Kohli Liz Laz, KKR Tears, the tractor
4/21/202641 min
Tilak Varma tonned up as MI won, Miller pulled off a redemption heist at RCB, and KKR finally broke their drought.
Green’s 79 looked the part until the death overs went full dot-ball meditation, NKR found 10km/h after a week with a guru,Lalit Modi is solving cricket and Kohli's algorithm mistakenly registers an interaction again.
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First 90 secondsSam Perry· Host0:00
Cam Green scored runs and Jasprit Bumrah took a wicket. It must be the Asian century. Come and see the naughty, naughty boys. Big cricket competition in India.
Ian Higgins· Host0:09
We're allowed to say that?
Sam Perry· Host0:10
Come on, right then. You heard it from the horse's mouth.
Lalit Modi· Soundbite0:13
Fucking be ready to run, mate.
Sam Perry· Host0:15
I would give him a ring job right now. He is, and he goes from the great cricketer.
Ian Higgins· Host0:19
Hey, great to be back with you after a week away. Um, he goes, "I've always said the IPL's a long-distance horse race."
Sam Perry· Host0:28
Okay.
Ian Higgins· Host0:29
Right? And, uh, we're well out of the blocks. Thirty games out of 70 completed now. So the, the, the table is starting to take shape.
Sam Perry· Host0:36
Mm-hmm.
Ian Higgins· Host0:37
Um, and this week I thought the Giants started to show some spark. MI fired a shot last night. KKR fired a shot, admittedly lost two this week as well. Um, Lalit Modi's firing shots. [chuckles] Uh, Rajasthan have lost two on the bounce, um, but I've... They, they very much enjoy putting their feet up after a couple of wins.
Sam Perry· Host0:56
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Ian Higgins· Host0:57
Um, um, but it's that one-two of Punjab and RCB- Mm. ... that still makes me feel like we're living on a different timeline.
Sam Perry· Host1:05
Mm-hmm.
Ian Higgins· Host1:05
These are the teams of chaos and volatility, um, but they now have a strange inevitability about them, and I don't like it. They've added method to their style, um, and I feel unsafe, and I speak on behalf of the globe when I say that.
Sam Perry· Host1:18
Yeah.
Ian Higgins· Host1:18
Congratulations to them, of course. Um, but if I don't see, for the, for the sake of safety, if I don't see MS Dhoni walked or wheeled out- [chuckles] ... at Chepauk this