India at the World Cups - Kutti Stories with Ash and Harsha

[vvvslaxman]

Nice anecdotes about India at the world cups

 

 

 

[Gollum]

Hope Ashwin concentrates more on fitness, bowling, fielding, power hitting than this youtube dhandha. 

[vvvslaxman]

2 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Hope Ashwin concentrates more on fitness, bowling, fielding, power hitting than this youtube dhandha. 

 

I am sure he can switch on switch off when he wants to. Atleast he is talking about cricket 

 

 

[First class]

47 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Nice anecdotes about India at the world cups

 

loved it , always good to hear stories about the history of cricket. Amazing how Pakistan was the only team , other than Australia,  which could challenge WI in 70's and India's rise in ODI cricket from 79 to 83 was unbelievable . 

 

 

[Nikhil_cric]

6 hours ago, Gollum said:

Hope Ashwin concentrates more on fitness, bowling, fielding, power hitting than this youtube dhandha. 

You mean the fitness standards of the Indian team and it's captain that can't be made public ?

 

Pretty sure our TM don't think his fitness is an issue. 

 

Can't blame Ashwin when these guys keep calling him back.

[vvvslaxman]

33 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

You mean the fitness standards of the Indian team and it's captain that can't be made public ?

 

Pretty sure our TM don't think his fitness is an issue. 

 

Can't blame Ashwin when these guys keep calling him back.

 

He looks fitter than kaptaan lol Apart from sports hernia i don't think he picked up any injury in 12 years.

[Suhaan]

He's certain he will make the squad ,true actually

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Suhaan

[Sean Bradley]

Kutti stories for a non South Indian could mean something else, especially people up north. Lol

[vvvslaxman]

4 minutes ago, Sean Bradley said:

Kutti stories for a non South Indian could mean something else, especially people up north. Lol

For mallus it means small person.

[Trichromatic]

Great video.

[Sean Bradley]

5 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

For mallus it means small person.

Kutti means small or little in Tamil and Malayalam. But in North kutti cld mean a b1tch

[kubrickian]

I think Ashwin will make a damn good commentator/analyst after his retirement. 

[Number]

He should also tell the story of how he passed the mandatory yoyo test. Oh wait..

[Vijy]

10 hours ago, kubrickian said:

I think Ashwin will make a damn good commentator/analyst after his retirement. 

he may also move into coaching

[Nikhil_cric]

19 hours ago, Number said:

He should also tell the story of how he passed the mandatory yoyo test. Oh wait..

When the captain himself....

[vvvslaxman]

This is even better

 

 

[Nikhil_cric]

The shift in Indian cricket from big cities/metros and from middle/upper middle class, highly educated backgrounds to the smaller towns, rural areas, and less privileged backgrounds has absolutely enriched our cricket and deepened our talent pool. 

 

25 years ago we still had Ganguly, Dravid, SRT, Azhar, Jadeja, Kumble, Sri, Venky all came from such backgrounds and they were pretty knowledgeable about the sport's history and the history of their own grounds etc. and the narratives around cricket in our media did focus on such things a bit more.

 

But the generation that came from around 2000 onwards, while they certainly improved our cricket by leaps and bounds, have many players who don't come from similar backgrounds and even those who do - Kohli, KL etc. are not really cricket intellectuals/storytellers or really invested in that side of the game.

 

Ashwin is a rare exception. Once he's done, he'll make a great commentator on the game and a story-teller who can pass that on to the next. gen. of young Indian cricket viewers the way Athers/Nas do for SKY.

 

Only Bhogle on broadcast and Ramachandra Guha/Sharda Ugra in print do that currently.  But it would mean a whole lot more coming from ex cricketers.

 

While Nas can be a troll, some of the programs that SKY does is absolutely brilliant in making the sport very attractive to young kids. Fox is alright too and so is Supersport

 

Comparisons of bats across eras.

Technique masterclasses,

Bowling masterclasses.

Data-driven analysis of what works in ICC tournanents with Sanga, Morgan

 

Historic 1993 England tour of India(Spinwash tour) with bootleg footage from train rides.

 

 It's disappointing when Nasser Hussain is the one to do a documentary on cricket in the maidans of Mumbai and knowing that not a single Indian broadcaster or ex-cricketer is anywhere close to the mark and how our media has actually gone backwards in the last 20 years and has been dumbed down and simply toes the BCCI line without question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sage]

17 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

The shift in Indian cricket from big cities/metros and from middle/upper middle class, highly educated backgrounds to the smaller towns, rural areas, and less privileged backgrounds has absolutely enriched our cricket and deepened our talent pool. 

 

25 years ago we still had Ganguly, Dravid, SRT, Azhar, Jadeja, Kumble, Sri, Venky all came from such backgrounds and they were pretty knowledgeable about the sport's history and the history of their own grounds etc. and the narratives around cricket in our media did focus on such things a bit more.

 

But the generation that came from around 2000 onwards, while they certainly improved our cricket by leaps and bounds, have many players who don't come from similar backgrounds and even those who do - Kohli, KL etc. are not really cricket intellectuals/storytellers or really invested in that side of the game.

 

Ashwin is a rare exception. Once he's done, he'll make a great commentator on the game and a story-teller who can pass that on to the next. gen. of young Indian cricket viewers the way Athers/Nas do for SKY.

 

Only Bhogle on broadcast and Ramachandra Guha/Sharda Ugra in print do that currently.  But it would mean a whole lot more coming from ex cricketers.

 

While Nas can be a troll, some of the programs that SKY does is absolutely brilliant in making the sport very attractive to young kids. Fox is alright too and so is Supersport

 

Comparisons of bats across eras.

Technique masterclasses,

Bowling masterclasses.

Data-driven analysis of what works in ICC tournanents with Sanga, Morgan

 

Historic 1993 England tour of India(Spinwash tour) with bootleg footage from train rides.

 

 It's disappointing when Nasser Hussain is the one to do a documentary on cricket in the maidans of Mumbai and knowing that not a single Indian broadcaster or ex-cricketer is anywhere close to the mark and how our media has actually gone backwards in the last 20 years and has been dumbed down and simply toes the BCCI line without question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes Sky coverage is excellent

Atherton also writes well 

 

 

People are trolling Ashwin here but this series is good

[vvvslaxman]

 

[vvvslaxman]

Hope this buries the hatchet between  Yuvi and Ashwin where he is paying glowing tributes