Chapter 1: What is the significance of the handshake in cricket?
We are here to talk about the handshake or the lack of handshake. Also, have we said goodbye to Dhoni, to Rishabh and to Hardik as IPL captains? You're watching the Asian Century. You're watching The Great Cricketer.
Chapter 2: Have we said goodbye to key IPL captains like Dhoni and Rishabh?
Come and see the naughty, naughty boys. Big cricket competition in India. Without saying that. Come on, right stone. You heard it from the horses, man. I can be ready to run, mate. I would give him a ring job right now. Heads and goals. From The Great Cricketer. I just noticed in the intro that Collie shook our hands. Anyway, welcome back to the show.
Hit that subscribe button if you enjoy a good old-fashioned handshake or if you enjoy avoiding them. That's really up to you and your decisions. Pezza, welcome back to another week of IPL cricket. Just, I suppose, a week to go from now, but two shows left here on the Asian Century, and it is all to play for in the realm of IPL cricket. Oh, it's getting real now.
It's getting real now, isn't it, brother? Season starts now. There's feeling. There's clicks. There's swearing. There's gossip. There's weird venue decisions. No more sanitized TV product that's failing anyway because Dream 11 went away. Well, it's on digital. It's on digital. It's been replaced by chaos, madness, evocative narrative. I mean, you said two shows to go. Damn it.
Just getting started. I thought Mufadal Vora summed it up best. TB, throw it to Mufadal, please. Now, look, this is from a week ago. It's a weekly show, so I don't resolve from the fact that this is the table. There was one game to go here. You still got your top four sorted out, so Mufadal ahead of the game as per. But look, the logic is what I like here. 27 April, Punjab 0, losses in 7.
And KKR Zero wins from six matches. 20 May, 13 points, number five. KKR, 13 points, number six. And the conclusion, the craziness and unpredictability of the IPL. Ladies and gentlemen, absolute cinema. What a season it's been. And now we're hitting the apex and the zenith. Uh, and Virat's getting involved and they overseas, but you know, it's, yeah.
So let's get to the part of the show that everyone wants us to talk about. Um, let's talk about Travis Head and Virat Kohli. Uh, who better?
Yeah, and if you are from another planet, yeah, there was a game between RCB and Sunrisers Hydrobat. Or if you're just from Australia, you're not really... Same thing. Yeah, same thing. And Sunrisers defeat RCB in this game of cricket pretty comfortably. RCB's batting second. There's a bit going on between Virat and a couple of others, it seems.
Next minute, they do their end-of-game handshake and they all form their lines like children do when they shake hands. Children are usually going to shake hands pretty quick. Form their lines and go through. And Virat notably misses Travis' head. He... He brushes the handshake. Skips him. He skips the handshake. Just to be clear, you can see he offers his hand for what it's worth.
He turns probably a 45-degree angle before realizing that he's been deliberately snubbed. Turns back, keeps going. Obviously, a thousand angles of it. They're the facts of the case, right?
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Chapter 3: How does the IPL's unpredictability affect team performance?
Okay. Anything else you like about cricket, about playing? Couldn't think of one other thing. Exactly. And now this is backed up by the fact that, and we can't show this angle, obviously, but it's backed up by the fact that when you see... Head and Virat go to handshake and Virat snubs head.
There is an angle where basically every single member of the Sunrisers coaching staff is standing there in a semicircle line, all eyes on it, waiting for it. Now, I just have to say, as a cricket, as someone who's participated in cricket, that is a great feeling because you are privy to the gossip now of what's going on. And this will come out. Whatever happened will come out.
There's just too much interest. There will be too much interest. The only way this doesn't come out is if this goes down as another T20 that everybody forgets. And there's a strong chance of that too. But people love a game of whispers. People love a game of whispers. What is the T? Thought about texting a few people. Thought, no, too hot. Too hot. Leave it for now. Leave it for the season.
Season's still going. Yeah.
Chapter 4: What happened during the RCB vs. Sunrisers match?
It'll come out. Anyway. So let's just clarify that, right? I'm coming off a long run here. That's okay. Now, that said, I can't say I've ever seen an end-of-game handshake refused unless someone has done something deeply, deeply immoral or there are nuclear codes involved between two countries. Yeah. Okay.
So there are sometimes there are both rational, both rational so far, or if you're on 90 in a test match and the captain comes up to you and says, we're done. And you say, I'm actually not done yet.
I was, see, I tried to exclude that, but if that was the end of game handshake, you're completely correct. And yeah, like, I just think personally that people have got this incident all wrong, right? I think the angles that people are taking on this are all wrong. It's all, you know, who said this? Who said that? You know, that's no way for Virat to treat his father.
You know, Virat's forgotten head doesn't play for Pakistan. Virat has a pattern of this behavior. You know, the handshake is an important social contract, you know, between players to, you know, signal the end of the game and restore respect between people.
You know, all the people are saying, oh, you know, Virat's red mist has now prompted a torrent of death and violent threats against Travis Head's family. You know, he might do well to call that off or whatever. I think that's the wrong, I think that social, cultural, humanitarian frame is wrong.
Yeah.
This is an economic question. Yeah. What's happening with Travis and Virat is economic. Yes. How much money do you risk by calling Virat out? That's the question the media is asking.
It's big. It's because, look, I haven't seen many people offer comments on this incident, which is the only interesting thing that's happened in the IPO this week.
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Chapter 5: What does the future hold for David Warner with the Sunrisers?
Yeah, we did. We saw Schubbers post this after their win.
What is that?
And Andrew Chen. He's holding the whistle. He's on. I don't think that's a commercial flight. He's on the PJ there, and he's taking a little jab at the CSK fans.
Mate, how's the spread on it? Oh. Yeah. There's your captain right there. There's your skipper. Straight into the lunchbox. How are you, skipper? Ooh, lunchbox.
With the caption, Andrew Chen. Possibly referencing the film. You guys wouldn't get it, but it's also thank you in Tamil, I believe. Now, anyway, GT beat CSK by a record margin. 89 runs, I think it was, in this game during this week. Shubman took a nice catch. He shushed the crowd. He shushed the crowd. He's downplaying the shush celebration as part of a high emotion game. Taking a cheeky dig.
CSK fans have had it rough. We had Ishan Kishan last week, you know, telling them to calm the fuck down. CSK fans. People have had enough of the whistle, to be honest. Yeah. It's like if every World Cup was in South Africa with the Viva Lazer.
Yes, yeah, exactly.
It's too much.
The difference is, right, this is what I wonder, like I wonder, unlike the Vuvuzela, I wonder if people are detecting that CSK have had another bad year, Dhoni's not around, Big Papa's not around anymore to police matters. Right. and you've got your Ishan Kishins and your Shubham McGill's going, now's the time to strike. Strike CSK when they're down. Don't like these whistles.
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