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Speaker 3: before we start this episode, I want to remember one
Speaker 3: person sor Alan. The surprise factor might be missing because
Speaker 3: we've shot this again.
Speaker 1: We are doing this again. So what is so like again?
Speaker 1: I said? It's I uish Badoni got it? Uh? Who
Speaker 1: would have.
Speaker 3: Thought that I used would be Verratkoli's last red ball captain.
Speaker 3: We've seen people like such and that was beautiful in
Speaker 3: his last Test, had a beautiful moment handed him the
Speaker 3: captaincy for the last session I think, and we won
Speaker 3: that Test against Australia. But Koley unfortunately hasn't had that,
Speaker 3: you know, privilege to go out on a high.
Speaker 1: Like a test career of that sort.
Speaker 3: Ending with that Scott bowlan episode in Sydney. I still
Speaker 3: asn't like, I don't know, as in, will you guys
Speaker 3: be interested in watching the India tour of England? Let
Speaker 3: me started asking that Rowich is gone to give a
Speaker 3: little bit context, a little bit of context to our viewers.
Speaker 3: Ruth is gone, Vera Koli is gone, Shami is gone.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Shammi isn't gone. Sami has said that he's
Speaker 3: not gone. But the transition period that we were talking
Speaker 3: about over the last one year one and a half
Speaker 3: years has kind of hastened. It's kind of gone into
Speaker 3: a it's it kind of it's here.
Speaker 1: It's not We're not gonna anticipate it anymore. It's here.
Speaker 1: Roth is gone, We're Art is gone. Let's keep Roath
Speaker 1: aside for a while.
Speaker 3: Yes, he, like you mentioned you mentioned before the start
Speaker 3: of the episode, that is a white ball, bona fide
Speaker 3: white ball. Great, but in test cricket okay, he has
Speaker 3: retired along with Art Kohli. And we have written pieces saying,
Speaker 3: oh we will miss Roth and Kohlie, but that man,
Speaker 3: we're Art Koali. Will you be in? Will you guys
Speaker 3: be interested in watching India Tour of England? If you
Speaker 3: were not working for India Today Sports if you were
Speaker 3: probably sitting in a Dhramsala cafe uh with your girlfriends
Speaker 3: or with your partners, would you have still watched India
Speaker 3: tour of England that is starting on June twenty.
Speaker 4: So let me answer it this way that I have
Speaker 4: been watching cricket for the last twenty years. So when
Speaker 4: I started watching cricket, my first he was such a
Speaker 4: ru Ganguli Luckhan. So if I am watching cricket now
Speaker 4: when they have had ten years back, I will again.
Speaker 4: I am not I will watch whatever comes even if
Speaker 4: art Cole is not there.
Speaker 1: So you're a fan of Indian cricket, I am a
Speaker 1: fan of cricket.
Speaker 4: Cricket, Yeah, I'm a fum cricket and I am a
Speaker 4: diet indiangregate supporter supporter. But if you talk about Verrat Coolie,
Speaker 4: it will definitely feel odd that whenever you play a
Speaker 4: Test match in England and you see that red cherry
Speaker 4: and you see those conditions and you realize, oh, no,
Speaker 4: Verad Coolie.
Speaker 1: He has retired from testicut.
Speaker 4: And how I mean this retirement the way it came,
Speaker 4: it completely shook me because.
Speaker 1: A day before his.
Speaker 4: Retirement came, there were reports coming out that he hasn'tformed
Speaker 4: BCI about his intention to retire from tested it, but
Speaker 4: the BI is looking to convince him for the England tour.
Speaker 1: And I was the man who did the copy in office.
Speaker 1: Then they after that, I was off.
Speaker 4: I was sleeping and I get a call from King
Speaker 4: Shuk did you see what happened?
Speaker 1: And like what happened?
Speaker 4: We'reartly retired. It's come on, don't Joe, let me sleep.
Speaker 4: He's like, no Verard Couli has retired. And then I
Speaker 4: checked the stories. I checked that to it. I still
Speaker 4: can't believe, like you, you still can't fathom the fact
Speaker 4: that the man who actually gave testicket a different purpose
Speaker 4: in this era of t turny cricket will not be
Speaker 4: playing Test it anymore. So yes, I will be watching cricket,
Speaker 4: but it will be a huge huse miss.
Speaker 1: For ending cricket.
Speaker 4: Test cricket and all the fans of Test get across
Speaker 4: the globe when we're at Coolie, is not there whatever
Speaker 4: in the place?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How long how long did it take you for
Speaker 1: the writing that copy that you sent that day?
Speaker 4: So it nearly took me around one half hour because
Speaker 4: first for the first half an hour I was still
Speaker 4: trying to understand except the fact that verat Culi has
Speaker 4: retired from testicate and it's not just testlicate now Ratkoli
Speaker 4: has it had from two different formats in the last
Speaker 4: two years, so then might be near. So he was very,
Speaker 4: very shaken by the fact. And I am not a
Speaker 4: Gradoli fan, but warrat Coli in testicate. I mean, who
Speaker 4: would not like it? If you love testicat, if you
Speaker 4: love cricket, if you love cricket, it's pure form, you
Speaker 4: will love Verratkoli everything that he did with the bat
Speaker 4: and with the field, in the field, his captain, c
Speaker 4: India's most sucessful captain and everything that he did. So
Speaker 4: he took me around on a half hours and I
Speaker 4: tried to pour in every feeling that I had for
Speaker 4: him as a fan of testicate and as a fan
Speaker 4: of Verard Coli intest catet.
Speaker 1: And what about you? Will you watch or not?
Speaker 5: So yeah, obviously I will like how sab said, I
Speaker 5: will watch just to see the fact that what this
Speaker 5: Indian team is going to be after I have written
Speaker 5: in my pieces that these two guys were like Batman
Speaker 5: and Superman, not always against each other, but you know,
Speaker 5: they were like, you know, those forces that was protecting
Speaker 5: this team and building up the superstars for the next generation.
Speaker 5: I remember very you know, in I think that twenty
Speaker 5: fourteen when he had scored twin hundreds in Montesta against Australia.
Speaker 5: I was going through a very bad face in my
Speaker 5: life at that point in time, and I was just
Speaker 5: sitting there and watching this guy go about and you know,
Speaker 5: just genuinely fight against an Australian team almost at times
Speaker 5: on his own kind of gave me, you know, made
Speaker 5: me remind It reminded me of such an in his
Speaker 5: days where he used to come out on an Australian
Speaker 5: tour and it was always such and versus the rest
Speaker 5: of the OSSI pace attack. I wrote it in my
Speaker 5: copy as well that sometimes it felt like that and
Speaker 5: that was the kind of thrill that Rakoli brought into
Speaker 5: Test Creak and his Captain c. I again, before we
Speaker 5: started the show, I said that I watched that Mamasiraj
Speaker 5: over to Oli Robinson, you had eight nine people going
Speaker 5: in England and bullying England. That was proper bullying. It
Speaker 5: was nothing like roughing them up. He was properly bully
Speaker 5: a guy who tried to bully one of his plays.
Speaker 5: So that kind of intensity, that kind of you know,
Speaker 5: that flavor of Test cricket was changed under with So
Speaker 5: that is something I will genuinely miss unless, like you
Speaker 5: get a captain who's of the same you know, Wiger
Speaker 5: and the same intent, which is going to be a
Speaker 5: big task.
Speaker 3: Will you watch a ship in like I asked that
Speaker 3: question because you know had as in like it's it's
Speaker 3: too There have been so many flag bearers of Test
Speaker 3: cricket in this period. Also in this era of art,
Speaker 3: there was Rahani, there was who played a brand of
Speaker 3: cricket that made us all fall in love with Test cricket, and.
Speaker 1: Even Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Joe Root.
Speaker 3: But the impact that we Art had right with so
Speaker 3: many Instagram followers, someone saying that, okay, I value the
Speaker 3: whites more to this generation. Had he not been there,
Speaker 3: had when we're art only not been there in Test cricket,
Speaker 3: had had that firebrand cricket not been there, what would
Speaker 3: have what would have happened to Test cricket in their
Speaker 3: off t twenties, maybe four day tests would have been
Speaker 3: a reality of why now? Because I remember, We're not
Speaker 3: himself spoke about not having not he's not a fan
Speaker 3: of four day tests, and time and again for someone
Speaker 3: to say that this is the ultimate format, this is
Speaker 3: the ultimate format because he had so much impact on
Speaker 3: not just you know, the general public, but the cricketers
Speaker 3: who you know, who grew up after his generation, like
Speaker 3: someone like the Ies Bodoni whom we started with.
Speaker 1: So many people Ryan parad.
Speaker 3: All of them now if you ask them, okay, I
Speaker 3: feel is okay, Ipeel gives me money, but I want
Speaker 3: to flavor. I want to flavor of that whites you know,
Speaker 3: and that beautiful headline from Indian Express Whites Loose Color.
Speaker 1: That was some fine, fine headline.
Speaker 3: And even Sid Munga for the ESPN apart from all
Speaker 3: the other pieces that we have read and we have produced,
Speaker 3: I thought they kind of got the emotions, you know
Speaker 3: when you we all as we need to read more,
Speaker 3: we need to listen to him more. I just hope,
Speaker 3: I just hope, as in like this is, this is
Speaker 3: not going to happen, But I just hope that he
Speaker 3: makes this, you know, makes his youth turn. He does
Speaker 3: a Shia freely for one time and comes back and
Speaker 3: place at least one series in England. So there was
Speaker 3: a couple of free series also West Indies Bangladesh coming
Speaker 3: as I'm not saying, I'm not disrespecting, but relatively easier
Speaker 3: series at home. You could have easily scored those ten
Speaker 3: thousand times. But it's not about it's not about runs
Speaker 3: and hundreds. When you talk about Art COOLi right, twenty
Speaker 3: years down the line, when you so many people might
Speaker 3: somebody might cross ten thousand, Schumann might do it. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: we might do it, provided they played Test cricket for
Speaker 3: that long and provided Test cricket is a sustainable format
Speaker 3: for that long.
Speaker 1: But twenty years down the.
Speaker 3: Line, when you want to remember Veratkoli, I wouldn't personally
Speaker 3: remember any of his hundreds, any of his double hundreds.
Speaker 3: Probably that you know that bouncer, that Mitchell Johnson Bold
Speaker 3: right after that tragic incident of Phil Hughes. All of
Speaker 3: us thought Australia would not you the bouncer, but they,
Speaker 3: being Australia, they tested were Art. And then the way
Speaker 3: he gave it back in that series and that Adelaide,
Speaker 3: you know that reported conversation with MS without trying.
Speaker 1: How would we know?
Speaker 3: So that three sixty three sixty odd changing on the
Speaker 3: last day, we're art had given.
Speaker 1: A fury dressing room talk. It seems that we will
Speaker 1: go for it.
Speaker 3: And then MS asked him in the team bus on
Speaker 3: the final as in, like before the final day or something,
Speaker 3: we're art.
Speaker 1: You will be able to do that.
Speaker 3: You will be able to be one of the battles
Speaker 3: who can score one hundred or two one fifty. But
Speaker 3: do you think the entire team will be able to
Speaker 3: tell together and do it. He reportedly said that MS,
Speaker 3: without doing, without doing, without trying it, how would we
Speaker 3: know if we will be able to do it or not?
Speaker 3: So that set the tone like many people say that. Okay,
Speaker 3: it started from twenty sixteen when he started dominating the
Speaker 3: home but the twenty fourteen series was unforgettable for me
Speaker 3: for many reasons.
Speaker 1: MS was facing out.
Speaker 3: MS gave up captaincy and that Adelaide test told us
Speaker 3: that we are going to see a different brand of
Speaker 3: cricket after what we had seen in the last few
Speaker 3: in the previous few years where we get wagged four
Speaker 3: nil four nil, will we will have the opposition fifty
Speaker 3: for six and then Brendon mccllum will score a double.
Speaker 3: Those things were you know, very difficult to watch. Had
Speaker 3: we continued in that fashion, I don't think many people
Speaker 3: would have been fans of Indian Test teem. At least
Speaker 3: Ashes would have been a big, big tournament. But that India, Austria, India, England,
Speaker 3: that fight even in India South Africa very underrated rivalry,
Speaker 3: especially when it happens in South Africa and the twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen tour where India unleashed Boomra. A lot of credit
Speaker 3: at this time should go to rubbish as three and
Speaker 3: his group of coaching set up also for believing in
Speaker 3: someone like there Aret, you know, not asking him to
Speaker 3: tone down. I still remember a lot of headlines that
Speaker 3: that say India one. But we're artists. Some needs to
Speaker 3: be reviewed and all that. In test cricket especially that's too.
Speaker 1: I just hope that there is one more chapter of
Speaker 1: Test cricket left in him.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that is possible, but like many
Speaker 3: people are saying, even christ we can't well speaking to
Speaker 3: us said I would have made him the captain for
Speaker 3: the next one one and a half years because, like
Speaker 3: you said, like both of you pointed out, this young
Speaker 3: setup needs a mentor figure. Yes, Boomera is a very
Speaker 3: good mentor Jadeja has been an experienced person. Shammi is there,
Speaker 3: Siraj is there, but that that energy that he brings.
Speaker 3: You know that ESPN article wrote one line, which we
Speaker 3: are we've all, we've all, we've all understood and we've
Speaker 3: all seen before the before the catch is taken in
Speaker 3: the slips, we're art is already near the batter, celebrating
Speaker 3: the intimidating and giving it back. And it was fitting
Speaker 3: as in like in a way it was fitting because
Speaker 3: on the last day, on the last Test match, also
Speaker 3: he needed a youngster.
Speaker 1: That's how he has to go. Yeah h not not
Speaker 1: just the youngster.
Speaker 5: I think he riled up the whole Australian crowd by
Speaker 5: emptying his pockets. So, like you said, that is something
Speaker 5: that I thought, like, okay, who are the front round
Speaker 5: right now? We have got the names like Schubmann, Gil
Speaker 5: and Pan We all know how this is a very
Speaker 5: animated character. Schubann Gil has been Yes, he's shown those
Speaker 5: flashes of you know, aggression, but like probably it's down
Speaker 5: to the fact that a lot of people have said, hey,
Speaker 5: you are going to be the next Virat Kouri, so
Speaker 5: you need to start showing that off. You need to
Speaker 5: be a little more you know, expressive on the field.
Speaker 5: You have to show that you have to command that authority.
Speaker 5: And he's done well, He's done well in the IP life.
Speaker 5: Like his captaincy last year was not that great. But
Speaker 5: I still feel a guy like him could have, you know,
Speaker 5: just bounced out ideas from a.
Speaker 1: And they go to a very close the slip And
Speaker 1: also yeah.
Speaker 5: And maybe like you, maybe like you said, if it's
Speaker 5: a very tough chase, he could probably look to a
Speaker 5: viral and as should we go for it and would
Speaker 5: have said, yeah, definitely, you have the skills.
Speaker 1: I have the skill. Yes, we have the skill.
Speaker 5: Punk can change the game on its own. So why
Speaker 5: are you fearing let's go for it? You need someone
Speaker 5: to at those points in time. MS was there for
Speaker 5: Khali most of the time in odies when he was
Speaker 5: the captain, always there as the don review system. As
Speaker 5: you could say, maybe a Kali system would have been
Speaker 5: there in place to help with the transition system.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and sure, and like to.
Speaker 5: Be very honest, I think I have seen a lot
Speaker 5: of people say it also that we're at least had
Speaker 5: two more years of trust cricket in them. I personally
Speaker 5: believe that he could have completed this cycle of WTC
Speaker 5: and then he could have just gone off.
Speaker 1: That is what I see.
Speaker 3: But sort of what do you think changed in like
Speaker 3: three months asn't like Deli's coach, while talking to the broadcasters,
Speaker 3: said that Verat was talking about, you know, going to
Speaker 3: England and even playing for playing with India for practice
Speaker 3: and he played that Runi match, which were obviously talking
Speaker 3: about what would have changed in those three months? Like
Speaker 3: we have been hearing that there were mixed signals from
Speaker 3: the selectors and the team management. He was once even
Speaker 3: told in Australia after the first Test or second Test
Speaker 3: that be be ready you might be asked to, you know,
Speaker 3: lead the team on a temporary basis. But then again
Speaker 3: he was told after that series loss after that that
Speaker 3: probably you know, you will also be judged like any
Speaker 3: other person, like how was supposed to be reported that?
Speaker 3: But what would have changed doesn't like someone who epitomized
Speaker 3: test cricket, who made Test cri get his priority.
Speaker 1: Why did he give up?
Speaker 4: You know, the things which you mentioned and the amount
Speaker 4: of things we have read in the last one week
Speaker 4: or so, it certainly does not seem that it was
Speaker 4: just Veratko's idea that he wanted to go out of
Speaker 4: Test because I believe the passion which Veradculi had for
Speaker 4: testing it if you read his last not the way
Speaker 4: he says it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not easy, but I feel it's the right.
Speaker 3: Time, unlike that one line statement by him not playing
Speaker 3: Test creator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you look at that, it because I
Speaker 4: always and I had told you also if I remember
Speaker 4: that for Verad COOLi, I thought that if we had
Speaker 4: to go out restrict with the last format where he
Speaker 4: boes out, I thought so, yeah, because verat COOLi and
Speaker 4: Test it to go hand in hand. You look at
Speaker 4: what Michael Vaughan has said that in the last thirty
Speaker 4: years and or so, nobody has done more for testickeret
Speaker 4: than Verrad Koli. And it is not Verrad Couli's loss
Speaker 4: that is not playing Testicate. It is going to be
Speaker 4: testlated'lass that Radcoli will not be donning the rights for
Speaker 4: India and playing that rechig again. So it just does
Speaker 4: not make sense to me that it was rad Couli
Speaker 4: you wanted to move out, and all those media reports
Speaker 4: were which first came out that wanted to convince. I
Speaker 4: think it's the other way around. I think it was
Speaker 4: a message from the management, maybe the coach, maybe the selector,
Speaker 4: maybe the VCI secretary or VSA president that look, last cycle,
Speaker 4: we feel miserably. We lost a home series against New Zealand,
Speaker 4: we're whitewash, we lost to Australia.
Speaker 1: We gave you chances.
Speaker 4: Hurons are not coming at all and it is pretty
Speaker 4: evident that we need to look forward. And maybe because
Speaker 4: the new deputy cycle is on, they opted for a
Speaker 4: completely new team where they could from the start itself,
Speaker 4: they could go and say, okay, we might not have
Speaker 4: the experience with Gerard or hit, but we will build
Speaker 4: a team like when the only retired, they built a
Speaker 4: young team. And for me, it's going to be you know,
Speaker 4: like Allan said about the captaincy options, you know, I
Speaker 4: firmly believe who becomes the captain is not going to
Speaker 4: matter because the first time in the Integraged history in
Speaker 4: the last twenty five years, I think it's going to
Speaker 4: the coach who's going to be the main man. It's
Speaker 4: going to be God the side who becomes the captain.
Speaker 4: He's going to walk on the path which he was
Speaker 4: him so I think and I had a very very
Speaker 4: important role in verad Cool announcing his retirement, because it
Speaker 4: would not have looked nice that they would have dropped
Speaker 4: rat Koli from a series midway. Imagine they named art
Speaker 4: Coli in the squad for ing series. He goes there,
Speaker 4: failed to perform in the first Twitchess, then he gets dropped.
Speaker 4: That would have been embarrassing for everyone and that would
Speaker 4: have quoted more controversy than this retirement statement has.
Speaker 1: So maybe it was this team management and.
Speaker 4: We're at being we're at he said, Okay, if you
Speaker 4: want me out, I will not say anything.
Speaker 1: I'll be out and he's out.
Speaker 3: What about the form like keeping motion ins inside all
Speaker 3: of us have spoken about, Yes, we're are Is that
Speaker 3: to tests he has made a significant contribution, like you said,
Speaker 3: in the last thirty years, In the last thirty years,
Speaker 3: If Michael one is saying that, it means that such
Speaker 3: an ponting Lara Alara included because of the cultural impact
Speaker 3: that probably he made for that format, for that format,
Speaker 3: especially in his era of T twenty dominance. But what
Speaker 3: about the form? Was it irreversible? Like could he have
Speaker 3: gone to England and scored runs on a see two
Speaker 3: three months ago, we were only calling for their heads.
Speaker 3: Right we're at and they're not scoring runs. How could
Speaker 3: it have changed in England had he gone there.
Speaker 5: I think one of the things about Colin if you
Speaker 5: look at his career, has been the fact that he
Speaker 5: is someone who always evolves with time. If you look
Speaker 5: at that interview where he was saying that, you know
Speaker 5: how he changed his fitness, How he changed his fitness.
Speaker 5: He was a bit of a chubby guy when he
Speaker 5: came and he saw himself on the mirror and he
Speaker 5: was like, no, this is not how a cricketer should
Speaker 5: look like. So he was always changing. He was always
Speaker 5: a guy who found a solution to problems. Yes, he
Speaker 5: had a problem. He had a weakness, and I think
Speaker 5: whenever we have a weakness, we try to either mask
Speaker 5: it or try to improve on it. We don't let
Speaker 5: it be a weakness for all the time. Yes, a
Speaker 5: couple of times you might fall trapped to that weakness,
Speaker 5: as like more than a couple of times he did
Speaker 5: in Australia, But I don't think that would have been
Speaker 5: a problem in England. He would have been coming in
Speaker 5: with a fresher mind. He had just come out of
Speaker 5: an IPL season after winning the PL maybe you never know.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, you never know, he
Speaker 5: would have come out feeling a better person, having had
Speaker 5: got some runs in his kitty. He would have gone
Speaker 5: to the England conditions with the India a side played
Speaker 5: a few matchs played, got some game time, maybe would
Speaker 5: have gotten out. Outside of we would have still written stories,
Speaker 5: we would have still said the same things. But then
Speaker 5: once the series starts, he might have found the groove.
Speaker 5: He would have found it and he would have started
Speaker 5: scoring runs.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 5: You never know at the end of the day, because
Speaker 5: I think probably, like how Saab said, the management decided
Speaker 5: that enough of chances, it's time that we start a
Speaker 5: new cycle. Now, let these guys fail, that is upon them.
Speaker 5: But let's just stop this and let's just have all
Speaker 5: the former players who were there, the former from the
Speaker 5: old guard. Let the old guard move away, let the
Speaker 5: new ones come in. And I think that is it,
Speaker 5: because at the end we'll never know what would have happened.
Speaker 3: So what about you could he have wasn't like see
Speaker 3: personally speaking? Yeah, I think it was. COLI can correct.
Speaker 3: We are we are no one to tell Coley can't correctly,
Speaker 3: can't correct that thing. But the evidence in the last
Speaker 3: three four years shows us that probably he was trying
Speaker 3: a bit too much. Probably all that criticism, all that
Speaker 3: outside noise he talks about, He talks that. He says
Speaker 3: that I don't care about outside noise, but everyone, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's be frank, like everyone cares about what is being
Speaker 3: said about them.
Speaker 1: At least here is it.
Speaker 3: And that pressure of you know, doing this, doing that,
Speaker 3: winning the T twenty World Cup, winning the champions Trophy,
Speaker 3: I think it released something out of him and that
Speaker 3: is what probably I think.
Speaker 1: And he was in Australia. It was not like he
Speaker 1: worked with.
Speaker 3: Was he as an EXXANDJA banker before he went to Australia.
Speaker 3: He tried a hell lot.
Speaker 1: Of things but nothing worked And it was not like Okay.
Speaker 3: Coley didn't know that Bowland will bowl that they Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it was something more mental than you know, technical,
Speaker 3: And at thirty SIGs, at this stage where probably his
Speaker 3: lookoking at maybe living a life, we're living a more settled,
Speaker 3: more peaceful life. I don't think it would have been
Speaker 3: you know, wise to prolong the career. Maybe the timing
Speaker 3: was right, like in that again I'm quoting that piece.
Speaker 3: Like he said, you know test cricket. Weir Art wouldn't
Speaker 3: come in to test cricket if he was not sure
Speaker 3: that he would be able to give his one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Maybe he knew that I will not be my best
Speaker 3: version if I go to England.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's the reason. You know, I can agree with you,
Speaker 4: I can disagree with you. But yes, Art was not
Speaker 4: scoring runs. Okay, and apart from that, the biggest factor
Speaker 4: being that Verartculi was India's bestess.
Speaker 1: Better when was India's bestess? Battle last? When? When do
Speaker 1: you remember twenty nineteen, twenty twenteen.
Speaker 4: Okay, since that pandemic happened, and after the pandemic, I
Speaker 4: think that BCI and Articully brawl happened where he was
Speaker 4: still by the ODA captain c with the press release
Speaker 4: where he was not in mention the captain. Then it
Speaker 4: took up on his ego and he relinquished the test.
Speaker 4: And see since then, I think we're art Koli had
Speaker 4: thought and it was lurking there that all that intiencity
Speaker 4: that he has been carrying for the team since twenty twelve,
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen. Wherever you see in the last ten years,
Speaker 4: he gave everything that he could, every ounce of it,
Speaker 4: and now it was taking a toll on him. And
Speaker 4: he came out in public and said how Anushka, his wife,
Speaker 4: helped him cope with this mental outside pressure. And now
Speaker 4: you know, I am I can agree with you that, yeah,
Speaker 4: he might not score runcie when if he goes to England.
Speaker 4: But still I would have loved to see him play
Speaker 4: the Test matches because we're art Koli. As you said,
Speaker 4: I will not remember his hundreds, but I will remember
Speaker 4: his attitude on the field, the way he used to
Speaker 4: uplift the mood of the bowlers, his feeling changes, the
Speaker 4: way he used to rile up the crowds. The opposition
Speaker 4: used to fear. Okay, we're Art coolly standing in the slips.
Speaker 4: You just have to be very careful when you're playing
Speaker 4: as an Indian team with Verart Coli inside it. Australian's
Speaker 4: will still market him as the greatest overseas player to
Speaker 4: play the Australian.
Speaker 1: Way, but stats also tell you that isn't like seveny there.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you I think now we're at will
Speaker 4: and is the next tour of India is in Australia.
Speaker 1: When he goes there, you see how she is market it.
Speaker 4: When India went to Australia, you see every front page
Speaker 4: of Australian newspaper had hind the Punjabi and English front
Speaker 4: headlines which we're art Cooley as a cover pick.
Speaker 1: That is Rali for you.
Speaker 4: It's not just the runs he made, the impact he
Speaker 4: had with the field, any statements he was.
Speaker 1: It was also attaching to see the Latin colonel, you know,
Speaker 1: the the dr chief. Yeah, exactly were on that day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Indian mentioned him and he said that we're art
Speaker 4: like many and Indians, we'rea Kuli is my favorite cricketer.
Speaker 1: And used the beautiful analgy also. Yes, it was. It
Speaker 1: is fun.
Speaker 3: But you know, at this stage, you know, since Ruth
Speaker 3: is not going to be there, let's accept we're at
Speaker 3: is also not going to be there totally.
Speaker 1: Whom should be.
Speaker 3: You know, the leader of the next gain Like, will
Speaker 3: you be okay appointing a stop gap arrangement now or
Speaker 3: are you going to look at are you going to
Speaker 3: back someone say that okay, even if you fail in
Speaker 3: a couple of series, you take the leader.
Speaker 1: And you go forward.
Speaker 5: I think, hands down, I feel it's going to be
Speaker 5: supern Gil and the signs were very clear the moment
Speaker 5: that Hardig Pandia was kind of, you know, thrown out
Speaker 5: of that leaderships in limited overs format and suddenly out
Speaker 5: of the blue you saw Schumann Gill being made vice captain.
Speaker 5: I think he got the blessings from the seniors. Also,
Speaker 5: I feel a guy like Rood Sharma and probably a
Speaker 5: guy like Viratkoli would have endorsed.
Speaker 3: But I think made it very clear during that last
Speaker 3: stour of Australia that let these guys earn captain c
Speaker 3: what have they done? As in like, let these guys
Speaker 3: earn captains And he only mentioned Bumra. He did not
Speaker 3: even say that, okay, Bomra has been has done really
Speaker 3: and all that. But he was very dismissive of the
Speaker 3: youngsters coming into that role as in, at least it
Speaker 3: looked like it, because he said, let they let these
Speaker 3: guys earn it. We we are at me and even
Speaker 3: Bumra have worked so hard to get to this person,
Speaker 3: as in like, let's not discount bro. He might not
Speaker 3: have had a terrific test career, but he was India's
Speaker 3: best partsman from that phase twenty nineteen three, and he
Speaker 3: as in like for all that he achieved in white
Speaker 3: ball cricket, maybe probably.
Speaker 1: Going form a visas at president told him.
Speaker 3: The president told him that, okay, take it in tests also,
Speaker 3: and he did a decent job except for that home
Speaker 3: series and the Bordagazka Trophy.
Speaker 5: So but but like I said, those things might not
Speaker 5: matter to this current management. The current management is seeing that, okay,
Speaker 5: the project is going to be Shupermann Gil. He seems
Speaker 5: to be like a guy who can you know, come
Speaker 5: into his own and take Indian cricket forward. And I
Speaker 5: think that is where the decision comes. At the end
Speaker 5: of the day. They see that, Okay, this guy is
Speaker 5: able to do it. I like Schupmann in the sense
Speaker 5: that last season in the IPL he flopped, his team
Speaker 5: also flopped. But this season they have been simply sensational.
Speaker 5: He has also probably maybe the amar of bad influence,
Speaker 5: I guess, like started scoring runs. He has been leading
Speaker 5: from the front. His team is sitting at the top
Speaker 5: of the table, just followed by maybe RCV. So he
Speaker 5: is doing everything right. He's making those decisions.
Speaker 1: Right except for scoring runs in Test cricket maybe overseas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but this is like, Okay, I remember that.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't agree with that said like scoring runs, we're
Speaker 3: not has been scoring runs every season? Yeah, I understand,
Speaker 3: but he batter of his caliber couldn't go and score
Speaker 3: runs there. I'm not saying, Okay, Schumann Gill doesn't deserve captaincy,
Speaker 3: but why do you want to give it to him
Speaker 3: when he still has You were, you know, cemented a
Speaker 3: place in your argument about a youngster earning the road.
Speaker 5: If you all remember the time when Graham Smith became
Speaker 5: South African captain. South Africa were going through a very
Speaker 5: bad face. They had just lost a home World Cup.
Speaker 5: They did not even qualify from the groups. You had
Speaker 5: a guy like Sean Pollock being thrown out of captain
Speaker 5: c and a relatively unknown Grahame Smith, twenty two years old,
Speaker 5: was given the captaincy. And the first ODA mass that
Speaker 5: gram Smith had, if I remember correctly, it was against India,
Speaker 5: and India slammed them that game, but still they stuck
Speaker 5: with him and then he went to England. I remember
Speaker 5: that series that he had in England where he scored
Speaker 5: I think two seventy five hot runs.
Speaker 1: He stepped up so at the end of the day
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like this.
Speaker 5: You give a person captaincy, Okay, you lead the thing,
Speaker 5: you perish, you perish, otherwise you succeed. That was done
Speaker 5: probably with most of the captains of our generation, and
Speaker 5: the same thing is happening with Schupman Gill. Whether he
Speaker 5: likes it or not, whether we like it or not,
Speaker 5: the fact of the matter remains that this team managed
Speaker 5: maybe probably gum Beer. See is the fact that Okay,
Speaker 5: this guy I can, I know is going to be
Speaker 5: here for another ten years. He's going to be the
Speaker 5: hair apparent. He's already being called the Prince of Indian
Speaker 5: cricket right see a marketing all that, you will understand that.
Speaker 3: But my point is my point is when you have
Speaker 3: not scored a fifty plus score overseas in Sena Countries
Speaker 3: and West Indies since that GABA Test of twenty twenty
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one GABA Test of twenty twenty one, why
Speaker 3: would you see do you want supermann Gil the batter
Speaker 3: to be there or do you want to a leader
Speaker 3: who's still struggling to you know, score runs overseas. I
Speaker 3: at this point wouldn't give Sumani. He's like you said,
Speaker 3: he's twenty four to twenty five. Let him earn it
Speaker 3: at twenty seven two years score runs were didn't earn
Speaker 3: it when he was, you know, scoring fifty forty odds.
Speaker 3: He was already an established MS again, he was scoring
Speaker 3: runs before he got Test captaincy. And it's not like that.
Speaker 3: You don't have alternatives. This narrative of Schumann Gill is
Speaker 3: the only guy there is little baffling for me the prince,
Speaker 3: and all that is okay, white ball, you've done well,
Speaker 3: you are it there, ipl you've done there, you were
Speaker 3: it there.
Speaker 1: But Test cricket is not something like.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll try, you know, I will give a dolly
Speaker 3: to this guy when you haven't. You see if if
Speaker 3: he if Schumann doesn't score in the first two Tests
Speaker 3: in England, his place in eleven is not certain.
Speaker 1: Do you think we don't have a better number three?
Speaker 3: Then why then apply the same logic has scored so
Speaker 3: many runs to give him number three and tell him
Speaker 3: I see ten years in you.
Speaker 1: How can you see ten years in Schumann when he
Speaker 1: has not scored run but that and what's wrong? Has done?
Speaker 1: What not? Take?
Speaker 5: The whole whole thing has been the fact that he
Speaker 5: is not being able to guarantee five tests. That is
Speaker 5: what the whole argument is coming down.
Speaker 3: See, if you want Boomra to guarantee five tests, make
Speaker 3: him work like Pat Cummins. Give him the freedom to
Speaker 3: opt out of T twenty leagues, to opt out of
Speaker 3: ODI series.
Speaker 1: Give him that freedom.
Speaker 3: If you want to prioritize test cricket, or get someone
Speaker 3: like Risha Borca as the vice captain and ask them
Speaker 3: to lead whenever they are there. I see no problem
Speaker 3: in that. But Boomra, the way he led in Australia,
Speaker 3: this is my opinion. I'm not saying that you were
Speaker 3: right right if but the way he led in Australia,
Speaker 3: I saw shades of that and he's as aggressive as that.
Speaker 1: He's someone like Rahani. He doesn't, you know, go and
Speaker 1: sleds the oppertion.
Speaker 3: But every move he does, every every plan that he
Speaker 3: plots are inch perfect.
Speaker 5: But actually you need to understand one thing at the
Speaker 5: end of the day. Even if you ask me, do
Speaker 5: you think that schumann Gill is good as a player?
Speaker 1: No? Not yet, No, not not at all.
Speaker 5: But he's still the vice captain right as an odio player, yes,
Speaker 5: phenomenon as a test player, like you said, he's still
Speaker 5: testing his waters, he's still finding his feet.
Speaker 1: I always thirty five tests.
Speaker 3: After thirty five, it's still people are that lucky. But
Speaker 3: but and Suman'll after thirty five that we are still
Speaker 3: sitting here and saying, oh, he'll play for another ten years.
Speaker 1: But that is going.
Speaker 5: But that is the whole point I have like if
Speaker 5: I if I was a selector, yes, I would have
Speaker 5: convinced Boomera that listen, you don't need to play all
Speaker 5: these leagues or all these odio serieses. We can choose
Speaker 5: whatever you want to play. Please remain fit. We will
Speaker 5: take care of you, We will do whatever is needed.
Speaker 5: But we need you as a captain. Now that he said,
Speaker 5: oh I cannot be there for five tests, whoever is
Speaker 5: in the management is like, okay, let him be the
Speaker 5: normal bowler that it is. We are going to select
Speaker 5: somebody else. And probably it might have been supmann Gill
Speaker 5: who might have been there or might have just walked
Speaker 5: into the room at that point in time where they said, oh,
Speaker 5: let him be the captain. I have no other, no
Speaker 5: other explanation towards it. But the fact is Indian Cricket
Speaker 5: is now investing in submann Gill whether we like it
Speaker 5: or not, they are going to go hell for leather
Speaker 5: with this guy up front. He fails, he fails, whatever happens,
Speaker 5: he is going to have that protection. It's almost like
Speaker 5: correct me if I'm wrong. I think in Mahaba, like
Speaker 5: you give Arjun who had that special bow to kill
Speaker 5: so and so person, So this that same thing has
Speaker 5: been given to Schumann that Okay, you are given Captain c.
Speaker 1: You will be protected.
Speaker 5: Like how how Krishna stepped in to be the chariot
Speaker 5: driver for arj same way like I'm going to be leading,
Speaker 5: but you will be by argent.
Speaker 1: This is all, this is all. Care is this bias?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Coachman, player I I have I have
Speaker 1: been sad.
Speaker 5: I have been cribbing over the fact that we lost
Speaker 5: Shupman for years right now. But the fact is he
Speaker 5: has grown as a player. I do feel that once
Speaker 5: this responsibility does come on to him, he will be
Speaker 5: a better man. That is what it's all. It's all
Speaker 5: based on trust. It's all based on trust.
Speaker 3: Believe So why will an out of form player hasn't
Speaker 3: like out of one says I'm going out of him
Speaker 3: for like two years? Give me captain c After that,
Speaker 3: I will score runs. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 1: Sort. You've been keeping quiet, watching as you know sledge
Speaker 1: for so long. What is your wordy on this? See
Speaker 1: Schupmann or someone else?
Speaker 4: See by all my heart, I wanted boom to let site.
Speaker 4: But if Boomra does not want to lead, if they
Speaker 4: if the selectors and the management feels that Boomra will
Speaker 4: not be fit enough to every test match, then my
Speaker 4: ophuman Wilship. Okay, he might have failed in Australia, but
Speaker 4: listen to me. He has been your best test battle
Speaker 4: wherever you have gone. Okay, he came from any one
Speaker 4: year he was out due to that unfortunate accident.
Speaker 1: He comes back and hits a hundred.
Speaker 4: Okay, and then you know, I will again say that
Speaker 4: he failed enough a series because there was no role clarity.
Speaker 4: It was management failure. It was not this Japan's failure
Speaker 4: and more than Rejapan's failure. You know is a player
Speaker 4: is a travesiate kind of player where you need him
Speaker 4: to shield for the first forty to fifty overs. Your
Speaker 4: top water has to be there even if they're not.
Speaker 4: Like Punt survived because Para used to score runs. Fudara
Speaker 4: used to whether that first and second session. Now this
Speaker 4: top watter failed Schumann Gill, I don't know if he's
Speaker 4: going to bed at number three because I don't think
Speaker 4: you know you're talking about captaincy. I don't see human
Speaker 4: Gill as a long term number three batting option for India. Yeah,
Speaker 4: why not give us an option? Bring in a Karuna,
Speaker 4: give you a chance. Why not try Obviously you're given
Speaker 4: twenty five tests to Schuman Gill.
Speaker 1: Give another place Sance for me.
Speaker 4: You know, if if you ask me, I believe Schumann
Speaker 4: and jas Was should open and Keil should bat at
Speaker 4: number four at number three. Should give someone like Karun,
Speaker 4: someone like say, someone like uh Sales any of these
Speaker 4: three players, because Kale has the technical ability to buy
Speaker 4: at number four. Your technically the most able player has
Speaker 4: to add number four you have seen in history.
Speaker 3: Also Kale gets a secured spot, then that the funder
Speaker 3: of fun is not enough. Okay, one match he'll opened
Speaker 3: one match, one match for captaincy.
Speaker 4: Also, like Kale was given captaincy then he was really
Speaker 4: out of the plants and now does not trust him
Speaker 4: as a captain. Fine Gambir wants him to play as
Speaker 4: a free fall battle.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: My single question to got and the management is how
Speaker 4: and like you asked, how and why are you giving
Speaker 4: Schumann Gill that captain stool. If he's getting that, it's
Speaker 4: just reports, you know, if it's getting it because we
Speaker 4: have seen like all mentioned, I agree with you, we
Speaker 4: are the green Gramms point. But you know, South African
Speaker 4: cricket and Indian cricket, these are two way different things.
Speaker 4: The pressure which you carry in India it's completely different.
Speaker 4: South Africa has not won any ices tournament as if
Speaker 4: I'm not wrong. India, on the other hand, you did
Speaker 4: not win an ice tournament for ten years and there
Speaker 4: was so much Radcli was asked to move on, became
Speaker 4: the captain, the coach was changed, there were questions from
Speaker 4: out the coaching evilties.
Speaker 1: So there's two different things.
Speaker 4: And I personally believe if we're making a captain Test captain,
Speaker 4: it should either bra if not boomra I should be punted.
Speaker 4: He's the more deserving eye. He has given you everything.
Speaker 4: The only problem is does he hold the blessings of
Speaker 4: coach Gonna be?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, that is that is only that is That
Speaker 1: is where it all comes down to.
Speaker 5: Like I agree to every single logical points that you're
Speaker 5: making for me, Boomrah should be the captain.
Speaker 1: End of discussion.
Speaker 5: No, the moment that you heard that road Sherma is retiring,
Speaker 5: everybody said, oh Boomra has to be the next captain.
Speaker 5: There is no need for a discussion for it. But
Speaker 5: it all comes down to the man who, like how
Speaker 5: Sareb said, for the first time in Indian cricket, you're
Speaker 5: going to have an Indian coach leading the team and
Speaker 5: the captain does not matter in that point. Absolutely, in
Speaker 5: that point when it comes to that, if that's gonna be.
Speaker 3: The case, you're gonna give how much weto power to Gambi, right.
Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. See, you're playing Test cricket exactly.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 5: I've always been of the belief that a team management
Speaker 5: comprises of the coaches and the captain coming together. I
Speaker 5: felt that feeling when road Sherman raul Ra was there,
Speaker 5: Rubbish was there. You always had that feeling that Okay,
Speaker 5: these two guys along with the rest of the management
Speaker 5: makes the calls.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't want that power to always be with
Speaker 5: Gol and Kampire. You need to have other people around you.
Speaker 5: You need to have a strong captain. Who is there,
Speaker 5: who can you know, like go I'm not saying go
Speaker 5: against Gambierre, but just say that, hey, what why why
Speaker 5: don't we try this a different method? Who can hold
Speaker 5: a healthy conversation with it? But I don't see that
Speaker 5: with schubun Gil and Gambier happening, And probably that is
Speaker 5: the main reason why Gil is being given the.
Speaker 3: Cold for someone you know as in like at this stage,
Speaker 3: for someone who has lost a historic Test series at
Speaker 3: home to New Zealand and then hammered in Australia for
Speaker 3: the first time in ten years, should be the last
Speaker 3: person would be allowed to make decisions, is what I
Speaker 3: think for Test cricket, for test credit.
Speaker 1: For one days.
Speaker 3: Yes he has had plans and all that, but if
Speaker 3: but there's another way of looking at it. If Gambierre
Speaker 3: had said, okay, I want to restart, then I'll prove
Speaker 3: myself with this young team, give me a couple of series.
Speaker 3: You're not going to expect results in England, No nobody
Speaker 3: there will so even a number four spot, even the
Speaker 3: opening spot. He will take a couple of series to
Speaker 3: figure out who is there, Who's what. If Schumann has
Speaker 3: made the captain and he says I want a bed
Speaker 3: at four. Then if he gets that and number three
Speaker 3: we went out to go go for a couple of series.
Speaker 3: If Gambire has said that, maybe give me time. I
Speaker 3: want a young setup, probably now he will have no
Speaker 3: one to blame.
Speaker 1: I can't blame. Yeah, the blame will seriously come to you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, if these youngsters can step up,
Speaker 3: let's be optimistic.
Speaker 1: Is the youngsters can step up?
Speaker 3: So what did we're not score in that Australia Series
Speaker 3: one nineteen runs in five tests with thirty six runs
Speaker 3: in three tests, three tests, three tests right, five innings,
Speaker 3: So even if any two of them score more than
Speaker 3: that in England, it would be a welcome change. Let's
Speaker 3: be honest. So there are two ways of looking at it.
Speaker 3: Can be right now, can't blame anyone. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, if he has taken up that responsibility, okay,
Speaker 3: let me show that even if we lose, we'll fight
Speaker 3: and lose, even if we will challenge England England see
Speaker 3: England or not Australia. Let's put that way. At the
Speaker 3: end of the day, they are beatable. It's not like
Speaker 3: they are unbeatable. They have had built a four tress there.
Speaker 3: West Indies comes there, smashes them. Sri Lanka goes there,
Speaker 3: smash you. India nearly won that series had twenty two rescheduled. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the rescheduled series. Had Indian players not run for IPL
Speaker 3: we could have won that Test in Manchester. What I thought, So,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's gonna be a very interesting face. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be very interesting face. There are multiple ways to
Speaker 3: look at things. Our opinion hardly matters. The man sitting there,
Speaker 3: Achita Gurkher, the bass are big wigs and if I
Speaker 3: see chairman wants to, you know, give his thoughts and also,
Speaker 3: like you said, the head coach and his troop.
Speaker 1: I hope it's a you know, vise decision at the
Speaker 1: end of the day because.
Speaker 3: The legacy that we have had in test cricket the
Speaker 3: last cycle was did not reflect it and we are
Speaker 3: good enough. It's not like that India doesn't have talent.
Speaker 3: It's not like if you're at and gone India can't
Speaker 3: you know, play test cricket, win test matches. It's there
Speaker 3: is an abundance of talent. There is a good work
Speaker 3: done by so many coaches across the country.
Speaker 1: Who do are not? You know? Who are not Gotham
Speaker 1: Gonna Beer?
Speaker 3: Who are or are not you know as popular as
Speaker 3: Gotham Gonna beer as popular as under component. But there
Speaker 3: are coaches who are you know giving us the surio
Speaker 3: and gis and all of them. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, it should be India are capable of it.
Speaker 3: But it's a big decision that needs to be made
Speaker 3: in the next few weeks is what we think?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Quick prediction as in like what will happen to this?
Speaker 3: Who will who will be the captain? I'm not asking
Speaker 3: who do you want to be that? Who do you
Speaker 3: want to see as the captain? Who will be the captain?
Speaker 3: And what is your series?
Speaker 1: Corene? Very early prediction, but let's do it before.
Speaker 4: So, if I trust all the media reports and what
Speaker 4: Alice is saying, it has to be Schuman Gill.
Speaker 3: But there were a couple of conflicting reports that last
Speaker 3: night has like on Thursday night Wednesday night saying that
Speaker 3: there might be some change and also visited the c
Speaker 3: Temple maybe to clear clear smiles.
Speaker 1: And how are you playing? Five times?
Speaker 4: I believe it will be to draw over optimate optimistic.
Speaker 4: I am but I will back my youngsters because Indian
Speaker 4: youngsters are pretty much gavele of beating this English side
Speaker 4: at their own backyard. And one actually say.
Speaker 5: India too well a little bit more adventurous because I
Speaker 5: feel if you bring out take out guys.
Speaker 1: Like performing seniors, you can always sighs.
Speaker 5: So you bring in size, so guys who have had
Speaker 5: experience playing in England. You have those kale rowels who
Speaker 5: can you know, just frustrate basseball just like I feel size.
Speaker 5: So that is a kind of player who can do
Speaker 5: that and maybe he might be your new number three
Speaker 5: or an opener.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Those guys will just wear around this attack. They can
Speaker 5: do it, they can get those runs. And if that
Speaker 5: is the case, England are going to fold. That is
Speaker 5: what we have seen with this approach that they have.
Speaker 5: They are not they are no superpower, let's be very honest.
Speaker 5: So I genuinely am going a little optimistic here, a
Speaker 5: little adventurous as well.
Speaker 1: Two to one India and who captain You've made it clear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I personally feel it's going to be because the
Speaker 5: signs are already there and I just feel he's going
Speaker 5: to be that guy unfortunately who opened the door first
Speaker 5: and came inside. So he was malade the class monitor
Speaker 5: and the rest is history for me.
Speaker 1: Probably have you guys called him asked him whether he
Speaker 1: has not retired. He has not retired. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's tried next season for me.
Speaker 3: See you went out of the way to ask Broth
Speaker 3: and we're at whether they will play whether they will
Speaker 3: not play. That saga continued for six months for me
Speaker 3: at number three, Rhan at number four, Rhani captain.
Speaker 1: For another wild prediction India from India winning three two.
Speaker 3: I see that might be a joke, but India winning
Speaker 3: this series is something that is not beyond imagination. So
Speaker 3: let's be optimistic and it's gonna be fun the next
Speaker 3: few days. I PL is resuming on Saturday, May seventeen.
Speaker 3: The last two weeks will be fun there as well.
Speaker 3: Let's see how it pans out, how it all pans out.
Speaker 3: And I think this is the right time to, you know,
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Speaker 3: should be India's next Test captain and what they think
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