That's four in a row. Various girls are going to blow
next. In the Prodigal Son turn,
Messiah gets a second hundred. In successive.
Style the whole of. Bengal are.
On their feet. He's already dead.
Oh yeah, right. So, OK, welcome to the BCCI
podcast. I mean we have MV and and me but
I have no idea. I'm fine either.
Way I actually wanted to. Talk about what do you guys
think of the greatest, most alpha man in the world, Ben
Stokes? Overrated.
I don't know because not just Ben Stokes jobilog sorry beat
me, let me chat the distractor. But how?
How come after four years of planning, this may happen?
But first of all, don't know cheese, beholding the Ashes is
not that important. Jokhale, they were important.
And then before the Ashes, it was also the biggest series of
your life. How come you go with that?
How come in four years you only have those bowlers which played?
Look below, who were the collective geniuses behind it?
So Ben Stokes definitely ached the whole way and probably Key
and McCollum and maybe some other people behind the scenes.
But you remember Hamesha whenever England tours India
Evident they don't really care. Like he just let's earn the
paycheck. Guilty say Pope or Hartley are
fine but same feeling like what's the point?
So. We planning here.
Look, go ahead. So here's my problem with Ben
Stokes. OK Ben Stokes and Basmat Kalam
both. So AI is not good for a lot yet,
but it's good for asking pointless questions and getting
the answers you want. And one of the things I put in
is how do you know if you are in a cult?
OK, so it's. Be very be very careful of the
point that you're saying. So authoritarian leader, check,
right? Ben Stokes basically told them
teams, I'll say key, we want to be caught out playing aggressive
shots rather than a defensive shot.
We want to entertain. We don't care as much about
winning, OK, Except the moment he lost like one game in the
Ashes, they flipped completely. And he's started dead batting
when it was easy to bat on. There was we stopped seeing
basketball. Like basketball died in the
second Test, right, Or the third Test, whenever that was that Ben
Stokes played out and they bought in Will Jacks and they
just dead batted the whole time when it was really good for
batting. Yeah.
So basically he tells his team for three years, you've got to
do things this way. They build the team around it.
They build a culture around this.
And then they completely abandoned this culture.
And he immediately goes and calls them weak men.
We have no place for weak men. Dude, what is wrong with you?
Like you told them to play like this.
You, you did this whole thing. So he basically it's basketball
is whatever Ben Stokes wants it to be even more than you know,
Basma column. That's pretty much it, right?
Yeah. Then the. 2nd is days of
baseball. He was doing it kind of like, I
mean, he would just come swing and get out, so.
But yeah. Yeah.
So the other things to know that you're in a cult are like undue
influence, which basically on elections.
Just asking. Just asking too soon.
Too soon, too real. Too real.
And then This is why I don't go on Baja pond, OK, court reform,
use constant lecture, sleep deprivation or cliches cliches
though it on a Baja. They use career like I'm just
tired of listening to them talk. I'm tired of listening to that
basketball talk and you know, pre pre ashes, the whole the
whole hype about basketball and what they were going to do.
And this is the most exciting team to come to England.
So they come to Australia. It probably was, but yeah, it
was it was kind of annoying. I was like, yeah, let's let's
start playing already. And the fourth thing is like no
accountability, right? I.
I think because of the previous three tours now where it was
50405 what MATLAB it was 14 zero right out of 15 last three
times, not just the 11 this time it was a lottery and whatever.
But at MATLAB, I think people are not being accountable
because for moments it felt like he at least they were competing.
Although which is made in my opinion, it's even worse because
they basically gave away they gave away the birth test as a
gift. So and had they won the birth
test, it could have been a lot different.
Maybe Cummins comes in not really fate and then, you know,
a lot of things could have happened.
But so they should, I think more scrutiny, but I think this were
listening over again because it felt like they were competing
and they also ended up winning one.
Yeah, essentially in that both Test, I think Australia had no
business coming back into that test.
I think even in the second Test there was a point where we
thought England could have done a good job.
Yeah, it. Wasn't after this first Test
like what a funny situation like travel side is saying sorry to
the people who lost their I mean who basically got tickets for
the third day couldn't see like. The accountability in the year
is pay up MV30-UP in Tippany there.
Nice man. Be good.
You had four years to plan for this.
You also told everybody that you're planning only for this
for four years and then you are in a situation where none of
your opening fast bowlers are opening fast bowlers in
Australia. The real basic.
And this is the same thing we talk about, I think for, for,
for pretty much every team and even even for BCCIBJP.
We have spoken about this, right key that they pick bowlers who
are maybe first change and then give them the new ball or if
they pick bowlers for the new ball who are first change
bowlers. So I mean, there is no point,
right? Because if, and I think Jared,
Jared spoke about this recently, also key there are these
bowlers, Georgetown and Braden cars and and parts maybe as
well. Parts go to anyways, like
probably his last game for a very, very long time.
These bowlers typically want to bowl only in from the 20th over
to the 60th over. I mean, if you give them the new
ball without any plans, then how are they supposed to execute
them? And lack of planning is even
like further, when you look at the fact that their lengths were
so, so, so poor. Their lengths were so poor.
I mean, anybody knows here you have to go fuller in Australia.
We if you're not going fuller in Australia, then then when will
you do? But again, exactly.
I was just coming to the. I was just coming to the you had
bowling coach who basically he just went on a vacation.
I did. He went to play a golf
tournament. Yeah, and six weeks before
Anderson has gone for a golf tournament, they're asking Dale
stay in six weeks. Before, yeah, yeah.
And I don't know like if I don't know if Dale stay in takes up a
lot of coaching gigs. I think he's take care of you in
the IPL. But if if I am being asked as a
coach to come in six weeks before a before a tournament
that my team generally that this team generally loses and loses
badly, I'm setting myself up to be a scapegoat.
Yeah, who is going to take this job?
Yeah, and see, I understand Key if they had, Anderson said.
Mother bought help with the whatever, but as a professional
cricketer you are Australia bowling.
They are literally telling you how to bowl.
No, no, they are winging it. Complete winging it.
This. Is.
This is like. We.
We know better. We are smarter.
Even without a coach, we have our plans.
They had, they had one, the only one plan.
And it didn't work. Yeah, the you're constantly
bowling short. And the other thing about
selection is Rob Baron actually on on combo was talking about
Matthew Potts and he says Matthew Potts has the 99th best
strike rate in the county championship.
OK, so, so like what is happening here guys?
What what is going on? What I think what they thought
is that they don't really need to care about their bowling
because their batting is that good, right?
They thought that their batting is so much better than Australia
that it's. It's going to and the last Test
match how like to what is the point of Stokes?
OK, I know key injuries, but at least if if they would have like
at least if had they given Bashir more tests, maybe in
Sydney, you could have just done a holding job or something like
they had this by Sydney I mean. Jeetan Patel was there.
I mean how can, how, how come you end up with three bowlers
and Stokes at Sydney? Like how?
Where are the wickets coming from?
Well, because they needed to play Will Jacks because their
batting sucked, right? Yeah.
That's that's the main problem and and the other thing is key.
If if I'm Australia, what do I not want?
I don't want England chasing on the 4th innings, right?
I've that is an additional level of pressure that then it's
putting me on my batting team to make sure I have a good enough
total in the third innings to set up the.
Game to bat for three times, yeah.
Why did you decide to bat first three times is like what is
wrong with this man? Like they would have Perth,
maybe they had their bowl first. Yeah, and.
So the other thing is the other things about being in a cult is
like suppressed criticism. So they are completely against
any noise happening in the team. So they don't listen to any
outside criticism. They call the ex players has
bins. I think specifically Michael
Vaughn, Kolatha Kaiser has been in the first conference.
I think referred to his criticism also.
So. I don't know, I'm continuously
getting confused. Like this could go on a lot of
tangents. So.
You have what? See the English media, they love
it when their team wins, but they love it even more when
their team loses and they just get to sharpen their knives and
criticize the team. And this is true for across
sports also. Yes.
Every time it's coming home and then yes, yeah.
So yeah. So they, I mean, they, they just
love this. It's you cannot call the biggest
voices in your, in your media husbands just before you start
on a tool that you've historically lost a lot of,
right? That's just insane.
And then the other couple ones are shame tactics like guilt and
shame are used to enforce strict codes of conduct.
What is the code of conduct here for the No, no, the first code
of conduct is thou shalt not practice more than we say.
The second code of conduct is thou shalt play golf.
The third one is going to be thou shalt drink a lot of beer
or whatever your alcohol of choices with the boys.
Yeah, that is a code of conduct. I think legendary stories about
old Australian and English cricketers like Joe, but then
he's talking about you don't do it, you don't do it, David.
Boone drank 52 beers on a flight.
Whatever. But anyway, yeah, I mean, and
also just the fact that forget, even though the analysis may be,
just look at the history, you know, you know, in fact,
analysis carefully, like, you know, right, you, you know, you
know, even if 10 players are injured, that 11th guy is going
to do something or they're going to find 10 randos from somewhere
who are going to come and they will win it for them.
So he took two wickets in and over the last day.
This is when Who is the perfect one?
Day before I literally I mean I came to know spin dialogue from
the final word where Jeff Lemon said that Webster will bowl them
to victory. Yes, all those may again, one,
one good catch and one but I mean but.
Catch the other England also doesn't have a fielding coach.
Yes, like. That was just funny and they
dropped some easy ones, right? Like, yeah, yeah, and very
costly. Ones like his catch in the deep,
he took Alex Carey's catch, Alex Carey who had like what?
Smith had a blinder. Marner had two or three
blinders. Yeah.
Yeah and yeah. I think even even if you leave
the blinders aside now look, it's it's more like just general
ethic key. It is going in, both of teams
are going in opposite direction. They are taking blinders and
they're dropping easy ones as well so.
I mean, what extremes? The worst part is at the end of
this you can tell that there are better younger players coming
through England, especially in their batting then in Australia.
Like who is the next upcoming batter in Australia?
But that's the thing right young Neoga but could debut currently
got 31 years pay for like and those 4-4 years he will just
dominate and just retire. That's how it.
Works, but like if you see Harry Brooke, the talent is there and
that guy Jamie Smith is also incredibly talented, although
you could not say it on this tour, but he's he's I kind of I
really like Jamie Smith. Bethel is definitely a good
talent, although I don't know if he will do well in the short
term, like in the short to medium term to keep it not young
player call. You should actually let just let
them play in the domestic league.
Like if you're 21, you should not be in a team.
I I just don't think England should.
Be I mean, yeah, he's 21 with like letter of recommendations
from Lara and sober that all so that's why.
Yeah, I I get it. But I mean, there is a version
if you replay this tour with the right preparation that England.
Less preparation win. Yeah, not over preparation, just
required. Preparation.
Yes. There is a version of this tour
in which it's 32 or even like 3-2 the other way right?
Like there is a possibility. I think there were too many
moments. Yeah, well, Australia was just
clutch. Australia was just.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
What is wrong with why?
Why do they OK? What is wrong with Mark Wood?
How fragile can a human being be?
What did? You talk about.
But how can you? She didn't play the whole
summer. English summer Ek testament art
word. So my point is key and this has
been happening I think after 2019, 2019-2020 9/23/23.
So because it's been so many years, at least have a have a
backup for him. Like the best case scenario is
he will play two or three that you already knew it.
But even for that you should have at least.
And again, the other guy who ended up playing three and he
was good overall, but I don't, I have not had hopes with the wood
at all, just purely because he hardly ever plays.
So what's the point of four over the 150 KS if you're not going
to bowl for the next 4 tests? The the point is they are trying
to play the last, they're always trying to win the last battle.
So last time the Boite Australia, may Mark Wood had a
good game in Sydney, the one that was a draw I think.
Yeah, yeah. Would draw together with 4.1.
We could say draw with that. So yeah, that's so yeah, that's
the logic. MATLAB 8 level P is just vibes
right? Like, yeah.
Yeah. At the end of the two, they're
like, oh, we got found out, do you think?
I mean found out like who found out?
You yourself found out because just, I mean, giving crickets to
Marnus. And I'm pretty sure when Jamie
Smith got out to Marnus, Yogi back on the back in the dressing
room. OK, TK, you tried.
Yeah. Well done.
That's how we roll. I don't think they encourage
madness at all, I don't think. Like, Can you imagine?
Can you imagine, like how insufferable madness must be
inside the dressing room? Like level of cricket, because
this is now their sole point of conversation at every every
public appearance like and and and and and Jamie Smith of all
people had to really give that. I think, I think there's just so
many poor decisions that like that.
That list is endless. Like, I mean, even with Brooke,
I mean, if you look at it, you can't say he was playing poorly
all series. He was playing like very
decently well through a lot of these forty 50s type of knocks
that he that he was having. It's just that Australia will
like keep, we have plans for you and we have plans for everything
that you do and we know that you are going to fuck up.
So we will wait for that, yeah. And and and that's what
happened. But in that wait for fuck up, I
think another like another thing that everybody must acknowledge,
and I think everybody saw it, is that is the fact that one of the
things about basketball is that they they used to early on
change the length of the bowler by moving around the crease.
So the points of contact for basketball visa V any other team
were completely different. And that changed with Alex Carey
saying TK exo Pantisca bowler, we know, I don't care.
I'm up the stumps now. You guys make the mistake.
I'm not doing any. I'm not going to allow you to
move as much, be it nicer, be it bowling and and both being very,
very difficult bowlers to even keep.
I mean. Especially bowling.
But bowling, like keeping up to bowling, is another level, by
the way. Exactly.
Deka, deka. So, yeah, so, so I think, I
think another thing somebody was saying is that when Bolin hits
the deck and when when it hits the bat, it feels like it has
hit the bat very hard. So imagine what is it like on
the gloves. He was again Jared Oscar
analysis has been like spot on. Through the the way he got Root
in Sydney, but I don't think forget about, even if you look
at the English Ballers throughout the series, I don't
think they pitched that many balls in the same spot as Boland
did in that phase to get out. No, no, not at all.
Are you Unka? Unka pitch maps?
Unka pitch maps were like here are the bars in the area.
Boland Cup pitch map was key. This is my go to bar.
Please come here. Drinks are free because I got
Kohli out 18 times last season last season, so I never pay for
beer. Yeah, I think Boland was the one
who I mean, of course Mitchell Stark has the wickets.
I mean, yeah. He took most of the wickets, but
the reason they won is because the second best bowler was
Boland, right? Yeah, yeah, Across the series,
even though somehow Cars has more wickets or does he have a
similar number of wickets? No, no, I think.
CARS has 26 wickets. Yeah, yeah, and say career ended
bowler and not just this. This is the thing, right?
This is why I feel guys like comments and Stark see
unnecessarily my comparison. But when actually videos about
like Cricinfo and basically their their goal is get a
batting listed Kohli, Kanavan and Banerjee bowling listed as
the winner, right? No doubt and big no doubt.
Dubra is probably a better bowler than both Stark and
Cummins. But when it comes to having the
first name on the sheet, I'll probably have either come into
tag way before because these guys just have every like, OK,
if Bumrah is going to pick 5 for 40, maybe Stark will pick 4 for
60, but then he's also going to give you 3540 runs when it's
absolutely needed. The same with Cummins.
Primary skill go up in a secondary skill.
If you, if you ask me, right, who if you give me the top
bowlers like come and start, Bumrah and maybe a couple others
didn't go. Now see if it was between Henry
and Bumrah this primary skill bowling year, then yes, no
doubt. But to say that like the overall
impact that come in and start have is just another level.
Which reminds me. Which reminds me.
Which reminds me the last BGT in in Australia, Cummins and.
Start in Australia. BGTBGTBGT Bangladesh team
Bangladesh team BGT In Australia Cummins and Start scored more
runs than Rohit Sharma. So just and here also I think I
saw stack where they compared the number of balls phased.
So bowling and Nisa had played more and broke and all.
So see, that's that's the thing, right.
This is why This is why there it doesn't matter if they are if
people say key average age is 35, it doesn't matter people are
in fact, it probably helps them as an overall international
career. You might have not you will not
be as celebrated as the longevity Valley career to
celebrate career. But if you're debuting at 31
like me, Sir, I mean, he didn't debut, but if you don't play a
lot and you know you're having one major full series at 31, you
are matured already and like I mean, you will do well.
So I. Mean you're far better.
Placed to face. Yeah, exactly.
Larger challenge in front of you, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So, so that it doesn't matter
like they will find them. I mean, they'll keep finding
these 20 or 30 year olds every 4-5 years.
So I don't I I mean, if anybody problem Handy did not commentary
who after this, who after that, these guys can just go on a
series basis and they'll find people.
I mean, OK, but I think Australia needs 3 batters at
least in the next year that they need next couple of years that
they need to come up someone who is an understudy for Steve Smith
because he's going to retire, whether or it is not nowhere
near good enough. I think to be an opener.
At least Mujini Lagda, he also got found out pretty quickly.
Like, OK, when you don't bowl short and wide to him, he he
might get out. And Kuwaja is gone right now.
So they need so they have Josh Inglis coming through that that
is there. But yeah, yeah.
For Cameron Green, which are in Italy batting positions.
Yeah, but again, I think so. See, they've already shown,
although in front of like idiotic England, but at least at
home these guys were who you were saying incorrect
replacement. They anyway didn't perform and
they won without them, right. So at home not that a problem
even when you're going away like other than South Africa, I don't
smell up where exactly you want to find out.
I mean, where exactly you will be lacking these players because
in the end of the day, England again, they like shooting
themselves in the foot even at home.
So and again, because of all the other factors, I don't think
they're going to have a problem. I mean, they're not like they're
not going to go to West Indies that often.
They're not going to go to Sri Danka that often.
So that's true. So basically they just want to
have someone for English summer and maybe for India home cities.
So yeah, I think they have bowl and I don't see why he won't be
around for the next couple of years, even though he's older
than Stark. Stark is Stark is taking care of
his body. Yeah, I don't.
Yeah. And he's still like, he's
getting better. Like it's just.
And his pace is also not. Going around guys in Stark's
family, he's not even the best athlete.
Yeah, yeah, I'm like. No pressure on the kids at all.
Yeah, so Stark was really good. I think Travis had. 2024 T 20
World Cup for last year K Bangladesh team that is BG team
finished under 20 average and at a strike rate of 29.64.
And you see these people also even he took an excellent cotton
board. Even I think Nisar also took her
an excellent quarter. Like why anarchy these people?
They also its not just the line line, but half chances Kobe,
they just somehow convert and again Iska Koi.
There's no data that can prove this right, but there is data
that will show you that this team does it more than others.
Yeah, like why it happens? Nobody knows, but yeah.
There is a story that Nasser Hussain talks about where I
think after he lost to Steve Wall in one of the Ashes, they
sit down for a beer. At the end of like, the series,
both the teams are supposed to have beers together and talk.
And, you know, he sits and he's there, like discussing why one
team does better than the other. And Steve Wall uses his mind
game nonsense and says, you know, we just wanted more than
you guys, right? And I think that that was not
true before. Yeah, I think that's the thing.
Yeah, yeah. It feels like it's true now,
like it doesn't seem like the English team is working towards
a goal that they want to achieve.
Like it seems like they just want to have fun.
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option? I don't see it.
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here now. OK, it's there, my wife said.
If you win. We'll.
Fly to Asia, if I win we'll play YouTube which is to push up.
To believe as a fast bowler Test match bro is close to
impossible. Of soch kya medical Staffs rub
down the mobilization. Yogi mobilization.
Mobilization. The thing is I believe him.
Like I don't think he's making it.
I don't I don't think he's making it up.
Mobile, mobile oil mobilization. This is not Kapil Sharma show
guys. This is shows after experience.
97. And also I don't think.
The Jiming that he's saying, I don't think they do that like.
Yeah, they're famously not allowed to build up.
Their chest, yeah. Muscles.
Yeah, I mean, that makes sense obviously, but but feeling
sometimes. But I got the message.
Reading a book on Shoaib Akhtar is like eating tiramisu in a
chewing gum form. That's not how you experience
Shoaib, my God. I think I watched that clip at
least seven times. Yeah, just very funny.
There are quite a few Shoaib clips like that.
The only the only thing I don't didn't agree with was why are
you hating on like because he's I mean, I get from a very like
why not like beast, but just and Pele came.
But take another second when they come to maybe there's an
ultimate club. There's a feeling that Australia
should be hated, but why they are.
They're just pretty good. Just enjoy them.
Yeah, they're not the same Australia as before.
I feel like this is not Ricky Ponting Australia.
This is not even like pre sandpaper Australia.
Yeah, no. Even back then.
But see that's because Usana hate Karnataka.
Primary reason they used to win, right?
Yeah, when you develop understanding and then you
realize the jobi are the problems team.
But this is not an. Because they win, yeah, Yeah.
And that's fine. Yeah.
This is not an unbeatable team. Yeah.
Even their sledging is kind of cute.
I don't think there's no sledging really.
It's basically now annoying. The funniest thing like this is
a reflection of how the team really is, is because Nathan
Lyon was dropped for the second test, the pink ball test.
And, you know, he was allowed to give an interview where he said
he was filthy. Yeah.
So in the next 3 when he was selected like Alex, Kerry called
him Phil because he was filthy. That's like, that's a clear
sign, Yeah, that's a clear sign that they are just enjoying it
so much. Yeah, I, I like watching them.
I think their batting is brittle.
But you know, I've said this before, Cummins is one of my
most favorite players and he had a great series.
He just played one game, won the Ashes, and then it's like, OK.
And then did a John Terry. Then did a John Terry came full
kit to pick up the. Ashes as well.
That's right. Oh yeah.
But. After that Melbourne Test he
played, he's like, yeah, I'm not going to turn up on the other
two Tests. He turned up in the commentary
box for the final Test. I mean, why not?
After a while, this was like a joke was it was a joke like
could we? And they'll play, they'll win
also. They'll just, they're just too
good, man. Yeah.
And helped by the fact that the other team was just stupidity
after stupidity after stupidity. There, there is, there is
something to be said for the final interview, like the final
day kind of view that Nasser Hussain had of Basmakalam where
he asked him, oh, are you going to change?
Like are you going to adjust the philosophy?
Basmakalam is like no. Hello, I'm offended.
I am offended by that. Good luck.
It's too much like it's too cultish.
And you know, I mean, again, who's touring them this time?
Will it be South Africa? Yeah, South Africa?
No, they are touring South Africa and New Zealand is
touring Australia next summer for four Tests.
No, no, I don't think anyone is touring.
English summer South. Africa.
Yeah, yeah, South Africa, I think October, they're not
paying any tests. Yeah, because South Africa.
Is touring. Building their state, their
stadiums for the World Cup? Yeah, they are.
Preparing. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Even Women's T20 World Cup
tickets, like more than 100 days out there, they are available,
people can plan. So to find out about the English
summer when in Google Yeah English summer to Pella article
is ECB article England cricket fixtures for 2026 international
summer announced with ballots opening soon.
Tickets. Tickets.
What do you mean that you can plan to go to a stadium so.
Who's who's touring them? Who's touring them?
I'm I'm just marveled by the fact here tickets, I'm bothered
about who's touring them. Three Tests.
New Zealand. New Zealand, OK.
Three Tests. Three Tests.
Pakistan. Very nice.
Three tests. Pakistan also actually that will
be again, trash versus trash. Are they going to play Mohammed
Harris? Is Pakistan going to play
Mohammed Harris? The most successful?
England. England might.
England will. England might.
That's. True God.
His county I don't think is planning to play him anymore.
Yeah. Did he didn't he just switch
counties as well? If you switch them, maybe that's
fine because the. But he's also like 37 now,
right? So at Max he can, he's just
going to be like what, one or two series for whichever team?
Oh, that's true, yeah. Maybe he's even older.
So any any final thoughts on the Ashes?
Jallikarak Ketan, Buji Kodani Jallikarak Ketan But.
Butchering that. Just like, just like they were
butchered. I butchered this dialogue.
To be honest, I was very disappointed till till the 1st
Test. Exciting work but I knew it
won't be. England were never going to win
it. But I thought or, you know, to
fight just like or Jeeta Vitam concert is when after like
Boxing Day, when like your opponents were probably just
they were filled with like cake and alcohol.
Wobi Wobi though didn't it was the third day?
Third day what they got with Turkey.
Just landed in Melbourne. Looking forward to my first full
Ashes experience. Of course it was satire.
Yeah. I do want to talk about drinking
culture, right? Like they go, you can you can
drink, but it affects your recovery.
OK, it affects it dehydrates you.
It causes a higher buildup of lactic acid and a higher
propensity for cramps and fitness and in general, if
you're. But it gives you vibes according
to them. I mean, I'm not saying go drink.
I will say there is like a, there is a point where OK, you
can drink to, you know, do some team building to open up, like
to get that feeling of unity amongst your team members.
But they say Nayar, it takes away from experience like you
will. You will see even Mitchell Stark
did not drink till the end of the series, right?
Yeah, I mean that's why he played all 5 tests the way he
did. So it's.
Yeah. Ben Stokes It's a given.
It's a given You can't. Famously earlier last year in
2025, he said, Ki bhai, you know, I have stopped drinking.
I'm going to lose weight so that I can bolt.
And I was like, wait, your drinking was hampering your
ability to bowl and you hadn't stopped it until now.
Like, what is what is what is wrong with him?
Like, yeah. And that's the thing, right?
Most stereotype have British but you are professional
sportsperson you you can do this.
You're getting millions of pounds.
Yeah. To to not drink and to keep your
body in good shape and fighting with the bouncer at 3:00 AM.
Before. Yeah, exactly what?
The hell is wrong with him? I mean, not just drinking, but
just like, I mean basically like forget about being shouldn't be
even allowed near the team. He's the vice captain.
So, but I skip yeah. You know.
English Captain. Yoga, 2027.
Yeah, English people should basically be grumpy and annoyed
all the time and drink not for fun but for like, tolerating
things. Why are these people doing the
exact opposite? Like even that I mean that that
small incident I think says a lot Like he was having breakfast
and award of cash flew all around the restaurant and like
journalists and people, everybody else had to pick up
all the cash and give it back to him like.
See this is the difference, right?
First of all, first of all, first of all, I would like to go
on a tangent but like to say who carries cash?
Maybe as an Indian citizen with UPI, I want to know who carries
cash. Nobody carries cash.
Yeah, nobody carries cash. Australia.
You remember that story about Shane Warne Cash?
Like that's the thing, right? That see, there are persons who
can pull it off and there are you.
So then then don't do that please.
Warne was one of one. I don't think they realize it.
They realize that and then that's the difference now.
So yeah. So Ash's review got behind.
OK, stop. Stop because I have not.
I haven't made any. OK, OK.
So we can do it later also if you want.
Either way. Unless like, unless like we can
do highlights like and. What are our thoughts, initial
thoughts and? Let's do a review of the table
and whether you're buying or selling.
Oh, buying or selling and why? OK, let's do it.
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That's funny. What do you mean edit?
What is editing? Nishant, why do you continue to
watch? Pointless bilaterals No, I was
watching that ask Hey Nina. So Abhi last two days I didn't
follow first match May the moment Jadeja got out I was
like, yeah, so I don't share. I wanted I wanted Kohli to miss
a century and then and then yeah, because now they've lost
the 2. So that's that's the incentive.
But now that I'm also in a favorable time zone, yeah, I
will watch it. Nice.
Very cool. So what?
Let's do you want to start at the bottom of the table?
Envy. I would like to start at the
bottom of the table. So at the bottom.
Screen share. So the ESPN website famously
doesn't work on my laptop. I don't know.
So I have. What?
In front of me? OK, let me see.
By the way, the ESPN app, it has game board which gives you a
really good quality detailed statistical analysis of the
game. And it's been really, it's been
really cool to follow along with game board.
I might just have to download the app again like the hundred
time. Yeah, so.
That's weird. Yeah, you changed my click info
as well. A lot of issues loading.
It's it opened but ekto again. For some weird reason WPL is not
among the first two suggestions. So when I tried to expand the
window, the site is not working. That's just anyway, yeah.
Is it WPLD 20.com? Big buzz I think is probably
better WPLD 20 dot. Of course.
Yeah. I mean, I thought official at 2
points. OK, I got it.
I can also share if you want. So DCR at the bottom.
Yeah, DCR at the bottom. Yeah.
So they did start with the opening combination of Lizel and
Shefali that we really wanted to.
But I think until the last game when Shefali played a great
innings by the way. And you know, moved around in
her crease a lot, used her crease really well.
And she she had a really good fighting knock when DC went
super hard in the power play and lost like 4 wickets.
But yeah, that game, I think if we start with the game against
RCB, there was DC had no business being in this game
after remaining in this game after the power play.
And I think the issues that we saw with DC was I don't see, I
don't quite see the bowling like Nandini Sharma has come in and
done really well. But I'm not saying it like they
need cap to take 3 wickets in a free power play to have any
chance of winning games. And it's it's really scary.
I feel like the statement is going to struggle even in the in
the second leg because Abito dy part of my hair, which we
thought would suit them a little bit more, but and I don't know.
And they're not even playing Alana King, which is.
Why, Yeah, that's another thing. Like what is stopping them?
Like do they already have a like spinner they have?
Yeah, they they are playing for foreigners to they aren't able
to. I mean.
Finger in. But OK, I mean, so did they make
a mistake at the auction table? Yeah, I kind of think so.
I don't think. I mean, they have so.
Go ahead. Go ahead.
So they had. So they bought Chanel Henry and
Lucy Hamilton were both all rounders, although I think Lucy
Hamilton they bought for her bowling.
Lucy Hamilton just played her first game recently, so you
can't really expect too much from her right away.
And she's she's very young. This is her first WPL.
I think the problem is like they have Lazelle Lee and they have
Blvd. and they have Maris and Cap, right?
So these are three players who they absolutely need and that
means there's only one slot left.
So based on whether they need more fast bowling, because they
don't have any domestic fast bowling other than I guess
Nandini Sharma now. So they don't have any good
reliable fast bowling from their domestic players.
So they need to play like some kind of fast bowler or slash all
rounder in the fourth spot. And so far they've played Chanel
Henry and they've played Lucy Hamilton for one game and I
think that means that there's not been any space for Alana
King, which I think more than anything they need a strike
bowler. I think their problems are
compounded by the fact she, Lucy Hamilton, came in for this one
game and did well while batting. Correct.
She had a 36 of 19 so now they are in a bit of a mess.
I think their only chance is to drop Lizzle Lee, as much as I
hate that, and you know, bring in a domestic keeper and bring
in Alana King. That's that's the only way I see
it. Have I see them recovering So
even though they're at the bottom?
There, there's been bowling more games to go, right.
So I mean, one, if one leg is not worked, it's not worked.
So it's worth doing that. The problem is there's spin
bowling hasn't worked at all. Like all three spinners have
struggled, Sri Charani, Minumani and Snehra now.
Sri Charani has been a bit up and down.
I don't think, like, I mean, she's better in a slightly
longer format. I think she'll figure it out
before the end of this season. She'll figure out how to bowl
against some of like how to set up bowling when you have like a
much, much smaller spells that you do than you do in ODIs.
But Sneh Rana was never going to be like your strike bowler and
Minu. Minu was really good last year.
Minu was really good last year, but again, like very in like a
more she's more defensive, right, as a bowler.
So that's that. Yeah, I think we.
Need Jimmy to come up with the goods because that middle order
is not giving as many runs as it's required because that puts
too much pressure on Nikki Prasad and the others down the
order. Just like it happened yesterday
at when Lucy Hamilton had to score runs and.
Yeah, I think players like Nikki Prasad who are so early in their
career, they need, they need a little bit of a platform so that
they can feel free enough to play their more natural game.
I'm not sure, but yeah, it's not it's not looking great on the
upside, like Shefali looked so good in the last game.
She even I think she bought. Did she bring out a reverse
sweep? Oh, she didn't switch it.
Yeah. And I was like, wow, that is
that like, I haven't seen Shefali do that before.
That was a new shot. So she's added some more
dimensions to her game, which is which is awesome.
So instead of just playing straight down, which you you've
seen Shefali just hit smack everything straight down the
ground. She's now trying to find more
areas to score. And yeah, it's, it's awesome to
see that. But yeah, it's not been, it's
been a little bit sad. Like more than anything, they
look a little bit sad. Are you buying or selling?
I am selling because I don't know if they take away Lizel and
bring in Tanya. I Tanya hasn't batted for like
years though. It's at this level.
So I, I think that's only going to make their batting more
shaky. And I don't, I don't know, like
they have to change a lot to do well.
So I'm I'm selling Delhi. Yeah, same.
I don't see this. I mean, unless they can play
party poopers to a lot of teams and they play they were yeah,
they they essentially play MIRCB and GG, which is the top three
right, right after this and only UPS like right at the end who
are on the up because they won their last two games.
Which brings us to UP Warriors. What did you think of UPS season
so far? I thought it was very, very odd
because like the oddest thing is like they randomly won two games
back-to-back versus MI, but lost to everybody else.
And I mean, they are the only team like that DC have beaten as
well, right? And I and they're, they're still
like, see, this is my problem with cricket in general, I mean.
Can I ask a non cricketing question here?
Not related to not related to this specific team.
Not that not that. I'm just saying.
Why do only three IPL franchises have the men's team?
Is it not? Is it not in their?
Constitution. Sorry, sorry.
IPL team was just asked to release one of the players.
And and if I may add, if I may add, we did a full podcast on
it. And then that that I know I was
just you may wonder what you know the category why why not
have why is it called up? What is not LSD?
Women. OK, Nishant, I'll, I'll answer
this. I'll answer this very very.
Easy, I know. Any such questions?
If you have any such questions about anything that happens in
India, remember that my answer will always be the normal There
is no incentive to have a women's team at all.
So the three franchises that have it are basically also.
So okay am I? I can understand RCBV and DC is
the odd one actually because DC isn't really that popular IPL
franchise. No, that's good.
But they are. They are like backers of sport
now, like the Jindals run sports foundations all across the
country. So, so from that lens and it's
good that they have. It's good on them.
It's yeah. Let's.
Sorry you guys were. Talking about all of these
questions, I think the solution in India is we should question
Shahrukh like that. That is a really important
thing. Yeah, exactly.
I think on this podcast we must question why does KKR not have a
women's team? Yes.
Is Shahrukh Khan not a feminist? Is Shahrukh Khan against women?
Is Shahrukh Khan's religion a factor?
It is always. A factor.
To Shahrukh Khan say push nage bad, then let's go to North
Srinivasan, who's famously big supporter of women's sport.
He's the diversity champion. Yes.
I mean, when I say diversity champion, I would urge the
listeners to go and read what he has done to his own kid.
So yeah, there's that. Anyways, we were talking about
UP warriors. So UP, warriors.
I am buying. Yeah, I'm buying.
Because I'm buying. I want to know what this team
does next. They're the most exciting team
they were. They completely revamped their
squad and brought in like a lot of super exciting players and
you know, Phoebe Lichfield has started doing well on the back
of a couple of catches, but I. And and Mccanning.
Don't forget Mccanning. Who did this?
Ranjit Goenka. So I was, I showed my husband a
shot that Phoebe Lichfield played, which was another switch
hit. And he's like bad with the
spring hair. There is no better player of the
Switch hit than Phoebe Litchfield.
Tell me you are a Millennium without telling me you are a
Millennium. Accuse an Aussie of having a
spring in his bat. Yeah, basically he's like,
there's no way that she can generate enough power to hit
that without a spring in her back.
Can you, Can you imagine, like if Phoebe Litchfield played
tennis, how hard her backhand would be?
Yeah. Ferocious like.
Yeah, I'm not playing any of these Aussie all rounders in any
sport. That's that's a rule.
But I wanted to know if if there is anything you wanted to say
about Harleen Deol's retiring out?
Harleen Deol was pissed pissed. As helpful her ugly management,
she brought up a strike and won the game so well.
I was mighty impressed with Abhishek Nair like inspiring
Harleen Deol to win win the next couple of games for them.
So I'll just notice something on the WPL website to my Inca
squad. Up Warriors, up warriors, right?
Yeah. So they don't have any specific
bowlers in case batters, all rounders and keeper.
That's it. And why do they have only one
keeper? So this is this is the problem,
right? So they, they used to have Healy
and they didn't, they don't bid for her famously for whatever
reason. I think they're bowling is it's
it's probably not suitable for Devay Patil because I think just
before the last Mumbai game, I had done the analysis that their
highest wicket taker was Shikha Pandey with three wickets, which
I think maybe Karanthi has probably overtaken.
Mumbai it's still it's still Shikapandi it's still Shikapandi
2 two more in the second MI. Yeah, which is really different
from Mumbai, for example, who Amelia Kaur has taken 18 wickets
or something like ridiculous. Yeah.
So some ridiculously high numbers.
So I think Iyanka next round when they go to Vadodara, it
should improve some of some of the bowling figures because they
have Ecclestone, they have Dipti, they have Asha Shobhana
and I think that between the three of them they should be
able to do a reasonably good job.
But yeah, they they bet on Shweta Serawat, who's a rookie,
who's batted decently well and who batted OK last year.
But I did not think that her performance last year meant that
she would be the sole wicket keeper.
But apparently she's she's done a lot of work in the offseason
and I know the first game. Charlie not.
She's done pretty. Well, I mean, I mean, she's the
wicket keeper, right? I is is Sharavan the wicket
keeper? Saravan.
Is the captain? Oh, so she's keeping right now?
OK. Yeah, yeah.
Charlie not is not a wicket keeper.
I think she's a. Yeah, and what she's not.
Interesting. Yeah.
OK, so then I found I found a bug on the website then anyway,
yeah. By EA normal.
That's a noun to say like, at least from what I can
understand. No, I I like them.
They're fun. They have Meg Lanning, I think
they'll do well. And you know, Phoebe
Litchfield's doing a good job on the reels as well.
So I think, yeah, I'm buying UP. Yeah, yeah, I'm buying UP.
Only time you will hear on this politically leaning podcast that
we are buying UPI. Think somebody needs to buy UPI.
Think it's better? I think it's not bought already.
No, somebody better needs to buy UPI.
Mean the weakest *** the Ambani Dani.
Oh, not that podcast. Again, again, again, not that
podcast. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
sorry, sorry, sorry. I keep missing this point.
So are you buying them or selling?
I'm buying, I'm buying up. OK.
Next is Gigi. Gigi's interesting.
They've been up and down. Their form now is like they're
coming on the back of two losses, which was strange.
I don't know if I'm. I'm probably holding Gigi.
I don't know if I'm buying or selling them necessarily because
if you look at them, their last, So what was it they find they
lost to? They lost to RCB, which was
really, they have a good batting line up.
So they have Sophie Devine, who's the MVP of the entire
tournament pretty much, right? Sophie Devine when Sophie
Devine's batting, when she's bowling whatever, She's just
been a rock star. But Beth Mooney is also done
well in a few games. I think that middle order looks
looks very shaky, which means like they they're really they're
probably more reliant on their openers than others, right.
What what were your thoughts and we?
I think they will require that that Hartiful Mali to probably
score more runs in the coming games and not depend on Georgia
Verum as much as they are depending for her batting.
Yeah. Otherwise they were always meant
to be like somewhere in the mid table and they are there.
I think they'll continue to, they'll continue to be there
much to the delight of Dave. And their next game is versus
RCB. So that probably just.
Played RCB. I mean, this is the tournament
where everything happens randomly, so.
Yeah, that's right. So Gigi, I don't know what to
make of them. Like you're the kind of let I
they let Radha Yadav come like put together an RCB come back in
that game. And I feel like like that's that
is I'm not sure what to make of it.
Like, I don't know if it was if it was bad bowling tactics, just
not trying enough things or, you know, dropping catches at the
wrong moments. And, you know, I feel like that
it was a chaotic innings. Even though Radha Yadav, I think
I checked towards the end, her control percentage was like 8 in
the 80s, which is insane. I don't know how they measure
control percentage, but it looked a bit sticky.
It looked like she they dropped a few catches of Radha Yadav and
they've just not been able to execute and close out things.
And I think Ashley Gardner at times has not trusted her
bowling, which is sad. I.
Mean the other problem is they always keep playing Renuka Singh
and and she bowls overs a little later in the innings.
Yeah. And that that that never works.
That never works. And they've not been helped by
the fact that Kashmir started well.
But then again, at the death, like she ended up facing Nadine
de Clark and and again, yeah. So that didn't help at all.
So I mean, they will they will require a little bit of planning
in the bowling and not depend on on divine because that match
against DC that was gone. That was that was done for how
Sophie Devine pulled that off is is just crazy.
Like 7 of the last over you, you give up.
Like in most, in most scenarios you would have given up.
But there is no like she was ice cold like.
Yeah, Do you, what do you think about their bowling like the
two? I think Tanuja Kanwar is pretty
good. She's done a decent job and
she's played well for India as well, right, I think.
She has if I remember correctly, but if you look at like their
bowling, they didn't even give the ball to Tanuja Kanwar in
that game versus RCV. They did not even give the ball
to registry Gaikwad. Yeah.
So there are some questionable tactics, though I must say.
There were two really, really good catches that registry guy
called took in that game. Like, those are really, really
good. I mean, amidst all the
troublesome drop catches we've seen.
Yeah. I wonder if Ashley Gardner is.
I don't know whether it's. Again, yeah, it looks, it looks
very, very shaky, like the whole thing looks like they have they
have the wherewithal. But then, like that final push
will probably be like, for the lack of a better term, I have to
use a pun, a divine intervention.
I think they can bring in, They can bring in Anushka Sharma,
they can bring in. I never know how to say this
name but Titus or Tita Sadhu, who I think bold Titash.
Titash Shadu. Famously there is no Sir in the
Bengali language, so it's always sure sure.
Like there is no V, there is no V, so it's always BA.
OK. Yeah.
Yeah, so Tita Sadhu. I think she would.
I saw her bowl. Interesting.
She's she's she's. Really good.
Yeah, yeah. Big fan purely from the basis
that she's from Bengal. Yeah.
So I would probably bring out take out rain cussing because I
think they need something different.
Which is a. Which is a shame because like,
yeah, there is, I have a feeling, and again, we'll go on
a go on a tangent, but I have a feeling that in the next couple
of years the there is going to be a tremendous shift in both
batting and bowling talent in India because of the money
coming in and all of these cricketers being able to live
fuller lives as cricketers. I'm not saying fuller lives per
SE, but as cricketers, because they probably would not have as
professionals, they they probably weren't.
And the one change that I want to see is, is the continuous
evolution of Renuka Singh. Like everybody knows you can
swing the ball, but what can you do apart from that?
And, and, and that's where it'll, it'll have to come in.
And that is an evolution that I want for Renuka Singh because,
because see, having swing will, will probably get you 2 overs or
three overs at the at the top. And then it becomes very, very
difficult because we know this, we know these balls stop
swinging much earlier than they used to.
And that's why it's, it's it's critical that she goes ahead and
up skills at the earliest. So I'm, I'm, I'm keeping Gigi on
hold. I'm I have, I have, I don't need
to, I don't feel like they're perfectly placed on the table to
just hold. They're not going to drop in or
or or crash per SE, but there is a chance that there is an
upside. I've used all the stock market
terminology that I knew in my life in the last sentence.
Very nice. What about?
What about the next team? Mumbai Indians.
They are see that's the thing. See Mumbai Indian is like
Australia, like UP have beaten them twice and and Mccanning has
the honor of having beaten MI twice, 2 times with two
different teams right? Like once with DC and once with
UP. Now The thing is that they have
problems, but they but they problem solve.
Yeah, they problem solve much, much faster than other teams.
They are they're Hanford by the injuries at this point in time
and there is no denial in that. But they don't they're happy to
fail and fail fast as well. Like when you look at like
sending Amelia Kerr up top, playing Hayley Matthews just
followed one game, then again resting her and and like she's
she's unfit probably or not, or injured yet, right.
So they and and and the fact that they also take additional
steps where they keep a unit together like stuff like any
other team probably. I mean, I know, I know that
Kamalini is a keeper. Any other team might have
dropped Kamalini and and moved on right.
Like MI said, no, no problem. You back down the order.
We can tell you that there's no no stress.
We'll keep playing you. That doesn't happen with every
every team, right, and I think they will.
They will. They will do well and and and
and there anyways, like, although all and both these
losses were recent, before that they had 1-2 on the bounce as
well. And and both were very
convincing victories, like largely convincing victories. 1
was 7 wicked and the other was fifty runs.
So I'm I'm not able to sell, especially when you look at the
fact that they have Harmanpreet Kaur who's also turning it up.
They have Amanjot Kaur who can open, just randomly open.
They are happy to send Amanjo that.
Then they have Nikola Gary somewhere.
Then they'll get even Saji and Saji not to score runs.
I mean, it's very, very difficult to root.
Like not root against, but I'd say very very difficult to write
them off. Yeah, I think I agree with that
sentiment. I think the one weakness that
they have is they don't have good injury backups, so an
injury to another key player would really change a lot of the
squad. And they've moved around.
They had like 4 opening combinations and I think I, I
don't agree that I don't think Amanjyot Kaur is an opener.
I think her scoring areas are a bit too limited where you want
somebody who can take advantage of the field being up, you know,
and not be stifled by the two outfielders.
Like if you place them in the right areas, I feel like you can
stifle a little bit of amount, of course, scoring.
So I I think they're going to struggle with that opening
combination. And they still have been
winning. I think their bowling is really
good and and, you know, that's our brunt.
I expected her to have a regression, but that woman shows
no sign of having any performance regression at all.
Yeah, so. They're really good.
Amelia Curves bowling really well.
I think the way they tried to use her up the order batting
would probably did not work. Kamalini I I don't know, we'll
have to wait and see. But I think a lot they have been
able to win because of Nicola Kerry.
And I think if you see even a little bit of regression or a
slight change when they change venues, that may come crashing
down. So they have fragilities.
And yeah, they they are successful but fragile.
And yeah, comparing him to the Aussie team is probably a good
one because they find ways to win even in spite of that.
And they're better at problem solving than most.
So yeah, I'm holding Mumbai as well.
Yeah, yeah, I'm buying more if I can, especially in a tournament
like this where they've already won like 2 editions out of
three. Yeah, I mean and, and like in a
final, in a final, like you need probably two people to turn up.
They have like, they're multiple people who could beat those two
people in a final, so. Yeah, and one of them is
definitely going to win that super brunt.
So. Yeah, yeah, the yeah, even
Herman Preet turns up in crunch matches and she's she's looked
OK. So yeah, she had really good
form coming into the tournament, so I have no doubts.
Yeah. What about what about RCPI feel
like RCP fans are really scared, like they are they expected when
the team loses, but when the team wins, they are little.
They're scared of, you know, feeling again.
What is it with RCB? I like it's very difficult to
explain, right? Like everything that they
shouldn't shouldn't work keeps working And even then they are
also making tremendously superb decisions, right?
Like everybody said, like like after the first game itself or
you need Georgia volleyer or you need Prema Rawat here.
And what did they do? They did just that.
They just that it's so much common sense.
Like in a short tournament, you need to make fast decisions and
you need to back your players to to do the to do the right thing.
And you need to have a unit that that really, really likes being
there. And like, you can see like
Smriti and Shriyanka and, and, and, and even rather and, and
everybody like, I mean, for Grace Harris, Grace Harris was
miked up. She's like rather others are on
field captain for fielding. Like all of these things, all of
these things, which means that there is there is that team that
is working like diligently behind the scenes and and doing
a good job of good job at it, right.
Yeah. So.
So it's a I mean there is no what were the questions?
I mean if we had recorded 2 days ago, the questions would be
Smriti Mandana doesn't score runs in the WPL.
What does she do? 96 casual.
I think that was the only weakness that Smriti wasn't.
Exactly, right. Yeah, exactly.
And even in the game, even in that one game where like we were
like Grace Harris, what does she do?
She's 23 of the first tour and that's it.
That's I mean, those are the things that set like the games
done right, like you've demoralized the opposition with
23 of the over right? Like those are like crazy, crazy
things to have to have happened to this team and there is no way
that they should lose advantage. And The thing is, they've been
tested as well. Like, how can you bring in
rather the other word 5? There is nothing in Radha
Yadav's history. And it's her highest score
across all formats that she scored at #5 in the last game.
And I'm just like, what, how, how has this worked?
And The thing is that it's I think they're all hitting form
at the right time. I don't know if there may be a
risk of them peaking too early, but you know, I really, really
like them. I wonder if they're.
I'm in, by the way, batting. Tracks.
I am in absolute love with the fact that the ball is swinging
and Lauren Bell is putting up a show every single game.
I'm like, yes, yes, when he put up when he put up please Fir how
was the Ghumegi ball? Oh God, like I'm such a sucker
for swing bowling is not even funny.
Like I'm like, yes, and we heard like that tall fast bowler
rushing in and like it's it's super.
Lauren Bell is amazing and I think we talked about her.
I had predicted her to be like the highest wicket taker this
tournament. I hope that persist through to
to Vadodara. I don't know if it will, but
it's so it's been so nice to watch, like watch her come in
and take these wickets and get her lengths right, get her lines
right. And Justice, you know, has done
such a good job upfront. And now I feel like Shriyanka's
coming in and she's doing really well and.
She took a Viper. Very happy.
Yeah, she took a Viper. So I mean, teams better be
scared like. And, and that's the kind of and
that's the kind of change that I was talking about, right, In
terms of skill, in terms of like change that will happen is that
is that people like Shanka will go away on injury and come back
stronger. Yeah.
The kind the kind that we that we very rarely see in cricket.
Those kind of changes will happen more in women's cricket,
I can guarantee, because they they will value this so much
more than than the men. I mean, it's, it's clear.
I mean, cricket, all of that. I can, I can say whatever I want
and it'll be on record. So, so that's also fine with me.
I mean, it's very, it's very, very clear to me that this, this
game is, is changing and and like, it's this young brigade
that that'll make it even more watchable.
I mean, like, of course they'll have their irritating moments.
They will do some 6-7 celebration, they will make a
reel that you don't like, but all that is doesn't.
Matter. It doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah.
And I think even RCB, like they they were trying to force
Lindsay Smith and did they drop her in the last game?
Because I don't think I saw her. So they don't need they don't
need anyone other than Lauren Bell as an international bowler.
So they can just focus on having Georgia Wall, which has paid off
right away, right? So what a.
She was she was power hitting in that last game, proper power
hitting. Yeah, I'm so.
Like. Very, very excited.
I'm buying and holding RCB like it's NVIDIA.
NVIDIA Are people still buying NVIDIA?
I just. Not anymore.
OK, NVIDIA from a year ago. OK, must share.
I bought it five years ago, so yeah.
Did you sell it? No, yeah, of course, of course
I'm not like some Mahan investor.
Most of the times I buy stuff and then I forget to sell it
because who who pays close enough attention?
Yeah, yeah, same, same. But but in this case, like I
think there's just so much happening that people as like,
yeah, yeah, Bhiliyada. So like, OK, take care.
Might as well. Doshab Nadine de Clutch kill
you? Sarana Karni Padegi is is
Kalakari cricketer Key Joe batting or bowling?
I'm I'm like, I am irritated that this is a Sunday and I've
like had to tune into an ODI because BJP 11 was losing
because Usima Mazad ABI ABI. Problem is the recording has
gone on for nearly two hours and now I have to now I won't be
able to sleep because I'll be watching sports ERE and sports
tech and I mean the little pleasures of life.
It'll ruin my Monday, but I'll have a great Sunday evening.
Somewhere, Aditya's enjoying himself a lot, and his
background noise is giving him a lot of happiness while he
prepares to do really important, really smart things.
Yeah, I have no idea why Aditya even comes on to the board like
but then when he starts speaking, you realize, oh, I
scooped cricket. Maybe interest.
He has equal interest in cricket and the panel in sports.
That and sports CRE and the 38 other right wing podcasts that
he keeps watching. So.
Listeners should know today, Aditya challenged an AI summary
of India versus Australia. Any anybody will.
Anybody will. Yeah, like, OK, another podcast
on on like on on asking AI basic stuff and AI absolutely fudging
it is another podcast. Final thoughts Who is going to
be the winner of WPL 2026? See, just because I want a new
winner and I want this to be competitive, I don't want it to
be just MI and RCB, even though I really like the RCB team, I
kind of wanted to I, I want UP Warriors to go on a run and win
because I don't think DC can win.
They're too far from it. I think GG are a little bit too
middling, but UP Warriors are just mercurial enough to come
from behind and annoy everybody like a Sunrisers run for some,
you know, all those years ago. So.
Yeah, like imagine Harleen with a poster.
Yeah, Abhishek talk now after the final.
After the final. Yeah, but I'd rather it was RCB
than MI like I just. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm always
team new winners and which which is not going to last a long time
if like these five teams are the only teams playing it.
I really hope more teams are added.
Yeah, but I really, really want more teams and, and, and I'm
very, very glad I must share that cricket is coming back to
the Chinnaswamy Stadium. I mean, with some conditions I
have like I have missed watching the WPL at the Chinnaswamy more
than anything. I mean, it's just, it was, it
was like a, it was part of the routine and I hope it comes back
next year. Yeah.
All right.
With that you. Need to watch the WPL folks.
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