After a grueling series in Australia, the Indian team is back to playing white ball cricket for the next few month. First it will be a five game T20I series against England followed by a 3 game ODI series against the same opposition. Then the team goes to Dubai to play the Champions Trophy after which IPL 2025 starts.

In this episode we are previewing the T20I series pitting an Indian T20I team that looks more aligned to the modern T20 game against a very powerful England side. What's not to like about a growing team pitted against arguably the strongest batting group in the international white ball game.

During the chat we touch upon

• The Team India Squad - can they maintain the momentum
• The English Team - the new chaps and the new but old coach
• What we can expect in this series ?
• And how Shami copes with his first international action since that fateful day at the NMS

#SKY #Samson #TilakVarma #TeamIndia #Bethell #Buttler #Salt #T20I

Participants:

• Vasant Kumar
• Ramakrishnan G Iyer
• Anand Kumar Sankaran
• Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/clear-sky-with-a-chance-of-buttler

A chat with one of Bay Area Cricket’s leading entrepreneurs, Biju Nair

Continuing in our series of conversations with cricket evangelists in the Bay Area we are chatting with Biju Nair a technology and cricket entrepreneur. As is our wont we focus pretty much exclusively on the cricket part of his portfolio.

During the chat we touch upon

• The Blazers cricket academy
• The Bay Area open
• Ownership of a Minor League franchise
• His goals to making cricket a mainstream sport in the country
• And yes a little bit about his favorites.

Blazers Cricket Academy offers year round coaching to kids of all ages with a pathway program to:

1. Senior and youth cricket as part of North California Cricket Association clubs
2. Minor league and major league cricket ecosystem
3. USA Cricket at all age levels

More info at: www.blazerscricketacademy.com

#EastBayBlazers #Grizzlies #BayAreaOpen

Participants:

• Vijaykumar Balasubramanian
• Vasant Kumar
• Ramakrishnan G Iyer
• Anand Kumar Sankaran

Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/biju-nair-a-cricket-entrepreneur

The Surrender at the SCG

An all to play for test match on a green mamba at the SCG that culminated with Australia regaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on the strength of a pair of sustained bowling performances.

Even before the test it was becoming increasingly clear that the team was struggling to get their act together. We had the head coach being combative in the pre-game press conference, and then a lot of speculation as to whether the designated captain would be playing. The uncertainty continued all the way to the toss before it was confirmed that Rohit was not playing - dropped or opted or stood down - nobody will ever know. And then came the rather surprising selection of two spinners in playing XI for a match that was to be played on a green top.

Then came the now familiar routine of our main batters struggling as we got bowled out for 185 in the first go around. It looked all lost when Bumrah left the ground for scans, but our other two seamers fought back and managed to get India a 4 run lead. After a riotous start to the second innings, our batters returned to their tried and tested modes of failing as we had another batting collapse at the hands of Scotty Bowland who finished with ten wickets in the match. This meant Australia had a smallish 4th innings target and that became miniscule when Bumrah did not take the field for the fourth innings. And even the blind faithful were forced to concede after about 6 overs of terrible bowling from the other quicks, as the game became a cake-walk for Australia.

Questions

1. What is wrong with the Indian team management ? Should the house be cleaned ?
2. Is it the end of the road for Rohit and Virat in red ball cricket ?
3. Will England 2025 look like the tours of 2011, 2014 and 2018 ?

In this episode we talk largely about what happened at the SCG and in particular look at the causes for the struggles in this test and for that matter in the series.

Take a listen and let us know what you think.

#INDvsAUS #BGTSeries #CricketTalk #WTC25 #AllOutForNoLoss #BCCI #Bumrah #PatCummins #MCG #Bowland #Webster #SCG #Gambhir

Participants:

• Vasant Kumar
• Ramakrishnan G Iyer
• Anand Kumar Sankaran
• Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/the-surrender-at-the-scg