Welcome back to Backward Point Podcast and welcome to this week
in cricket. My name is Nader Sayed and with
me my learned brother Bashar Sayed.
In this weekly series we discussed the happenings of
cricket around the world. The top news of the week are
India is finally in the semi finals.
This was a long time coming apparently and this was a very
stressful period for a lot of the the supporters of the blue
and orange. The top four teams of the World
Cup are now solidified. We know the semi finals, where
they're going to be, why they're going to be there and what's the
next phase of the World Cup. What last phase of the World Cup
going to look like at this point?
These are the 2 main news topics that we're going to cover.
This is an episode of Twig, but as the World Cup comes to, it's
a normal conclusion at the end of the week.
We'll probably come back to our normal reporting after that, but
again, this is again encompassing the whole World Cup
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Baja, you read the headlines today.
You know what happened. You watched the game, you
watched the highlights. What are your thoughts?
Biggest news of the Today of the day is that Zimbabwe lost South
Africa. That's the big news.
Big news, the Africa Derby Yes went to South Africa once again.
On a serious note, Congrats to the Indian team for making it
the top four. Mohammed Amir has finally been
proven wrong. Yeah, his prediction that India
will not make the semis has been proved incorrect.
I mean. But his prediction on Abhishek
Sharma remains. I think, you know, there's a lot
of hype going on around Amir's. I don't know.
I don't want to say predictions analysts.
Do you think the law of averages got to him?
I just think that he made a bold claim saying that India would
not go through and for honestly for the half, like I want to say
70% of this game, I was like, maybe his prediction is not
wrong. It's just like India is just a
better team and West Indies just didn't have the firepower and
we'll talk about that. How did they just bold horribly
in the last 8 overs to absolutely give away that game?
But in the kudos to India, you know, I look, you will look at
the thumbnail and feel and see like I'm really sad now, just
again, that's not on me. That's not Bashar.
No, it's because you've been rage baiting all the Indian
friends. The Indian friends were so nice
to us in the previous podcast. Everybody said very nice things
about me and wished me really well and my wife really well for
our new baby boy. I really appreciate every one of
you guys who had a good thought, you know, lay out a prayer for
my son from for us, for my family.
I really, really do appreciate that things in the cricket world
can get really ugly. And you know, I didn't expect
such a wonderful response to a very happy thing that happened
to me. So I really appreciate that.
Again, if you feel like you're rage baited by this thumbnail,
it's not me. It's a just want to say that.
No, I think you are a bit sad feeling just because you were on
the same boat as the Caribbean Cricket podcast boys.
Yeah, I feel that. Too mash and.
Santokie, I know for a fact I read their tweets.
I know that this was way more than they expected.
They overachieved. They overachieved.
We were talking about this. We were watching the last, I
want to say 30 minutes together and even the Westies lost.
I was like they're still kind of overachieved.
If they had went to the semi finals, that would have been
like nobody would have put that money on that on that spot and
that would have been an insane run of events.
I think the broadcasters would not have been happy that India
gets knocked out in the Super Eights.
I think a lot of fans would be like, this is a great cricket.
I'm so happy that a team like W Indies is making his way
through, but I think the right team won.
That's in the right. I think the top 4 of this World
Cup are the right top 4. I think the West Indian fans
were getting throwbacks of 2016 World Cup.
Yes, it's happening in India. Darren Tammy was a coach back
then, captain back, he's a coach now and it's going to be a
knockout match against India. This in India.
Last time they played knockout match against India was 2016
semi final at Vidark. Vidark we lost over.
Yeah, I got like I was going to say, did you hear during time
expresser? I did.
I saw the reel that you reposted.
Right. What is that David Goliath thing
where I I actually got goosebumps, goosebumps.
I got goosebumps and I was like, this is wow.
I think these guys are going to they're here to win it.
They came close 195 on that pitch.
I thought it was pretty good and I don't think the under score
did his bowl pretty well a pretty horribly near the end and
and let the game slip. Let's talk about this.
I think it was a good toss for Sky to win.
He won the toss. He bowled first, which in these
conditions where you know there's going to be a do factor,
second innings, it was advantageous for India.
But I just think a net negative innings by Shay Hope, captain
and an innings that didn't really quite go anywhere.
And he played lots of doddballs. He was hitting shots straight to
fielders and ultimately gets out playing less than run a ball 32
off 33 balls in a virtual World Cup quarter final.
Yeah, you don't really expect that from Che Ho.
He's he's a world class batsman, a really good opener for for
West Indies and not only in in for the West Indies but in the
international T20 circuit. He's like a catch.
I don't know what happened 1. Of the most improved batters of
the last couple. Of years.
I think it's just the pressure of the quarterfinal, you know,
not really a quarter final, but the supposed quarterfinal that
they were playing winner, go win and go forward or lose and go
home type situation and stuff. Sometimes stuff like that gets
to your head again. But does West Indies after South
Africa have the most powerful and the strongest middle order
that we've seen? Like, look at these guys after
Ross and Chase Head Meyer 12 ball 27, which are Rutherford 9
Ball 14, Robin Powell 19 Ball 34 and Jason Holder 22 ball 37.
Everybody after she hope has a strike rate of over 150.
That's insane. That's just absolute madness.
The fact that they have that kind of firepower at 34567 and
then Rumari Shepard was still not even coming.
It had not come into bat yet. And this guy can also smack a
few. So after Sherfane Powell and
Holder and and the way that they went 70 in the last five, Bichon
70 in the last five, I thought the momentum might shift.
You know, T20 is a small game. It's it's all about the shifting
of momentum. Who can capture the most amount
of steam before there's innings ends and can take that steam
into the next innings. I thought they had a really good
chance to steal this thing. But, you know, bad bowling.
If you take Shay Hope's innings out, West Indies scored 163 in
14.3 overs. Yeah, so, you know, if they had
continued with the same momentum, they could have gone
and scored 210 to 15, which you need a above par score when
you're defending runs when there's Duana offer.
So I just think, yeah, she hopes innings didn't go anywhere in
the post match. He did come out and say that his
innings wasn't good and that he takes responsibility as captain
and as the opening batsman. And they also played Ross and
Chase as an opener for the first time because they wanted to get
an extra off spinning option against India's left hand
batters. Who did they?
Sit down for this. Brandon King set up OK?
Yeah. I mean.
Luckily Ross and Chase played in really good innings, but yeah, W
Indies when they were looking to like really amp it up and go
berserk in the 12th over is when Bumrah comes under ball and he
has a double strike, gets hit Meyer out and he also gets
another wicket in that same over.
He gets chased and hit Meyer out together.
Yeah, so two side batters, What India does match is that they
basically hold off on Bumrahs and Vadun checker with these
overs. So with Shaho playing slowly and
then you knew that in the back, in the last what, 11 or 12
overs, there were still lots of overs to come by Bumrah and
Chakrabarti. W Indies was just in.
They're saying India is using Chakrabarti and Bumrah like
Pakistan was using respondatic. Mystery, mystery, mystery.
What is that mystery? Mystery solved.
Can I tell you a stat that'll might blow your mind away?
Yes. The key the the the team with
the worst catching efficiency in this T20 World Cup is Team
India. That's insane.
The worst in the Super Eights. Yeah, India dropped something to
all yesterday. Like I think there.
Are I think the Indian team holds themselves to a higher
standard in the field. And I think we saw the Indian
team last year in the Champions Trophy live, taking some
blinders in the field, hitting direct hit throws.
But something's happened I think since the Asia Cup.
They had one of their worst days against Pakistan in the second
match of the Asia Cup that they played them.
And today it's like Abhishek Sharma dropping a Dolly inside
the circle and then a catch in the boundary, which typically at
this level for Team India you should take.
Should we have the Abhishek Sharma conversation right now on
the fielding aspect of it or when he's when we discussed and
he's bad? I don't know.
Can we talk about it because he was hospitalized, he was sick.
Are we allowed to talk about Abhishek Sharma of.
Course, why not? This is a cricket podcast and
we're allowed to do whatever we want as well to our podcast,
which are we're not owned by any entities, so we can talk about
where we want. Is this the downfall of a a
project Sharma or is this just a patch?
That was but I just had to come love averages that man had in a
generation 18 month run. This was bound to happen where,
you know, this hiccup just happened to be during the most
important time in his career and then he while he will most
likely bounce back. Or is this like now the norm of
a BJ General? I think the question is, is he
out of form or has he been found out?
If he was, if he was out of form, he would not have scored
those 40 odd runs against Zimbabwe.
I think there is a mix of him being found out just because
against better teams like South Africa against Pakistan.
Against W Indies today. Their bowling plans against him
were quite accurate and their bowlers were good enough to come
out there and execute their plans.
And it seems like taking pace off to Abhishek Sharma is the
way to go. Having the right field set is
the way to go. I mean even Team USA got him for
a golden duck. So something for him to like,
look back post this World Cup and see where he can improve.
On can you get out of this right?
Absolutely. Is he, you know, talking about
generational, like we've thrown that word around a lot in box on
cricket in the past month. Oh, sorry, past year and a half.
But he generally is someone who just came on the scene and is
announced himself like, hi, my name is Abhishek Sharma and I
will blow your opposition out of the park.
I'm not sure if you're following but Jared Kimber is calling
Abhishek Sharma as the Steph Curry of cricket.
So Steph Curry in basketball changed the game by hitting free
throws. Sorry, 3 pointers right?
And Abhishek Sharma is doing the same thing by hitting sixes and
playing attacking shots and aerial shots.
And I think it's only Abhishek Sharma and Travis had who are
sort of in the same bracket of playing attacking strokes, 6
hitting, boundary hitting. I don't know if that's a really
good comp by Jared. I know what he's going for and I
know what he's trying to do here.
But Steph Curry literally from 2012, thirteen onwards changed
the way that the NBA is played. Like the amount of three that
have been hit after Steph Curry's arrival and his
dominance in in the game has just changed the way that
literally every single team plays.
Every every team now needs a sharpshooter, not one, but two
or three in order to get the three three-point mark.
It's changed the way that the fluidity of the game is.
Nobody plays inside the paint, etcetera, etcetera.
So like it's not a basketball podcast, but I'm trying to say
like the trajectory of NBA has completely shifted after Steph
Curry's arrival and and the fact that he's won five chips.
I don't know and if Abhishek Sharma will have that kind of
impact. My take still that whatever GOAT
you have in your respective sport that has changed the game,
Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Jordan, Steph Curry, you know,
I'm thinking of other other ones.
I can't think of any of them. But their comp goes to Virat
Kohli in cricket. Is, is Jared Kimberly saying
that Virat Kohli Abhishek Sharma has the Virat Kohli escora way
too soon to say. I was talking 10 years and and
see where Abhijek Sharma stands in the pantheon of great even
Indian batsmen as opposed to world class batsmen.
And so I get what he's trying to say with the whole aggressive
mindset. But like you said, there's only
like 2, maybe 3, maybe a handful of people in the entire
cricketing world that play like Abhijek Sharma do successfully.
You said Travis had like probably David Warner in there
as well. Charles Butler, Finn Allen
maybe? Finn Allen, somebody.
In there as well, yeah, like 3 or 456 people maybe that can do
what he does. And so I don't know if that's a
trajectory that a lot of the teams will follow through and be
successful at as opposed to Steph, Corey just being the
greatest sharpshooter that Matt has ever seen.
I do think that Abhishek has the right support system around him.
Like I think Yuvraj Singh and him are quite tight.
So and if you, if you have your Rod Singh's mentorship under
you, I think Yuvraj can help him get out of this rut.
What if it's technical, if it's mental thing, whatever it is,
but just do you think you should play?
The timing for it in terms of Team India's point of view is
not right because you're in the World Cup and you've also, like
your captain's, come out in a press conferencing that you
can't. Are you kidding?
Me like dropping Abhishek Sharma and so you're kind of like stuck
with him now. And the good thing with India is
though that they're bad deep. So even though if Abhishek gets
out early like today, he scored 10 off 11.
This was a horrible innings. Yeah, 10 off but even despite
this innings chasing, India still came out and chase it with
like 5 balls to spare. That was a blinder with by
Sandra Samson. That's why let's talk about
Samson. You mentioned about Kohli.
This is Team India's highest individual scorer by Sandra
Samson Inner run chase in the World Cup.
Guess the number of tunings. I don't I don't understand.
Virat Kohli against Pakistan MCG 22.
And he also has an 82 against Australia as well, same runs.
Yeah. So that was also I think it was
a virtual quarter final against Australia I.
Don't remember exactly what game that was.
Great knock. Yeah, but he has that against
Australia and Pakistan. Same.
Same score. Look, I think such as Hampton
has had a pretty hot and cold career.
Like he's had three centuries, but he also averages 24.
And I think today's nock is like him announcing himself at this
stage for India. He's been he was part of the
last India World Cup squad and I think Royce mentioned that he
was supposed to play in the finals but but right before the
toss, he made a decision of not dropping without goalie and
sticking with goalie in the final which he top scored in man
of the match. But Samson has always been like
in the back burner for India. I remember to adjust for Shubman
Gill, he had to go. Play in the middle.
Order and Asia Cup and then Kishan comes so he gets dropped
and now that you know Abhishek was out of form and there was an
injury to Rinku Singh to like when I was out of form you bring
against New Samson who was by the way having a bad series
against series against New Zealand.
He comes out and plays this sort of a knock his best of his life.
I think he also agrees with this himself and it felt like a
chance less knock. He didn't give a lot of
opportunities in the field. He was hitting the bad balls,
we're hitting strike and I don't think India at any point was
under pressure. The required rate was always
within their. Control, yeah, I agree.
I think I'm saying nothing being taken away from him.
But it was also horrible bowling for West Indies.
I was watching last 5-6 hours live the way that Jason Holder
and Shamar Shamar Joseph kept feeding him either on the pads
or on the cut. So you know in order we say so
like way outside off stump. Easy for him to like free flow
his arms, get through behind the ball and play his shots like
there was no not one did I see any hesitation from sundry
Sampson playing the shots. There was 2 full on the pads
going down leg or was 2 too much near the white stump mark and
not even like a they got almost a half Ollie for the most part.
I don't know how they decided to go around this different defense
W Indies did but they were not giving themselves a good chance
at the same time dropping catches.
Jason Holder dropped the sitter on on cover.
I believe that was a Hardik Pandya shot.
Multi dropped. Yeah.
There were two boundary options left out, like there was a ball
that went through a. Simple one like regulation
fielding on square leg or yeah square leg.
It was long on and then the one was the thing on the off side
leg side. Neighbors point.
Yeah, stuff like that. Like you, you save those
chances, you save those runs, you take those chances.
Maybe India doesn't need 7 in the last or when they maybe they
need 15 and it's a completely different ball game.
I think W Indies bowling is very one-dimensional, like they have
no wrist spinners, they have no mystery spinners.
They're playing with what, two or three all rounders?
So yeah, against a team like India, if you don't have any
like Wiki taking options, it's gonna be really easy for them in
the chase. I don't know why they didn't
give Matthew Ford last over. I think Matthew Ford's utility
is more in the power play I think he has.
Even 34.2 yeah, 7 dots all. Always in the power play.
Yeah, So why don't you just give him that as opposed to Mario
Shepherd already gone for 34 and 2?
I don't know. That just felt like a, you know,
that was that felt like something that they could have
adjusted for. You know, they gave 4 on the
trot from Shawar Joseph, who went 42.
Why not just ended with Matthew Ford, who has a decent economy.
Maybe you don't lose on the first ball last over.
Maybe you lose on the third ball in the last over, but things
could have. Gotten a bit closer, I did think
at the halfway point that 195 in a virtual quarter final against
India, who have lost five of their last seven games in the
last two years chasing that if W Indies get some quick wickets up
front that this could be a tight.
Match. I mean, they did.
They got 41 for two. They got Abhishek Sharma and
Ishan Kishan out. But yeah, I.
Think never stopped, even when Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma
got out, they were like, I think Ishan Kishan got out for 41 for
two and there's the overs were 4.3.
So even in the power play, the wickets were falling but the run
rate never dipped. There was consistent.
It was they were scoring 898-910-8910 throughout and they
would find one big over where they scored 15 and bring that
run rate down and that's what they would do.
How they find. Yeah, man, cheat code, cheat
code, cheat code, cheat code. This guy can bowl you 4 overs
and bat at #6 like and basically when you're the game, this guy's
absolutely cold blooded. It reminds me of how Pakistan
India 2022 Asia Cup game now I was bowling last over I think
needed like 8 or 10 or in six off 3 and this guy just went
boom 6. Kind of got smashed in the
bowling like 44 overs 1 wicket. I mean, he was part of the
bowling that went for 70 the last five.
So tough for Hardik Binder, but an absolute asset.
They're involved with today they didn't introduce A6 bowling
option at all. Typically India bowls like a
part timer in the 11th or 12th over.
Like they get one over from the like Varma or Dubai.
But today they were like, no, no risks today.
No risks. I think it would have paid.
It wouldn't have paid off. If that went for that, who would
whose overs would have taken out of Varun or Akshar probably and
they both were OK. If I don't again going for a lot
of runs. I feel like you're talking about
Abhishek Sharma getting found out.
I think what we checked about these found.
Out. I think Varun has had some of
his most expensive spells in the last few games for India which
is a bit of a concerning side going into a semi final and
final. Let's talk about West Indies.
Zoom out and talk about West Indies as a general in in the
World Cup. This team was not supposed to
make it out of the group stages and lo and behold, they almost
challenged the semi final spot. Your thoughts?
Yeah, I think they they punched above their weight.
I mean, they beat England and the group stages didn't have
them winning that match. They were unbeaten to the Super
Eights, also didn't have that happening, dominating, winning
in Zimbabwe. So I think they have a lot of
positive to take from this tournament.
I mean, I think Mash was saying this how they got a bit unlucky
because they would have put in a Super Eight group with South
Africa, who was unbeaten and finalists India who was
defending champions. So it's tough to upset one of
those two teams. I think if W Indies was in our
group, in Black Town's group, things may have been different
from them a bit, yeah. But I think one thing they have
to do is go back in the region and find a wrist spinner, find a
leg spinner, because they not only don't have any wrist
spinners, but they also can't play wrist spinners really well.
So I think India kind of missed out on playing Kuldeep today.
I know it's hard to fit him in 11, but I just think against a
team like W Indies, they struggle against wrist spinners
and Kuldeep would have been deadly here.
We saw how W Indies struggled against Sufyan Mukim in Florida.
Remember that? So yeah, there is one bowler in
the West Indies under 19 circuit who is a left arm wrist spinner.
Not sure if you've seen him but he could be the next big spin
bowler for West Indies. Name.
Don't know his name. He played under 19 so took
wickets. Low economy.
I think if he's developed he could could be a good prospect.
I can imagine the boys will probably be a good example of or
or a good place to find out the next steps for for for West
Indies that was thoroughly enjoying and surprised at the
performance that they had thrown out.
I was there with you in the Florida games in against
Pakistan in August of last year. And even though W Indies
Pakistan 121 Pakistan 130 is last ball actually master
classroom basin holder who got away with the 300 last ball.
I guess China feed you and sneaked it for a four and I just
felt like this team was lackluster.
They were felt. It felt like they were not even
a unit. It felt like they were there was
a lot of egos clashing, maybe a little bit of infighting going
on. And Shay Hope you asked him a
question and he got really mad at you for for that.
And that gave me all that I needed to know about the type of
temperament that this team is going through again, this, this,
you know, they're standing on the shoulders of giants of like
the Richards and Darren Sammy and Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo
and Ryan Lara, but they're not able to achieve that kind of
success. They do have moments of
brilliance like we saw in this World Cup.
But I really need, I personally need wrestling needs to be a
force to be reckoned with for the betterment of world cricket.
My hot take is that Jason Holder's entire T 28 career has
been revamped thanks to Islam Ajinwader.
Yes, he was picked last year in the PSL.
He was the most impact player, scored impact runs towards the
death, took wickets upfront and I think like he is a really
dangerous player and it's really good to have in your team.
No, I agree. I think his second life in the
cricket has been, yeah, I agree, Islam under agenda flowing
fairly, at least for someone in this in this World Cup, because
the other is a word, the tough one for a lot of the other guys.
India has not made it. Through looking ahead at semis,
yeah, I was going. To say India has not made it
through when I'm, you know, have our four locked.
South Africa play New Zealand and India play England.
India and England have played three semi final on the track
and. You know what's interesting?
The winner of the last two India England semifinals have gone to
win the World Cup. Yes.
What do you think about? That I just think it's
interesting how there's only one Asian team that's made it to the
to the semis. That's a very good.
World Cup happening in Asia? That, to me, is surprising.
Surprising, I think that tells me that conditions will help you
only so much. Sometimes just the great quality
of the quality of cricket that you're playing will grade you
into that four or not. And with only one Asian team
going in, that too kind of barely like is scraping its way
through. If W Indies had gone through, no
Asian teams in an Asian World Cup would have been insane.
And this goes to show you like not only not, you can't always
depend on conditions and not everything is black and white.
If if I go back and look at our top fours that we have selected.
Pre I was going to say. It's like we're, it's we're I.
Can't believe you out predicted me in this World Cup or top
fours, I said. I said India, you're right for
that. Australia, wrong, New Zealand
for that. Pakistan, no.
You didn't say Pakistan, I said Pakistan.
No, no, no. Yeah, I can pull it up right
now. Yeah.
I don't think he said Pakistan. I said Pakistan, I said
Pakistan. What did I say?
I said. Pakistan.
No, no, no, no. 100% pull it up, I said.
I said India, Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
Pull it up, I'm like 99. I am short.
I said it. I'm telling.
You, I just saw it like yesterday.
Sure pull it off. You give me your top.
Four. It's gonna be there.
If India does not win the Super World Cup undefeated, it's gonna
be a huge upset. What's the second one?
Australia. I don't think you can ever rule
out Australia in an ICC event. I'm gonna go back to New Zealand
and Pakistan. My top four, OK, all right.
The India, New Zealand, South Africa and Pakistan.
So we weren't off. Mine was India, New Zealand,
South Africa and Pakistan. I have three out of my 4.
Was Pakistan looking back, an emotional call or would you
would you have gone and picked a Sri Lanka or?
England. No, no, no.
I would have still picked Pakistan.
Pakistan not being in the
semifinals is no one's fault except for Pakistan.
They had two great opportunities.
You could have beaten England would have made it through.
You could have beaten Sri Lanka at a margin that would have,
That would have sufficed that you would have made it through.
Both opportunities were handpicked for Pakistan on a
silver platter. Honestly, if they had just
beaten England like they were supposed to and had just scraped
by against Sri Lanka like they did, they would have made a 5
points and gone through. They would have been second on
the table. I think meat Pike picking
Pakistan was contingent on Pakistan's batting showing up.
And as we saw in backward Points Instagram post today that
Pakistan had the worst middle order performance in terms of
average and strike rate. They were on the bottom of the
list for both average and strike rate.
So once you're having that bad of a middle order for a
tournament, it's hard to get through.
I'm really glad that I outscored you on the preview meter, that
it shows that I know ball more, ball more better than you.
And people keep saying that you should have a sort of podcast,
but where would you be without me?
Deep backward point launching soon.
Deep backward point predictions on the semis.
Look, I, I'm a bit concerned for India, right, because.
This is armour trolling that happened.
OK, wait, India had had their bad day against South Africa,
right? So they were lucky enough to
come back from that, beat the net run rate and qualify for
semis. But I just think that the way
that they're fielding, like you said, they have the lowest catch
efficiency in a bigger tournament and a bigger match
like England against against an important like England, they
will not let those drop catches slip up.
I also think India's top order like Abhishek is still a hit or
miss. Ishan has not fired the last
couple of matches. So once you have those things on
going for you, it's hard to score big totals.
So I just hope that India, if they can still somehow find a
way to play at their peak performance, they could win all
the way. But the way that they're playing
right now, I think England has a good chance.
I think it's good to be a South Africa, India final again.
I think it's going to be repeated Barbados, sorry, 24.
I think South Africa will come for blood and I think they might
succeed in taking revenge. And I think beating India in
India in a final will be worse than losing to India in Barbados
in 2024. I think it'll be horrible for
India. It'll be like 2023 all over
again and that'll be tough. I.
Agree with your prediction. I think it's it is going to be a
rematch of the 24 final live stream.
Yeah, we should do it. We should do it.
Yeah, I. Think last time I was I went
camping so I missed the last. I did a social podcast and
people didn't comment but Bashar is gone and the India has won.
But I did the 35 on his straight podcast on Virat Kohli and his
brilliance and you know my wife asked me yesterday if I could
have 3 posters of cricketers in my room, which three would they
be and I said Imran Khan, Shai Dafidi and Ratkoli.
Imran Khan senior The fast folder from Shower.
No, no, the one that's in jail 804.
You know that that probably would be my top three.
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actually support. If you had three posters that
are involved, what would they be?
Srivachter, Jimmy. Anderson, Shane Warren.
Shane Warren, no batsman. I'm a bowler.
That's so damn. I just.
Think Shane Warren was like so ahead of his time in terms of
skill but also like the mental aspect of the game.
Like the way if you ask any bastard of his era like who was
the best ball of the face, they would likely say Shane Warne.
And they have some anecdote of how Shane Warne mentally
challenged them, abused them, had some funny sledge which
ultimately made them give their wicket away.
He's the greatest life spinner of all time.
Yeah, I I totally agree. All right.
So usually in this section, sorry, one second, usually in
this section, we have a, a past thing that we pull out.
I don't really have a stat for you this today.
Richard, do you have anything from this week in history?
That you can talk about. Firstly, today is Charlotte
Lee's birthday. Child out.
Yeah, I was going to say that. And I I shared my birthday week
so my birthday's on the 5th March and I shared my birthday
week with Afridi and Zamal Haq. Chris Martin from Coldplay from
Coldplay, not the ball from new. Zealand, I wanted you to specify
for the fans. It's a great podcast.
Chris Martin and yeah, myself. That's his birthday.
Anything else? On this day 15 years ago,
Ireland beat England at the World Cup.
Oh wow, that's insane. 2011 World Cup, yes, and that was one
of the more insane knocks ever again going back.
Kevin O'Brien. Kevin O'Brien having that insane
century and I'm just going back to how like I think at that time
Ireland was associate nation and then they got test they.
Hadn't played test matches until 2018 I think.
I think so. They they were the last one that
got Test status after Afghanistan, I believe.
And that's a really good one, which I let's put the scorecard
on that one. What happened on that game?
I know, I know, the brilliance of Kevin O'Brien.
Ireland versus England 2011 scorecard.
All right, so let's take a trip down to memory lane Bashar on
March 2nd. Yep, 15th match of the World Cup
in Bengaluru. England scored 327 for eight.
Now Ireland scored 329 for seven on the 49.5 overs for England,
the top score was Jonathan Trott for 92 off 92 Stack.
Stack lineup for England here. Andrew Strauss and Kevin
Peterson opening. Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell,
Collingwood, Matt Pryor. I don't know about Michael,
you're already there. Graham Swan, Stuart Broad and
Jimmy Anderson were also in the team, 327 for eight and well,
William Porterfield, remember him golden duck against against
Anderson. I remember that.
This bold of bales lying everywhere.
Paul Sterling, Who did he play this world?
Cup. He's still playing.
He's still he. Played this this T20 World Cup
Paul Sterling did He's captain of Ireland.
Paul Sterling, Ed. Joyce Nile O'Brien Who's in the.
Commentary box the. Commentary boxer Nile O'Brien
was and then it all came down to Kevin O'Brien in the middle
order who scored 113 O 63179 strike rate, 6 sixes and 13
fours and got help from Alex Cusack and John Mooney in the
end who helped him secure the line.
Insane run for Ireland in that world.
Cup Ireland was 111 to 5 and then they went down to chase
229. That is insane.
Absolutely insane. If I go to the table of that
World Cup, I think Ireland, England was knocked out in the
first. Round also crazy sad about this
World Cup is that the India versus England match was a tie
and Shane Warne tweeted before the match that he thinks it's
going to be a tie. Yes.
Which to me is like, how can you predict that and have that come
true? Because that's Shane Warne 2011
World Cup. What a what a year for Pakistan.
Six matches, 511 lost. Take me back.
Try it out for the.
Zeidan. England finished third on their
on their table, so I think they went to the quarterfinal and
then lost against I don't know who, maybe Australia, maybe New
Zealand, one of those two, I don't know, boxing.
No, I think India beat Australia in the quarterfinals.
India beat Australia, who box? On the West Indies.
Yes. So there's New Zealand and Sri
Lanka as well. Does Sri Lanka beat England?
Could be, could be New Zealand. You know what?
Yeah. Sri Lanka beat New Zealand, Sri
Lanka beat England in the quarterfinals, Sri Lanka went
into the semis, Pakistan beat West Indies, absolute thrashing,
112 all out West Indies box and chased it in 20 / 100 and 1310.
We can win and then we didn't even know what happened after
that. Great memory Lane stat.
Richard, thank you very much for doing that.
I did not do my homework for this podcast, but I didn't have
anything. I was asking to have GBT and he
would just give me the worst answers of all time.
March is a significant year in boxing and cricket history.
It is the IT is the month that charged off really broke the
record. That's what stood for like over
20 years or over 15 years of the fastest entry that happened in
March. And Pakistan won its first ODA
World Cup on March 25th, 2019. 92 so great month for Pakistanis
all around the world. And that's it for us today.
Thank you very much for tuning in to Twick.
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