Prakash Wakankar

speaker

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

Prakash Wakankar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Test Match Special · The 2026 T20 World Cup Debrief · 9 Mar 2026 podcast

So it's not that there is a flat pitch and bowlers can't do anything.

Yes, is it stacked in favour of bowlers or batsmen is a debate we can have.

T20 cricket is meant to be a bat-dominated game.

That is why we talk about and enjoy it when the ball is doing a lot more.

And in the early part of the tournament, both in Sri Lanka and India, we saw the pitches offering a little more.

I think as the pitches got older, as the sun baked down, particularly here in India, and they had to make sure that they weren't going to crumble, there was obviously a lot more rolling.

So bat friendly, batting friendly pitches did turn up.

towards the latter part of the tournament in the knockout stages.

And if I still had to pick one, I would say that Mumbai was probably flatter than even Ahmedabad.

This will surprise you.

Again, I'm not going by consequence of the drop or the impact the drop had.

If that was the criteria, I think Harry Brooke would be right up there.

But I think for me, in that condition, it was actually Hardik Pandya's drop at Backport Point yesterday, which I thought was an absolute shocker for someone of his ability.

I just want to make one other observation.

I don't know how right or wrong this is, but depending on the time of day, I'm just casting my mind back to that game at the Eden Gardens.

And if you look at it from a ground where matches, catches have been dropped,

I think the Eden Gardens in this tournament will probably be right up there.

Now, whether it is because of the way the ball comes out of the crowd, whether that's Ahmedabad, where again, they have that similar ring of fire kind of floodlights, whether that's a cause.

But there are certain grounds where sometimes catches go down a lot more than some others.

And that may be something to factor into this.

Showing 141–160 of 356 · page 8 of 18