The veterinary science university, The veterinary
science university, or or just. Go to the actual Medical
Sciences veterinary. This is the First India thing
that is that like corruption India, I love it.
Anyway, I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
I'll tell you because as soon as you head out of the new airport,
airport All India Institute of Ayurvedic Sciences.
Next. In the Prodigal Son turn,
Messiah gets a second hundred in successive.
In romantic style, the whole of Bengal are on their feet, not.
That important. He's gone the next ball.
The dream has diminished for Carlos Bratwick.
Favourable scenes here. Pakistan.
Ho Chao, Bangladesh Cricket Board.
Cricket Board. PCBK President.
I. Famously as of February last
year. They got Ek do hum.
There is a sub stack called Broken Cricket Dreams who has
done an analysis of the last five years of all of the boards
and all of their earnings and all of their, you know,
financial reports. And they have said that the
board that is least, least dependent on India for its
revenues and profit is the Bangladesh Cricket Board.
OK, now they make their profits on their investments, you know,
whatever locally to be here, but they are the least dependent on
India for touring because that has almost nil like almost no
impact on their. Property local market results
compared to most of these other countries they have.
A are even Mohammad said this now on on our part only he it is
a very it is a ruthless money machine.
Yes. Yeah.
So I want to ask. This question OK, what does
international cricket exist for? Like who does it exist for?
Who does it serve? What is the point of the sport
at this point? I mean you want the the ideal
answer or do you want the answer?
At this point I'll answer. I want the answer both right?
So what do they exist to serve? There is no, I think there is.
We cannot define international cricket as one thing anymore
because I think whenever international cricket is played
involving India, it is there to serve the interests of the
Indian political machine. And outside of that, then we can
have discussions. And outside of that, when it
India is not involved, then we can talk about the health of
cricket and the, the, the, the watcher, you know, spectator on
the ground and all that. But when it comes to India, the
reality is that the cricket is basically an an added, you know,
part of the the body politic of whatever the current regime
wants to do. That's what I think this is.
Definitely ICC events just to serve the.
BCCI, ICC events are for. So that's sort of thing.
So ICC events involve India. It Test series where India plays
involves India. Australia kid dream 2208.
Now, the reality is today, if an Indian team goes to play a tour
in Australia, yeah, England, because they know that the money
that they can earn is so, so large, they have incentive to
make pitches in such a way that they, if they do not completely
favor India, they should at least, like be tilted toward
them. And, and, and, and I know
Australia, England Mirror, mirror cricket #1 sport, cricket
is a sport. So #1 sport cricket is a
mainstream sport. But my goal is to have a good
game. It's not like Australia, you
know, Australia and Australia, right?
So India team 232 benefit score Australian cricket more benefit.
So what the just follow the incentives.
So. So the reason I'm saying all
this is that unlike W Indies or Australia of the past, even if
India becomes the greatest, even even if India somehow breaks
their current record of seven consecutive Test wins that
includes Bangladesh to like 16 consecutive test wins of
Australia, I would still put an asterisk next to it.
That is my honest view because the incentives lie in making
sure that India wins and the incentive lie incentives lie for
everyone. So there.
That is why the World Cups are scheduled the way they are
scheduled champions. I mean South Africa 27 World Cup
8 minute Tumko has elected 2003 just a pitches Omega 2003 cup
pitches were better friendly but many over it will be flat as I
don't know whatever you know flat as well.
I don't know, but basically that sorry.
Just the BCCI Cup a lot gets spoken about this unbeaten run
in these last four years in across multi nation events.
If two matches rocky and all of that right.
A lot of it has to do with this being a decent type with all
that heavy but also a lot has to be attributed to the way
tournaments, the way like 2023 World Cup made the greatest
tournament ever without them winning the final.
Tum Ek venue le lo you pick Chennai in the tournament and
look how Chennai Kavik behaves in India based on which all this
India plays. If India plays Australia and
Chennai, Chennai track will turn on that day.
If India plays Afghanistan and Delhi, Delhi.
Is a faster track. Delhi is a faster track and they
keep doing it. Not that the team needs it again
and again. Probably Shami, Bumrah and Siraj
will do well on most but they still keep doing.
It in. The T20 World Cup, we saw that
and the same Delhi wicket behaves very differently.
When other teams play, they pick a different pitch.
Then you are very I'm. Sorry, so Bumrah, Shami, Siraj
are very good bowlers, one of the best group of bowlers that
India has had. I agree.
But I don't know man, I don't know.
I don't know if if if it's an equal footing, if everything is
like, if truly neutral settings are that, I don't know how it
will be. T20 World Cup that they won last
year. OK great side Bumrah cheat code
house tournament man all that. Agreed that semi final Guyana
wicket. If you look at how that track
behave, Knee height spinners, go ball Aksar Patel.
Nagar by the. Knee height.
But Guyana is. Semi final India, whereas
Afghanistan, Afghanistan versus South Africa, whether it is
happening in Guyana, Afghanistan and South Africa, whether they
would get a match in Trinidad or Guyana, they don't know till the
day they reach the semi final. So and there is a completely
lottery of get less than 24 hours to travel to that venue
and then play that. Nonsense.
The interesting point Leicester City 2015, which is what?
What kind of 500 to one That makes a sport amazing, right?
When a Leicester City wins the Premier League, that just
elevates the sport. Now imagine had Afghanistan
trade in Guyana, there was a decent chance that they could
take on South Africa and they could be in the final.
You know that is what makes actually if you truly care about
sport, you will truly keep it neutral.
That would be. But miracles happen, Uncle
responds. If you listen to Ashwin speak
ridiculously, we call a cerebral and all that, he speaks of how
he's looking forward to this game.
There is no hype around the World Cup these days because
Char matches India versus Namibia, India versus USASRA
matches tournament Italy. This is the attitude.
And it's not that these dream stories do not happen in this
sport, right? Despite all this gatekeeping,
cricket still throws up all these stories like USA reaching
the Super Eights on their first attempt.
Last time they almost even beat South Africa in the.
Last 2020 World Cup what involving the so-called
associates? Nepal almost beating South
Africa, Netherlands beating South Africa, Netherlands was so
much fun. So ideally like to your
question, ideally the sport should be serving the interests
of these contests, right? Like for the first couple of
times we are expanding a tournament, it should be about
celebrating all these teams. But sadly it won't be that.
Sadly it will always follow the Blues commentators.
Commentators who will do no research on what these
opposition stories are like. AB Italy team doesn't have a you
go randomly H1B visa bundle Italy but Italy team is full
mostly Gora team. That is what these people want,
right? That's what we want.
So we have such a. Racist view of the world.
So completely full of even experts.
That's OK. Now, so OK, so from here I just
want to now we're just talking about BCCI, all powerful like
powerful BCCI or Government of India, Nepal, Selekar, Sri
Lanka, Selekar, Pakistan. By not just Bhageshwar.
So this it started from Sangeet Som right?
Because sangeet som famous. Writer, by the way, he's.
He's the most writer. Yes, writer.
Yeah, the writer. Writer is a favor anyway.
Yeah. So.
Accused of spreading fake videos during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar
riots, famously, and lost his seat.
Wants his seat back. You know, in the next elections.
He criticizes, He doesn't criticize Bangladesh or the
Indian government. He criticizes Shahrukh Khan.
OK, so this is very critical, right?
Because I watched so just before that, I watched for some time
Vikrant and Unfiltered. And he he made a point he's
like, well, if he was in CSK, would you get the same level of
height, right? Would you get the same thing?
Like he mentions that and you know, Nikolas kind of rejects
this hypothesis and they sweep it drug.
But he makes he makes he's like, you know, you're Ms. Dhoni K
team metaphys Pele or Agarici SK Mehote Tukya.
Yeah, same level. And I'm just like, yeah, you
know, Shahrukh is a very important critical point of this
criticism, right? Because that's where it begins.
And there's a history, of course, of them targeting
Shahrukh for a wide variety of reasons.
Episode with Shahrukh that and then 2008 Bombay attacks
happened and then Shahrukh's team get targeted because
Shahrukh can show a but the show playing for Shahrukh's team
became a thing back then. So it's a, it's a revisit to
that basically. And this, this current
administration actually go ahead and be I.
Will in that game versus Delhi Daredevils.
But this is still not a like for like situation even with that,
because then then you had some sense for tempers running high
relations had frozen with Pakistan and all of that.
Tabi, that was very close to something that happened.
Izbar, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh taking refuge in
your country which makes it even more absurd.
You say that the Bangladeshi former Prime Minister can take
refuge here but take random cricketer though IPL not even
representing this country cannot enter this country.
And yet you want that same boat to believe that the when they
are playing under the Bangladeshi emblem, it's this
country automatically becomes safer for you.
Doesn't Bangladesh have more grounds to say that we won't
play in India than India did with Pakistan during the
Champions Trophy? The Champions Trophy happened.
Prepare right? I actually want to the biggest
Bangladeshi sports minister said that it is about the pride of
like honor of our nation. So they might just not come to
the World Cup if they're not given.
It's like a choice to play in Sri Lanka.
And I want that to happen. And guys, we'll go back to the
discussion. Favorite imaginary like like
tournaments? Imagine Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Nepal. Why don't they get together and
create their own league? And if they kind of pull their
money, they can compete with the BCCI if they do.
I mean I know this both are hypothetical but seriously if
there was 1 enterprising like businessman in one of these
countries who could do that, I'd be please so many a.
Key Point A Key A Point B Mohammad Assam ke episode or.
Yeah, yeah, he loved it on record.
I mean, it is. The problem Ruling class India.
Chodo Pakistan Corrupt or small minded?
If say ever a Super League of that kind, these boards plan.
Eventually these leagues have to go to the ICC to get recognition
right and ICC checkmate. Greatest cricketer of all time.
25 kilometers. Hindu victim, India victim.
I mean, I'm sorry. Victim OK reality yet so so I
can't believe like the lack of anticipation like knowing Kibai
ugly my name World Cup hair. It's so short sighted.
And The thing is, it's very clear.
Keep the rest of the BCCI, whatever Jobi right there
administration that they don't know about this.
They've leaked the news key. They were not consulted.
The IPCIPL committee was not consulted like nobody was
consulted. This just came out of nowhere.
So we know where this decision came from.
But what is being pushed is the narrative that oh, India may
sublog united Bangladesh may Tami Iqbal has come out and he's
said, you know, key, the board should take a more long term
interest. He's basically saying, key, you
should look at the interest of cricket in the country, not just
political interest. OK.
And then, you know, someone in the board comes out and
criticizes, criticizes him saying that he's an Indian
agent. And then, you know, there's a
lot, there's a wide variety of opinion in Bangladesh and this
is considered a negative. Like this is basically a place
that's having more Democrat democratized opinion and a wider
variety of opinions where people are speaking up and going
against like unilateral decisions or Maria sub Japan,
the best they can do is leak to the media.
We were not consulted that there was no committee decision.
Like that's it. And this is considered a plus
point that all of these people have just completely folded
players to like, you know, like players like, I understand that
there is a risk to their career. You don't think there is a risk
to Tamim Iqbal's career? You don't think there is a risk
to other players who speak up? Like, why are we only?
Why are we giving them a pass just because, you know, we think
like their careers or their broadcast deals will be
affected. So what?
So what that happened? Like so many people who speak up
with you can't find a single person to speak up and say
anything against, like the chaos that's happening in this
country. I do think Matlab they stand for
anything better in any sense, but I don't even believe that
anymore. So can you?
Can you imagine one like marginally liberal progressive
cricketer in this team except like?
Literally I cannot think of anyone else who this.
Gambhir T20 side is like definition of hollowness.
A lot of them are either too young to have a voice.
I don't think they will risk anything and the so-called
senior players are probably they are all like complicit in this.
I should share that before before he was famous but after
he had Shivam Duba yes, yes that is also one but before he was
famous but after he had played for India once he had posted
stories about the. Farm farm protest.
A lot easier than speaking about Islamophobia in this country,
because no, again, that's correct.
Correct. It's a lot more.
Difficult for, I mean, clutching at straws.
Take a young manual did it, but whether he would do it right
now? And even and even like even even
a simple thing as as soon as the IPL was cancelled in 2020, he
was the first person to have announced here you should go and
donate to him Con Foundation and feeding.
And I'm sure we but Shahrukh Khan
literally like or Ani just like Q Ani to earlier point right to
Ani. Why did Ani go to a random
pundit to ask about Shahrukh Khan?
These talking points are probably set from above.
And then service basically, and then the narrative social media.
I wouldn't even be surprised at this point.
As a ICC ruling head, you should be happy, right?
But don't honest. Question.
He is like he is. Most of the He gets a lot of the
scoops, right? Or at least allegedly.
He knew before Gil was being dropped.
He knew that he was dropped and yeah, he's being rewarded for
being such a fanboy. First Joanna, First 3 para
Something unprecedented happened during the birth Test of 202425.
India still needed seven wickets to beat Australia when, at the
end of the third day, cricket journalists in boxes chimed with
a press release from a PR firm that manages communications for
quite a few franchises, including those in the IPL.
This was number ordinary press release, a tool otherwise meant
to convey news for wider publication.
This was an opinion piece crediting coach Gautam Gambhir
for backing Virat Kohli, for promoting KL Rahul to open the
innings in the absence of Rohit Sharma, and for selecting
Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy.
It observed how Kohli was seen hugging Gambhir and proclaimed
emphatically that questions raised against Gambhir after the
home whitewash at the hands of New Zealand had all been
answered. Jaspeed Bumrah, the captain of
the team and the bowler who delivered India the win, was not
mentioned even once. This was quite an extraordinary
event in cricket, more so Indian cricket.
A coach being pushed as the face of the team.
So or like like how I say skipper.
But yeah, abhito to to what is Indian cricket for was the
question right. This is what Indian cricket is
for. Yeah.
So cricket is like what? Well, what is cricket for,
right? Who does cricket exist to serve?
So I had one, just one additional thing to say about
this. He used a lot of Indians when it
comes to the ashes vehemently. You know, there's a sense of
like ashes, they'll always be like, it's not even like England
don't even have the results anymore.
Why the BGT is bigger than the Ashes.
He BBQ all time. Given all the colonial baggage
of the Ashes and all that all that acknowledged today they
don't rule the sport that today the Behmath who is risking the
sport and it's monopolizing the sport.
The one entity which thrives outside of this Indian monopoly
is the Ashes. So in there is a sport
conversation around this sport which is as mainstream as it
gets. Othumara Athletic silica New
York Times silica saree English mainstream First sports and.
Frankly, Rivalry, rivalry, rivalry.
Sentence me India and it's still so the constant total gate
revenue. There were shorter test matches
so that happen. There were more than a close to
1,000,000 people even this year. Forget the quality of the turn
sport, how England hypes it up and makes all of their cricket
about the Ashes. He is a problematic but.
As an Indian, England is the. Problem.
But Australians or Englishmen, you could have created a rivalry
and you could have monetized it, which you did not.
You had an opportunity and you and yet you are trying to like
sneak it in through these ICC events and all of it.
So that that is something that I always see that can be seen to
take like Australian commentary around this whole Ashes.
Sarah Blind Sports may acknowledge there is a colonial
history, there is a white person.
But when there is someone, say Michael Vaughn, commenting
anything about the Ashes, you will see that there is a even
the bigotry of the banter. There is a fair degree of
honestness to the honesty to gain that discourse.
But whenever the moment it becomes about an India series,
right, all the commentary somehow is catered towards What
will get me the most social media engagement?
What will get in more Indian fan engagement?
Dishonesty. Dishonesty even when Pakistan go
there you can see that the YouTube dishonesty coming out
because they know views are. Ultimately, yeah, India gate
revenue 8 percent casual English Australian cricket fan say World
Cup. And this is despite A decade and
a half of thrashing in Australia.
They know what they are going to be.
India, Pakistan match 90% or or Pakistan for for case celebrate
cricket. And I mean of course, why should
they not? They should, but that is
rivalry. Rivalry 3130, by the way.
Rivalry Kolkata Derby may EE bangan joy Mohan.
I'm sorry. For the longest federal was as
one sided but yet every French Open final if it was the the way
Indian fans react to the basically Jalan Jalan.
Jalan or victimhood or or or could you be Kareham Hum victim
or or or could you be a negative way of blessing in disguise,
though she's a true one. OK, anyway.
I want to hear, I want to hear how the tariffs are a blessing
in disguise. Everything is a blessing in
disguise. Modi will do anything to make me
happy. About self.
Sufficient or you don't understand.
Ignore. You have to ignore these things.
That is how you manage. No big decision in the world is
taken without consulting blessing in disguise Basically
tariffs Blessing in disguise right wing account India Twitter
followers mountain rat. It's a nod to what?
Shivaji Maharaj, Gujarat Shivaji Maharaj it is a slur against
Shivaji Maharaj because he used to raid because the Marathas
would raid. Surat.
Surat was this Mughal capital kind of in the sense West so
Mughal city they used to call him the mountain rat because
Marathas. So that is why Shivaji Maharaj
is the mountain rat. Tweet here Tariff.
Vietnam, Bangladesh, that person is not going to switch over to
even if the tariff goes down to 10%, let's say suddenly those.
So this pipeline gets disrupted for a lot longer than just the
numbers, the deviations. Are the point deviation.
Is the point. Crossover kind of like because
what we're discussing, but why crossover?
But have you heard? Anything about how Sheikh Hasina
can live in India and be given refuge but seek asylum in India
in some sense and. It's in the comments on all the
YouTube shows now it is in the comments.
There's like every seven or eight comments are like one
about Kian. Do you guys are keeping Sheikh
Hasina? You've interfered in Bangladesh
politics, right? That's essentially what it is.
So that's. The Bangladeshi comment, right?
That's the comment from Bangladesh.
Yeah. Indian.
Sheikh Hasina Joy She was pro
India tumne Sheikh haseen ko Bhagaya to Abujo Bangladeshi
regime that is basically pro whatever pro Pakistani, anti
India, however you want to define it.
So now it is all changed. So we like we are, we have
Sheikh Hasina just like US still has the the king of Iran so as
to say living in US who was like the son of the Hershah, right.
So that's how we have. Sheikh Hasina Zulfowali.
Follow up question ex country how can both of?
These. Coexist in the same universe.
Logic. I think a clarity Stan Milan, I
think I don't. I don't remember who was the
Bangladesh sports advisor. There was a lady.
There's a small one enough short one enough minute type of clip
only. But that clip started with the
note that sport is supposed to foster good relations between
nations and, and all of that. And it's like.
Sense of arrogance or hubris? Indian foreign policy debacle.
It is because of you know, like never get high on your own
supply. They they danka bajra danka
bajra in K fans is under Danka bajra danka bajra or who seems a
circular circle Jeff Chalta Rao up up Joanna Now you're seeing
the US May is that or or him like maybe minute Twitter will
share how did Indira Gandhi deal with Nixon and how what we are
doing right now. But look, are we again, sorry,
political, but US name Russian oil tank, right?
China statement here. This is again international.
Not that I'm not saying that you need to support Russia, but you
have to have a line that you pick.
Yeah, but the. The reasons for this to be go
far beyond what we know. There are like personal
interests at play with respect to the US, which is why the US
is basically bullying them and getting away with.
It we we have some idea of some of the personal interests,
right? Speculative, even.
If not, I know one thing that this guy is very conscious about
his image, how he's perceived. See many again, BJ Padman Hazaru
Arvind Kejriwal. It does not have Arvind
Kejriwal's image because that's Arvind Kejriwal.
Like we know Arvind Kejriwal is that like it?
Like he people like he's a. Software accessible person.
But Agar Modi ke saath kuch like throws a cross.
So that is going to be a big plot.
Like you, Modi has this larger than life image that he has to
protect. And the moment he is in the same
vicinity of Trump, he knows Trump is volatile.
He can do anything and he cannot risk that.
And I think even if like like this is where Modi's, I mean,
let Nick again, let nick a statement.
He Modi just needed to make one phone call to get that India
U.S. economic deal and he did not call.
That is why he did not call. Yeah, because The thing is like,
I think this has gotten worse in the last two years, especially
like with regards to cricket, like just bringing it back to
cricket for a second, if you sorry, but there is there is
like a progressive panic and chaos in the way cricket is
being run. Forget even about like these
political decisions with this is very obviously political.
But every single decision from like selection to, you know,
everything is pretty much just based on what is popular at that
point of time. Right to India, Australia series
stuff. We lost that series Muskebah.
There was anger towards which Sharma and Virat Kohli and they
were subsequently ousted from the team.
Just basically looking at the online anger kya like who was
that directed towards? They were ousted from the team.
This again like short term thinking abhi kya horai T20
team. May you see Sanju Samson got
suddenly became super popular after his CSKCSK move and you
know he did the whole bana come to eat and all of that.
He did and it became super popular and it became really
difficult based on like social media trends against Gil and
towards Andrew Sampson. Karun Nair that makes it.
Yes, exactly. Karun Nair also is a.
He's basically just a representation of like.
Beneficiary. Actual media.
Selection within a month. Beneficiary and victim both.
Yes. Yes, So like can't like it's
almost like, you know, really strange sudden changes, sudden
decisions are being made and it's all to serve like just the
immediate, like whatever is popular.
So this in certification of Indian cricket that these people
are doing is just like on, it's on another level and it's just
going to get worse. And when you create this much
instability in a team with regards to selection, it's not
even about who you select or don't select anymore.
I'm sure like if you select any of the top 5% of players, you
can get a pretty good team like Indian team that can do well in
any tournament, right? The problem is this is going to
create so much instability within the team.
It's going to show up in their performances.
But it's. Limited to cricket by the way.
So so just quickly because football say so.
I just remember so Pele Priya Ranjan Das Munshi was the chief
of AIAFF or Ruskebaad Praful Patel.
Both were not BJP right? So after the the this current
government came, they made Kalyan Choube the AAFF chief
subreddit. Indian football just you know,
it's like finally a man who will do something blah blah blah blah
blah. And this year in the first year
when the Indian like Premier Division league.
Will hasn't happened. Hasn't happened and for the
longest time there was like 100 like most of the foreign players
that play for clubs have been loaned out to two other clubs
internationally because they were not sure the league was
beginning year situation or The thing is when?
Remember, conservatives, especially conservatives of the
nationalist hyper nationalist variety have no vision for the
future because most of their hopes, desires, passions,
everything lies in the past in in some sort of imaginary
grievance and victimhood that they they faced in the past and
uske pehle kajo greatness. And they're just trying to go
back. So, so one of the worst things
that you can do is is put people who have zero vision like or
India saw saw medal 203620262024 and you look just a cricket, the
World Cup are India. Hi, it's a sport.
It is like how can you be so sure?
And this is one of the problems, right?
Boria Majumdar, I think when India lost this Test series to
South Africa recently, Boria Majumdar said Final frontier
white ball cricket, Who are these Genzis were going to watch
Test wicket. The.
Thing is, smash Pakistan. Everybody.
They'll smash Italy, it'll stash USA.
So if you have watched T20 cricket, one thing that you will
learn is that randomness the other T20 cricket right even in
the Asia Cup as. That you eventually pulled it
off and then you just played all this to the gallery, which is
why final, because they won it in that fashion.
They overreacted. It was that sense of relief,
like overcompensation for all of that.
But in all of this, ICC Kajo, you can just clearly see how ICC
events get handled when India plays when hosted by India
versus when it is hosted by the rest, right?
The Women's T20 World Cup happening in England schedules
are out a year in advance, tickets are sold, organization
ticks out there. There is a even with the T20
World Cup in the West Indies, they had a proper anthem,
tickets were sold in advance that you messed it up because
you hosted games at 9:00 AM T 20 matches, which is completely
doesn't make sense. The same tournament would have
crowds at night. So you can clearly see that
whenever India host 2023 World Cup 4, the Women's T20, Women's
50 over World Cup recently and this coming tournament scheduled
are in the month for the government.
So you can actually see that unlimited PESA is just an
accident. They accidentally stumbled upon
a big market and they're making money out of it.
They have. The moment thing they have.
Zero vision, I mean zero vision and this is this is another I'm
sorry, are we Indian EV cars and Indian car brands are not able
to compete with Chinese brands in Nepal and you know, these
countries and and and global the PCB sector.
Me any cashier, some Nepal baby the corner Mahindra like
literally there is no like dependent goel Leloya Bansal
Leloya Jobil. You start a founder just some
family business, you don't have anyone with any like innovative
new ideas. These are just trying to make
the next buck and in and more so in cricket, Matlab cricket
members, we had liberalisation liberalisation bought in brands.
This country like cricket and this country had a massive
population. That's it.
Shining stumps like egg innovation.
Sorry. To to to India's credit to stem
Jagmund Almir, he was at least OK to expand the game And like
I'll go back to Richard's first question.
What does the game serve? Who does the game serve and
everything. I think it's cancer clear and I
keep see it's essentially there to serve the propaganda of the
ruling party backed by the money that is poured into broadcasting
by Mukesh Ambani, right? I mean, what else is there?
It's it's it's just essentially that right or the Buchani.
I mean, there are anyways talks that the revenues of the ICC
might take a hit because the broadcasting revenues will go
down. And who's the 1st loser in this?
The associate nations. Associate nations depend highly
on the money that is sent out. By the IC pressure as a year
World Cup for a 20 teams, which is now most people see this as
like we are doing a favour to these country by expanding it to
20 and the pressure is that they have to perform well because if
by chance they do not then I don't know how the next World
Cups will be and like like this needless pressure on them it'll.
Be magically they end up doing well.
This is despite all that. Yeah, I think, I mean, has
anyone ever looked at the football World Cups and think
that the participation of so many new teams, it takes away
from like the viewing experience?
It does not I. Celebrated, right?
It is celebrated that Kurosawa reaches the football World Cup.
It is celebrated that the smaller countries so this.
This is this is what surprises me when Ashwin says something
like this, right, Ashwin? Like, do you not see like the
soccer World Cup this year will be 48 teams?
And the and the soccer World Cup is not without write offs.
Now MATLAB, you see a lot of five Nils, 6 Nils.
And you will see more in in with with the 48 T World Cup, we'll
take more of those games, right? But you'll let nobody finish.
Yes, and maybe a problem in yeah colonialism mindset.
How will they get merit? How will they get good enough to
compete against the big boys? By playing them right and which
is not a pathway you're planning to offer at any point.
So and T20 Nepal. It's quite apparently out there
or. Won't let him say this, but I
don't know. He lets him say.
Correct both of you. Combox So Kisina was a combox on
a video of a discord. This was this felt like a good
discussion. I tried it.
I I just I I'm sorry, but I it was not a.
Good discussion when someone starts.
With biography, but I mean is that the cricket book like?
Yeah, first Empire classmate or something.
Matchmate, Batchmate. Matchmate.
Matchmate, that's what if you see the solo video of Jared, he
says that the reason they brought him on is because he has
his IIT contacts, which includes like access to PC capital and
things like. That and Robin Uthappa, because
obviously Uthappa has that star cricket credentials, right?
Not just that. Yeah, see, you do understand.
What do Indians do when they go to the way Indians become
investors Like every Indian in Dubai is essentially doing a
well paid job and I remember friend and I'm like on stage
like reception pay and. It's just.
But I I have honestly like after and these guys had I don't know
how did how did these guys? Become Victor Trumper.
It was either Victor Trumper or one of those all time great.
And where do we get these names from Jared?
Maybe. Who is Vinu Wanker?
And The thing is, The thing is. 2 cricket to create the history
part, but cricket the program, that's a problem, right?
But anyway, I think we we are at the end of this day in terms of
this forecast. I think Lok frustrated sound
creativity need a podcast with frustration there.
Yes, if you genuinely go ahead. I just want to say one thing OK
Joe Hamare creative or well researched episodes, please go
listen to the WL WPL preview and go watch the.
WPL are you guys ashamed of me? You're on to.
Us actually offline? Seriously.
Type. But if you seem to care about
this sport and there is a specific because we are planning
to speak about Bangladesh and we didn't do that enough.
My only point is that Bangladesh hate that cricket, this
attitude, that political space that this Bangladeshi identity
has become one where you want to punch down and cricket move or
service. I think it's like kunglu.
All these stereotypes get floated and then this is an
extension of that. If you can't see any of that and
you cannot call out this bullying.
I'm noticing an key Agar. If you're a Bengali on social
media and if they find out that your ancestors are from the East
Bengal, so E Bengali like not that key Hindu credentials, but
East Bengali, but South Africa. And you know, people are writing
articles about how unlucky we were, how like data shows that
we should if if only a few things were on our side, we
would have won this series by two nil as opposed to losing it
by two nil or even with New Zealand.
So Mera's suggestion he ended team killer BCCI keep our job up
honest. Ojao Banado Jaishao captain or
UCSR khel tapan match other Harvey get to like desh ka beta.
They should represent or tell me before we get to yoga.
Sorry, fat shaming, but Bangladesh, you were last
thought. Envy, Richa.
My thoughts I watched I watched live sports coverage a little
bit. One of the things that.
Creme de la Creme. One of the things that Boria
said was, yeah, why are they trying to bring politics into
sport? But yeah, why?
To bring politics into sport. I'm I'm I'm completely on
Bangladesh side for this one purely.
Because I don't think that there is the other side that you like.
After this, whatever most of his or thing has happened, there is
clear danger to safety of the other other other 14 cricketers
right? So why would they be sending
them to India? I mean, I understand Calcutta,
probably safest place to travel at this point in time because.
Team game. Progressive Content, 2000.
Four 2004 of India Pakistan to Zaheed Khan was interviewed by
one of the Pakistani TV channels.
Oh fuck guys. Fuck RCBO.
Mumbai Indians. Is the last over?
Oh man, seriously? So so interview said very pro
shift. Anything in in his interviews
back then? I mean, that was a different
shift. You know what I'm just telling
you? Sports there was Sports content
is Rev. Sports Bolona, please. Actually out of touch.
And I was done with that. For some reason when your team
refused to travel to Pakistan, they accommodated them with a
completely new venue which was UAE was not even a Co host
originally in this tournament which automatically naturally
has a Co host. This is not for anyone else.
Sri Lanka were stated to be Co host since a long time back
whenever the hosting rights were awarded.
Bangladesh and Indians carry this right through across the
world, right in the West. If you go to a Bangladeshi
colleague, if someone has, they carry, they borrow this
condescending attitude that they have towards that sports team,
towards that country, towards the actual human beings when
they meet someone in the US or anywhere in Europe.
And that annoys me. To run by so many Bengalis and
Sanghi Bengalis. It's not very long.
I think mere his, even if you take the narrowest view, right,
like the incompetence, the the incompetence of putting Jayshah
in a potential position where it would be so difficult for him to
come out looking good in this, Like he's he's either going to
disappoint his own domestic drabbit fans of this regime, or
he's going to look really stupid on the international stage,
right? I, I, I really don't understand
it. Like, could you not have
predicted that this would happen, that they would react
like this, that they would punch up like this?
Of course, the look at the typical like abuser behaviour.
I'm sorry, but yape you, you do all the abuse and then when the
abuse person reacts, you're like, why are you doing this?
I'll be interesting here. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka with the
Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh all of India's neighbors in this
World Cup will be Nepali and equity World government right to
all of these teams will be playing in Sri Lanka and only
the non Asian teams will be playing in India.
On that note, cord behind. Cord behind energy, Cord behind
energy, Cord behind actually Cord in the.
Prodigal Son turn Messiah gets a second hundred in successive.
Dramatic style. The whole of Bengal are on their
feet, not. That important.
He's gone the next ball. The dream has diminished for
Carlos Bradley. Livable scenes, Yeah.