Teatime Declarations

Episode 4 - Good Sport

Teatime Declarations

Show Notes

Good Sport

Teatime Declarations explores cricket through the lens of geopolitics, and vice versa.

Episode 4 explores Australia's victory in the recent Cricket World Cup. We segue briefly into Sri Lanka (because Paul is there on holiday) but otherwise form a thesis for why Australia are so dominant.

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