WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.359 This is India Today Podcasts. 2 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.519 You are on India Today Podcasts and you are in. 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.039 The Sledging Room. 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.240 Let me warn you this is not a place for 5 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.519 the faint hearted and the weak need. If you're a 6 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:22.640 sports poff and like challenging everything you see in her, stay, 7 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:25.719 If you're a sooner bodyatya fan, walk away. 8 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:26.960 Right now. 9 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.920 It's time for the second episode of the third season 10 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.119 of Sledging Room Podcast with me Alan and think Shue 11 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.399 Sorrow was not here. Is not here because he was 12 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.719 too heavy to you know, turn up and come to 13 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:58.520 office on a day. I'm expected the Young India, the 14 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.159 New India, to do well. In fact, they could have 15 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.280 done well. They perhaps should have done well, but in 16 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:07.120 the end it was a five wicket defeat in the 17 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:08.719 first Test of the five match series. 18 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.760 The Anderson Tentralkod Trophy hasn't started well. 19 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.680 I just want to dive straight into the topic, Alan Sook, 20 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.400 is it time for a knee jerk reaction? 21 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.079 What do you think who should be held accountable? What 22 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:23.519 went wrong? 23 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:27.599 I think for me, I think the comments that have 24 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.879 come in, like more or less everybody has been saying, 25 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.799 oh they've done well, Oh they did this it's a 26 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:34.560 young side. 27 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.040 To be very honest, it's not a young side. 28 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.640 I think the average age for India's somewhere around twenty 29 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.359 nine and the average age for England is somewhere around twenty, 30 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.760 so you are not a young side. For me, I 31 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.400 feel the whole management has to be held accountable for this, 32 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.200 the kind of I'm sorry, I'm going on a little 33 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.040 bit of a rant. Obviously, it's a good performance. I 34 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.000 think the batters did well. Boomera always stepped up. The batters, 35 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.319 at least the top five did well. The rest was 36 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.640 I don't know what happened to them. Bowling wise, it 37 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.439 was all over the place. And you cannot How can 38 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.120 a bowler like Prusis Krishna, who has done so well 39 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.439 in the IPL conceit in both innings more than have 40 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.360 an economy rate of more than six? 41 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:18.120 Have you not? Okay? 42 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.599 The first innings was a thing that had happened. How 43 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.400 can you not learn in these second innings the same 44 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.039 mistakes that you were making. I saw a tweet yesterday 45 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.000 that basically said he asked schupmern Gil for an extra 46 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.840 fielder on the off side and then he started bowling 47 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:34.639 on the pads. 48 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.280 How can you be so naive about these kinds of things. 49 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.879 You're not playing, Okay, you say that you're playing having 50 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:43.919 a transition period. 51 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.840 A couple of defeats will happen. Okay, we can accept it. 52 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.919 But this is the World Test Championship, something that South 53 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.560 Africa won, where they were making mistakes, but they ensured 54 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:56.960 that it was not repeated in the second half they batted. Well, 55 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.120 they've wanted it out of their sheer grit. Why is 56 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.680 it not here? And what is the team management doing? 57 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:04.960 Why are you not advising a person. 58 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.960 By team management, whom are you referring to, I am 59 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.280 referring to the coaches. 60 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.439 It's the coaches as well as the players on the field. 61 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.159 How can you not make reaction, make a decision that Okay, 62 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.680 I have put a fielder on for the cover drive. 63 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.319 And now I'll bowl on the stumps. That is baffling. 64 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:22.960 That is simply baffling. 65 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.280 And you cannot expect to win a match when you're 66 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.680 dropping more than six or seven catches. Yeah, that happens. 67 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.840 Once it happens, Okay, it is fine. The same guy 68 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.360 making it three or four times, I think it's a 69 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.680 lap of laps of concentration. Maybe he's not fully sewn 70 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.960 in on the field. Tough chances will still give the leeway. 71 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.960 But eight chances six or I'm not sure how many 72 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.919 chances that they've dropped to my recollection, I think it's 73 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:51.120 more than eight. 74 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.800 It was around seven eight seven eight. 75 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.439 That cannot happen in a match you're playing for the 76 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:58.319 World Test Championship. You're not playing to be like the 77 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.080 next England who says that, oh we are looking for 78 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.439 moral victories. This is not the time for moral victories, 79 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:08.319 and you call it knee jerk reaction or whatever. There 80 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.319 has to be a response in the second Test. That 81 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.560 is what I would say. Thanksure you, baseball fan. How 82 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.039 are you feeling today? 83 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.319 I'm feeling a little irritated, to be honest, because I 84 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.439 did not like the discourse that followed the Indian England 85 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.240 as much like say, like you asked the knee jerk reactions? 86 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.000 Should is it time to take a knee jerk reaction? 87 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.519 I think the knee jerk reaction has already happened. When 88 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.319 you brought in SIZEOD at number three, Krona at number six, 89 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.319 and chart at number seven eight whatever, who else would 90 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.600 have come explain? Okay, yeah, that's the whole point about right. 91 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:45.319 So I think in terms of consistency, if you just 92 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.120 see in terms of consistency, it is already played extremely 93 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:51.199 well in Australia. He was one of our best players 94 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:58.000 in a horrenda series. He should have played in England 95 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.720 because for me, in England, at least in these conditions, 96 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:03.199 what we have seen is that you. 97 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.399 Need five proper bowlers. 98 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.360 You need five proper bowlers, which essentially means that you 99 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.319 need a proper batter up top. One can argue that 100 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.240 is a much better better than Shardultakur. What Chardutagur had 101 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.560 was experience of playing in India and probably is a 102 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.079 better bowler than he did not get to ball anyway, 103 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.480 because Gumbi said that Jadeja provided much better control than 104 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:28.439 Shardul in those conditions. So Schumann thought that let's not 105 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.959 give him the ball. Fine, I I don't have a problem, 106 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.120 say Sudashan at three brought in directly from IPL I'm 107 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:39.279 not discounting his domestic form. But east Horn, the India captain, 108 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.680 has been carried with the Indian team for three years now. 109 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:46.079 If everybody's getting a chance to debut under Gambier, he 110 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.600 also deserves a chance to get a debut. That's my 111 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.279 whole point. Karunara at six I have a problem with that. 112 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:53.959 I thought Karuna would be playing at three, the perfect 113 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.639 shield for perhaps Schumann Gill at number four. 114 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.920 That did not happen. He was brought down at number. 115 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.439 Six, which a position which I thought was more suited 116 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.759 to dru Jurel at that position on a flat deck 117 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:07.800 in England. 118 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:09.759 He did brilliantly in. 119 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.199 Rachi and Rajkote and Dhramsala, I think against England at home, 120 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:16.839 but he was not given a chance. So for me, 121 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.600 the knee jerk reaction happened when the Test eleven was announced. 122 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.480 It's time to follow your processes and figure out how 123 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.480 do we support Boomra, How do we support our top batters. 124 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.360 Like you mentioned Alan that our batting did very very well, 125 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:32.759 our tail messed up. 126 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.560 How could the tail not have messed up? 127 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.399 With nititiarity in the bank, I was crunching a couple 128 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.040 of numbers, so Evehen, I was talking to you actually 129 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.560 about this that Let's see how many overs did Boomra 130 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:47.199 bowl in a five Test match series before his body 131 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.800 broke down. It was one hundred and fifty one overs 132 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.600 in Australia, could you guess how many overs he bowled 133 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.600 in this Test match? Twenty nineteen in the first nix 134 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.519 if I'm not wrong, twenty five in the first innings, 135 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.879 then nineteen in the seconds, nearly twenty in the sex, 136 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.480 So forty five or thirty percent off his load is 137 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.120 already done and we are first Test match in see. 138 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.920 That's why they kind of probably told that he's going 139 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.439 to play only three Tests. And it's no surprise that, 140 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:17.920 you know, the pitches in England are going to be 141 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:18.120 like this. 142 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.360 It's not going to be like Australia. 143 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.920 The very fact that he bore only one fifty overs, 144 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.319 as you're saying in Australia was because of the pitches. 145 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.439 The matches were over in three and a half days. 146 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.160 Nobody lasted more than hundred overs, if I'm not wrong. 147 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.120 The pitches were, you know, lively, unlike the Benjin dead 148 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.560 pitches that we are getting to see in England. As in, 149 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.399 if you want to call this sporting, by all means, 150 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.639 go and call this sporting. Yes, one team has taken 151 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.519 twenty wickets. There's no excuse. 152 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.319 To India, it's a flat tag that you have to search. 153 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.879 Flat five days. Simple. That's something that's call it what 154 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:47.120 it is. 155 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.319 Yeah, that's something that England have prioritized in their basstball approach, 156 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.639 like how the subcontinent teams provide ranked turner stop positions. 157 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.480 There's no you know, you can't call it. You can't 158 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.959 call it. You know you can't call it unsporting. You 159 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.720 can't blame England for this, but for God's sake, don't 160 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.639 call it a sporting wicket. That's that's something that I 161 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.839 want to point out here. I see Kingshukia saying how 162 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:10.720 to support Boomra, so how to take twenty wickets? 163 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:10.959 Then? 164 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.120 How how the how on earth can you play for me? 165 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.319 Shardul has proven to be a better bowler. You only agreed. 166 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.279 He took around thirty five wickets in Ranji Trophy before 167 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:23.040 this IPL, and he did decently well in the IPL 168 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:24.720 after coming in as a replacement player. 169 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:27.079 And he has the experience of playing in England. 170 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.000 So if someone doesn't perform as expected, it's not the 171 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:32.639 it's not the fault of the coach, like I want 172 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.600 to point that out to you. Also, I am here 173 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.600 to defend. I'm not saying that Gotama has done so well. 174 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.919 He has got won one in the last nine Test matches. 175 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.279 Under Gotamam, India have won one of the one of 176 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.600 their last nine Test matches, if I'm not wrong, So 177 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:47.080 that's a poor record to have. 178 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.159 But like I said in the previous episode of the 179 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.679 Sledging Room podcast. 180 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.919 If you are giving a young team, if you're going 181 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.919 through a transition period, that transition period has also fastened. 182 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.200 It's not like, Okay, we were prepared for this because 183 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:01.759 r and verat rue. At least Okay, there were doubts 184 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.919 over whether he would play in England. We were looking 185 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.879 at other openers, but we are not Many expected him 186 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.120 to go this early, at least till the end of 187 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:09.519 the cycle. 188 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:10.480 He was expected to play. 189 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:14.360 And don't forget when we are talking about even the 190 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.559 Gambier was asked in the press conference, like since twenty 191 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.159 twenty two, India's ability to take twenty wickets has you 192 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:21.840 know reduced. 193 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.120 That's that's not a problem only with Gambi. 194 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.360 Rahald Robert also faced it at the end of his 195 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.200 tenure because because of the injuries to these bowlers. Like 196 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:34.360 last Test series is England knows India where India did 197 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.519 take twenty wickets in subcontinent in South Africa? 198 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.799 What did he do? We didn't take twenty wickets. 199 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.240 In South Africa, we finished a game in one and 200 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.720 a half days and one stuppy like the drawn Test, 201 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:49.039 we didn't take twenty wickets or the. 202 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:50.360 Test we loss. The Test we loss. 203 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.240 There are instances of him traveling overseas the World Test 204 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:54.000 Championship Final. 205 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.759 The things haven't seen. The problem with Gambi is that 206 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.559 in so when when you were when. 207 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.879 You want to say that Nita should have played ahead 208 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:04.879 of Charlotte Taker, I don't agree with that. It was 209 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.200 an aggressive move from the Indian team, although they could 210 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.960 have gone all out aggressive by playing a specialist bowler 211 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.159 or a fourth pacer. But again, but again, if you 212 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.279 were worried when Rochman were not scoring runs, I needed 213 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.240 a little bit of batting backup. Now with the very 214 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.799 inexperienced top order, you still need a little a little 215 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.759 bit of batting backup. I won't question this team selection 216 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:29.080 for the first Tests, just that people didn't perform well. 217 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:32.639 President Krishna and SIAJ. Siraj showed really good form in 218 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.720 ipl he was given a break, he didn't He was 219 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:36.679 not picked for the champions Trophy. It was not like 220 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.279 they picked a random bowler and brought him in. He's 221 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.120 a proven customer in England, so if he doesn't do well, 222 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.279 it's not the coaches problem. And this is also the 223 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.080 start of the first Test. It's not These are not 224 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.840 easy conditions to adapt. We always talk about, you know, 225 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.240 bowler's batters getting to adapt to these conditions, but bowlers 226 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:52.000 also take time. 227 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.879 So I think, yes, India, haven't. India could have won 228 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:55.320 this match. 229 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.840 India had the opportunity to you know, push England, but 230 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.919 they disappointed that. That's the thing. It's not like something 231 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.879 we massively went off the market. Team selection. I think 232 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.240 team selection in Australia was even worse when you had 233 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:09.879 to when you could have played ash, when you played soon, 234 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:12.039 when you wanted to play a cash deep, you played 235 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.320 as rana. When it was pitched when it was a 236 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.360 pitch suited for you played a cash deep. 237 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:17.840 So these were the concerns that the. 238 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.440 Name argument can be made here also, But you are, 239 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.600 for some reason defending that shard selection. 240 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:27.000 The problem is that selection is not the problem. The problem. 241 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:30.960 No, no, it is because again I keep coming back to continuity. 242 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.279 The second India picked size at number three. The problem 243 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.120 started because you had to fit Karun. Karuna has been 244 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.159 sensational in running season. Now you can't put him at three, 245 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.279 so you put him at six. You already have that 246 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.399 extracution of a batter. But then you want the bowling 247 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.279 like like you said, to support him. Shar comes in 248 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:52.240 my I thought the playing eleven would have been the 249 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:57.840 openers Karun at three, Punt Gill whatever, and then through. 250 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.200 Jurail at six and you not. 251 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.320 You don't pick Pressith if you wanted to go with 252 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.240 bring a bowler who can give you control like a 253 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:08.600 cash deep, or you bring in a spinner because the 254 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.840 match was going to go five days. That was said 255 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.600 by the pitch curator on before day one. The selection 256 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.080 has been wrong. It's not the Shar flat which may 257 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.440 tell me one Test match where Shardul has done exceptionally well. 258 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:22.360 Where the deck has been flat. 259 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.320 No, see it's about it's not your If you're a 260 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.639 fourth bowler and the fifth bowler, your your job is 261 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:28.559 not to pick wickets. 262 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:32.799 Your job is to go for control, which he which 263 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.639 he offered in series in saving days. 264 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.519 Yes, but what about now the question is see like 265 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.279 how King shuk said continuity is the main thing. And 266 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.799 in that aspect also Ready has been a consistent performer. 267 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:49.399 He did well. It's not like okay, he was also 268 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.960 brought in from an IPL experience. His IPIL was not great. 269 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:54.919 His I pil was not great at all. 270 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:56.960 But the but thing is he didn't bowl in the 271 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.840 IPAL and he carries had those issues. 272 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.120 But if you are going to use very scarcely, why 273 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:05.919 not bring in a. 274 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.919 Better See that's something that could have been worked well. 275 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:12.720 Like you said, it's the even instinct that he chose. 276 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:17.519 You know, even even if correct me if I'm wrong. 277 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.080 Also on this aspect, let me just say it, why 278 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.360 would you bring in a hit the deck borler like 279 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:23.639 precess for this match? 280 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.960 I felt we needed something different. 281 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.559 If you look at the England team, are there big 282 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.639 time hit the deck borloers in that as? 283 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.879 I don't. I didn't even rate the England. 284 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.039 Bowling lineup also yeah yeah coming into this Test match 285 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.159 I did not at all. The whole thing is that 286 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.639 did you really need a process Krishna in this because what. 287 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.840 I've seen with Prusss is he's more of even when 288 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.679 you say it as a hit hit the deck bowler, 289 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.639 he's more of a confidence bowler. When he's fully confident, 290 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:55.240 he can do a lot of things with the ball. 291 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.080 I think it was an England game where he kind 292 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.799 of changed the complexion of that game. It was game 293 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.320 he was going for runs, but then the second spell 294 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.200 he kind of broke the game open. Here he was 295 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.039 constantly going for the same thing. I think you and me, 296 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.080 we were covering the game. I think he was bowling 297 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.399 to Jamie Smith. He got hit for a six, and 298 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.919 our reaction was, why are you trying to do the 299 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.879 same thing over and over again when it is not working. 300 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:23.320 Finally he got the wicket of Jamie Smith. But when 301 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.320 you are having a spell where you're conceding six more 302 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.960 than six in and oh for an over in an 303 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:33.679 innings across both both the innings, that is really baffling. 304 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.080 And I thought, for the large part yesterday when I 305 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.720 was watching the game, the whole thing was I thought, okay, 306 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.120 Boomera and Saraj were bringing in control. The moment that 307 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:47.759 shradhul And specifically came in, we might be targeting him 308 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:48.720 a little bit more. 309 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.960 Yeah, granted that he's still a youngster. 310 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.360 But you need to think on your feet when you're 311 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.720 playing in England, you're not playing it. You don't have 312 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.039 the comfort of home. When you're playing in a country 313 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.519 like England or Ostar. You need to think on your feet. 314 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.679 What makes Mumra so special is because he thinks on 315 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.799 his feet. So at that point in time, none of 316 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.960 the other bolos did the same thing an experience campaign, 317 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.159 like why did One of the things that I have 318 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:16.399 a bit of a problem with was the fact that 319 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.200 why did other senior players not go up to a 320 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.960 guy like you know, uh pressed and tell him, you know, 321 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:26.080 this is what you have to do. 322 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.360 It's not just the job of the captain to do it. Captain. 323 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.919 Again, we say that Schumann is a young captain, why 324 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.960 not a k Rowl, Why not a Raven? Why not Boomrah? 325 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.159 Or why not a siaj Okay was there? I saw him, 326 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:41.919 but maybe that was the reason. Maybe that was the reason. 327 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.080 But you need to motivate that guy to do better, 328 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.480 like say that your hit the deck thing is not 329 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:48.240 working here. 330 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.919 Try to bold the line that Bumra is bored. 331 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.080 This has been a problem ever since Bartharon left, is 332 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.759 what I figured out. Like the way the the you 333 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.279 know the plans, You devise a plan, but then you 334 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.879 stick to it even if it doesn't work. There's no quick, 335 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.159 quick on the feit on the go thinking that you 336 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.960 you pointed out because in Austlia, in that twenty twenty 337 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.720 one series where Rahana and Captain I still remember, there 338 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.399 were so many plans. There was a lexlip place, there 339 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.679 was a short cover, there was bouncer, bouncer theories. When 340 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.639 when did you I so Jamie Smith got out while 341 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.039 playing the bouncer in the first innings there was no 342 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.200 bouncer attempted to the second innings. 343 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.120 You couldn't get the bouncer Brooke. 344 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.240 First innings you couldn't get the bouncer theory going for Benduckett. Also, 345 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.399 Benduckett gave one chance to assess you as well, but 346 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.519 you still persisted bowling that off stump line, sometimes bowling 347 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:36.919 it wide. 348 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:38.960 There was no you know, real plan. 349 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.440 When it comes to yes, I understand that probably this 350 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.720 is a setup that is still gelling. But these are basics, 351 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.159 Like you pointed out, they are playing professional cricket. 352 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.720 Like King shoot tomorrow comes and says okay. 353 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.320 I have been in this industry for six years, so 354 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.919 I cannot if he if he okay, if if we 355 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.639 give him a sensational interview beer. He could not he 356 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.759 could not do well. It's okay, but if you can't 357 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.840 do the basics right, then there's a problem. 358 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:02.080 Right. 359 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.519 That's something that baffled me because there was no real 360 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:06.920 bowling plan when England. 361 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.160 Were going hammer and tongs. 362 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.359 In fact, in the first session of day five when 363 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.240 Ben Duckett and Zach Crawley were playing, they did not 364 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:19.039 do basseball. There. They gave India a lot of respect. 365 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.480 I thought, probably they're doing a mistake by, you know, 366 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.519 giving some eating up time because time was also an 367 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.839 impact in factor with the weather around. But our bowling 368 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:31.400 was completely listless, even Boomera for that matter. Yeah, you 369 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:32.920 might call it fatigue and all that. But in the 370 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.880 second things he was toothless. Let's call us a spade 371 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.960 a space, I think a couple of sensation after that, 372 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.039 he wasn't even trying to bowl full hit the length, 373 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.160 get you know, bold straight line. If you're the leader 374 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.000 of the bowling attack, probably you should also, you know, 375 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.759 conjure plans. You should also go tell the captain that, okay, 376 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.160 give me that fielder. I need things to happen. But 377 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.160 of course, when you're not having control when you are 378 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:00.960 leaking runs like six seven runs and it's not like 379 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:03.319 you there they were taking singers, they were finding boundary 380 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.559 every over, so that then becomes a little bit difficult. 381 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.720 But on the whole, I would still say that it's just. 382 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.440 The first test of the series. It's just the first 383 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:13.359 test with a new team. 384 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.200 Of course, probably let's not react by you know, yes, 385 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.839 pressid Krishna did not bowl well, but he's here in 386 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.039 the dressing room for a reason. 387 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.160 He has shown that he can do well. In the 388 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:23.240 Firth Test, he did well. 389 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.079 But I couldn't understand one thing that Gambi said yesterday 390 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:29.519 in the press conference about this fast bowling group. He said, 391 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.720 it's not that we are looking for this tour. We 392 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.000 are looking to build a pace battery that will serve 393 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.640 the team for ages. Of course, of course, when even 394 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.799 if you see in the twenty fourteen fifteen series, Ishant 395 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.400 was there, Shami was young, Umish was there, but they 396 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.200 were all at their you know, early stages of their 397 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.920 career where they couldn't do well. 398 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:50.799 But we're not. 399 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.839 In a way, he was very good with with his 400 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.200 fast bowlers and in a way he was lucky also 401 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.599