Can England stop India? Afghanistan shock Australia & South Africa hold on to reach T20 semi-finals

[@theanglianflaneurs5857]

Kate Mason was truly brilliant. Bring her on the show more often please.

[@AbD_tta]

Rohit was mad at Pant because he swatted the ball after he couldn't reach it, instead of collecting it and throwing it. According to Ponting, Marsh could have been in trouble if Pant had done so.

[@Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi]

I am pretty sure he slipped because of the wetness in the field.

[@nikunjpatel6203]

Thank you for speaking on women’s cricket team for Afghanistan! It’s awesome to see folks like you talk about serious issues!

[@amansparekh]

Kate is great on this pod.

[@Delhisheik]

Kyo bhai kya hua. Kuch chye kya

[@bobburroughs6241]

Who is Kate? Does she have to sit waving her legs in the air?

[@Delhisheik]

@@bobburroughs6241 hope this thing is not for indian host of the podcast.

[@Douglas..1]

@@bobburroughs6241 If she would like to then yes. Why do people have to sit how you want them to? Bring yourself back down to Earth comparatively to these people you are not relevant.

[@ggsmani]

“ That bashful smile where he’s slightly imprisoned by his own genius”!! What a way to put it, colourful!

[@theredraven]

I still don't understand how in the 21st century a major sporting event can have one set of rules (reserve day) for one semi final match but not for the other semi final. It's daft. Either have a reserve day for both or neither.

[@7ChaosBlack]

The reason why the first semi-final has a reserve day, while the other doesn't is because the playing conditions are different for the matches. You're right though. Either reserves for both or neither.

[@Filthy_rabbit69]

The game is unfairly set up in favor of India

[@7ChaosBlack]

@@Filthy_rabbit69 Nonsense.

[@KICK839]

Ching chon mohit behan ka ​@@Filthy_rabbit69

[@spc3461]

Wow, what an upset! Afghanistan’s victory over England was a shocker for sure. 🏏🔥 It felt like a real throwback performance, reminiscent of 2015. Kudos to Afghanistan! 🇦🇫👏

[@maulikdesai7849]

Dude ... That wasn't upset !.... They already won against eng NZ Pak and almost won against Aussies in the last odi wc... And now they beat Aussies so pls don't call it upset

[@Forwhomthebelltolls24]

Upset!! Afghanistan outplayed Aussies and pretty much all the teams except India. England as always is the most overrated team. Afghanistan will beat them 9 times out of 10...anywhere, any day.

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

@@Forwhomthebelltolls24 Dream on fella

[@KaranBagga87]

After listening this Afghanistan piece about human sufferings. I have huge respect for you all.

[@anoopbains1257]

love the excitement of Kate

[@ronaldo2764]

I am West Indian. I hope you guys smash India!! lol. Come on England do it for the world. This world cup was setup for India. It was hard to go to any games because of the time and work 8:30pm games for Indian audience and 9:30am games in the Caribbean is crazy. Yas I wanted Australia India out. lol

[@anant1307]

Kuldeep has a good record in tests in Australia. He had a 5-fer in Sydney (the only match he played)

[@amansparekh]

Will jacks has a good record in tests in Pakistan. He took a 6-fer and better well in the only match he played

[@yashsingh1631]

Bruh let's not talk about Pakistan​@@amansparekh

[@shant756]

​He was trying to make a point that you don't seem to have gotten ​@@yashsingh1631

[@sohi2rydes]

Very entertaing podcast. Enjoyed almost all bits of it. Nice attention to details and also overall prospective.

[@kalyanbond]

Wonderful conversation. Some great points raised by Kate with passion. Phil Walker talks about cricket in a old fashioned way which brings joyful side of the game!

[@benmarnoch4111]

Kate Mason wow instant credibility great😊

[@VARMOT123]

Phil, kuldeep already destroyed Aussies in 2019 . He is generational

[@subhash06]

Kuldeep has a fifer in Sydney and he got it in 2018

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

One of the best-looking batsmen in the last 20 years would have to have been Ian Bell.

[@benrichards5765]

Normally just phil who talks over everyone. 2 this week! Fascinating to watch their dynamic

[@adammacfarlane9351]

Why are world cup 20 20 crowds so crap

[@TheLostPartyCookie.]

Kuldeep has a fifer at SCG.

[@dannyroy149]

Great podcast. Appreciate. Thanks

[@7ChaosBlack]

He took a 5fer in a Sydney Test.

[@MA718172]

What a great underrated podcast.! Subscribed

[@nikunjpatel6203]

Yes they will

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

You need the old proven dogs in a team, not just the ones doing well currently in a domestic season. The old boys have the experience and will more likely keep their heads in high pressure situations

[@Adi-ev1uh]

Yash is such a big fan of Rohit Sharma. Was so good to meet Yash at the Ram Mandir.

[@ghanshanichirag6099]

Kuldeep though has a fourfer or fifer in aus in whites in 2018-19 series but he has played only one test in aus

[@samsowden]

an Australian finally wearing the same expression as so many batters from 1993 to 2007...

[@chiragkuru5908]

Cant agree more with Kate Mason.

[@AmberClayton777]

You guys are either naive orbfearful about talking on Afgan women team. Why you guys don't understand that, Taliban are directly following the principal of ISLAM. If you can't find root of the cause, solution can never be available

[@samsowden]

lateral movement inspires similar fear in batsmen as in motorists

[@MaheshKumar-yj8nc]

Kuldeep took a 5er on his debut test on Australian soil.

[@abhinavraj9459]

Thanks to all of u.. especially Phil Walker for praising Rohit..as foreign media always end up with Kohli 😊

[@AlanJones-kc4us]

Maybe the ICC should hold back any winnings from Afghanistan until a women's team is reformed...but I wouldn't hold my breath !!

[@nastybadger-tn4kl]

Game is fixed towards india ? 100000%. Otherwise we will see more grass on those pitches

[@7ChaosBlack]

Yeah so fixed that India haven't sniffed a trophy in 11 years. Do you even read what you write?

[@sadenb]

Remind me what was the score when India visited England ? 2-2, that too on English pitches

[@AbD_tta]

I fail to see how boycotting Afghanistan helps anyone. It's not like Taliban will be like we need to let our women play because no one wants to play with our men's team, instead it will just ruin the careers of the Afghanistan talent. Taking the full nation status back might be a better shout but then too it's not the Afghanistan teams fault but they'll suffer none the less.

[@sudika108]

South Africa were banned in 1970 or so. For apartheid. That team had steam rolled Australia in Australia and home. Up till today people say those players and that team was one of the strongest ever. They willingly accepted apartheid was unfair and agreed with the ban. For the next 20 yrs no South African could play internationally (unless you changed your nationality like Kepler Wessels ). So if SA could suck it up because of apartheid while being right on top of the world rankings at the time, Afghanistan must suck it up too. All is fair in love and war

[@AbD_tta]

@@sudika108It's not the same case as SA. When their women's team disbanded in 2014, at that time it would have made sense to boycott the Afghan team, so as to create some pressure. In 2020, Afghanistan was trying to rebuild their women's team when the Taliban took over and now the Taliban has imposed rules against it. It has become a totally different situation now.

[@sudika108]

@@AbD_tta it's the same thing. Our players tried to get Basil D'olivera on the team. The apartheid government would not allow a non white on the team. D'olivera later on changed his nationality and played for England.

[@AbD_tta]

@@sudika108 I meant, the Afghan government got overthrow and now they are governed by a radical militant group. They have to agree even if they want their women to have rights.

[@7ChaosBlack]

I doubt the taliban would care if Afghanistan's full nation status was revoked.

[@Adi-ev1uh]

Phil and Kate joking about Yash while he was talking about kia

[@nitinvishwakarma1158]

No point on too much ok talks, Rain is spoiling the play. 😂

[@David-jj9wc]

In my opinion, aesthetically, Shubman Gill is India's best batter.

[@no-dogma]

Aesthetics are useless. InT20 we only need batsmen who could bash the opponent out of the game

[@RajarshiChakraborty-gq3ld]

I would say kl rahul. If you remember his t20i 100 against England in 2018 and then his test hundred at Lords in 2021...you would realise how complete and elegant a batter he is.

[@user-ij5uz5dm5j]

I agree. Gill is similar to Rohit. He also sees the ball early and has time to play the shot.

[@roobanloganathan6498]

When the ICC released the fixtures a few months back, not 1 board , journalists, ex players complained about it and everyone accepted the scheduling. But past few days , suddenly the British journalists, ex players etc are coming out in wat looks like a coordinated move to attack ICC , BCCI and the Indian team and accusing them of being bias . If England wins the SF, all these so called concerned people will forget everything and start to mock the Indians. But if England lose, expect the whole group to erupt in anger and start attacking fiercely. The British will never change their behaviour if their team lose. When Hazelwood said something they didn’t like, everyone went after him and the Australian team with some accusing them of wanting to throw a match. Now they hv to beat India, they going after the Indians

[@shashwatmishraalumni4918]

They will do But where is Indian media to attack them Problem is with Indians being divided

[@theredraven]

Cool story bro, why does the semi final involving India not have a reserve day but the other semi final does? I think both matches should have a reserve day don't you?

[@serenitylee26]

I'm pretty sure there were journalists (the ones on this podcast) that spoke about the fixtures before the start of the tournament

[@AbD_tta]

​@@theredraventhey explained it in this podcast. The argument is that if the Gyana match would have had a reserve day then that would have made the final jump a day forward. But my question is that if Gyana has more chances for rain, then why not schedule the Gyana semi with the reserve day first and then Trinidad without reserve day.

[@akb14341]

​@@theredravenare you really this du*m*b? It's not semifinal involving india, it's the second semifinal match. The number 1 team from group A vs number 2 of group B. Also this was decided way before the WC started.

[@GeneraIG4]

England vs India will be so one-sided. LFG 🇮🇳

[@kirtigupta9753]

England are in for a torrid time. Their bowling line up hardly exudes any confidence 😂

[@adammacfarlane9351]

Ali Curran bairstow just not good enough

[@shashwatmishraalumni4918]

19 nov 2023 Kl rahul still not kicked out by bcci

[@svijayrathinam]

Kate Mason brings Virat Kohli energy to your podcast. No offence but you guys are too laid back normally. So pls make Kate Mason a regular in your Pod guys !

[@MaheshSharma-kq3bl]

Talking abt Rohit Sharma I would like to surprise u with the fact he's most laid back guy u can ever meet and he forgets all the time and m glad he does because if he didn't the stump mic would have had wildest Rohit Sharma moments because he's a typical Mumbai guy attitude with the most local interactions u can find he's hilarious

[@nastybadger-tn4kl]

India will crush england and south africa and even combined team. Tell me who can counter AXAR Patel and Kuldeep in both the team? No one. It will be like dominoes crashing!!!

[@Bajrangi45-k]

Klassen😢

[@shahzadirani]

Let’s not get carried away. We saw what happened on November 19th. Anything can happen. India have to play their best game to defeat England.

[@thebestevertherewas]

Klassen, Travis Head, Rabada, Starc, Hazelwood, Brother lets be calm. It is not easy

[@ianwalter62]

Isn't it marvelous to see the talkers on this pod engaging in so much schadenfreude with respect to Australia being knocked out? The scars must be very deep. If they beat India in Guyana, they might go on to be deserved winners... as the Spartans said, "If". I was actually thinking of cheering on the Poms, because of the way the semi has been orgainised to suit India, but after listening to all the smugness, go India!

[@Yesles21]

AFGHANISTAN GREATEST TEAM EVER. RASHID KHAN SUPERSTAR 19 OFF 10 NOT OUT (TOUGH PITCH TO SCORE ON) AND 4/23

[@jamiebob]

Kane isn't like kohli. Kohli is a winner.

[@aswarytiwari8806]

Kate has some funny bones.. keep her

[@tommaegraith3165]

Why am I supposed to care about TNT ? Very odd decision to devote that amount of time to that topic.are they a sponsor?

[@jamesdobson9622]

1984

[@Filthy_rabbit69]

Kate Mason is biased in India's favor

[@bobburroughs6241]

If anyone can beat India it's England. Please not SA the chokers!

[@dalecard9158]

geez Phil, please let other people talk.

[@adeadgirl13]

I don't think the Afghan men's cricket team or the board members of the Afghan Cricket Board can be blamed for not taking a stand for the women. Afghanistan is not a democratic country. You want them to literally risk their life so women can play cricket? At least Putin pretends that people jumped out of windows when he wants to get rid of someone. Taliban won't even pretend. They'll openly hang people who oppose them. You can blame the ICC. The only thing they can do is remove the full member status of Afghan cricket. And that will be tragic. But perhaps necessary. If anyone holds clear blame for this situation it is the United States of America. For abandoning their neo-imperial project and letting Taliban take over.

[@sekharraja9679]

You all should also talk about Australia's involvement in the events leading to the Taliban regime. Australia is one of the major countries that invaded and had war on afg soil for decades for no fvcking reason. If you care about the women in afg, you should talk about the war crimes and atrocities that the Aus solidiers commited in afg to afg civilians. The coverups this present aus governmnet did to make sure the atrocities aus committed in Afg. These are the things that led to taliban in Afg. Now, Aus dont get to say we have morals about this, we know how they treat their Natives.

[@kangarooisland2795]

Dnt talk Afghanistan politics or talk about uk invading iraq libya wrongly and then saying they got wrong intel. Or you cant coz you stting there. England is the biggest villain in entire human history yet you acting like real pillars of law and humanity

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

Nah.

[@tamoghnadas8581]

Ind is gonna choke like business as usual

[@user-lb9ej6ix8j]

That will be seen who choke & who got lucky .

[@nastybadger-tn4kl]

This is world of WHATS NEXT!

[@ojaschahal1599]

You talk about boycotting Afghanistan Men's team in the Name of women's rights... but Israel that you people support is participating in all the world sports tournament including Olympics inspite of the genocide that they're committing ? Why this hypocrisy ?

[@RajanRamki]

Well,well ….. It was only when SA didn’t allow a coloured in the English side that the British got all indignant ,refused to tour and talked about isolating SA cricket which could be interpreted as fellas ,do that to natives .. we will wink and nod and overlook but to us?? You should have mentioned that part too

[@ellentronicmistress4969]

Learn history because you are very wrong

[@nickjoseph1043]

Wow love your show but who is your top 10 batsman in the world, Mine is jack khalis Sachin Sewag ponting Gavasker Kapil Dev yu raj sing and all the ex Westindes players

[@walidrazaq3395]

imo the taliban can never be as guilty as america and the rest of the imperial core nations for causing the whole situation and then f'ing off and letting it get worse after finishing their exploitation of minerals etc, in afghanistan are the most accountable for it.

[@iatin1883]

Wouldn't it be appropriate for countries of NATO to fund Afghanistan's cricket team since they literally destroyed the country and destroyed little to no chance of women having basic right's let alone playing cricket rather than deducting any money or banning Afghanistan's men's team. financial burden and responsibility should fall on the member countries of NATO that are mainly responsible for this mess.

[@theredraven]

Shouldn't Russia fund it since they started all the problems by invading back in the 1970s?

[@ashiquehassanayan2776]

Kate is 🔥