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The friendliest transcontinental cricket podcast. Join us, a group of Indian fans located in various parts of the globe as we talk through the goings on in cricket through stories, anecdotes and stats. Liberally smattered with attempts at humour, puns, and banter, Bits and Pieces is ideally coupled with a cold beverage and a pinch of salt on the rim. If cricket be your food of love, play on.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp tactical detail, unruly humor and genuine match-day feeling make Bits and Pieces a distinctive home for committed cricket conversation.
Bits and Pieces turns major cricket results into a lively group conversation where jokes, tactical arguments and fan frustration compete for the crease.
Slip cordons get scrutiny; Sanju Samson gets the argument your cricket group chat wishes it could sustain.
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Loose cricket banter that makes tournament arithmetic feel dramatic.
Bits and Pieces turns a loose cricket conversation into a lively, half polished listen. It starts with live streamed club cricket, low view-count YouTube streams, and the oddity of watching matches while eating a meal.
A warm Bits and Pieces listen on India's women's World Cup win and the overdue attention around women's cricket.
India's women's World Cup win gives the episode its spark, and the panel uses it to circle back to how long women's cricket sat at the edge of the conversation.
A shaggy IPL preview that treats cricket talk and nonsense as part of the same joke.
It starts by pretending to launch a season preview, then veers into a Formula One joke before settling into a brisk argument about KKR, Rahane, and Shreyas Iyer.
A loud, informed cricket argument that treats selection rules like a contact sport.
Bits and Pieces uses episode 156 to turn a cricket housekeeping debate into proper adda: Ashwin's retirement, the nod to his 156 ODI wickets, and the argument over concussion substitutions and like-for-like logic.
IPL momentum, table politics, and Champak the dog's naming mess.
The piece treats the IPL as a loose adda about momentum and table politics, and it keeps coming back to Bangalore's surge as the clearest thread.
A funny post-match argument about result cricket, pitch talk, and what really matters.
This episode is a noisy, funny argument about India’s result and the bigger question of what a five-day Test is supposed to be. The panel keeps moving between result-first pragmatism, pitch talk, and mock-serious philosophy, so the analysis shifts around a bit, but it always…
BCCI discipline, domestic-duty absurdity, and sharp cricket banter shape the episode.
The episode centers on BCCI discipline, domestic-cricket obligations, and the comic strain of keeping elite players in line. The panel treats the 150-kilo luggage cap and the rule about missing domestic cricket with straight-faced disbelief, and that deadpan keeps the jokes…
A boisterous victory lap that still keeps one eye on how the game was actually won.
Bits and Pieces treats India's ICC triumph as both celebration and postmatch debrief, and the timing helps the whole thing land: the panel is on air about 30 minutes after the win, joking about Goa, credit cards, and being completely hungover by the next morning.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket analysis with the lid off.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
Bits and Pieces episode 170 centers on South Africa's 280-run chase against Australia in the World Test Championship final, which the hosts describe as unusually hard and frame with lines like "giant blue whale shit." The conversation is anchored by Max Da Vinci, PGK, and Busy, who trade reactions to Australia's defeat, South Africa's win, and a live visit to Lord's with the non-alcoholic stand joke.
Bits and Pieces: The friendliest cricket podcast uses this IPL preview to map early surprises after two weeks, with RCB opening 2-0 away at Eden Gardens and Chepauk and sitting on top on a +2.2 run rate.
Bits and Pieces: The friendliest cricket podcast returns with Nitin Sundar, Iman Pandey, and Tony talking through an India-Pakistan Asia Cup final in Dubai, where they say Pakistan imploded, India imploded, and Mohsin Naqvi walked away with the cup.
Prashant TP opens with a birthday-party metaphor for India’s recent Test arc.
Bits and Pieces turns its final Border-Gavaskar Trophy recap into a long argument about Indian cricket’s cycle, with Tony, Nitin Sundar, Iman Pandey, and Moenke “Hectic Hank” revisiting the 2024-2025 series after India lost a 10-year hold on the trophy.
Episode 168 of Bits and Pieces opens on the retirement announcements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, which the hosts call the start of a “post Kohli, post Rohit Sharma era of Test Cricket.” Nitin Sundar leads a five-person panel with Chops, Tony Sebastian, Bissi from London, and Prashant Deepi, and the first debate turns to whether Kohli’s Test decline was a slump, a technical limitation, or something bigger.
Bits and Pieces episode 172 centers on India's loss in the Lord's Test at Lord's, with the panel arguing that the match turned on the KL Rahul–Rishabh Pant run-out and the way India mishandled momentum.
It opens with Jofra Archer back in the mix and a quick smear of smog humor.
Bits and Pieces Episode 161 opens 30 minutes after India beat New Zealand to win the ICC event the hosts keep calling a “steel plate” or “tupperware” trophy.
Bits and Pieces: The friendliest cricket podcast uses India’s 76-run loss to South Africa at Narendra Modi Stadium to argue that the World Cup has become more open.
Bits and Pieces episode 177 turns into a 4-1 Ashes postmortem, with the panel arguing that England were so poor in Australia that even the strongest “basketball” rhetoric collapsed.
Episode 166 opens with a mock player-review call and goes straight into IPL table talk.
Bits and Pieces episode 158 opens with the Champions Trophy framed as a Goa trip that depends on who turns up and where the games are played, including India's separate path in Dubai.
Bits and Pieces spends most of Ep 167 on CSK’s bad season, beginning with record-breaking Chepauk results like RCB’s first win there and Delhi’s first in 10 years.
Bits and Pieces : The friendliest cricket podcast uses India-Pakistan at the Champions Trophy to argue that the gap is so large the result felt scripted, with India chasing behind Virat Kohli’s century and Shreyas Iyer’s fast gear change.
Bits and Pieces episode 171 centers on India’s win at Edgbaston, a match the panel keeps calling improbable after India lost the first Test and then won by 336 runs.
Bits and Pieces episode 156 centers on India’s T20 selection choices, from Dhruv Jurel being shuffled in the batting order to Shivam Dube’s concussion-sub controversy in Pune against England.
Bits and Pieces episode 164 opens with a live recording during Delhi Capitals versus CSK, and the hosts spend most of the hour on IPL off-field chaos rather than match analysis.
Bits and Pieces opens with the panel celebrating that a planned final episode called "Obits and Rest in Pieces" is off the table after India's result on the 25th day of the series.
Expert-level analysis of what makes winning cricket teams
Hosts of the Bits and Pieces cricket podcast analyze India's World Cup quarter-final victory against West Indies, focusing extensively on Sanju Samson's exceptional 80+ run innings.
The show opens with a live-streamed cricket check-in and quickly turns that into a joke about tiny club audiences on YouTube.
Bits and Pieces marks India’s women winning the World Cup after years of finals, semifinals, and collapsed run chases that the panel says had become emotionally exhausting to watch.
Episode 174 of Bits and Pieces podcast records after the India-Pakistan Asia Cup T20 match (September 21-22, 2025), which the hosts initially didn't notice was happening.
Bits and Pieces episode 169 ties Rajiv Shukla's appointment as BCCI head on 3 June 2025 to RCB finally winning the IPL after 18 years.
The show opens by pretending to preview Formula One before swerving straight into IPL season hype.
Episode 160 of Bits and Pieces podcast featuring Vikas as host and panelists Tony Sebastian, Sandy, and Bodhi discussing the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.