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Speaker 3: That's how the Asia Cup has been. But not for
Speaker 3: the quality of cricket or for the cricket per se. Right,
Speaker 3: if I ask both of you name one sensational not
Speaker 3: from the Asia Cup, what would you quickly recollect.
Speaker 4: H time scratching my head right now.
Speaker 3: Otherwise you do that. But yeah, but this Cup, I'll
Speaker 3: give it to you. It's been really tough, you know,
Speaker 3: to talk about cricket in the Asia Cup, at least
Speaker 3: in the at the end of the group stage, India
Speaker 3: take on one on Friday. With that the group stage
Speaker 3: is over and the Super Four start on Saturday with
Speaker 3: Bangaladesh and rivalry resuming. But you know what happened in
Speaker 3: the last few days has been If you're on one
Speaker 3: side of the fence, it has been okay, befitting reply.
Speaker 1: You would call it a befitting reply.
Speaker 3: If you're another side of the fence, you would say
Speaker 3: an unfortunate turn of events.
Speaker 1: I just dive straight into it. Could we have avoided
Speaker 1: all this drama.
Speaker 3: Starting from the handshakes nub Could India have not done
Speaker 3: the handshakes numb and carried on with just another game?
Speaker 1: See or what do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so if you look at the context of it,
Speaker 5: like we have seen the Ukraine War also happen right
Speaker 5: where Belarus has been one of the people who have
Speaker 5: So there was a game I don't remember who the
Speaker 5: opponent was. She was in Ukrainian and she did not
Speaker 5: shake her hands with realitis.
Speaker 1: It is happening. It is happening, and.
Speaker 5: You know, for the for the best part of it,
Speaker 5: probably a person like Sablanca has come out and said that,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not somebody who's supporting the war. Now
Speaker 5: with the Pakistan team, you do not see any such
Speaker 5: kind of things, right, You do not see any kind
Speaker 5: of comments from there side. Or they're strongly condemning what
Speaker 5: has happened and being in support of the Indian team.
Speaker 5: And in that case, you cannot expect them a very
Speaker 5: warm reception from the Indian team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, put aside the rivalry and all that.
Speaker 5: These guys might be, you know, friends outside of the field,
Speaker 5: but in the field during such a situation, you cannot
Speaker 5: expect them to be very happy and cordial with you.
Speaker 5: So might as well just take it and just leave
Speaker 5: the field instead creating a whole problem with the handshake
Speaker 5: being there. Going after the match referee, I was like
Speaker 5: you said, I was out of all of this for
Speaker 5: some time.
Speaker 1: I was expecting good cricket.
Speaker 5: When I did not see good cricket, I was like, okay, final,
Speaker 5: this Asia Cup is going to pass by. It's not
Speaker 5: going to create a lot of you know, a lot
Speaker 5: of moments and all that, but it's been a drag
Speaker 5: in terms of quality. And then you have all these nonsense.
Speaker 5: It is nonsense that is happening in Pakistan.
Speaker 4: What were they expecting, like what would happen in Loy'll
Speaker 4: be chirpy and it will be happy, and we'll have
Speaker 4: a good match and they'll hug it out.
Speaker 1: This was supposed to happen.
Speaker 4: And like a couple, they said they rather than focusing
Speaker 4: on all of this, they would rather like to focus
Speaker 4: on cricket itself, like because their cricket has not been
Speaker 4: good at all, Like ask Simony, you for that matter,
Speaker 4: that it has not been good, So rather focus on
Speaker 4: it and after the match is over, rather than talking
Speaker 4: about your entire performance, what it was, how it turned out,
Speaker 4: they're just taking to how oh no they didn't they
Speaker 4: didn't shake hands with us.
Speaker 1: We're very angry.
Speaker 4: We don't like this.
Speaker 5: Also also with the fact of the kind of quality
Speaker 5: of cricket that they've produced, it's better that you don't
Speaker 5: shake hands with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I think I think I think we will
Speaker 3: our editor bus and should discuss this copy And they
Speaker 3: wrote this, but they wrote this copy. Boycott would have
Speaker 3: been an honorable exit for Parkists exactly. And this looks
Speaker 3: like that because.
Speaker 5: At this point in time, when you look at the competition,
Speaker 5: India has just breezed past every single team that they
Speaker 5: have played U a match finished in two hours basically. Uh,
Speaker 5: the Pakistan game, it was, it was almost a foregone
Speaker 5: conclusion the moment that India started bowling and then all
Speaker 5: this hype about free getting getting pasted all over the
Speaker 5: place by his thing.
Speaker 1: Was who's also our expert?
Speaker 3: You know, he kind of made a very sly remark
Speaker 3: yesterday as remark he said that just then Pakistan and
Speaker 3: I think he put them in the same breath.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he said let them let him prepare.
Speaker 3: For imagine imagine that. See people like have had high
Speaker 3: regard for Pakistan. Pakistan exactly if you talk to, if
Speaker 3: you talk to have been part of the tribal try,
Speaker 3: they have you know, seen the best part of the liblry.
Speaker 1: Now it's nothing absolutely.
Speaker 4: Like Funnily enough, the only inciple comment that came out
Speaker 4: of a man with a Pakistan jersey and was that
Speaker 4: fan after the match who said, if they can please
Speaker 4: boycott the next match so that India India please boycott
Speaker 4: the next match.
Speaker 5: That UE game, when all this ruckers happened. Now after
Speaker 5: one hour, I expected, okay, Pakistan to probably steamroll Ue
Speaker 5: because apart from a couple of players in the UA
Speaker 5: team not they lack a lot of quality. Then the
Speaker 5: next thing I see is one of my friends saying,
Speaker 5: look at the scorecard. I saw eleven for two. I'm like,
Speaker 5: why why did they even come come to the field.
Speaker 5: It would have been honorable for them to just let
Speaker 5: Yue win the match.
Speaker 4: For a guy who is supposed to smash Bumra for
Speaker 4: a six. That comment inl did.
Speaker 1: It it is?
Speaker 5: It is like the quality is not there now rather
Speaker 5: than focusing on it. Pakistan, apart from everything else they have,
Speaker 5: the main thing that they've not focused over the last
Speaker 5: couple of years has been their cricket and we can
Speaker 5: see the results. We have seen the results on the field.
Speaker 5: Instead of that, they have changed n number of coaches,
Speaker 5: They've had any number of bier orders when they came
Speaker 5: came to India for the World Cup. And that is
Speaker 5: about it. That has been all about Pakistan cricket right now.
Speaker 5: And now you have a problem with the match.
Speaker 1: What is your best memory of the twenty World cup
Speaker 1: I think is better? Which better? Yeah, there is nothing else.
Speaker 3: If you ask Alan, he'll say Kerala is the best.
Speaker 1: Yes, probably. If you ask me, I'll say probably Tailor
Speaker 1: made is the best.
Speaker 5: But that is how cricket has been for them. And
Speaker 5: instead of all this drama, just focus on your cricket play. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: you might not. This is a team in transition. Probably
Speaker 5: a lot of people might say there's a team in transfer.
Speaker 4: Now does a transition go on anyway you think about it?
Speaker 1: Like consistent transitions?
Speaker 4: There coming made that comment it's getting depressing to watch Pakistan.
Speaker 3: So so the thing is people are asking whether what
Speaker 3: India did was right. But like you pointed out, unless
Speaker 3: and until you don't offend someone asn't like, it's not
Speaker 3: a mandatory thing that you have to shake shake hands with.
Speaker 1: It's not part of the ICC rules.
Speaker 3: Yes, there is this thing called sporting spirits, uh.
Speaker 1: Spirits, which is has always been grey. Right.
Speaker 3: When Ashwin did that man cutting as we shouldn't call
Speaker 3: it marketing, when he ran the batter at the non
Speaker 3: strikers end, he was questioned, But then he was questioned
Speaker 3: based on the spirit. Sporting spirit, the spirit of cricket,
Speaker 3: which is a little gray. So as long as sur
Speaker 3: didn't offend anyone, as long as the NID team didn't
Speaker 3: offend anyone, it was their right asn't like whether they
Speaker 3: want to shake hands or not. After all that has
Speaker 3: happened over the last few months, after the terror attack
Speaker 3: in Pahlgam and the cross border, you know, the tensions,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's you can't just like you said, you
Speaker 3: can't just ask them to be normal.
Speaker 1: But what pack Pakistan were also right?
Speaker 3: Okay, they got hurt, they got stung, they boycotted the
Speaker 3: press conference. Okay, I'm okay with that. Salman A, you're
Speaker 3: not doing the press conference, Okay. Immediate heart will be
Speaker 3: their guilt will immediate heart because on a big stage
Speaker 3: you've kind of been humiliated, like you've been told that
Speaker 3: the opposition will not exchange pleasantries with you. But then
Speaker 3: what was that which hunt after Anty Piker? What did
Speaker 3: it resolve to confusion? One hour before the toss. I
Speaker 3: just felt for Pakistan players. You imagine being Salva. You
Speaker 3: know that UE is not going to be a straightforward
Speaker 3: game considering Pakistan standards, and you're preparing for that game
Speaker 3: and then you're being made to wait in the you're
Speaker 3: you're getting your kids stream. My whole thing is and
Speaker 3: then you're waiting for one hour and then you're saying
Speaker 3: you're getting caught in the white traffic. Thankfully they didn't
Speaker 3: play in Bangaluru, they wouldn't have. Yeah, all this drama
Speaker 3: for nothing. In the end, the PCB pc BE Chief
Speaker 3: most In Naqui attends a press conference in Lahore with
Speaker 3: former to former piece of with Chiefs Rami Raja and
Speaker 3: Adam City and then says, okay, we have given the
Speaker 3: go ahead because the matter was resolved after an apology
Speaker 3: from Andy Pykroft and created confusion. Now the ic C
Speaker 3: is thinking of taking action against the Pakistan Trikeet Board
Speaker 3: for filming that video. They had a discussion, okay, after
Speaker 3: all that that happened, the ic C agreed that Andy
Speaker 3: Pikroft will come and meet you. They had a concern
Speaker 3: with Anty Pakroft. The concern was that he kind of
Speaker 3: didn't oversee things properly and he also enabled the handshake
Speaker 3: snub when said we won't shake hands back.
Speaker 1: To during the toss that was during That is entirely
Speaker 1: up to the.
Speaker 4: Sum than whatever the India team does.
Speaker 3: So they had this gribe. They went after Antipakroff. They
Speaker 3: wrote to the ice C saying that we need the
Speaker 3: Antipacroft removed. Icic said no. And then eventually what happens
Speaker 3: the range of meeting. They agree for a meeting and
Speaker 3: you filmed that meeting and release it without audio, saying
Speaker 3: that you apologized and that's why we are playing.
Speaker 1: Who are you cheating?
Speaker 3: What was the point of all this drama over two
Speaker 3: days when it in turn affects your player. Imagine they
Speaker 3: are under so much pressure already after losing. Now they
Speaker 3: have qualified, yes by by you know, scraping through u
Speaker 3: A they qualified.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you lose to India again on.
Speaker 4: Sunday in the same dominating, disastrous fashion.
Speaker 1: So what will all that mean as a board? Are you?
Speaker 3: Are you not meant to protect your players? Yes, you
Speaker 3: protest against Piecraft, you protest against India, but there's a
Speaker 3: way to do it, not this circus that you put
Speaker 3: in front of the media, and then you know, in
Speaker 3: turn hurt your own players.
Speaker 5: And one of the things that I felt bad was
Speaker 5: for the UA players also, like see they are a
Speaker 5: very young team.
Speaker 1: They are a team that.
Speaker 5: Is yes, that's place for yeah, the place forts also,
Speaker 5: so obviously there's a consion. But these guys are building
Speaker 5: up and you know, one of the sad things for
Speaker 5: me was their captain Mohammad was him sitting in a
Speaker 5: press conference being asked the question, you know your team
Speaker 5: is full of Indian and Paristani players, so how do
Speaker 5: you guys sell well with all these tensions and he
Speaker 5: had to say, no, we are a family.
Speaker 1: That kind of a team is being forced to wait.
Speaker 5: For one hour. Now their preparation goes for a toss
Speaker 5: as well. So either you could have just said that,
Speaker 5: oh no, we are not going to play this match
Speaker 5: a day before or one day taken a stand. Now
Speaker 5: you took a stand. After that you're like, okay, we
Speaker 5: are not going to play this match. And then you're like, no,
Speaker 5: we are going to play this match. You create a
Speaker 5: whole lot of confusion. You go there, you play the match,
Speaker 5: You scrape through. It was a scrape. There is nothing glorious. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there was nothing glorious. Were convincing about that win. If
Speaker 5: that Shahinha free the knock was not there, Paisan would
Speaker 5: have struggled. It would have been a very very poor
Speaker 5: look on them. And after all this drama, After all
Speaker 5: these things have happened, you then go on a press conference,
Speaker 5: you basically put a put out a negative picture of
Speaker 5: anti Pipps, saying that he has.
Speaker 1: Always favored been towards Indian UH.
Speaker 5: We have always seen him being there for India matches
Speaker 5: and he's not the one who's selecting UH.
Speaker 1: And that strat is also overblown. Yeah, in as many
Speaker 1: Pakistan matches as in India matches.
Speaker 4: I like to ask both of you this thing that like,
Speaker 4: if you look at it, Harristof's comment that he was
Speaker 4: trying to just get to.
Speaker 3: That say, I say, my PCV president was foolish in
Speaker 3: exactly not doing all this drama. No Indian cricketer might
Speaker 3: also be able to do it. But what else will
Speaker 3: he say?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Why is there that that only screams the board and
Speaker 4: the players they have no bridge in between, There have
Speaker 4: absolutely no bridge in between.
Speaker 3: Have been used as pawns exactly instead of giving them exposure,
Speaker 3: instead of you know, tell me something. It's a tragedy,
Speaker 3: like something that someone like Barbarasam, who's undeniably talented, has
Speaker 3: ended up like this twenty twenty three World Cup.
Speaker 1: What happened? He India.
Speaker 3: Like we discussed, Pakistan had a very poor campaign. Barber
Speaker 3: was asked to leave or he quit himself. Something o
Speaker 3: that Shahin was made the white ball captain at least
Speaker 3: in T twenty eyes. He lasts one series and then
Speaker 3: straight out of the blue, Barber is back. Barber is back,
Speaker 3: Barber is back. Where another horror Tree twenty World Cup.
Speaker 3: He's thrown out Now he's not part of the team itself.
Speaker 3: You know what will happen if Pakistan crashed out of
Speaker 3: the checkup without me in the final Salmon Aliaga will
Speaker 3: be sacked. Mike Kasen will be sent home. He'll be
Speaker 3: lucky if he sent home only Yeah, and then and
Speaker 3: then Barbara and Rizman will be back, Yeah, only to
Speaker 3: last another six months till they come to Sri Lanka
Speaker 3: and India for the T twenty World Cup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then lose that Barber will go. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: not using maybe could and all that here. It is true.
Speaker 1: I know, we all know.
Speaker 3: Chaos is the only constant there. It's like a cycle
Speaker 3: goes down. It's like a cycle and barber As is
Speaker 3: the one checkpoint that arrives genuinely feeling bad for their
Speaker 3: players as int Can you tell me that Shine is
Speaker 3: any less talented that some of the Indian bowlers maybe
Speaker 3: not as talented as butch see any world later.
Speaker 4: Don't be bullying. He's batting saving Pakistan at the more.
Speaker 1: Exactly would love to have.
Speaker 4: Without Shine. Imagine what would have happened during the India
Speaker 4: match and the U match. It would mean disasters even more.
Speaker 5: But the whole point, like you said, the whole thing
Speaker 5: is that instead of focusing on like maybe three years ago,
Speaker 5: we would have talked about barbarism, Mahmaduzwan and China Jafri
Speaker 5: in a very different light. Why because they pulled out
Speaker 5: a great win against India. Okay, But now when I
Speaker 5: was talking to Sabia today, I said that now when
Speaker 5: you look at it, that defeat feels more of a
Speaker 5: fluke because India had a bad day and Pakistan were
Speaker 5: lucky to capitalize on you.
Speaker 1: That is what it all boils down to. It was
Speaker 1: nothing else.
Speaker 5: You're talented players, the talent that you have, Like you
Speaker 5: look at a team like Afghanistan. Yeah they did not
Speaker 5: make it to the Super six, but the kind of
Speaker 5: talent that is being like that is being produced in
Speaker 5: that in that country, right now it's probably amongst the
Speaker 5: world's best. And the fact is that they are still
Speaker 5: they have a lot of chaos within themselves, a lot
Speaker 5: of politics and whatnot, which we don't usually go into.
Speaker 5: But the fact of the matter is their players get
Speaker 5: so much exposure. They play all around the globe and
Speaker 5: when it comes to the team, there is so much unity.
Speaker 5: There's stability also, stability that coach Jonathan trot I, I'm
Speaker 5: not sure whether he lost kill t twenty World Cup,
Speaker 5: but he might, yeah, because for all the good work
Speaker 5: that he has done. Mickey Arthur that day during the
Speaker 5: I think Barber during the Pakistani imaged tweet it, I
Speaker 5: can't understand why Barber is not part.
Speaker 1: Of this team.
Speaker 3: So a coach comes in Pakistan, triget, he has a
Speaker 3: plan and then by the time the next but by
Speaker 3: the time the sacking happens, that is scrapped. The same
Speaker 3: with the boat chiefs. Also, a boat chief will have
Speaker 3: a plan, He'll call for some state team twenty tournaments,
Speaker 3: appoint big names as coaches, but that that plan is crapped.
Speaker 1: It happens every two years.
Speaker 3: It's a cycle that you know, the these changes, that
Speaker 3: coaching change and all that it doesn't even happen in
Speaker 3: you know, Okay, okay, it happened six years ago.
Speaker 1: The next one is happening now. It all happens in
Speaker 1: one after the other.
Speaker 3: The coach goes, a captain goes, a boat change about
Speaker 3: president changes.
Speaker 5: It's cricket does not have an era they have. I
Speaker 5: was actually surprised that was standing there next to both
Speaker 5: these men because from what I know or some of
Speaker 5: the reports that I heard, his chairmanship of the Powistan
Speaker 5: Cricket Board ended with him being forcefully picked out from
Speaker 5: the office.
Speaker 1: And thrown up, and for him to go there be
Speaker 1: standing there. It is a little bit of a united
Speaker 1: against one common image. Yeah, maybe that is the case.
Speaker 5: Anty Pycraftft has gotten so much heat and I think
Speaker 5: for a long period of time, I think these referees,
Speaker 5: the match officials don't get a lot of light. We
Speaker 5: usually make fun of them while we're watching the match
Speaker 5: and whatnot. But Antipikroft has been the main headline of
Speaker 5: this asia. Antiparcraft can do some ads in India, I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: one credit ad with that is it.
Speaker 4: If is listening right now, it probably ends probably the
Speaker 4: hand that.
Speaker 5: Is the script is there right, So this is what
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, like when when you
Speaker 5: look at the Asia Cup. I mean we have talked
Speaker 5: about the quality, the quality we expect now I have
Speaker 5: been someone who has seen the likes of use of
Speaker 5: Yuhana not that old also, but yes, so these guys
Speaker 5: coming in and giving a fight to this Indian team
Speaker 5: and that it was a very even battle and you
Speaker 5: could always expect that tension. You know what will happen,
Speaker 5: what will happen in the next I think the last
Speaker 5: time we saw it was the twenty twenty two World Cup,
Speaker 5: right in that that game in Melbourne. Apart from that,
Speaker 5: there has been nothing there is you look at Paisan,
Speaker 5: it's actually just become it's become a circus. And unfortunately
Speaker 5: these players have been their faces have been painted with
Speaker 5: color to make make them look like clouds exactly, and
Speaker 5: that is sad.
Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, focusing so like
Speaker 4: if you look at it, hardly any one of the
Speaker 4: coaching staff for the player itself, are getting the chance
Speaker 4: to talk about their perform ways.
Speaker 1: They are so occupied the entire.
Speaker 4: Handshakes and are you or the controversy is that they
Speaker 4: are not even being able to talk about it, so
Speaker 4: that only screamski this is going, this graph is going
Speaker 4: nowhere for them, and whatever happens is this Sunday match,
Speaker 4: if they again end up talking about oh, this is
Speaker 4: not right, this is so against the sportsman spirit. And
Speaker 4: if they again going to lose by eight wickets or
Speaker 4: some ninety runs or something that we have again the
Speaker 4: cycle repeats itself.
Speaker 5: No, So for me, I would say something that it
Speaker 5: might be a little controversial, but the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Is that I am, or the national platform is I
Speaker 1: am someone who always believes that we should not mix
Speaker 1: politics with sports. Right away, I panned for saying this
Speaker 1: in a couple of yeah, that is fine, I'd rather.
Speaker 5: I'd rather take it off because for me, sports always
Speaker 5: stands different from all these things. Now, an attack or
Speaker 5: whatever has happened in this country over the last few months, Yes,
Speaker 5: I understand the situation.
Speaker 1: But as players, you could have made a stand as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, you could have just said that before the match
Speaker 5: or before whatever it is.
Speaker 1: You could have.
Speaker 5: Offered a piece with your with the other team. You
Speaker 5: could have just said that, you know, we understand what
Speaker 5: is going on, we understand the situation, but this is
Speaker 5: not something that we and dogs.
Speaker 1: We don't want it, and we.
Speaker 5: Stand united with these players and we hope that this
Speaker 5: match could probably become something that you know, kind of
Speaker 5: unites the countries and whatnot. Like whatever it is there,
Speaker 5: It might all be a pr run at the end
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 1: But at least do that. You don't do it because
Speaker 1: the players are hand tied.
Speaker 4: So against the whole fact that such formal cricketers coming
Speaker 4: up and saying hands and like, what is this, Like,
Speaker 4: what do you expect is going to turn out from this?
Speaker 3: You're right, but expecting that from Pakistan cricketers. It's also
Speaker 3: a bit too much asn't like far pest itself as't
Speaker 3: like I'm not I'm not talking about the cricketers themselves,
Speaker 3: but you're saying like their hands are tied, asn't what
Speaker 3: will they do even if they feel even if they
Speaker 3: feel the same goes with Indian crickets, when do they
Speaker 3: speak up for you know these things? Tell me when
Speaker 3: when was the last time they spoke up for something
Speaker 3: that they should have? They don't so expecting yes, So
Speaker 3: sports and politics have always mixed. So that is the thing,
Speaker 3: especially in cricket at least exactly when the when the
Speaker 3: bilatal ties are so all time, you can't expect I said, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, cricketers can't take a stand, but they
Speaker 3: can't take a stand, you know the reality, right, So
Speaker 3: it's it's a difficult thing to do. But again I said,
Speaker 3: like that's why I said, you're okay, you didn't shake hands,
Speaker 3: They didn't shake hands. Get done with it, focus on
Speaker 3: the match, come here to play. But by doing all
Speaker 3: this drama, you only put more pressure on your own players.
Speaker 1: I mean the Pakistan credit board.
Speaker 5: And like the Pakistan cricket boards, things like what happened
Speaker 5: with their jerseys as well. That was also sad, to
Speaker 5: the point where former cricket is saying that they're sweating
Speaker 5: to sweating through those things. That was the funny part
Speaker 5: where I went so always in my mind I thought
Speaker 5: I thought it was ces. Now I went back to
Speaker 5: the website to see, like what is the case. There's
Speaker 5: no mention of a kid sponsor. You're such a big boat.
Speaker 5: That means that obviously you're giving the tenders to people
Speaker 5: who are close to you. And that was absolutely you know,
Speaker 5: it was it was sad to see, like because like
Speaker 5: I said, Parsan was always a team that used to
Speaker 5: compete with the best.
Speaker 1: Now there's this relegated to tier two.
Speaker 5: And it is See I went to cover like you said,
Speaker 5: the Hockey Asia Cup, and the whole thing was that
Speaker 5: India is the top team there and the others are
Speaker 5: just fighting it out to be the second best.
Speaker 1: The second best.
Speaker 5: Now in this case, in this Asia Cup, I feel
Speaker 5: India should not be even.
Speaker 4: There, said like the rest of the teams, India is
Speaker 4: just too good for the rest of the team.
Speaker 1: You don't need an India to be there.
Speaker 5: Like, even if we send our second or even third
Speaker 5: string team, I think they'll just win the tournament hands down.
Speaker 3: So is that your prediction for the Super four. Let's
Speaker 3: let's dive a little bit of cricket before we wrap
Speaker 3: this up.
Speaker 1: India going all the way? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5: Maybe the only team I feel can trouble India is
Speaker 5: maybe Sri Lanka because they've got some they play a
Speaker 5: lot of cricket in ue with all these leagues and
Speaker 5: all that, and India, like when it comes to ICs events,
Speaker 5: that's the only thing and give.
Speaker 1: Credit where it's due, played good cricket to you know,
Speaker 1: make it three and three Group B.
Speaker 5: So that so that is there. But apart from that,
Speaker 5: I don't see any other team Pakistan. No, I will
Speaker 5: be surprised if Pakistan even get into contention for the final.
Speaker 5: I don't see them even defeating a team like Bangladesh
Speaker 5: for that matter.
Speaker 1: So you're saying Pakistan might end up without a winning
Speaker 1: the super Bow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you India like running through entirely, Like as he said,
Speaker 4: the Sri Lanka match would be the first match where
Speaker 4: India might be able to put on a show like
Speaker 4: further courtsake, but like other than that, I don't see
Speaker 4: anyone troubling given that game.
Speaker 5: If you look at the schedule, India play Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Speaker 5: by that time, they might be.
Speaker 1: Already through, already through.
Speaker 3: But like even if they play with there were some
Speaker 3: of the players who haven't got the chance, or they
Speaker 3: bring up someone from the bench to still there might
Speaker 3: be a possibility for a show out there.
Speaker 4: And in terms of Pakistan, tho, I don't even see.
Speaker 4: I think Pakistan would have like this will be the
Speaker 4: most competitive edge for Pakistan here because they'll be necked
Speaker 4: up completely.
Speaker 1: Will they be fired up?
Speaker 4: Is that what you say, no neckt fired up to
Speaker 4: they are fired up they are always fired up. They
Speaker 4: are more than the players. The board is more fired up.
Speaker 1: So quick prediction for Sunday's game, what do you think India?
Speaker 1: Is India clear.
Speaker 3: A dominant win or dominating than the nine wickets in
Speaker 3: ninety runs? Are we all shaking hands and agreeing that
Speaker 3: Pakistan or not making the final?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I would, I would. Let's see.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll turn up Sunday a little late, maybe one
Speaker 5: hour break. I'll decide it at home and then I'll
Speaker 5: let you know.
Speaker 1: And then depending on the traffic, let's see what happens.
Speaker 4: But but don't forget to load your bags.
Speaker 1: It will be ready.
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