In the long history of India v Pakistan cricket matches, few matches have become instant classics... 2003 World Cup, Desert Storm, Chennai Test and now, Melbourne 2022.
Virat Kohli returned to his chasing best with an innings for the ages. And we sat down with Ayaz Memon and RK to talk about all that went down in Melbourne on Sunday.
Sit back and relive the best moments - 10 questions, 10 answers, all the action!
And yes, we haven't forgotten Soumil Arora and his take on the EPL and the US F! GP.
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Aditya K: Hello, Welcome to this episode of Sports Weekly, India. It's
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Aditya K: been an absolutely amazing start to the world t 20
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Aditya K: in Australia, especially if you're an Indian fan. What a
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Aditya K: chase that was by Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya.
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Aditya K: No less credit to the Pakistan team, either, by the way,
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Aditya K: for putting of an amazing display will talk a lot
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Aditya K: about that. But before that, here's a quick reminder for
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Aditya K: without further ado, let's get started.
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Aditya K: Welcome to the show, RK. Welcome Ayaz.
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Aditya K: RK first question for you, his Virat Kohli, the absolute
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Aditya K: best t 20 cricketer or chaser in general, I think
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Aditya K: Virat Kohli reminds me so much of Michael Bevan. As
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Aditya K: far as one day international trade is concerned. Michael Bevan
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Aditya K: in the nineties was D Chase master And then, of course,
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Aditya K: Mahendra Singh Dhoni understood how to manage the innings when
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Aditya K: it comes to run chases. But against this party's T
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Aditya K: 20 cricket is concerned I would possibly think year. He
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Aditya K: should be up there if not the very best. He
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Aditya K: should be up there with the top
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RK: top trade. I think what we saw in that game
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RK: against Pakistan was unbelievable stuff When he started off. I
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RK: don't think he was the most comfortable. Then, even against shod,
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RK: Abhi was fairly quiet, so understood that he was always
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RK: not the strongest against Lex been. But he was able
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RK: to take on the other bowlers and those two shots
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RK: that he played in the 19th over the fifth and
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RK: the sixth balls of the 19th over against Harris. Raph
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RK: wears quite incredible, um, in the kind of power
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Aditya K: that he generated. And I think what he said afterwards
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Aditya K: was quite telling. So he understood that this is the
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Aditya K: only shot that he wanted to play and therefore got
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Aditya K: into position very, very quickly and played the shot that heated.
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Aditya K: So it's supreme self confidence that you are talking about
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Aditya K: and I think in terms of chases, I think he's
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Aditya K: got a bit of a muscle memory as well. He's
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Aditya K: done it so often in the past. Whether it is
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Aditya K: t 20 cricket, weather is one day internationals. He just
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Aditya K: enjoys a number in front of him It's almost as
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Aditya K: if is a sprinter. He knows where he needs
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Aditya K: to finish and he just goes, as people often say
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Aditya K: with respect to, say, 100 Metra sprinter. They calculate their
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Aditya K: 1st 10 metres, the 20 metres, the 30 metres they
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Aditya K: go in splits of 10 metres and so on and
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Aditya K: they understand, went to pick up, went to slow down
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Aditya K: a little bit and went to give that final push.
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Aditya K: I think Cawley to a large extent is that and
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Aditya K: it's just probably one of the best ever innings that
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Aditya K: have seen in the world of cricket and I guess
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Aditya K: is one of the best ever games of cricket that
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Aditya K: are witnessed.
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Aditya K: Interesting insides there. Butt Ayaz has a big question. The
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Aditya K: Barbara's um choke
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RK: babble Azam choke. Um, it's difficult to, you know, use
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RK: that word for his batting.
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RK: He was out first ball to our ship sing so
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RK: you can you can say that he Indian have grub
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RK: of the green. It was a terrific delivery from our
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RK: ship and not much. Barber could do it right, play
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RK: across the line, missed it completely and was slumped like before.
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RK: So Pakistan's premier batsman just didn't get going at all practical. Barbara's, um,
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RK: is also captain of the team. And did he choke
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RK: as the captain tax know? Tough call? Because I thought
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RK: that for most of the match,
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RK: most of the Indian innings he handled his bowlers quite well.
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RK: Remember India one of the last ball and except in
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RK: the last two overs, it seemed that Pakistan were on
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RK: on course to build this match so I can cheque. Barbara's,
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RK: um choked in that sense in his decision, making us
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RK: quite decisive on the field. Quite swift in It's the
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RK: feed setting that he wanted the field placement where he wanted.
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RK: He had chats, Mr Mrs Bowlers. But he did
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RK: have midfield or, you know, conferences with 78 players involved,
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RK: as has often been seen in the past when Pakistan
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RK: have been used to have 56 captain on the fits
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RK: all that didn't happen. I think Barbara's, um to his
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RK: credit and to his team's credit, they put up a
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RK: trap nous fire. This match went to the last ball
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RK: and either team could have bad. You could have also
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RK: entered in a super over and you have that 10th
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RK: of a climax and finish new. Can't really say
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RK: the captain was at fault for the fielding capital Risk
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RK: losing captain was their fault.
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Aditya K: True, there were some choices that he could have done differently.
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Aditya K: Especially Nawaz bowling the last over. Was there a tactical
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Aditya K: error or was it over confidence? You know that they
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Aditya K: will just can't er over the line
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RK: here. Officially, the question will be asked whether babble as,
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RK: um did the right chink in holding back Mohammad Nawaz,
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RK: right is the last over Mamata Wads, as we know
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RK: as as it transpired, came under resort oppression. The first
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RK: over he bowled he was it
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RK: for some of you slept for six years by Harnik
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RK: Panya D'argo the over where India needed that acceleration that
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RK: impetus which Pandya and Kasey gave and then it got
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RK: down to last over 16 runs needed. Babar, make a
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RK: mistake in holding possibly is weakest link in the attack
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RK: till the very end. But I think actually this is
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RK: all the benefit of hindsight, you know, in hindsight, revisionist
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RK: 2020 16 runs on the last over. Mohammad Nawaz has
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RK: got a couple of fine performance
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RK: belt, including one against India As as the batsmen perhaps,
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RK: but has been amongst them more promising allrounders. I think
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RK: that he rightly in when you look at it objectively
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RK: to hold back the spin after Pandya and cause he
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RK: had given them the charge, another over. Like that 18
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RK: 20 runs could have finished the match there itself. I
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RK: think Barber gambled on the on the trade hunch that
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RK: with the run rate or the asking right mounting, either
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RK: Pandya or police or
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RK: boats would have get out in going for the big strokes.
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RK: That didn't happen to the very last over with Panda
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RK: was dismissed so that Blank was foiled, I think, very
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RK: effectively by Coley and Pandya. And therefore when he ran
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RK: onto option Barbara's um he had to go back to
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RK: Mohammad Nawaz but posit a monumental blunder. It might seem
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RK: like that, but I don't think practically it was such
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RK: a Blundell is is being made out now, especially by
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RK: Pakistan fans.
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Aditya K: Yeah, that's always a tough on our key way to
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Aditya K: do thing. Pakistan lost the game. It's an interesting question.
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Aditya K: I know you can look at it in many different ways.
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Aditya K: One is you simply don't even look at Pakistan and
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Aditya K: you turn around and say that Virat Kohli played the
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Aditya K: innings of his life, probably the best ever innings that
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Aditya K: we have seen of him now. That's obviously one very
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Aditya K: good way of looking at it, and that's probably the
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Aditya K: one way we should be looking at it. But however,
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Aditya K: if we dig deep and understand, because the reason why
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Aditya K: I said
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Aditya K: you need to look at it from Virat Kohli's perspective
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Aditya K: is when when we started this game or when Pakistan
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Aditya K: entered the tournament or broadly, When you talk about Pakistan,
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Aditya K: you're talking about one of the strongest bowling units. You
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Aditya K: turn around, you'll find Fastball is for fun on the
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Aditya K: streets of Lahore and you, you've got terrific fast bowlers.
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Aditya K: There were operating at breakneck speed. But I think at
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Aditya K: the end of the day, if you have got to
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Aditya K: dig in deep and understand where Pakistan actually lost the game,
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Aditya K: maybe you would turn around and say, Well,
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Aditya K: what? They have been better off with another bowling option? Look,
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Aditya K: if you remember India, the last edition of the World
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Aditya K: Cup were restricted to only five bowlers, and I don't
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Aditya K: think Hardy Pandey, of course, was a part of the
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Aditya K: squad was a part of the playing 11 but he
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Aditya K: did not bowl and I think that was a critical
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Aditya K: difference as far as India was concerned and that is
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Aditya K: a luxury that Pakistan did not have and again in
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Aditya K: terms of calculating the overs. I think Barbara's um this
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Aditya K: time around knew it was going to come. At some
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Aditya K: point in time. He had to re
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Aditya K: Mohammad Nawaz only because of the fact that he was
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Aditya K: hit early on, which means that you have to preserve
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Aditya K: the overs. So it it was eventually a game of
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Aditya K: chess and even in the final overs of one thing
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Aditya K: that Pakistan managed to do, a tried to do with
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Aditya K: the fact that Mohammad Nawaz was hardly bowling spin. He
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Aditya K: might a bold slow but he was trying to bowl
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Aditya K: seem up there with the keeper standing behind. So those
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Aditya K: were couple of learning's that Pakistan took at the back
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Aditya K: of the Asia Cup defeat where Mohammad Nawaz was forced
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Aditya K: to bowl that final over hard Dick Pan
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Aditya K: finished that game. He, alongside Dinesh Kartik, did the job
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Aditya K: for Team India then now this time around again it
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Aditya K: went down to that final over and you know, probably
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Aditya K: once that happens, barbarism is almost praying for the results
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Aditya K: ago his way. So I think if we have got
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Aditya K: to pick and choose, maybe it's that particular moment. Not
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Aditya K: having an extra seem that probably hurt are not having
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Aditya K: an extra bowling option that Pakistan one of the other
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Aditya K: options they had, really they had, if the card probably
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Aditya K: if they got bowls a bit of off spin, but
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Aditya K: nothing threatening as well. So between an Iftikhar and Mohammad Nawaz,
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Aditya K: I understand the choice. Mohammad Nawaz had to bowl that
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Aditya K: final over because you didn't have much of a choice
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Aditya K: beyond these two. And if the car was never going
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Aditya K: to be an option, because it was Mohammad Nawaz who
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Aditya K: at least had the experience who does ball very, very regularly,
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Aditya K: let's be honest and he has done very, very well.
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Aditya K: It's just the situation that he got caught in that
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Aditya K: made a huge difference.
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Aditya K: Moving on to India's batting. I, as I think it
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Aditya K: just failed, ended what went
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RK: wrong barring Virat Kohli. India stock order flocked,
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RK: cost India the match. Rohit Sharma didn't make too many
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RK: Nigel Rahul, both because well, many early and then, of course,
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RK: inform Surya Kumar Yadav was also dismissed. The inaction pertain
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RK: who was promoted up the order as the left hand
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RK: option against some of the bowlers that Pakistan we're deploying.
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RK: Did he got run out? So India was left in
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RK: a very precarious the tuition, not justice. A bit of
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RK: a worry. I think what happened in this match is
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RK: India seem to sort out their bowling issued which looked
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RK: to be the most serious concern going into this match.
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RK: Arch deep was brilliant. So was shot. So was hard. Dick.
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RK: So Bhubaneshwar, everybody bold, fabulous! See all the four fast
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RK: bowlers and I Sure, Ashwin, also very good job. As
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RK: the spinner action Patel was hammered in the only over.
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RK: He bowled confronting too much. He mowed only one over.
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RK: But yes, he was hammered. But it's the top order
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RK: protest getting very few runs. So to Rahul Sudhir Kumar Yadav,
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RK: Maybe this off as it is catching up.
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RK: So this is good. Be an area of concern, especially
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RK: against a team like South Africa, because India have to
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RK: beat South Africa to assure themselves, virtually assured themselves in
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RK: the knockout. So this is becoming an issue because Rohit
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RK: and Rahul not just been getting the big scores. Rows
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RK: is about a couple of fifties in the recent past,
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RK: but they have not been in, really, you know, the
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RK: really daunting of the revisit of games. And that's something
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RK: that India will be seeking from both these openers.
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Aditya K: While while the batting didn't do wear lighting, the bowling
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Aditya K: did click well. R K. Do you agree? Does it
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Aditya K: look like a settled bowling unit to you now? As
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Aditya K: far as Indian attack is concerned, I thought it was
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Aditya K: a bit of a horses for courses. I did suspect
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Aditya K: that Ashwin will play a part. I know a lot
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Aditya K: of those games have been played by use vendor Chahal,
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Aditya K: but Ashwin, I thought, will play a part because of
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Aditya K: two reasons. One is because with longish square boundaries that
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Aditya K: you look at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Scott seriously long boundaries.
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Aditya K: And the other thing is, there's a bit of
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Aditya K: step that he adds to the batting lineup. Sometimes we
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Aditya K: do underestimate the batting province of Ashwin. Now let's look
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Aditya K: at it this way, right? I mean, you had Ashwin
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Aditya K: What if she al had entered the frame instead of
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Aditya K: Ashwin during a such a situation between Shell and Ashwin,
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Aditya K: you're F probably thought Ashwin would have done the job
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Aditya K: or Ashwin would do the job as a batter in
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Aditya K: such a circumstance as opposed to cheque. So in that
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Aditya K: sense as well, I think the selection of Ash Monroe
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Aditya K: Jama
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Aditya K: just wanted to extend that batting line of a little
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Aditya K: bit more. Because if you're looking at this as a
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Aditya K: contest between the batting of India and the Bowling of Pakistan,
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Aditya K: you would think that India will have to bat really
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Aditya K: well and barrel bit deep against the Pakistani fastball is
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Aditya K: a Pakistani bowlers in general. But is this going to
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Aditya K: be the line up going forward for every game? I'm
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Aditya K: not so sure that they could be changes. Shale would
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Aditya K: come into play in a few grounds is what I suspect.
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Aditya K: But it looked good
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Aditya K: and was also very good track, Mind you that we
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Aditya K: got to see the way booby started the way our
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Aditya K: sleep started. Special mention to our sleep. He was fantastic.
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Aditya K: A rally and Shamis induction was very, very good. So yes,
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Aditya K: suddenly you're turning around and saying that you've got a
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Aditya K: bit of option as far as the bowling department is concerned.
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Aditya K: I as review thing that Coley and Pandya managed to
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Aditya K: chase well, Lord, did they really leave it until very late?
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Aditya K: I mean, at one stage, 28 were needed of aid
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Aditya K: and but for those two sixes of her,
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Aditya K: ISRO for India could well have ended up on the
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Aditya K: losing side.
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RK: Korea and Pan, you put up a marvellous exhibition of
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RK: Basson Ship 20 Basson shipping How wanting bill partnerships and
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RK: steer a team or deep deep crisis in India was
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RK: in a precarious position, four wickets down and that being
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RK: a very few runs on the board. Another wicket in
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RK: that stage could up mint couple game over for India
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RK: and that's when they had to manage. The situation
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RK: almost perfectly has ensured that no wicket has lost at
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RK: the same time ensure the runs keep taking, even if
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RK: they are coming in a bit of a trickle to
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RK: start with, but then keeping the required run rate in
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RK: mind all the while. So I think this was an
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RK: outstanding exhibition of a partnership of juggle Bandy between least two,
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RK: which kept the ultimate site.
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RK: You know the sights on the victory Always alive. Yes,
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RK: it was a very top men, but I thought the
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RK: beta navigated. Especially Virat Kohli. I thought, you know, marvellous.
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RK: And reading the match situation perfectly. Sort of hard dick,
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RK: I think, to give hardly credit which you know he
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RK: must get for his role in the partnership. But even otherwise,
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RK: for the way he bowled, then picked up the tickets
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RK: to keep Pakistan to 1 59. Nico Development 1 65
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RK: 1 70 year. You know something that in again then
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RK: the match We have been over. So
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RK: yes, Virat Kohli, hero of the day hero of that
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RK: of that evening. Wonderful to see him come back to
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RK: his best. Arguably the greatest 20 innings. Not just by
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RK: Indian as Rohit Sharma said, but perhaps by anybody in
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RK: this format. 2020 history. But don't forget that Arctic Pandya,
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RK: in my opinion, this now India's MVP the most valuable
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RK: player for what he does with the ball Devalue, bring
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RK: with the bat. And he is also brilliant Fielder. And
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RK: this partnership showed that Pandya, you know, is not a
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RK: show pony. It is not just wanting all the attention
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RK: of itself is
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RK: waiting to play in the foyer. So too, he played
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RK: the file to Pandya to start, you know, he was
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RK: a chief. Mentioned later, he was trying to eke out
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RK: the wrong, just looked a bit scratchy. Everybody was saying
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RK: where it will strike Great the complaint for coming again,
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RK: all that he brushed aside. But don't forget the role
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RK: Pandya played
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Aditya K: well. What about the batting order? Did it make sense
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Aditya K: to ST Knocks A Patel up? I know Prince shitter
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Aditya K: can make or break, but it seemed like it was
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Aditya K: more of a break situation year hiding the one reason
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Aditya K: why a chair Patel was sent to us because I
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Aditya K: think when you look at that Indian side, you don't
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Aditya K: have too many left tenders. Akshay Patel was one left and,
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Aditya K: er he if he could have relieved the pressure a
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Aditya K: little bit because India was definitely struggling because of Pakistani
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Aditya K: fast bowlers were doing very, very well. If he could
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Aditya K: have relieved the PA
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Aditya K: a little bit. Things could've been slightly different because I
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Aditya K: think when you look at that entire top seven, action
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Aditya K: is your only left hander. If Pant had been in
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Aditya K: the set up in the playing 11. That gives you
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Aditya K: an extra option, but unfortunately well, duty management hasn't gone
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Aditya K: in for punch. And to be fair, I don't think
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Aditya K: panties at the backing of the numbers for the role
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Aditya K: that he is normally a scientist, because let's be honest
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Aditya K: about it as far as the top order is concerned.
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Aditya K: If got Rohit if God cailed Rahul
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Aditya K: Number three's Virat Kohli for a sorry Kumar Yadav five.
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Aditya K: Azhar Dick Pandya, where would you probably slot in a month?
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Aditya K: And that's why, if at all, Pant had to be
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Aditya K: slotted in somewhere. I'm not saying in at this point
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Aditya K: in time. It could have been played as an opener maybe.
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Aditya K: I mean, I'm not even saying that was an idea
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Aditya K: that was mooted in England when India toward England. I
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Aditya K: think he played one of the T twenty's as an opener.
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Aditya K: So in the absence of a left hander, I think
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Aditya K: Rohit and company decided that
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Aditya K: it's not a bad idea to probably push and action Patel.
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Aditya K: If he had scored about 2025 runs somewhere in reasonably
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Aditya K: quick time, things could have panned out slightly differently. I
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Aditya K: think that's one reason why a Char Patel was sent
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Aditya K: up the order where what you think need fixing before
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Aditya K: the next game for either side honestly is very difficult
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Aditya K: to put your hand on something and say you need
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Aditya K: a fix here. You need a fixed there because what
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Aditya K: happens in such a tightly contested game is one side
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Aditya K: takes a lot of confidence getting into the next one.
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Aditya K: And I think when you're talking about in India Pakistan game,
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Aditya K: you're also talking about the extra pressure that comes along
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Aditya K: with playing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of
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Aditya K: 90 fans cheering one way or the other. So it's
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Aditya K: so much more than your normal cricket game. So when
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Aditya K: I'm looking at a contest say against the Netherlands with
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Aditya K: due respect, I think it's a completely different ballgame altogether.
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Aditya K: You would possibly see Team India playing with a lot
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Aditya K: more freedom and they go in. His firm favourites is
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Aditya K: very different to a game that you play
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Aditya K: gains Pakistan when you're not necessarily going in as favourites
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Aditya K: because at the end of the raids about who handles
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Aditya K: the day or the evening better that comes out winners.
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Aditya K: I think in terms of fixes India will have to
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Aditya K: absorb what has happened. Let's be honest. What happened with
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Aditya K: Virat Kohli on that night was absolute magic. Now you
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Aditya K: can't expect such a performance from somebody day in and
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Aditya K: day out. So maybe India, that India, you could turn
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Aditya K: around and say You don't want to put yourself in
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Aditya K: that situation
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Aditya K: If I were to still struggle and think hard and
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Aditya K: think about something. I like the approach of heartache Pandya
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Aditya K: and Virat Kohli in this game. Maybe for all the
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Aditya K: talk of intent that we have had over the last 6789,
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Aditya K: 10 months, maybe since the last edition of the World Cup.
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Aditya K: I think the way Rahul got out, it was not
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Aditya K: a short which which kind of alluded to the team
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Aditya K: wanting to be aggressive. I understand that you might have
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Aditya K: wanted to look at a few deliveries,
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Aditya K: but again what that was Rohit or whether it was Rahul, Look,
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Aditya K: I am I am actually struggling to think about I
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Aditya K: would say that possibly in that sense, maybe you would
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Aditya K: have wanted to show a bit more intent to take
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Aditya K: the attack to the opposition. But otherwise I wouldn't look
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Aditya K: at this game and say in the Indian team needs
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Aditya K: a fix year or there because at the end of
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Aditya K: the day is a huge morale boosting, confidence boosting win.
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Aditya K: Now what will happen is because of that victory. Things
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Aditya K: get a little bit more comfortable for Team India and
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Aditya K: you would possibly see
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Aditya K: be local Rahul and Rohit playing with a lot more
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Aditya K: freedom than we got to see them last time around
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Aditya K: and actually score quite a few runs in the following game.
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Aditya K: Any question as what you think this does to Pakistan's
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Aditya K: confidence for the rest of the tournament. This was a
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Aditya K: game that was theirs to lose and they lose it.
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RK: Obviously Pakistan have suffered a mighty defeat. Losing to India
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RK: in itself is the, you know, in the youth setback.
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RK: But in the context of this tournament, that's really the
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RK: more important consideration.
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RK: They have lost a very important match. Now you've got
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RK: to get past South Africa to keep alive their hopes
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RK: of being in a knockout. This can be a very
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RK: tough passage into the knockout because yes, there are six
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RK: teams in each. Each cluster in the Super 12th, the
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RK: two toughest teams in this cluster R India, Pakistan. Of course,
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RK: South Africa. There are other teams also can cause an upset.
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RK: But Pakistan are under pressure now. I won't say they
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RK: lost confidence. It really depends on how quickly recovers
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RK: from the defeat against India at the mull over. It
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RK: brewed over it for too long. Then they could take
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RK: the field against South Africa in the negative frame of
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RK: mind that something they need to guard against. But they
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RK: could also look at it the other way that they
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RK: put up a mountainous fight against India and having just
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RK: lost that match on the last ball, it means then
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RK: they matched India blow for blow right to the end.
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RK: If they take that kind of positive sentiment into the
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RK: matching in South Africa, I don't think that it's a
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RK: very good team. Pakistan have and we've seen.
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RK: But this bowling attack is capable of batting needs to
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RK: shape up a little bit. I thought depending to the batting,
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RK: trying to dominate or take the aggressive route rather than
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RK: the more measured route that something game plans will have
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RK: to sort all because South Africa and will be pushovers.
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RK: But yes, I think the recovery from now to the
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RK: next match really depends on how they come to terms
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RK: with the defeat against India and put it behind them.
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RK: Take the field believing that deacon been Thank
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Aditya K: you gentlemen, for that. Inside, it's been one heck of
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Aditya K: a weekend.
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Aditya K: And to wrap up this weekend, we've got Sawmill Aurora
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Aditya K: with all the football and Samuel A one round
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Aditya K: Thank you so much gentlemen, now on to the Premier
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Aditya K: League and onto the football, the major storeys. This week
00:20:29
Aditya K: we're evolving all the big clubs. Firstly, Mr are still
00:20:32
Aditya K: dropping points to Southampton away from home, which means that
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Aditya K: they're now only two points ahead of Man City at
00:20:37
Aditya K: the top instead of the four point lead that they
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Aditya K: walked into this week. And so that is one tricky
00:20:42
Aditya K: point that they left negotiate with on the coast of
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Aditya K: the next few weeks. But the other major Storey has
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Aditya K: to do with all the other big clubs. First, let's
00:20:50
Aditya K: start off with Man United.
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Aditya K: They ended up beating Tottenham votes for two nil in
00:20:54
Aditya K: a very complete performance. But then they ended up drawing
00:20:56
Aditya K: to both Newcastle United in a very drab match and
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Aditya K: then chair see in a comedy of errors in which
00:21:02
Aditya K: eventually they ended up equalising at the 94th minute. And
00:21:05
Aditya K: so Qasim era Hera after they conceded a penalty in
00:21:08
Aditya K: the 87th minute with Georgina scoring. So it was a
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Aditya K: crazy match that United ended up growing 11 at the end.
00:21:14
Aditya K: And then, of course, we saw talking about spending up
00:21:16
Aditya K: losing the Newcastle to one as well. Missing. It's not
00:21:19
Aditya K: be also welcome new cast into the Big Six and
00:21:22
Aditya K: making the Big Seven abacus. They have been producing some
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Aditya K: excellent results. But these two results aside, What I really
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Aditya K: want to talk to you about today is Liverpool because
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Aditya K: Liverpool I think the last week were back when they
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Aditya K: hammered Rangers with a big, big margin when they beat
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Aditya K: Manchester City one nil. They were consistently producing good results
00:21:41
Aditya K: like beating West Ham one nil as well, So we thought, Well, yes,
00:21:44
Aditya K: Liverpool are back, but this week never pull a back
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Aditya K: to being when they were couple of weeks ago, which
00:21:50
Aditya K: is producing poor performances and not having anything of material
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Aditya K: to show for because they ended up losing to last
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Aditya K: place Nottingham Forest, one nil away from home. And what
00:22:00
Aditya K: a drab match that was. The one thing you could
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Aditya K: really tell from this war is the Liverpool locked all
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Aditya K: sense of creativity. They work really
00:22:06
Aditya K: chances, yes, but it's not like the Liverpool of all,
00:22:08
Aditya K: where they were feeding of the board to their wingers,
00:22:10
Aditya K: who would then cut in and score. They were just
00:22:13
Aditya K: blindly looking for Darwin noon years, who many a times
00:22:16
Aditya K: couldn't quite get there on time because his movement isn't
00:22:18
Aditya K: quite in sync. Winterised, rest of the team last save
00:22:21
Aditya K: a pool of major injury issues at their midfield issues
00:22:25
Aditya K: somewhat of a shoestring midfield at this stage, where they've
00:22:27
Aditya K: got most of their major players gone. It's amazing. How
00:22:30
Aditya K: are Liverpool have fallen from grace and just one season,
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Aditya K: and they not able to play the like Santiago as well.
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Aditya K: Our Nunes has also been slightly out of form. There's
00:22:38
Aditya K: not got loose d has available to place well, it's
00:22:40
Aditya K: just a weird team that's been put together by your
00:22:44
Aditya K: gun club with bits and pieces, the place that are
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Aditya K: all available and the notable put in a good show
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Aditya K: amid the locks.
00:22:49
Aditya K: Fabio Ochoa volley had a great chance to perform. Half
00:22:51
Aditya K: the Elliot had a great chance of performing. Curtis Jones
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Aditya K: had a great chance of performing. But all of them
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Aditya K: field unchained Nottingham Forest, which is very compact, sat back
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Aditya K: down deep and when the counterattack moment arrived, they were
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Aditya K: able to score. One goal in could have been too.
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Aditya K: But he S t eventually said he was born at
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Aditya K: Nottingham Forest, are now off from the bottom of the
00:23:09
Aditya K: Premier League. And it seems that Liverpool are at Rock
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Aditya K: Baht
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Aditya K: right now. Drums their performances. They currently stand 8 16 points,
00:23:17
Aditya K: which one game and had a head of Fulham who
00:23:19
Aditya K: have played 12 and now have 18 point 7/7 right now.
00:23:22
Aditya K: But the top six at that stand spokes is asked
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Aditya K: to Manchester City to Dr Moscow have now lost two
00:23:29
Aditya K: games in a row to Newcastle. Your have in fourth,
00:23:31
Aditya K: Chelsea in fifth and Man United in sixth. While we
00:23:35
Aditya K: this Premier League season is turning out to be outstanding,
00:23:38
Aditya K: is in if
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Aditya K: and now for Formula One in the USA, where weird
00:23:47
Aditya K: thing riches keep on happening. We saw Shaquille O'Neal present
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Aditya K: the trophy and he just seemed withdraw off the entire trophy,
00:23:53
Aditya K: even though it is quite a big one, actually. For
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Aditya K: the weather, we saw hundreds of cheerleaders darts sing on
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Aditya K: the track before the race began. We saw stupid cowboy hats.
00:24:01
Aditya K: We saw an assortment of fireworks and a joint Lima
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Aditya K: zeal for Red Bull racing to celebrate their world constructorschampionship
00:24:08
Aditya K: when as well
00:24:08
Aditya K: but a hell really waiting. We saw Mercedes potentially fighting
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Aditya K: for a win in Austin. Yes, for the first time
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Aditya K: since 2021. Now in was in little bit of a weird,
00:24:19
Aditya K: because it was a lot to do with Ferrari having
00:24:21
Aditya K: a terrible day. We saw Charlotte clear fighting back from
00:24:24
Aditya K: P 12 to kind of care up the ceiling near
00:24:26
Aditya K: of doing that quite well, which has should come out
00:24:27
Aditya K: for a second. But
00:24:28
Aditya K: Hamilton was really fighting with Max Verstappen because pole sitter
00:24:32
Aditya K: Carlos Sainz could taken out on the very first lap
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Aditya K: by George Russell and that's it that was raced on
00:24:38
Aditya K: on the very first collar. So that meant that we
00:24:40
Aditya K: saw the snap and Mrs Hamilton and attending what Max
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Aditya K: Verstappen want this race with a five second margin even
00:24:47
Aditya K: though he spent 10 seconds in the pit lane extra
00:24:50
Aditya K: because Red Bull racing actually had a botched pitstop.
00:24:53
Aditya K: Yup, that's how good he is. And until you the
00:24:55
Aditya K: kind of records he's beaten this weekend, he now is
00:24:58
Aditya K: the sixth most successful driver and formula on history in
00:25:01
Aditya K: terms of race wins his past. Fernando Alonso. He's got
00:25:05
Aditya K: 33 race wins, one more than Alonso, and he now
00:25:08
Aditya K: has the same number of world championships as Fernando with
00:25:10
Aditya K: two as well. And he's not died. The record of
00:25:14
Aditya K: Michael Schumacher and Sebastian
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Aditya K: of taking the most wins in a Formula One season
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Aditya K: with 13. Using Credible, he overcame that gap with such
00:25:23
Aditya K: ease and was able to beat Lewis Hamilton. But now
00:25:25
Aditya K: you might be wondering Hamilton fighting for the wind. What
00:25:28
Aditya K: year is it is a 2021 on over again a
00:25:31
Aditya K: liver glimpses of hope from a series that they were
00:25:33
Aditya K: definitely closer. But there is a lot to gain for
00:25:36
Aditya K: them So far. The car is unpredictable, un
00:25:39
Aditya K: reliable per se, but it's just hard to know when
00:25:41
Aditya K: it'll be formal. Wear it boat and Mercedes Well, they're
00:25:44
Aditya K: concept this radical concept of having no sigh pots on
00:25:46
Aditya K: their cars is not working at this moment. And yes,
00:25:49
Aditya K: we did see a stellar performance and Lewis Hamilton, but
00:25:52
Aditya K: I think for that monomer series when we might have
00:25:54
Aditya K: to wait under 2023. But Maxie's Stapp and take a bow.
00:25:58
Aditya K: What a driver water champion. And what a crazy US
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Aditya K: chief E.
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Aditya K: Thank you so much for that sawmill will see all
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Aditya K: next week. Until then, there's a lot of cricket as
00:26:13
Aditya K: a lot of sports keep watching, keep listening.