Congratulations to all of our Indian friends.
Congratulations to making the 4th consecutive final in an ICC
event. That is an absolute insane stat
and the fact that this shows the brilliance of the Indian cricket
team in the cricket system that they keep on getting to the end
and making it to the ultimate game in an ICC tournament.
Congratulations to you guys all. Congratulations to finally
having some sense getting Sandro Sampson in and him not being one
but two player of the match awards deep into this tournament
and getting you guys through the line.
If there is one team that needs to win and that should win this
tournament, it indeed is India. But lo and behold, the final is
in Ahmedabad and that is a place where ICC finals don't really go
well for India. We'll talk about this.
We'll talk about the semi final, which was a blinder, 500 plus
runs scored. We'll talk about how much, how
many runs how how much fun that was or it wasn't at the end of
the day. And with me is always my
brother, my Co host, the birthday boy Bouchardi.
Hello and welcome man. What a game.
Almost 500 runs scored. Oh, I'm sorry, I said 500.
Plus it was 4. 99 oh 499, yes. OK, well, still a lot of talk
about that. An absolute run fest.
This is the kind of game that you expected to happen in India
before the World Cup. But generally we saw games of
18190, a couple of games that went to 2:50.
But terrific, terrific game. I mean to the last ball, you
didn't know where I was going to.
Go generally and then even the last over when they needed 31 I
believe or 30. 30, yeah. Went for 22.
With Dubey Ball they could have got anywhere.
Yeah, they'll dua man. It could have been, yeah, could
go on anywhere. After the first two deliveries,
all that's all he had to do. Had to survive the 1st 2
deliveries and whatever he did after that did not matter.
It got closer than India would have liked.
But damn, in the end of the finals, again man, this was a
game of the barest of margins. Barest of margin.
But like, talk about that run. 2324 wins, 25 wins, 26 final
again. I don't even think Australia and
its peak had that kind of run. To be fair, Australia and its
peak did not have the opportunity for that main they.
Weren't playing as frequently, yes.
But even the 2007 Australian team which went unbeaten in that
final in that World Cup, in 2007, the ODI World Cup, they
had, the 2007 T 20 World Cup blew it, 2019 T20 World Cup blew
it and 2010 T 20 World Cup. There is an argument there.
There is an opportunity for them to do that.
Australia is not a good team. They've won what, one World Cup
in T 20s and 21 and that was a World Cup of tosses.
Aaron Finch, I think won six or seven tosses, six of seven
tosses. So you win the toss, you bowl
first, you chase, there's do factor, and then you win the.
But in 2009, the results in ICC Champions Trophy.
That they lost, Well, they won that.
Who won that? I thought Australia won.
Australia beat New Zealand because we lost New Zealand.
If you remember that. Yunus Khan drop catch that
covers. I remember that.
In the I still think the greatest run for any team is the
Australian team in ODIs from 99 World Cup final till the 2011
World Cup. So Pakistan broke their 33 match
winning streak in 2011 when they when they beat them in the ODI
World Cup mad at the match and also in 99 Pakistan was a team
that beat them as well. I remember in 2011 I very
vehemently tweeted and put on a on on on on my status on on
Facebook that, you know, it was the box on thing which that
Australia was smashed in between in 2022 champions were Australia
second title. You're right.
So they won in 2007 and 2009, both 50 old tournaments, but
they did not win the T20 World Cups that preceded them, which
is interesting. Yeah, so in.
General the sheer dominance since they lost by 10 wickets
against England. I think Dinesh Karthik mentions
how after that semifinal loss Roy Sharma takes entire team and
he says we got to change the way how we're playing 2019 ODI World
Cup. Rohit are must scored like 5
centuries at World Cup. But India lost in the semi
finals. So Rohit says what is the point
of my century when the team is not winning?
So ultimately Rohit comes out with a more aggressive mindset
and he's the one that changed India's wide ball trajectory.
A big tragedy that couldn't win the ODI World Cup.
That could have been the the full effect right there.
But yeah, India in the finals, I still think this is my heart
take. India is still not playing at
the peak of their powers like going into this batch, they have
one of the lowest catches efficiency of any team.
And Vertex about these getting past here, Abhishek is out of
form. So they're still not really
operating at full throttle. And I I hope in the finals, if
we do get to see the best of this Indian team, it could be A1
sided match. Do you think that they are at
least getting better from that South Africa win?
So sorry, South Africa lost not to now.
Do you think they're playing a little bit better every single
day or is it just this Sendu Sampson effect which I think has
completely changed the trajectory of this entire team?
The way that this team has not operated under the Sendu Sampson
banner, starting from ball 1 all the way to the end of the end of
the innings. This man is carried.
Isn't this man is playing more than 40 to 50% of the deliveries
in the past two or three games that that have mattered and that
have impacted him and. The fact that this man was being
ridiculed on a press conference by the Indian cricket cricket
captain is insane to me. Like this man should have been
playing every single game. Yeah, I think he's been the
difference the past couple of games, just carried his momentum
or the form that he had in the last match into this match.
And if we're getting to the match, England and the toss and
they both were, which I think is a interesting call because in a
big semi final, given the fact that India has lost only seven
matches the last two years, five of them chasing, why not let
India chase against you like when a bat first score on the
board and then try to get early wickets to get India under
pressure. Like that to me is still the
best formula to beat India. Somehow you win the toss, you
bat first, you get early wickets from India and then you try to
put them under pressure like how South Africa did in the group
match against them. Also given there is no deal on
offer here in Mumbai. So I don't know exactly why
bowling first was a good call. It wasn't the worst call if
they're taking their catches. Sanju I believe was dropped that
on 15 by Harry Brooke. If they just take that catch,
they don't score to 50. Before Sanju, let's talk about
Abhishek Sharma. Oh my God, who we've been
talking about. He got out today against Will
Jacks. Will Jacks right on off spinner.
And it seems like ever since Salman Ali Yaga got him out with
the right arm off spin in the power play and then Arian Dutt
from Netherlands got him out the same way and now Will Jacks gets
him out the same way. So, again, is he out of form?
Has he been found out? What is going on?
Because this is the biggest tournament of his life.
He's been hyped up for the past couple of years for this exact
tournament. It's a home tournament.
He's been thrashing teams left, right, center.
But when it comes to a World Cup, he's struggling to show the
same sort of intent and execution of his plans.
Yeah, I just think the big match and the big lights and the big
moment is getting damned. I think the four ducks on the
trot or three ducks on the trot were not.
Helpful to his confidence and it's.
Also impacting his fielding he's he dropped some sitters last
match. Yes, and and this is how you
know that this this man is under a lot of pressure and a lot of
weight. If India do go on and win this
tournament, it'll be no thanks to Sanju Samson.
Sorry, it'll be no, it'll be all thanks to Sanju Samson, but no
thanks to Abhishek Sharman. I think he feels that weight on
his on his shoulders. The fact that he was not able to
perform the way that he's getting out is very, very
elementary, I should say. I mean, the fact that, OK, Agra
got him out, that was a surprise move by everybody.
I remember in our live, like I wasn't even in the live yet.
I was making my I think I was making a coffee or something and
I come in and by the time I get in the live, Abhishek is already
out. And that's because Agra had
deployed that plan. Agra and has some very one of
the few things that they'd executed absolutely beautiful in
this tournament was that I appreciate share my plan.
Now anything else after that was, you know, as a question
mark, but they got that right. And ever since that template was
laid down, all the teams have been copying it.
And it seems like at this point Abhishek does not have an answer
to this. A couple of India's key players
are out of form in the Super Eights.
Abhishek with the bat, button with the ball and it's a big
question mark as to does India continue to back these guys or
did they bring in replacements. They could potentially bring in
Ishan Kishan to open the innings, bench Abhishek and then
get Rinku Singh as a finisher towards the back end and then
Vernon will talk about him when he go to England's innings.
But another match up that was on was Archer against Andrew Samson
because Archer dismissed Samsung three times in the last 25
deliveries and the match up was on.
And 2.2 is the delivery where Archer, sorry Samsung hits it
straight to Harry Brooke at mid on and Harry Brooke drops what I
want to say is a Dolly at this level.
Easiest catch ever and when you drop an informed batsman like
Sandra Sampson on a flat deck like Bombay with the boundaries
not being relatively small, he will make you pay.
At the time he was on 15 runs. He goes on to score 80 odd 89.
And I think hypothetically, you know, if you're just doing
scenarios, if Sanju gets out, then you bring in kind of an out
of form sky up into that earlier sky.
By the way, who has not shown up in any crunch matches for India
yet so far? Like I haven't seen him score
runs against Pakistan or in knockout games for ICC events.
I mean he scored runs against USA and the the literally if
they had lost that game, USA had an opportunity to get through.
Again, that was a group stage match against USAI.
Get it? I'm talking about his
performances in ICC knockout events against the Cena teams.
Yeah. So again, he comes in today
actually he sends Dubey over him because that's just, I guess the
matchup was better and then. Should we nickname Surya Kumar
Yadav? Surya Kumar USA like Zimbabwe
but Abhishek? Abhishek also has a What is Zim
Zimbishek? Do you hear this?
No, you don't know Zimbishek. Who said this?
I saw it on Twitter. I think, you know, Zimbabwe is,
is is a very, very, very common insult to Bob Rodman.
He only scored against Zimbabwe. I don't support that term.
I don't. I don't support it either.
I. I think I think it's very
childish when cricket fans mess up cricketers names like this.
But then there's a. Great.
Third greatest. It's very then we got Zimba
Sheikh because Abhishek score runs against Zimbabwe only in
the tournament and then now we can get Surya Kumar USA.
Abhishek A flop in the IPL playoffs, flop in the Shika
final, flop in this world. Cup so far, yeah, it's been
tough for Abhishek. I think it's a better player
than we've been seeing, but it is interesting to see how the
spotlight is getting time right now.
I think he'll come back, come stronger after this.
He should. And if this is the end of the
Abhishek Sharma, that'll be the, you know, gone with the whimper,
not a bang type situation. But you know, for the sake of
cricket, I hope he comes back. He's he's very exciting talent.
But it's been good to see NDS still backing him despite his
ferial failures. Might even be dropped in the
final now. Yeah, I don't think so, but.
Yeah, it's, I mean, I wouldn't. Necessarily change a no, not a
winning combination no, no, it's too late to do that like it's
you got you got something in in ink see through.
Sanju just he just go both. Splastic, I want to take a pace
on some on Sanju for a second. Eshan Kishan went really ham as
well. 39 off 18, everybody pitched in.
That's how they got to 250. Honestly, it's just the Surya
Kamal Yadav of it all. You, I know you touched on it a
little bit. What is the problem here?
Why is he not scoring runs? Why is the captain a liability?
I mean, as a boxing cricket fan I can understand how that feels,
but like I just don't understand it from the Indian point of
view. He came into this World Cup
season so that the series against New Zealand completely
out of form and people were saying he's not out of form,
he's out of runs. Yeah.
I don't know what the difference is, but yeah, I think Surya
Kumar as a player, his batting stats versus Surya Kumar as the
captain, his batting stats are very different.
So his batting stats are impacted by the captaincy.
Pressure I guess. Sure.
So maybe he's not doing a good job and and just
compartmentalizing his batting versus his captaincy because
yeah, he's just not been at his best with the bat when he's been
captaining India. To me, always correct me if I'm
wrong, I have not seen Surya Kumar a lot.
I've seen him mostly against India and Pakistan games which
he's never shown up. And to me, he seemed to have
like a very, this is already, it's like almost an ironic
statement, but he seems like a very dynamically 1 dimensional
player, which means that you don't have vertical, you have
that ability to take the innings deep.
Sudha Kabad apart from that USA innings does not have that
capability in my opinion. Now this game did not require
that. Obviously it's where 250 is
being scored. You don't want to take the game
quote UN quote deep. You just want to go ham for the
first delivery. But when crunch situations
happen and they will happen, it is going to be a final in ham
and about. And we've seen things be very
funny for Indian cricket supporters there.
I just don't know if he has the caliber to do that.
I haven't seen it per SE against the bigger side.
And in this entire tournament, I've always seen him smash
himself out in a very belligerent manner, like trying
to play that, you know, whatever that helicopter shot is towards
fine leg or just trying to smash it down the ground where maybe
the shot isn't all that called for.
Even today, getting stung by Rashid.
I mean, he was already off 11, off 6.
There was no need. And yet, yeah, I'm, I mean, I'm
just, I'm waiting to see that knock from him that I've been
promised and it just hasn't come yet.
I've seen those knocks because I watch more than just in the box
of matches, but I who asked you I.
Haven't seen those matches, like those knocks and crunch matches,
ICC events, knockouts. I can't say now.
I don't even play the tournament against the series that was the
England series or South Africa series right before the World
Cup, New Zealand series, New Zealand series.
There's a tournament. I believe in that.
In that I think he had the most runs.
He had the most runs. Looking fine.
I saw some of those highlights, but I'm yet to see it in that.
And we thought he was going to be informed.
We had him as one of the highest, one of the top, one of
the top. Nobody had some sada for Han
Bizada. Yeah, and he still sits the top.
He couldn't even. Make the the the shortest for
the the 100 auction. He didn't make it.
Yeah, he like only box any boulders made it enzyme.
AU. Enzyme AU.
Yeah. Great.
Good for them, Senator Thompson, That'll happen.
The margin of error balling to this guy is so low, anything
full he'll let you over your head straight back down.
Anything short he'll pull you for for a boundary automatic
wicket. So also just put the form that
he's in against spin, against pace, complete shots and and
fortunate not to get 100 in both matches.
The last match he was out of runs to score because he chased
it down so early. But today he gets out for 89.
But I think his innings set the entire platform for players like
Dube and Hardik Pandya and the like, by the way, was playing a
role that he's not really accustomed to.
He was. He's a top three player, top 4.
Player. I was just going to say he, I
think the first three games was his striker was like 112, He's
almost runnable. And then now he's just like
striking at 300. Even the game before that he was
absolutely like fearless. I don't know what what has
happened to the what Switch has turned on, but this guy is this
going in there smashing everything he sees at the
boundary. I also think that England's
death bowling wasn't good. If you look at Boomer's death
bowling, which is obviously world class, but Bumrah was
relying quite heavily on just kneeling as yorkers, whereas
England was bowling bouncers and cutters and slower balls and
yorkers. And the execution wasn't the
best. I think Archer got absolutely
smashed 61 and 4 overs. That that 2 with 9 dot ball.
Yeah, yeah. And Archer, he looked like a
good bowl at this work up. He was bowling at high pace,
getting some swing up front. Like his box and he was
absolutely lethal. Again, maybe if that's undue
catch was taken by how you brought it could have been a
different scenario. I'll honestly like the fact that
New England still went out and scored 246 means that if they
just had kept their catches and they're feeling a bit tighter
and restricted them under 240, they would have won this game.
That's what that means to me. I think that's how it's small,
the margins. Are scoring 253, was 20 above
par and. Still, England managed to make
246. Yeah, right.
Again, the bowling is nothing to show for, for, for, for England,
61 runs by Archer. You mentioned that before.
It's crazy. The thing that stands out to me
more is adlib Rashid even getting smacked to 41 even
though he took two wickets. And Sam Curran, man Player of
the tournament in 2022, has won the ILT 20A cheat code in terms
of T20 all rounders 53 and 4. So here's something interesting,
right? So India score 253.
So the average runs per over is 12.65 S Any bowler who goes less
than that, you can say he had a good day.
So you can say that Will Jack's 4 / 2 for 40.
Not not a bad day. Al Rasheed 4 / 2 for 41.
Decent day. Give me a word in three for 36.
That's another 12.6 or 12.5 that's under.
That's Yeah. I mean, that's a good, that's a
good spell. I don't know.
Oh man, it's tough. This is where I think the
question comes. I don't know if you want to talk
about it right now or after. We mentioned this before and
it's going to sound like sour grapes, but games like these are
not fun to watch. To me at least.
There is no, there's no competition between bat and
ball. Just seems like a slog fest.
Topic is going for six, middle of the bat, going for the six
and not even going for the six or the boundary.
It's just like in the crowd, like third tier.
I don't know if this is peak cricket.
I know the Wonka day is known to be like just an absolute
smashing like machines like a Colosseum 4 bowlers.
They just come here, get here to get smashed.
But you know, I've always said 250 is not a fun target to be
chased or or fun score to be put on the board in AT20 game and
then chase as well. Like this happens in the PSL as
well. I'm not docking in the cricket
team here with the IPL. This happens in all the leagues,
mostly where flat decks like Lahore Pindy where you can just
go out there and absolutely play your shots and just becomes A1
sided affair. England made a game out of this.
But at the same time, is it fun? Like I watched the game live,
then I went back and watched the highlights for a little bit more
of a context. Not fun.
And like, OK, like where's the swing to offer?
Where's a little bit of grip for the spin?
Nothing. This wicket was so flat that I
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Let's go into the the batting side of it all.
Josh Butler was in the worst form of his life, and today he
scores 25 of 17. Again, not the most convincing
25, but that just tells you how flat of a deck this was, that
even out of form, Butler scores 25.
Yeah. But at the same time, like how
does like Harry Brook not get off the mark?
I mean he does get off the mark but not go to get get a blinder.
How does Tom Benton not get a blinder?
Sam Curran? Like these guys should be
scoring at 300 strike rates because they play IPL all the
time to the APA. Actually, Brooke is bad from the
IPL. Not Brooke.
I don't know if you know this. I have heard about this.
He's he's. He's given his name in the
auction, he gets picked and he backs out.
So they're like, screw you, you're banned.
Yeah. So even this season he can't
play the IPL. Yeah, that's that's fine.
But he has He has a century under his name, a mastering
century that literally put England over the line against
Pakistan in Sri Lanka in tougher conditions.
Man's hand smash a. Little little bit of boomer here
and there in one. Could you really?
That's what I'm saying. I want to talk about the the
Harry Brooke dismissal because I just think that is brilliance
from Bumrah. So Bumrah, as we know, has high
reflection in his bowling when he's bowling.
So basically like his point of release is delayed compared to
Romo bowlers and short run up. He just walks in, generates 140
clicks. And so even this lower ball, he
just just rolls his wrist over and it's so hard to pick a store
delivery, even though this is the first ball, he didn't set
Harry Brook over. It was just the first ball.
And he just, he swings it too early.
And Bumrah's lower ball, like his fastball is 145.
His still ball is 122. So it's it's a 20 kilometer
difference. But it's so hard to pick.
And Harry Brook, who is in the form of his life, he scored a
5100 against Pakistan. If he can pick a Bumrah's Law
delivery, that just tells you how good that ball is.
I do something to play the player of the match and when and
accepted his trophy and said that this is probably this
probably should go to. Also, that catch by Akshay
Patel, like India walk into this match with I think the lowest
catching efficiency of any team in the Super 8, which is very
unlike the Indian team. But today India's fielding was
on point. Akshay Patel in particular like
that catch running backwards. If you play any cricket, you
know that running backward is the hardest catch to catch.
So it's phenomenal fielding by Patel.
Yeah. And then there was a really
catch as well between. Yeah, that was, that was a catch
of Will Jacks. Yeah, it was towards, I want to
say. Deep backward, yeah.
And then Dube was the one who did the really catch.
Great catch. I know you posted it on the on
the backward point story as well.
Great. Still to that, honestly, I think
that's why I asked you the question in the beginning of the
podcast. Is India starting to get into
its groove. And I think they are what's
catch like these moments like these where things go right,
left or center. They met, they managed to make
it in favor of their win. And so I'm always a little bit,
you know, the, the, the phrase when they say, you know, picking
at the right time. I think India is now finally
meeting that momentum shift where it'll be absolutely
impossible to beat them on on Sunday.
But it's, you know, it has happened before.
Let's talk about Will Jacob. Beth Yeah, let's talk about him.
Born October 23, 2003. Sorry.
Born October 23, 2003, Barbados. Barbados.
Let's talk about that Santoki. He's he's a Beijing Santoki.
People from Barbados are called Beijing's.
Are they? Yeah, so Carlos Bethwaite, she
hope they're all Beijing's. Santoki from the Craven Cricket
podcast had a very cool tweet. I want to read it out if I can
find it. Anyways, the tweet was.
Something. It was also in our Patreon.
Chat. It was in our Patreon chat.
I don't know where it is right now, but anyways, the tweet was
something of the fact that if if finance did not play a part in
the middle order for a West Indies, where is it?
There's an alternative universe where you take finances out of
cricket and West Indies are playing hit Meyer, Bethel and
Puran at 3-4 and five. And I I think the fact that
Joffra Archer could also be part.
Of that Joffra, yes, you added to that that Joffra Archer could
also. Be and if you rewind, Chris
Jordan could also be part of that.
Chris Jordan is also from the Caribbean.
And in that situation, yeah, it's like W Indies are like
winning their back-to-back tournaments at that point.
Like, it's so interesting to see how world cricket, I don't know,
I don't want to call it broken. It is broken in many different
ways. But this is a very different
type of broken where, you know, you can just change your
passport and can play anywhere in the world.
I mean, who was England's greatest white ball captain, an
Irishman, Owen Morgan or Morgan? Yeah, it's very interesting.
You played the 2007 World Cup for England, Ireland.
Who was one of England's greatest batters?
Kevin Peterson, South African, South African.
Even Ben Stokes, I think Andrew Strauss, South African.
Ben Stokes. Is a Kiwi.
Ben Stokes is the Kiwi who is England's one of England's best
top songwriters. Chris Martin, Zimbabwean.
Zimbabwean, yes, mother, Zimbabwean, Nice.
And I'm telling you, it goes back, it goes deep.
But very interesting little thing there.
Jacob Bethel comes into the Ashes series this season, this
season, this past season, almost as an afterthought after the
horrible performance by England in the first three or four games
in the Ashes series, and makes a mark on himself in the last
game. In the last seven months, he
scored in ODI 100 and Ash's Test 100.
Yes Sir. And now a World Cup semi final T
only 100. He's the future.
And like when I was looking at his stats when he was picking
the Ashes, his first class numbers, listing numbers weren't
convincing and so I was questioning why he was picked.
But this is one of those instances where you can just
scout a talent. You know, this guy is the next
big thing and Jacob Bethel has arrived.
I think he scored a phenomenal innings today.
He has all the shots he's playing 360 reverse sweeps,
reverse scoops down the ground, running hard between the
wickets. You can also ball a few overs as
well, left arm spinning. Because T20I stats are this. 29
innings, 697 runs, 29 average, 149.89 strike rate.
Great numbers. Great.
This goes out from there, bro, just goes up from there.
He has, like you said, the T 20th century in a semi final
against India and India. That's those are all big, big
asterisks to a century. And there was a moment where we
thought he would have just taken the game away from from India.
He's also Captain England already.
So they're looking at him as a future captaincy material next.
Harry Brooke Yeah, I think they got him in at the right time.
He's also proved himself in a in a big match situation like this.
And and the Ashes, two of the most probably, probably of the
two of the most important moments in the cricketers live
World Cup, Ashes, that kind of stuff.
And yeah, Jacob Graham Bethelman, he's made his mark
for sure. England was actually kind of in
a pickle at one point. They were 95.
For four at 7.3 overs, the run rate never really was out of
their sight until the 16th over. They were always in and around
the 12:13 required rate. They're hitting like a couple of
boundaries every over running ones and twos really hard.
It was a partnership between Will Jacks and Jacob Bethel that
kind of set the game up towards the back end.
Their partnership even it was 172 for five.
In 14 overs, yeah, with six overs ago and eighty runs on the
on the on the. Jax and Bethel put up 77 or 39
balls. Jax was having a phenomenal
World Cup, which is interesting because Jax is a top voter
player, plays the top three, but playing as a finisher of this
World Cup and won four player of the match awards on the track.
I don't see him flopping or his batting number being discussed
as much. But in Pakistan, we're talking
about how Barber is at 4:00 and it's 100 at 5 and Hassan Nawaz
is at 6. So are batting numbers overrated
or? What's going on?
I think the players like Will Jackson are a lot more dynamic
than players like Barbara Azam and Usman Khan are.
I'm being honest, it just seems like those guys have a few gears
in them that if they are not, if they if they get blocked by the
bowlers of the fielding side, they don't have an overpowering,
you know, really shot or an overpowering momentum shift like
players. They will Jacks do will Jacks
could probably play one to seven anywhere, slide him in.
He just wants to play some good cricket, give him a few
deliveries that let that's them settle in and then he'll just
absolutely go explosive. I don't think boxing players
have that kind of mindset, unfortunately.
There's a few that may that yeah, there's I'm not even
thinking about. I'm trying to think who would be
someone who could play all around.
There used to be a Shreya Malik. I.
Was just going to say a Shreya Malik.
Like even Shai Dafi. You could play literally
anywhere if you wanted to. Those players aren't few and far
between now in boxing. Varun Jakarrathi has been a
point of concern for India. In the separates.
He has balled 15 overs. He's taken 4 wickets, 43 average
economy of 11.53. And this is very unlike Varun
Jakarrathi. And I think what's happening is
that these pitches are not conducive of spin bowling, which
is ironic because the games are happening in India.
Talking about D because he's not getting any spend.
He's just starting it in and they're playing him as a medium
pacer and it's just coming on the badge as they're heading
through the line. We saw a daily Miller against
the game in South Africa just take him to the cleaners and
even today they were hitting button as if he was an ordinary
bowler. What shows me that they really
targeted button is the amount of dot balls he had which was 3 and
it's 4 over spell even for 64 isn't the most he's gotten.
Scored for, I think so. I think he's had some of his
most expensive spells the last four matches.
Like they're the top 10 most expensive spells, yeah.
Three dot balls sells your everything try that you need to
know that this was just a tough one for him again just to bloom
in this match that scorecard. This seems like an outlier. 4433
and one 8.258 dot balls. It is like how was he able to do
what he was able to do? That's what I want to know.
Even with someone who actually saying who opened the bowling,
who got the 300 balls got smashed for 15 more runs.
He got smashed for 51 and 4. But the wicked are Steve did but
desperate boomer man again. The guy who's getting India out
of the Pickles like these. This is where the game was
killed by India. Yes, right.
The last five overs. England needs 69 runs 5.
Lucas Hand required rate 13.8 in these conditions at the Wonka
date. This is chasable doable.
Yeah, but if you have Boomer bowling, then it's not doable
because boomeras over goes for just eight runs and the required
rate goes from 13 to 15.25 and then Boomer balls another over
which goes for six. Just six runs and the required
rate goes from 15 to 19. Game set, match, game set,
match. Dude, having this guy the team
cheat code is an understatement. The yorkers he's bowling, the
slower he's bowling, the accuracy.
I think in terms of like Yorker bowling, Bumrah is up there with
Malinga, with Umar Gul. Bumrah, I think maybe he's in
the league of his own. Maybe.
Yeah. I've never seen anybody nail
those yorkers at will. When does he ball full tosses?
When does he ball delivery in the slot?
I can't remember. He does ball them when he gets
stressed out. Let's take it back to the 2024
Pakistan versus I2. Two, it's hard to hit.
They were not low. Chachu was not able to dismiss
them off, but they were not low. There were enough.
They were on the next side on the five pad.
He just had to flip them for six.
Anyways, it happens. It's it's a few and far between.
He's gotten a lot better since that game and he's gotten he
just keeps getting better every time with every time we think
he's hit a ceiling, which we did in this tournament in the series
before that, he just comes out. He's like what ceiling Like he
finds the Sky's the limit for him.
And Bumrah was absolutely phenomenal.
You know who? Else was absolutely phenomenal
in this game. Hardik Pandya won the second
last over and he gave 12. Dude I thought the last three
overs was it's going to be tough for Sky to pick who's going to
ball with overs because they hadn't introduced the Explorer
so they had basically overslept from Bumrah, Akshay Patel and
Hardik Pandya. And I'm like yo if they save
Akshay Patel's over till the end, this might be a Mohammed
Nawaz 2.1 situation but they I don't think Akshay Patel would
have got hit for 30. Well, Akshay, nobody's getting.
At the time, Jacob Bethel was batting and Akshay Patel
struggles against left to hand bat batters, so it could have
gone anywhere. Yeah, I guess so.
But I mean, they they got the right guy.
Hardik, Mindy, I can, I hate to like him so much because he he
comes under my skin. I think a lot of Pakistani will
resonate with that fact because he beats us so many times and he
beats us not only only like comprehensively, but he has an
attitude about it which like you know the article he did as well.
And the only thing different between the article and Pandya
is every article at the end of the day would give respect.
Pandya has no respect for Pakistanis.
And so like I hate to say this, but he's so good that you cannot
take him outlook. Look what he did with the bad
picture today. Hardik Pandya 27 off 12225
strike rate absolutely smashed the opposition out and then
comes out bolds 4438 into again seems like.
A lot. So we're going to feel salt
first of all. That's what I'm going to say.
Comes in, creates a pack with the bat, carries a pack with the
ball. Outstanding all rounder.
Because Bondia can bowl 4 proper overs anywhere in the innings.
India basically saves 3 boom rollovers for the last 10 overs.
So last 10 overs, I think they need like 1:30 or something.
But there were three boom rollovers left.
So it's not just 1:30 you need, it's 1:30 with boom rollovers
left. Yeah.
So it's going to be easy. Yeah, it becomes.
So that's the balance that Bondia gives India.
Overall, I think India had a very comprehensive game.
It got close. Look, the scorecard makes it
closer than it actually was. A good game.
England, nobody was really rooting for them in this
tournament. I thought they were going to be
booted out in the group stages. But Pakistan had different plans
and they made India go to England go through into the semi
finals. I I think Bumrah got robbed for
a play of the match award. I I agree with you.
I think even Sundar Sampson who won the award, he wouldn't be
here without Bumrah. And in a match where almost 500
on the score, the average runs per over is 12.5, Bumrah gave
runs at an economy of 8.25. With the last two overs going
for 14. The game changing overs so I
thought Bumrah should have been out of the match.
Should have been. But I think they're saying that
for the final, let's talk about that India and New Zealand final
at Ahmedabad. It's happening, I think, man to
man. There is probably no real
comparison. Like India's bowling is way
better than New Zealand bowling. The only difference I think is
that New Zealand's openers are in hot red hot form.
Like if I compare Abhishek Sharma to Finn Allen, Finn Allen
has just scored 100. He's scoring 60s for fun.
Tim Seifert and Finn Allen, their their partnership is is
quite during. It's kind of like when you're
playing NBA2K and you hit 1/3 and you're you're you're on fire
and just keep hitting threes. Swoosh that's what's happening
with fin Allen and Tim cipher. So if they get on to a quick
start, I think it could be dangerous for India yes, but I
but I still think if Lucy win the toss, if there's no due that
first score runs, get India to chase get them like 24 three in
the power play and then just. Build scoreboard pressure.
Yeah, dot balls. We did that in the Asia Cup
final. This the one I think it's Indian
World Cup to win, Richard. I think they're going
back-to-back first Indian. World Cup to lose?
No, I think they're going to win.
India's gonna no, they're gonna win, but it's for them to lose.
Yeah, yeah, obviously. And India's probably gonna be
the first team to go back-to-back and the.
First team to I think win at home.
No one's won a World Cup. 1420s at home Let.
Me, think about that. Let me think about that.
Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. 2012 was
where Sri Lanka didn't they win that 1.
W Indies won W Indies won 12. Yeah.
And then 14 was Sri Lanka, 14 was gonna wish.
No, no, the 14 Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka one in Bangladesh.
OK, yeah, maybe you're right. That'll be interesting.
But going back-to-back is also huge because this, this
tournament, this format is so fickle.
You actually have to be absolutely on on song all the
time to go through. Any team can beat you at any
day. And the fact that India might go
back-to-back shows that their dominance in this format, even
though I would argue up till now, they still haven't played
the perfect game. They're still with it.
Run talking about you is going for 16/16 and four in a match.
They're still manning to win. They're just unstoppable.
I think if India lose I don't see how Sky keeps his captaincy
or GG keeps his coaching. I think if India wins sky like
36 man, you think it's going to happen for another two years?
I think they're going to pass it on.
I have a. Give it to Pandya man.
Give it to Pandya. This man deserves it.
I have a crazy start to end this podcast with.
It's cool. So Sanju Samson and how much is
odds share his stat and the stat is the following.
Highest win percentage when scoring 50 + 1820 nines How much
is odd 8 times, Sundru Sampson 7 times.
So this means that every time Ms. is odd and Sundru Sampson
have scored 50s, their teams have never lost.
That is an insane stat. I can't emphasize go back, go
back, go there, go there. I cannot score behind.