The Indian cricket team after winning the 2024 T20 World Cup.© AFP
The Indian cricket team ended its 17-year T20 World Cup trophy drought with a sensational win over South Africa in the final in Barbados a month ago. India won the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2007 but failed to repeat the feat until Rohit Sharma and co. lived up to expectations. During an interaction with DailyExpertNews, Australian cricket writers Sam Perry and Ian Higgins, who are also the creators of 'The Grade Cricketer Podcast', said that India deserved to win the tournament.
“India deserved to win the T20 World Cup because they played the very best cricket. We are fortunate that we cover the IPL and have a deep understanding of Indian players and the way Indian cricket works. We understand what a special effort it was for that team to overcome many of their difficulties in previous World Cups and win the tournament,” Sam Perry said.
Talking about how the duo came up with the idea to start 'The Grade Cricketer Podcast', Sam said: “We're really lucky, Ian Higgins and I played club cricket in Australia, which is the level below state cricket. We dreamed of becoming professional players and we weren't good enough. But after playing for so long, we've gained a lot of experience that wasn't really reflected in cricket media. So we started a Twitter account, we wrote about our experiences. And then we explored the character of the grade cricketer or the club cricketer through different media, one of them was podcasts and people seem to enjoy it. We try to bring cricket stories to people with a bit of humour and reflect some of the difficult experiences that you have playing cricket that aren't spoken about. We're lucky that we've built the audience that allows us to keep doing it.”
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