New Zealand show their mettle by stealing a draw against India and the Sports Weekly Trio - Ayaz Memon, Mr. Fantastic & Soumil Arora break down the match. The test also had a standout debut from Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin surpassing Harbhajan Singh as India's third highest test wicket taker. Also on the table for discussion this week: the Premier League, India makes the quarter finals of the Junior Men's Hockey World Cup and much more.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Sports Weekly with Ayaz Memon
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Speaker 1: Hello, hello. Welcome to yet another episode of Sports Weekly
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Speaker 1: with Ayaz Memon as always, a lot of action to cover.
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Speaker 1: And it starts wear the pair of a heartbreak, a
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Speaker 1: bit of disappointment, but also proved that New Zealand, our
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Speaker 1: the preeminent world champions of test match cricket hires welcome
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Speaker 1: to the show
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Speaker 1: elements of fantastic. It's been It's been a fantastic test
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Speaker 1: night as we know if I may be permitted a
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Speaker 1: little alliteration. The test match was insular, as it turned out,
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Speaker 1: not that it was a killer in the conventional sense
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Speaker 1: that I don't include a one, I think, by
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Speaker 1: post in the second session on the last day, it
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Speaker 1: was clear after a few wickets, friend that New Zealand
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Speaker 1: can't win.
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Speaker 1: But in or for the match to go on almost in,
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Speaker 1: virtually the last ball of the fifth day's play could
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Speaker 1: have decided the match in India's favour or not, or
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Speaker 1: a draw. As it turned out, it happened to be
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Speaker 1: a draw. So in inductions it was edge of the
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Speaker 1: seat excitement, New Zealand showing a lot of gumption, a
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Speaker 1: lot of pluck, but I must adhere. 11. Sense of disappointment.
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Speaker 1: The ride With the news
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Speaker 1: patting approach, the Indians kind of look like a team
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Speaker 1: which is extremely confident of its main batsman. Playing on
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Speaker 1: these on these tracks against Indian spinners on on Indian
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Speaker 1: pitches and that seem to be a bit jarring for
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Speaker 1: me because
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Speaker 1: New Zealand in the last
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Speaker 1: two years, three years, maybe four years have been a
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Speaker 1: very enterprising team. Women, they not have been the may
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Speaker 1: not have been the most flamboyant. They're not, you know,
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Speaker 1: not so strong on body language like the Aussie is
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Speaker 1: that they don't have much of a,
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Speaker 1: but they're very efficient team and they're a team which
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Speaker 1: has been capitalising on opportunities to go out and win matches.
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Speaker 1: That's how they won the world championship against India. We
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Speaker 1: have a four days. It seemed like the match was
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Speaker 1: a see saw struggle. India had moved ahead.
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Speaker 1: Finally, on the last day. New Zealand, in our front,
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Speaker 1: testing this new batsman shipment on the vendor test
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Speaker 1: in the first innings
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Speaker 1: 151 run opening partnership
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Speaker 1: in which is years amid. It took a little while,
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Speaker 1: but you expect that because they are chasing or the
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Speaker 1: Indian Ministry 45. That was their first of the active
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Speaker 1: to get past that, and they certainly put the shutters down.
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Speaker 1: And the packing became show dog aid and dour and
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Speaker 1: un enterprising
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Speaker 1: 2 96 runs in 142 overs is not
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Speaker 1: how teams will win matches on slow turn of returning pages,
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Speaker 1: which you find in the subcontinent and certainly not champion teams.
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Speaker 1: And in the second innings, also look at what happened.
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Speaker 1: They lost a wicket on the fourth day. Last last
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Speaker 1: over or second. Large store
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Speaker 1: started to day. Well, Night Watchman and Tom Liz, um,
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Speaker 1: hold one of the heroes for New Zealand, the smash
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Speaker 1: sore suit till lunch.
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Speaker 1: Then after launch, as soon as
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Speaker 1: you know they lost one wicket and not lays on
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Speaker 1: the night watchman, William Summer just went into attention. William
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Speaker 1: Summer will just went into their shell, including Williams and
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Speaker 1: Kane Williamson, who is a great bass with
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Speaker 1: and because they went into the shell,
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Speaker 1: the Indian captain Ajan kya Ronnie could attack them with
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Speaker 1: more aggressive fields. You know, he was not bothered because
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Speaker 1: the runs one not coming you in the singles. We're
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Speaker 1: not coming and the pressure kept piling and then once
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Speaker 1: billions in borrowed and locked up Blossom got out of
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Speaker 1: the batting, just came in
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Speaker 1: and it took all the efforts of detail and I
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Speaker 1: must mention year Russian Rabindranath, who actually like a stellar
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Speaker 1: knock and debut match, didn't score too many runs. But
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Speaker 1: he showed great nerves and you have stuck it out
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Speaker 1: to the energy and it was Patel. I mean, imagined
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Speaker 1: New Zealand being same by an age of our global
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Speaker 1: A has been in certainly is showing its sources reflecting
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Speaker 1: the multiculturalism of New Zealand society, isn't it Mr Fantastic?
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Speaker 1: So it's a great in the sense New Zealand have
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Speaker 1: served themselves well because the last time they were here
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Speaker 1: they lost these, you know,
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Speaker 1: So they are not lost the first test match. They
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Speaker 1: have a chance to win the second and if they
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Speaker 1: win a match in India and go from here Boy,
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Speaker 1: that is going to be some achieved and they're not
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Speaker 1: looking at the way their team performed there fast for news,
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Speaker 1: did most of the wicket taking in both innings and
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Speaker 1: Mumbai typically does favour fast bowlers.
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Speaker 1: It's been known to be a dust bowl also, but
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Speaker 1: the first morning will be crucial.
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Speaker 1: Also, the toss will again be Krishna. But just for
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Speaker 1: a moment, staying with this test match. I think one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest highlights for India has to be shares
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Speaker 1: a year and the application that he showed and wondered
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Speaker 1: debut it was for him. It was, in my opinion
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Speaker 1: now many players did extremely well in this match. In
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Speaker 1: Will Bill Young. Tom is, um, Top Tim Saudi
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Speaker 1: and
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Speaker 1: Kyle GMs. Cinnamon in on on the pitch measure. Very
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Speaker 1: little for fast bowlers. This these guys picked up 14
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Speaker 1: out of 17 wickets for New Zealand with a little
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Speaker 1: help from the spinners, with Graham in tighter the match.
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Speaker 1: But the two outstanding performers, one was in a bit
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Speaker 1: and the other in the veteran debutante was shares. Iyer
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Speaker 1: a century and a half century in the same match
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Speaker 1: and both made in a crisis in both innings in
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Speaker 1: the first as well as um, in the second innings,
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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, the obscenity will better than essentially
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Speaker 1: because India were 51 for five and human if it
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Speaker 1: at the 49 runs lead on the first meet, 100
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Speaker 1: for five
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Speaker 1: had been lost. The remaining five wickets for another 50
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Speaker 1: sectionals This natural lost. So
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Speaker 1: Syria's a year, along with
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Speaker 1: Ravichandran, Ashwin and
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Speaker 1: Action Patel. And of course, the demons are.
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Speaker 1: And this is not the first time that the India's
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Speaker 1: lower order has kind of in a bowling team out
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Speaker 1: of our art, Remember a couple of times in Australia.
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Speaker 1: In the test matches there,
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Speaker 1: there is a great series in law and 2020. Then
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Speaker 1: even these 20 in England. A fantastic partnership between Mohammed
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Speaker 1: Shami and Gas Spring Bumba pulled India out of the
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Speaker 1: woods and finally led to a win.
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Speaker 1: So is the top out of which has been struggling.
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Speaker 1: Will talk about that. But just to mention the two
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Speaker 1: heroes shares a year. We've been waiting for a while
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Speaker 1: is 26 years old
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Speaker 1: and they're being very for a while to get a
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Speaker 1: place in the team. And now that he is coming actually, um,
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Speaker 1: Virat Kohli was playing, he probably wonder, played,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we don't know whether he would have
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Speaker 1: been gone looking in the second test. Maybe, maybe North.
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Speaker 1: We don't know.
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Speaker 1: But because he got this chance, be waiting for a
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Speaker 1: while is being vocal about wanting together chance. He came,
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Speaker 1: ensured
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Speaker 1: before the extent of his desire and his skills and
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Speaker 1: his ability and establish to watch is a very enterprising
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Speaker 1: batsmen in a vast rep. Retire of stroke. But he
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Speaker 1: also got away strong,
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Speaker 1: tough mind.
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Speaker 1: And he's he's also bats, bats with a lot of responsibility.
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Speaker 1: He's probably a long term player at 26 is probably
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Speaker 1: got good 78 years, at least in them and maybe
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Speaker 1: a few more,
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Speaker 1: probably captain for the future is kind of being touted.
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Speaker 1: Is that in other quarters for other formats already captaincy apart.
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Speaker 1: 70 captaincy. It can happen for the Spanish exciting right
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Speaker 1: now for him. What he's done successfully is that now
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Speaker 1: you can't keep him out of the testing. So he
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Speaker 1: has to place an ex test.
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Speaker 1: And if he does well enough, I mean, even if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't do well enough as it is surely on
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Speaker 1: the squad
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Speaker 1: in the spot to go to South Africa,
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Speaker 1: and that's very is to start showing his prowess and
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Speaker 1: doing runs of making guns overseas to become a completely
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Speaker 1: acceptable fixture of the Indian batting. Interesting foreign to mention
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Speaker 1: that he is now made a spot for himself. But
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Speaker 1: at whose costuming?
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Speaker 1: The two
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Speaker 1: major sort of performances that stuck out runners. My ankle. Agarwal,
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Speaker 1: who is just not finding for at the top of
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Speaker 1: the order
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Speaker 1: who could possibly replace him. Now if there are police
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Speaker 1: coming back
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Speaker 1: for the second test, which he is as captain, who
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Speaker 1: makes way for him? Shri s Air can't no eggs would.
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Speaker 1: Certainly not. But before I come there and before we
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Speaker 1: get to the because as big quandary for the selectors
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Speaker 1: who will leave out in Virat comes in. But let's
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Speaker 1: not mention about Sharon's as the other player will the
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Speaker 1: veteran
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Speaker 1: Hu Xiang. One Ravichandran Ashwin
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Speaker 1: is Guam, Parsa. Harbhajan Singh's in a wickets tally. He
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Speaker 1: picked up
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Speaker 1: biggest in both innings, ill of the most impressive of
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Speaker 1: the Indian spinners, and he played handy knocks in both
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Speaker 1: innings in both innings. His innings, you know, is the
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Speaker 1: runs that he made was so crucial, So Ravichandran Ashwin
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Speaker 1: is serving out of reminder. Every time he walks out
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Speaker 1: in whatever format that you know, he you can just
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Speaker 1: ignore him,
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Speaker 1: whether you like him or dislike him, you can't ignore
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Speaker 1: it has become that kind of a player prophecies of
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Speaker 1: fantastic palate.
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Speaker 1: But to come back to the dilemma that the Indian
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Speaker 1: selectors and the Indian team management will have now that
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Speaker 1: Iraq police coming. So I Listen God, I feel my surmise,
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Speaker 1: Mr Fantastic. He has to replace somebody in the middle
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Speaker 1: order which he has to be either from Puja or
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Speaker 1: on an article you can drop
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Speaker 1: certain.
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Speaker 1: And then you weren't the string of all runners, so
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Speaker 1: you can drop any of them. So I think the
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Speaker 1: hero murderous reign on Pooja is one part the other.
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Speaker 1: This
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Speaker 1: keeping in mind
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Speaker 1: that India's gonna South Africa next which is an overseas
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Speaker 1: to where pitches can be tough and difficult because the
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Speaker 1: the there faster pitches and requires a little more or
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Speaker 1: lots more experienced
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Speaker 1: urging Dravid and Virat and the selectors might be
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Speaker 1: eager to get more experience in the squad.
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Speaker 1: So they will give another chance to my opinion to
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Speaker 1: both these guys in in Mumbai in the Bombay Test
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Speaker 1: and re Bliss Sayer opener My anchor Agarwal with Ks
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Speaker 1: Bharat
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Speaker 1: If regiments are is not fit. If he is fit,
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Speaker 1: Bizimana and some bangle could be the openers. Now Both
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Speaker 1: those positions
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Speaker 1: are also not fixed, you know, because it punk comes back.
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Speaker 1: Then Sahara loses his place and Royals and Rahul come back. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Chairman guilt is not in the running. But if if
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Speaker 1: Saha or case Bharat open innings with my uncle or
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Speaker 1: with Truman Gil, then Virat walks in into the team
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Speaker 1: without dislodging either Rahane of Yala. That's the best case
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Speaker 1: scenario for
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Speaker 1: these two senior pros. Pojar and are one of them
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Speaker 1: has dropped
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Speaker 1: Virat Kohli's accommodated. Both these openers are retained and of course,
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Speaker 1: everything else move. The worst case scenario for them is
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Speaker 1: that both are dropped
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Speaker 1: and
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Speaker 1: government like a studio. Kumar Yadav is tried out
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Speaker 1: along with Virat, who comes back and takes its place
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Speaker 1: and therefore you know they're building and looking at a
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Speaker 1: guy is okay. You
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Speaker 1: You know, last three years you had a
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Speaker 1: pretty lean trucks to maybe need to go back and
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Speaker 1: begin your form and then fight your way back into team.
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Speaker 1: So all these things are possible, but I think most
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Speaker 1: likely is going to be that
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Speaker 1: you know they will be part of the squad in
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Speaker 1: their part of the squad that you play there.
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Speaker 1: There's enough. Experienced. There were cheers. Another scenario where
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Speaker 1: Suhas it's out and Barrett mix
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Speaker 1: his mark or his entry into the team. Mild. Agarwal
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Speaker 1: is dropped for trial to Sorry Kumar Yadav. Even if
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Speaker 1: it's in the opening slot and the rest of the
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Speaker 1: middle Order remains untouched and makes way for
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Speaker 1: Virat Kohli,
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Speaker 1: that's That's another possible scenario. But
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Speaker 1: you're right. It's the There are all of their counters. Possibilities.
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Speaker 1: Mr Fantastic. It could be that Pooja Lacan open
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Speaker 1: along with
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Speaker 1: by an Orangeman and Bujar A. Has in the past.
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Speaker 1: Open through Virat Kohli comes in. But of course, Virat Milady,
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Speaker 1: Bad number three or division, wants to back at number
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Speaker 1: for then instruction Ragnar, three or Trey, a security government.
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Speaker 1: So all kinds of possibilities are there but worked. What's
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Speaker 1: the clear messages and body? And I am both factory,
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Speaker 1: in a sense,
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Speaker 1: the near on circus and discusses that both Ron and Puja,
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Speaker 1: under strict scrutiny, the annual a lot of pressure
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Speaker 1: and their places are by no means secure. Remember the
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Speaker 1: unfortunate Hanuman Buhari you know, that also mean the shares
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Speaker 1: I am has been lucky because and and, um, Ali
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Speaker 1: Ali not been forwarded by the selectors and then finally
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Speaker 1: put scent of Australia with India
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Speaker 1: us to test
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Speaker 1: and so sometimes life worlds out, goals out some luck
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Speaker 1: and has it helped.
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Speaker 1: But I don't change that Hujara and
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Speaker 1: can now depend any longer on luck, I think is
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Speaker 1: not an issue of luck anymore. It has to be
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Speaker 1: about their talent and their performance and they have to deliver. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I think they have reached the end of the rope
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Speaker 1: in terms of their opportunities.
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Speaker 1: What does Red demands Suhas future really look like a
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Speaker 1: mean He hand an injury. He sat out for the most.
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Speaker 1: He didn't really keep wickets in New Zealand's first innings,
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Speaker 1: but he came back and had a really strong half
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Speaker 1: century in the second innings, which set up the test
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Speaker 1: mints for India. So
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Speaker 1: what is his role? His ear gonna seem around much longer,
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Speaker 1: definitely not after Tricia Plant is back. But even now,
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Speaker 1: with the
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Speaker 1: Shekhar Bharatha did a good drop in the first innings.
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Speaker 1: I really think that Mumbai could be his one song
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Speaker 1: if he straighten up to play his neck is not
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Speaker 1: giving up a problem. Then Regiment Sorry is 37. Your
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Speaker 1: first keeper choice is the shop and then you can't
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Speaker 1: have really months as the second wicket predicted. Keeping. The
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Speaker 1: team has 38
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Speaker 1: Barak has made
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Speaker 1: favourable impression even as a substitute. Then it's makes sense
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Speaker 1: will take him as a second wicket keeper to South Africa.
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Speaker 1: So I think that the Mansare he's had a pretty
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Speaker 1: unfortunate career when he located very transparently because he's been
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Speaker 1: in and out of the team for some time, for
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Speaker 1: no fault of his. He's had a long way in
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Speaker 1: before that because don't he was playing
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Speaker 1: and he has been an ex is excellent, technically
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Speaker 1: is also very good when it comes to batting. He
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Speaker 1: is not a star, but he's been been a very
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Speaker 1: official players issued in the second innings. Your time's running
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Speaker 1: out
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Speaker 1: the actual live in his head of stop start career
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Speaker 1: 39 test matches.
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Speaker 1: Ivory, just under thirties at a few test centuries, is
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Speaker 1: well but never really got an extended run and it's
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Speaker 1: like a lot of other and three to kind of
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Speaker 1: grow up in the Indian career and therefore lost our
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Speaker 1: own chances. He's had to live under the shadow of
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Speaker 1: Ms Dhoni for the most part of his career. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: years and you know, is one. And you're saying that
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes these these storeys make these careers make
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Speaker 1: such great storeys. No heart rending storeys Sahel one of them.
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Speaker 1: It's a tragedy
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Speaker 1: almost
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Speaker 1: moving on to some other cricketing action. We have had
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Speaker 1: Bangladesh and Pakistan
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Speaker 1: going head on in a test match that has just started.
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Speaker 1: Or that Sorry, that's just about to finish. Pakistan at
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Speaker 1: a tough time, considered the lead but are now on
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Speaker 1: track to win. By the time we released this, they
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Speaker 1: might have just finished off Bangladeshi it again.
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Speaker 1: We're also looking at some other interesting sports from around
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Speaker 1: the world. We've got a look at the Junior World
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Speaker 1: Cup currently taking place in Bhubaneshwar, where India has made
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Speaker 1: the quarterfinals. They finished second in their pool with the
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Speaker 1: 21 win loss record, losing only to France.
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Speaker 1: They will now face Belgium in the quarterfinals, but that's
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Speaker 1: not the most interesting part about this tournament. This has
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Speaker 1: probably been all of the highest scoring hockey tournaments I
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Speaker 1: have ever witnessed. Have you ever seen these scorelines? IRS?
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Speaker 1: 14 0, 12 5, 17 0 13 1
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Speaker 1: It's Creasy. There are badminton games that have four points,
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Speaker 1: sometimes the between mismatches, you know. I mean, you ever
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Speaker 1: German year Argentina playing Egypt will get that kind of
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Speaker 1: a scoreline. But you're right. But this is a trend
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Speaker 1: of modern hockey. You know every levels during the Olympics,
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Speaker 1: a television coverage
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Speaker 1: have used to some tense
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Speaker 1: Think about, you know, scorelines of 53,
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Speaker 1: 64
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Speaker 1: between two big teams. And those were unthinkably matches in
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Speaker 1: the early days when I started watching hockey of political grass.
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Speaker 1: Not an Astro,
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Speaker 1: you know, 21331 would be a reality
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Speaker 1: when it became a seven. You know, seven bowls bowling
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Speaker 1: will be receiving the Asian Games and 1982 all hell
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Speaker 1: broke lose.
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Speaker 1: So the aspect of makes the game faster makes the
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Speaker 1: game more tilted towards scoring more goals. Because the breakaways happened.
00:16:06
Speaker 1: The penalty corners have become so specialised, players are specialists
00:16:10
Speaker 1: are chosen only for the penalty. Further convergence, etcetera instructors.
00:16:13
Speaker 1: So I think that hockey has become. Bill is a
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Speaker 1: very fast paced game, is many data driven game,
00:16:20
Speaker 1: and getting tennis kind of scores is not unusual today.
00:16:23
Speaker 1: But yes, of course, 12, 0 and 13 1 are
00:16:28
Speaker 1: the Today show complete this match, but more interesting than
00:16:32
Speaker 1: that is and will have to go through a lot
00:16:34
Speaker 1: of record books to figure out if this has ever happened.
00:16:37
Speaker 1: On the 25th of November, 70 goals were scored in
00:16:40
Speaker 1: five matches, the lowest score on that. There was a
00:16:46
Speaker 1: 71 win for France over Poland. Um, and how badly
00:16:49
Speaker 1: would France have had to play to sport on the seventh?
00:16:52
Speaker 1: On the gravest, 70 goals was Call. It's Creasy is
00:16:55
Speaker 1: becoming wise, but it also look this the Junior World Cup.
00:16:58
Speaker 1: So in the sense, he also getting an idea of
00:17:01
Speaker 1: the trend where hockey is going.
00:17:03
Speaker 1: So you may be right. Having there might be a
00:17:04
Speaker 1: scenario
00:17:06
Speaker 1: where 10 6 11 8 will become
00:17:09
Speaker 1: fairly regular scorelines. I'll just draw is not an analogy
00:17:13
Speaker 1: with cricket, but let me just tell you what's happenin.
00:17:15
Speaker 1: Let's not discuss the current test match with, um industry
00:17:18
Speaker 1: small with this got over with the scoring rate was
00:17:20
Speaker 1: so poor one point agents to runs per over. But
00:17:25
Speaker 1: in modern cricket, in desk cricket, as we've seen
00:17:29
Speaker 1: team scoring in 90 hours in a day scoring 3
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Speaker 1: 23 forties,
00:17:33
Speaker 1: you know, rather commit. It's the norm these days. You
00:17:35
Speaker 1: expected team to be close to 300 on the day,
00:17:39
Speaker 1: while about 40 50/40 50 years ago. If you score
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Speaker 1: 10 to 50 you would get, you know, like we
00:17:46
Speaker 1: will be applauded of the field and the library, top
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Speaker 1: of how wonderful you've done this court to 1500. Changing.
00:17:53
Speaker 1: Translating hockey and us has always been a very fast
00:17:56
Speaker 1: paced game, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of the rule changes. The ruling substitution is
00:17:59
Speaker 1: the lack of outside. But talking up talk about Ragheb,
00:18:03
Speaker 1: Our hockey, eh? Must mention here that India's is qualified
00:18:07
Speaker 1: if Aggie knockouts. But one team, which hasn't this Pakistan, yes,
00:18:12
Speaker 1: and I was reading a report in one of my
00:18:14
Speaker 1: ex colleagues mean was very perceptive about hockey, and he
00:18:18
Speaker 1: meets the right kind of people
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Speaker 1: and one of the problems that he is highlighted about
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Speaker 1: Pakistan and saying that in the context of subcontinent occupies
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Speaker 1: one time
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Speaker 1: was an ornament to the game that the Pakistan hockey
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Speaker 1: system is still locked up. In the past,
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Speaker 1: the players are not
00:18:34
Speaker 1: taught to play
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Speaker 1: attacking aggressive hockey on artificial tough. They are talking about
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Speaker 1: what happened in, you know in 1982 World Cup or
00:18:44
Speaker 1: 68 Olympics, or or stuff like that and living on
00:18:47
Speaker 1: past Nori India have made that jump. They moved ahead
00:18:51
Speaker 1: after spending three for decades, the maintain and the being
00:18:56
Speaker 1: model in about what used to be. They moved ahead.
00:18:58
Speaker 1: Pakistan haven't, which is why they going back home. Otherwise,
00:19:03
Speaker 1: the junior hockey. You would expect Pakistan to be at
00:19:06
Speaker 1: least qualifying. But why? You know it is not strange
00:19:09
Speaker 1: at all when you consider that in the Tokyo Olympics,
00:19:12
Speaker 1: Pakistani in future a tall enough.
00:19:14
Speaker 1: That's true and even in fact, given a lot of
00:19:16
Speaker 1: the other travel related restrictions. There are a few team
00:19:19
Speaker 1: is missing in this tournament as well.
00:19:22
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, India plays Belgium in their quarterfinal. Let's hope we're
00:19:25
Speaker 1: able to talk about them making
00:19:27
Speaker 1: a further move up into the knockouts when we catch
00:19:31
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00:21:18
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Speaker 1: One and other round up over to you. Hi, Mr Fantastic.
00:21:43
Speaker 1: Thank you so much
00:21:44
Speaker 2: so much in the world of football or talk about
00:21:46
Speaker 2: and
00:21:47
Speaker 1: I have a big smile on my face being a
00:21:50
Speaker 1: Manchester United stand, of course,
00:21:52
Speaker 2: nor only because of our result which are shall get
00:21:56
Speaker 2: to in a second. We're also because Manchester United have
00:21:59
Speaker 2: appointed a brand new interim manager and it may find
00:22:03
Speaker 2: the scene that they have taken that one big step
00:22:05
Speaker 2: towards securing their long term footballing future more than a second.
00:22:09
Speaker 2: But let's start with the Premier Li round up. Let's
00:22:11
Speaker 2: talk about the big fixes off this weekend and what
00:22:15
Speaker 2: really happened, and we have to start with Manchester United
00:22:18
Speaker 2: because we had a big ticket fixture up against Chelsea
00:22:21
Speaker 2: and boy oh boy, this was some gain to look
00:22:24
Speaker 2: at
00:22:25
Speaker 2: in terms of the results from that might come across
00:22:27
Speaker 2: is a very evenly squared up game with Chelsea. Drawing
00:22:30
Speaker 2: 11 against United at home and it may come across
00:22:33
Speaker 2: is a very disappointing result for Chelsea because now they
00:22:37
Speaker 2: lead at the top is only one point with Manchester
00:22:39
Speaker 2: City just completely breathing down them with 29 points in Liverpool.
00:22:43
Speaker 2: Up put 28
00:22:45
Speaker 2: Chelsea. They have slipped up again. And let's be honest,
00:22:49
Speaker 2: it wasn't half as close as the scoreline suggests. United.
00:22:53
Speaker 2: We're nowhere close to being an even equal team all
00:22:56
Speaker 2: the way through Shell, See, would dominant, asserted their soil.
00:23:00
Speaker 2: And even with an injured Roman Lukaku, they still look
00:23:02
Speaker 2: like the team to beat in the first half
00:23:05
Speaker 2: in Actually took Manchester United around 40 minutes,
00:23:08
Speaker 2: registered their first touch with Dean Mitchell, see
00:23:11
Speaker 2: attacking third and then even a few more minutes to
00:23:15
Speaker 2: register their first touch within the attacking D. That is
00:23:18
Speaker 2: some crazy stuff. 24 shots by Chelsea to the three
00:23:22
Speaker 2: of United 66% possession, which was way higher in the
00:23:25
Speaker 2: first half. You can tell this was meant to be
00:23:28
Speaker 2: Chelsea's game, but then again, an error from Georgian you
00:23:31
Speaker 2: and enter from him in the second of a Largent's
00:23:34
Speaker 2: and should just to get us.
00:23:35
Speaker 2: But a sloppy defending by Giorgio Sancho went ahead and
00:23:38
Speaker 2: score and eventually
00:23:40
Speaker 2: Chelsea Gora penalty because Thiago Silva conf Alden Beira by Aragon,
00:23:45
Speaker 2: Masaka and so Georgian you converted an actually redeemed this
00:23:49
Speaker 2: mistake in a way so Chelsea were able to equalise.
00:23:51
Speaker 2: But
00:23:52
Speaker 2: had Rueda goes, gold got in. In the way end
00:23:56
Speaker 2: of the game, things would have been slightly different.
00:23:58
Speaker 2: It was a game of inconsistency for Chelsea, whether dominated play.
00:24:02
Speaker 2: But we're not clinical enough in front of goal beat
00:24:04
Speaker 2: with Werner Beat with Z aka Beef attacks on a toy.
00:24:06
Speaker 2: That's where they lacked things. Maybe Lukaku had he been
00:24:09
Speaker 2: on their things would have been slightly different. But again,
00:24:12
Speaker 2: just returning from injury and Manchester United? Well, you can
00:24:17
Speaker 2: call them spineless as a certainly a better performance,
00:24:20
Speaker 2: then what we saw a few weeks ago, but his
00:24:22
Speaker 2: team was designed to stop Chelsea not to attack only
00:24:25
Speaker 2: three shots in the game. Ronaldo was benched in favour
00:24:28
Speaker 2: of jeering Sanshou so that they could go for a
00:24:30
Speaker 2: more defensive midfield, three of Fredmac comedy and Mac Ridge.
00:24:33
Speaker 2: And eventually that was the deal breaker in a way
00:24:36
Speaker 2: that sort of defended the match you man united. Not
00:24:39
Speaker 2: that day
00:24:40
Speaker 2: would have drawn had on all the bin day again.
00:24:42
Speaker 2: It's a case of one is somewhat Caribbeans. But having
00:24:45
Speaker 2: Scott make comedy in there definitely saved some credibility for
00:24:48
Speaker 2: Man United, but this cannot be dubbed as a good
00:24:51
Speaker 2: performance in a way one point apiece. Chelsea get things
00:24:55
Speaker 2: even tighter at the top. Speaking of the top, speaking
00:24:58
Speaker 2: of things, be really tight.
00:25:00
Speaker 2: We saw West Ham losing steam. They got beat by
00:25:04
Speaker 2: Manchester City to one and their own. A form seems
00:25:07
Speaker 2: to be going in a complete drop. This would have
00:25:10
Speaker 2: been one nil for the majority of the game and
00:25:12
Speaker 2: actually even was with good accounts, go in the first goal.
00:25:15
Speaker 2: But Foreign and d'oh! He eventually scored 1/90 minute, a
00:25:18
Speaker 2: second goal and lands. Edie had to equalise right at
00:25:21
Speaker 2: the very end,
00:25:21
Speaker 2: a very slow game from the circumstances, because he was
00:25:24
Speaker 2: being played in the snow and it was intense physicality.
00:25:28
Speaker 2: They had to play completely accorded the circumstances and Cindy
00:25:32
Speaker 2: watches better mine, city urges were even though there's styles
00:25:36
Speaker 2: really contradict both of city and West Ham City just
00:25:39
Speaker 2: had a sort of dominance and West Ham.
00:25:42
Speaker 2: This is current manufacturing of chances, which is strange to
00:25:45
Speaker 2: say make a zero team. There is very good on
00:25:47
Speaker 2: the counter attack but we're belonged in front of Manchester City,
00:25:50
Speaker 2: who are actually regaining Steam and West Ham are losing.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: It are still one to relegates Newcastle. Things are looking
00:25:57
Speaker 2: good over there. Brentford, Pete, everyone Delta. That was really surprising. One.
00:26:01
Speaker 2: They have been turning a lot of heads so far
00:26:03
Speaker 2: this year, but Liverpool winning four delegates. Southampton Things are
00:26:07
Speaker 2: the mercy side. Express is in full flow
00:26:10
Speaker 2: and in the Premier League seriously, things are heating up.
00:26:13
Speaker 2: But can it heat up with Manchester United? Who is
00:26:16
Speaker 2: the new interim manager? Will Manchester United have just gone
00:26:20
Speaker 2: in there, Miss? If it desk and they have appointed
00:26:22
Speaker 2: Ross Rag. Nick Ralph is not the biggest name in
00:26:26
Speaker 2: the world of football. Karen deal. He is no Jurgen
00:26:28
Speaker 2: Klopp or he is no Thomas Total by the name value.
00:26:32
Speaker 2: But Dr Nick is the manager that influence board these
00:26:35
Speaker 2: manages game plan.
00:26:37
Speaker 2: He is the one that introduced the famous gaijin press tactic,
00:26:40
Speaker 2: and that is something that completely transformed the game of
00:26:44
Speaker 2: German football. In fact, you might know him from his
00:26:46
Speaker 2: stint at Lyme sick and Atal, I'm sick. Believe it
00:26:50
Speaker 2: or not, he took that cup from the fourth division
00:26:53
Speaker 2: up to second in the Bundesliga er, in the space
00:26:56
Speaker 2: of four years,
00:26:57
Speaker 2: four years. It's ridiculous how good this guy's, and Rangnick
00:27:01
Speaker 2: has no to me, someone very technical, very keen in
00:27:04
Speaker 2: terms of football. If that is known to be football
00:27:06
Speaker 2: encyclopaedia and knows almost everything about every player in all
00:27:10
Speaker 2: of Europe. He stacked much into it, eventually in order
00:27:13
Speaker 2: at a poaching boy from Lokomotiv Moscow, where he had
00:27:15
Speaker 2: a
00:27:16
Speaker 2: a consultancy role with the club.
00:27:18
Speaker 2: But now United have their man. He will be there
00:27:20
Speaker 2: for six months. And reason why I feel that this
00:27:23
Speaker 2: is a very astute appointment is the fact that Ran
00:27:26
Speaker 2: Frag Nick has been appointed as a consultant for Man
00:27:28
Speaker 2: United for the next two years after history ends. So
00:27:32
Speaker 2: there is someone experienced who knows his football those how
00:27:36
Speaker 2: to make the right decisions there with the team for
00:27:39
Speaker 2: two years to guide them in the long term success,
00:27:41
Speaker 2: regardless of whether the manager is and just one lasting,
00:27:44
Speaker 2: the R. Ralph Rangnick.
00:27:46
Speaker 2: He is a coach who prefers high intensity, energy tackling,
00:27:50
Speaker 2: pressing all the things that Manchester absolutely bottom in the league.
00:27:54
Speaker 2: This can be a fundamental change. Keep an eye on
00:27:57
Speaker 2: this one,
00:27:59
Speaker 2: Mr Fantastic. It's a bit of a shame, really, to
00:28:03
Speaker 2: conclude this episode in this way. But Frank Williams, legendary
00:28:07
Speaker 2: founder of Team Williams, has unfortunately passed away at the
00:28:11
Speaker 2: age of 79.
00:28:12
Speaker 2: And
00:28:13
Speaker 2: there has not been one person with a bad word
00:28:16
Speaker 2: to say about Mr Williams. Of course, he sold he
00:28:19
Speaker 2: and the family soul of the team back in 2020
00:28:22
Speaker 2: but they had been running it early on since the
00:28:25
Speaker 2: 19 seventies. They've wants so many world championships that produced
00:28:30
Speaker 2: World Championship, where in dr is like Nigel Mansell,
00:28:34
Speaker 2: like
00:28:35
Speaker 2: Damon Hill
00:28:37
Speaker 2: like An and Cross. It had so many legends in
00:28:40
Speaker 2: the team. Alan Jones is another name that comes to mind.
00:28:43
Speaker 2: Keke Rosberg is another name that comes to mind absolute
00:28:46
Speaker 2: bonafide legends of the world of Formula One and yesterday
00:28:49
Speaker 2: entail off. But the impact of Frank Williams cannot be understated.
00:28:54
Speaker 2: He is.
00:28:55
Speaker 2: The Storey is amazing. Frank Williams
00:28:57
Speaker 2: was such a gritty and a plucky character from what
00:29:00
Speaker 2: it's portray it as he always used to work in
00:29:03
Speaker 2: fight Frank Williams. On the day of his marriage, he
00:29:05
Speaker 2: was so passionate about Formula One race cars that just
00:29:08
Speaker 2: right after marriage. His wife had to had launched a
00:29:11
Speaker 2: loan because Frank went back to the factory to work
00:29:14
Speaker 2: on his formula Wanka Amazing storeys, and the unfortunately was
00:29:17
Speaker 2: paralysed from his bottom down in a road car accident
00:29:21
Speaker 2: back in 1987 Very is driving a bit too fast,
00:29:24
Speaker 2: crashed on the public roads and eventually hurt himself. But
00:29:27
Speaker 2: even then, even though he was on a wheelchair for
00:29:29
Speaker 2: the rest of his life, always there at the barrack,
00:29:32
Speaker 2: always attending the races whenever his health care law and
00:29:34
Speaker 2: just directing the team, controlling it and having such an influence,
00:29:39
Speaker 2: let's be honest, he he was no revolutionary. He was
00:29:42
Speaker 2: no innovation brew or something like that, which is the blocky,
00:29:46
Speaker 2: gritty nature of running a small team with considerable, always
00:29:49
Speaker 2: considerably low resource and anyone else. For so many years,
00:29:53
Speaker 2: Williams were D team to go to,
00:29:56
Speaker 2: and that's all because of Frank Will lives. Waterman were alleged,
00:30:00
Speaker 2: and you
00:30:02
Speaker 2: is impact can be forgotten. That's all I can say.
00:30:05
Speaker 2: The Williams family might no longer bill Formula One,
00:30:08
Speaker 2: but when you have a Mount Rushmore, Formula One team bosses.
00:30:11
Speaker 2: Frank Williams certainly has to be there. What an absolute
00:30:14
Speaker 2: legend and William seem will be hoping that when they
00:30:17
Speaker 2: go to Saudi Arabia when they go to Jeddah in
00:30:19
Speaker 2: the coming weekend, they can do something special to honour
00:30:22
Speaker 2: his memory because he was such an inspiring figure
00:30:25
Speaker 2: and injera, that's the fun part. The first ever Saudi
00:30:27
Speaker 2: Arabian Grand Prix will be happening this weekend and, realistically,
00:30:32
Speaker 2: banks for staff and has a charge to become world
00:30:34
Speaker 2: champion for the first time this weekend. All he needs
00:30:38
Speaker 2: to do is to win this trace that for Lewis
00:30:41
Speaker 2: Hamilton to finish lower than sixth. Let's be honest,
00:30:44
Speaker 2: that does not happen. Hamilton, in his current Supreme of CA,
00:30:46
Speaker 2: has been so fast he has been dominating races, taking
00:30:50
Speaker 2: ball by half a second. You should watch out for
00:30:52
Speaker 2: this weekend at the General Ground Tree in Saudi Arabia.
00:30:56
Speaker 1: It might not be the
00:30:57
Speaker 2: best country in the world for human rights, but the
00:30:58
Speaker 2: circuit seems fast, only the second fastest on the entire
00:31:02
Speaker 2: Formula One calendar. And the excitement is real. Two races
00:31:05
Speaker 2: to go in the championship
00:31:06
Speaker 2: and we will be covering all of this on the
00:31:09
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00:31:13
Speaker 2: I covered Going to tell you More on Sports Weekly.
00:31:15
Speaker 2: But that's all from the world of Formula One today,
00:31:17
Speaker 2: Mr Fantastic, Can't God come wait seriously to see how
00:31:20
Speaker 2: this plays out?
00:31:21
Speaker 1: Thanks so much summing Darryl's. Amazing. As always, it's a
00:31:24
Speaker 1: pleasure to have been
00:31:26
Speaker 1: part of the show again with this growing group of
00:31:28
Speaker 1: sports enthusiasts and experts. Until next time. Thank you very much.
00:31:33
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00:31:35
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