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Speaker 3: We're back on another episode of Sledging Room podcast. So
Speaker 3: plenty has changed since the last time we were here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Before we delve into the details of what has changed,
Speaker 3: I just want you to, you know, uh, do this
Speaker 3: for me. Raise your hand. One of your right hand
Speaker 3: is broken. We all know that we can see the
Speaker 3: What is that called stint?
Speaker 4: Evenquad did that with an injury.
Speaker 1: No, no, that's what That's where I'm coming to. Can
Speaker 1: you do this? Can you raise both of your hands
Speaker 1: and clap? Are you trying to mark my injury? No,
Speaker 1: don't take offense.
Speaker 5: I can raise my left hand, see sort of the
Speaker 5: and if you could clap with one hand, I could
Speaker 5: have done that, but I can't.
Speaker 3: See the thing is sort of I have a suspicion
Speaker 3: that you've been wearing that slint to just to get
Speaker 3: off work. You don't want to work, probably because see
Speaker 3: there is there are cricketers who have fractures and they're
Speaker 3: still you know, cheering playing football. Have you seen that
Speaker 3: image of Ruth Aquad you know, using both his hands
Speaker 3: to you know, cheer for ms DONI during the match
Speaker 3: in Lucknow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 5: But why are you reading too much into it? What's
Speaker 5: wrong in that?
Speaker 3: Jokes aside sort of you know, genuinely thinking that we'll
Speaker 3: take as it's.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen. We know your Mombile loyalties. By the way,
Speaker 1: we have to introduce the shub.
Speaker 3: He comes into the podcast probably as an impacts up
Speaker 3: are mostly yeah, I like your former captain who has
Speaker 3: been playing there. He is a huge move Indians fan.
Speaker 3: But you know, jokes aside. People have pointed out that
Speaker 3: it's a hairline fracture. It's a hairline fracture. Probably he
Speaker 3: probably can do that. It's probably not that threatening. We
Speaker 3: don't know the signs behind it. But it's been said
Speaker 3: that Ruth Rage is out and my Wi is back.
Speaker 3: That's something that we did not talk about in the
Speaker 3: last episode of Sledging Room podcast because we did not
Speaker 3: have an episode last week. That's why plenty has changed
Speaker 3: in the IPL season so far. Tele were unbeaten last week,
Speaker 3: but they have now faced a defeat. People ruled out
Speaker 3: momb Indians and Senneesuku Kings, but they have probably taken
Speaker 3: the first step towards you know, redemption and all that.
Speaker 3: But SOB, you've been talking about scripts and all that.
Speaker 3: Where do you think this IPL is headed? As have
Speaker 3: you seen a closer fight than this before? The top
Speaker 3: team has eight points right if I'm not wrong? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the bottom team has four points just two wins
Speaker 3: other difference.
Speaker 1: What do you make of this?
Speaker 5: You know, IPL is known to be the most compartitive
Speaker 5: league across the world and last year when they were
Speaker 5: scores of two thirty two forty getting very common, we
Speaker 5: thought that, oh IPL might have lost a charm. We
Speaker 5: are not going to see a low scoring getting defended anymore.
Speaker 5: But this iplah, especially in the last week so so,
Speaker 5: last three or four matches, they haven't sensational.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean DC choking as Mumbay Indians.
Speaker 5: You take that CSK coming back Rishap and not giving
Speaker 5: visionary that over and then the biggest of them all,
Speaker 5: Manjak is getting bolled out from one one one and
Speaker 5: then hell Master Class Marko Yanson Master Class ninety five
Speaker 5: all out and KKR fans were all heartbroken.
Speaker 3: You know, I am finding a coincidence for Just correct
Speaker 3: me if I'm wrong. Okay, the PSL started win a
Speaker 3: week ago. Yeah, well the weekend over, wee over the weekend,
Speaker 3: yeah till then IPL was given. Okay, okay, matches, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know it started with one sided matches. People were saying, Oh,
Speaker 3: is the buzz around IPEL not that great? But since
Speaker 3: PSL started, yeah, which is a real competity to the
Speaker 3: IPL people are talking about let's come back to that later.
Speaker 3: But since the PSL started, yeah, the blockbusters have begin.
Speaker 3: Is that someone writing these scripts like okay, you saw
Speaker 3: Punjab scoring two forty six and losing a match, Now
Speaker 3: seas them scoring one hundred and eleven and defending a match. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if someone's writing those scripts, send them to Bollywood.
Speaker 1: You know, at least make better in the films.
Speaker 6: Without a doubt. If somebody is doing it, pretty good job.
Speaker 6: Last night, I think it just brought the tournament back alive.
Speaker 6: The kind of game that we saw, just kind of
Speaker 6: that sees of emotions that fans went through KKR bundling
Speaker 6: out on one hundred eleven, then coming out and defending
Speaker 6: that especially, I mean the game was in their grasp.
Speaker 6: They required hardly fifty runs with seven wickets in hand.
Speaker 6: It was done and dusted. But then that hell master
Speaker 6: class and that stress getting that revenge against this Nothing
Speaker 6: gets better than that.
Speaker 1: So it's all it's all bladed perfectly now.
Speaker 5: You know, you asked who is writing those scripts. God
Speaker 5: is writing those scripts. You saw how Karna made that
Speaker 5: come back. You saw how Current Sharma made that come back.
Speaker 5: AMAZONI made that come back. CSK made that come back,
Speaker 5: and I mean we do not expect CSK to win
Speaker 5: a game, especially against LG in luck now, but Amazonian
Speaker 5: his team made that. So God is writing those scripts
Speaker 5: for every cricket fan. And you know this ip IPL
Speaker 5: is a place where you believe you can get the
Speaker 5: best of the biggest dramas of the cricket world, and
Speaker 5: the biggest scripts are written. Like when the Cyples started,
Speaker 5: we got someone like Priyan Sharya who scored a beautiful hundred.
Speaker 5: Then we got someone like aguish Art, both of them
Speaker 5: coming from Dell Cricket. Now, akron N I are forgotten.
Speaker 5: I remember in December, he wrote a tweet, please cricket
Speaker 5: give me other chance and look at him where he
Speaker 5: is now? First game coming back into IPL scores in
Speaker 5: eighty nine, smacks Mumra all over the park. Yes he
Speaker 5: did not land on the winning side, but that notock
Speaker 5: was one of the two selfs.
Speaker 1: So God is writing those scripts.
Speaker 5: And you could see every day it's going to get
Speaker 5: tougher for teams and every point is going to matter,
Speaker 5: every ball is going to matter. So and you saw
Speaker 5: how Mumbai you won that game, it was it was
Speaker 5: over for them. Yeah, it's not for some shithousing from
Speaker 5: Deli Capta's lower order and brilliant fielding from Mumba Indians.
Speaker 5: That was some fielding round the Calton, brilliant behind the wickets.
Speaker 5: So yeah, God is writing those scripts that say, if
Speaker 5: you ask me who is writing those scripts?
Speaker 1: When will God write a good script for?
Speaker 6: And you never know, extend Sunday is a good day.
Speaker 6: I hope it turns out to be a good day
Speaker 6: for you. And I'm not really sure because the last
Speaker 6: time in the.
Speaker 3: Way, by the way, we have banned reship from being
Speaker 3: being on the ship this Sunday. Why because yesterday what
Speaker 3: he did to one of his colleagues. Oh my god, Alan,
Speaker 3: who has been on this podcast before. He's a huge
Speaker 3: KKRE fan. After Punjab lost to KKR, Alan was obviously
Speaker 3: defeated Punjab defeated or care lost to however.
Speaker 4: We want to put it on somebody wrote it that way.
Speaker 3: Alan was heartbroken on the shift and then he gets
Speaker 3: a consolation gift.
Speaker 1: That's so.
Speaker 4: I gave him two options.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so one was another set of them, keen, and
Speaker 6: that was the another set of them, and I told
Speaker 6: him to choose anyone whichever he liked, and that was
Speaker 6: in the midd innings, and he ended up choosing his
Speaker 6: own death, which it turned out to be.
Speaker 4: Eventually.
Speaker 1: Let's see on Sunday what you will get.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I hope you would be
Speaker 6: as happy as you are right now.
Speaker 3: And is going to make that that this is all
Speaker 3: about IPEL.
Speaker 1: What we want isn't like in IPE isn't like Yes, of.
Speaker 3: Course, the data part of it, the heavy part of it,
Speaker 3: also matters, you know, in identifying and you know, appreciating
Speaker 3: the lesser talent great the lesser known talents. But the
Speaker 3: fun part is what dominates. Talking about the fun part
Speaker 3: sort of how have these captains and coaches look this time?
Speaker 3: That is probably what we wanted to discuss in this
Speaker 3: episode of Sledging Room. Like over the years we have
Speaker 3: seen Tony Fleming. Are we getting more such bonds this season?
Speaker 3: Like I'm seeing a couple at least? What do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 5: Definitely if you look at the IPLs point point stable
Speaker 5: at the top, fine, who is nursing that success?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 5: Someone with his hat is doing it for them? Right
Speaker 5: with Hardik he won the league, then he went to
Speaker 5: reach the final. Then there was one bad season where
Speaker 5: Hardwick left and every everything was falling apart from He also.
Speaker 1: Wrote a piece saying that why Nehra is not the reason?
Speaker 3: Then hard was the reason and the left is that
Speaker 3: something you go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 5: So if you look at that, how he has mentored
Speaker 5: someone like Schumann Gill, who is a vice captain of
Speaker 5: Indian Limited was seen. So he is touted as the
Speaker 5: next of future captain. If you look at the current proceedings,
Speaker 5: so Ashisha is helping him write his own story with Titans.
Speaker 5: Then number two teams are Theily Capitals.
Speaker 3: Himani, how many of it gave a chance to when
Speaker 3: he was appointed even someone in ost told you, I think,
Speaker 3: what is this appointment in a league of heavyweight coaches
Speaker 3: like Dommir was there, Ra, You're appointing someone like him
Speaker 3: Badani who has very little experience of, you know, coaching
Speaker 3: at the highest level.
Speaker 5: Someone told you, I think they were a couple of
Speaker 5: people who cracked a few jokes on that, and it
Speaker 5: was are you very very honest here? Even I was
Speaker 5: not very much confident because yes, Hiram Madani has proven
Speaker 5: his credentials across other leagues, but being the head coach
Speaker 5: of a NIFEL franchise, that much pressure, handling that kind
Speaker 5: of overseas star power, that is something she had not
Speaker 5: seen earlier. And now it's not just Himanghdani. There's a
Speaker 5: group of staff. There's Matthew Mott, coach of Finland. Is
Speaker 5: there Kim Peterson, He himself is a different star guy.
Speaker 5: So it's a group of people that's working out and
Speaker 5: there are different leaders in the team.
Speaker 1: Aksha Patil. So all these players and these coaches.
Speaker 5: Even for RCB when retired, everyone was like, okay, now
Speaker 5: what will RCB do? Will they get a good keepers?
Speaker 5: Became their batting coach? Made that Ox strategy got them
Speaker 5: films sold and now he's haunting the skills of battles
Speaker 5: a good keeper.
Speaker 1: So you can see this, Captain.
Speaker 5: Coaches, you are very important, especially for teams like Mumbai
Speaker 5: and Asais and especially with CSK.
Speaker 1: What has fallen apart? I don't think and Filming.
Speaker 5: Were working at the same level as Donny and Fileming
Speaker 5: were even with Mumba Indians Hardwick And it's not the same,
Speaker 5: it's not It does not give you the same aura
Speaker 5: that and used to give that those five five bill titles.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So you can see if your coach and captain are
Speaker 5: working in tandem, that will reflect on the results on
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 3: Talking about such a store, what is wrong with the
Speaker 3: har well he even on that match against Deli Capitals,
Speaker 3: we're seeing that there was a little animation in the
Speaker 3: camp when Ruth was suggesting something, Mahela was telling the
Speaker 3: rellying that or not probably not relaying that.
Speaker 1: And then hard they taking into the field. What is
Speaker 1: happening there? Is it all? Well? This year of.
Speaker 4: Everything as well actual you don't have to worry too
Speaker 4: much about that.
Speaker 6: And also, I mean Jevani just got a reappointed last
Speaker 6: time it was Mark Boucher. Now they've got Jev back,
Speaker 6: hoping that he will recreate that match that he read
Speaker 6: with Roma. And don't you worry about us slow starts.
Speaker 6: That's what we have done in the past. We have
Speaker 6: scripted the greatest comeback the IPL has ever seen back
Speaker 6: in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about all that. Yeah, I'm asking you
Speaker 3: is the relationship between hard and looking good on TV?
Speaker 6: I mean it's it's up for the reporters or for
Speaker 6: us for everyone to see. I mean, yes, if we
Speaker 6: are not losing, it might look bad, but the minute
Speaker 6: we start winning, when we start getting all our puzzles together,
Speaker 6: it will turn out to be good.
Speaker 4: You don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 6: And especially if you're talking about Ashi earlier, what he
Speaker 6: has done with the Indian bowlers in the team as
Speaker 6: well with Prussith Krishnan, Mhammad Seraj, the way he has
Speaker 6: corrected them, I mean I heard Robina talking about that specifically,
Speaker 6: how he has corrected their lens, how it has given
Speaker 6: them a lot more confident. They both are sitting with
Speaker 6: ten wickets each and Kujad bowling attack is breathing fire.
Speaker 6: And you know we were talking about the captain and
Speaker 6: the coaches thing. The captain coach do do it that
Speaker 6: people should be fearing Istory as a year and Ricky
Speaker 6: Ponting what they're creating together at Punjab camp last night Victory.
Speaker 6: I mean I heard Nehale they speak that in the
Speaker 6: pro postmatch press conference. He was like, there is never
Speaker 6: negativity in that dressing room. And when two people who
Speaker 6: have the same mindset, same hunger to win, same hunger
Speaker 6: to prove their naysayers wrong, when they come together, they've
Speaker 6: become a force to reckon.
Speaker 4: With them, people should be worried about Punjab.
Speaker 6: I really see them doing something scripting, something magical this season.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: That's a good point because we when we speak about
Speaker 3: Ricky Ponting and keep in mind, this is not the
Speaker 3: first time they are going to They're working together, a
Speaker 3: young ir taking over from Gottamambi in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: He led the lead to the final where they were walked.
Speaker 3: That's another that's another thing, but that combination reuniting after
Speaker 3: a couple of years. See it all looked flashy between
Speaker 3: Ponting and punt It looked very rosy between them on TV,
Speaker 3: the promotions and all that. But now you can feel
Speaker 3: that energy, right, Ponting was you know, you were saying
Speaker 3: that my heartbeat was like over two hundred or something,
Speaker 3: I didn't know, and then that energy, like he said,
Speaker 3: both are very positive characters and them, you know, combining
Speaker 3: that together might work as in like sort as like
Speaker 3: what do you think is there a chance of Project
Speaker 3: Punjab delivering what it has to deliver?
Speaker 1: Very much possible.
Speaker 5: I mean if you look at two players, especially Ponting
Speaker 5: was a legendary player in his primetime, a legendary captain,
Speaker 5: and then he has combined with you know, Ponting was
Speaker 5: the one who gave movement in their first title. He
Speaker 5: mid season, he stepped down as the captain, he made
Speaker 5: with the captain and then Mumbai went on to win
Speaker 5: the title twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: So this is not the first time if if.
Speaker 5: These two go on to win the title, that Ponting
Speaker 5: and a Mumbai batter go on to win a title
Speaker 5: for their team. Especially even interesting we get we have
Speaker 5: seen we're Rat and Shasti, two very fairy characters and
Speaker 5: the success.
Speaker 1: To in their own one nothing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they won Test Series in Australia. Those success stories
Speaker 5: these two wrote overseas for Indian cricket teams.
Speaker 1: That will always be written in the history books. So
Speaker 1: the two characters which.
Speaker 5: You're talking about, Ponting and a Year, both of them
Speaker 5: are very very positive, as Nihalvarde said, and they have
Speaker 5: a plan a in the place like Moderira revealed or
Speaker 5: someone else reveal will in the press conference that Ponting
Speaker 5: during that mid innings he told their bowlers, Okay, the
Speaker 5: battles have done the job. Now it's time for the
Speaker 5: bowlers to deliver. I want some furious Sills out there.
Speaker 5: And then you could see that firepower in the bowling
Speaker 5: and shares his captaincy. I mean I saw that he
Speaker 5: was trying to attack every batter taking a short forward
Speaker 5: leg in a T twenty match. That is sensational. And
Speaker 5: as a captain, he always wanted that recognition. That is
Speaker 5: why he left KKA even the title, and I hope
Speaker 5: he will get it. I hope he will get it
Speaker 5: at Punchapkins. Whether he wins it onpil or not, that
Speaker 5: it's a different story. But as a captain he has
Speaker 5: done great work. And Vadera also said that a Year
Speaker 5: is one of the greatest captains.
Speaker 1: He has finest leaders.
Speaker 5: He has worked under his spirit under and mind you
Speaker 5: whatea has been in the also, So that speaks a
Speaker 5: lot about these two.
Speaker 3: World under done you don't have So that's another okay,
Speaker 3: but I'm asking you something here. Sorry, Last year we
Speaker 3: said got wanted for k care This time will it
Speaker 3: be the same that if at all King's going to
Speaker 3: do well, will Ricky Ponting take all the credit or
Speaker 3: sh Saire's role is there? But if you look at
Speaker 3: the flip side, Gotamer is gone from kkre, s Sayer
Speaker 3: is gone from KR and Chandra Khan Pundit, whom we
Speaker 3: all thought was who he, who is a very acclaimed.
Speaker 1: Has it been a little overwhelming for him at the
Speaker 1: highest level.
Speaker 5: It looks like in the level it certainly looks like
Speaker 5: even before Gambier came, he was appointed as the coach
Speaker 5: and they had a very very poor season. Overse his player,
Speaker 5: like David came out in public much after that.
Speaker 1: I apeal that the behavior.
Speaker 5: Of Chandkhan pund did towards over his players was not
Speaker 5: very great, not codial at all.
Speaker 1: So I think.
Speaker 5: Is a coach who has been able to achieve some success,
Speaker 5: a lot of success in domestic cricket because he gets
Speaker 5: he does not get star players over there, especially for
Speaker 5: a team like Mahadesh.
Speaker 1: He gets young guys who maken groom.
Speaker 5: And we have also seen stories from someone like as
Speaker 5: who said that threw him outs.
Speaker 1: Yea yeah, but human coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we all who was a coach back then.
Speaker 5: Obviously he will not name the coach. He has to
Speaker 5: play cricket, but we can actually understand. Yeah, so especially
Speaker 5: with chand And you know what is more baffling for
Speaker 5: me when.
Speaker 1: Someone like.
Speaker 5: Is out he has left that post for India coaching.
Speaker 5: I don't know why will you bring someone like dun Bravo,
Speaker 5: bravo as a coach. I don't know what creditions he has. Yes,
Speaker 5: he's a great T twenty bowler, a great T twenty launder,
Speaker 5: a title across the globe, but as a coach, never
Speaker 5: proven CSK's bowling coach. He was because he has AMAZONI
Speaker 5: to execute those plans on the pitch. M even when
Speaker 5: was the captain last season, AMAZONI was there and whatever
Speaker 5: people might say, when Amazon is there behind the wickets,
Speaker 5: you always get that help.
Speaker 1: You will always guide the bowlers to these lines, that lines.
Speaker 5: He's the one who invented someone like like Coleapan. Hell,
Speaker 5: they were young bowlers and AMAZONI was the one who
Speaker 5: made those two successful, those stumpings, those lines. So Drane
Speaker 5: Bravo's appointment is a bit baffling for me. Even the
Speaker 5: kr fans have started outing. And more than that, this team,
Speaker 5: especially KKR, why are you holding on to old heroes
Speaker 5: when when you know that they have they have given
Speaker 5: what they am?
Speaker 1: I ask him also the same question, why are you
Speaker 1: holding on to your old heroes? Which old hero have
Speaker 1: the what is what? What has he been doing? Tell me, frankly,
Speaker 1: is the lead is a leader?
Speaker 3: He is the one who thought out okay, okay, you
Speaker 3: can make your lead.
Speaker 1: You having a movement in his fan and asked the
Speaker 1: ask come to this movement? You ask your question? Yeah?
Speaker 1: One question? Where was momentous? Without was the captain in ipal?
Speaker 3: Everybody paying the final in twenty ten would have given
Speaker 3: them a couple more theater seasons.
Speaker 1: They would have won it under such a RB such
Speaker 1: and was past his prime?
Speaker 5: Okay, and Arma came and took that mental He made
Speaker 5: moments fine, not question.
Speaker 3: Where is the performance now? And why is he being
Speaker 3: used as an impact player?
Speaker 6: So the thing is your captain can get all the
Speaker 6: credit for the leadership, and our captain cannot get all
Speaker 6: the captains for the leadership.
Speaker 4: Is not performing at all.
Speaker 3: When I'm asking, when I'm asking clinical questions, don't make
Speaker 3: it your mind.
Speaker 1: Don he had forty three is winning you matches?
Speaker 3: Which is we can keeping with his uh late order
Speaker 3: hitting when when it's doable, he does the job what
Speaker 3: has been doing. And my my biggest question is why
Speaker 3: will you not use his experience on the field? Why
Speaker 3: will you use him as an impact player?
Speaker 4: Right? That is given?
Speaker 6: I guess they I think last night also last game,
Speaker 6: as it was pointed out that he was the one
Speaker 6: who opted he suggested that ball change. He suggested that
Speaker 6: ball change, and then that kind of turned the game
Speaker 6: in our favor. And coming back coming back to what
Speaker 6: you were talking about, at forty three year old, we
Speaker 6: could keep a battery. Yes, indeed, he is doing incredibly
Speaker 6: incredible great work. He has got the leadership mantle back
Speaker 6: and he's leading the team really well and incredible behind
Speaker 6: the stumps, scoring runs for your team. But isn't that
Speaker 6: too scary for you people? Because I mean, after him,
Speaker 6: even him at on one leg at the age of
Speaker 6: forty three, that uncapped Indian is there to win you
Speaker 6: games and nobody else is standing up. Isn't that scary
Speaker 6: for the future? Who will you replace him within the
Speaker 6: end of the day.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's one major concern. We've all spoken about how
Speaker 3: CESK lost it adoption. Okay, yes, we might talk about
Speaker 3: them winning or April fourteen it being double New Day
Speaker 3: and thoughts of sparks of comeback. But frankly, tell me,
Speaker 3: if it's a one to eighty plus score, do you
Speaker 3: see cskchase a target.
Speaker 1: That's something that probably they don't have.
Speaker 3: And so the good thing is that CSK brought in
Speaker 3: Shi Krasid, twenty year old from Pop who did well.
Speaker 3: They also have someone like once Baby sitting in the dugout.
Speaker 3: They also signed someone like a mare Aish Matre. So
Speaker 3: I think I think it's about for CSK. I seriously
Speaker 3: don't think they have a chance to make to make
Speaker 3: it to the playoffs. But like in twenty twenty where
Speaker 3: they gave opportunities to the likes of rutraj and all
Speaker 3: of them probably take those tough calls and Raul Triparti Oka,
Speaker 3: yes he has done well in the idea in the past,
Speaker 3: but he's not looking the part. Get someone like One's
Speaker 3: baby in Uja Shankar. For all that consistency, he probably
Speaker 3: misses the spark. If you want to use the word
Speaker 3: spark here, it probably misses the spark. So give someone opportunity.
Speaker 3: There are people like Ramakrisna ghost waiting in the wings,
Speaker 3: so try them and see that. Probably CSK season will
Speaker 3: be about identifying these holes and probably getting Doni's legs
Speaker 3: fixed for the next season as well.
Speaker 5: But before we move on to another segment, I want
Speaker 5: to ask both of you tell me your best coach
Speaker 5: and captain do of this? I plow and worst, not worst,
Speaker 5: but yeah, one who has not been able to replicate
Speaker 5: success on the field, captain one one from you, one
Speaker 5: from you best and worst.
Speaker 6: Well, I've already spoken about my best age and Ricky Pond.
Speaker 6: I mean what they are doing. I mean, just see
Speaker 6: for a fact, if we take a look at Punjab,
Speaker 6: they're not even playing their best cricket. They're dropping catches,
Speaker 6: they're doing those misfields and the ball is all over.
Speaker 4: The place, but they're still winning matches. Imagine what they
Speaker 4: can do when they play their best.
Speaker 6: And if we were talk if we were to talk
Speaker 6: about the worst coaching do I mean it was indeed
Speaker 6: Stephen Fleming and Ruthuraz gay Aquad. They just could not
Speaker 6: gel together, which we felt out there on the field
Speaker 6: as well, and there was a lot of what do
Speaker 6: you say this miscommunication on part disagreement on part on
Speaker 6: is his own batting position on m Zoni's batting position,
Speaker 6: on what would be the right combination for them.
Speaker 4: So yeah, those those two for me.
Speaker 1: For me, the best is dony Dony Okay, yeah, pretty
Speaker 1: much expected.
Speaker 3: But if you look at it, him Madani is leadership group,
Speaker 3: like you pointed out, probably first time at this level.
Speaker 1: He needs that helping hand.
Speaker 3: Matthew More there, Kevin Peterson there, that's a solid, solid,
Speaker 3: solid group for which seems to be a you know,
Speaker 3: although his what he thinks as cheeky in the post
Speaker 3: match presentations sound.
Speaker 1: A little odd these dyes exactly, but he.
Speaker 3: Seems to have the you know, gut feeling gumption to
Speaker 3: get the moves done. You know, he's not a very
Speaker 3: inexperienced player. He has played, he has come through the
Speaker 3: ranks and it was not like he was one of
Speaker 3: those Schumann Gills or someone who you know, broke through
Speaker 3: the scene and he was a star when he started out.
Speaker 3: He had to grind his way to become you know,
Speaker 3: and to break into that test setup which had Ashwin
Speaker 3: and j at their prime, so he might he has.
Speaker 3: He has gone through a lot, he has had life
Speaker 3: legends throughout his career and probably you know good captains.
Speaker 1: He must not look like, you know, oh, I am
Speaker 1: making this change. I am making this change. It's so easy.
Speaker 1: It's it flows on the field.
Speaker 3: If you see MS at his prime, he used to
Speaker 3: give those three six first six overs to set people.
Speaker 3: He doesn't complicate things at all. That's something that I'm
Speaker 3: seeing in extrapt Pertiale and that entire leadership group. They
Speaker 3: are not complicating things. Each of them know what to do.
Speaker 3: They they have given particular roles. And I was very
Speaker 3: happy when you spoke about how, you know, certain teams
Speaker 3: fucked up at auction, but if you look at how
Speaker 3: Daily Capitals went about their way, they had the temptation to,
Speaker 3: you know, you could have easily made k your your
Speaker 3: you know your captain and then you know, gone for
Speaker 3: the brand appeal. Some some owners have completely said that okay,
Speaker 3: we need a phase to promote we're we have seen
Speaker 3: how we're qually has been the face of us. Well
Speaker 3: I'm not saying we're not as a bad captain, no,
Speaker 3: but but there is there is that temptation to you know,
Speaker 3: market to make a team more marketable. But delirasisted that
Speaker 3: temptation at this probably in this phase of his career.
Speaker 3: K would have been burdened by that captaincy as well
Speaker 3: when he's trying to reinvent himself as a white ball player.
Speaker 3: And that's that's something that Himan Badani and his leadership
Speaker 3: group should be credited to, you know, credited for. That's
Speaker 3: a good call and it has translated into the season.
Speaker 1: Also.
Speaker 3: They are doing things simply. They're not you know, Viprasnigam
Speaker 3: he's getting his Kota overs probably with an injury. He's
Speaker 3: not bowling himself, but they're clear we can get the
Speaker 3: job done with Vipraj and co Deep and Coleep is
Speaker 3: also bowling well. So that clarity, when you see a
Speaker 3: good working group, it should not be like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: you're laboring to you know, get your wins.
Speaker 1: Everything is flowing.
Speaker 3: Well there that's something that I like and like I said, probably.
Speaker 1: Doesn't like and the.
Speaker 3: Curator also through him. Yeah, so it's kind of a
Speaker 3: mess there. Yes they are one dot even thing. But
Speaker 3: if you but if you look at it, they needed
Speaker 3: to take some bold calls. What the point of taking
Speaker 3: Russele with you when he's probably not able to put
Speaker 3: back to ball and you have a long batting order
Speaker 3: and then yesterday also you get in an impact player
Speaker 3: who's a batter.
Speaker 1: How how how will these things?
Speaker 3: I have never seen an impact player a batter as
Speaker 3: an impact player in the first things work. So these
Speaker 3: are kind of calls that are a little bit although
Speaker 3: they are not at the bottom of the table. If
Speaker 3: you look at Pat Commins and Daniel Vetori, they still
Speaker 3: are that confident bunch. They know that there is a
Speaker 3: way to play their cricket. Probably it has not worked out,
Speaker 3: probably because of the lack of form of travel. Set
Speaker 3: and abstract are at the top. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 3: see how they progress as well. They came back with
Speaker 3: a big win. So to me it'ses and no ajink
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, oh my god, And what about you, sir,
Speaker 3: like you will obviously say deli for the.
Speaker 5: Best No, no, for me, it is the best Captain
Speaker 5: Coast setup, especially like I talked about ash and Risha
Speaker 5: mentioned how Ashishnaraz brought back these two Indian places back
Speaker 5: to life like and Siraj they were literally they were
Speaker 5: run machines last season, Krishna for Arsthan and sirach for Bengaluru.
Speaker 1: And that is why did not retain him.
Speaker 3: And keep in mind when there were doubts when Ashshnira's
Speaker 3: credentials were questioned last season when things did not go
Speaker 3: well with Schumann, but Schumann was a young captain and
Speaker 3: they also didn't have more much Sam who was injured
Speaker 3: throughout the season. So that lead pacer kind of thing
Speaker 3: which the setup relies on. They're also creating a formula.
Speaker 3: They're also creating a formula with which you know they're
Speaker 3: keeping it simple. If you have a set formula in place,
Speaker 3: you can then go on to keep things simple. I
Speaker 3: think that's what they are exactly.
Speaker 5: Even if if if a team buys someone like Joe's
Speaker 5: butler and you don't you're not playing him as an opener.
Speaker 5: You have a plan in your hand, right, you have
Speaker 5: size to who knows when to grant it out. And
Speaker 5: he has been scoring runs. He's not gonna he's been
Speaker 5: scoring runs at every pitch. He knows when to hit,
Speaker 5: he knows when to grant it out. Give Gil Schuman Gil.
Speaker 5: There have a lot of questions about his captains the
Speaker 5: last season, but this season he looks a better captain,
Speaker 5: more assured at least, and he has that backing from
Speaker 5: his coach. And apart from that, if you look at
Speaker 5: the worst captain, coach do for me, Yeah, I agree
Speaker 5: with you. It has to be a and uh, especially
Speaker 5: because as a reader, you know you do not buy
Speaker 5: him to make to be the captain. You buy You
Speaker 5: bought him for a squad player. Then you gave him
Speaker 5: the role because you could not voice a captain. You
Speaker 5: not go for a captain. You spent spent twenty for
Speaker 5: someone like you.
Speaker 1: Should have made the making him the captain.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then Kahan, I mean that guy is phenomenal as
Speaker 5: a leader, as a batsman. People started questioning even before
Speaker 5: theepil started. I heard experts talk about, Okay, Rahana is
Speaker 5: the captain, but how we make that playing eleven? Look
Speaker 5: at how he take that playing eleven. He has been
Speaker 5: scoring runs and he has been bailing KKR out for
Speaker 5: all that famed lower order trio, they have filmed miserably
Speaker 5: Ringku Russell and raman Deep. I have not seen them
Speaker 5: doing great work for KKR Apart from one game where
Speaker 5: Vankakishire and Link build them out, they have not been
Speaker 5: great at all. It is a bowling that is clicking
Speaker 5: almost every game, but their batters have failed. And Rahana
Speaker 5: especially like you said that tussle with the procuratory at
Speaker 5: Eden Gardens then he has it looks like there are
Speaker 5: always disagreements with him and the coach, even if Brawo
Speaker 5: and him, and the way he has managed to marshal
Speaker 5: his troops on the field, someone like Punjapling's they had
Speaker 5: got a very good start. He brought in Hashtrana, he
Speaker 5: placed raman Deep sing on that position. He knew he
Speaker 5: had a plan in place and he backed these players.
Speaker 5: And you see Narayan also picnifickets for Chuck three wickets.
Speaker 5: So Rahana has been sensational, but because of that management issue,
Speaker 5: the team has not been able to make that combination
Speaker 5: to a winning commision almost every game because.
Speaker 1: They'll one, they win one and they lose two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this has been there. These are observations that we're making
Speaker 1: from the outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely discrediting any work that anybody has done.
Speaker 1: But I thought you will name no not now. Had
Speaker 1: the loss to d C, I would have clearly said it.
Speaker 3: As a captain Boom I didn't finished at number ten
Speaker 3: last season. This time it's looking a little better eight
Speaker 3: at this point of time. But on Sunday after the CSTD,
Speaker 3: probably a little lower.
Speaker 4: We'll see that.
Speaker 1: We'll see well.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to ask you this question because we
Speaker 3: were talking about this. What is more important in a coach.
Speaker 3: Do you want a really technical coach who has to,
Speaker 3: you know, understand the basics of the game, or do
Speaker 3: you want someone like Gumby who's a man manager. What
Speaker 3: is better suited for IPL In international cricket, we thought
Speaker 3: Rahul Dravid will do wonders with the Indian cricket team
Speaker 3: because he was so technically good and all that, But
Speaker 3: for the first two years of a stint, I'm frankly saying,
Speaker 3: had he not won the T twenty World Cup, there
Speaker 3: would have been questions, I did I want T twenty
Speaker 3: World Cup?
Speaker 1: Questions would have been asked.
Speaker 3: But again there was clarity in his thinking towards the
Speaker 3: later half of it. But had he not won it,
Speaker 3: into questions would have been asked gumby rickety start. But
Speaker 3: then when the championshophe with this team and at KKR,
Speaker 3: whats in Like is he a certified coach? Now there
Speaker 3: are so many certified coaches who are who are are
Speaker 3: going around in the scene.
Speaker 1: What is more important in a coach in the tournament
Speaker 1: like IPL?
Speaker 3: Is it the man managing factor or is it the
Speaker 3: technical aspect of it?
Speaker 1: You know, I personally believe especially for all the leagues,
Speaker 1: not just IPL. So these are not football leagues. Cricket leagues.
Speaker 5: You get a certain bunch of players for one month,
Speaker 5: two month, three months, for max. Even when you're holding
Speaker 5: those camps you get the domestic players, but those international
Speaker 5: players are not available for those camps. So when the
Speaker 5: international players come, then you decide you're playing eleven. So
Speaker 5: it's always coming down to the man management because when
Speaker 5: you are the head coach or a mentor for a team,
Speaker 5: you're not going to tell someone that skill.
Speaker 1: You're not going to teach skill that much time. Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Can't go to exactly fixes problems because they have been
Speaker 3: long standing for a year or so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when Gotta Kambir won that IPAL title as a
Speaker 5: captain and now as a mentor. Do you think he
Speaker 5: went and told Ran Narayan, Okay, you have to hit
Speaker 5: these kinds of shots. You're not going to play a
Speaker 5: cover over the cover. No, he just went and talked
Speaker 5: to players like Russell and Aryan, Okay, I need you,
Speaker 5: I need you guys to fulfill these roles. Tell me
Speaker 5: how can you give it to me? And those guys
Speaker 5: was ready to give it for someone like Gambier because
Speaker 5: he trusts them. And as a leader, as a captain
Speaker 5: or a coach or a mentor, you have to in
Speaker 5: work that trust from your players, especially in these leagues,
Speaker 5: because what happens is like someone like David came for
Speaker 5: just one a half month for an IPL last last
Speaker 5: year and he left very bad memories of a KKR coach.
Speaker 5: So that relationship has to be very very important when ponting.
Speaker 5: You know, I was, I was listening to the cave
Speaker 5: Peterson in that first game. So Peterson had joined like
Speaker 5: seven days or eight days ago before that first game.
Speaker 5: He had joined the LA Captors and he was asked,
Speaker 5: your team losing wickets, do you think you can do
Speaker 5: the job. He's like, yeah, we have got someone like
Speaker 5: Ashes and pass waiting in the wings. Yeah, Whippi and
Speaker 5: waiting in the wings. And they these two came out
Speaker 5: and did the job. So I don't think Peterson just
Speaker 5: came for seven days and he taught the skill set.
Speaker 5: He just nurtured their mindset. He talked to them and
Speaker 5: told him you have to play this role. You have
Speaker 5: to finish the game. You have to be bold and strong.
Speaker 5: So as a coach you have obviously when you are
Speaker 5: a coach team you are experienced or you have done
Speaker 5: something very good as a player that you were sitting there,
Speaker 5: but you're you. Being a good man manager is very
Speaker 5: very very important. I remember Ishan Kashan was feeling with
Speaker 5: Mumba Indians a couple of seasons ago and Mahil was
Speaker 5: having special transisions with him as a wicket keeper and
Speaker 5: then as a batter also. He was telling him what
Speaker 5: to do, what not to do, what is the bowler
Speaker 5: thinking when he was trying to play that shot. So
Speaker 5: that man management is very very very important for me.
Speaker 5: It's more important than you teaching that player. Okay, you
Speaker 5: have to play over the covers. Okay, you're a bowler,
Speaker 5: you can't. World wide occurs that man one is very important.
Speaker 3: And like you said, in football there are like you
Speaker 3: play around the year, like yes to seven months a
Speaker 3: year you play and you can work on these technical aspects.
Speaker 3: Here with forty five days and half of them going
Speaker 3: in travel, what can you do in like I agree
Speaker 3: with that, Richard Basen, Like is that the difference between
Speaker 3: Aboucher and Jams.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean the fact that you pointed about
Speaker 6: Javadnate giving that special attention to Shan Kristian. So Mumbai
Speaker 6: had found that Shankison was you need a special talent
Speaker 6: and him, despite failing for the first seventy games, they
Speaker 6: kept on backing him, kept on giving that pop positive
Speaker 6: talks and then he turned out to be that match
Speaker 6: whenner for us in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. And also,
Speaker 6: I mean, if you were talking about these man management thing,
Speaker 6: I remember what is the worst coaching saga in the
Speaker 6: history of Indiantricate.
Speaker 4: It's the Great Chapel thing.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: He was just way too technical.
Speaker 6: I mean I remember people talking about he was trying
Speaker 6: to correct very indra sevaks tek neque for God's sake,
Speaker 6: and even wanted to change the batting order and all.
Speaker 6: So that did not work well at all. You have
Speaker 6: to need to have that connection with your players. You
Speaker 6: need to have that good camaraderie. Your players need to
Speaker 6: trust you. You're talking about it. Ash Osan Kevin Peterson
Speaker 6: thinking spoken at length about that the kamaraderie shares with Peterson.
Speaker 6: He instills that believes in him that okay, you are
Speaker 6: my match. When that he is, he inspires him every
Speaker 6: single day. So that is there between those players, and
Speaker 6: that is what it was. That is what is the
Speaker 6: utmost important that you need to succeed in the league,
Speaker 6: especially like ipl.
Speaker 1: How is your captain's relationship with.
Speaker 6: Compan well, I mean they are doing whatever they are
Speaker 6: doing in the field, and especially I mean given the
Speaker 6: fact if he just won the Champions Trophy, you can
Speaker 6: see they are might be like they're phasing it out.
Speaker 6: It might not be as good as it does. It
Speaker 6: doesn't look good on Test cricket, but in Odia cricket,
Speaker 6: they have maybe found a method, they have found some
Speaker 6: rhythm and hopefully they can continue that for the next
Speaker 6: two years for the big tournament that is pending and
Speaker 6: maybe that one final dance all three of them can get.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Richard is back to play their lead and
Speaker 5: even win the World Cup that is eluding him.
Speaker 3: That's that's okay, But I just don't know whether he'll
Speaker 3: go to England, even though it goes there.
Speaker 5: But actually, what do you think about the coaches role
Speaker 5: in an league like IPL.
Speaker 3: See I personally believe that there should be consistency if
Speaker 3: you looked at teams that have done well in the past,
Speaker 3: like it's obvious that CSK and KKR have had consistent coaches.
Speaker 3: You know, you you can easily discount Fleming's role saying that, okay,
Speaker 3: Dony takes the calls, but if you look at it,
Speaker 3: if you look at the way they speak.
Speaker 1: Even DONI has said that I have a lot of conversations.
Speaker 1: You need a sounding board.
Speaker 3: At least, you need someone to you know, to not
Speaker 3: agree to everything that you say to, you know, to
Speaker 3: Fleming has that, you know, reputation. Let's not forget as
Speaker 3: some people who started watching cricket after the IPL probably
Speaker 3: might not know. Fleming was one of the most successful
Speaker 3: us in captains. So he deserves that respect in the
Speaker 3: dressing room and you need to have a you need
Speaker 3: to give time to your coach. Like it's like you
Speaker 3: pointed out, it's just two months. How much will you
Speaker 3: be able to know about the players if you give
Speaker 3: them a year long time like a lot of IPEL
Speaker 3: teams have, you know, camp starting like six months before
Speaker 3: where domestic players are there and they scout well.
Speaker 1: So everything needs to be in sync.
Speaker 3: And I think, like you pointed out, I think the
Speaker 3: managerial role is more important. That's when also you need
Speaker 3: a solid, solid, you know setup, just for the name
Speaker 3: of having ten batting coaches fifteen fielding coaches like a
Speaker 3: few teams had in the last two seasons and floundered.
Speaker 1: It should not be that way.
Speaker 3: It should be you know, someone like a Matthew Mott
Speaker 3: coming in as an assistant coach to Hemong Bahani. Can
Speaker 3: you understand that equation. Has Hemong Badani won a major
Speaker 3: ICC tournament? No, but you know that Hemung probably might
Speaker 3: connect well with the Indian players. Matthew might be there
Speaker 3: for you know, probably the technical side of it or
Speaker 3: I don't know how it works, but you need to
Speaker 3: put in your thought before assembling a team. Just big
Speaker 3: names will not win you titles. We've seen that with
Speaker 3: Ricky ponting it out in twenty thirteen, but since he
Speaker 3: became a full time coach. It's been either it's been
Speaker 3: I Fie. You know, they've shown a lot of promise,
Speaker 3: but they have not been able to hold on to
Speaker 3: clutch moments. That's why I think that one hundred and
Speaker 3: eleven defense of one hundred and eleven will give both
Speaker 3: Race and Ponting a bit of contract. And if you
Speaker 3: look at it like you need to have that that,
Speaker 3: I think you need to have a settled, settled core
Speaker 3: and just for the sake of assembling a team, it
Speaker 3: shouldn't be assembled. It should be carefully picked, carefully thought out,
Speaker 3: like Vettori and his team of you know coaches.
Speaker 1: That's my take on this. Yeah, yeah, And you pointed
Speaker 1: out about Riggy pointing.
Speaker 5: I just remembered that Riggy Ponting when he was let
Speaker 5: to go off as the coach of the League Capitals,
Speaker 5: he came out in the public in Bress conference and
Speaker 5: he's told the reporters that he kept us are looking
Speaker 5: for an Indian coach. They want someone who can be
Speaker 5: around the year with the team. That is why they
Speaker 5: went for someone like him.
Speaker 1: Bhdani.
Speaker 5: Like Bahdani is a very low profile coach, but he
Speaker 5: has won everything where he has gone. He's won the
Speaker 5: T and PL right now, he won the IL T
Speaker 5: two and T with the Capitals. Even with Hyderabad he
Speaker 5: was there as a batting coach and the batting coach
Speaker 5: in that capacity. So you need these men who are
Speaker 5: actually who always have that communication skill as a leader.
Speaker 5: How will you make your team work better? Only when
Speaker 5: you understand what their stents are and what where they
Speaker 5: where they can fail.
Speaker 3: And it's also should be too and fro right. Someone
Speaker 3: should be there to understand the emotions of the players. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why probably a mix of Indian and foreign Is
Speaker 3: that how things will go in the future.
Speaker 5: I think it will go like that, only because you
Speaker 5: need somehow someone who knows the exact technicalities of the
Speaker 5: T twenty cricket as the cricket as cricket grows through
Speaker 5: the years, and someone who knows the players and who
Speaker 5: can communicate because they should not be a language barrier.
Speaker 3: And I also have understood another important aspect of this,
Speaker 3: like when we're talking about coaches, I just wanted to
Speaker 3: slide this in. Players who have paid recently and retired
Speaker 3: are being directly absorbed to the coaching setups. If you
Speaker 3: look at it, someone like a Duane Bravo becoming the
Speaker 3: mentor of KKR. Someone like Danish Kartik coming into the
Speaker 3: rc BE set up, and even Gautham Gambid for that matter,
Speaker 3: is in.
Speaker 1: Not played very long ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he retired in twenty nineteen and suddenly stepping into coaching.
Speaker 3: Will that help the recency of your playing career?
Speaker 6: I guess I mean you tend to understand the team better.
Speaker 6: I mean the case of Danish Kartik, he was playing
Speaker 6: at the RSB of the previous season.
Speaker 1: Even earlier this year he was playing in a twenty.
Speaker 6: Right, right, so you tend to understand what has worked
Speaker 6: for your franchise in the past. You have a good
Speaker 6: relationship with the players that they're playing in this season around,
Speaker 6: So yes, you do build that connection and it is
Speaker 6: all about that. You need to be there for the
Speaker 6: players when you need them the most. If you're having
Speaker 6: a bad time, you need your coach to back you,
Speaker 6: and that is what gets the best out of you.
Speaker 4: That's that's what I think.
Speaker 5: You know, when you talked about this point with the
Speaker 5: recency of the players who have become the coach. I
Speaker 5: just remember the podcast where I heard about football So
Speaker 5: football teams in the big clubs now they are looking
Speaker 5: for younger coaches. Why because the young generation of football players,
Speaker 5: you can't just shout at them and expect them to
Speaker 5: perform the next game. You have to sit with them,
Speaker 5: have a coffee with them, have that conversation with them. Okay,
Speaker 5: when I was playing two years ago, I used to
Speaker 5: do this, Why is it not working with you? And
Speaker 5: then the guy will say, okay, I have to do
Speaker 5: this thing, I have to do that thing. So a
Speaker 5: young manager is more in i will say, more in
Speaker 5: fashion and more successful in football. And the same pattern
Speaker 5: has followed in cricket.
Speaker 3: Also, especially in a sport like twenty three yeah, which
Speaker 3: is evolving every season. Like last season you could have
Speaker 3: carried in oversize bats, but this season you can't carry
Speaker 3: over size bats. So when you go and talk to
Speaker 3: someone like a k care opener, you have to tell
Speaker 3: a move with this bat, how much can you hit?
Speaker 1: Yes? Exactly, So that's the recency. I think that will help. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just ooking.
Speaker 3: But in these pressure in these pressure situations, like with
Speaker 3: the impact player rule, how can you handle this? Probably
Speaker 3: someone like Sorrow might not be you know, very well
Speaker 3: aware of how an impact play Okay, from the outside
Speaker 3: you can probably easily get to it, but when you
Speaker 3: are in that hot seat, that is when you get
Speaker 3: to know. So we might see the trend of players
Speaker 3: retiring and then immediately joining you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone like DONI retiring at fifty.
Speaker 4: That's what everyone is waiting for, not only.
Speaker 3: You, and then you know, going on to become probably
Speaker 3: the coach or the mentor or the assistant coach or
Speaker 3: what do you want to be MSNY assistant coach CSK.
Speaker 1: How does it sound?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you need to give that man a break.
Speaker 6: He's still doing the job for you at the age
Speaker 6: of forty three on one leg.
Speaker 4: Seriously, CSKAS.
Speaker 3: And someone like road Sherman was not retired, was already
Speaker 3: started coaching. So that's also another trend that taking that
Speaker 3: recency trend to another level. Sit in the background and
Speaker 3: send out instructions.
Speaker 6: Don't play without a doubt that that might work for
Speaker 6: us against you never know.
Speaker 3: But s as in with the amount of you know,
Speaker 3: we're also being being in clock timers. So before we leave,
Speaker 3: quickly tell me before we'll come back in a week's time.
Speaker 3: Where do you see the changes in the table? There
Speaker 3: are plenty of Dhabi's coming up this week? Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: will the top four change? Like the top four now
Speaker 3: is GT UH, Delhi, RCB and Punjab. Okay, will it
Speaker 3: see a change? Do you think, Delly? Can you know?
Speaker 3: Probably that was a blip against Mumbai.
Speaker 5: And these I will always say it was a blip,
Speaker 5: especially after that unbeaten run of four matches.
Speaker 1: So if you asked you, let me put it this way.
Speaker 1: At this stage, who do you think are the likely
Speaker 1: for candidates for the playoffs? So if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I will definitely name GT D C.
Speaker 5: Then I will say a Pubcus, especially after what pointing
Speaker 5: and you are doing. And one surprise team would be
Speaker 5: someone from the trinity of am I as H or
Speaker 5: KRE not C s K.
Speaker 1: What is the trinity? How do you relate that trinity together? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Because they're successful team. There was one title, yeah okay,
Speaker 5: but last year they played different to see, there is
Speaker 5: no trinity trinity in i PL. Only the big two,
Speaker 5: Big two okay, okay, not even big to this big
Speaker 5: big three give it two k.
Speaker 1: Also, so for me the fourth thing, okay, can you
Speaker 1: repeat that for me?
Speaker 5: So it has to be G T D C Pocus
Speaker 5: or either of C sk No, not C S K
Speaker 5: am I as rich or kre.
Speaker 1: Mine, I would say, am I m im.
Speaker 4: No not not the sport.
Speaker 6: So r C B P B KS am I surely
Speaker 6: I think they might find they might find a reason
Speaker 6: to turn it around mid season. You never know, even
Speaker 6: your team might turn it around. That might be a possibility.
Speaker 6: So r C, B P B K S am I
Speaker 6: and either of d C or g T Okay.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: See simple For me, it's really I'm very impressed with
Speaker 3: the way they are playing, not just not because you're
Speaker 3: my friend and all that are playing well, and I
Speaker 3: think RC will get there.
Speaker 1: They have a good sounding boat though. They have a
Speaker 1: good set up to you know.
Speaker 5: You know, the Chin stadium is going to be the
Speaker 5: biggest problem.
Speaker 1: Let's see two teams in form right now.
Speaker 4: I sat are coming to tom It's going to be a.
Speaker 3: Hell of so so d C, R CV for me
Speaker 3: and am I for sure. No, I'm not counting them
Speaker 3: out at all. Their number seven already, I didn't see that.
Speaker 5: And okay and simple okay, so you're not counting.
Speaker 3: Finding their way out somewhere or the other. See g
Speaker 3: D for me and DC for me are the two
Speaker 3: more settled teams and r CV for the way they
Speaker 3: are playing seven seven games they are.
Speaker 5: True then and one then let go there me make
Speaker 5: one correction. It has to be dc GT. We're not qualifying.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a bold call. Ye, come back to it
Speaker 1: next week. Yeah. Well, you know, we got a few
Speaker 1: comments last week as well.
Speaker 3: Like one of them, like we discussed in the last episode,
Speaker 3: also praise this setup. But there was an important comment
Speaker 3: which said, you know, we're probably dragging it a bit
Speaker 3: too much, okay from David Drama and I think, but
Speaker 3: we'll try and keep the episode short, you know, and
Speaker 3: this I feel people that might not have so much
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