grade cricket teams are now taking their own covers to away games. The T20 World Cup continues to roll on and Midge puts on a world class bowling display.
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First 90 secondsIan Higgins· Host0:00
What's the point of cricket?
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:00
Boys- Why do you do it?
Sam Perry· Host0:02
Great cricket is a prison.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:03
Exactly. We're gonna look at the perils of sweeping. We're at the good cricket team, the great cricket team.
Speaker 30:07
Real broadband. If you're gonna do it, do it to England.
Ian Higgins· Host0:10
Yeah.
Sam Perry· Host0:11
Oh, he's out now. He got 40.
Speaker 30:12
Who the fuck is in my car?
Ian Higgins· Host0:14
The World Cup rolls on with fast-forwarded anthems, learning who Zimbabweans cricketers are, fines for getting knocked out too soon, coaches quitting and being sacked, and South Africa reveling in the favorites tag. What a world we live in. It's semifinal time. We try to figure out which opening batter will break the shackles first, and if the final is as preordained as some players believe it is. Meanwhile, we farewell Elissa Healy with 158 perfect cricket runs in a perfect ODI series clean sweep on the way to at least not being able to lose the multi-format series against India. We look ahead to the test in Perth on Thursday and farewell the test against West Indies in March. Sophie Molineux is already injured again. What does it all mean? There's also What's Getting You Hot? The Shield is back this week. Ask TGC and we'll tell you how to feel for another week of TGC. Peza, hello to you. Farewell, summer. Um, hello, autumn, and hello to you.
Sam Perry· Host1:13
S- speak for yourself. I see an endless summer of cricket. I see 12 months of cricket all year round.
Ian Higgins· Host1:19
Fuck yeah.
Sam Perry· Host1:20
Uh, we go straight from... And now just on the World Cup, I am red hot for these semis.
Ian Higgins· Host1:24
Mate, everyone is.
Sam Perry· Host1:26
I'm absolutely red hot. Couldn't sleep if I tried- Mm-hmm ... with some of