Cricket with the West Coast

The West Coast Infidels are back!

In the 10th episode of Cricket with the West Coast Infidels, we talk about IPL 2023 after the first quarter of the league phase.

In this episode we look at

• how each of the teams have done in the 17 games that have been completed.
• who have been the standout performers so far
• how have teams adapted to the new playing conditions
• a short prediction of the games 18 through 26

Our hosts for this episode -

Ramakrishnan G Iyer twitter: @fullyarbit

Vasant Kumar twitter: @vkppl007

In the 9th episode of Cricket with the West Coast Infidels wherein we talk about

How India clinched a 2-1 test cricket series victory over Australia for the fourth time in a row. While we talk at length about the test in Ahmedabad, we also do a review of the series as a whole and in particular which players stood out. And of course we celebrate the return of the King Kohli to his century making ways and the realization of a promise made 5 years ago at the Bay Oval.

The Women's Premier League so far after reaching the 60% point of the league phase. The teams that stood out as well as the stragglers. The uncapped players who caught our eye, the Team India players who are getting better and the International stars who are lighting up the league.

Our hosts for this episode -

Ramakrishnan G Iyer twitter: @fullyarbit

Vijaykumar Balasubramanian twitter: @bvijaykumar

Vasant Kumar twitter: @vkppl007

Preview of the Fourth Cricket Test of the 2023 Border Gavaskar Trophy to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad from March 9.

This test will also decide if India maintains its hegemony over Australia or not in addition to playing a part in deciding who the second finalist would be for the WTC final.

Also a sneak peek at the upcoming Sri Lanka vs New Zealand test series as that series does have an influence on the second finalist.

Review of the Third Cricket Test of the 2023 Border Gavaskar Trophy played at the Holkar Stadium in Indore which was convincingly won by Australia.

The Women's Premier League (aka Women's IPL) has started and we will take a little peek at the action in the first weekend.

Preview of the Third Cricket Test of the 2023 Border Gavaskar Trophy to be played at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

Review of the Women's T20 World Cup knock-out matches that were played at the Newlands Cricket ground in Cape Town.

Preview of the first season of the Women's Premier League (aka Women's IPL) which is going to be marquee T20 franchise tournament for Women's cricket. The tournament starts on March 4 2023.

Review of the Second Cricket Test of the 2023 Border Gavaskar Trophy that was played at the Ferozeshah Kotla in Delhi.

Preview of the Women's T20 World Cup semi-final between Australia and India to be played in Cape Town on Feb 23.

A test at the Ferozeshah Kotla or should we say the Arun Jaitley Stadium has become synonymous with an India victory. It has been something like 36 years since anyone beat India at the Kotla. For all the craziness associated with the DDCA, there is no denying that they have consistently been Team India's best test cricket host.

As part of the preview for this test we will discuss the likely team compositions, the sort of track that we will see and while we are at it we will celebrate the 100th test of India's 2nd best #3.

The episode will wrap up with a little chat about the recent WPL player auctions

In this episode the WCI team will give you our perspective of the Nagpur Test - who did well, who did not, what should Australia do to recover from the poor loss in this first test.

We will also touch upon whether this 91 allout will be worn as a badge by Australians for the rest of the series.

This episode provides a preview of the series - the importance, who is missing, and how the two squads match up against each other.

The second part of this episode focuses on the first test to be played in Nagpur in particular the impact of injuries on the two teams

This episode takes us through the last two Border Gavaskar Trophy series played in India.

The series in 2013 when India beat Australia 4-0 under the leadership of M.S.Dhoni who continued his tremendous run against Australia at home. The series score notwithstanding the matches were most certainly competitive and India triumphed by winning the bigger moments.

The series in 2017 was far more closer and could easily have finished with a different score-line than the 2-1 in favor of India. While the first test was a blowout, the other tests were all tight and provided some very interesting moments.