How much will Jasprit Bumrah’s absence hurt Team India? Commentator Harsha Bhogle bares all in a freewheeling chat on The Grade Cricketer podcast… 🏏🎧
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00:00I don't think India favourites.
00:02Bumrahs is a huge loss.
00:04I think batsmen win new matches, bowlers win new tournaments.
00:06See what T20 has done.
00:08We are questioning Williamson, we are questioning Smith, we are questioning Kohli.
00:10You'll always back Kohli to get four minutes.
00:12100%
00:14It's a small thing in the tension in India-Pakistan.
00:16It's a tiny factor.
00:18Will we play the World Cup in 23 October?
00:30Talk about the current World Cup.
00:34There's no Bumrah, there's no Jadeja.
00:36I think there's five of the guys
00:38haven't played in Australia before.
00:40Will India win any games this World Cup?
00:42Will they make it out of the group?
00:44Will they ever play cricket again?
00:46Why did it take you so long to
00:48come straight at that?
00:50I don't think India favourites.
00:52I don't think India favourites because
00:54I think bowlers win tournaments.
00:56I think batsmen win new matches, bowlers win new tournaments.
00:58I don't know if
01:00India have the bowling
01:02and whether that will force the batsmen to
01:04feel the need to score an extra
01:0620-25 runs.
01:08I genuinely believe England and Australia are the two best teams
01:10at this tournament.
01:12I think Australia a little bit more than England
01:14because I think Australia bowl better than England.
01:16Bumrah is a huge loss
01:18because all of a sudden you're saying
01:20okay, now who bowls at the back end?
01:22One, I need two bowlers bowling at the back end.
01:24I need more overs at the back end.
01:26So who's going to bowl up front?
01:28Therefore should I play Ashwin ahead of Chahal?
01:30Because Ashwin might give me two overs in the power play.
01:32So the whole bowling structure has got changed.
01:36It tells you if the absence of one cricketer
01:38can spoil your balance
01:40it means you don't have enough cricketers.
01:42I think Australia are better placed actually.
01:44I think the big move was Tim David.
01:46You could see it three months ago.
01:48Tim David had to play in place of Steve Smith.
01:50See what T20 has done. We're questioning Williamson,
01:52we're questioning Smith, we're questioning Coley.
01:54Root doesn't even get a game.
01:56See what T20 has done.
01:5815 ball players
02:00have got their place in the side.
02:02I think Australia and England are looking one at the moment.
02:04I think Pakistan are the dark horses.
02:06I mean I didn't question Coley.
02:08Have you just questioned Coley on this show?
02:10He'll never play again.
02:12I can't believe you just said that.
02:14John, clickbait, clickbait.
02:16That's what clear is.
02:18I didn't question him.
02:20We didn't question Coley at any point.
02:22I deny what I said.
02:24This is deep fake.
02:26Deep fake video.
02:28These cruel Aussies are trying to drive a wedge
02:30between us Indians.
02:32I'm looking forward to Coley this tournament.
02:34If there's one place,
02:36you'll always back Coley
02:38to get form in it.
02:40It's like Rahul Dravid in England.
02:42England always to the rescue.
02:44Maybe it's Australia to the rescue.
02:46Even his fielding form in that warm up the other day.
02:48Direct hit, run out, catch on the boundary.
02:50He's so fit.
02:52He wants to be Djokovic.
02:54He measures body fat and whatever.
02:56He looked at himself in the mirror in 2012
02:58and said can this kid become a world class player
03:00looking the way he is.
03:02Because he's a proper West Delhi boy.
03:04Eating what West Delhi boys do
03:06which is chole bhature, oil food and whatever.
03:08And he said no.
03:10And he just went on a fiendish diet.
03:12On the rare occasion that I've met him socially.
03:14Very rare occasion that I've met him socially.
03:16We were in Aravinda De Silva's house in Colombo.
03:18De Silva's house in Colombo.
03:20I'm not name dropping but he'd invited everybody.
03:22And there was Coley in front of me.
03:24And I looked at his plate and I said
03:26you can't eat porcelain.
03:28There's nothing in your plate.
03:30He said no I'm just looking around
03:32and he pecked at the salad.
03:34He pecked at something else but he said
03:36I can't eat that and I can't eat that
03:38and I can't eat that.
03:40This new generation is so careful
03:42about what they eat and how much they train
03:44and how many Instagram videos
03:46they post on Instagram.
03:48I'm not sure if you've caught the news.
03:50There seems to be a bit of tension between the two.
03:52They don't want to play
03:54the Asia Cup which is obviously in Pakistan.
03:56India not going.
03:58Pakistan then saying we're going to pull out the World Cup.
04:00Is that going to add any level of spice?
04:02Does it need any more spice?
04:04This is the biggest game maybe Australian cricket's ever seen.
04:06I don't think what's happening outside the ground
04:08will bother the players.
04:10I think the players are very very aware
04:12that they don't control what happens outside.
04:14They don't think about what happens outside
04:16because their job is just to go out and play.
04:18We sometimes forget that players need not be as worldly wise.
04:20They need not understand economics and politics
04:22and anthropology.
04:24They're just there to play cricket.
04:26I don't think that'll matter.
04:28It's a small thing in the tension in India Pakistan.
04:30It's a tiny factor.
04:32Will we play the World Cup in 23 October?
04:3423 October's there.
04:36What about this World Cup?
04:38Who thinks about what's 12 months away?
04:40We're not doing a long range economic forecast
04:42that goes wrong anyway.
04:44It doesn't matter.
04:46I feel like we've done well
04:48because we're exiting this interview
04:50with you having questioned Coley
04:52and then diminished India Pakistan relations
04:54to something only small.
04:56They'll be the two lead headlines
04:58probably for the next few days.
05:00That doesn't matter before an India Pakistan game.
05:02Those are political decisions.
05:04Those change very quickly.
05:06Boris Johnson is Prime Minister one day
05:08and the next morning he isn't.
05:10The next morning you go into a meeting as the Prime Minister
05:12and suddenly you realise there's been a revolt
05:14and you're outvoted and you come out
05:16and you're no longer the Prime Minister.
05:18So you're saying Rohit might not be captain?
05:20Now you're getting somewhere.
05:22Now you're getting somewhere.
05:26The fish are not biting today.
05:30Rohit will be captain for a little while longer.