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The Grade Cricketer: Alphas, Champs and Chop Kings

By: Sam Perry, Ian Higgins
Narrated by: Sam Perry, Ian Higgins
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Bigger, buffer and even more insecure than before, The Grade Cricketer is back!

After wasting several years becoming a worldwide sports comedy phenomenon, The Grade Cricketer is back to deliver another sharp, hilarious and often risqué critique of the game. Full of side-splitting humour, it's a brilliant skewering of sporting masculinity and cricket culture, channeling the raucous energy of Sam Perry and Ian Higgins' hit podcast, TV, radio, and live shows.

A hallowed, suspicious-smelling manual, Alphas, Champs and Chop Kings is an induction to grade cricket handed down through generations of cricketers who weren't quite good enough to play professionally.

Outrageous, ridiculous, and sadly completely true, it's the audiobook you should not give to any aspiring young cricketer.

"The Grade Cricketer nails it for anyone who's ever donned a pair of whites. Underneath all the laughs, he's just saying what we're all thinking. I actually find it hard to believe he's a fictional character ..." MERV HUGHES

"The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks!" TOM KENEALLY

"The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be closer to the bone than some of his observations." KERRY O'KEEFFE

"The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant." WISDEN

©2025 Sam Perry & Ian Higgins (P)2025 W. F. Howes ltd.
Cricket Sports Funny Witty Royalty Comedy
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This book dug up a lot of old memories covering all facets of the game. None of which were particularly positive and I feel as though I've had some old wounds torn open. Maybe I should have batted at 11 instead of top 4, maybe it's good for the most junior in a team to have to read stories from pornographic titles post game, maybe I should have been dropped for the grand final 2 years straight . I guess I did get to learn about different socioeconomic issues through the quality of spread at afternoon tea. Maybe I still have some unanswered questions I need to deal with but hey that's cricket right guys? I wonder if my whites still fit?

BEST BOWLED 5/25 of 12

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At some point amidst the description of jelqing I realised I was not this book’s intended audience (I’m a woman and I’ve also never played club cricket), but it’s always good to glance outside your own echo chamber, no matter the personal cost. My husband has oft used the word “depravity” to describe the collective psyche of the straight male, and I now truly feel that I have walked through that dark garden myself. 4.2 stars

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