India will face Canada in their final Group A match of the T20 World Cup 2024 at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, Florida. With India already qualified for the Super 8, this match presents an opportunity to test their bench strength. Get insights into the predicted playing 11 for both teams and a head-to-head analysis as they meet in their first-ever T20I encounter. Stay tuned for all the action and updates from this exciting clash!
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00:00Hello, everyone. You're watching Pitch Battle. I'm your host, Indranil.
00:07Today, of course, India playing against Canada in Florida. Pakistan are out of the tournament.
00:13That sort of excitement is not there, as if. You know, we are not feeling that punch.
00:21Because India also played only one big game in their league stages before they hop onto that Super 8 stage.
00:28Where they will take on the big teams. But this particular phase wasn't as exciting except the India-Pakistan game.
00:36And now that Pakistan is out, how will it look like, the tournament?
00:40We are joined by Avinash, who is the editor of MyKhale. Avinash, I'm a little worried about the excitement
00:47generally a T20 World Cup would generate after seeing Pakistan being knocked out of the league phase.
00:55I mean, knocked out of the tournament. And how do you see that shaping up the entire…
01:00Because, you know, we always had that feeling, after meeting Pakistan, we want one more India-Pakistan game in the knockout stages.
01:07Or something like that. But it's not been happening so often.
01:10You remember last year when we were playing the Asia Cup, we had that prospect of playing Pakistan on multiple times.
01:19There was so much excitement for India final. What are your thoughts on Pakistan getting knocked out and India and US qualifying?
01:31How do you see that enthusiasm part of it, of the tournament?
01:33Certainly, it is a temperance. Because a team like Pakistan, the former champions and a vitriolic side, which commands a lot of respect in the cricketing corridors.
01:46Because of the quality of players they have in their line-up. So, definitely.
01:54And even the fact that we saw the crowd turn out for the India-Pakistan match and also in the subsequent Pakistan games.
02:03We saw a number of people coming in good size to watch Pakistan and cheer for them.
02:10So, a big team getting knocked out in the first stage will be a dampener, not just for the fans.
02:19In fact, the advertisers and the ICC will also face a little bit of this early exit of a team like Pakistan.
02:26But we can say that they are solely responsible for their fate.
02:34They didn't play good cricket in the first match against USA. They ended up on the losing side.
02:41And then, the match against India, once again, they did something similar.
02:46They let the game in their hands and found themselves in a catch-22 situation.
02:51And their fate hung in the balance on the result of the opponents.
02:58And USA were lucky. But they played some very good cricket. Let's not forget that.
03:04They deserve to be in the Super 8 stage because of the quality of cricket they played.
03:10We saw the other day against India as well. They were fighting till the very end.
03:15And had it been a little higher total for India to chase, who knows?
03:21The outcome could have been in favour of the US team.
03:24So, overall, it's good for the game.
03:29I just saw a video of Basim Akram on ICC saying that the globalisation of cricket is one of the perfect examples for the globalisation of cricket.
03:40So, all that culminates into, what we can say, the popularity of the sport will just increase.
03:50Because of a team like the US, playing with the best in the world and competing in the Super 8 stages.
03:58And who knows, if they do well and we see what Kenya did in the 2003 World Cup, it's going to be one of the fairytale finishes.
04:10Well, we will wait and watch for that. But as of now, what I can tell you, globalisation means new players coming.
04:19But that doesn't mean that big teams would start losing, Avinash.
04:22That's not the way. Because then the basic foundation on which we are all standing will be shaken, isn't it?
04:32If big teams would start losing.
04:36Definitely, it happens. But we see, this is the format where we see even the newcomers like USA, Canada, Nepal might get a chance.
04:53The longer the format, the possibility of a stronger team ending up on the winning side.
04:58We saw just early in the morning today, what happened between South Africa and Nepal.
05:03They gave a good fight to South Africa. I mean, everybody is talking about South Africa being one of the favourites.
05:10But the win margin for South Africa is where one runs. I mean, the game could have turned any sides.
05:18So, all this is, I think, it's a good exhibition for the sport.
05:22And whether it will draw a crowd or not, it's a debatable thing. But I think it is good for the game.
05:31If a winnow is stunning, pulling off an upset and taking the game to a wider audience.
05:41I mean, of course. How many times have you seen New Zealand losing out like the way they have lost in this T20 World Cup?
05:49It's never happened. They are always in the last four, whatever they do throughout the year.
05:54But you know, that is also there. Every year, we have an ICC event.
05:59And this is probably just to counter the IPL, which is such a popular format and such a popular tournament in the world.
06:07It's the first Indian global brand, you can say, which has made such a big mark.
06:15But having an ICC event every year… I mean, last year, we had the World Cup 50 over.
06:20Previous to that, we had the T20. Last year, we also had the Test Championship.
06:26This year, we have a World Cup. Next year, we have a Champions Trophy.
06:29So, every year, we have a champion ICC event coming up.
06:33I mean, to sort of tell us who is the real champion in whichever format.
06:38But that is also… Do you think it's diluting the essence of having a four-year long wait?
06:45You know, I mean, you should allow that championship title to sink in also, right?
06:50Look at the way England are struggling a little bit.
06:54Yes.
06:55That is also a problem. That is also a talking point.
06:58Yes, exactly. And we see… I mean, because ICC wants to have a tournament every…
07:08I mean, it started with the concept of having a tournament every alternate year.
07:14And now, we are seeing one ICC tournament being hosted in a space of 7-8 months after the other.
07:23So, actually, it does dilute because the feeling of being the champion side of a format
07:30is actually not sinking within the fans and one particular team as well.
07:34Like you mentioned about the English and the Aussie teams,
07:39Australia became the Test Champions in the month of June.
07:42And they became the World Champions in ODI in the month of November.
07:45Hardly any time for fans to just soak in.
07:50And I mean, the discourse wasn't also much talked about.
07:57And even the debates were not that…
08:00I mean, the debate of being the champion and let's enjoy and cherish the victory of a championship
08:10for a longer period of time.
08:12And then back-to-back win every 6 months or 7 months.
08:15If it happens, definitely, fans would lose their interest.
08:21Euro has started and we see what happens with football.
08:24Football, big tournaments happen every 4 years.
08:29We saw the FIFA World Cup happening in 2022.
08:32And now, a major tournament is happening after a gap of 2 years at least.
08:37So, definitely, the fans, the excitement is there.
08:42And they would have a lot of things to talk about.
08:46So, sinking in, feeling also is much better over there.
08:53There are a lot of leagues happening.
08:54The UEFA Champions League is there and everything else is there.
08:58But it is all a franchise-based tournament.
09:01And it has nothing to do with the nationalities
09:04and the countries fighting for the coveted trophy.
09:07So, I think, going forward, ICC will definitely have to look on its roster.
09:14Otherwise, I am sorry to interrupt you.
09:18Otherwise, it's looking like ICC is competing with IPL.
09:21It's looking like that every year.
09:23True, true.
09:25Not just the IPL.
09:28There are so many leagues happening across the globe now.
09:31And at one point in time, even the fans would want to have a little bit of a breather.
09:40I mean, we just hope that a saturation point doesn't come.
09:47And people would stop watching the sport and following the sport.
09:51Because we are playing it a lot.
09:53And overdose.
09:54Yes, a lot is being talked about the overdose.
09:57In fact, we already see the debate and discourse happening across the globe.
10:03Whether the players are fatigued because of the IPL.
10:06They were in action for almost two and a half months.
10:10And then back once again within a space of a week,
10:14they are again in action and playing the T20 World Cup.
10:17So, there wasn't much breather for them per se.
10:20So, I mean, people are talking a lot about all these stuff.
10:28And it's not just the fans, the cricketers.
10:31Even the fans would want at least a breather or a reprieve of a month's time
10:35to just refresh themselves and then get back to another tournament or maybe another format.
10:44If you look at the international calendar, the football.
10:48They give at least a couple of months' time for the fans to just settle down.
10:56True, true.
10:56But you know, what we call it in economics, law of diminishing return.
11:02If you overfeed someone, don't kill the golden goose.
11:06I mean, that's what fans would request.
11:09Because I know it's a new market.
11:12And this market is not new in a way that cricket has already been played by those
11:18guys who are settled there in the US.
11:20They are already playing.
11:21It's not that you are getting the…
11:23I mean, not the original…
11:27I mean, the guys have been there and won and brought up in the US.
11:30I mean, if you can get those guys to play cricket, that's where the achievement will be counted.
11:36Not some, you know, fringe players going from different countries like India and going and
11:44making a team and they are playing and they are calling themselves the US cricket team.
11:48So, that's something that's not fitting the bill.
11:54But whatever.
11:54I mean, we have to make the most of it.
11:56But I think Pakistan moving out of the tournament has really affected…
12:00It's going to affect.
12:01Because Pakistan brings in whatever excitement India-Pakistan gave.
12:05The possibility of it happening.
12:08It could happen at some stage.
12:10That keeps the fans on the toes.
12:11And whatever you say, mother of all battles, India-Pakistan.
12:15It doesn't happen that way.
12:16But ICC is also utilising that to their advantage by ensuring there is an India-Pakistan match every year.
12:25You know?
12:25Yeah.
12:26So what?
12:27We are not playing global…
12:29Global, I mean, bilateral series.
12:31Globally, we are meeting somewhere.
12:34Yeah.
12:36And actually, this is a well-thought strategy from the ICC.
12:40They have tried to ensure that at least once in every ICC tournament.
12:46And now that it's happening every year.
12:49They are playing.
12:50And good, bad…
12:52I mean, it's a different thought altogether.
12:56I mean, there are the purists who believe the best match would be the best…
13:03Which team is better in terms of cricket, the quality and the entire…
13:13I mean, who is superior against the other.
13:17But yes.
13:18And ICC is planning and by putting India and Pakistan in the same group in every tournament.
13:27It ensures that these two teams might end up playing against each other in the semi-finals or the knockouts.
13:33So, and it has been giving them…
13:36Yielding them results.
13:37We saw what happened in the Champions Trophy 2017.
13:42They played against each other.
13:43And then they, once again, locked on to the finals.
13:47So, yes.
13:48It's a well-thought-out plan.
13:51I just hope that fans are not bored watching it.
13:54Because we've seen this mocha-mocha ads.
13:57I mean, being mellowed down.
13:59And now people are not giving much heat to these kind of…
14:04I mean, cliched advertisements.
14:08I think the audience is getting matured enough to not buy or subscribe to such theatrics of the
14:15broadcasters as well.
14:17And slowly, when the broadcasters…
14:20I mean, it's directly proportional to if the broadcasters will start facing the heat
14:26or the numbers will plummet.
14:29Then definitely, ICC will also have to think about and they will re-strategize.
14:33But ideally, they should last a week.
14:38No, sorry.
14:39I am sorry to interrupt you.
14:40I mean, I have got this bad habit of interrupting.
14:43Something comes to my mind.
14:44Because I am aging also.
14:46I tend to forget what I was thinking a few seconds later.
14:50I mean, you have to give it to me.
14:52And this bad, ill-mannered people are all over the place.
14:56I am one of them, probably.
14:57Interrupting someone in the middle of a conversation.
15:00But that is also there.
15:02When we think about India-Pakistan match, it's been off-late.
15:06It's been quite one-sided.
15:07And in a way, not only the way the game is played, it's going in India's favour.
15:12It's 7-1 right now in T20.
15:15The only match we lost was against Pakistan 2021, where Pakistan beat us by 10 wickets.
15:22And our world went upside down after losing to Pakistan.
15:27More than losing the World Cup, I think the sentiments are similar in either side of the
15:34border.
15:34Because they think that's the match.
15:37And our World Cup is over when we have won it or lost it, whatever.
15:41But Pakistan would be really disappointed.
15:43Because ultimately, it's not the loss against India.
15:47They had to take that into factor.
15:50They will lose to India.
15:52But I thought they didn't factor in that they could lose to the US.
15:56Because cricket is a very funny game.
15:58In one moment, you see Virat Kohli.
16:00I am talking about Virat Kohli.
16:01Coming straight to that point.
16:02Virat Kohli, last chance for him to revive some form before hitting the Super 8 stages.
16:09But Virat Kohli, the way he fought with Gavaskar.
16:12The way Gavaskar fought with him.
16:15Sunil Gavaskar is actually smiling in some corner in the US.
16:19Seeing the way Virat Kohli is struggling at the top of the order.
16:21Your thoughts on that?
16:25Dada, it happens.
16:27We have seen the clash of ideologies, clash of eras quite often nowadays amongst players.
16:35And the Aswale players.
16:36So, the active ones and the Aswales.
16:39But it's very crucial for Virat Kohli to get his form back.
16:44We know he is a big player.
16:46But he will have to get some runs under his belt.
16:50So that when there is a crunch match happening.
16:53I mean, there could be matches where he is in dire need of his experience and class.
17:00And temperament in the Super 8 stages.
17:03And going forward with the semi-finals.
17:06Because the kind of group that we are going to be faced in.
17:12I think the biggest challenge that comes across India's ways is Australia.
17:18And if they manage to beat Australia.
17:22The former champions of the 2021 World Cup.
17:26Then it will again be a big morale for the Indian side.
17:31And the route where semi-finals gets easier.
17:37Because the opponents post-Australia are the ones whom India have beaten quite convincingly
17:44in the T20 World Cup as well.
17:46And even on the international stages.
17:49So, I think it's going to be important for India to maintain a better momentum against Australia.
17:56And if they end up winning the match against Australia.
17:58Then it will be easier for them to prevail over the remaining opponents in their group
18:04in Super 8 stages.
18:06And remember, last time we met Australia in a World Cup was the high-octane final.
18:12High-stakes final.
18:14Where India just fizzled out as a batting unit.
18:17So, the memories of November the 19th would be there in the minds of the Indian players.
18:25When they will come out against the Aussies.
18:29But yes, and when you are playing against a big team like Australia.
18:34And Virat Kohli, he is a champion player.
18:38And someone who is always fed-off on the energy of the opponents.
18:42Especially against the Australians.
18:43He will have to play a good role, Team India.
18:49True. Virat will have to play a good role.
18:52And he is a very important player for India.
18:55The fact that he has been taken in with certain purpose to fulfil.
19:00The way Virat has been playing.
19:03You have to thank the cricket God.
19:05Lucky stars that every time you score.
19:07So, be thankful.
19:08Because batting is so tough, let me tell you.
19:11One mistake, you are back in the pavilion.
19:13So, as long as runs are coming, be grateful to the surrounding.
19:15Don't fight with anyone.
19:17Be calm, be quiet.
19:19Probably, Virat Kohli, that wears Delhi culture is sort of rubbed onto him so well.
19:27That's been his foundation.
19:29That's what Virat Kohli is made of.
19:31He can really take the fight to the opposition.
19:34He is someone you can't mess around.
19:36Nauseas are scared of him.
19:37And he is right there.
19:38But I can also see…
19:42I remember long time ago, in fact, I met Steve Waugh in one of the media offices.
19:47And we were talking.
19:48And he said that how the dominance of Australia is going to go down because of too much of
19:54cricket happening in the world.
19:56And now, I can see the re-emergence of Australia as a superpower in cricket.
20:02The way they played the 50-over World Cup.
20:04The way they played the Test cricket World Cup.
20:06They won the 21 T20 World Cup.
20:10They are really becoming a force to reckon with in world cricket once again, in all formats.
20:14Because we have been seeing champions in different formats.
20:17In England or New Zealand or T20 was Australia.
20:22England, West Indies.
20:25But now, we have seen Australia really consolidating their superior style of cricket.
20:38I mean, the way they have played cricket over the years.
20:40You have seen their performance across three World Cups.
20:43From 1999 onwards to 2007.
20:46That phase I am talking about.
20:47Australia were all-conquering.
20:49Only time they struggled was coming home.
20:52Coming to India and struggling against the Indian team in Test match series.
20:57Otherwise, Australia is really a dominant force.
20:59I mean, two teams we can easily count.
21:01In the 80s, 70s was the West Indies.
21:04And now, we can see the Australians.
21:06And coming back, going back to that all-format supremacy.
21:10Are your thoughts on that?
21:13Well, a lot is being talked about Indian domestic circuit, Dada.
21:17We have seen people getting fascinated by the Indian domestic circuit.
21:22Ever since Rudravid became the NCA head.
21:26And we saw a lot of exchange of ideas.
21:31Coaches from different parts of the world coming to India.
21:34Learning.
21:36Also, post-emergence of IPL, the success story of IPL.
21:42Sort of just propelled Indian domestic circuit.
21:47And the richness of Indian domestic circuit as well.
21:51So, it's come down to this.
21:53That India taking on Canada.
21:56The last match of the league phase.
21:58And are we expecting some changes in the playing 11?
22:02Probably, Kuldeep could come in and sort of get some sort of match practice.
22:06Because he will come into action in the West Indies.
22:09Where the wickets are going to be same.
22:11Only difference is, the spinners will get some assistance there.
22:15Like the pacers are getting in America.
22:18So, how is it going to be looking, the Indian playing 11?
22:21Probably, in place of Sriraj, you never know.
22:23But what happens is, generally, we have seen time and again.
22:27When we are playing a workout game, we don't make those topic changes.
22:31This is a great thing about Team India.
22:32And hopefully, they will continue to rule the roost and keep winning.
22:36And don't press that panic button.
22:38That's important.
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