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Sunil Gavaskar claimed that India are the best team in the world when it comes to the T20 format after their thrilling win against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2025 final on Sunday, September 28.
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00:00Big breaking news coming in right now India has won the Asia Cup finals so they have defeated
00:07Pakistani team and India has clinched the cup this match was happening this final of India
00:14versus Pakistan was happening after many decades in India the men in blue have finally beaten the
00:22Pakistani team it an highly anticipated match that has now ended in a humiliating victory for
00:32Pakistan and it is not just the finals that Pakistan had to face a defeat this is the third
00:40time that India has beaten Pakistan in Asia Cup celebrations have already started in corners of
00:48the country as you can see there on your screens people celebrating people celebrating the victory
00:59of India and joining us now is the Nikhil Nas from Dubai Nikhil over to you thanks a lot we
01:15are coming to you live from Dubai and even as I speak firecrackers are going up in the air
01:21celebrating India's victory in the Asia Cup remember this is India's ninth title at the Asia Cup they are
01:30by far the most successful team of the tournament and the cherry on top is the fact that they've
01:35beaten Pakistan in the final not once in fact in this tournament three times they've beaten Pakistan
01:42joining me is mr. Sunil Gavaskar say why I'll have to say even though I'm very happy and very relieved at
01:48the moment that India has won I was chewing my nails but my heart rate was probably at the highest how
01:53was it for you throughout the game it was at its peak it looked like you know if the heart was going
02:00to burst anytime because what we saw in the first three you know dismissals was hard to understand
02:07hard to comprehend because it was not a big target you're not changing 190 200 where you needed to
02:12look to score of just about every delivery what you needed was really to get a nice solid start not
02:18necessarily a 60 or a 50 in six or in the first six hours but you needed maybe even a 35 40 and
02:26even a 35 for one that's what you needed you didn't need 20 for three because that is what opened the door
02:31for Pakistan that is what got everybody nervous and I think again over here if the bowling screen very
02:39good and and the you know the bowler has you know got you out then it's another matter yeah but here when
02:44the batters get themselves out looking to play shots which were not required at that stage that
02:48does cause a little consternation as well as a fair bit of nervousness just as I'm talking with
02:54Mr. Gavaskar the chants of Chakde India Chakde India can very well be heard right outside the stadium
03:01because this was a close encounter for the very first time in this tournament India huffed and puffed
03:07to a victory yes versus Sri Lanka it became close but then that was an inconsequential game this was the
03:13all-important final time I'll break the game down a little later but first if you just look at the
03:18game as objectively as possible you'd have to say that this was worthy of a final at least that the
03:25game that we guess at the end of the day actually you know in a final limited overs final any game that
03:29goes into the final over in the last over of the of the game then it becomes a very good game because
03:35it becomes a tight game but look hey no who wants a tight game you just want to win which is in a
03:41comfortable you know as far as India is concerned always want to win which is comfortable everybody's
03:46relaxed chill you know okay the odd way it goes that's what you want but then that said full marks
03:52to Kila Korma for the way he kept his cool for the way he batted and looking to take the signals
03:58occasional you know six but even when he went for the locket shot it was a very calculated properly
04:04executed shot so not just you know blinders going and you know trying to sort of you know hit the ball
04:10because you know I have to hit the ball why why did you think that happened because you're talking
04:15about those situation that actually put India into trouble some of those shots that were played was
04:19it also the slow nature of pitch that you had to change your batting style nothing you just chose you
04:25just decided that you see in this format of the game and in the in the 50 overs format of the game
04:32there is a lot of premeditated cricket understandably so because you want to you know look to attack the
04:38bowler so sometimes you know you are anticipating a certain delivery so you look to play that shot
04:43mentally you're saying this is the shot i'm going to play but the ball is in that slot it comes off
04:47the ball is not in the slot then it doesn't so you know so that is what happened and that is what
04:53that's where you we lost those three wickets and uh it certainly put a little scared i'm pretty
04:59certain in the in the change room uh the indian players must have been nervous i know they had
05:03back in depth they had akshar patel who didn't get too bad so you know uh you could you could in that
05:09that sense say that yes it was a comfortable win but a comfortable win would really be if the match
05:14had been finished in the 18th or 19th i'm i'm also getting to hear zahimai because there are pictures
05:20being shown on the screen right now from across the country our reporters are sending a lot of pictures
05:25what i can hear in my ear is bharat mataki that is what is happening just put this particular win
05:30into context i know it's an asia cup it's not an icc tournament india has won much bigger trophies
05:35but in the context of what was happening the build-up we saw a few celebrations here and there
05:41not only previously but in this game as well how important was it for india to win this title well it
05:46was important not tournament it was important uh yes i think that's what the the purpose of entering
05:52an event is that to go on to win the tournament but i think the greater thing was about beating
05:57pakistan and that is what they've done not once not twice they've done it three times and while the
06:02first two were you know a walk in the park this one was a little bit where you had to huff and puff
06:07but i think this is where the indian team showed its character like they showed their character uh two
06:12days ago against sri lanka uh the way they came uh came back and you know got the match tight so that
06:19it went into a super or the way the bowlers came came back but this is this is i think a tournament
06:25we we will talk about abhishek sharma obviously yeah you know the fantastic starts that again but i
06:29think this tournament really belong to the indian bowlers to the indian spinners in particular kuldeep
06:35varun chakrabarti and akshar patel akshar got more of overs to bowl uh in this game because
06:40are the kandia was not there but this tournament has been won by our bowlers more than anything
06:46else okay that's a very interesting take by mr gavaskar let's now break this game down firstly
06:51was there any stage during this game where you thought okay game is gone 24-3 you're sitting at
06:56was that the stage you've just lost shubhman gil or you had faith at this batting we had we had you
07:01know we had a we have batting depth and then we saw that even akshar patel didn't get too bad
07:05so rinku also won delivery so there was so there was there wasn't any fear that you know but you
07:11never know in this game of cricket sometimes you know nerves can get the better of you sometimes you
07:16know you you know you you because of the pressure of you know two dot balls see this is the thing in
07:22this t20 format you play two dot balls any batter is looking to get out of jail and the get out of jail
07:28shot is only a six they're not even thinking this is this is just a complete situation they're not even
07:33thinking let me play along the ground or you know play it slightly uh chip it over over a fielder
07:38for a boundary they are only thinking two dot balls three dot but it has to be a six and with the
07:44bats that they have today and and the boundaries being brought in you connect fine but if you don't
07:49connect it goes up in the air and you're gone knock of the match of course uh is to tilak 69 not out
07:57is it the knock of the tournament i'm thinking because of the context the situation where it was
08:03would you say yeah i mean abhishek has played a few good knocks yes to be honest i didn't didn't
08:09see all the all the matches but abhishek is that okay let's just put it down to india india yeah
08:13yeah because patum patum nesanka has had a knock brilliant innings the other day but from an indian
08:19point of view you could say that yes i think uh the knocks that abhishek played and today tilak
08:25i think they were the best in the tournament because you said that certain indian batters needed to adjust
08:31today depending on the kind of target that you were chasing what is it and a very interesting
08:36point that you make that you know upping the net run rate does not always mean that you have to be
08:41whacking the ball right that that's the other thing what is it that tilak varma did today from which the
08:46other batters can learn to bat in this situation he he made every ball count for something he was
08:51knocking it for singles you see at the start he's knocking it for singles running between the wickets
08:56getting the circulation going in the legs when you come into bat you know the legs can be a little bit
09:01stiff if you're sitting in the change room for a while and so i think just getting those singles
09:07you know getting getting the circulation in the legs helps your footwork as well so that is what
09:12it did and what happens with the left hand right hand combination at the crease when you keep taking
09:16singles the opposition captain has to look at changing the field the bowler has to look at changing
09:21his line and length that eventually helps both the batters okay still can hear the dhols being played all
09:28across uh india now the one thing that you said before this game started be careful about your
09:34fielding it has to be taught notch today no drop catches some good catches taken good ground feeling
09:39i saw multiple occasions where four was also stopped whether in the infield outfield that was the
09:44difference because in pakistan's case they dropped a couple of catches yes look good fielding has always
09:51been something which adds to your bowlers it adds an edge to their to it adds a sharpness to your bowling
09:58attack because you're making it difficult for the battles to get easy runs whether it is singles or
10:03whether it is you know cutting off a boundary uh in the deep or just restricting it to two so those
10:09things make a difference and i think today india's fielding was top notch something that we've come to
10:13expect over the last couple of years what we've seen is you know i mean they were moving so quickly to the
10:19ball they were attacking the ball they were you know when the catches that were taken they were
10:23they were looking to sort of get to the ball and get you know get hold of it so so all in all i think
10:32maybe they were a little bit casual in the previous game but this time around they gave it everything
10:36and that was a delight to see real delight to see that as does often happen you batters hog all the
10:43limelight that'll happen now even though you've given credit to the bowlers i completely agree but because
10:47thilak has played that match winning knock that will be spoken in the next few days to come in
10:51fact uh dare i say even for next few months as well as years to come but i take you back to that pakistan
10:58innings they are sitting pretty on 113 for one with nine wickets in hand and from there they collapse
11:05losing nine wickets for just 33 runs do you think that's where the game comes of course yes definitely
11:12at one stage with when there was just one wicket down i think they were 90 for one it looked like
11:18in the next 10 overs they could easily get another 10 runs and over get another another 100 runs and get
11:24to 190 or 200 that looked an eminent possibility so those wickets that were taken uh kuldeep got three
11:32wickets in and over but the uh the big wickets were taken by warun chakravarti he got both the top scorers
11:39he got farhan who got 57 and and zamano got 46 all the other with single digit scores i mean you know
11:47but these two are the ones who relate the foundation for pakistan unfortunately uh it looked like you
11:54know the foundation this the cement was adulterated okay adulterated cement be wary of that don't do that
12:05uh looking at india's performance overall in this tournament still i know they they got a bit of
12:09a scare still the only team that's undefeated in the tournament so far fair to say that they are
12:15i mean they are of course world champions in the format but also the best team in the world right
12:20now look at that record i think now it's stands at 36 is 23 36 wins three losses yeah very much very much
12:27uh the the the best team in the uh in the game in the t20 format and the best team in the game no
12:34question about it absolutely okay we've got mr gabaskar with us uh still a little bit more to come with
12:40him but let's also listen in to the heroes we got uh rinku singh varun chakravarti all of them
12:47are being spoken to by the broadcaster so let's quickly listen into them
12:51yeah i feel great uh definitely uh at that time uh i i was going for the vikets and
13:17fakar and uh shaibzada faran they were going well and uh yes i had done some plans and it worked out
13:24and the way but kuldeep came and finished yeah it gave me memories of kkr when we were playing together
13:29and he's always a star he's the best one of the best spinners yeah so if you see the trend in the
13:34last few matches uh the first 10 hours everyone is going berserk and if they don't lose wickets so
13:39after that we can we knew that we can if we bowl on the right space and right line
13:44uh sunny gavaskar still with us we heard from rinku singh we heard from varun chakravarti rinku finally
13:51getting uh one game today uh saiba you'd have to say i mean there was no hardik pandya india went in
13:57with that option of not playing an extra fast bowler in hindsight would you say lucky that they won the
14:03toss and got to chase had it been the other way around and you're just playing with one fast bowler
14:07who knows how the game would have pat down well i mean yeah that's that's that's one of those ifs and
14:11butts of the game but i think uh rinku coming coming in strengthened the batting and the feeding
14:17he took catches as well so i mean that makes a huge huge difference you know when uh you know you have
14:24somebody as outstanding as rinko singh he stops the uh the boundaries he takes those catches the first
14:30catch that he took uh you know when he ran to his left and took that catch was absolutely outstanding
14:35the one question i is to keep asking you i think i asked you a couple of times before
14:39uh the final happened what will happen on the day abhishek sharma does not fire you've gotten the
14:45answer to that you got the answer to that but you also saw that once it doesn't get runs it is
14:53important that the others you know take the responsibility you cannot leave it to only one
14:58man to all the time get to get you off to the kind of start today what was needed chasing that score
15:04was a sensible start nothing nothing you didn't need a flamboyant start you didn't need a dazzling
15:11start you needed a sensible uh start which is what india didn't get that is exactly what india probably
15:18needed to look at or when they were approaching this particular game abhishek sharma has been the
15:22star but today it was tilak who really stood out for the indian team and they won say i know you are
15:28very careful you like your sweets but you're very careful in your consumption of sweets but this is a
15:32special win yeah so would you make an exception have some mitai tonight to celebrate oh definitely
15:40yes i think i will i mean it's a bit late to have i'll have it arranged yeah so a bit late to have
15:46any mitai but maybe something you know for the seat maybe an ice cream or something might be a good idea
15:51more than me yes yes we've got him in fact i you know i feel for uh the indian team that were playing
15:57and that actually takes me to the other question we were looking at hartik pandya
16:00misses out the game because of cramps now takes you back to that decision thankfully you'd say
16:05india has won the game otherwise we would have been here standing and talking about did he need
16:09to play that sri lanka game maybe a lesson for the future yeah maybe a lesson for the future i think
16:14you've got to win when particularly and that's the reason it's a good thing that they gave just with
16:19bumral a break for the sri lanka game didn't play because there was just a one day gap between between
16:24the matches and uh and so therefore uh you know it's never easy because of the because of the
16:31weather maybe uh some other time it would be fine and uh you know i'm just think thinking to myself
16:39that in case it was the other way other other way and then if pakistan had trade on on the friday
16:45and then got into the final on on sunday yeah and didn't do well they would have said you know the
16:51organizers have done it in such a way that you know they got one day rest one day rest only that
16:57that clearly has not happened last couple of questions with mr gavaskar before uh we let him go
17:02one about uh you know the gesture made by jaspeed bumra he celebrates and again there is a reference
17:08because that seems to be a political reference going forward we know harris rauf was spoken to by the
17:13icc match referee uh do you think there was a need to be doing that could he be called up by the match
17:19referee or do you think this was fair because it was in retaliation to what had happened previously
17:23well the fee has got to be called by the match referee it has got to be done now because otherwise
17:26tomorrow morning they're all on a flight so can you do a phone call con call you won't be available
17:32for that so but yes i think to your question uh i think uh you got somebody's wicked even the send-offs
17:42that we see sometimes you know which which the icc frowns on leave aside you know um gestures
17:48which can allude to some uh political message or something like that but even send-offs and all
17:54with you which the bowlers give you get pulled up by the match referee yeah i don't know i to be
17:59honest i didn't see that um but uh and he's a very sensible guy he's one of the most sensible you
18:06know level-headed uh you know guys you can come across uh just with bumrabe so i don't know why
18:12uh uh he did that i know he did it to uh harris rauf harris rauf who had been doing something similar
18:19yes to the you know to the crowd on the boundary uh last sunday maybe maybe to just show him whatever
18:26it is but uh well we'll just have to wait and see if the icc match referee pulls him up
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