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The Cricket Slouch

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70 episodes

4 days ago

Send us a text Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch, where I am joined by Sandeep and Lea, who is one of the keenest observers of the game I have come across in recent years. In this episode, we do a little preview of the upcoming Ashes series and the India vs South Africa series, before taking a look at the ongoing Ireland vs Bangladesh test match. Somehow along the discussion, we digress a bit to talk about Ricky Ponting's wines and the emerging cricket scene in Japan. Lea al...

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Send us a text Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch, where I am joined by Sandeep and Lea, who is one of the keenest observers of the game I have come across in recent years. In this episode, we do a little preview of the upcoming Ashes series and the India vs South Africa series, before taking a look at the ongoing Ireland vs Bangladesh test match. Somehow along the discussion, we digress a bit to talk about Ricky Ponting's wines and the emerging cricket scene in Japan. Lea al...

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Episodes (20/70)

The Cricket Slouch

The One with the Twin Series Previews

Send us a text Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch, where I am joined by Sandeep and Lea, who is one of the keenest observers of the game I have come across in recent years. In this episode, we do a little preview of the upcoming Ashes series and the India vs South Africa series, before taking a look at the ongoing Ireland vs Bangladesh test match. Somehow along the discussion, we digress a bit to talk about Ricky Ponting's wines and the emerging cricket scene in Japan. Lea al...

3 days ago

1 hour 45 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One about India's triumph at the Women's ODI WC.

Send us a text In today's episode Shounak, Ajit and SP unpack India's twin wins in the Women's ODI WC semifinal and final. We discuss a few individual performers, team issues and improvement, role of backroom staff. and the improvements in both South African and Indian teams. We give credit to Amol Mazumdar and the coaching staff and Neetu David and her selection team. Among other things, there is the usual ICC and BCCI bashing and we cover a story within Zimbabwe cricket about Sean William...

1 week ago

1 hour 29 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The one with the Anti-Choke Serum, Kilikiti and the Cardiac Kids.

Send us a text Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch with Sandeep, Shounak and Ajit. The guys talk about the India-WI series, the SA-Pak test match, a round up on the Women’s ODI World Cup matches the goings on in the Asia-Pacific T20 WC qualifying spots with Ross Taylor playing for Samoa and Japan taking a few strides towards improving their rankings. A deep dive into the Indian selection then leads way to what have Windies got to take away from this series given that their curren...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 20 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The one on the Dramatic Indian Victory at The Oval and where to from here.

Send us a text Hello and welcome everyone to The Cricket Slouch, a podcast where we are always critical about something in the face of some wonderful cricket. In this episode Sandeep, Shounak and Ajit enlighten us with their take on the final test of the TAT (Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy) and live through the dramatic 57 minutes on the morning of final day of the final test at the Oval ! They also provide insights into how we have already forgotten Rohit and Kohli, and rue th...

3 months ago

1 hour 38 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The one on Stokes, Starc and Scotty, and why some numbers matter.

Send us a text Hello and welcome everyone to The Cricket Slouch, a podcast where even though narrative rules, the numbers in context cannot be ignored. In this episode we will cover the 3rd test between England and India, and the 3rd test between Australia and West Indies. We talk about the efforts of Jadeja and Rahul, Green and Greaves, Seales and the Josephs, but more than that those of Stokes, Starc and Scotty Boland, India's continued woes with catching, why we can't let bye-gones be gon...

3 months ago

1 hour 41 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on More Runs, More Tons, and a Record that Could Have Been.

Send us a text Hello and welcome to yet another episode of The Cricket Slouch. Shounak joins S.P in this episode in the absence of Sandeep and Ajit. In this episode we look beyond the copious runs scored by India, England, South Africa, celebrating batting feats by Gill, Smith and the record that could have been Mulder's. We look back upon India's dominating win, Akash Deep's bowling, England's tactic backfiring and the predictability of Windies batting. We talk potential changes...

4 months ago

1 hour 47 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One About 5 Tons, 6 Ducks and Other Tales from the Test World.

Send us a text Hello and welcome to yet another episode of The Cricket Slouch. In this episode we talk about England's win over India, Australia's win over Windies, Sri Lanka's over Bangladesh and also touch base on the match in progress between South Africa and Zimbabwe. We discuss noteworthy performances, applaud Zimbabwe for scheduling 11 tests this year for themselves, talk of Windies batting woes, and Bangladesh's mercurial performances. This is in addition to what India need to improve ...

4 months ago

1 hour 40 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One with the England-India series preview

Send us a text Just as is with London buses or trains, there isn't one for a long time and then two come along in quick succession, so also with our podcast it seems ! In this episode, we do a little preview of the upcoming England-India test series, and for the banter I am joined by my regular buddies, Sandeep, Ajit and Shounak. We talk potential playing XIs, England's formidable batting approach, India's bowling deficit, Gill as captain, likely playing conditions at Leed...

5 months ago

57 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One after the World Test Championship Final.

Send us a text Hello all, welcome to Season 4 of The Cricket Slouch and what a way to start it with a discussion on the recently concluded World Test Championship final. Congratulations to South Africa for having won it and for finally being able to get that monkey off their back and beating a fancied Australia after being on the backfoot for 3 whole days ! And to deconstruct this astonishing win, I am joined by my regular buddies, Sandeep, Ajit and Shounak. We discuss the ebbs and flows of...

5 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

3rd Anniversary Episode - The One on the Tides of Change in Cricket.

Hello and welcome to the The Cricket Slouch, a podcast for fans of all persuasions. We apologise for the long hiatus since the last episode at the conclusion of the BGT and today, we bring you our 3rd anniversary episode where in I am joined by my usual buddies Sandeep, Ajit and Shounak to talk about a range of topics. Some of these are - 1) Consolidation of power among the Big Three in the ICC via the likely proposal of two tier test cricket calendar. 2) Saudi entering the game with th...

6 months ago

1 hour 42 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on the 5th test of the BGT 2024/25

Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch.Sandeep once again hosts this week's episode and he is joined by the regular duo of Shounak and Ajit to discuss the series finale of the BGT at Sydney, a test match that was done within 3 days on a spicy deck. A lot of What If's plague the fans and management alike, but there are bigger questions to be asked, and answered here.Such as the fate of seniors like Rohit, Kohli, Jadeja and Rahul, what the spin dept will look ...

10 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on the Classic MCG 4th test of the BGT 2024/25

Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch. Sandeep hosts this week's episode and he has captained the team much better than Rohit in recent times. He is joined by the regular duo of Shounak and Ajit to discuss the fantastic test match that we have witnessed at the MCG where fortunes fluctuated and wobbled more than a Pat Cummins' wobble ball !We talk about the dramatic finish in the last hour of the game, how Australia forced a victory in what appeared to be a matc...

10 months ago

1 hour 26 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on the 3rd Ind-Aus test of BGT 2024

Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch, and I am joined by Sandeep and Shounak to discuss the drawn Third test at the Gabba in this BGT series.We talk about India's repeated first innings failure, sub-par bowling being a problem where Bumrah has to do the salvage job over and over again, Rohit's under-par captaincy, and perhaps a wrong call at the toss, Head being India's latest bogeyman and why Hazelwood's injury might not actually benefit India at Melbourne.We also lament Ashwin's...

11 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on the 2nd India-Aus test of BGT 2024

Hello and welcome every one to another episode of The Cricket Slouch, a podcast where opinions are dime a dozen and stats are secondary.Today I am joined by regular collaborators Sandeep, Shounak and Ajit.After the dizzying high of the win at Perth, the Indian team has seemingly hit a trough again at Adelaide, the venue of their ignominious 36 all out in the last tour. We talk about the batting failure, lessons not learnt from the past, Australian bowlers being superior in this match, couple ...

11 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One with the debriefing of India's win in the First Match of BGT 24-25

Hello and welcome everyone to another episode of The Cricket Slouch. I am joined by Shounak for this episode, in which we talk about India’s unexpected and astonishing win at Perth and going 1-0 ahead in the 5-match BGT series and the major talking points from the match including both sides’ bowling, India’s top order finally playing the way they were expected to, Bumrah’s magic, NKR’s promising talent, a couple of controversial issues from the match, and finally discussing potential changes ...

11 months ago

1 hour 22 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on the Post-mortem of New Zealand's whitewash over India

Hello all, The Cricket Slouch podcast is back with a broad post-mortem review of New Zealand's historical whitewash over India in India.I am joined by Shounak and Aryan in dissecting what NZ did well and where India fell behind in this series and wondering what may have been if certain events had panned out differently.Whilst NZ did the basics well, this series loss was a perfect storm of things going wrong for the Indian side and we ponder whether this side is now ready to transition towards...

1 year ago

1 hour 43 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One on New Zealand's twin heists with Rahul Patil

Sandeep and I are joined by Rahul Patil from Sportsfreak to talk about two of New Zealand's major cricketing achievements in the modern era - namely the women's T20 World Cup win and the men's test win in India.Although this was meant to be a NZ-centric discussion, it quickly meandered into familiar Indo-centric territory.We talk about the toss, the tactics, the batting collapse for the ages, NZ's sharp bowling and fielding, Sarfaraz's innings, Ashwin and Jadeja's declining fortunes, rise of ...

1 year ago

1 hour 17 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The one with Aryan reviewing the India Bangladesh series.

In this episode Sandeep and I are joined by Aryan Surana, who writes features and match reviews over at Guerilla Cricket, to talk about the return of cricket to Gwalior, the Ind-Bangla series, the potency of the Indian test attack and other notable points. We also pay our respects to the late Ratan Tata, may he rest in peace. Aryan's two recent articles on cricket in Gwalior can be found here -Article 1 - general return of cricket to GwaliorArticle 2 - Interview with Mr Scindia

1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The one with Estelle Vasudevan previewing the Womens T20 World Cup.

Greetings and welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch !Today we have Estelle Vasudevan on board again and this time we talk about the upcoming women's T20 World Cup and go through the different squads whilst narrowing down on the final four and eventual prediction for a winner. The women's game has grown in leaps and bounds and the quality now is much better than what it was 10 years ago and there are no easy games expected in the upcoming tournament. Will Australia win again, or wil...

1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes

The Cricket Slouch

The One with Estelle Vasudevan on Sri Lanka's test win at The Oval and future outlook.

Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch.Today I am joined by Sandeep and Estelle Vasudevan to talk about Sri Lanka's recent test win against England at The Oval and whether this win has enabled Sri Lanka to save test cricket or not, their chances of possibly winning the series this time, and what does the future look like for the men's team.We also talk about their leading players in a bit of depth and whether Angelo Matthews can be timed retired by the selectors and where the bureau...

1 year ago

55 minutes