'Bumrah so freaky he can walk in and bowl fast' - Paras Mhambrey
Season 7 · Episode 4
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 • Duration 01:04:47
In the latest episode we chat with Paras Mhambrey on his recent stint as the bowling coach of the Indian team. We discuss India's varied bowling attack and how he managed the transition from one set of fast bowlers to the next.
‘We have a cluster of fast bowlers who have got exposure in white-ball cricket and are not far away (from Test call-up)’, says Paras Mhambrey - Indian Express
Data driven: How Mhambrey's work is helping Shami & Co - Sanjjeev K Samyal - Hindustan Times
'I cannot tell a bowler what to do or not do. I need to help them understand their own rhythm' - Bharat Arun interview - Karthik Krishnaswamy - The Cricket Monthly
How the Indian team embraced data
Season 7 · Episode 3
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 01:30:49
In the latest episode we chat with Himanish Ganjoo on how data can assist cricket teams and what he learnt from his own stint as a data analyst with the Indian side.
Our special guest this week is Hassan Cheema, the strategy manager at Islamabad United – the Pakistan Super League champions in 2016 and 2018.
Hassan talks about the rapidly evolving T20 format and gives us a peek into what franchises are doing to stay ahead of the curve. Having observed some of the top T20 players first-hand, Hassan brings forth the complexities of the game and the challenges involved in managing a team.
Talking Points:
How West Indies revolutionized the approach to T20s
The overwhelming importance of the toss
Measures used to judge a T20 batsman
The flexible batting order and how best to use an anchor
Unlearning the lessons from red ball cricket
Retiring out batsmen and tactical drops
What constitutes a good over in T20?
Tactics v execution: the tightrope walk
How one builds a player's trust and the need to go beyond cricket
Our special guest this week is Prem Panicker, a veteran journalist who has been writing on cricket for over 25 years. Prem was one of the founding journalists at Rediff.com and a pioneer with regard to online commentary and internet radio.
Talking Points:
Falling in love with cricket in the late 1960s and '70s
The granular detail with which one remembers games from one's childhood
Listening to the radio and enacting the action based on the commentary
The arrival of television to India and the magic it brought forth
Entering the world of journalism
The brave new world of the Internet - and the leap of faith it entailed
Figuring out the internet while writing on cricket during the 1996 World Cup
How Indian cricketers embraced the new reality of online coverage
The BCCI's contradictory stance with respect to online portals like Rediff
JY Lele and his famous quote that predicted India would lose 3-0 in Australia
The match-fixing saga and falling out of love with cricket
The lure of blogging and the flexibility it offered
Twitter as a second-screen in the cricket viewing experience
In our latest episode we talk to Amol Muzumdar, a legend for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy and a bona fide domestic great. Muzumdar's illustrious career spanned two decades and he finished with 9,205 runs in the Ranji Trophy - which stands as the second-highest aggregate of all time.
Muzumdar scored 30 first-class hundreds and was the backbone of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy side through much of the 1990s and 2000s. He won seven Ranji Trophy championships with Mumbai and captained them to the title in 2006-07, when they rallied after a poor start and upstaged the rest of the competition.
Talking points:
The importance of playing league cricket in England
How helmets transformed batting techniques - and resulted in more players getting hit on the head
Today's players preferring power-hitting techniques to an artistic approach
The delicate balance with coaching - what to tell a player and when to pass on advice
How players can be so vulnerable to advice, and change the techniques that have been working for them
The case of Gautam Gambhir and Mayank Agarwal making tweaks to their batting technique
The concern over lack of quality spinners in Indian domestic cricket – and its knock-on effect on batting techniques against spin
How DRS has been a game-changer with regard to playing against spin
Pujara's unique approach to spinners and why it works
From the field to the press box to managing the media: a chat with Nishant Arora
Season 5 · Episode 6
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 • Duration 55:29
Our special guest this week is Nishant Arora who, over two decades, has worked in multiple capacities within cricket – as a TV journalist, a player agent, a media manager with the BCCI, and a digital producer with ICC. We speak to Nishant about his career that has spanned over two decades and delight in some of his anecdotes from behind the scenes.
Talking Points:
Playing junior cricket with Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh
Big-hitting Yuvraj losing SG balls at the world's most elevated cricket stadium
Yuvraj scoring 358 in a match when the opponents scored 357
Harbhajan Singh's emotional day after taking India's first hat-trick in Kolkata
The challenge for Nishant to separate his journalism and friendships
The rare Dhoni interview in Islamabad
Visiting Virender Sehwag's house and getting him to talk about his 155 in Chennai
The challenges of interviewing Sourav Ganguly
When Yuvraj's cancer was kept top secret
The breakdown in the player-journalist relationship
Why Ashish Nehra must be appointed the lawyer for bow
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