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Pete and Gid chew on Usman Khawaja's autobiography Sabr, which isn't out til Tuesday, but has already divided Australian cricket with its unsparing account of events on the 2018 South African tour. What exactly has Khawaja said? What does it really mean? Will the game be the same again? Will Cricket Australia have to respond?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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….


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