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How much does bowling matter in T20s and how does one measure the potency of a bowler in this format? What are the measures of excellence for a T20 bowler? 

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Talking Points:


How does one describe a good T20 bowler?
Is it possible to separate actions and outcomes for T20 bowling? 
A format that offers the bowlers almost no leverage
What is the role of bowlers in a contest designed to be between bat and bat?
Does a great T20 bowler need any particular skills? 
The value of bowlers with unconventional actions
What Jasprit Bumrah does well in T20s
Why T20 bowlers can't be viewed in the same way as Test or ODI bowlers
Can we gauge bowling in T20s before hitting has reached its full potential?
The future of T20 bowling - and why some rule changes can bring bowlers into the game
The Harshal Patel problem for T20 bowlers
Are teams being inefficient when paying huge sums for bowlers?

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Karthikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo

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Related:


Hitting v Batting: the choice that dictates the shape of a T20 contest - 81allout podcast
Bowling doesn't really matter in T20 - Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview
Ferociously fast and thrillingly direct: how Mayank went bang, bang, bang - Karthik Krishnaswamy - ESPNcricinfo
'If you go searching for wickets in T20, you're playing into the batsman's hand' - Samuel Badree interview by Nagraj Gollapudi - The Cricket Monthly
ICC recommends ODI rule changes - Cricket Australia 

T20 started in the early 2000s but what if the format was invented 15 years earlier. Who were the players who would have excelled in the shorter format? We decided to pick a T20 side from the era before the IPL and debated how Aravinda de Silva and Brian Lara might have changed their game for T20s. And if players like Ricardo Powell and Adrian Kuiper would have had more illustrious careers than they did.

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Talking Points:


The evolution of ODIs and T20s - and how both took about 20 years ago mature
Would players like Sunil Narine have been as big a star if not for T20s?
The West Indian legacy in terms of accelerating the T20 evolution
Which players from the past would have thrived in this format?
Would you have heard much more of Alistair Brown and Michael Di Venuto had T20s been around earlier? 
Would Aravinda de Silva have continued his Mad Max avatar in T20s?
Ricardo Powell, Atul Bedade, Robin Singh - the superstars who could have been
Players like Lance Klusener who rigorously practiced range-hitting 
The value of a good googly bowler in T20s

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Deepauk Murugesan (@complicateur) 

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Related:


 Ijaz Ahmed's 84-ball 139 v India in Lahore in 1997 - YouTube
When Surrey smashed the 50-over World Record thanks to Alistair Brown's 268 - YouTube
When Kapil Dev hit four sixes in a row to avoid the follow-on at Lord's - YouTube
Atul Bedade's big day in Sharjah - YouTube

We review the fifth Test between India and England in Dharamshala – where India stamped their authority with a win by an innings and 64 runs.

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Talking Points:


A one-sided – and thoroughly expected – end to a Test series in India
The Bazball delusion 
England's inadequate bowling resources thoroughly exposed
Kuldeep the genius - a wristspinner with both variety and control 
R Ashwin caps off his 100th Test with signature spells
The first morning - when Bumrah and Siraj made the ball talk
The challenge against spin for Duckett, Pope, Stokes, and Bairstow 
Did England Bazball enough or too much? And why it doesn't matter
When Shubman Gill was at his fluent best
The problem with England playing Anderson and hardly bowling him
England not replacing the injured Leach and Rehan - and over-bowling Bashir

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo page

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Related:


 IND Win By An Innings In Dharamsala, Finish Series 4-1 - Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview
On Ravichandran Ashwin - India's greatest matchwinner - Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview 
Just sit back and get ready to marvel at R Ashwin, for the 100th time - Karthik Krishnaswamy - ESPNcricinfo
Joe Root on facing Ashwin and Lyon - Sky Cricket podcast - YouTube
How India Bazballed England - Himanish Ganjoo - X (formerly Twitter)

 

We review the fourth Test between India and England in Ranchi – where India sealed a series with a magnificent five-wicket win. 

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Talking Points:


The third-innings bowling that capped another brilliant third-day fightback
India's forced accelerated transition - with a team full of youngsters
Dhruv Jurel's expert batting with the tail
Ashwin, Jadeja, Kuldeep - an undecipherable trio 
Bazball sucking all the oxygen out of the England media
Did England miss a trick by not bowling Anderson and Robinson enough?
How England's statements often ran opposite to their actions
Could England have done better in India if they shelved Bazball?
Akash Deep's dream first spell

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo page

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Ranchi win epitomises current era of India's Test team with promise for the next one - Karthik Krishnaswamy - ESPNcricinfo
India Pull Off Sensational Heist Against Negative England In Ranchi - Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview Substack
Fog of post-truth Baz-chat obscures England’s progress under Ben Stokes - Barney Ronay - Guardian
England lose series in India - Sky Cricket Vodcast - YouTube

 

We review the third Test between India and England in Rajkot – where a terrific all-round performance helped India go 2-1 up. 

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Talking Points:


India's magnificent bowling on Day 3
How the flat pitches in this series are neutralizing Bazball
India's spinners - turning the ball more with greater control
Why England's batting tactics are actually a tribute to India's great bowling
Why India are actually relentlessly attacking while England are highly defensive
Why England should have played an extra seamer in all three Tests
The problem for England's spinners in India - lack of control
Sarfaraz Khan's old-school method of lofting spinners 
Shubman Gill's tweak to his technique
Ashwin's 500th, Jadeja's stupendous Test
Mohammad Siraj - non-stop relentless 



Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo page

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Craft Kuldeep undoes Bazball - Karthik Krishnaswamy - ESPNcricinfo
India win by 434 runs - Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview Substack
What next for Bazball after India crush England - Sky Cricket Vodcast - YouTube
R Ashwin: the 5D chess master of modern cricket - Jarrod Kimber - YouTube

We review the second Test between India and England in Visakhapatnam – where Jasprit Bumrah powered India to a 106-run win. 

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Talking Points:


A celebration of Test cricket
A series with echoes of the 2016-17 home series v Australia 
Are England really playing Bazball?
India's decision to play five bowlers even with an inexperienced batting line-up
Does anyone think of drawing a Test match these days?
Jasprit Bumrah: an artist operating on a different plane to the rest
James Anderson's spell and the mystery around how little he bowls in India
Did England pick one spinner too many?
Yashasvi Jaiswal's crackling double-hundred
Shubman Gill making the most of his luck to a fine Test hundred
Do these pitches give India the best chance v England?

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo page

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Related:


Jasprit Bumrah press conference after Day 2 - BCCI.tv
Sky Cricket podcast with Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain - YouTube
India Beat England By 106 runs- Kartikeya Date - Cricketingview Substack
Jasprit Bumrah's spells in West Indies in 2019 - Antigua, Kingston - YouTube