All Out For No Loss

This is the last of the 3 episode series of the AOFNL 2025 Year End Review In this episode we are talking about the Ashes and a few other international series Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify. https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/AOFNL_2025_Review_Ep3 AOFNL Team: Vasant Kumar Ramakrishnan G Iyer Anand Kumar Sankaran Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

This is the second of the 3 episode series of the AOFNL 2025 Year End Review In this episode we are talking about the journey of the Indian women's cricket team in 2025. Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify. https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/AOFNL_2025_Review_Ep2 AOFNL Team: Vasant Kumar Ramakrishnan G Iyer Anand Kumar Sankaran Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

This is the first of a 3 episode series of the AOFNL 2025 Year End Review In this episode we are talking about the journey of the Indian men's cricket team in 2025. Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify. https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/AOFNL_2025_Review_Ep1 AOFNL Team: Vasant Kumar Ramakrishnan G Iyer Anand Kumar Sankaran Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

AOFNL The Change of Guard Episode In this episode we touch upon the change of guard in the Indian ODI team with Gill being announced as the new captain displacing Rohit. Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify. https://all-out-for-no-loss.captivate.fm/episode/gill-replaces-rohit-as-the-ODI-skipper AOFNL Team: Vasant Kumar Vijaykumar Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan G Iyer Anand Kumar Sankaran

AOFNL The Moments Series Episode 2: The Sharjah Chronicles - a last ball 6 and an 87 allout A match that was lost was turned around by a master-class culminating in a last ball 6. And then another match that was for all practical purposes lost turned around by a magical spell in the field - both bowling and fielding. In this episode we touch upon two games - The final of the first Austral-Asia cup...

AOFNL The Moments Series Episode 1: The Multan Declaration Never before or since has a declaration by an Indian captain led to so much discussion, debate, hand wringing and in many cases anguish. Of course this is about the declaration by Rahul Dravid on March 29 2004 at Multan. A Sehwag 300 (the first by an Indian) had powered India to a magnificent 675 and set the stage for pushing Pakistan hard...

AOFNL Episode 32 India conjure up a brilliant victory on a pulsating 5th day at the Oval to square the series at 2 apiece. A performance for the ages with everyone in the team contributing in some way or the other. In 1971 it was the brilliance of Bhagwat Chandrasekhar that brought us a series win. In 2021 it was Shardul Thakur who propelled us to a wonderful victory as we took a 2-1 lead in that...

AOFNL Episode 31 Team India cracks the Edgbaston Code Team India pulled off a magnificent victory over the Bazballers at Edgbaston and have squared the series 1-1 with 3 to go. After the rather tough loss at Headingly and the absence of the talismanic Bumrah, the expections were rather low. And how well did the team do ! The batting kicked in with the skipper showing the way with a couple of magni...

AOFNL Episode 30 The Edgbaston Test - A Preview Moving on to the second test of the England vs India series which is to be played at Edgbaston in Birmingham - here is our preview. Also included is a bonus segment on the MLC season 3 What are we talking about in this episode ? A little peek into the Major League Cricket season which is evolving quite nicely Who will play for India in the second tes...

AOFNL Episode 29 The Miss at Headingly This is going live on the 42nd anniversary of one of the biggest days in Indian Cricket ... We just saw a cracking test where there was frenetic action on all five days - some wonderful batting from both sides, some exceptional spells of bowling from the best bowler in the world, some old fashioned control and calm from the world's best with the bat and confi...

AOFNL Episode 28 Just as tempting as it was, we are not talking about something that happened 32 years ago to this day when world witnessed (should I say read about) the greatest (still the case) ODI inning by an Indian batter. A preview of the Headingly Test and the palindrome at Lords The 2025 India in England series for the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy (or is it Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy) will sta...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 24 IPL 2025 - Reviews and Previews 18 days into IPL 2025 and most teams have shown their good, bad and ugly parts, maybe with the exception of Delhi Capitals whom have been very impressive. In this episode we review the teams on where they stand in the stand and preview the next week of matches 25 through 33. Also available on Apple Podcast and Spotify. https://all-out-...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 24 IPL 2025 - Reviews and Previews Ten days into IPL 2025 and most teams have shown their good, bad and ugly parts, maybe with the exception of PZ's boys whom have been very impressive. In this episode we review the 9 teams other than CSK (who merited a separate episode of oppari aka lamenting). Preview the next week of matches 16 through 24. Also available on Apple Pod...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 25 IPL 2025 - CSK in Doldrums This episode is all about the struggles of CSK in this edition of the IPL. In this session we talk about - The struggles with the power play bowling The rather weak batting performances No mid innings acceleration Thala Dhoni AWOL The fan reactions The way forward if any for this season #IPL #IPL2025 #BCCI #ChennaiSuperKings #DelhiCapitals...

The IPL 2025 his cranking along in style with some terrific performances from various players - some expected and some new ones. In this episode - We review the first 7 games - RCB at KKR RR at SRH MI at CSK LSG at DC (Vizag) PK at GT KKT at RR (Guwahati) LSG at SRH Preview the next 8 ones - RCB at CSK MI at GT SRH at DC (Vizag) CSK at RR (Guwahati) KKR at MI PK at LSG GT at RCB SRH at KKR #IPL #I...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 23 The IPL 2025 has started with an upset with RCB thrashing the Kolkata Knight Riders in the opener. Krunal Pandya's very smart bowling turned the game on its head as he first slowed down KKR down and then took out their middle order. And then Phil Salt just continued from where he left off to set the stage for Kohli to finish the same. The big takeaways - (a) Hazlewoo...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 22 IPL 2025 - Previews: Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Kolkata Knight Riders In the last of the team preview episodes for IPL 2025 we will take a look at the Chennai Super Kings, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and the Kolkata Knight Riders Chennai Super Kings continues to be the same old efficient squad to the point of being boring. They bat very de...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 21 IPL 2025 - Previews: Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians This is the second preview episode of the teams in the competition. In this conversation we will take a look at the Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians. The Delhi Capitals went through a major overhaul and appears to have put a squad that...

All Out 4 No Loss - Episode 20 IPL 2025 - Previews: Punjab Kings, Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans IPL returns with all the usual fanfare and this time around it is after a mega auctions which means all teams are looking different from the previous campaigns. In some cases the are significant differences in the makeup of the teams and in some cases teams have managed to stay the course with...

The Champions Trophy: The Finals India handily regained the Champions Trophy with a relatively comfortable win over New Zealand on March 9 in Dubai. Once again the 4 spinners took over the game from the moment they came on and squeezed out any resistance from the New Zealand middle order. The late burst notwithstanding the total of 251 was below par and once Rohit set the platform with a brisk 76,...

The Champions Trophy: The Finals Preview Champions Trophy 2025 has arrived and the pre-tournament favorites have made the final. Between them they have a combined record of 13-1 in the past month (the one loss was when India beat New Zealand last Sunday) In this conversation we will take a look at the two teams and the lead-up During the chat we touch upon the following questions - Will New Zealan...

The Champions Trophy: Final Round Games and Semi-Final Preview Here come the semi-finals of the 2025 Champions Trophy. The same teams that played in the 2023 WC semi-finals have made it to the semi-finals of this tournament and done so in a convincing manner. India has been looking at its best with three very strong showings while New Zealand was very good until they got tripped up by a sublime sh...

The Champions Trophy: And then there were five left Preview We are one week and halfway into the Champions Trophy and seen three teams being eliminated after two rounds of matches. The official hosts Pakistan just were unable to overcome the pressure of a home tournament. They crumbled rather meekly against a very efficient and impressive New Zealand and then just were not able to challenge India....

The Champions Trophy Preview Moving on from the various ODI bilateral and tri-series into tournament play. The 2025 Champions Trophy is starting in less than a week being played in Pakistan and Dubai. A short tournament featuring 8 teams drawn up in two groups of 4, with the top 2 in each group advancing to the semi-finals. Ten games will be played in Pakistan (Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi) and...

India routs England In this conversation we will be reviewing the India v England ODI series. The Indian team handily routed the English white ball teams in the 8 game series spanning both T20Is and ODIs with the final score line being 7-1. One of the biggest indicators was that England's No.11 batter got to bat in every single game ! While England was able to put up some resistance in three of th...