A Cricketing View

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 Daniel tweets @norcrosscricket I tweet @cricketingview This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cricketingview/message

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? Daniel tweets @norcrosscricket Sid allegedly does not tweet. I tweet @cricketingview This conversation was recorded on Saturday, September 11, 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cricketingview/message

In February 2020, Daisy, Jonathan and Daniel came on the podcast to discuss DRS and VAR. A year later, they are back to reflect on the developments in both during the past year. The conservation is about the anxieties of evidence in VAR & DRS. How to watch sports in the age of VAR/DRS? How does evidence work? Does the fact the evidence is produced in disciplined fashion (through measurement, and not just observation - (for example: consider the difference between what's available to the TV...

Warren Brennan is the founder and chief technology officer of BBG Sports where he has developed the Hotspot/RTS system for spotting edges with Allan Plaskett. In this conversation we talked about technology in sports broadcasting, some details of the Hotspot/RTS system, ball tracking, and the future of technology in sport. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cricketingview/message

Rob Moody is the curator of the robelinda an robelinda2 cricket video channels on youtube. His videos will be viewed one billion times by mid-April. This is a conversation with him about his collection and its past, present and future in the landscape of cricket boards, broadcasters and Google. Rob's video of Jason Gillespie's 201* Rob tweets @robelinda2 This video was recorded on March 3, 2021. --- Send in a voice message:...

This conversation is about ESPNCricinfo's Control statistic with their senior stats editor S Rajesh. We discuss what the metric tries to measure, what it contributes to understanding the game, and some interesting statistical summaries of the Control measure over 15 years and hundreds of Tests. Read Sidharth Monga's review of Chennai Test featuring the control measure here The episode was recorded on February 12, 2021. Rajesh tweets (infrequently) @rajeshstats --- Send in a voice...

This is an irregular review of an irregular series in irregular times. My guests are Subash Jayaraman, the veteran host of the Couch Talk podcast and Daniel Norcross from the BBC's Test Match Special. We had a conversation about the cricket we anticipate in this series, the players who are likely to feature in it. Daniel Norcross tweets @norcrosscricket Subash jayaraman tweets @cricketcouch I tweet @cricketingview This podcast was recorded on February 2, 2021. --- Send in a voice...

Jack Shantry is a former left-arm seam bowler who played for Worcestershire. He is currently a National Panel umpire in the UK. Daniel Norcross is a cricket commentator on BBC Test Match Special. In this conversation we discuss the laws of cricket and umpiring, and how they constitute the game. Daniel talks about the difficulties arising from having to communicate a subtle, complicated, and often arbitrary set of laws to new audiences. Jack speaks from an umpire's perspective about why...

This is my conversation with Abhishek Mukherjee and Arunabha Sengupta about their forthcoming book Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town: Indian and South African Cricket Through the Prism of a Partnership. Our conversation was recorded across three continents and is, in places, subject to the vagaries of inter-continental wireless communications. The book presents a rich picture of the protagonists of that stand (both Indian and South African) and the period they lived in. This is a book not just...

This is a conservation with Tim Wigmore about his new book with Mark Williams The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made. Tim contributes to The Daily Telegraph, ESPNCricinfo, The New York Times & The Economist. Tim appeared in episode 3 of this podcast to discuss his previous book Cricket 2.0 with Freddie Wilde. Tim Wigmore tweets @timwig The book is The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made. An edited excerpt from the book titled Under pressure: why athletes choke was published in The Guardian...

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...

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. Arunabha tweets @senantix I tweet @cricketingview ---...

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. I tweet @cricketingview --- Send in a voice message:...

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...

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...

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cricketingview/message

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,...

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...

In this episode, I speak to Snehal Pradhan. Snehal is a former India fast bowler. In addition to running her youtube channel Cricket with Snehal, she writes and reports on cricket for First Post, News 18, ESPNCricinfo, Economic Times and several other publications. She also commentates on cricket matches for broadcasters like the BBC. We spoke about the landscape of women's cricket in India in the 21st century. Among other things, I asked her about the prospects for a Women's IPL,...

This is part two of my conservation with Daniel Norcross. Daniel is a commentator for BBC Test Match Special. He also writes for various publications like ESPNCricinfo. Daniel is also the first guest on this show who commands his own Wikipedia entry. I invited Daniel over to reflect on the 2019 English summer season with the benefit of some distance. This episode begins where Part I finished. We discussed Ben Stokes, Pat Cummins, Ravindra Jadeja, India's recent results and ended with some...