Aug 13, 2026 · 42 min · 13 segments
What do you think when you hear the word Cricket? A gentlemen's game, sandwiches at tea time, cable knit sweaters. You may not necessarily think of a sport doused in corruption and scandals, well, in…
Marcus BucklandHost
Mark PougatchHost
In a moment, I'll focus on Sandpapergate, which brought the Australian game to its knees, uh, back in 2018.
You just wanna go a little further back in time, though, to set the scene for us.
Yes, because the thing is, because cricket is the game it is, and it's just not cricket, and it's a game for gentlemen, it's the game that the English took to the colonies, and all that is true.
People, I think, have always put it right up there in terms of, of moral probity and how you behave, which actually obscures quite a lot the reality of what cricket was in its very, very early days, which was quite often s- blatantly a vehicle for betting.
Got a great pub at, uh, at, uh, extra cover, square leg, depending where you're batting.
Um, and he used a bat, a piece of wood, which was so wide, because it was obviously before the laws had come in to say how wide a bat can be, that he, they couldn't get him out.
But he couldn't score any runs either, and everybody was getting very, very annoyed because there were bets from the opposition on the result.
There used to be a pub on the corner of Oxford Street called The Green Man and Still, and that used to be basically where people would meet to bet, not just on the result of matches, but also on what individual batters would score.
In a moment, I'll focus on Sandpapergate, which brought the Australian game to its knees, uh, back in 2018.
You just wanna go a little further back in time, though, to set the scene for us.
Yes, because the thing is, because cricket is the game it is, and it's just not cricket, and it's a game for gentlemen, it's the game that the English took to the colonies, and all that is true.
People, I think, have always put it right up there in terms of, of moral probity and how you behave, which actually obscures quite a lot the reality of what cricket was in its very, very early days, which was quite often s- blatantly a vehicle for betting.
Got a great pub at, uh, at, uh, extra cover, square leg, depending where you're batting.
Um, and he used a bat, a piece of wood, which was so wide, because it was obviously before the laws had come in to say how wide a bat can be, that he, they couldn't get him out.
But he couldn't score any runs either, and everybody was getting very, very annoyed because there were bets from the opposition on the result.
There used to be a pub on the corner of Oxford Street called The Green Man and Still, and that used to be basically where people would meet to bet, not just on the result of matches, but also on what individual batters would score.
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