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And well, that's a kind of appropriate slogan for today because we had the second semifinal

in India and England in the one-day stadium in Mumbai.

And it was in the thriller.

I think it sort of was.

There's a lot to unpack, but I'll tell you what has happened.

We have seen a couple of performances from the ages.

And we have seen the mighty Jasperit Bumra prove that there is no one on this planet.

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I'm Daniel Norcross joining me to describe that game if he possibly can.

In 30 seconds, a game that saw 499 runs scored.

Good luck with that.

It is.

Barat Sundarason.

All right.

I'll give it my best score, Daniel Norcross.

So India were burnt into bat.

They made runs from the beginning.

Abhishek Sharma was out.

Sanju Samson just continued in the same way.

And he was dropped by Harry Brook when he was just on 15.

Then he made 89.

But they had just contributions up and down the order.

Everybody came.

They hit sixes.

Jaffa Archer had a night to forget.

And then England, when they started, it looked like a tall order.

It never looked like they were going to get close before Jacob Bethel started playing.

Probably the innings of his life.

Probably the innings of the tournament.

Probably the greatest innings that the world has ever seen.

And nearly took England home where it wasn't to be.

The margin of victory seven runs.

But it just felt like that game was always India's in the pocket.

Even though it sort of skipped slipping out.

And then Jaspreet Bumra said, give me the 16th over.

In fact, you know what?

I won't hold the 19th.

I'll hold the 18th over this time.

Just shut the game out.

Just like only he can.

That's beautifully put.

You started with Jacob Bethel.

And because this is going to be talking a lot about some of the really good Indian performances today.

Because let's face it, Jacob Bethel 105 is a standout for England.

He yes, he got support from the player of the tournament.

Will Jacks with 35.

But there was no lot else for them.

And with the ball, it was fairly.

It was at all Rashid and Will Jacks.

Who each picked up a couple of wickets and went for ten and over.

And so there's not a lot to write home about if you're England.

We've got a few Indian players to talk about.

And one in particular.

But before we do that.

Let's just dwell quickly on Jacob Bethel.

Because an extraordinarily weird thing happened today.

He became the fourth Englishman to get hundreds in all three formats.

Yes, I know.

After Josh Butler,

Dawid Malan,

and Harry Brook,

who completed the sequence earlier in this tournament.

But what's really weird about it is that a.

Jacob Bethel is 22 years old.

And b.

His only three centuries in professional cricket.

The one he got in a test patch.

The one he got in an OD on a hamcher.

And the one he got today.

That is an extraordinary curiosity.

You said it was one of the great things.

I saw Finn Allen's yesterday.

He's 100 or 33 balls.

Similar.

The pitch.

Very, very helpful for players of that sort.

But a bit more surprising from Bethel in a way.

You don't quite see him as the sort of player to play that.

Not, do you?

No, no.

I don't think that is at all in this team either.

But probably it was the run chase, Daniel.

And probably the fact that they had to score at 13 and over.

13 plus and over from the moment they walked out to bat England.

They pushed him to play the way he did.

And probably he found gears in his batting that he didn't know existed.

And we certainly didn't know existed in his batting.

He took a special liking to Varun Chakravarty.

And six, six, six of him.

As soon as Chakravarty came on to bowl.

And every time Varun came on to bowl again.

Bethel was there waiting for him.

But he just felt like every time England needed a boundary.

England needed a six.

He did it.

He just found a way of doing it.

He reverse swept.

He hit a lot of sixes down the ground.

He hit sixes of the seamers.

Except just with Vomra, he took down everyone else.

And only because of Jacob Bethel and nobody else.

England never let that required run rate even get into the 14s.

Till probably that 16th over, that just with Vomra bowl.

And then once again, the 18th over, that just with Vomra bowl.

And if only I think Sam Curran in particular had come to the party.

Yes, the top order got blown away.

Harry Brook was hot brilliantly by Aksel Patel.

Which we will talk about that catch.

I want to talk about it a bit later.

And then Josh Butler played one of those innings again in this work.

You think that maybe the end has come for him in this format in international cricket.

Especially when it happens in a World Cup and repeatedly.

So I guess that's the conclusion you come to.

And if Sam Curran had instead of making 18 or 14 had made even 30 or 14,

maybe England would have had a chance because they would have taken a bit of load from Jacob Bethel.

But it was just truly, I mean, we saw him play a test match classic at the SCG.

Probably the only English batter in the dashes lineup who play.

You know, Joe Roode got 200s.

But I thought Jacob Bethel's 100, the way he timed it, the way he placed it,

the pace he placed it later.

He paced everything he did in that test knock was, you know, class this is class about it.

And similarly, I called this a T20 epic.

He didn't get them over the line to do it in a World Cup semi-final.

Nobody will ever forget that knock.

And now that he's got an IPL to continue on with.

And the fact that I heard somewhere that the Mumbai crowd started chanting a small section of it anyway.

So that's chanting RCB at one point when he was hitting sixes.

Maybe it must have been the period where India thought the game was safe.

And I cannot imagine a scenario where the Indian fans were cheering for the opposition

in a World Cup semi-final at home.

Well, I think, you know, everybody thought that the game was safe when India got that extraordinary 253.

Weirdly enough, after 16.2 overs, both sides had 195, India 195,

four in the 195 for five.

But you always knew 254.

It wasn't going to be got.

So there was this sort of signing artificial sensation.

And it was those extra sort of 10, 15 runs at the back end when Joffa Archer was mulled.

It just taken to the cleaners one for 61.

Sam Curran had a tough time at the back end.

Lee and Dawson was only entrusted with one over that went for 19.

I mean, it's kind of miraculous that Will Jacks

is to go to if there was four over two for 40 and Liam Dawson,

well, so well in parts, especially in Sri Lanka where the pitches were helpful.

Here, it wasn't.

This pitch was very much contributing factor to what we saw 499 runs in 40 overs.

But it's credit to England that they kept the game alive, I guess,

and that there was fleeting interest because they lost wickets early.

They never really believed in the chase.

And so in a sense, Bethel Zinnings was kind of weird in his partnership with Will Jacks

because it was at a time when the game was basically done and you were just thinking,

well, this is just entertainment for the crowd.

And then you check again 10 minutes later, you go, hang on a minute.

The maths has got a bit better.

I don't understand it.

That was the power of his innings, but it's all because of what India did.

They remorse us and relentless attack on England's bowling right from the very outset,

led by the quite magnificent Sanju Samson.

He picked up on the back of his previous innings.

I loved watching that innings.

I've got a massive sauce pop for Sanju Samson, I mentioned it all the last time he played.

There's something kindly about his speeches, but there's something also sad and beleaguered about what he does in the IPL.

It always starts with 50 after 50 after 50, you know, 100 here.

And then it almost like tails off as if he thinks,

I've given you enough entertainment, haven't I?

Can I, can I stop now? Can I sleep?

Well, today, that wasn't, that wasn't where he was coming from.

Where he was coming from was just to keep going eight, four, seven, sixes in his 89.

He was assisted by Nishankishan and he was massively assisted by Harry Brook.

Will come to that shortly.

But an assessment of the way India went about it, they're put into bat.

And I think people were a little bit scared that we were going to be getting into a similar situation to yesterday

where in Kolkata, the winning of the toss was so important pitch.

It was like two different pitches.

And it wasn't like that on the wanker.

It was it, it was basically the same pitch throughout.

But in the, just out sixth England and they did it thanks to Sanju Samson,

Shivam Dubay, Ishan, Kishan, Hodic, Pandey, or Interak Varma, all of whom struck for the hills.

And that's what they've done in the last 18 or so months.

Ever since they won that close encounter and Barbados to win that World Cup against South Africa,

they've become the six sitting machines.

Much like the West Indies were consistently so, say 10 years ago,

the West Indies showed glimpses offered in this World Cup are not consistent enough.

But India, yes, the big blip against South Africa did happen.

But the reason they've been so dominant in this format is because of what we saw today.

When the pitch has not much in it, like we saw in Mumbai tonight, they just keep coming at you.

And Sanju Samson, Daniel, I mean everybody has had their say on Sanju Samson in the last four or five nights.

But I remember the first time we heard of Sanju Samson was maybe 12, 13 years ago.

And because he's from Kerala as well, the only prominent Kerala cricketer we had,

till that point was Shri Santh, very different to Sanju Samson in temperament, in character and in personality.

And there was this slight, very slightly built, classy batter coming through the ranks.

And by the time he was 17, 18, there was this expectation that he would not just take Indian cricket,

he would be Indian cricket's next star.

It was almost his feeling that he would put Kerala cricket on the map.

He would get more people in Kerala watching the sport.

And then bizarre things started happening to him.

I remember covering a Rajit Rofi match in Mumbai, Kerala were playing.

And there was this thing that he got out cheaply overnight.

And the next morning he didn't show up.

And there were all these reports which turned out to be true that he just left the stadium.

And you've been to Mumbai, you know, Madhya Indra, right next to what's he's here in Vankadeh.

And he just sat in the middle of the afternoon just looking into the sea, into the Arabian sea for a while.

And then they found him and then he came back.

And this is happening while the game is on.

And he was probably, you might even have been captain.

So all these bizarre things would happen around Sanju Samson.

But then it's taken him a while.

And then from that point on, he, you know, I'm in Australia and everybody loves their Indian music.

As you know, Daniel, on your many visits to Australia, you heard that as well.

And he was just everybody's favorite independent band.

Like if you said Virat Kohli, and you know, the alternate sort would say,

yes, Sanju Samson.

If you said Rohit Sharma, there'd be like Sanju Samson.

But it just feels like in the last four or five nights, he's become mainstream.

Now he's, you know, he's gone from being a band called Balls and Chains

to perform in front of 20 people.

Now he's Metallica.

Everybody's going to buy his albums.

Everybody's going to play his music in the gym, in the car, to their heads.

And, you know, the merch is going to go up the chart.

So Sanju Samson has officially arrived.

And to do it in a virtual quarterfinal.

And then to do it in a semi-final.

Just brilliant.

And like you said, everybody just like Suri Kumari had an off night.

Abhishek Sharma continues to fail.

But everybody else just came to the party.

I hope he doesn't change.

Because I love, I love his Indian spirit.

And I mean, he unfurled some absolutely fantastic shots today.

On a day when it's quite difficult to differentiate between good shots

because of the picture.

And we'll come onto that when I, when I talk about Jasper Bummer or shortly.

But so a lot of the time you're seeing your sort of six blind and four blind.

And you're seeing all these shots fly away to the boundary.

And it's hard to differentiate between the ones where, oh, they're just swinging through the line.

They can trust the bounce of the ball like anybody could do that.

To, oh, my goodness, that is fantastic.

And there's something about his weight transference, his balance, his,

I'm partly at his height, but the sort of way in which he can take balls

that shouldn't be going straight back over a bowler's head.

Straight back over a bowler's head.

They can go somewhere else.

They can go square the wicket.

They can be reversed or something like that.

But he's, but he no, no, he doesn't need to do that.

He just, it's almost an imperceptible little shift.

And it's like that, that's the Indian in this little.

The balance is just so gorgeous to watch.

You're like watching the most delicate mechanism performing at its absolute peak.

And he doesn't always do that when it does happen.

It is a delight to watch.

But he was the recipient of today's, I'm calling it.

I mean, you, you may want to argue, but I'm not having that today's blooper of the day.

And it was shocker, we should say.

What a shocker it was because it was early on before he got going.

I'm not sure it would necessarily made a difference.

I think other Indian batters would have come in and struck by the hills.

They might not have got quite as many.

And England might have fallen short again.

Needing slightly fewer and approaching it slightly differently.

It's literally a game.

All these counterfactuals, that doesn't really matter.

We're talking solely about the shocker of the day itself.

It's England's captain who has got a very fine pair of hands.

Barat, dropping an absolute sitter off.

Joffa Archer, who'd had such a grim, admissible time today when he looked back on it.

How the world could have turned.

I mean, and the fact that Abhishek Sharman got off the previous sort of,

the last ball of the previous or from Bill Jackson.

And this was two balls later.

Sanjay Samson was on 15.

He did a four and six of Joffa and the first or of the match.

And it was like you said, it was, it was so straightforward.

Because it wasn't, you know, with loopy catches.

The famous mic getting drop in 1990.

When the ball goes up above your eye line, things can happen.

Crazy things can happen.

Crazy thoughts can happen.

Maybe that's when in that split second you start thinking about,

did I lock the door or not?

Or whatever, like, you know, the things can't happen.

But when a ball comes straight at you, your reflexes just take over.

You have no time to think.

And that ball came straight at a great height for Harry Brood.

And I don't know, maybe like I saw so many, they showed so many replays.

Maybe he just took his eyes off the ball at the last second.

It was pretty inexplicable how that ball just didn't stick in his hands.

And it popped out.

But it's probably just not meant to be for England.

It came down to that catch in my opinion.

Well, it wasn't meant to be.

In a way quite rightly.

Because it would have been a bit strange.

It had an unusual passage through this world cup.

I think they did a bit better than they expected.

And they chased better than was expected.

But it wasn't to be.

They, I don't think.

Well, let's put it this way.

I don't think that Brendan McCullum's going to be losing his job.

In the same way that, you know, the semifinal defeat in the last T20 World Cup

was a considerably more disappointing display.

Somehow because of the discovery of people like Will Jackson,

because today Jacob Bethel's done so well.

Because maybe it's, they realize that it's time to move on from a legend.

I don't know yet.

I don't know.

You never know where Joss Butler.

He's got an IPL to come back.

But he's getting on a bit.

But they were hampered a little bit by a very strong opening pairing.

Not really firing.

Fills up.

Fluttering.

Joss Butler never getting going.

So it would have been a bit weird to see them in the final.

But I think they probably did their coach proud.

And they would have caused an awful lot of people who thought they knew

what they were going to be writing about to, you know, not to be able to write it after all.

But as you say, that was a howler.

It was the howler of the day by a considerable margin for a captain

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Now though, I've got something I've got to get off my chest.

Yes, Mara.

And I don't want this to sound like the gripe of an Englishman whose team has just lost a semi-final.

Because it genuinely isn't.

I didn't really think England should be in the final.

This isn't about that.

This is about the pitch that that game was played on and how I feel about T20 cricket generally.

Which is that I'm assailed by miserableists and the elderly.

And actually some youngsters who keep telling me that T20 cricket is boring, boring.

It's just, you know, watching throwdowns.

And I had a wonderful month in Sri Lanka watching some fascinating cricket.

Yeah, Premadasa at Palakeli and at the SSC with bigger playing areas.

Pitches that varied actually from game to games taking more spin, some taking less.

People having to knock twos, be able to watch lots of different bowlers do their thing.

And lots of different batters having to adapt.

And I loved watching that.

Today, I watched 499 runs scored.

And I mentioned earlier that I struggled to find anything really interesting in it.

I enjoyed the stylings of Sanju Samson.

I was delighted that Jacob Bethel produced an innings like that to at least take the game deep and give us something to talk about.

But fundamentally to me, it was like watching a bunch of throwdowns.

Until I thought to myself, Daniel, wait, wait.

There is one man who transcended this.

And we live in an age where we are blessed.

Yeah.

That one man is Jasperit Bumra.

There was no doubt that in that game, which was a purely numerical exercise.

As I mentioned earlier, you're looking up and going, then you need 14 and over.

And then you've got hang on.

There's still two overs to be balled by Jasperit Bumra.

No matter that this is a road, no matter that there is no other bowler who's coped.

Varan Chukravati, won for 64.

Choffra Archer, 61 runs.

He conceded.

This is Choffra Archer, who knows he did conditions inside out.

Had more dot balls in this World Cup than anybody else by an absolute mile.

We watched a genius at work.

At the back end of that England linings.

If Jasperit Bumra is not in that side, then stupidly and weirdly England might have...

Possibly undeservedly ended up in a World Cup final.

Mercifully to save us all from that ignominy and weirdness.

Jasperit Bumra appeared.

He's like to me, he's the bradmin of bowling.

He's an absolutely extraordinary phenomenon.

And it was not just that England's batters chose to play him out.

They didn't have our choice.

I mean, yes, maybe there was one full toss on the pan.

They knocked into the on-side, because they weren't expecting a ball that they could have larried into the stands.

But that's because every other ball teases off those wonderful sensuous fingers.

And it drifts it through here.

And it can drift at 90 miles an hour.

And it can drift at 67 miles an hour.

There's no way of telling.

And it comes at you closer than you're expecting.

There's magic in those fingers.

It was the only real performance across all 22 players that kept me fascinated.

Because everybody else was basically, whose day is it going to be today and how much the day of it, is it going to be?

He transcended the entire nature of the pitch and the entire narrative of the game.

And for that, he made this game for me, fascinating.

What can we say about this guy, apart from what I have just said, but try to say something else.

No, I mean, you've just summed it up perfectly.

He just takes the pitch out of the equation is the cliche I'll go with.

Because he certainly does.

I mean, it's a cliche that's been used about a lot of batters and bowlers over the years.

But nobody's done it like just for his boomerah.

I just can't think of any baller who, like you said, on that pitch, with five overs to go, the way Jacob Bethel was batting, he looked unstoppable.

And England teams do chase down big totals.

Once they keep it to say 13, 14 and over and with just five overs left.

But he just shut the game out.

I've always called him the Grinch of Fightball cricket if you are the opposition or if you're a neutral observer.

And he was the Grinch again.

I mean, they just couldn't get away.

14 runs they needed per over.

He gave away 14 runs in two overs.

And that was the game.

Whatever happened after that was purely because Justin Boomerah wanted for them.

And Sanju Samson was right.

He said, without Boomerah, I'm not standing here talking to you, giving you this player of the match interview.

He should have been the player of the match.

And I think Sanju Samson did it for us.

He summed it up even better.

Four overs, one for 33.

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It was by far away the lowest economy rate.

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If he had gone for another seven, we'd had a C-Probe, he'd only been going at 10 and over.

And if he'd gone at 10 and over, he would have been the second most economical bowler on view today.

That was the difference between him and everybody else.

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It's the whole of fame.

And I mean, in a sense, for me, Barat,

Jasmine Bumbra is in that he just is the whole of fame.

He is the whole of fame.

His last two overs are the whole of fame.

But because we've discussed him,

I think what we've got to talk about is actually a Patel.

Because there were two moments today,

which possibly also won his side of the game.

We've talked about Jasmine Bumbra being absolutely right.

We've talked about Sandra Samson being absolutely vital.

But there were two catches.

One to get rid of Harry Brook.

One to get rid of Will Jackson.

He won't even be credited with in the score.

Yes.

And the way Jackson was playing,

and the way he and Bethel were going,

it could have been a different story.

Lots of people contributed in the cricket match,

but actually Patel in the field today was second to none.

Yeah, that Harry Brook catch.

I thought it was a second coming of the famous good shot.

Not a good catch from the 1983 World Cup Final,

where the couple is their port of that remarkable catch,

which it's part of folklore and Indian cricket.

It's part of the mythology that you're drawing up in India.

You're taught about the Ramayana, the Mahabharata,

and then if you're born in a Hindu family.

And then they show you the couple they've catch,

just part of the 1983 World Cup Final.

It's all over this time, Michael Olden,

and it's still cool in the end.

Yeah, but it's a potential cup jump.

And we've shown that so many times,

we all know the story.

And it felt like that.

I mean, it wasn't a good shot from Harry Brook today.

So it was not so good from the moment he made contact,

but also Patel ran back and took the catch.

And you're right, the second one probably,

even more crucial because of the way Jack was batting.

And he was just beginning to blossom.

But it would have gone for six.

And at that point,

a six at that point would have been,

it would have got that rate down.

It was like about sort of 13.2,

which I know sounds mad, but on this pitch,

you've got to put tax in there.

It's basically like taking it below 10 and over on any other pitch.

Yeah, very much so.

And that really just was, yeah, I mean, I said,

Patel doesn't get his due,

but yeah, he had a John P. Rhodes like night out today.

Yeah, he didn't, wasn't needed really with the bat.

His bowling was okay, but with those three catches

or two catches in particular,

he played as much of a role as anyone else,

except Jasprith Bumar, because Jasprith Bumar,

is it the Jasprith,

not even Hall of Fame?

Maybe you'd like to think of something else.

Jasprith of Fame, maybe, I don't know.

Yeah, you can't put him in a hall.

He is the hall.

I got a minute.

You're getting very, very close to saying,

it's just Jasprith Bumar as well.

We just live in it.

And I'm not having that.

I won't have it.

We have to.

We have to do that.

I'll see the first half you can finish it.

What I would say though,

is that it was an entertaining game of cricket

with a worthy winner.

They're going to take on New Zealand in the finals

at the Narendra Modi Stadium.

They're going to be the hot, hot, hot, hot favourites.

But they will have to be concerned if there is due around,

and if news are going to win another toss,

having watched the way Alan and Slyphat went,

there could yet be concerns,

and obviously Indian fans having witnessed that loss

in the World Cup final against Australia

will never, ever, to be complacent.

They showed a commendable lack of complacency today,

and the nearly pulled off an absolutely ridiculous win

that they had no right to do.

But in the end, the brilliance of Jasprith Bumar,

the cheeky, glorious insusience of Sanju Samson,

and the quite wonderful athleticism of Aksha Patel,

got them over the line despite the very best efforts

of Jacob Bethel.

A victory by seven runs, 499 runs scored in 40 overs.

It was quite the game.

We only got one more to go.

I don't know who's going to be on for you.

We'll find out soon.

It'll all be determined by Adam Collins and Jeff Lemon.

They are our paymasters,

but are in the race and you need to get on.

You have got a life to live and an early morning to have.

So have I.

Because I'm going to be back for the final words,

a daylies on India against Australia's women in the...

Oh, there's you and me again.

We're going to be back tomorrow.

Oh, it's you and me tomorrow, baby.

We've got more of this to come, but for today.

You know what I want to say?

You don't want to say Daniel, it's our world

and somebody else is living in it.

Okay.

Let's just...

Well, get out of it.

Get out of our world.

We want to live in it together.

We don't want to get into the way.

That's back out of order.

I cannot wait for our world to be reunited tomorrow.

But for today,

huge congratulations to India.

They stand on the threshold of winning a T20 World Cup at home

and what joyous scenes they would be if that could happen.

From Barats under recent and from myself, Daniel Norco

has said it's been a joy and a delight.

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