ICC T20 World Cup in UAE: Gulf News Experts investigate the semi finalists

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00:00Hi guys and welcome to our usual coverage from the gulf news

00:04World cup t20 is another amazing day. I mean, I don't know how we can even get our

00:10Heads around this one today. First of all, i'll say hello to anis and to gotham who are joining us today

00:24I'm not quite sure where we start. I think that we start with um

00:29We now know

00:31The top four we know our semi-finalists on us

00:35Thank you, matt. Hello, mr

00:36Gautam and hello to all the beautiful people of gulf news today were the last two matches of the super 12 from group 2

00:43Where first new zealand quite easily beat afghanistan?

00:47And then in the second game pakistan outclassed scotland. So both of them have made it to the semi-finals

00:53So we have our semi-finals lineup on wednesday. We see

00:57England take on uh

01:00What do you call?

01:02England will take uh, who are they playing?

01:06New zealand new zealand england will take on new zealand in abu dhabi and on thursday, it's going to be pakistan

01:12Versus australia and dubai so quite mouth-watering semi-finals lined up. Uh, and i'll now give it to gotham

01:21Yeah, so I mean, uh, I think new zealand have been the ones that have upset the cards here

01:27What do you think?

01:28Not to be very honest. No, we always you know talk about new zealand as the silent people who don't make noise

01:36Uh, they have been doing the job quietly always, uh, whenever it comes to icc tournament if you talk about

01:422015 world cup they made it to the finals 2019. They lost a super over then we're talking about

01:50The icc test world championship. They made it to the finals

01:52They won it fair justice was done to them and this year again, let's be very honest

01:56I hadn't given them an opportunity. I thought they will come they will play but quietly they have gone done about their job

02:03They lost their first game to pakistan. But the way they have come back after the beating india comprehensively, of course, they beat

02:10scotland and namibia, but today again, they were against against afghanistan

02:15And the way they clinically beat afghanistan, uh broke hearts not only of 1.2 billion people

02:21But credit to new zealand they deserve to be in the semi-finals

02:25Yeah, now, um gossam. Um

02:28From you think about it like if you look at the um, the greats of the like, you know, the australia team

02:35Uh, like, you know, even if it's steve smith or david warner

02:38um going right all the way through the team to the hazelwoods

02:43and then you look at the

02:45Uh pakistan team, which is shahzad and everyone all the way through

02:50um

02:51Kane williamson has got to be up there surely as one as a great

02:57Sorry, whom are you talking about?

03:01Yes, yes, yes see the thing is I mean it's it's not exactly today, uh

03:06At least last six to seven years whenever we have discussed as to who's the you know, who's the greatest batsman of them all

03:13Uh, the three four guys who regularly figured in their cane was definitely one of them. I mean it could be

03:19Because of his you know, uh unfussy nature and because of the nature of the understated nature of the kiwis in general

03:27Sometimes he he may have got a bit under the rudder but not anymore. I mean they are

03:32They are now always hovering there

03:35And uh, you know the four best teams have made the same finals. I like to say that

03:40Uh, it'll be a pity that you know

03:43Only two teams will make the final run

03:46That must have been that must have been ouchie to say considering that one of those four teams is not india

03:51But okay, we'll get to that in a minute

03:54The uh, they they you know, what what i'm saying is, um, do

04:00Do we now regard these four teams as the best four teams in t20 cricket

04:07I think england were the were the number one ranked team

04:11So they they were always there with that, you know with that golden generation of five to six people

04:17India's performance has definitely come up as a bit of disappointment. But as you said that you will talk about them later

04:24Uh, yes, there will be disappointment

04:26But it's also true that this 1.2 billion people, you know indian fans were hoping against hope

04:32Even even anise will agree that

04:34So that didn't happen. Yeah, that didn't happen

04:38So now now do we see that like, um

04:42If we if we look at the um, let's look at the the head-to-head stuff, right? So we've got um,

04:48Let me let me get this right new zealand against england and australia against pakistan. Is that correct? Yep. Yep

04:54Right. So where do we go from here? Who do we fancy?

05:00In terms of who's reaching the final

05:03Well to be very honest on form you have to back england

05:07But let's as I've always said, you know, new zealand is one team which surprises everybody

05:12And with the loss of jason roy, I think they are on equal terms

05:16And if you talk about quality spinners if they have rashid

05:20Uh and moinally they have uh, sodie as well as santana, even though it didn't have a good game today, but uh

05:26In abu dhabi i'm not sure how much of a role spinners play

05:30It's the fast bowlers which play a role and if you have to talk about fast bowlers for sure bold saudi

05:36and uh mill

05:38Uh, kyle mills not what is it named? Uh, adam mills

05:42Adam milling. Yeah

05:44Yeah, these three guys are

05:47Definitely i'm not trying to compare but I will say that they are on top when you compare with the english fast bowlers

05:54Okay, and then and gossam if you look at the other one, um

06:01Pakistan versus uh, uh a

06:04Where am I? Australia, australia? Yes, australia

06:08Uh, does it all depend on things like uh, like how adam sample performs as a bowler or does it all come down to the batting?

06:18See this is another very intriguing clash and uh, these two teams have had a very very healthy rivalry down the years

06:26Only thing is that match has been played in in dubai where a lot has been made out of the due factor for the team

06:32Who's chasing?

06:33so my I only hope that

06:36uh

06:37On form i'll have to keep pakistan because you know, nobody has won five out of five

06:42But the only thing is so we'll have to see that, you know

06:46The the toss doesn't really give an undue advantage to the team batting second

06:50I mean, that's what I would like to see since both these matches are, uh, you know evening games and semi-finals

06:57So they're both in the balance

06:59Absolutely

07:01Okay, and now um, let's have a little discussion if we can if it does if it's not too painful for both of you

07:08Um india, where do we go from here?

07:11Well, honestly matt when the tournament started we were supposed to be the favorites

07:17We came as favorites coming after a good ipl tournament. We thought it's going to help them

07:21but i'm afraid the way we were outclassed by pakistan and then

07:26Further outclassed by new zealand that two games

07:30Left too much for india to come back into the tournament because the other three matches were the lower teams like

07:35Due respect to scotland namibia and afghanistan

07:38So india had to do that catch-up game

07:41and uh

07:44It showed in the last that we were at the mercy of afghanistan

07:48And when india couldn't score more than 111 today new zealand showed how to you know beat new afghanistan

07:56By bouncing them out and if you saw the way so beautifully captained by

08:01Uh williamson made sure that all his fastballers only his spinners went for runs, but only spinners bowled four overs

08:08so

08:10um

08:11Just just just to like uh clarify my question is to say

08:15What does india do here to make sure that this doesn't happen again? And how did they get to the next level?

08:21Well like t20

08:23You see there are five games and out of which five game three teams are good

08:27So what you need to make sure that you do not have two bad games or two bad two back days

08:34India had to play pakistan as well as new zealand. Okay, the other team also had to play india did not play to his potential

08:40I don't want to give any excuses about bubble fatigue or too much of cricket or the toss

08:46Let's give it to the opposition that they were better on that particular day and the way india lost

08:51It's not that the games were close or the toss of course did play a little role

08:56But india were outclassed in both the games

08:58So you have to give it to the opposition whether it is pakistan or new zealand

09:01They out beat us and when they meant the other matches against other teams

09:05They were equally comprehensive as india were against scotland and nabibia. So

09:09India were not unlucky the better teams went into the knockout

09:12Okay

09:14That's very fair. That's very honest of you. Thank you

09:17Gautam just to wrap up just before we get to the end of the chat here

09:24Do you agree with that? Do you think that india were just outclassed on their day or do you think that maybe

09:32They got a little bit unlucky

09:36No, you can't say unlucky. I mean, I totally agree with Nisar's observation

09:40Two bad games up front then they were left playing catch up

09:44And you know, though the one against relatively, you know, I mean afghanistan

09:49I won't call a wicked team that literally hammered them. But by the time you see I mean

09:55Finally, they left with four points on the table. It's a kind of unbelievable situation like if you are in india's position

10:01but then they got to move on from here and

10:05just one word of

10:07commiseration with virat kohli his

10:09This was his last international assignment as a t20 captain

10:14But then you you don't win everything. That's it

10:18Of course. No, we talked about uh, these things before but I mean like we're seeing absolutely three colossal people in um, virat

10:26uh, chris gale and duane gravel all

10:29signing off this week. It's uh

10:33It's like a

10:34Next generation moment surely for the where we're going with this work. No, see the thing is I mean given

10:42Virat you can expect, you know another five years of uh,

10:46cricket and and cricket per se is left in him, but it is just that you know when you get used to

10:52uh, you know kind of a cult system, which is very prevalent in india, I mean

10:57Now, uh india are going to heading for a split captaincy for the first time

11:01But that I think is a discussion for another day

11:04Then gradually get used to this, you know norm that virat is a captain for tests

11:09Somebody else is captain for the white ball cricket like that. So in another month or so, uh,

11:14We may just get used to that system

11:17Yeah, and like I said, I think that I think we're on the threshold of something very different and whether it's 50

11:2420 or even test cricket. I think that something

11:29is changing just now but uh

11:31We're out of time guys

11:32So we're going to have to say thank you so much to anis and thank you so much to gotham

11:36and um guys, um, everything that you need to know is always at gulfnews.com whether it's analysis whether it's um,

11:43Live updates or whether it's um

11:46Bitch gallage, whatever you want. It's all there. Um, but so thank you so much to anis

11:50And thank you so much to gotham and we shall see you all again tomorrow

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