With India having clinched the recent ODI and T20 series against England and drawn the longest Test series in history, we return to take stock of the tour and assess where India stand before they are swiftly back in action against the West Indies. Our main focus is the white-ball games, beginning with Rishabh Pant's splendid hundred in the third ODI. We discuss whether Pant has any competition remaining for his place after a sterling display at Manchester, explore the structural importance of Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja to a side preparing for 2023, and run down the main squad building tasks for India leading up to a home World Cup.
As for the T20s, we debate the opposing fortunes of Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer in addition to discussing which big hitters will be important to India's chances in Australia. We also chat about the squads for the games in the West Indies and predict how the unit will handle the Virat Kohli question as the World Cup inches closer. Lastly, we discuss a few points of interest from the fifth Test between India and England.
This time, our conversation on the episode takes a detour via an explanation of why Bhuvneshwar Kumar is like the Hungarian football team of the 1950s and how South Africa Women are unique among the top sides in the women's game.
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