PCCI Podcast

Over the past few months, we have had guests from various fields and spoken about topics close to our game. Here's a thread so you can catch up on them. 1. With Sharda Ugra & Gideon Haigh on Narrative Journalism, State of the global game & more - open.spotify.com/episode/4LS3sa…

This Indian team is very likable. At Tea I thought it would get very ugly with both lead pacers grimacing and Root and Stokes settled. But everyone kept chipping in. I wish they had a more competent coach

We pray for this. Boria da will do the Live Shows from inside the Selection meetings.

Time that eternal enemy of all things living: images of heartbreaks framed in time. My column in @thetribunechd tribuneindia.com/news/reflectio…

You had to pick your 4 best bowlers+6 best batters and back them. The other slot can then be a random all rounder of choice and it would have won you the series against this very beatable English side. It has taken a special kind of tactical ineptitude to lose to this Eng side.

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Morne Morkel is the JP Nadda to Gautam Gambhir's Narendra Modi as relayed here by Cricket's Arnab Goswami.

Ryan Ten Doescathe must answer. And answer now.

Such dishonest nonsense. If you said the coach deserved all the praise for the CT win -- and people stood in queue to write poems and paens for him -- he should equally be in the firing line for a Test record of two wins in 11.

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Then launches a passionate defence of Gautam Gambhir with the eternal question: Tell me who will replace Gautam Gambhir. Where have we heard that before in India?

Stokes ko maata aayi hui hai. - Rahul Rawat Gold standard of content if you understand how well Sportstak knows its own audience.

Hopefully she saw Kapil's 175 at Tunbridge Wells & zor zor se cheer kiya hoga.

My favourite thing is that Gambhir is a self styled football manager in his mind. Jose Mourinho probably. Without the charm, charisma or the trophies. His entire philosophy is - we cannot lose. Spoiler: He loses. A lot.

Morne Morkel to blame it seems. The accountability has been set folks.

Boria and Gargi Raut kept arguing right through the series, especially after Edgbaston that the approach of picking Reddy/Sundar/Jadeja was finely calibrated and the lower order runs eon you Birmingham. Today they're asking why Kuldeep wasn't picked. Morne must answer it seems!

Godi media Gambhir ka naam bhi nahi le sakta. That's the level of censorship in India.

Sony's ad for this series is - Ground Unka, Jeet Humari. Thoda sa course correction kar sakte the par yeh public ko chahiye yeh language. Mooh se moongfali.

This isn't 2011 at all. That series had no hope from the start. One bad bowling inning doesn't make it 2011 level bad. This one however is worse because it was very winnable and you have the resources to beat England. Just terrible tactics.

Running Bumrah (and nearly Siraj) to the ground on that Australia tour is going to cost India for a long time. Especially considering India have to continue playing longer test series unlike non big 3 nations.

Never gets old.