Test Match Special - CWC Day 7: No drama Sharma, New Zealand nerves and Trump the cricketer

Episode Date: June 5, 2019

India's tournament is up and running with Sharma, Chahal and Bumrah all in top form. We discuss Dhoni's role as the team's invaluable 'CPU', why South Africa's challenge still hasn't got going, and after his chopper flew over the Hampshire Bowl during play we ponder what kind of cricketer Donald Trump might be.

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There's a mix-up. Oh, there could be a run-out. There will be a run-out. It's a tie. Australia is in the final. Kevin O'Brien from nowhere has scored the fastest 100 in World Cup history. Gets a forecast and hits a six. Over square leg. Richard's 138 not out. And India have caused one of the greatest upsets in the history of all sport. Hello and welcome to this episode of the TMS podcast. Two matches to reflect on this evening, India beginning their tournament with victory over the increasingly sorry-looking South Africans and New Zealand hold off Bangladesh to maintain their 100% start.

And as Donald Trump's helicopter flew over the Hampshire Bowl this afternoon, we ponder what kind of a cricketer it makes. Hello, I'm Adirashid, welcome to the TMS podcast at the Cricket World Cup. Before we look at the World Cup games, let's look at a former World Cup winner Jason Gillespie, currently head coach of Sussex, of course, who actually had a run-out as a sub-fielder at Lords in the County Championship today and match at Sussex won, still rocking the floppy sunny hat look. Now, Jeremy Coney's with me, is anything like that ever happened to you?

I remember Bob Taylor going out to be a sub-wicket-keeper, didn't he, at Lords once? Have you ever been called upon? Yes, I have. I had to move down from the commentary box in India and had to go on to the field and we only had three bowlers against India at that stage the rest were resting back in the hotel unwell. I spent a session and a half on the field right behind Ian Smith, who was the wicket-keeper

so I was the finest of first slips in the history of the game. Jason Gillespie, of course, we'll be joining us later in the World Cup as one of our many, many summarises. So let's get straight up with the World Cup action and let's get to the story of India's opening win with Isha Guha. Thanks, Dan. Yes, here at the Hampshire Bowl, where India have won their opening game of the ICC men's cricket World Cup

by six wickets. South Africa, on the other hand, they go into their next game, having lost their first three matches. I'm here alongside Prakash Wakanka, who's smiling away, and Natalie Jumanos, who's looking as grumpy as ever, and his ozman is with us as well. Earlier on in the day, it was South Africa who won the toss. Vafdu Plessi elected to bat first on a fresh pitch.

It looked like a good batting deck, but they only managed 227. The Indian bowlers squeezed in the middle, their spinners especially, Chehal with four wickets. Kourriq Biyadh was brilliant again, and Jasprecht Bhrmira started well with two up front of the two openers, and then Bhuvanesh Wakuma at the end just finished things off.

In reply, well, there were a couple of opportunities, especially off the bowling of Kakiso Rabada, who looked the most dangerous of the South African bowlers. Robert Sharma, though, he battled away. It wasn't his most fluent innings, but he got into his stride and picked up a century, 122 from 144 deliveries. He was supported by Rahul and M.S. Doni at the end, the finisher, to get them over the line inside 48 overs. But from India's point of view, Prakash, they'll be delighted with that

initial performance. Absolutely. I think in many ways they've ticked several boxes. There will be a few areas they'll want to work on, but I think they've put those critics that were a bit concerned about the fact that they'd had a long break from the 50-over format. They hadn't played enough cricket of that nature. The first game against New Zealand and the warm-ups might have raised some concerns, but they've, I think, ticked all those boxes. They'll probably work on the few areas that they need to, but overall they'll be very, very pleased with this clinical performance on a wicket, which I dare say wasn't as easy as it might have looked in the morning. Well, it's the first time Verac Koli has not scored a century in an opening

game of a World Cup. He departed for 18. It was a good catch by Quintendercock diving to his right off the bowling of Peckaway and he just sensed that there might have been an opportunity then for South Africa to pounce as it was. Rowitz Sharma steered the ship and a magnificent century. How good was it? I think it's got to be one of Roit Sharma's better innings. He waited his time, bided his time, saw through the early part of that very fairy spell from Rabada and later on. was able to play his shots with a lot more comfort. He'd be particularly pleased of having carried his bat through and seen the innings through right to the end.

That's been an area that he's been criticised for sometimes and he will walk away very, very pleased with his performance indeed. There were a couple of moments of luck at the start of his innings and potentially some openings. If it does go South Africa's way, then they're in the game, Natalie. Yeah, absolutely. And thanks very much, by the way, for that intro. I've got my World Cup grump on.

I think our South Africans are pretty used to it, though, by now and now experiencing it live. It is a very interesting experience. But there were moments that could have gone South Africa's way. But Graham Smith made an interesting point. He said you make your own luck and you do that by playing well. And South Africa haven't done that. You can't say that they've, in a way, earned the luck that could have gone their way

because they haven't played well enough. They didn't put enough runs on the board. Their decision making has been poor. It's not the type of decisions you would expect from the type of betters that they've got with experience behind them. the talent that they have. So yes, those moments could have gone the way of South Africa, but it didn't in the end, and maybe in a way they might not have deserved it necessarily because they just haven't played well enough for that to go their way. Roe Chama, on the other hand, he had moments of luck, but he made it count after that,

and that's what's important. I think it was Steve Waugh that said, and in fact it might have written a book on it as well, where he said, yes, you're lucky in that moment, but the runs that come after that are not lucky, you're working for it. Roa Chama did that today and did it beautifully. He did indeed. There was that squeeze as well by the Indian bowlers in the middle overs for South Africa. Good start by Jasperk Bruma at the top who looked potent. And then those spinners who were going to cause so many problems throughout this World Cup,

they came into it, Prakash. Oh, absolutely. I think Yusvendra Chahal is a very, very intelligent bowler. You know, his sort of naughty nature, his prankster sort of look doesn't really give away the fact that he is a very deep think. of the game. I think the ball for me that got Duplice was really a terrific delivery. He's mastered that art now. He's contained the batsman when he needed to. He's kept them guessing, changes of pace, variation, flight, all of that.

And ably supported, of course, by Kuldeep, who may not have got the wickets, but between them, five wickets for just under a hundred of thereabouts, just tells the story of how well they bowled. And Bumra, for those two early wickets, absolutely brilliant. I suppose there was a big contrast. there was a big contrast in terms of the spin bowlers today. Imran Tahir, perhaps not on his game today, one of the best bowlers, spin bowlers in the world,

but in the second innings he didn't cause too many problems. And Teprae Shamsi playing in his first World Cup game as well, it was always going to be interesting to see how he bowled, but didn't get the sort of effects that perhaps Chehal and Kourb Yadav did. Yeah, unfortunately for Imran Tahir because he's been so good for so long for South Africa. He's certainly been one of their best whiteball bowlers for a while and one of their best in World Cups. in 2011, who was the second highest record taker for South Africa, and in 2015 as well.

Unfortunately, for him, he lost his consistency today. He's come into this World Cup being incredibly consistent, and everybody's saying he's been on the top of his game. He himself, ahead of the previous game against Bangladesh, said he feels he's still doing exactly the same thing, but maybe his consistency has just been a bit better. And unfortunately, it hasn't been there for him today. Absolutely, but I think there's one other point to add to what Nat is saying. I think bowling to these Indian batsmen, that I think is a very important factor.

Doni was there towards the latter part of the innings, his CSK captain. They've played each other a lot in Indian conditions. I think the Indian batsman just read him a little bit better than some others, and that may have been a factor as well. Not that he bowled badly, but he just couldn't make the breakthroughs. Yeah, and then I suppose South Africa would have maybe hoped that Shamsie was a little bit of an unknown for India. He made his debut in 2016 in a triangular series in the West Indies. And he showed so much promise in his first series, we thought from a South African perspective,

this is going to be something very special. It's a great variation to have, and a left-arm wrist spinner who can spin it both ways. But he's never been able to find a consistent place within the side, and he is a confidence bowler. He's one of those bowlers who likes to get overs under his belt. And he just hasn't been able to do that because it is difficult to be the second. in a South African side, when you've got the seamers that South Africa have, and then you've got Imran Tahir, of course. So it's a very tough position, he finds himself. He might have a role to play now that Nguti is out of the squad for the moment with that injury, 10 days, I believe

it is, before he can recover from that hamstring niggle that he picked up in the last match. And while you speak about Emus Zoni, well, he is the finisher for India. He'll come in situations where perhaps it might be a little bit tricky, and he'll just try and see the side home in the way that he does. He has been a little bit more attacking of late with the bat, but I want to talk about him in the field. What is his role within this current India side, especially for Virac Koli, because we saw a couple of funky fields in that first innings. Is he still a master strategist for this India team? Absolutely. I think MS in the limited overs version of the game in particular is that CPU.

He's like a central processing unit for the side in terms of how he just reads angles, how he reads batsmen. just locked away in that brain issues, isn't it? It is, absolutely. And I think Virad relies heavily on him. The story back home, of course, is that this tournament gives Virad the opportunity to sort of come out of Doni's shadow. And if indeed he's able to do that, that'll be a big achievement for Virat. But as long as Doni is behind the wickets, I think there is a comfort for Virat Kohli. He can go and field it long off, a long leg. It doesn't matter. He knows there's a man in charge off those angles, off those field placements. And what about his hand speed behind the wickets? He only had one easy. stumping today, but he is just a master strategist. There's no question. That's where you also

have to give Koli quite a bit of credit as well, not from what Doni's done, but the fact that he's willing to say to somebody else, please, you know, I want your input. There's some captains who are not very good at that and giving the inputs. He's very good at that. Absolutely. Well, there's plenty more to come. Of course, India, they next play Australia on Sunday at the Oval. And then they have New Zealand. So tough challenges ahead for those guys for South Africa. Well, they've got the West Indies next. Let's focus in on South Africa because they've obviously lost three in a row. That's never ever happened in a World Cup before. Let's now get reaction from the South African camp. Fafdu Plessy has been speaking to Sanjay Mandraker. Well, three setbacks in a row,

but there was something there today. I mean, it was not such an easy chase for India. Yeah, look, I thought India was magnificent on a tough pitch. They bowled really well. Their bowling attack is strong. They've got all bases covered. They've got good fast piling and then they've got spinners through the middle that always gets wickets. So I thought we did well to almost like crawl back into the game a little bit with the bats and then the spinners came on and they ran through our middle or a little bit and then we clawed back with a bat again and then started well with the biling and then some really good batting from rowet. Good striking. You know you're going to get a bit of luck here and there but he did what we didn't do. He got

100 and saw the innings through. I guess batting first was the right thing to do after winning the toss. Were you a little surprised with how much the pitch had for the scene bowlers because when you looked at it, it looked white and seemed like a perfectly good batting strip? Yeah, two things. You know, the buildup to the match, all the info said it was a really good pitch, lots of runs being scored, even the warm-up games was good, good runs scored. And also the makeup of our team, you know, with all our fast bowling resources gone,

we picked an extra spinner to try and attack with a spinner, and then you have to hopefully get a score and then bowl second with a spin a little bit. If we had Stein and Ngiri, we'll probably have an option to bowl first under undercast conditions, but the makeup of a side doesn't allow that. I can understand the pressure that Rabata is carrying

with Stain, not the Ingeidi, another wicket taker, but this guy is special, isn't it? Even single-handedly he was creating the pressure that he wanted. Yeah, he was a champion today. He was extremely unlucky. I've never seen so many balls just fall in different. areas but sometimes you know that's how the game goes when you're not playing your best cricket little 50-50 things goes against you we've got a

time make sure we turn those 50-50s towards us again but he was unbelievable today and also thought Chris Morris who hasn't played a lot of cricket for us he was excellent today well-in with pace and then good control and even got 40 odd runs towards the end there so probably the two standout performances from us today so how's the feeling now three matches three The first one was really unexpected. What's the mood? How are you going to handle this?

Yeah, the mood's obviously, I mean, the guy's a little bit down. It's a change in that is hurting. We're trying to make sure that we keep fighting, but small things, we're still making mistakes all the time. You know, today was once again a great example of someone not batting through. That's what you need in England. You need a set runs with one guy batting through. And then if you can get a total, your bowlers can try and put some pressure on.

to have so many thirties and forties is not acceptable. Fafti Plessi, understandably disappointed with the performances so far. What do you think the reaction in South Africa will be? Because going into World Cups, they're generally seen as favourites. This time they have flown under the radar a little bit more, so maybe less pressure on them. But how will it be viewed back home? So far, it's been viewed obviously very negatively.

Fans are not happy. Fans have been very disappointed with the performances that have been put up. Some even saying that the players don't necessarily want to be there, which I don't think is true at all. I think the players here, they're spending time away from their homes, away from their families. They are training almost every day. They're putting in a lot of hours. It's a lot of touring and traveling around as well. Time spent in hotels, trains, buses, etc.

That is hard graft for the players. They do want to be here, of course. It just hasn't unfortunately come together for South Africa. it's been in the lead up to this match a lot of people have been saying that South Africa well their World Cup is pretty much over from a fan's perspective they're not happy with the Dale Stain issue they were very emotional over that

and the fact that they were saying oh why is he come to the World Cup if he was injured anyway they should have maybe selected someone else rather and South Africa took a gamble on him that he would actually respond to treatment he didn't respond to treatment and it didn't work he's a player that's worth taking a gamble on from my opinion he's a world beater and he's a world beater

And he's somebody that if he came fit, it would have been great. But the fans' reactions might have been different if South Africa had won the first two games. So it's an emotional reaction from the friends. And you can understand it. You do. You understand it. South Africans pride themselves on their sport and their teams doing well. What about Faf Duplessy?

Are there any questions over his captaincy in some of the decisions he's made? There hasn't been in too much focus on Faf Duplauplecy, and certainly not in the lead-up to the World Cup. Everybody's been very happy with his captaincy and felt he's very good for the side. He's a very popular captain and he's being received very well. There might be a few questions as to whether or not he should have maybe in the second game rather have batted first and he shouldn't have bowled first. But I don't think there's necessarily a question mark over his captaincy and leading the side. I think people are just unhappy with the team in general.

You mentioned a little bit earlier that players are a little bit unsure of their place in the side. Do you think that that's had any effect on the way they've played? Yeah, I think in a way they're not sure of their roles in the side either, which is a bit of an issue. come in and you don't know what J.P. Dummey's role is, for example, with the bat. You don't know what David Miller's role is, which is really you can't have that. Everybody needs to be pretty clear on their role if you're going to do well in a multi-team tournament. I think if they're a little bit unsure of sort of who's going to play on the day as well, because we made a few selection changes, which at times have been a little bit puzzling.

I think maybe there's a bit of that sort of worry within some of the players, whether or not they are going to play or not going to play. Morris, for example, hasn't played for over a year, so what's his role in the side as well and what's his sort of security within the team. I suppose it's just one of those situations where they've had so many injuries and so many changes that have been made last minute, but it's put South Africa on the back foot completely. And I guess it all gets summed up by that David Miller drop of the tournament, one of the easiest catches he possibly could have taken one of South Africa's best fielders and he drops Roachshama, albeit quite. late on in the innings, but you just never know what can happen when you get a man who's got to 100. Yeah, unfortunately for South Africa, it means that they lose. They lose their third game by six wickets. India win their opening match against South Africa. And we can now go to

Andy for the stat of the day. I'm going to do a broad stat about runs scoring so far in this World Cup. Everyone's expecting this to be a World Cup deluged by runs. It hasn't really been the case so far. Thus far in the tournament, and we're recording this while the New Zealand Bangladesh game is still going on, teams collectively have averaged 26 runs per wicket and 5.7 runs per over. In one day internationals in England since the Champions trophy two years ago, the average runs per wicket has been 40.7 and the runs per over 6.46 and since the last World Cup, 38 runs per wicket and 6.07 runs per over. So significantly down on the trend for

games in this country. I think it's been interesting to see the bowlers have much more of a chance than they have in some of the bilateral series that we've seen. Plus points for South Africa. They currently lead the table for most maidens in the World Cup after four today. There you go, Natalie. Something to shout about. Let's not forget on the one other occasion that a World Cup was played as a round Robin, which all teams played the other. A team wearing an aggressive lime green kit started appallingly and ended up winning. So it was Pakistan in Could it be South Africa in 2019? Almost certainly not.

Well, at least South Africa have something to shout about with regards to the maidens. And they also have probably the best net run rate of the worst team so far. So, you two of you, by the way, we've got a little something for you. You two haven't yet picked a batter in our World Cup leading run scorer sweepstakes. I've done mine and I'm very proud to say who it is. It's Virot Kohli, just so you know. We haven't got the hat with us, so we've decided that we're going to list at one, two, to seven, these are the names that are still left.

You have to pick a number between one and seven. Prokash, I'm going to give it to you first. All right, number four. Number four? I'm going number six. Number six. You have picked Tamim Iqbal, Esha. Okay, and Perkosh, you have picked five duplicacy.

Well, that's all square then for today. I've got Birakoli, you've got five duplicates. Well, there we go. So at least we've, well, South Africa, India go a long way back, Mandela, Gandhi, you know all that. Absolutely. You never know. You never know. Captain might leave from the front, South African captain, as the tournament goes on.

There might be a chance for you, Prakash. Right. A bit of fun now. As the game was going on today, Donald Trump's helicopter flew over the Hampshire bowl. Was that the helicopter? That was the helicopter. You might have even been taking a peek at the cricket. The question to you both is what kind of cruxie?

Cricketer do you think he'd be? Maybe you're a little bit petulant, maybe thinking every ball on the pads might be out, potentially. Can I just say, I turn to cricket for my escape from... I do not appreciate me being brought into it. Flying over the ground. Could they not have given him a different route that didn't sally this great game? I think he'd do pretty well horizontally at the sidescreen. The first ever international cricket match was between the United States and Canada.

Yeah, that's true. I think 1844 and it took place not far. away from Donald Trump's tower where Donald Trump's tower in New York currently is. But it's all been downhill ever since. I was going to say you're saying we've come full circle now. Well, I suspect his chopper

might have been in the air when David Miller dropped the catch. From BBC Radio 5 live, this is the CMS podcast at the Cricket World Cup. Goodness be, with an extraordinary thought, Jeremy Coney. Donald Trump as a cricketer. What do you think his

special skills could bring to cricket What sort of role do you think he would play? The very fine edge to the keeper would be an interesting one, wouldn't it? Yeah, do you think he would walk or not walk? Well, not unless he had got to the umpire first. I think the bulging pockets would give it away. Oh, I see. Yes.

I see. I mean, and his role in the side? I mean, you're seeing him, I mean, he's going to have to back. Oh, well, I'd say he's an all-rounder. Oh, he'll bowl, will he? Oh, I don't know. I think he'll bowl a good wronging. That's my guess.

Ah, the deceiver. Yeah. And in time, you know, if he cracks on with it, he could be delivering the MCC spirit of cricket lecture before you know it. Rhetorical? Yeah. I mean, he and Kumar Sangha-Karra are like peas in a pod, aren't they? Now then, there was an incredible catch today mentioned earlier.

Quentin de Kock, what a superb catch that was, and Roeth Sharma's Century. You can catch all that in the highlights on the BBC Sport website and app. England's women begin a one-day international series against West Indie. at Grace Road. The two sides meet in three ODIs and three T-20s, which precede the women's ashes, being played in the UK from July. There's commentary starting online from 1.45 p.m. tomorrow. Available every day during the Cricket World Cup. This is the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. Well, let's look back on what has been a thrilling day. In the end, New Zealand won it by two wickets

with 17 balls to spare, but that barely tells you the tale of what occurred. New Zealand won the toss. put Bangladesh into bat. Bangladesh, don't forget, had played here at the Oval. Their first game, they played against South Africa. They'd scored 3.30 odd, and in the end, batted South Africa out of the game. We wondered if they'd be able to do the same again. Slightly different story here. The New Zealanders, Jeremy Coney, bowled quite fantasticly.

So much better than South Africa did. They bowled much tighter lines, better lengths, didn't allow those openness to get too far ahead of the game. Sumia Sarka got off to a decent start. MacBow, Shakabal Hassan and Bushvika Rahim were really kept quiet for quite a while. Yes, they were. Yes, they were.

They were a little bit shackled by some nice tight bowling, particularly, I think, by Fergus, and 10 overs for 40. It was a good result for him. Santner 10 overs for 41, and that included a 6 off the last ball. So he was difficult to get away. 10 overs for 44 by Bolt, picking up two wickets quite late in the innings. In fact, all the bowlers, basically, apart from Nisham, kind of did their job.

If you're under five at these sort of games, you've done your job. Quite spectacular points. I mean, there was a really thrilling passage of play earlier on with Lockheed Ferguson bowling at great pace coming around the wicket into Mushvika Rahim with leg slips in. We're just going to break off for one moment because Alison Mitchell is with the man of the match.

Ross Taylor. Wow, Ross, from a 10-wicket win in Sri Lanka to a tight one here. That was much closer than you wanted, wasn't it? Yeah, definitely. I think we were very nervous at the end there. But I think, you know, got to give credit to Bangladesh. Their supporters came out. It felt like we were at DACA or Chittagong for a bit out there.

But, you know, they put a lot of pressure on us and could have gone either way. 245, though. Did you back yourself for it to be a much smoother chase than it eventually was? Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, the bowlers bowl well enough to keep us under a par total. You know, maybe we thought maybe 270, 280 was a good total out there. But they keep putting pressure on us. We keep losing wickets at crucial times.

And, you know, those little chases become, know, a little bit twitchy and it was nice to get over the line at the end of the day. A century partnership with Kane Williamson, eventually that partnership could have ended much earlier, though. I've got to ask you about the running between the wickets. Yeah, I suppose, you know, something that we need to work on. We had a couple of close calls after that and the warm-up game. But I guess, you know, I do enjoy batting with Kane, and hopefully we can just park there to the side and hopefully run between the wickets a lot better against Afghanistan.

Well, your former spin spectacular leading up to this World Cup and you've continued it here. Congratulations on the win. Ross Taylor, player of the match. Thank you. That was Ali Mitch with Ross Taylor. He alluded to running between the wickets. We'll come to that shortly. But I want to just go back to that passage of play because we've been talking about how this World Cup is going to pan out what we expected to see. I'm not sure we really expected to see tactical fast bowling, bowled into the ribs of batsmen with leg slips in.

It looked almost at times like a test match out there, which is testament both to the wickets that we're playing on. and the speed of the New Zealand bowlers. Well, you're referring to Ferguson bowling to Mushfika, I think, and certainly Kane Williamson has been quite aggressive with his field setting at times, and it's good to see that they do have those plans. Certainly a leg gully, as you say, was set, coming around the wicket, bowling into the ribs,

and he got the glove, and it actually went over Martin Guttall who had taken up that leg gully position. And there was just half a chance, and you thought, oh, that's actually, that's working quite nicely. everybody the skills required to actually create that little piece

of cricket is quite high so yeah that was that was a nice piece of cricket he came off though and he bowled up for the fourth over and I think he came off after four and suddenly the pressure eased Jimmy Nisham came into the attack bowled a couple of poor overs suddenly

Shaki Balhassan and Mushfika Rahim threatened to do what they had done to South Africa and we're joined by Russian Alam from the Dusra podcast as well as a BBC Asian network the game was kind of turned on its head by an incident wasn't it an incident involving a man who's going to we're going to hear more about him because it's an incident also in the second innings mushvika rahim when he got run out that that just changed the tenor of the innings didn't it

for me it was the turning point of the bangladeshi innings we saw how mushvik and shakib can back together against south africa on sunday 142 run partnership i think they'd put 50 on this afternoon and it was just a pure moment of miscommunication which for me was a huge point in the yearnings that had they stayed together I think we'd have been looking at significantly high score I mean it's extraordinary isn't it that that in many ways this this game showed two pairs of players who've played together time and time and time again wish for kha and shakir and then later taylor and kane williamson and ross taylor and kane williamson and they looked like they'd never played with

each other before the running between the wickets was was at times shambolic I don't know whether this is partly to do with the atmosphere Look, to sum up, Bangladesh made it to 244. They rather limped there, if truth be told. Shakibal Hassan, again, with a good 64, he started to motor, and then when he got out, caught behind the innings just sort of deflated, apart from a late burst from Chapyadin. We didn't think it was enough.

Bangladesh, though, picked up a couple of wickets inside the power play, and then we saw Taylor and Williamson, and there's the second point, the second moment of Mushficker's intervention, if you will, when a terrible mix-up between these two great players should have resulted in a run-out that would have seen the back of Kane Williamson. It would have been 63 for 3 at the time, I believe. Yeah.

It just didn't happen. Yeah, it's quite hard for one player to be sort of at both turning points of the matches in each innings. But yeah, had Mishvika Rahim taken that run-out opportunity, there were admittedly more run-out opportunities in that sort of partnership. But, I mean, at 66 for three, Bangladesh would look like they were on top of it. and I feel for mission because there's very little pretty new about it.

Well, indeed. I mean, he basically knocked the bales off a fraction of a second before the ball resided in his gloves. The result being that Williamson was home and it allowed Williamson and Taylor to build a partnership that looked like it was going to finish off the game for New Zealand. It didn't turn out like that, Jeremy Coney. Not to be so, because then Latham came in

after Williamson had really didn't have a second option when he went down the wicket and was deceived. And then Latham came in and knocked a third. ball that he faced to the one man on the leg side and then Taylor got a little edge down the leg so when there's bat outside his pads. Three kind of you'd think would be decisions and skills that you wouldn't expect to see from that kind of player and experienced player and then it all fell apart, didn't it? And it kept going that way. But gloriously so. Because it was it was during this glorious falling apart, if you will, that the crowd became massively

energized. They needed four and over New Zealand and they had six wickets in hand, then five wickets in hand, then four wickets in hand. Wickets just kept going at just the right time to keep us all really excited. I guess ultimately the problem, Jeremy,

for Bangladesh was they just didn't have enough runs. Enough runs and they had to bowl Shukhiband and Mahadias on. Out early. That's quite right. Yesterday Jeremy, we saw not a high quality game of cricket. saw some very amusing comical fielding. We saw lots of mistakes made in the basics. Today,

felt like a better quality game, which had just moments that sometimes broke the batsmen. Is that fair? Yeah, I think that's probably fair. I think this game was a higher skill set on view, and I think that we still saw some pretty bad moments as well, created by pressure, created by tension. I'm sure both sides will sit down tonight and say, boy, there were some things there we could do better. Look at the runs that Bangladesh left, you know, in the bank. They're all a lot of 20s and 18 and 27 and 30, you know, five or six of them. And so they'll feel that. They're pretty obvious things. But they often are obvious things. And so they just have to accept that and they have to move on, but be better when those situations

occur. They must do that. Otherwise they're not improving. Roshan Alam, from a Bangladesh point of view, disappointing, of course, to lose to New Zealand after the high of beating South Africa. But they'll be able to take positives from this. I know it's a well-worn and cliched phrase, but in the end, they lost by only two wickets. They know that they can take teams deep. And as Jeremy was saying, there are small things that they could have done better. We've alluded already to Mushfika a couple of times, one of your most experienced players having two rather unfortunate moments. but they'll still feel very much when they can bounce back.

England being their next game. 100%. I think the Bangladesh team have been very measured about their sort of possibilities in this tournament. So they weren't expecting to win every game. And so actually to lose a game so closely. And if I'm honest, things went wrong. But there was no kind of like overwhelming problem with the team. There was nothing there was like, my God, we need to learn how to do that very quickly.

It was silly mistakes. It was errors. And those are the things they're going to rue a little bit. But actually have the confidence to go, we've still got the skill set to go to the next game and go for a good win against England. Available every day during the Cricket World Cup. This is the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. Now we have been asking you all to let us know, email us in,

tell us the most exotic places you've been listening. We've had a few more emails, haven't we, Jeremy? We have one from Ian Peter Wright, actually. Saludos, he says, from Mexicali, capital of Baja, California on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, where baseball is the dominant batten ball game and Andy Ruiz Jr., conquer of Anthony.

Joshua, of course, the boxing is the new local sporting hero. Not much cricket here, some people confuse it with crokey, though we did entertain a touring team from London. There you go, are you playing? Three years ago and improvised a T20 game with some local baseballers. It won't take them long to sort that up. Luke still has been in touch. He says, hi all.

I'm sat by the pool in Phileen. Valdano, Florentz, or Ferenze, Italia. Have you spent most of my day sat on an inflatable unicorn with beer in hand catching up on the pod. Having a great time, but longing for the green grass of home to fully embrace festival of cricket. Thanks for keeping me and my family updated. Nick Falloon has said something,

and I really love listening to your podcast from the remote Yukon Territory in northwestern Canada. I'm a Kiwi. Oh, well, there you go. He's a hewi helicopter pilot flying up here, good lad, and your podcast entertains me while waiting for clients in the wilderness. You do that accent very well, Jeremy. Ah, well.

It's years of experience, I'm guessing. Well done, Nick. At Sidant says, hello TMS podcast, I'm listening to you from a survey vessel in the Atlantic Ocean offshore Mauritania. Wow. We get access to only three television channels on board, weather and vessel direction permitting, which the captain controls. He has said that he'll put cricket on when my country, India, is playing.

Apparently, everyone else on board is more interested in the football, which I cannot fathom. Me neither, Sidant. Your podcast is one of the few sources for me of listening to what is going on at the World Cup. The internet is terrible here. I'm amazing. It gets it at all, frankly, off the coast of Mauritania. And even though it takes about an hour

to download each episode, it is well worth the wait. Thank you. Well, we love your emails. Do keep them coming. The more obscure, the better I do love, I do love a bizarre survey vessel. You can email us at TMS at BBC.co.uk with all of those. Put podcast in the title. We'd also like your suggestions, by the way, for the prize for the winner of the TMS tournament top run scorer sweepstake. I got Pagas a man, so I'm not winning that, I don't think.

The current top scorer in the competition, Joe Root, is currently unclaimed. I wonder if I could have another go. Is that fair? Possibly not. Thursday's coverage, no, promises to be fascinating. Holders Australia up against the West Indies who have had the best part of a week off since that dominant win over Pakistan. That's a 10.30 start at Trent Bridge.

We're on air from 9.30, but from us, from all of us here, from Jeremy Coney, it's goodbye. Farewell. This is Adushid. Make sure you subscribe to the TMS podcast on BBC Sounds or your usual podcast app. each day throughout the tournament. You can also email the team on TMS at bbc.co.uk.