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Chapter 1: What emotions surround RCB's back-to-back title wins?
RCB is an emotion and RCB have gone back to back. You're watching The Great Cricketer. You're watching The Asian Century. Is the world ending, Pezza? I want to know if the world is ending because RCB is an emotion and their emotion right now is consistency.
And if anything is more topsy-turvy in this world than RCB being the most stable and consistent franchise in world cricket right now, I am extraordinarily confused. I'm excited by it. But, hey, by the way, TJC will be returning back tomorrow. Plenty more happening in the world of cricket. We've got an interview with Mitchell Santner. ahead of the England and New Zealand test series.
Phil Walker from Wisden is also on the show. A special interview coming on Wednesday as well. So please do hit subscribe and join us for the rest of this week as regular cricket returns or old style cricket or Civil War reenactment cricket returns. Anyway, who cares about that? RCB have won. They've only gone and done it again.
Indeed, he goes. Yeah, and apologies for, I think, another nine months of off-season programming of cricket coming up. It's the off-season now. You and Mitch Santner and all the Civil War stuff we'll be doing. On to last night's result. Let me just say before we get into anything that might be regarded as sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, all of the SATs,
Chapter 2: What are the implications of RCB's consistency in cricket?
This is a huge result, I think, for like actual living, breathing, true fans of RCB, like who have experienced nothing but tumult, tempestuousness, like whirlwind extremes from this team. RCB is now inevitable. They're just a winning clinical machine. I'm going to explain why this is bad for the world later, but now's not the time for that. It's just a time for going. Fans who actually...
care about this. Congratulations. Well done. You went through a lot of shit to get here. That must be good. Okay. I feel nothing that that's, and that's something I'm seeing somebody about, but for, for people who care, this is good. Okay. That, that, that from off the top, the third team to go back to back. In the IPL, the bowlers basically get it done.
I think less is spoken about so far with this is that it's Rajat Paridar's world. Yeah. We're just living in it. We're just living in it. Especially his hair. A lot of people could live in that because it's so voluptuous.
Voluminous.
Voluminous.
Yeah.
And I thought AB de Villiers summed it up best. Always does. With the winning comments, the comments at the victory, which was Virat Kohli, you biscuit. Now, what did we learn out of this? Win qualifier, win tournament, sure. GT's a death star, they don't get the dub, good. But 17 years of pain for RCB and now just an avalanche of triumph. You know what I mean?
Darkest hour before the dawn kind of stuff, great adventure. And there's another phrase, it's like, it doesn't rain, I can't remember how it finishes. And then just a great timeline for ICB as well, back-to-back men's and women's in the last two years.
So, yeah, script, I don't know. It's the place to be. And also they're going to build a new airport. Sorry, they're going to build a new ground, hopefully near the airport. But it's all coming up. Yeah, that was Freudian. Please build a new airport. I mean, the airport's quite nice.
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Chapter 3: How did RCB's victory impact fans and the franchise's narrative?
Fewer main characters were needed. And just one, just room for one, basically. And I think he'd like it that way. And just people being solid, stable, steady. Freddie Wilde's evil data regime. Freddie Wilde wrote a chapter in 2018. Ben Jones on Twitter alerted us to this. Wrote a chapter about why RCB always lose. So RCB said, okay, you work for us now. Bang, they've won. Two in a row.
An evil regime, don't get me wrong, but a successful one nevertheless.
I believe ChatGPT is trying to get him. I believe Altman's trying to get him now. Anyway.
Yeah, Freddie Wild's issued a come and get me plea to ChatGPT and OpenAI.
Anyway, you know, there's so many great stories for RCB. But in many ways, it has been about the coaching staff as well. And indeed, mastermind himself, Dinesh Kartik, who pushed extremely hard to get Bhuvi K. We see him here pushing the team.
Well, Bhuvi doesn't get injured. Just for the record, I'm convinced he's the best bowler India has after Bumrah even today. What? Bhuvi is the best 820 bowler.
Andy Flower less sure, but mastermind himself, he said.
Best bowler. What?
What? So Booby K, he finished with 28 wickets. That's the equal most for an Indian in the IPL, equal with, of course, another great, Harshal Patel in 2021. And Mo Shammy in 23. Josh Hazelwood is now a three times IPL winner, obviously winning with CSK in 2019, 2020, I think it was.
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Chapter 4: What role did Rajat Patidar play in RCB's success this season?
It's a team of winners. We haven't even spoken about Virat, which we will, of course. Even Venky Iyer has won a couple as well and just slots on in. You know, Jacob Bethel, injured finger or is it? So, I mean, whoever's masterminded this mega auction, this three years in between mega auctions has obviously done a great job. And now they can say, is the three-peat on?
You know, this is a three-peat thing. Why not? Why not? Look, I have a different perspective on this, by the way. And, again, well done to RCB fans who actually feel this and they're completely entitled to be elated and I'll decide what they're entitled to feel and not. Yeah, police them, yeah. Obviously, this is a win for sporting excellence. It's a win for Virat Kohli's skill and tenacity.
It's a win for Freddie Wilde's evil data regime. It's a win for Boobie K and Josh Hazelwood and the idea that the bowlers actually get this done. But it's a loss for what I like to call narrative. Because if it wasn't already done last year, going back to back, absolutely destroys the strongest, funniest, most enduring meta-narrative of the IPL, which is that RCB chokes. Yeah. Right?
That's dead now. Under Virat Chokli. Yeah. And as you've said and many, many say, RCB is an emotion. It's not actually. It's a brand. It's a business, incorporated business and a cricket team. Hashtag play bold. For its fans, that emotion is elation. And for everybody else, that emotion is numbness and flatness. Now that RCB are not funny anymore. Yeah. Without the RCB choke, what do we have?
Yeah.
You know, we've got a kid sitting on a field with five trophies and we'll come to that. Yeah. But RCB have completed the IPL. And what do we have now? Chef Minaj's king prawns? Well, we do, and they're great. We'll always have those. Especially in that butter. That's just a question I want to raise. And maybe it's too soon to raise it. But everything is completed now.
Yeah. I mean, Punjab did go back to sort of restoring some sanity with this. Normalcy. Yeah, some normalcy with this format. Because last year, it was the first time they made the finals in Punjab. 13 years or something. And then they were like the best team for the first half of this tournament. Then they weren't again. So I guess that's kind of, that's something.
They've got something to finish off.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How did the IPL final match unfold between RCB and GT?
Is it a Sunrisers thing?
Is it a return of MI and CSK?
Yeah, like have MI and CSK given everybody enough of a chance to do something and now the script will bring them back? I don't know. It's 94 games in a couple of years. That's good. Well, that means there'll be much more time for the narrative to unfold. Like a long book, war and peace, if you will.
Exactly. So I guess we should talk about what happened in the game, in this game itself. So GT obviously batted first 155. So GT, first team in history to have two players with more than 700 runs in the same season. Only four times this season have Schubman, Gill and Sy Sudarsan been out in the power play three times. three of those times have been against RCB.
I feel like in many ways, because of this, this game, it was like, it was a game of, this game matched up so well for RCB because Rabada obviously gets the purple cap. Coley scored 88 runs against Rabada alone this season. That's the most by any batter against any bowler in any IPL matchup history. And so like those three players, like, so GT, they had four bowlers in the top 10 wicket takers.
They had four, number two and three in the run scoring list over 700 runs. And it was like, but outside of the three main contributors, the purple cap owner, the captain and size who'd asked him, who was the orange cap winner last year, just wasn't enough support around them in this game.
Quite clearly, at least the first or second best team in the tournament, but in this game against BVK, Jacob Duffy, I suppose, to a lesser extent, and certainly Hazelwood and also Rassic as well. It was amazing. You know, there was, there just wasn't enough support for GT in the game.
Yeah, I mean, haven't we learned that, like, even though it's completely contrary to mathematics or at least the way we've been taught cricket, that, like, you're meant to be suspicious if you have too many players scoring too many runs or taking too many wickets in a T20 side. Definitely. Exactly. Like, if you have...
If you have too many stars at the extreme ends of the tables, you're like, well, something's gone awry here. I smell a rat, you know. Like GT, we're like too many guys hogging all the runs. This is socialism. T20 cricket is communism. There's only room for like one star or two because that means nobody else, you know, you're not sharing things around enough.
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Chapter 6: What were the standout performances in the IPL final?
Don't get me wrong. But given the batting paradise that Shinoswami has been over the years, I would have thought there might have been one quicker. Anyway, amazing time to bring out your fastest ever IPL 50. He's the first player to ever have four consecutive seasons of 600 plus runs. 675 runs this year, striking at 165. Uh, it's his 22nd player of the match award, uh, in this game.
One more than Rohit Sharma, uh, one for the online army there. Uh, it's the most by an Indian. AB de Villiers has the most, by the way, with 25. Um, And so, but this is just, this is Coley who is just a little bit more relaxed, you know, monkey off the back. I know Hazelwood said that after winning it last year. And it just seemed a little bit more relaxed.
I suppose there might've been a bit of pressure chasing 155, but especially when Rashi Khan took two wickets in and over. But Coley's at the crease. He's just strumming him. He's purring like a kitten. He's up and about. He's giving it to Shubman. He's flicking Rabada nonstop through the leg side. This is just class, class, class deluxe from one of the greatest to ever do it.
Vintage. Vintage Coley. King of chase, I think they describe him as. Rost and chase. I think that's what I was trying to say. 4-4-6-4 from the first four balls of Kegiso's second over. The six is outrageous. Yeah. Good night, Nurse, in the game. I mean, they knock off so many runs in the power play that they only need to run a ball after that. It's over.
And, yes, there's a little wobble there before Tim Davids somehow steadies the ship, facing leg spin, but he does. Steady hand, Tim Davids.
That's right.
Winning crisis, TD. But he does, you know, and they put on 41 and, you know, and Virat seals it with a six, which is important because you might remember young Swastik last year ruined Virat's solo celebration by celebrating with him. When they won last year, there was clearly a moment of personal, of individual relief that Virat was expressing on camera. And then young Swastik jumped on him.
And there was a little bit of criticism on Reddit of that. And we never saw him again. And we never saw him again. Apparently they're friends and they fed each other cake, et cetera. That's an allegation. And so, yeah, Coley had to do it again. Yeah. to seal it with a six, to get his time by himself. Now, you watched Jitesh Sharma. He runs the other ways. I don't want that Reddit crap.
I don't want that Reddit smoke. So, yeah, and I just think it also wraps everything in a nice, neat little package because we did see, regrettably, the week before, an issue between Virat and Travis Head around handshakes, et cetera. Already forgotten about it.
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