Harsha Bhogle's predictions for T20 World Cup 2022

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How much will Jasprit Bumrah’s absence hurt Team India? Commentator Harsha Bhogle bares all in a freewheeling chat on The Grade Cricketer podcast…    The Grade Cricketer

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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.

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