The Edges & Sledges Cricket Podcast

This week we discuss India's thumping innings victory over England in Dharamshala to complete a stunning 4-1 win. This is the 17th consecutive home series win for India, and raises lots of questions for Ben Stokes and England's Bazball approach.

We talk:
- Yet another debutant for team India: Devdutt Padikkal
- Kuldeep's stunning 5-fer on a 1st day Dharamshala pitch
- 10 wickets to spinners for the first time at Dharmshala
- Centuries for both Gill and Rohit
- Fifties for Jaiswal, Sarfaraz and Padikkal on Debut
- ⁠R Ashwin taking the new ball and YET another 5-fer
- England's 2nd innings collapse to wrap the test on Day 3

We also briefly cover WPL summary to date and a quick look ahead to #IPL2024

#cricket #indveng #testcricket #rohitsharma #india #teamindia

[APOLOGIES FOR THE AUDIO ISSUES - ONE OF THE MICS WAS PLAYING UP, WILL BE SORTED NEXT EPISODE]

This week, Varun and Ashwin get together and review the second 5 teams from the IPL 2025 Auction. They talk through key retentions, auction strategy and outcome, as well as predicted playing elevens for #DC, #PK, #GT, #LSG and #MI.

On this week’s episode DJ and Varun discuss the latest happenings in the world of cricket starting with DJ Bravo’s new song about M.S. Dhoni and the Panyda brothers’ social media fitness battle with Virat Kohli. We also talk about the restart of cricket with the West Indies tour of England kicking-off on 8 July and developments in Sri Lanka about fixing allegations around the 2011 World Cup final.

The second half of the show is all about leg spin and is an interview with England Lions and Yorkshire cricket leg spinner, Josh Poysden. We talk about luck, the English first class system, how captains treat leg spinners, the best leggies going around today, Kuldeep, Chahal and how Josh bowled the ball of the 21st century in the 2018 T20 blast (link: https://twitter.com/vitalityblast/status/1029801304787509248?s=21)

Josh’s Cricinfo profile by George Dobell: http://m.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/464110.html

You can follow Josh on Instagram and Twitter @JoshPoysden14 and @SpinBadger.

Link to DJ Bravo song https://www.instagram.com/p/CCATXIMn_Va/?igshid=nexni973kf4n

Jarrod Kimber article on MS Dhoni’s super gut https://wickets.substack.com/p/ms-dhoni-and-the-magical-gut

Link to Virat Kohli’s superman clap pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCI3x9Yl8xu/?igshid=9h3i3l1kxb1v

Link to Hardik Pandya’s back pushup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOMG7NFWzt/?igshid=fcyjbvz9h5tv

Daily Hunt article on Sri Lankan cricket http://dhunt.in/aaf4o?s=a&uu=0x5367aef756a7fd44&ss=pd

Caribbean Cricket Podcast https://twitter.com/CaribCricket

Oreo’s catching skills https://www.instagram.com/p/CCKvruyFw2k/?igshid=1tx42486huo89

Poll on favourite cricket format https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1278646398532161538?s=21

The Ball of the 21st century: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.hindustantimes.com/cricket/josh-poysden-s-ripper-brings-back-memories-of-shane-warne-s-ball-of-the-century-watch/story-WgYvzj170rqfIHQX3Wo5LN_amp.html

This week Ashwin and Varun discuss the big news from the world of Indian Cricket, with Rohit Sharma replacing Virat Kohli as the ODI Captain - was it the right net outcome? Could the BCCI have at least handled the announcement better?

They also preview the test squad and their predicted playing XIs for India's first test against South Africa on December 26th, and talk about the recently completed first Ashes test.

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This week Varun and Ashwin get together to break down Team India's T20 Series victory over England as they wrapped up the series 2-1 after the crushing 5th test defeat. Rohit Sharma came back in to lead the side, and Kohli, Pant & Bumrah joined the team for the 2nd match.

While India won, there were still several unanswered questions.

1. Why was Hooda dropped at the peak of his form to make way for Kohli?
2. Is Pant going to be a T20I opener from here on?
3. Did India bring Umran Malik into the national setup too quickly?
4. What is going on with Virat Kohli's form - does he need even more game time or less?
5. Where do Axar Patel and Dinesh Karthik fit into a full-strength lineup with everyone available?

With 3 ODIs vs. England coming up soon too, lots more Team India cricket awaits!

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