Amber Samdhu

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Hello and welcome to Strategic Time Out with me, Amber Sandhu, the show where we chat all things IPL.

Now, it's not long to go until the 19th edition of the competition gets underway.

And here we're going to be debriefing it all from shots to stories to wickets and all the wonderful stuff.

in between and each week i'm going to be joined by a couple of fab guests this week everyone's favorite faithful quite surreal actually seeing you in person and traitors finalist for us and all joins us and a former ipl player knows the competition inside and out abhishek janjavala abhishek for us hello hello um for us we're going to come to you first now you are a massive sports fan but also grew up playing cricket you still do play as well i'm trying to anywhere

I know, I've seen you batting, actually.

You've got the Stuart Broad.

For context, Stuart Broad commented on Faraz's video of him batting, saying shot.

So I think that gives you the approval, doesn't it?

Talk me through some of your earliest memories of cricket and watching the IPL.

It was a huge spectacle.

Also, Abhishek, you'll appreciate this as a former player.

Show everyone your finger for us because you used to be a wicketkeeper, right?

Now he just bats for fun.

Abhishek, it's a joy to have you on the episode because you're somebody who knows the IPL inside and out as a player, as a commentator.

You played in 2010 for Rajasthan Royals.

Two years into the competition, you could say it was early, the kind of early days of the competition building.

What was that like?

Because we didn't have anything like this.

Go back to 2008, 2009.