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My guest is Daniel Norcross of BBC's Test Match Special.

Daniel came on to exchange notes about Bazball and its effect on the state of play in Test cricket. This podcast is an edited compilation of our conversation.

What is Bazball?

On Ben Stokes

A Theory about Virat Kohli

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This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, July 13, 2022

This is an extended conversation about the cricket played during India's Tests in England in the 2021 season. My guests are SIdharth Monga of ESPNCricinfo and Daniel Norcross of BBC's Test Match Special.

What lengths would you bowl to Kohli?

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Sid allegedly does not tweet.

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This conversation was recorded on Saturday, September 11, 2021.

In this episode of the podcast I speak to Karunya Keshav and Snehal Pradhan about their report (co-authored with the late Sidhanta Patnaik of Wisden India and Women's CricZone) for the Sport Law and Policy Centre title An Equal Hue: The Way Forward For The Women In Blue (read the report).

Karunya Keshav is Editor-at-large at Wisden India. She is the author (with Sidhanta Patnaik) of The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women's Cricket in India

Since retiring from cricket in 2015, Snehal Pradhan has worked as a freelance sports journalist and broadcaster. She has written for ESPNCricinfo, Firstpost, The Economic Times, Scroll, among others. Through her series ‘Cricket with Snehal’ on YouTube, she shares lessons learned over a 15-year career.

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Here's an old essay I wrote about women's cricket.

In this episode I speak to Arunabha Sengupta about his new book Apartheid: A Point to Cover: South African Cricket 1948–70 and the Stop The Seventy Tour. The book focuses of the 22 years of South African cricket from the inception of Apartheid as official state policy by the National Party Government in 1948 to South Africa's expulsion from international cricket in 1970 due to these policies.

This episode was recorded on May 11, 2020.

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In this conversation the Australian journalist and cricket writer Gideon Haigh discusses the ways in which cricket, and sport more generally is political.

Gideon Haigh's work includes regular columns for The Australian and The Times, biographical essays about Jack Iverson, Victor Trumper and Shane Warne, reviews and reflections on series, teams, eras and controversies. He does not tweet, use facebook or any other form of social media.

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This is a conversation about DRS, VAR and the role of technology in decision making in cricket and football. 

Daisy Christodoulou's insightful and widely read twitter thread about VAR prompted this episode. She is an educationist who has a special interest in the problem of assessments. Jonathan Wilson covers football for The Guardian and a few other publications. He's the author of 11 books, including Inverting the Pyramid and Angels with Dirty Faces. Daniel Norcross is a cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special.

Daisy tweets @daisychristo
Jonathan tweets @jonawils
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Notes:

Daisy's Twitter thread about VAR  
My thread about the Stokes DRS review  
Jonathan's review of the 2019 Copa America Semi Final 

This episode was recorded on February 23, 2020.

Mihir Bose has been a reporter based in London for nearly five decades. He has worked for newspapers and television. He has written more than two dozen books on an extraordinary range of subjects - cricket, football, history, biography and business. Apart from Indian cricket, Bose has written about Keith Miller, Moeen Ali, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bollywood, Manchester United, Terry Venables, the Aga Khans, the Memon community, the City of London and the boom and bust of the 1980s, the Premier League, and his beloved Tottenham Hotspur among others.

His most recent book The Nine Waves presents the story of Indian cricket as a story in Nine Waves from India's international debut in 1933, to Virat Kohli's World Number 1 team of 2019. 

In today's podcast we talk about the question of four day Tests. In many ways it is not a new     question. Mihir Bose helps place the question within the business and culture of contemporary     sport and life.

This episode was recorded on January 11, 2020.

Links:
The Nine Waves, Mihir Bose, Aleph Book Company, 2019. (Amazon)
Will it help Test cricket if games are reduced to four days?, Kartikeya Date, thREAD, The Hindu, November 1, 2017
Mihir Bose's website: 

Anthony McGowan is an author who writes for children, young adults and older adults. His most recent book is How to teach philosophy to your dog. In this episode he joined me to discuss the nature of cheating and lying in cricket.

Anthony tweets @anthony_mcgowan

The ethics of walking in cricket: from Socrates to Nietzsche, Anthony McGowan, The Guardian, December 4, 2019

In 2007, Jarrod Kimber started a blog called Cricket with Balls. Over the last 12 years he has graduated to writing features, books and match reports, made documentary films and worked as an analyst and a manager in T20 franchises. I invited him to talk about cricket writing today. We ended up with not only a tour of landscape of cricket writing, but also some lessons in how to become a cricket writer.

Apart from writing, Jarrod also conducts his course on sports writing: Fans With Laptops, which is a course in using your passion for sports to improve how you write.

This conversation was recorded on November 20, 2019.

Suresh Menon is a veteran observer of Indian cricket. He has been a reporter and an editor-in-chief at the Indian Express. Currently, he is a contributing editor to The Hindu where he writes the regular column Between Wickets. Since 2013 he has been the Editor of the Wisden India Almanack. 

In this episode, we discuss the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which remains a controversial body coveted by politicians and corporate tycoons alike, and is also the most successful sporting institution in India. Recently, it acquired a new Constitution. What do these changes hold for the future? What do we misunderstand about the BCCI? What does the BCCI misunderstand about the public?

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My conversation with Suresh Menon was recorded on November 13, 2019.