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India Vs South Africa Final #t20worldcup

In this podcast, Kushal and Aadit Kapadia review the entire T20 World Cup as they chat before the final on Saturday as India take on South Africa.

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Duration:: 1h 36m
Broadcast on:: 28 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(upbeat music) - Namaste everyone. Welcome to the Charvak podcast. A wonderful start to the podcast. I would like to remind everyone I had predicted India will not make it to the semi-finals. And it is only because of me that India has made it to the semi-finals. And now I predict India will lose the finals. I want to start the podcast by saying India will lose the finals. - Namaste, I'm not going to make any predictions about the final, because this is the final of the chokers, right? We are the team that has choked massively in the last 10 years. And South Africa is the team of eternal chokers. So Matlab, here is the... - At least one of the chokers is going to win. (speaking in foreign language) - Awesome. (laughing) - Man, decided on boundaries. (laughing) - If that happens, there is nothing like it. (speaking in foreign language) Because then that is the (speaking in foreign language) that is the unfortunate, unfortunately. But that's when (speaking in foreign language) So, (speaking in foreign language) (laughing) - How's that for? (speaking in foreign language) - Absolutely, (speaking in foreign language) Anyway, but this is the fight of the chokers now. Like one choker team versus the other. (speaking in foreign language) In the long term, how this is going to pan out, we'll have to see. But the fact is that they are, India and South Africa have been the best teams. It's been, I don't know, Agar Pele, T20. - Yeah, I don't know. South Africa has been the best team man other than the semi-final where they were convincing in their victory. They have hobbled their way in this entire tournament. - No, yes, but I will tell you this though. Their group was also one of the tougher groups. Like they had Netherlands, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, - No, but they hobbled their way through the super H2. - Super H2 also, absolutely. - No, no, I'm not denying that at all, but they still want, however, these are games that you would expect Purana, South Africa to lose. Like these are all these close games. Against, if you look at the USA game, where they really got the scare of their lives, right? If they hadn't lost their, I mean, USA needed 28 of two overs and they lost to Vikut and the guy Jesse Singh who came, he basically kept switching and not connecting anything. That's how South Africa won. And then you had the West Indies game, which South Africa tried to basically choke themselves out of it and then Marco Janssen came and hit a six. - So it's Netherlands, Nepal, West Indies, even against England, they almost lost. - Almost won. - They kept on bowling full tosses. - Yeah, yeah. Oh, Madam Kone, Duane, I forget Bartman, Bartman. He was the guy who just kept bowling full tosses. And label Livingston kept saying, "Thank you very much," and started smashing them. And, but it's quite, quite stunning, if you think about it, their, their rise within the, within the tournament, and most importantly, them keeping their nerves under pressure. Because how many times have we seen because South Africa has lost it totally, has lost it totally, given up the game, given up the semifinals, their jinx of semifinals, if you see that flip, Dale Stone and Sean Pollock literally in tears. Dale Stone was in tears when Sean Pollock was doing the commentary that the semifinal curse has been broken. And if, if people think that this, this doesn't mean many, oh cricket, it's not South Africa may be important. Hey, don't search South Africa on Twitter. Search Proteas. Because that's how the team is called, the Proteas. And my God, you will see South Africans from age 18 to 55 to 65 absolutely bawling on Twitter. They are like, my God, I've been thinking of my dad, who had never given up on our team. They were talking about their friends, their cousins. And from what I've read, Wanderer Stadium in Johannesburg has been opened up for spectators to come and watch the final. So it's going to be a party time there. It's going to be a party time in India. So it's two countries that are taking the T20 World Cup very seriously and very fan basis. It's going to be a lot of fun and make no mistake. Except for us in India, there's not going to be a maybe people in Afghanistan. There's not going to be a whole lot of people rooting. I mean, because the South African story is so strange, I think it's going to be a lot of the rest of the world rooting for South Africa. So it's going to be a very interesting final. But many Janki, Ballet, India, Kibat and Iki, because India, Kibat and Kate, so we had to start with South Africa first. South Africa has played the most erratic tournament and it is funny how they still managed to hobble their way into the final. But they destroyed Afghanistan in the semi-finals. They were at their clinical best. That which really suited South Africa, but I mean, Afghanistan should have also thought about it. But Afghanistan went for their best option. Their best play is usually bad first and their openers failed. So Afghanistan, they're so dependent on their openers, goodbyers and the same, and if they fail, the entire team collapses and it was quite obvious. The writing was on the wall once their openers collapsed. - Exactly, and then it just became worse and worse. And you know, I'll tell you, the biggest problem is, the biggest problem with Afghanistan is they did not pick proper battles in the middle order. They were a couple of, I think I think Aliki was not playing. And Emmett Shah was not playing. So the propensity of Afghanistan to typically lean on like hitters and stuff may have, may have sort of heard them and heard their case. But the fact is they just got out-boulded and out-batted. Like out-batted took her naibulsaktiv and the target is 60 runs, but out-bould for sure. Because Khangiso Rabada was absolutely on fire. I, if you, Marco Janssen, yes, he picked up some wickets, but I don't know if you saw that Rabada spell. It was just unbelievable, unbelievable. And he was like hitting the top of Austin. So that was fantastic. The second interesting thing for me, in terms of what sets this World Cup apart is the emergence of associate nations. Never, I mean, never was any country looking comfortable. Those are points when Scotland was defeating about to defeat Australia, Afghanistan, go to the home associate of Bolvin, he said, they've done it time. And again, they've beaten big teams. They almost beat Australia last year in 2023. Now they've beaten 20, 20 in Australia in 2024. Again, then you have the emergence of Nepal. Nepal ran two teams very close. So we'll have to see now how that translates to Asia Cup and stuff and how competitive they get. It remains to be seen the emergence of USA who've qualified for the super eight and have automatically qualified for the next World Cup. Now the next World Cup happens to be in India and Bangladesh. The wickets will take a little bit of spin. They also have wickets where you can, you know, if you can hit through the line. So suddenly teams like Nepal and all, if they qualify again, they become some very important, very important fits in this. The disappointing stories of these World Cup would be Ireland. I expected a lot more from them. I think it seems like they've gone down. In there, Scotland's been a 50/50 story and maybe to some extent Namibia. I expected Namibia to give sort of a bigger fight in their group. But certainly the positive stories have been so many more that the negative stories are, you know, much lesser. - Yeah, but honestly, these pitches, the pitches are a very important factor. Once you have certain pitches, these associate nations come up and help even the playing base a lot on flat wickets. I think a lot of these teams will struggle. And India is by and large going to have flat wickets in the next T20 World Cup. So I really don't have a lot. - In India and Bangladesh. - Bangladesh will have turning tracks, but India will have. - Exactly. So we'll have to see, and by the way, Bangladesh. Okay, I will have an all-time five to 10-minute rant just for Bangladesh alone in the thing. I don't know what the hell were they doing in that game against Afghanistan. - They were trying not to lose. - So someone said Gilitan Daskar, chair, first and over, he was playing for Bangladesh, then next five over, he was playing for Australia, then next last five over, he was playing for Afghanistan. That was the funniest thing I've heard. But, okay, so, okay, someone corrected me. Someone sent me a tweet. India and Sri Lanka is 2026. India and Bangladesh is 20, the 2031, 50 World Cup. So I got those mixed up. So it's India and Sri Lanka. Regardless, Sri Lanka is also going to be. - Sri Lanka turns even more than Bangladesh. (laughs) My point still remains. Bangladesh will go to the degree, the Sri Lanka will go to the degree turn on the way. - Sri Lanka is not going to work. - And given how bad their team was, I mean, and actually Sri Lanka, I know we've talked about the decline of Sri Lanka in test cricket, one day cricket, and so forth. Their team was not bad. Their team was not bad at all in T20s. But somehow, after the 2014 P20 World Cup, they started going down, down, down, and now it's just, they didn't even qualify for the super aids. And they look thoroughly uninterested in competing. So I don't know what the hell was going on in terms of that. But I'll tell you one thing. So where do we want to start? Because we want to start at the beginning of the tournament, go into the super aid, or do we want to go back and talk a little bit about India first? Yeah, I'll direct decide to get there. - Honestly, let's start with the overall look of the tournament. First of all, can we not have cricket in New York? That was an atrocious pitch, okay? If they made a makeshift stadium, that is a fact number one. That was made on a community ground, and dismantled immediately after the matches are done. So there's no, what does that signal? It signals that there is no intent to have regular cricket in New York City, or in and around New York City, or the New York State itself. There is clear intent there from the state, they don't care. They just wanted the optics of having another big game there. They must have-- - There was lobbying, there was hectic lobbying for people in New York as well, because I have been here for 17 years now in US. I refuse to buy this idiotic argument that people cannot fill up stadiums. I mean, heck, the Dallas stadiums was full for USA games. USA, Pakistan, there were people. USA, Canada was a sold out house. You think India, Pakistan, people from Houston and Dallas were not going to go and watch the game in Dallas. And let's, let's, so there are three parts to the USA story, right? One, the New York ground outfield was pathetic, okay? The stadium atmosphere, outstanding, but the ground outfield was pathetic. Florida made the outfield can be neither. I mean, it was a bloody joke. They didn't have enough covers to do it, and this is the middle of the hurricane season. If the ICC would have talked to any of us who people who live in Texas or Florida, we would have told them it's an idiotic idea to have games in Southern Florida. Maybe if you had it in Jacksonville or in Morrisville, North Carolina, you'll find, right? But, hey, Houston has a ground. You could have had it in Houston because even Houston does not get rained as fast as, you would have had on and off sort of situation. But the best pitch, in my opinion, was in Dallas. It was true, both the sides were inferred. The tragedy is that the ground, I mean, not the tragedy. The ground has 15,000 people because they're not gonna have more than that many people. ICC should have spent money and bolstered up the ground capacity and installed new floodlights. Then your ground would have been like probably that ground could have been 33,000 people, and you could have had like half the games in Dallas, or maybe have all the games in Dallas. Who the hell was stopping you there? Like, you can have at least your marquee clashes where there is a proper wicket, there is not just something that's airlifted from Australia and done a very shoddy job. And, you know, what was pathetic was all these influencers, quote unquote, and people know who I'm talking about on Twitter. They were posting these videos of February, there was nothing in New York. ICC's miracle, there is something in New York in me. Was someone could have been hurt? It's a bloody miracle that no one tore their ankle or something in their outfield, or no, I mean, you know, Rohit Sharma was hit with that weird, variable bounce, if you remember. Was it against Ireland? If I'm not mistaken, I think it was against Ireland. - Ah, Rohit Sharma, even Mama, there is one. - Yeah, so it was just crazy. Although Pakistan is preferred, Seraj hitting Mama, there is one with the ball. (laughs) Mama, there is one getting hit from the pitch. I don't know if you saw that clip, but it was absolutely epic. Yeah, so New York way, I don't think the matches should happen. Even in the West Indies, they should really use their brain cells. The ICC of when should happen. So I want to talk a little bit about this whole Rona, the vining that is happening from Brits and the Australians about, oh, the tournament is set up so that India can win easily, India can win easily. - India cannot win easily, ny, deco. I will say this first in Hindi, then I will translate in English. (speaks in foreign language) To feel all the broadcasters are going to make sure that the tournament is done at the time where Indians can watch it the most. - Got it. - And have it both ways. - True. - Now. - So eloquently put, right? No, but I'll give you another perspective. I actually agree with that point that yes, the stadiums and finals need to be at a time where people can also show up. Like you cannot have semi-finals at 10 a.m. I understand you have to cater to the Indian audience or something, but there could have been a sort of a middle of the ground where maybe it started at 11 or 12 a.m. And which was like about 9 p.m. India time. And ultimately what happened is it did start at that time after the rains and stuff. So if that was the time, it would have probably been better. You could have seen more people come, because it's a non-local game. People are not going to take time off, especially because World Cup is not, people don't travel much for World Cups. (speaks in foreign language) But it's not like FIFA yet, you know, hopefully it increases and increases. But so far I saw the travel less. But I want to talk about this. Every country, wherever they have, whenever you've had a World Cup most of the times, except for when it's in England or something, because in England it's, but even that probably is pre-decided. But definitely in Australia and New Zealand in 2015, it was decided. If New Zealand makes it to the quarter final, they're going to play the quarter final in Wellington and semi-final in Auckland. If Australia made it to the quarter final, I forget where it was Brisbane or Adelaide, one of those places where they played their quarter final. They made it to the semi-final, it was supposed to be in Sydney. They even had a provision if Australia and New Zealand both made it to a game, but it was not going to happen that they would make it to a quarter final or a semi-final, because they were in the same group. So, you know, they were only going to make it to the final and stuff. But in 1992, they had a provision of that, right? So in 1992, you had New Zealand playing their quarter semi-final in Auckland, Australia playing it in Australia. It's not unheard of that countries don't have assigned stadiums. I think the fear that amongst the British media was that, oh, the wicked spins, the wicked is that, was who told the West Indies people to have it in Ghana? Have it in Trinidad? The ICC could have had it anywhere. And what if India, England won the toss and batted first? You know, what would happen there? So I don't understand this absolute whining about everything India. BCCI came against Amnebik Afibola. There is a lot of problems with the BCCI, but here they are not at fault. This is the ICC. The ICC scheduling was so bad that the flights were being four hours delayed and people would have to get, you know, fly to charters and there were games in three island. People think West Indies is one country, it's not. There are the seven islands are hours and hours apart. So people have to go from one island to the other. So this is not normal. - See, 87 World Cup, India knew they were playing in India in one of the venues and Pakistan knew they were playing in Lahore. 92, Australia knew if they came to the semi-final, they would play in the certain venue. So did New Zealand, right? And it always happens this way. Nature, there is no such thing as a socialist, egalitarian, equitable, equality-based system. Only idiots think that exists. Only idiots. And idiots who are beneficiaries of capitalism until it benefited them now want socialism because the power locus has changed in world cricket. I have no respect for such people. They're just a bunch of winers and I want to remind everyone of one more thing about the pathetic state of Pakistan. Because Pakistan and Khushal Kibuknik Haridhi is the case of Pakistan. (speaking in foreign language) Yeah, book. Nastik, why am I not an atheist? Joe, Amazon pay available in Canada, America, India, Australia, England, and Hargaga. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Don't buy my book, India will lose the final. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (laughing) (speaking in foreign language) See, Pakistan cricket is emblematic of Pakistani society. And the Pakistani system. (speaking in foreign language) It's confused, and it's mediocre and a piece of shit. - And before we get into Pakistan, we can tell Ramiz Raja of Afghanistan or South Africa. Afghanistan got squad preview Karata. And Ramiz Raja, this is what I'm not kidding. This is what he said. And look at the South African squad here. Not many changes. They have nine all-rounders. They go bad from one to nine. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) I mean, I'm sure he was located in Afghanistan, and that was a pop-up. - It has been a slip-up time. - No, no, I'm sure. But the thing is, he didn't even take the name of anyone. He didn't even take Yee Chai, Yee Chai, Yee Chai. They're like, ah, there are nine all-rounders. Same team, last two fast bowlers. Opters are good. Over to South Africa. Pretty much, that's what they said. So I'm like, you know, why don't they get people who are interested in what they're talking about than Ramiz Raja? He's clearly not interested in talking about any other team except Pakistan. - Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, you know what? It's stupid. None of this makes sense anymore. I find it very irritating and annoying that these people keep bashing India for no reason. Like, what if India would have ended at number two in the super-ates? They wouldn't have had these benefits, right? These so-called imaginary benefits that these people keep talking about. What if India would have ended at number two? What if India would not have qualified for the super-ates? The Guyana lack of reserved day and only having four to five hours would not have mattered. And the Guyana pitch would have still turned and would not have mattered. All of India control every single curator on planet Earth now. - It's so stupid. It's so, first of all, aside, hey guys, if West Indies may just match here, there are very few countries in the world that can watch it at normal times. No one can watch it. And oh, here's the funny thing. On the other British channels, they were whining about the night games and how it's so difficult for them to watch. I'm like, (speaking in foreign language) India got the night games. (speaking in foreign language) England could cumulier time pay. England cannot watch. If you remember, England's games were also scheduled according to their broadcasters. England had two PM games and 12 PM games. There was no other country that had two PM games. There's only a couple of two PM games and they were all towards England market because that is prime time English time for their viewing. So now that's another thing. One of the games was against Oman that England finished in 30 minutes. And then the other game was against Australia where England got lost. But that was a 12 or 12 PM start or the one PM start in Guyana. So they have tried to work it as much as they can because (speaking in foreign language) The stadiums are say 20,000 or 25,000. The average ticket prices is like $100 or $150 for a non-game, like a non-premium game. If you do the math, you are talking about a revenue of two or three million dollars or something like that. As opposed to the ad revenue for a game that they were getting at least eight or 10 million dollars. So where does this even jive up? That's what they have to understand and realize. - At the end of the day, as the old adage goes, it is all bollocks. All of this whining is all bollocks. It's just a case of sour grapes. Today, there are enough things that you can this, the BCCI about if based on facts. The BCCI does not control this. Who controls this? The broadcasters, because the broadcasters want the maximum value for their product, that they are paying billions of dollars for, because they recover those billions through ad revenue. If you have the highest number of eyeballs, that is the Indian audiences, every single game is going to be catering to that audience. So game timings will have to be tweaked a little for that. You may not like it, but unlike the UFC and many other sports where the gate revenue matters a lot, the gate revenue, boxing and fight and mixed martial arts, the gate revenue is a significant chunk of the model. But even in the UFC, since the ESPN deal, that has changed. Which is why so many UFC events now happen in the Apex Center in Las Vegas, where there is no crowd, just 100 people. They do it in house now. They only do paper views and some fight nights outside now. Why? Because they have a cushy ESPN deal. They don't give a shit about traveling. They have a in-house structure. They just keep doing fights over there. They are churning fights out the UFC. - Yeah, and boxing malagotan. - Nene, but this is true for a lot of sports. This is true for a lot of sports. There are, in college, American college football and basketball, many powerful teams will actually pay lower ranked colleges to come and play at their stadiums. Because when they go to their stadiums and play, they are not going to sell that many tickets. They can sell more tickets here. So, Yehothai, but I understand, it's the World Cup crowd atmosphere matters. But also, you have to understand, not all the stadiums are covered. When people see that there is going to be rains and stuff, storm and things like that, people are going to go. People are going to basically abandon their idea because they don't want to get drained out and drenched in the bleachers, right? So, that is one thing. The second thing, and this is the most important thing in this World Cup, is the complete lack of balance between what the cricket West Indies board wanted and the ICC wanted from this tournament, right? Now, in terms of the level of the taking the World Cup to the smallest part, this was brilliant. ESPN US was tweeting about it. Americans were talking about it. There were people around the world, they were talking about it. People on, I saw on CBS Sports and stuff, they were talking about it, it matters. It matters, and this is mattered big time in the local psyche and taking cricket to the parts that it wasn't gone. How to push this further? You have to ensure that certain, you do deals with free-to-air broadcasters in America, free-to-air broadcasters, channels in the rest of the world are not as cheap as finding channels in India. You cannot just stream stuff on geocinema or star sports for free or get it through a cable broadcaster for cheap. Yeah, but you have to go and pay for the money and people are not going to be paying money for cable. Even in South Africa who have qualified for the final, I saw people writing to the South African board saying, "Please make this free-to-air on S.A.B.C." We can't afford to pay the channel where it's on. So, ICC needs to make those deals with local broadcasters and make sure that after the USA-Pakistan match had happened, it was a no-brainer. ICC should have made some sort of a deal with USA South Africa or below cricket should have made. They would have made more money. The amount of viewers that would have come on their channel, but Amara cricket got a problem with that. Yeah, we look very insular. We look like we have a market share of five crore. Let me make sure I reach four and a half out of those five crores. We are not going to think that there is another 150 crores that we have not even touched outside. And that's what needs to happen. But that can happen in parallel. One, you have to cater to some of the people that are already watching, but then also have a movement. Look at what happened in 2019 cricket World Cup. England reached the final. Sky Sports made a deal with Channel 4 and Channel 4 broadcast the final free-to-air on that. It broke all the viewership records. There was Wimbledon final happening. There was Formula 1 happening, nothing. They were all reduced to number two and three. Guess what Britain woke up and watched? They watched the cricket. And for nine hours. So you can do so much more with that. But I don't know if this will happen or not, but still, I mean, overall, this is still a fun World Cup to keep that. I think it was the first time I've enjoyed T20 cricket because the pitches were bullet-friendly. Honestly, that's the only reason I've enjoyed this World Cup is because when the pitch is so much, which is why I don't enjoy the IPL because the pitches are so flat, it's boring to watch. There is no skill involved. Here, because the bowlers had a slightly upper hand in many games or like this semi-final between India and England, listen, India backed it out of its skin in hindsight to get 170 odd runs. To get 170 odd runs on that pitch, considering how well-cooled deep more and I personally was so impressed with Akshar Patel, the way Akshar. Oh, my God. But the point is, now let's dissect Team India. And obviously, we have to talk about the two odd when out, unfortunately, starting with Coley and then with Shivam Dube. Coley, by the way, first, I have a point. Akshar Patel has officially replaced Ravindra Jadeja as a premier T20 all-rounder. The debate should end. Jadeja was great, but after this World Cup, Akshar Patel has to replace Ravindra Jadeja. His performance has been too inconsistent. And so, I mean, I have no doubt in my mind whatever Ricky Ponting did with him, it has worked in Delhi and that has translated into great returns for India. I've been playing well in T20 cricket for the international side for the last year and a half. But this World Cup was a step up. He's been doing, he can play now the role that Ravi Chandranar Ashwin used to play in 2011, 2012, where he used to bowl in the par player, what Akhil Hossain plays right now, bowling in the par player. And India should really think about that. Like, Khul just said, in honest, been friendly cricket, they used him against Johnny Berstow and he got the wicket. He got like, what, three wickets yesterday. India should use more of him in the par player. But yes, now, Virat Coley. - Yeah, I mean, he's having a bad tournament. Listen, anyways, I think it's his last T20 World Cup. He can, he'll play the whole tournament. It should be. If it isn't, it should be. It breaks my heart because I think Virat Coley is the best batsman in India right now. And if anyone is saying anything else, what do Madho Chamart Maruga? He is the best batsman in India right now. The problem is his form is not good. The problem is easy. The best T20 batsman in India right now. I am not so sure. I don't think he's the best T20. There are better T20 players in India. But overall, if you combine all the three formats, there is this, I think Coley is getting out because of technical issues and ego issues. He's not like, he's like, you know, trying to hit himself out of form. And it's painful to watch. Have you seen his wickets? I mean, they were just painful to watch. Agalee's slog that caused the light. - It's okay. He has had one back tournament. He's had so many good tournaments. - No, no, that's fine. But the issue is, can he be put at number three? Because Panthe has not said anything on the fight. - The point is, I think the reason is, because Shivam Dubey is in this site for some odd reason, which I am not able to decipher. And no, his performances have not been worth it. I think he scored some 20 odd runs in two games, and that's why I hate him. - No, I say yeah. You people are going to tell me what he did against USA, and that too, he was given up, he looked horrendous for like till the last 10 or 15 balls where he started finally connecting. No, Shivam Dubey, I mean, his technique was suspect. If the only reason to pick Shivam Dubey in the team was, if he was against spinners, the time he came against Rashid Khan, he couldn't even pick him. So I don't understand this thing with Shivam Dubey, I think he needs to- - It should have been Rohit and Jazval opening Coley one down, and Hardik just goes one space down. - Hardik, Jazval. - No, no, see, it's Jazval Rohit. Coley had three, Surya had four, Panthe had five, and Hardik, Jadija, and what's his name? - Uh, sure, they are your floaters, right? And then if you want a fast roller, you drop Jadija and you, Surya, comes in. That's it, it was a no-brainer, because if Hardik is giving you overs, Akshad is giving you, and Jadija is giving you overs, then what the hell do you need Shivam Dubey for? - I think Shivam Dubey, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) You have Rinku Singh that was not taken in the side for this boy, Shivam Dubey. I have no reason to understand why Shubman Gill and Rinku Singh are not coming over Shivam Dubey. Okay, so Rinku Singh is a middle-order batsman, so it's a like-for-like replacement. Rinku Singh is a left-handed batsman. It's even more like-for-like replacement. - No, no, it is more so, because Shubam Dubey cannot finish the games. He was, he's a middle-order slogger, spinner's case, I mean, that is how CSK also used him. CSK did not send him in the last five hours. But like yellow, and the first thing is, if something worked for CSK, and we kept keep on saying, IPL was played on pata wickets. Shivam Dubey, the main reason why Shivam Dubey may not have impressed us before is, because maybe Shivam Dubey was not very good on bowler-friendly wickets, and that's why he was on and off. This IPL happened on pata wickets. So, Patani, yeah, I'm just waiting for someone to comment on the comment saying, "See, Shivam Dubey comes in at number seven, "because seventh, hala for a reason." - Okay. - Because, you know, (laughs) (speaking in foreign language) This is the kind of nonsense that come passes on as analysis. (speaking in foreign language) We should also back him. (speaking in foreign language) They would back till eight or nine, (speaking in foreign language) - And listen to say like Virat Khodropkarke is going to listen, he's Virat Kole, he's literally our best batsman for the last 10 plus years. I mean, Kushtosh Sharam Karo. - But Shivam Dubey gets over defensive in a year because (speaking in foreign language) can bowl, he has bowl one over, I think, in the entire tournament. - Yeah, you know, what the fuck was that shot in that last tournament, like last game? Like, I mean, it's just, it's a slow-moving car crash watching him bad, and unfortunately, I think this is going to come to, do we really think, because now South Africa is not using kagizorabada up in the beginning, right? They are using, or maybe sometimes they use him for an over, sometimes they don't. My point is when Andrek Norkia and Dabada come in the end, do we really think Shivam Dubey has a chance on the bench down cricket? I really don't think so. - I think we have messed that one up. But now in the current squad, who do we replace Shivam Dubey with? - Oh, I mean, I, in my mind, what we said, one goes to five, Kole goes to three, and Rohit and jazz fall open. So basically, jazz fall comes in there, and... - Yeah, Dubey goes out. Jazz fall comes in for Dubey in the batting order. - Dubey goes out. And jazz fall can also bowl a little bit, right? He... (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) We have six bowlers. Why the hell do we need a seventh bowler? - Shivam Dubey, I think he should not play the finals. I think he should be dropped. Jazz fall should come in. Jazz fall should open with Rohit. Virat should come one down, and steady the innings if we lose an early victory. And everybody goes one down. - Right, so that is my replacement, but if they absolutely don't want to pay attention to us, then Sanjo-Samson at five, and... (speaks in foreign language) - Yeah, yeah. (speaks in foreign language) Because pun is not the person that we expected at three, because we, unfortunately, in the reason is, we are losing wickets far too early. - But I think one should top a bat in the top four, because punt is needed. The boss... - He has exceeded my expectations at number four. You cannot remove him. You just cannot. He's... I thought Shuria would struggle in spinning it, but he has worked on his game, and he's been outstanding. So, Uskwap, Naini Kalsakta, he's like... - Uskwap Naini Kalsakta, he's like... - Uskwap Naini Kalsakta, he's like... - Uskwap Naini Kalsakta, he's... - Uskwap Naini Kalsakta, he's like... - That's fine. Yeah, I'm okay with that. There are two people who you do not remove, Rohit Sharma at the top and Suri Kumar Yadavat four. They are sick. Also, can I say something? What the fuck were the Mumbai Indians' management doing? Because look at who our top performers, this world cup are, right? - I have my team is strong. - I have my team is strong. - Yeah. - Go ahead. - And Hardik Pandya. - Hardik Pandya, all four are playing. So, basically, Mumbai Indian, they get ya. Yecharofela, right there. Mumbai Indians, Mumbai of Hulke Indians, Indians when we... So, they are playing well. (laughs) - But... - Let's just... (speaking in foreign language) - But the reason I'm saying is, now they are doing exactly what we expected them to do in Mumbai Indians, right? So, my point is, but unfortunately, none of them are going to be playing. Like, not all of them are going to be playing. Depends on who Mumbai retains and everything. But the point is that Rohit Sharma's form is being outstanding. Let's have a brief round of applause for the captain, man. - What up, Lee? - Just what up. And I'll tell you something else on Rohit Sharma. He's changed his game, 2022 or 2024, may Aikhi Farakhe, Rohit Sharma's attitude. He was 27 of 28 balls in that semi-final, but now they completely revamped how they're playing and they've just done excellent, excellent. And he, I mean, you cannot help, but praise him. Jatil Sapru, who actually I like in the Hindi commentary, he had this wonderful line about Rohit Sharma. He signed the rule in Hindi commentary. (laughs) Jatil, because Jatil was a broadcaster, (speaks in foreign language) you know, actually, by the way, now Jot Sidhu's spoof of Akash Chopra is the funniest spoof ever on (laughs) (speaks in foreign language) So, it's on Instagram viral update later. But Jatil Sapru had a wonderful point to say at a podcast. He said Rohit has made stardom more human. The way he talks to people, he doesn't behave like, you know, I'm better than you. He's like a buddy of here. (speaks in foreign language) I mean, it reminds me of my older cousins and stuff like that. 'Kay, if I mess up, they'll come and, you know, which is Aik, like Aik, like Kajar, right, too, and then they'll hold me like this or Jhaqim, merely letting me, right? That is the attitude that Rohit Sharma has given in Team India. And he's, so this is going to be a very important time. I mean, it's very different from what Virat Kohli was. Virat Kohli was all about, you know, Virat Kohli was a very Western captain. Where I see in America, right, the hype up before the game and, you know, we are all bros. We're able to go and take the big bad boys together and stuff, right, Sharma is like, I'm the big brother and these are my, you know, my band of brothers. It's a very solid Ganguly type approach. But when he's more laid back, Swaram Ganguly was a little more sort of in it. So that is, that is my sort of thing on the end, and he deserves a World Cup band. He's fighting for his life to win this again, you know, after 2007, more than them, I think Rahul's rabbit deserves what. - Boss, literally it is Rohit's batting in the last two games, along with Suri Kumar Yadav, that has gotten us to this position that we are in. Yes, the bowling side has done well. But I got Joe Rohit in a Australian school, Demolish Kianna, and Demolish in the world. Boss, he, he went after them, scoring 92 and 41 balls is no easy feat in an under pressure situation. - So why? - And the way he dismantled Mitchell's stock in that one over was magical. - Whoa, that innings was not for the mind or the eyes. It was for the heart. Oh, the Japanese badass, Tina, against Australia. But love, it took me back to Sachin Tendulkar, and when he was, you know, would come out and bash Glenn McGraw and stuff, that is the treatment he gave Mitchell's stock. That over against Mitchell's stock, ah, he, Chagamu Japata, top stage, top hedge career, each other, but apart from that, the small striking was brilliant. And it received universal praise, because the Proteas and the Englishmen were like, wow, Australia could do it, I'd say. (speaking in foreign language) - To me, what was the most brilliant thing is it was not 100, but it was a 90. I love imperfect innings, because you are not going for the glory stroke to get to your 100 and stuff. What makes Sachin's 98 versus Pakistan in 2003 in Centurion, so famous, right? The 92 here, it's, those Gambir is 97 in the final, Donnie's 92, not out in the final. It's those, you know, you're not just going for, going just for glory, Gambir could have easily tweaked it around and made 100 in the final and gotten the man of the match. He tried to hit, hit them out and stuff. So as a, as a coffee low, so Rohit, Rohit's innings was almost like that, I believe. Sorry, ended up dropping my own glass of water on my foot. So trying to do that, but, but I'll tell you this, India, India has been far more dominant than South Africa. We have to admit quite easily, because there are, because of two reasons. One, India has the most balanced boring attack. - We had one tough game and that was against Pakistan. - Huh, and that too, we should have lost that game. - And honestly, and honestly, I think against Australia, we were kind of under the pump for the first 10 to 15 overs. It's only in the last five overs that we controlled the game against Australia. - Exactly, exactly. The last five overs, we tried to control the game against Australia and stuff, but against Afghanistan, if you see against, you know, obviously against the US, USA game was a little close, but not that much. But against Afghanistan, against the England in the semi-final and our other super eight game, we absolutely dominated those three games. So I think India played well. India played to their strengths, and India played the Bangladesh game, right? Where we won by 50 runs. So I think India, I mean, all the three margins, 50, 47, 24, and then against England, 68. So it's been a very interesting journey. South Africa, Germany, very India, India like Korea, Murmurky, Murmurky, Agai, or India. The Germany work consists, but I still believe those are the two best teams of the tournament. They certainly have the two best attacks, and I want to throw in another work that just hit me. Is this the only time where all the five spinners of the team are all left handed? I don't remember the last time ever. You have Shamsi, Maharaj, Khuldeep, Jadeja, and Akshir, not a single right handed spinners. - I don't know, so these are one of those things, like how do you even figure it out? - I don't know. - So I was like, yay, Patani, Kehani, you're right, but I'll tell you this. He, in India or South Africa, it's not going to be an easy final for India. It's going to be a fight to the finish, or India will have to play out of their skins to win this game, because unlike other teams, South Africa has two very good players of Spain. In Andrei class. - If Barbados is a good wicket to bat on, then I think South Africa has the upper hand. They just have better impact players. Like they have Andrei class in, they have Markrum, they have Miller, and they have Quentin Dicock on the top. These are the world, absolutely. - There are two battles that I'm going to look forward to. One is Rabada and Bumra, how they perform on each. The other is Quentin Dicock and Rohit Sharma, because how they bat each and the third, and that is the most important is the battle of the Hs. Andrei courses Hardik, how they play, because how class finishes and how Pandya finishes for India might be the difference between both of them. Everything else, I think they are evenly matched. - So I think India has a better bowling attack than theirs, and they have a better bowling attack. I think it's cool. Yeah, which winner? I don't think so, Shamsi and Kooldeep can be compared. They are the same. - No, I think, but see, it's not about that. - I think, so they have the better spinner. I mean, we have the better spinner, but they have the better fast bowlers, because I don't think Arshdip is there yet. Bumra is outstanding, but in Janssen, Nordge, and Narchier, and Rabada, they have a better fast bowling attack than our fast bowling. - Yeah, Narchier got a flat bucket for many below, he's a better baller. - No, but in the World Cup, he's been very good. Like this, but let's joke, close. Games may, Nordge has swung it for them in many cases. (speaking in foreign language) He's come back in the World Cup. So that is the thing, but-- - I think on a flat, we get South Africa is the more balanced side, and plus the field better than us. (speaking in foreign language) And there is another expected that South Africa has Christian stubs. He is not flat. - On a flat, we get, they are a better side than us. - T20 side, not a better 50 over side, not a better test math side, not a better T20 side on a flat wicket, which is Barbados from what I have understood and heard, and what so far in this tournament is a flat wicket. So if it's a flat wicket, I think South Africa is a slightly better, like slightly better side than us. - But I do hope the stadium is full, man, for a final MTC school. (speaking in foreign language) - Nays, we can death a shy fool who was at that, who was at that, but the problem is also key, in Bridgestown, there is an issue with the weather. They are saying, there is a lot of, there is going to be a lot of issues in terms of rain. So there is a chance that the final may get postponed to Sunday. So we'll see. Yeah, that is the rumor I have read at least, but right now I'm just- (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) - So I'm waiting to kick out and stuff, but one thing is for sure, yeah, this is the, in terms of middle order, this is a very good team. So, you know, (speaking in foreign language) I don't know what to make of Shubman Gill leaving, but that was an interesting one, but then he's also made the captain of the secondary level. So it's clearly that the team management has some sort of- - Yeah, and I think it is clearly not going to continue as an Indian team coach after this. And he's not been sacked, he's refused to continue, because he wants to spend time with his family now. Like most people, I don't think so know the story. - People are like, yeah, some place for Rahul Dravid, yeah. He's been fantastic. He led us to two World Cup finals, a World Test Championship final, Cabandair. - Many love, but most people don't realize that when Ravi Shastri took over this, right? Rahul Dravid was offered it then to he refused then. He was like, I want to spend time with my family. Then eventually, Ganguly got to him and Ganguly was like, up to Lele, and then he listened to Ganguly, and then he took it. And he was very clear. I will only take it for one term. Rahul Dravid is an excellent, excellent ambassador of the sport. Today, so many players that we see that have come through the under-19 ranks are all because of Rahul Dravid. They were trained by him. He told with the under-19 boys. And Kudos to Rahul Dravid for being a great servant of Indian cricket. And this is why India is where they are. I want to talk about a little bit of coverage outside beyond, because obviously I don't watch star sports or whatever, who so ever is doing this, because Unka Priyane post is tutti. So I've been watching a bit of cricket buzz, both Hindi and English. But what I have watched the most is a YouTube channel caught behind by Dr. Nomanyas, Rashid Lati, and Kamran Musaapfer. Boss Kamran and his statistical analysis are spot on. I have to give credit where it's due. Rashid Latif is always good. Dr. Nomanyas is Dr. Nomanyas, Oki Kharde, Pane Manuni, Samaspendi, but Jobi Khardane. He's a good guy. I mean, I don't have any personal problem against him, but I don't understand what he's doing there. But they have had series of guests, some very critical of India, some praising India. But I think the way they have conducted discussions, whether it was with Harsha, whether it was with Sabakari, whether it was with Kiran Moreh, whether it was with Sharda. Ajay, Ajay, Ajay, Ajay, Ajay. So many others. I think that the American fast-polar Ali of Pakistani origin, so many people have come there and have had discussions. I've had a great time watching their post and pre-match analysis and these discussions that they have with cricket players of the past. It has been absolutely fantastic. I have to give credit to all three of them, even Dr. Nomanyas, who does a great job hosting the whole thing, making it funny, and trying to bring the atmosphere light, make the atmosphere light. And it's just amazing. I thoroughly enjoy watching Khat behind of the... I don't watch... What's your favourite clip of Japakis and Harsha? What's your favourite version of Harsha? - It's just amazing. What's your favourite part of their life on air? Oh, God, it's just... - It's completely hilarious to watch them. But other than that, I consistently watch that. And for entertainment, I watch Salman. But, you know, with Wokan, I'm half with Mumma Zimran. Yeah, Jobi is half with Mumma Zimran. Joe Salman, but he's half-coast. My whole time is like, what's up? - Half is G. - What's up? Half is G. That's all I remember. But it's good, I think Salman. But despite his match-fixing saga, I think he's doing a good job. Analyzing the sport, and I got... Alright, just say India, I'm in Narega and I'm in Pakistan. This is Pakistan, Krikit Raskan, Narega. YouTube, Pakistani Ex-Virtas, Empowerment, Yojana. That is the only way they get the state of things by doing this analysis. And this is the reason why we like it, because they don't find it to understand it. - Other than that, I have also watched two more things. Obviously, Jared Kimber, Jared Kuma Ameshadiktong, I have a lot of respect for Jared. So, Jared, there's one more I've watched. I've been watching these two guys from Pakistan also. Not a lot of them, but a bit of them. I don't know how many know about this pro sports. In Dhunoka Naamhei, pro sports guy, YouTube channeler, or Kana Mebaram, Kazi Aorek, Sad Nasir. Hello, we are here with Kavika. I can't watch the whole podcast. I'll be very honest, but not bad. I think they are doing good coverage. Let's spend five, seven minutes on Pakistan, and then we'll take the orders. - So, first, I'm not the first one. - Who are the biggest losers this world cup in terms of them having lost the most Pakistan? - Oh, I've not watched the great Krikit Raskan at all. I've seen a great Krikit Raskan Ameshad. I've not watched them at all. - I've not watched them, I've not watched them. I've still got a lot of support. I've also got a lot of support. I've also got a lot of support. I've got a lot of daily game breakdown. - Then, because it becomes too much here. Sometimes you also don't want to like... - I've also got a lot of great Krikit Raskan Ameshad. I'm a Krikit Raskan Ameshad. I'm a Krikit Raskan supporter of great Krikit Raskan. By the way, I'm going to talk about the biggest winners of this world cup, and then we can talk about Pakistan in second. So, biggest losers of the world cup first. It has to be Pakistan. - We are not going to talk about Pakistan, and then you start with Pakistan. - No, no, I'm going to say New Zealand. I'm going to name them first. Sri Lanka, those three are the biggest losers, I think, of the world cup. The almost half-beens were Nepal. They could have won two of those three games. They tragically lost three, but they could have actually beaten Bangladesh and South Africa, both in that game. The other almost teams were Scotland. Scotland got five points. They beat Namibia and Oman. They could have beaten Australia in that game. Had a little bit of luck gone that way. And the other biggest disappoint was Ireland. I mentioned them earlier. Ireland was the biggest disappointment. The source was where Oman, Canada, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, they were just there. Papua New Guinea, I'm very curious to see, because they were a team of not expats, but actually cricket has grown inside Papua New Guinea, and locals are taking to it. So I'm curious to see what there is, as is Uganda's success, because Uganda beat Zimbabwe and Kenya to come here, from the African qualifiers. So if they get a chance like that or not, we don't know. And Netherlands, again, they did well in one game, but they came very close to causing a couple of upsets. So I'm curious to see how they do. Now for the winners of the world cup. Afghanistan, Afghanistan, and only Afghanistan. Afghanistan, no, strangely, two countries on totally opposite sides of a very tragic event, Afghanistan and United States. They are the biggest two winners of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The other close, Afghanistan and Akhandaparath. Akhandaparath. West India was pretty good too. I think ultimately they had one bad game against England. Nicolas Purinagar, Phil Salka, Kach Pakalletha. So how it would have gone totally differently. And their fielding let them down. But if West India can work on their fielding, they're back to being a proper T20 powerhouse. 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And right now, the thing is Pakistan cricket is in such a disarray because they keep changing their board presidents like we change table cloths on our dining table, and they have these bunch of experts which are so funny. Even if you listen to the ones on commentary, Wakaar, Vasim and Ramiz Raja, it was kind of funny to listen to them, because when USA was beating Pakistan, Wakaar innocent Vasim was like 'Lealing', you know, 'Lealing'. And he went from 'Jitang' to 'Jitang' to 'Jitang', to 'Arabhai Kuchtokar'. He went from there to there. So, there is that podcast, Michael Wanka podcast. I forget the name with the professor and Gil Christin stuff. So, they had a wonderful suggestion. Is that this is not chaotic enough for Pakistan, just changing captains in tournaments. They should now start changing captains mid-match. So, this should be the next level of insanity that Pakistan should do. So, there is a lot of people who are in the building, who are in the building, who are in the building, who are in the building. So, there is a lot of people who are in the building, who are in the building, who are in the building. So, there is a lot of people who are in the building, who are in the building. So, there is a lot of people who are in the building, who are in the building, who are in the building. Then, the funniest thing is, when you talk to average Pakistanis about it, they are like, they are in the building. So, now, what they do is, they have to, or even any podcast, there are only two kinds of cricket podcasters. One, there are Indian podcasters, but amongst the non-Indians, there are only two kinds, one who shut down India, the second, who love India. So, Pakistan will be a go-pondcaster. So, there are no people who are in the building, there are no people who are in the building. This is why I wanted to talk. But, the other, like the air sports in World Cup, air sports came up, so they have completely stopped doing that. And now, the World Cup is with, whatever, PTV or something, Vam, Martin, Gopil, Koseh, Alvar, Panke, Bithadhi, you know. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so rude. When you have a man inside the studio who doesn't understand your language and you go on speaking in that language. It's so rude. So, I don't know. 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Finally, you cannot make changes. If India wins, you can't win. No, no. If India wins, all RCP fans should wear India jersey. I'm just saying. That should be the thing. But I don't think we should completely be against making changes. If someone is not working right now, India is playing with two free wickets for the opposition. As soon as they take free wicket, I'll try. But I have a feeling to qualify and let him do it. He's too good of a player. Yeah, we'll win World Cup because we have a good mix of players. We're playing with eight batsman, seven bowlers in the eleven. Unlike previously where we played with seven batsman and five bowlers, we lacked that since 2011. Six, seven bowler or number eight batsman is the difference? No, I agree with you. We've been playing good cricket. But then we know what happens to us. No, but there is another big reason why we have a solid chance of winning this time. There was no bloody expectation. We expect India to come this far. In El Churro, a semi final, we made our push on the bot skeptical. We wanted to give India the semi final spot. But we are like the way they are playing. It's so inconsistent. But this has been like a 2007 type journey. So I hope that's why I'm wearing my 2007 jersey. Sarah India, so I believe. Yes, Sarah. So is cricket dying? I mean, I watch FTVL more now. And so my friends, I feel more people are getting richer. And the information towards football increases. I don't know. I mean, cricket has still not increasing numbers. Yes, to Priti, Sarah, India may have that we cannot watch two sports. May America, my team sports they come, my cricket, they come to show us a baseball ball. And I watch Texans playing NFL, my cricket or baseball. Don't know this basketball. I don't follow much. But NFL or baseball, it's not easy. May make martial arts or cricket, don't know equally follow. Yeah, no, no. So one thing, yes, I agree with you that I don't watch football or soccer anymore. Because except for the World Cup, because I don't have the bandwidth to watch because I watch a lot of American football NFL. But it's absolutely okay to watch. I mean, this December, NFL cut up peak season where India is going to be in Australia. You think I'm going to miss any of those things? Heck no. I'm going to be glued to my TV for like eight hours a day. Because you know, you want to watch the most of the thing and the best part is like everyone here around me also loves both. So I don't have to convince anyone to watch it. But no, I think India needs to come up with that idea that we are not a one sport country. We can watch multiple sport. And the people who watch football are actually not watching football. They're watching English Premier League. So I hope that translates into some advantage for Indian football. In Indian football, because people still are talking about Arsenal and Manchester United is their team, rather than in Indian local football teams. So I hope that changes. Can Afghanistan performance be due to semi-final stage fright? Their accelerated ascension can never be overstated and nothing short of inspirational. They will learn. PS, every Indian fan was buying a Cushol's book. I bought the second copy in case it goes to the Super over. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my hope. Good man, but round of applause for Abhinav for buying a second copy and well done. Now he will buy the third copy if he wants India to win the final. So I think Abhinav raises a good point. Cush dismissals as his age of semi-final stage fright by Hosek Thay. But I think where the stage fright showed was when they were 28 for five. And Omar Zai was not looking uncomfortable. He tried to hit out and picked out the one fielder on the boundary. All he had to do was the last three balls and then knock it around. Rashid was going decent. They could have actually gotten like 100 and 110 and at least made a game out of it. You didn't even give yourself a chance when you just tried to hit out of trouble. So that stage fright, yes, hitting out of trouble. But their accent, their ascension is nothing short of inspirational. And I want another thing. All those buggers who are saying Australia and England trying to get Afghanistan out of ICC, this is a big middle finger to them. That Afghanistan is shown. If you have a political problem with Afghanistan, there are other ways to solve it and stuff. We are not supporters of the regime in Afghanistan. But you cannot just completely derail the movement just for your narrow sort of view on the world. The interest is now officially the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Babbling about fairness and equality and so-called insidious IPL system all the while reaping the fruits of being a big deal commentator. Listen, I don't know. I have not followed this so much, so I can't comment on it. But I don't know. The AOC, but there is a point to the AOC comparison because there is a squad made of England and Australian commentators. So I think they should give up all their money and equitably distribute. So for starters, I want to ask every single commentator, do you want equal salaries for all commentators? Yes. I want to ask this question to each of the commentator and cricket. Do you want equal salaries for them? That means let's say an Ian Smith who I think today is the best cricket commentator by a country mile. I think Ian Smith should be paid at least a million dollars more than everybody around him. Correct. Because Ian Smith brings the level to our next hire. I believe Ian Smith, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussein, Dinesh Karthik. Yes. You want to begin with, these are the few people I believe, Ian Bishop or Harsha Bogley, not Sanjay Manjirika. Harsha Bogley. Do you want to be your Gavaskar side? Yeah. Yeah, no, no. I'm not counting Shastri Gavaskar. I'm saying, Harsha, D K, Nasser, Michael Atherton, Ian Smith, and Ian Smith and Ian Bishop are number one in my opinion. Sure. And this is not going to happen because a star sports ski, Tetifat Thiya to talk, talk, tell Ravi Shastri and Gavaskar that they cannot commentate on the final. Give Harsha, Thiya, Bold K. So they are not going to say that. But in my opinion, the commentary team for the final should be as follows. Harsha Bogley, Dinesh Karthik, Mike Hasman, and Sean Pollock from South Africa, not Dale Steel. Those four. Ricky Ponting from Australia. Ricky is excellent. Ian Smith, Ian Bishop. Yeah, another brilliant analyst. Ian Bishop, Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussein. It should be from these 10. Or if you can incorporate all the 10, you should do. Get three people in the commentary box and one people in that. So that needs to happen and that needs to happen fast this time. But Nayoga. And did you watch the interview of Bogley and Ian Smith? Another one? Oh, it was fabulous. Fabulous. It was, I mean, Ian Smith is so good in terms of... I wish Harsha Bogley had a better Mike because the recording quality was a little... Yeah, what's he going to do? Go question. I think Ian Bishop should be the highest paid commentators in World Cricket. And if we want equity in cricket, then let's see if everybody agrees to reduce their salary and make sure their chunk goes to others. I want to see that. I want to see that. So why can't local boards invest in covered Stadia? Listen, why can't do that? See, this is where I think BCCI should step up its game. They should actually, because they are the richest board in the world, I believe the BCCI should be magnanimous enough. And actually take up the Kajals that every ICC tournament, the BCCI should be like, "Hamare pizzas a toda lello." Or make sure the entire stadium is covered so that we have faster recovery after the rate. I think the BCCI can do that. Look, they have done so much for Nepal cricket. They have so much done so much for Afghanistan cricket. People don't realize how much BCCI bankrolls these two kicking boards. We literally bankroll them. But I think the BCCI can do this. We should not expect it from any other board, but from the BCCI. I think the BCCI should do this. For the betterment of the game. Because at the end of the day, BCCI also reaps the revenues from the same thing. It's the least they can do. That's right. So, I mean, no doubt about it. I think that this needs to happen. And I hope this happens very soon. Because the problem is that here is the issue, right? You are not going to have a fair thing where there are local boards that are so messed up in their sort of conduct with how they conduct their cricket. It's basically not going to happen. It's not going to be a fair playing field. I'll go ahead and go ahead. So, you need to have sort of a roundabout approach to cricket. Is it time to revisit the methodology of assessing future performance in the national T-20-11 based on the ICL, the IPL performances. Haridik Sky Rohit didn't perform the IPL, but Coley Pandit. Listen, but be Indian selection. Again, watch all those discussions with former selectors like Kiran Moray, Saba Karim. You will understand how nuanced Indian selection has become now. Indian selectors are actually very independent. I was shocked to hear these guys talk about that. Actually, they are not based on IPL performances. Shivam Dubey was part of the national side before this IPL also. He played a lot of games. People have forgotten Shivam Dubey was playing regularly for the Indian national T-20 side. It's not like he was not part of the circle. And then he performed in the IPL and they naturally picked him for whatever reasons. Yes, absolutely, and I will tell you this, the biggest problem, I think the biggest problem with the IPL performances is they were not looking at the IPL performances where, like Jasprit Bhumra rate, how can you discount his IPL performance? He was fabulous. And then he was better. So you have to look that the wickets are flat. They are not helping. Yet, a bowler is bowling out of their skin. Coley Pandit was fabulous in some games. So you have to discount those. But if the wicket is swinging and seaving around in the world T-20 and Shivam Dubey was hitting through the line in IPL on Chinaswamy, Vankadeen, Chapap. You have to take that with a grain of salt. Will you be able to do it or not? So I think there has to be a balanced approach and do. And I cannot say this enough. IPL is a commercial product. Their ultimate goal is to provide entertainment and maximize revenue. ICC World Cup, yes, they want to maximize the revenue, but it's not a commercial product. And they don't have a God damn impact player. The IPL can impact player Bandhguru. They have four or three teams, but they don't have Bhagadiyarul. Bhagadiyarul. Bhagadiyarul. The next question is, do you think India's lack of quad rotation hurts them in the knockout stages? Did it the same with KL Raoul in the last World Cup? I think everybody does the same thing. It's just that we choke in the finals or semi-finals. No, but we also choke about this. Because, if you drop a player on former criticizing him, it's like, oh my God, you have committed blasphemy. You have insulted him in public and you have talked shit about his family. When you talk a little bit about BK Shaya, Saya is not informed, or he was not informed, or if Dhoni was not playing well in the iPad, people would troll me saying, "Master district pranks bro, massive disrespect. So, this attitude has gone into our selectors also where they don't want to sort of upset the apple cart, because what if people start jumping up and down saying massive disrespect pro? Should India go to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy? It's not a matter of whether they should. I think from what the rumours have heard, it's apparently decided they will. They will always follow protocol for ICC. This is going to be very interesting for the government as well, in the first six months, in February 2025, if that decision is made, how are they going to react to it? South Africa and Afghanistan are the rejuvenated promise of returning to dynamic cricket, hurts to see Sri Lanka in Dessaray after the exit of Sangha, Mala Murali. Hope same doesn't happen to Afghanistan after Rajshid, Gurba's exit. Gurba's and Rajshid are very young. Umar Todhiko, they are in for a long time. Yeah, they are there for at least 10-15 years. I agree, it hurts to see Sri Sri Lanka this way, but Sri Lanka has the players. I think they need to get their political shit and their board sorted out, but South Africa is absolutely back for me more than their journey to the final, the support that I am seeing on social media and in their local TV stations and local for people on the ground. That means when South Africa goes and plays games again, those games are going to be bloody well attended in stadiums. Okay, somebody said I bought two copies of your books. Now say South Africa will win, South Africa will win. I trust your Kali Zaban completely. Thoughts about Champions Trophy will Dhruv Jarell be in the team. I don't think Dhruv Jarell will be in the team. He is a good player. I think this is the scored pretty much that is going to be there. No, no, no. Shubam Dube will be dropped and Rinku Singh will be gotten in. No, I think Dhruv Jarell will be over. So you cannot say... So Kail Dhruv will be back. Kail Dhruv will be back. Yeah, Kail Dhruv will be back. Your game is going to be back at number 5, so that will be back there. And then also, I think we might see two spinners, maybe Koldipan Shahal again. I think Kail Dhruv Jarell will be dropped for the 50 overall. And I am praying, praying Mohammed Shami's back for the Champions Trophy. Bye, Dhruv Jarell. Mohammed Shami should be back for the Australia Tour Test Series, order Gavaskar. That is way more important than the Champions Trophy. Agreed, order Gavaskar. Absolutely. Yeah. And I will see you in Sydney and Melbourne people. I will definitely fly to Australia. Yes. Task Sports Analysis is bad, but PTV Sports Game on Hair takes the cake. That show is breathtakingly baffling. British Gory Mam asking questions in English. Hafez Yunus respond in Urdu, while Gavtil sits silence like he is in detention class. Yes. I could not stand it for 5 minutes. This is a very correct assessment of this store. You show SI hair. Abhinav Sharma, you have explained it so eloquently that I could have never done this without using them. I have lost to Abhinav Sharma. I mean, that is such a garbage. Once again, I am telling you, watch Cart behind. Watch Jared Kimber. Watch Krikbaz. They are decent. Watch Pro Sports. I feel like for IPL and stuff rather than hiring Danny Morrison, you should hire Ian Smith. Like, you know, IPL, they need to really be smart. Just make sure Ian Smith hits in every con box, please. Yeah. Yeah. And you can definitely get Michael Atherton or Nassau Hussain for the IPL. Why are you? Why would you not do it? But the Sky Sports doesn't do any events there or at least get them for the part of the. Mark Nicholas is another option for the IPL. Really? Mark Nicholas is just breathtakingly brilliant. No. You get rid of this Murli Karthik, Diva's Gupta and all that rubbish here. You just have to realize that, you know, just like we did the train, the trainers and teaching the art form of commentary to coach, teaching coaching to our coaches. And now we have world-class coaches living in India. We don't have world-class commentators. I think Harshav Ogle and the BCCI should sit down together and start training players. Like, I want Ravi Chardhan and Ashwin in the con box. I think he would be fantastic. He would be fantastic. He would be fantastic. He would be fantastic. So, see, now one good thing is Dinesh Karthik is a permanent fixture in the commentary box. Dinesh is a good fit. Ravi Chardhan and Ashwin is a good fit. I think Rohit Sharma should definitely take the box in the Hindi field because he will just shut these idiots up and keep jumping up and down at every ball and do a hero worship. And so I can't just wait for that. But seriously, they really need good commentators because India needs good coverage. If we want to, you know, make it a good sport. And I can't watch Hindi commentary. It's atrocious. I just want to put this on the record. Including Nafjot Sidhu. Please don't tell me Nafjot Sidhu is good. But it works for the Hindi audience, I guess. I can't stand it. No, it doesn't even work for the Hindi audience. The thing is we don't have an option now. If BC has started inviting satellite radio, get to YouTubers to do commentary from the stadium in Hindi and English. And people will stop watching this field. Who will watch it? Yeah, I know. Do you think Mumbai Indians will try to get Nethra Valkar? Do you think Nethra Valkar? Do you think Nethra Valkar? I know they are. I know they are. I know they are. They are going to try? I know they are. I don't think they should. I think he's not that good a player and on Indian pitches. He's not going to work. He's not going to work. He's not going to work. But Mumbai is not. They are. They will replace Arjun Tendulkar. They will replace Arjun Tendulkar. I don't know who he will replace. I am very happy. By the way, my wife is born another. Before people jumped up and down, he nepotism served India Mchalthai. LeBron James' son just got picked by L.A. Lakers, Bronny James. So you have to be with me. When they can. So just saying. Oh, there. Olympics starting on July 26, 2024. That is right. Congratulations, Team India. No, no, no. One thing I'm going to say this. Yeah. Because we have five or six players, including some ex-athletes, to Harvak Trotay. He, oh, India. Jap cricket. The sport played by nine-and-a-half countries. No-one watches Olympics. This led. Yeah. America, we saw all the swimming medals. People watch basketball and things. You don't have to watch a sport to create a sport culture. So stop whining. No-one in America, I know, sits and watches running. At four by four hundred, they hung up. No-one watches that. Everyone watches local sports. Right? They only watch this shit during the Olympics. So stop expecting this rubbish. There are people in India. But yeah. In India will win a medal and I guarantee you there will be 15 idiots who will start hitting on cricket. So a great, enjoy the Olympic medal. Make sure the, hold the Indian government accountable to clean up the sports ministry and your organization. But if you freakin' shit on, use that occasion to shit on cricket, I am going to come and shit on you because boss, and the athletes don't do that. Japurane, athlete, Santa. Joh. Fifth place, sixth place. Either war or one Ashurogardite. Because they feel like they should get the same sort of coverage as they are. In the world, it does not happen. You get the same respect, but do not expect the same coverage. Because that's just how the rule works. The law of the land works. For the same reason, when me and you doing this rant, no-one from the news channel is going to come and give up for the mic. But more athletes get the mic out because that's how it works. When they do a rant. Adi, do you like your ratsing commentary? Adi, do you like your ratsing commentary? Adi, do you like your ratsing commentary? Adi, do you like your ratsing commentary? This is how he was telling. [LAUGHTER] I think India might play well. I really think he's going to hit the ball for six. And when it is behind, I think, yeah, we play well. What do you think, Khashabhay? That's how he was sounding. What do you mean? Are you carnival, right? You can't even... You should be dragged. It's okay. It's okay. Shit happens, brother. It happens. No, no, he can't. That's fine. But I mean, my problem wasn't that. My problem was ICC picked him to go to the American channel studios and talk on Good Morning America. And his voice put people to sleep while he was talking on Good Morning America. Yeah. He should have been sent to Good Night America. [LAUGHTER] Same Nasser Hussein. Yeah. Some broadcaster who knows how to do. What is cricket and stuff like that? Great. 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