Okay, now six teams can finish first. Eight teams can make the finals. This is absolutely mental. You're watching the Great Cricketer. You're watching The Asian Century. Come and see the naughty, naughty boys. Big cricket competition in India. Without say that. Come on, right, stone. You heard it from the horses. My fucking be ready to run, mate. I would do a Preeing our ring job right now. He's and goals. From the Great Trigger.

Welcome. from the horses. My fucking be ready to run, mate. I would do a P. I ring job right now. Chris and you go. From the Greek cricketer. Welcome back to another week of the Asian century right here in the Grey Cricketer. Hey, hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. You know what? Give it a smash. If you're enjoying the IPL 2026 this year, Pezza, topsy-turvy, everyone's winning, everyone's losing. I can't figure out who's good, I can sort of figure out who's bad and who's naughty and somewhere in between all that. But we're having a good time and we're sort of in the mid-season territory right now, trying to shuffling for a position if this was a horse race and in many ways it is. and yet you can just see the finish line as well, can't you? Two teams eliminated LSG, M-I, see you next year. I'm sure they'll throw the cat amongst the pigeons in some of the games to go, mouth-watering prospects. Cat pigeons. But these cat pigeon stuff, 16 games to go, eight teams still in contention, as you said. I mean, look at RCB, for example, you know, a B's dick here, a B stick there, their fourth and not first. That's just, it's absolute cinema, the IPL. How the hell of CSK win off first place with a game in hand? That is a math, that is mathematical, like, weirdness, tomfoolery. I don't even know what to say. BVK hits his first six in 10 years. Yeah. He goes. CSK chased more than 180 for the first time in eight years. I don't know if anyone's said this year, but he's batting getting easier. Corbyn Bosch, Bolden Maiden, in the middle of all of this. Baltimore got a wicket, just the one this week.

See, it's weird.

It's weird this year.

And against that backdrop, I think it's wonderful to hear there expanding the IPL, more games, more months, more absolute cinema.

Jay Shah supremacy, baby.

I want to start by, I think we should talk about RCBMI, one of the great

games with so far this week. Kroonupandia finishes 73 of 46 before BVK hits that six to make it

go from 9 of 3 to 3 off 2. They actually scramble a second run of the last ball to to end up

winning the game. But Krunipandia, a great story and he took to Instagram to, I mean, basically get the rig out.

Okay, yes, there is an enormous bruise on the old stomach there.

But also at the same time, looking pretty sharp, if you know what I mean, for KP.

My original KP.

Phil Salt took to Instagram and just called the great man clutch.

Phil Solt's obviously up his meme game, which we appreciate.

Accelerator Break Clutch, you know what I'm saying?

That's genius stuff from Phil, who's obviously recovering back in the UK from Jacob

Bethel replacing him.

He's recovering.

He's not actually injured.

He's just recovering from that happening to him. Now, Verac Koli... Alistair Cook just made a comment about Jacob Bethel. KP stepped in with Google Gemini, neck minute, Phil Salt's at home and Bethel's playing. Explain that. Yeah, explain that, you know? Verac Koli's got a second ball duck. He's got a first ball duck recently and he was asked to speak to the team after the game, and he said, thanks Andy, it's Andy Flower for giving

me a chance to do something in this game today.

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