West Indies enter the chat they’ve always been in | WI v ZIM | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Don't sleep on the undefeated West Indies.
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| 0:00.0 | West Indies have entered the chat. |
| 0:02.7 | That's how people talk. |
| 0:04.1 | 196s for the West Indies in their innings. |
| 0:06.5 | That's the most we've ever seen in a World Cup. |
| 0:09.6 | How mouth-watering is that game against India on Sunday night? |
| 0:14.2 | This calls for a bud. The West Indies scored 254, and it felt short at halfway. |
| 0:31.4 | Let's have a look at the scores from overnight's game. |
| 0:34.5 | West Indies against Zimbabwe, 254 for 6, set up by Hepmaier and Rovi P. And look, Zimbabwe's 147 flattered them because it's basically Bradham's gone anywhere near that kind of score. But Pezza, it was, I think we've been sleeping on the windies. And this is a side without, of course, Nicholas Perun, he doesn't play for the West Indies anymore, who would be one of the best T20 players in the world. But this side might mean business. Yeah. I mean, they continue to put performances up that compel us to notice, but we choose not to. And now we say things, you know, like 17 games in the tournament, like, oh, Wendy's have entered the chat, they've been in the chat the entire time, |
| 1:13.8 | but I've been busy tuning. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, I've been busy tuning a woman who is actually a man. |
| 1:21.4 | I like, I want to go the other way. |
| 1:27.1 | I do think, I think Zimbabwe's performance has just ensured that this is another game that makes Australia look bad. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:34.2 | Because Zimbabwe just were what we kind of expect. |
| 1:38.4 | Is that how they always were? |
| 1:39.7 | And then where does that leave Australia, importantly, the important question there in yeah. Uh, they're in, but no, the West Indies, uh, the West Indies are just looking real good, uh, across the board, power hitting, um, like, guile and craft with spin bowling, enough pace options. They got leaders of deluxe. Shea hopes behind the stumps there, but then you got Jason Holder at Midoff talking to Shamar Joseph. |
| 2:01.7 | Could have used that, I suppose. |
| 2:02.9 | And Robbie P. |
| 2:04.8 | So, you know, it's just looking, they're looking the goods here. |
| 2:10.8 | That innings from Brad Evans, though, I do think that is going to help the Indians net run rate down the track. |
| 2:17.9 | Yeah, definitely, definitely that's right. |
| 2:19.6 | All right, well, Budweiser are putting this podcast, Pezza, in the hands of fans. |
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