WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.359 This is India Today Podcasts. 2 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.519 You are on India Today Podcasts and you are in 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.439 the Sledging Room. Let me warn you this is not 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:17.559 a place for the faint hearted and the weak need. 5 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.079 If you're a sports poff and like challenging everything you 6 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.440 see and here stay, If you're a sooner bodyatya fan, 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:25.719 walk away. 8 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:44.039 Right now, you're back in another episode of Sledging Room, 9 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.719 this time after a draw in Manchester. I want to 10 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.880 ask you, Soro King Shock, why are we celebrating mediocrity? 11 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.520 Why are we celebrating at draw? England scored six to 12 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.719 sixty nine runs. India needed to back twice to just 13 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.920 scrape past them. Then why are we celebrating mediocrity? It's 14 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:05.519 not as if you've won the Test or you have 15 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.519 you know, won the series. You're still won two. The 16 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:10.920 fifth Test is in Oval, where your record is not 17 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.480 that great and you don't have you know, a just 18 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.280 bit boommera. You might not have a just bit boomra 19 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.840 and your bowling still looks shambolic. Why are we celebrating mediocrity? 20 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.319 Why did you jump off the seat when you know 21 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.599 Washington soon that hit that boundary and say double and 22 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.640 got his got to his hundred. Why were we celebrating 23 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.040 it yesterday? It's my question to both of you. 24 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.079 You know, on day four, when England declared and when 25 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.599 came out to bad in the first very over, Chris Folkes, 26 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.920 Dow two har Betters, Jessull and Suedessian gone on back 27 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:47.200 to Bold Deliveries. 28 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:48.480 Who asked them not to score hundreds. 29 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.280 Okay, let me complete actually let yeah, okay. So then 30 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.920 what happens is I hear Michael a certain talk in 31 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:01.519 the commentary and he says, we'll look for our trains. 32 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.920 This test mess might get over very soon and we 33 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.120 have to head back to our homes. And then Schumann 34 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.159 Gil walks out and he defends the hat trick ball, 35 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.560 and then there's a linear passage where the new ball 36 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.240 is doing so much and it looks like every ball 37 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.639 will carry a wicket. Then Gil and Kale Rahole they 38 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.319 somehow survived that session and then they go on to 39 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:30.039 I think share one eighty plus stand till day five. 40 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.439 They go un skate on day four and they go 41 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:36.159 to day five. Then Kal ra Hole gets undone by 42 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:40.159 a Ben Strokes jack backed in. Then Schumang Gill scores 43 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:44.039 one hundred. Kala Hole miss out his hundred ninety, Schumangus 44 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.120 scored a hundred, and then he pokes a delivery that's 45 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.319 going outside of Archers salivates and again it looks like 46 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.759 England are back in a Test and six tickets might 47 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.520 fall like a zap of fingers, and you can see 48 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.800 England as rejoicing. Benustokes is very happy and it looks 49 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.240 like they have just done the up because now India 50 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:02.039 don't have a Shepherd. 51 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.319 Mind you, Shepherd might have walked out to bat, but. 52 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.960 He was not fit enough and he has been He 53 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:09.960 had been ruled out of the series entirely, but just 54 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:13.080 because India might, if India might needed bunking too bad, 55 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.919 he might have come out. Then you see two left 56 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:21.120 handed all rounders came out. One is a senior who 57 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.039 has been questioned how is he is he still surviving 58 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.680 in the ciccate when rohit and we're retired. Second is 59 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.400 the one who's sooner, who is impact by the coach 60 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.879 and everybody has questioned his inclusion. Why is he playing? 61 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.199 Why school leap not playing? Why are you not including 62 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:37.960 a fastball in a order instead of him? And then 63 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.639 these two what they did on day five to share 64 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:46.240 a two hundred plus stand and both Scorte century. And 65 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.840 the biggest point was before this Chote century one hour 66 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.400 before the play couldn't when England realized, oh now we 67 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.159 don't have it in hours to we just get those 68 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:59.280 five six wickets, let's go and shake our hands. Then 69 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.199 Menstokes walks up to and he's like, let's shake the 70 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.400 hands and let's end it. 71 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.479 You have drawn a smatch. That is where we realized 72 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:07.000 that it was. 73 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.479 It might be called us a draw, but that was 74 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.000 a victory for me, especially because you could see entire 75 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.480 England team, Zach Crawley, bend Kid, Harry Brooke, Ben Strokes, 76 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.319 everybody was riled up. They were like, no, no, we 77 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.759 don't want to bowl just because you are tired. You 78 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.199 know that you can't wickets. You wanted to get them 79 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:26.319 get the match over. 80 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.160 See, it's it's essentially a win. 81 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:31.720 It's a moral wine. 82 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.480 What what were years ago this very same episode before 83 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:42.160 you intested this man was, you know, criticizing moral victories 84 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:43.680 of England team during the ashes. 85 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:45.879 Yeah, now he's celebrating one. 86 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.519 Yeah, because you have defeated the moral win Alsa not 87 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:50.040 like they were reaching WUTC finals. 88 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:50.319 Yeah. 89 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:53.319 The only thing that they were winning was perhaps moral win. 90 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.800 Now the morality is on the gone. Yeah, what are 91 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:56.560 the winning winning? 92 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:57.120 Nothing now? 93 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.680 And if you can't pick the six eight wickets in 94 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.399 five sessions ten weeks, five sessions, I'm sorry your browling 95 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:04.839 attack is. 96 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:05.319 Not good enough. 97 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:05.879 You're cooked. 98 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.240 Are we looking at five ashes? 99 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.399 That that will depend on the fitness of the fastballers 100 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.000 of England, someone like Joe. 101 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:15.920 Squad. 102 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:17.120 They also carry Mark. 103 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.439 Because I can assure you one thing, Australia are not 104 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.160 going to roll out flat tracks like England have rolled out. 105 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:23.839 In this series. 106 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.199 I want to try Test series between India and England. 107 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.680 Series that will be fun. 108 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:37.120 Fun England, no, let's have it, let's have it in Yeah. 109 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:41.800 Maybe you give them those the first one to get it. 110 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.920 Give them the West Indies pitchers all out. 111 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.240 They should be banter every Test. 112 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:50.800 I think it will be like a tag team match, 113 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.800 like when you played w W with your friends. Suddenly 114 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.639 you will gang up against one person and eliminated. I'm 115 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.800 sure who's going to hang up with India Austria despite 116 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.079 all their animosity, I am I am quite surprised that 117 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.000 England have not claimed victory for bringing in the eyeballs 118 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.800 and bringing in the crowding dama every single Test match. 119 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.959 So I'm very surprised at that, and that essentially is 120 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:14.879 what the victory was. 121 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:15.160 Right. 122 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.160 They were devastrated. I have never seen in my life, 123 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.079 Ben Stokes that frustrated. 124 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:23.879 You know, I was. I was telling sorrow in the 125 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:25.079 morning in our a phone call. 126 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:28.120 Also that the discourse on social media and some of 127 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.560 the comments to our copies have been you know, to 128 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.079 say the least disgraceful, as in like how you can 129 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.480 have your opinions, but how can you not read between 130 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:37.720 the lines in this Test match? 131 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.600 Why are you asking why we are celebrating as what? 132 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:43.439 What? What have been the comments? If you can tell, 133 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.639 like why so you have you have forgotten how India 134 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.120 struggled in the first innings, India were made to bat twice. 135 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.439 Why are we celebrating this? India are celebrating this win, 136 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.000 like how Pakistan celebrated the pilcam operations indur So these 137 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.839 things kind of you know irritates people, right yeah, like 138 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.399 you know, when you don't get the point. I think 139 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:07.439 when you don't get the point, these these are these 140 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:12.600 are things that like what was the draw in that match. 141 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:14.879 What was the significance of the draw In that match 142 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:16.920 you batted twice. 143 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.160 Yes, you allowed England to score six sixty nine, but 144 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.120 at the end of the day, with three days turnaround, 145 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.079 you made them bowl two fifty to sixty overs. By 146 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.279 the end of that final hour when Ben Stock said, 147 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.720 oh I don't want to bowl my frontline bowlers, everybody 148 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.279 was spent. Imagine India batting through that fifteen overs period. 149 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:39.160 Fifteen overs period. They would have, of course continued with 150 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.920 those but they they would have still spent time on 151 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.199 the field. We should have made them bad, but I 152 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.879 don't think the umpires would have allowed that. A declaration 153 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.800 would have meant that go home now. No, you could 154 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:52.839 have declared and asked them to bat again. Also, I 155 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:56.680 think last umpires would have taken the call. There last episode, 156 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.199 the last podcast were actually wasn't there. The podcast was 157 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:04.160 titled that this series is giving upwenty one by league. 158 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:06.800 So I remember when he came back. Actually I came 159 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.519 back and I went up to when I said that 160 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.680 I think we should explore this angle a little more. 161 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.160 Let me write a copy, like what bgit everything we have? 162 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:15.199 What is this team? 163 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:19.680 What is that team. But yesterday's draw man that was 164 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.040 that was how do you call it? That raised the roof? 165 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:27.360 I think, yeah, I think I think sometimes it's just 166 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:32.759 like we have already discussed a draw is special, like 167 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.559 we saw that in the Sydney Test. 168 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.600 For twenty twenty one, draws have had more romance. 169 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.840 Actually, yes, exactly if you look at it, faf dou 170 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.120 Plac and Abd william is grinding that out and Michael 171 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.879 Atheretton himself, you know, batting over ten hours in nineteen 172 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:50.480 ninety nine. 173 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:52.919 Some these are some you know. 174 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.320 If you look at BGD series even down twenty years, 175 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.720 we'll keep talking about Sydney as much as GABA. I 176 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.879 think absolutely, And I got I got these vibes, like 177 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.320 you said, vibes Tim Paine was talking too much insane 178 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:12.120 to come to Let's see what you I got the 179 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.720 similar vibes. When Ben Stalks lost it in the last hour. 180 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.399 You know, you call him the greatest all rounder, you 181 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.440 call him the greatest all rounder, the superhuman. 182 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.080 I saw the headline when I walked into office yesterday. 183 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.240 Superhuman Benstokes removes scale rowl Bloody didn't bowl the entire 184 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.879 day on day four and took her. Maybe that was 185 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.240 a mistake from his side, but yeah, I think he 186 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.000 was struggling. I think it was heavily struggling because of that. 187 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.120 Let me be frank, Ben Stokes is the moment of Finland. 188 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.440 That's what I don't agree kind of whenever I think 189 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:52.440 Ben stalks when he loves creating theater. Of course, just 190 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.919 like our risman falls and holds his for half of 191 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:57.960 the time. I think when Ben Stalks walked up to 192 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.519 what did did you tell that would you want to 193 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:08.200 score a hundred against legendary Crawley? Yeah, I told that 194 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:09.919 if you wanted to score this hundred, you should have 195 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.279 scored it earlier. You know, they will dictate the opposition 196 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:13.960 space of play. 197 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.120 Also, so when I was watching yesterday and when Crawley 198 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.759 was talking to Jadeja that what will you do? You 199 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.120 can just shake your hands and finish the match, you know, 200 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.360 I realized I had seen somewhere, and then I went 201 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:28.200 back into memory. 202 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:30.279 Have you guys watched Game of Thrones? 203 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.039 Yeah, so the first Sade episode of Game of Thrones, 204 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.320 the first guy who saw white workers, the guy who 205 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:37.960 was butchered. 206 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.799 He looks the same as Zach. If you go and 207 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:42.279 watch him. 208 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:48.120 Zach Crawley is all hype, no performance, nothing else. And 209 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.440 more than that, you know, when you talk about draws 210 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.960 like you mentioned, especially when you talk about someone like 211 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.279 something like Gaba, and you said Sydney will be remembered 212 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.919 as much as Gaba definitely because Gaba wasossible only because 213 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:04.000 Sydney happened. You do the Test match in Sydney, you 214 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.000 put your body on the line against those the Austilian 215 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:10.919 pace trial, and then you force them, you break their 216 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.320 mural higher on whatever they were there, and then you 217 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:16.679 actually kept the series alive so that your team could 218 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:17.879 go and win the next less match. 219 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:19.399 Similar things supply here. 220 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.960 I think we've been conditioned to, you know, think this 221 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.320 way as a society, especially in this very competitive society. 222 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.440 It's either win or lose. There's nothing in between. Like 223 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.559 I can't stay back one day and then you know, 224 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.159 not do anything and then just you know, take a 225 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:34.080 chelf pill. 226 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:34.480 That's just you. 227 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:40.799 Maybe we've been conditioned to think absolutely like it's either 228 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.159 black or white. Yeah, there's no great Yeah, So what 229 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:48.320 sport sometimes offers you this? You know, it's actually if 230 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.519 you look at it, it's not a result. It's not 231 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:55.159 non consequential. But it's that is the beauty of the sport, 232 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.799 right you don't win, you don't lose. That there is 233 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.759 that's the beauty of Test cricket. That this you cannot 234 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.320 it's not possible in any other format of the game. 235 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.799 And that's these are the moments where essentially, what's the 236 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.200 reason that Test cricket should live on and it should 237 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:12.000 be prioritized? 238 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.480 Should it be five days or four days? Five days 239 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.840 and four days earlier? Five days test match? Five days? 240 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:24.320 Don't disturb the tourist found cricket, please, don't you know? Often, 241 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.279 especially with this bass ball, since since basball has come 242 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.519 I think three years ago it first came in to existence, 243 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.320 we have made it a habit, especially the young gen 244 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.039 nations who watched his cricket, who are more u entitled 245 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.360 to watching something like IPL or he don't de Leagues 246 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:41.600 or he don't the World Cup. So what they have 247 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.120 done is they've always enjoyed someone like Ship this cricket. 248 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:49.120 But we have always seen, especially we our generation nineties 249 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.639 one kids, we have seen we have seen someone like 250 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.840 dru someone like Pujara, We've seen someone like Keane Williamson. 251 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.480 So we have always looked up to them and realized 252 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:02.559 that Test cickeet is not just about scoring runs just testlic. 253 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.159 It is also about just playing the ball, playing to 254 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:07.919 the sision by session, to the merit of the ball, 255 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.159 just staying on the crease. Survival is the main, the 256 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:13.480 main motive of Test cricket. 257 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.320 When when push comes to shove, you survive. 258 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:16.519 You survive? 259 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.840 Should ask always says, you know you you know that 260 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.600 it's it's Test cricket. There's more time than you think. 261 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.519 Even uses that analogy for audio cricket. He says, there's 262 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:26.399 more time than you think. 263 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.600 I think. He must have been the most. 264 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:33.879 Happiest man, the happiest man on the com balk yesterday. 265 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.840 The way he was losing the fuse. Let's come to that, 266 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.919 you know, Yes, the way he was losing the fuse, 267 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.000 he was like, nothing wrong in there's nothing wrong in this. 268 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.480 I hope India bat all the fifteen overs as in 269 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.440 like Stokes was right when he walked up to the 270 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.639 umpires and said, okay, let's end it here. 271 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.320 But do you think he did not expect these two 272 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.759 to go to the hundred? Was it? Was it something? Okay? 273 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.840 I I don't know these guys might not want their hundreds, 274 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.360 so let me go and shake hands. Did you not 275 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:03.000 expect India to do that? Then? 276 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.600 Why did Ben Strokes at the first inland of batting? 277 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.759 Why did he went on to battist sixty nine? Could 278 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.799 have declared when they had two fifty lead he wanted 279 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.639 to score one fifty one sixty because he had not 280 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.720 scored one hundred and like two years. Then what about 281 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.799 soon the sonder has never scored a Test hundred. This 282 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.919 was his first Test hundred. Someone like he has outscored 283 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.679 Joe Route in this series, outscored with the bat, but 284 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.159 twenty years down the line up. 285 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.200 Yeah, if you look at the scorecard of this match, 286 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:32.240 you can clearly say scored those runs against Harry Brook. 287 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:34.879 Washington runs against Harry Brook. 288 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.720 Like like I was watching Rushin's video, Like Rushins said 289 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:43.679 very clearly, he said, Boss Raveneja did not survive three 290 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.759 sessions while batting against someone like Harry Brook or bendictt 291 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.399 ravenger Dija survived those three seasons against every baller you 292 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.559 pit him against you. You threw the ball to someone 293 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.000 like Dawson, you threw the ball to Urscher, You yourself 294 00:14:58.360 --> 00:14:59.480 tried to break the partnership. 295 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:00.639 You did everything that you could do. 296 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.559 In fact, just before tea was called, I think the 297 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.519 t was called and they were still leaving the ground. 298 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.240 We saw that that Ben Stokes was having a very 299 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.879 very fiery chat with Dawson. He was still in Dawson, Look, 300 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.039 there's a rough patch. Why are you not using left 301 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:16.639 arms spinners? 302 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.679 I was just going to come to that. I think for. 303 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:23.440 Those who have watched in the video go and watch 304 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:26.720 his Thumber video. He has flown his fuse there. He 305 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.200 has literally called out Zach Crowley. He was asked when 306 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.080 was the last time Crawley hit a hundred? When was 307 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:33.120 the last time that that? 308 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.519 In India? Also, he was very very is. 309 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.879 A sensational page on Twitter. It's called what is Zach 310 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.799 Crowlely doing? Yeah, they've been asking the same question for 311 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.320 a while now what is he doing? 312 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:43.679 Actually? 313 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.600 And then then they said that that zachl is not 314 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.279 role is not to score runs, it's to ask the 315 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:52.679 right questions. Yeah, why didn't you bat like this earlier? 316 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.440 Why couldn't if you wanted one hundred, he would have 317 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:57.360 hit shots earlier? What is wrong with you? 318 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.639 Man? That's his role? So the problem is England have 319 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.159 now the moral battle as well. 320 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:05.120 Yeah, the moral high ground that they always had right 321 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:09.639 from I don't know pre colonial era, they have lost 322 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:10.240 that as well. 323 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.879 Now where do they hide? What do they hide? You 324 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:13.240 know what? 325 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.960 My biggest concern was the biggest tip of hypocricy for 326 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:22.080 someone like Ben Strokes. Your only icy World Cup came 327 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.039 on boundary count rule. Why do you not score the 328 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.120 runs in the requisite rovers? Why were you waiting for 329 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.320 the boundary count rule to win the World Cup? You 330 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.440 come and question someone like and sooner. We have survived 331 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.159 the entire Sesson against your bowlers on the pitch that 332 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:38.440 your team prepared on your demands. 333 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.440 It was a little very poor taste. 334 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.759 It turned out, it turned out sore in all these 335 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.720 a great test man. Stocks lost it. Painstocks one hundred 336 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.759 percent lostest. And I think it happened because of how 337 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.080 the phase of play went. Day four is not bowled 338 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.000 India at one seventy four runs after going zero two down, 339 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.000 Stokes comes in. I think it took the first over 340 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:05.920 after Losson on day five they get wickets, two wickets 341 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.880 quick quick, and then after that again the play flattens out. 342 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:13.440 I think from the moral custodian point of view, he 343 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:18.279 absolutely lost it at his teammates. What on earth are 344 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.000 you guys doing. Stokes is also the I think the 345 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:22.480 highest cricket taker in the series. 346 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:23.599 At them like that. 347 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.759 Yes, from what I can see is that he's given 348 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.000 his all and the rest of them just simply did 349 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.680 not bother to turn up in this Test match. And 350 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.559 I am very happy that for a team that tries 351 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.319 to posture themselves as this morality kind of a thing, 352 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:43.000 they lost it in front of everyone, not behind the scenes. 353 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.559 I have one more point to make, Like you're talking 354 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.680 about Ben Stokes, I don't agree with your comparison of 355 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.079 Stokes to this one is why the third getter, absolutely 356 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.319 useless cricketer who has been thrown out of every format. 357 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.880 Obviously Pakistan team is no goody. But Ben Stokes is 358 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:03.599 a match no doubt about that. Now, there are two things. 359 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.240 One is your performance and your will to do great 360 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:10.000 and the second thing is your character on the field. 361 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.960 If you're losing. Ben Stokes is a great cricketer. 362 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.480 He is someone who creates magic on the field with 363 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:20.599 the ball while fielding wild batting. But yesterday what happened 364 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.680 was so I heard I think seward Board was saying 365 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.119 that Ben Strokes will not play the last Test match 366 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:28.000 because his body has given up. If he didn't win 367 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:31.200 this Test, now ben Strokes must have reized, oh my god, 368 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.359 I have to play. I have to play the next 369 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:36.920 Test match because I have changed and chopped my team. 370 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:39.200 I have brought in everyone, but these buggers can't pick 371 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:39.799 me wickets. 372 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:42.240 I have to just go and do the job every time. 373 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.480 Whether in this Test match you see want them, he 374 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.519 won them in the match, picked up a five in 375 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:48.680 the first innings, bolled out India. 376 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:50.880 Stokes was giving them yeah, back. 377 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:51.359 To back man the match. 378 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.319 Odds scored his first Test on hundred in the last 379 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:56.519 two years. He did everything that he could do as 380 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.799 a player. As a captain also, he was trying to 381 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.359 make all the changes. He was mars tups well. But 382 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:04.279 then it all comes down to your team's performance. Like 383 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.640 in this series. If you look at it, India have 384 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.279 won more sessions, but the series line says England are 385 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.519 leading to one because England have been putting in. 386 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.599 That moment, those moments of brilliance. 387 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.279 It's not England, it's Bend Stokes. If you ask me, 388 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.920 he is the only man who's doing it for them 389 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.960 like flint off sashes. Can we call these Stokes and Center? Absolutely? 390 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.240 I can see if they win. 391 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:28.119 Yeah, because you know Joe rout is hyped up so much. 392 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.359 Is he's scoring hads offt to him? But what has 393 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:33.720 done in the series two hundreds? 394 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.599 He scored lessons? And who backs at number seven? What 395 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.680 are you doing? You're playing on a flat track. 396 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:40.880 Let's look at it, Shuman, Schumann Gill has come out 397 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:42.960 and scored seven hundred orders in your own track on 398 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:43.759 your own pitches. 399 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:44.880 What is Joru doing? 400 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.359 He's giving respect to such not getting there. So my 401 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.960