The Handshake
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Who was right? Who was wrong? In the end, it really just all comes down to who is best-placed to keep the lights on in the building. Meanwhile, Warner's still blocked, LSG are a ####ing good team and Sooryavanshi could hit 720 in an innings, no dramas.
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| 0:00.0 | We are here to talk about the handshake or the lack of handshake. |
| 0:04.1 | Also, have we said goodbye to Doni, to Rishab and to Hardik as IPL captains? |
| 0:08.3 | You're watching The Asian Century. |
| 0:09.3 | You're watching the Great Cricketer. |
| 0:11.1 | Come and see the naughty, naughty boys. |
| 0:13.7 | Big cricket competition in India. |
| 0:15.5 | Without say that. |
| 0:16.3 | Come on, right, stone. |
| 0:17.5 | You heard it from the horse's mouth. |
| 0:19.0 | I can be ready to run, mate. |
| 0:20.4 | I would do a ring job right now. Peas and Eagles from the Greek cricketer. I just noticed in the intro that Colleys shook our hands. Anyway, welcome back to the show. Hit that subscribe button if you enjoy a good old-fashioned handshake or if you enjoy avoiding them. That's really up to you and your decisions. |
| 1:27.6 | Pezzar, welcome back to another week of IPL cricket, just, I suppose, a week to go from now, but two shows left here on The Asian Century. And it is all to play for in the realm of IPL cricket. Oh, it's getting real now. It's getting real now, isn't it, brother? Season starts now. Hey, there's, there's feeling, there's clicks, there's swearing, there's gossip, there's weird venue decisions, no more sanitised TV product that's failing anyway because Dream 11 went away. Well, it's on digital. It's on digital. It's been replaced by, you know, chaos, madness, evocative narrative, you know. I mean, you said two shows to go. Damn it. Just getting started. I thought Mufadal Vora summed it up best TB. Oh, he's a Mufeldal, please. Now, look, this is from a week ago. It's a weekly show. So I don't resolve. |
| 1:28.6 | I don't resolve from the fact that that. |
| 1:43.3 | This is the table. There was one game to go here. We still got your top four sorted out. So move it out ahead of the game. As per. But look at the logic is what I like here. 27 April, Punjab zero losses in seven. Yeah. you know, guys. |
| 1:46.1 | And KKR Zero wins from six matches. |
| 1:46.1 | 20 May, 13 points number 5. Punjab zero losses in seven. Yeah. And KKR Zero wins from six matches. |
| 1:49.7 | 20 May, 13 points number five, KKR, 13 points number six. |
| 1:55.8 | And the conclusion, the craziness and unpredictability of the IPL. |
| 1:59.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, absolute cinema. |
| 2:02.0 | What a season it's been. |
| 2:05.3 | And now we're got where the crescendo is here. |
| 2:07.8 | We're hitting the apex and the zenith. |
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