Ashwin, DJ and Varun can barely keep it together in this week’s emergency podcast recording triggered by MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina’s sudden international retirements on India’s Independence Day. Things get emotional as we struggle to deal with the unexpected departures!

In the remainder of the show, we round-up the second England v Pakistan test, provide an IPL 2020 update and discuss the WWT20 Netflix documentary.

MS Dhoni’s retirement Insta post https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD6ZQn1lGBi/?igshid=1b2rralw3nio3

Suresh Raina’s retirement Insta post https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6d3QChY-V/?igshid=1ekfu41ij4wa8

MSD’s numbers https://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/113811/ms-dhoni-a-career-in-numbers-retirement

Ashwin’s favourite MSD moment - 91* in the 2011 World Cup Final https://www.icc-cricket.com/video/202157

DJ’s favourite MSD moment - Dhoni v Bangladesh last ball run out https://twitter.com/icc/status/1242050675535740928?s=21

Varun’s favourite MSD moment - Dhoni v Axar https://www.iplt20.com/video/5351/m53-rps-vs-kxip-thrilling-last-over-finish

Stuart Broad on being fined by his dad https://twitter.com/stuartbroad8/status/1293191075532804103?s=21

Jarrod Kimber on Fawad Alam’s wait https://wickets.substack.com/p/fawad-alam-and-his-numbers?r=6pnf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy

Md Hafeez Twitter picture with 90 year old https://twitter.com/mhafeez22/status/1293463789086572544?s=21

IPL first week to clash with England v Australia limited overs series https://es.pn/3fWASFo

Teams affected https://twitter.com/mufaddal_vohra/status/1294168026674208769?s=21

India’s greatest rivals https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1283337937724284929?s=21

https://twitter.com/1tip1hand/status/1291033670875316225?s=21

WWT20 Documentary https://twitter.com/icc/status/1294190022938243072?s=21

Kohli and Anushka video