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IPL 2026 Predictions, Then v Now, Best Ever Players

3/28/202630 min

Amber Samdhu looks ahead to the IPL 2026 with The Traitor's (and cricketer) Faraaz Noor and former IPL star Abhishek Jhunjhunwala.

Clips

Inside the wild IPL parties
Losing £3.5k of Warne’s money
Warne’s fake watches flex
From £12k a year to fortunes
Why 170 isn’t enough anymore
Auction prices aren’t your fault
Dark horses: Delhi’s balanced bet

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Amber Sandhu· Host0:00

    You can keep up with all things IPL by watching Strategic Timeout in full on the BBC Sport YouTube channel and BBC iPlayer.

  2. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala· Guest0:08

    The TMS Podcast, from BBC Radio 5 Live.

  3. Amber Sandhu· Host0:13

    Hello, and welcome to Strategic Timeout with me, Amber Sandhu, the show where we chat all things IPL. Now, it's not long to go until the 19th edition of the competition gets underway, and here we're gonna be debriefing it all, from shots, to stories, to wickets, and all the wonderful stuff in between. And each week I'm gonna be joined by a couple of fab guests. This week, everyone's favorite, Fawaz. Well, quite surreal actually seeing you in person. Um, Traitors finalist, Fawaz Noor joins us, and a former IPL player, knows the competition inside and out, Abhishek Jandhyala. Abhishek, Fawaz, hello.

  4. Faraaz Noor· Guest0:48

    Hello.

  5. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala· Guest0:48

    Hello.

  6. Amber Sandhu· Host0:49

    Um, Fawaz, we're gonna come to you first. Now, you are a massive sports fan, but also grew up playing cricket. You still do play as well.

  7. Faraaz Noor· Guest0:56

    Yeah, still playing.

  8. Amber Sandhu· Host0:57

    Um- Try to anyway. I know. I've seen you batting, actually. You've got the Stuart Broad of- Bro- Broad- Broadie appreciated it, didn't he?

  9. Faraaz Noor· Guest1:02

    So not too bad ...

  10. Amber Sandhu· Host1:03

    For context, Stuart Broad commented on Fawaz's video of him batting, saying, "Shot," so I think- Not too shabby ... that gives you the approval, doesn't it?

  11. Faraaz Noor· Guest1:10

    Yeah.

  12. Amber Sandhu· Host1:10

    Um, talk me through some of your earliest memories of cricket and watching the IPL.

  13. Faraaz Noor· Guest1:14

    I remember playing earliest cricket is, like, just playing with dad, with my dad, in the, in the gully, so to speak, playing gully, gully cricket with my cousins as well and stuff. So much fun. Honestly, I absolutely loved it. And then I remember just, like, watching the IPL, you see all the colors of all the kits and everything like that.

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