Prakash Wakankar

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356 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 9 Mar

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Test Match Special · ‘England have the best spinners in the World Cup’ - Vaughan · 3 Mar 2026 podcast

One is on the previous night, that's last night, in the north of India and the north central part of India, you would have had a fire being burned.

with old things, wood, but all the old stuff that you want to throw away.

So it's about rejuvenation, it's about burning all the evil, getting rid of all negativity, all of that stuff.

And in that part of the country, that fire then settles and in the morning, some of the

Ash is taken as sort of an offering, if you will, mixed along with all the other colors and things that are used for the play and then people play with it.

And now, of course, because of Bollywood, even in parts of southern India where Bollywood was never really that big, it's become a festival.

It's like everything else.

I mean, you know, anything that Bollywood does becomes national, maybe even arguably global.

So there's a huge amount of

attraction to Holi for people both within India and elsewhere and people just have a great time.

The traditional drink by the way, and this will interest you, is a type of, well I don't want to use the word, but it's a type of thing that helps you get a little bit high.

It's rolled into a little ball and in almond infused milk

it's kept overnight, and then you have copious quantities of it during Holi, so that you're in a state of semi-consciousness, if you want to call it that.

And so it goes from just the pure flowers at one end, which is purest, to all the way where you have a certain amount of heavy heads, if you will.

This is a very posh, very organized, very sensible version of it, Michael.

Henry, we've had this conversation so many times, my answer is going to be very predictable.

You know, the reality is, can India win it?

Yes.

What does the record say?

There's nothing between England and India in T20 World Cups and in overall T20s.

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