Yas Rana and Phil Walker discuss India’s convincing victory against England in the first T20I, an England Lions century for Rocky Flintoff and Phil responds to Fox Sports, who took exception to WCM’s Test XI of 2024.
There’s also Mel Farrell’s brilliant interview with Will Smeed, as well as Mark Butcher on the start of the white-ball Bazball era and Pakistan’s win against West Indies.
0:00 Intro
1:48 India vs England
20:04 Mark Butcher
31:02 Phil responds to Fox Sports
40:36 England Lions
45:44 Will Smeed interview
1:07:32 Outro
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England can’t play slow bowling, there was no spin, illusion of spin is what England batsmen see hence getting hammed by India C team.
14:10 “ the result is almost immaterial”
14:24 “thats englands win, if anything you can discard the result itself”
Another moral victory for England. YOU LOST
Embarrassing.
Double standards & hypocrisy, load of bull. It is ok for Pakistan to have turners because they are rubbish as oppose to India.
Phil managed to respond to the team of the year criticism not very well at all.
Took it far too seriously and personally.
Pathetic answer Phil Walker- so the selection is rotational ( “someone else’s turn”). What a joke you all are.
I suspect you will get better balance to the side if you don’t have 60% of the voters from the country who is significantly over represented, as you say Phil, relative to the landscape. To answer your question – I would swap out Smith for either Pant or Carey, not fussed on those two but Carey played super critical roles in test victories; I would swap out Atkinson for Cummins (if you are beholden to numbers I suspect Hazlewood would be the choice here but Cummins impacts games more through batting and decision making) and I would also swap out Henry for Rabada.
Save England from Bazz cancer 🙏
Slogging in red ball white ball doesn't work.
There was clear English Bias. Weather the Bazzbullsh@t brings crazy runs or something , they were just wasteful. Not having people from the team that’s at the top of the game is crime. Shame on classist and racist wisedon
What a pathetically inadequate response from Phil Walker. Only need to look at the content of EVERY SINGLE weekly podcast which demonstrates an inability to look further than a positive Engalnd narative and incapable of acknowledge the superiority of better teams.
All Engalnd has left if an abilty to "engineer" the English language to suit their needs.
6:40 The pitch wasn't turning at all!!! It was a flat wkt with some bounce n swing. They kept missing straight balls!
14:12 Just keep playing in the nets n domestic cricket if intl results don't matter.
The TOY is whatever Wisden want to make it, but your credibility is not very high when the team selected is based on matches against minnows.
Atkinson has only played against Sri Lanka, West Indies and NZ. Smith has only played against Pakistan Sri Lanka and West Indies.
The presenter did a good job to keep a straight face when pretending that these guys belong there. He started to talk about averages, but possibly realised that Hazelwood had an average of 13 for 2024. If the team is going to be selected on averages they don't need a panel, they can just pull them straight from the stats. Then he tried blaming the unnamed contributors that Wisden must have selected.
There are no better wicketkeeper batsmen than Pant and there are not 3 better fast bowlers than Cummins.
The excuses for England cricket just keep coming
Oh I forgot that I was still subscribed to this crap. Cry more
I told the delusional english pundits that india is vastly superior limited overs side . they won 25 of the last 27 t20i matches . this is the greatest T20 side in history . scoring 280s and devilishly good spinners
That wasn't a spinning pitch at all
Confused? It simply means you've fallen for the Baz bullshit about how good England is. Not hard to understand.
What match were u watching, the pitch wasn't even turning a lottle bit, even talkssport cricket commentator were saying the pitch spinning it's the pace of the spinner which worked.
That's OK, you leave Cummins out of your team on stats… even though his stats are world class…. and totally ignore the X factor of his Captaincy skills…. even when you acknowledge in that role, he is second to none……
…..I'll have him in my team then, and also pick up the contenders who SHOULD have made it WITHOUT question… like Head…. and that team will BEAT yours.
Democracy?
So you base it on stats… but also on subjective feelings about what they represent? And how many of your panel are English?
Of course it is idiotic Cummins did not make it. Even more idiotic than Head's absence.
That is ok though…. because the team you made, is good, but would be soundly flogged by the team you could have made but did not.
I think that is the point. Wisden was indeed, once, considered the Cricketing Bible… it looks like its being taken in the direction of a glossy, very English, tabloid these days.
Wish is actually worse than being a one eyed English Fanboy really.
Liam dawson should be playing for england .he does so well in sa20
What an intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking how is low testosterone related to this defeat 😂
s medi0crity shuld be rewarded because they played m0re????
I don't know why Aussies are surprised. Wisden hasn't been a neutral publication for several years now. Still good listening though
Harry Brook didn't play well in Pakistan when the ball spun. Do not be deluded.
Usually like Phil but this response was so weak (proud Englishman here). Australia should have been represented.
good interview with Smeed, Mel
Listen, McCullum knows what he’s doing but there’s literally no harder start to that job, he’s got to rebuild a team vs India who have by far the best and deepest talent pool in the format and are at home, they could play that game in their sleep. He’s still working out what works, give him time and certainly don’t judge him against India away. He will be learning who is really good enough though to compete at the top… and it might not be many of them. How many of that England squad will feature in the IPL much this year? Not many is my guess.
It's absolute rubbish to say there is no step up from the IPL to international cricket. Rubbish
Great selection of the team of the year. This is why cricket writing in England is generally so much better than everywhere else, the rest of the world has that insecure tribal soccer fan mentality. Well, maybe not everywhere. Not New Zealand or West Indies, but we all all know where the sounds of stamping feet are coming from😂
Great reply Walker. Except bevuma isn't in Australia. Wisden lost a lot of credibility with their 11.
Showing why they had those 4 players in that team of the year.
I think malan is better than livingstone
Love your work guys. Love the pod. I’ve subscribed. I know you acknowledged the outrage article was Fox Sports so fair play. But it seemed like you strayed into the suggestion fox sports Australia. To be clear our Murdoch scourge is yours. But it’s good grist for the mill anyway. Fairness to you guys there are enough morons who got in a lather about the team naming anyway. Well argued by you guys for the team that was named