Chapter 1: What recent cricket performance sparked discussion about DC's struggles?
Runs, runs, runs, deluxe. Except for DC, who were bowled out for 75 last night. I can't figure out what's going on. Can you? You're watching The Great Cricketer. You're watching The Asian Century. Come and see the naughty, naughty boys. Big cricket competition in India. Without saying that. Come on, Rhinestone. 200 from the Hosses.
Motherfucking beer.
Ready to run, mate. I would do a ring job right now. Pez and Eagles. From The Great Cricketer. I'm Tony. Welcome back to The Great Cricketer. You're watching The Ace in the Century right here. Now, runs, runs, runs. Deluxe Pezza has been so many runs. There's also been some low scores in between. Punjab have been outstanding. The best team in the tournament. RCB hanging on for dear life.
They're going fantastically well after rolling DC for 75 last night. And everyone else kind of like, eh.
He goes, this is a competition, the Indian Cricket League. Wait, that was a different one. That was a different one, yeah. Look, I just want to say something. This is a competition that doesn't stop delivering in the face of ungrateful zero ball knowledge complaints. Because that's what I've seen this weekend. And I want to start with that.
And it's a sour note on which to start, but it's a message that I want to send to those, particularly those with zero ball knowledge. Go off blood.
Yeah.
There's too many runs, are there? That's what I hear.
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Chapter 2: How has Punjab emerged as a strong team this season?
Okay. How about too many wickets? 48 hours later, same ground. Okay. 265 plays 265. How about six for 13? 13 for six. Two days later, same ground. Oh, Dhruv Durrell, Cam Green taking absolute screamers. All right. Well, here's 16 drop catches over the weekend. Okay. Too many shots of cheerleaders, I hear people say, and I read. Okay, well, here's an ambulance and doctors in white coats.
Now, we wish Lungi and Gedi well, and he is well. Yes. Shout out to him and his family. But seriously, you know, all, and I am going to use the acronyms here, sue me. All the IPL and the BCCI and Jay Shah try and do week to week, night to night, is deliver edgy drama to the viewers around the world. sometimes twice in a night with the day games. Absolute cinema.
And people have the temerity to sit back and complain. You've seen more runs, then you've seen more wickets, then you've seen catches, then you've seen drop catches, then you've seen birds, then you've seen ambulances. This is modern entertainment. Let it wash over you. Let it all wash over you. Let the scroll happen. Watch all of it and watch none of it. Oh, wait, CSK's sixth.
How the fuck is CSK sixth? They're a couple of results away from the final spot. How the hell did that happen? Tony's done a cough. You know what I mean? It's the great scroll, the IPL, and you're seeing entertainment every single night. Anything you want right there in front of your eyes. You've even got AI, Google Pixel, telling you that Jinky Rahane is playing well.
You know, anything you want, you can have. I need to get off the internet. I'm addicted.
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Everyone gets to wear it for a period of time. Then someone else does something amazing 10 to 15 minutes later. They get to wear it for a bit. The next day, someone else does something amazing. They get to wear it. Now, Abhishek Sharma, who scored 135 off 68 against DC. I appreciate that was a while ago, but that was the last time we convened on this show. 135 off 68 against DC.
DC have conceded quite a few scores recently. Anyway... Ian Bishop picked up Abhishek Sharma's reaction when he said that Abhishek said that it wasn't an easy pitch to score on despite Sunrise's being 242-42 and him scoring a lightning quick 135. That's perfect from Abhishek. That's absolutely perfect. It's majestic.
And also – yeah, go on. There's a sort of comments from Abhishek Sharma that suggests to me that he's taken the next step in his game in terms of maturity because we've always known what he's been able to do. We've always known the physical weaponry that he possesses, number one. He's not the number one T20I batter in the world for nothing. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. But –
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Chapter 3: What insights did Abhishek Sharma share about scoring in difficult conditions?
Yeah. See, I was having the same thoughts. I just think he's a – but I've had a look at it and I just think this is the most exciting young player that we have seen since Sachin Tendulkar or Don Bradman. Chuck? Yeah.
Now, we are trying to learn. We're obviously fascinated by.
I mean, this is a joke, what he's doing. It is a joke. It's fucked. You're waiting for more. Wait until he has to do it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, he's – I was like, yeah, it's real. This Suryavanshi thing's real.
Yeah, and so therefore we're trying to learn more about this person. Like we're trying to get closer to our heroes. It's weird for me to have a 15-year-old hero, I must admit, but, you know, we're all just playing the game.
Now – You might want to clarify that in the wake of Epstein files.
Chuck? Oh, yeah. Don't even know what that means. Now, I saw this headline that caught the eye about Srivanshi, his pre-game ritual, post-game ritual as well. He watches cartoons before the game. He's watching cartoons before the game, before decimating every international cricketer that he faces. That in itself is becoming more and more farcical because it just highlights how young he's a child.
He's a child doing this stuff and he watches cartoons. Yeah. Many people will be doing the same. That's for- Or he's a crippling marijuana addiction.
which I don't think is the case. Sid Monga did a really good piece on him in Cricket Monthly, by the way. I highly commend that. But, yeah, I like this strategy, and clearly it's a PR strategy, of like really accenting how young he is. You know what I mean? It's just like, ah, and then he has to learn how to read, you know, and here's his baby toys. You know, like just look how young this guy is.
That's right. Rian Parag has baby toys. Ah, that's right, yeah. Soft toys. Soft toys, yeah.
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Chapter 4: Why is Vaibhav Suryavanshi being highlighted as a future star?
Now, the second I said you see in relation to this 15-year-old FBI having a field day with the Google searches for this young kid. Indeed. Now, from Cradle of the Grave. Let's talk about Virat Kohli, who had his turn with the orange cap during the week. He scored 81 of 44 against GT. Sliced arse and also scored 100 in that game of 58 balls.
But the story was about Kohli because they won that game. RCB doing great things again this season after, of course, being current defending champions. So Kohli was player of the match and great news for Virat because he finally gets a television in his house. Here's his prize. It's a 43-inch TV with him. and his teammates on the front of it.
So a bit of good news for Virat Kohli to get a 43-inch television. What's he going to do with that?
We get that back up. We know exactly what's going on with this. Have a look at that gun poking out there. That's beautiful stuff. That's akin to John Terry adjusting his captain's armband before slipping over in the 08 Champions League final. Oops. No, but, I mean, that's a nice – you'd be happy with that, wouldn't you? That's really nice. Absolutely. Hey, can I just on ICB quickly?
No, we're running through – Well, yeah. Yeah, I just... I am... We're talking about this on Dream 11. I don't know. So I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself too because I think about how many people tune into that the most recently. 1.8 million or something it was telling us. But like RCB have always been close to our hearts, haven't they, Higgins?
I mean imprinting theory, first ground we went to, lovely people, Bengaluru, intellectual, like polite. Climate. Yeah, greenery. Traffic's good. The airport's next to the city centre. No, no, I disagree with that. But that's an infrastructure thing.
Like, even though it's easy to detach from the IPL and let it wash over you, what with your, you know, your fours and your sixes and your cheerleaders and your, you see it ties timeouts, you know what I mean? You let it all just wash over you. Up until last year, RCB had always been home to the competition's grandest narrative, you know? Yeah.
the star-studded, batting-heavy Galacticos, home to India's greatest modern-day player. They found a way every year to basically set the house on fire while trying to blow the candles out. They fucked it up every single time. That's the grand narrative of the IPL. They obviously have the record for lowest score, 49 all out. Exactly, and they still have that record. That's good.
But like what RCB was until the end of last season was like they were equal parts tragic and entertaining. A tragic comedy. An ongoing, continuous, reliable tragic comedy for everybody to revel in and they made you feel something. Yeah. Right? They were a volatile lover and then they went and won it. And then RCB went and won it. And they gave us and their fans what they thought we wanted.
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Chapter 5: How did Pat Cummins react to Suryavanshi's performance?
Now, LSG KKR, no doubt, one of the greatest games of the tournament so far.
I think Mufadal said it was Saturday madness. You know, IPL madness. It's great. Some say IPL madness. Some say worst game in IPL history. That's why he's the GOAT, Mufadal. You know, he's got the finger on the pulse. I mean, a four-ball super over ain't doing what it says on the team.
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But that wasn't really the story of this game for me. The story is I love talking about the Penguins. I like talking about the umpires. It's been a while since I've been involved. Yeah, got to get a touch. The umpires have got to get a touch. So Ragavanchi was out obstructing the field, as we see from this headline.
It was at the other end, by the way. Well, exactly.
He sent him back, learning a few lessons. Cam Green, fucking disgrace. Absolute disgrace. Get this guy's head off his shoulders and put him on a pike. Ask TGC, what do we hear? Should the umpires, shouldn't umpires be getting fines and bans for the shitshow decisions that they make?
I quite like the idea of an umpire judiciary broadcast, streamed live, preferably with a jury. See, no one wants jury duty, right? But if it's jury duty to adjudicate on penguin decisions, I'm thinking about it. That would be good.
Next, ask TGC, please. Chuck, was Ragavanchi obstructing the field AI slop? Well, I mean, for me, it is one of the most ridiculous decisions I've ever seen. It looks like had the ball not hit his, I think it was his left foot as he dove into the crease and the ball was going to hit the stumps, he would have been out of his ground.
But he was just trying to get back in his crease and like, fuck me, umpires just love getting involved, don't they? They just love getting a touch.
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