Former England Captain Michael Vaughan, known for his criticism of the Indian cricket team, wants his pitches to last longer than India’s first innings slump, which saw them lose 6 wickets without a run being scored after 153 .This led Ravi Shastri to claim on air that if anyone who had gone around the corner in search of a dustbin would have come back and seen India eliminated in no time.
Michael Vaughan was next Mark Waugh on Fox Cricket when the host brought up the topic of India’s sudden and dramatic collapse at Newlands on Day 1 and highlighted Ravi Shastri’s comments on the same. He would first summarize what had happened before Shastri’s clip aired and everyone inside the Fox Cricket studio burst out laughing.
“So India had lost 6-0, and our man Ravi Shastri, Fox Cricket’s greatest, was on commentary. And so he summed up the six for none.” After the clip was played, Mark Waugh was the first to react and stated that Dump has the same meaning in India. “Does a landfill mean the same thing in India as it does in England?” The host replied amusingly: “It does”.
Michael Vaughan and Mark Waugh laugh at Shastri’s on-air comment
When Ravi Shastri demonstrated his mastery of words on air, his co-commentator Mpumelelo Mbangwa added a little more context by saying “Or a drink” while bursting into laughter. The Fox cricket presenter highlighted Pommie Mbangwa’s suffix to Shastri before Michael Vaughan stepped in and shared his 2 cents.
Indian great Ravi Shastri had a strange way of listing why anyone would have missed his country’s 6-0 collapse against South Africa. 🤣#AUSvsPAK #INDvsSA pic.twitter.com/8T1nS73jYs
– CODE Cricket (@codecricketau) January 4, 2024
“I’d like my downloads to last a little longer than that.” – said Vaughan referring to India losing 6 wickets in a matter of 3 overs.
A couple of days ago, Michael Vaughan also claimed that the Indian cricket team is the lowest performing and underperforming team in the world of sports after losing 2 ICC finals in 2023.
For context, the Men in Blue have more ICC trophies to show for themselves than the country of Michael Vaughan and cricket’s birth. While India won the Cricket World Cup in only its third edition in 1983, England’s first CWC title (2019) came decades after the inaugural edition.
Furthermore, England’s first ICC silver medal was the T20 World Cup in 2010, which they won 3 years later. MS Dhoni’s The men won the first shorter format tournament. Therefore, Michael Vaughan’s underperforming comments towards India also apply to the English cricket team, which is set to enter the World T20 in the US and West Indies as defending champions, a few months later , in June.
Meanwhile, the second Test between India and South Africa concluded yesterday as the visitors chased down the target of 79 with ease to claim a first Test win at Newlands and tied a Test series in South Africa for the second time in history.