ICC T20 World Cup 2024 – Early impressions, highlights & hot takes from Week 1

The Top Order Cricket Podcast

In this episode of the show, the team are all in the same room to review the first few days of the ICC T20 World Cup hosted by the West Indies and USA.

We discuss our early impressions, throw out a few hot takes and share our favourite performances from the opening week.

• Are the pitches no good?
• Is it already time to write off Sri Lanka?
• How good is Aaron Jones’s bat?!
• Is Anrich Nortje back?
• What's going on with the Super 8 groups?
• Are Afghanistan a danger side?
• Could Ireland upset India
• And much more!

We are planning to record regularly throughout the tournament, particularly as we approach the Super 8 and knockout stages. All going well, we’ll have at least one more episode available by Sunday night. Until then please take the time to give us a like, follow, share or subscribe on all our channels (@toporderpod on Twitter & Facebook, and @thetoporderpodcast on Instagram & YouTube) and a (5-Star!) review at your favourite podcast provider, or tell a friend to download. It really helps others find the show and is the best thing you can do to support us. You can also find all our written content, including our Hall of Fame series, at our website.

You can also dip back into our guest episodes - including a recent conversation with Mike Hesson, plus chats with former World Cup stars Shane Bond and Mike Hussey, current players such as Matt Henry, Sophie Devine and Ish Sodhi, coaches Gary Stead, Jeetan Patel and Luke Wright, as well as Barry Richards, Frankie Mackay, Bharat Sundaresan and many more fascinating people from all across the cricketing world.

And if you'd like to reach out to us with feedback, questions or guest suggestions, get in touch at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

0:00 Intro

1:20 Super 8 seedings are ridiculous

10:25 USA v Canada - How good is Aaron Jones's bat?

18:25 West Indies v PNG - The importance of a gameplan against spin

23:50 Bowlers on top so far

30:45 South Africa v Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka in trouble already?

34:40 Afghanistan's impressive start

37:30 Namibia v Oman Super Over drama

41:00 Are the low scoring games fun to watch?

43:45 Can Ireland upset India?

46:50 New Zealand's build up

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