A Cricketing View Kartikeya Date

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 certain laws are the way they are, which laws bother him (the answer is most interesting) and where the switch-hit and the lbw law might lead cricket. We also discuss whether batsmen should be out LBW after an inside-edge (its not as mad as it sounds).

Jack Shantry tweets @JackShantry
Daniel Norcross tweets @norcrosscricket
I tweet @cricketingview

This conversation was recorded on December 16, 2020.


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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 about South Africa, but about a different era in Indian and world cricket.

Abhishek tweets @ovshake42

Arunabha tweets @senantix

I tweet @cricketingview

This conversation was recorded on December 5, 2020


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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 .

This interview was recorded on November 10, 2020.


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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.

Karunya tweets @kuks

Snehal tweets @SnehalPradhan

I tweet @cricketingview

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


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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

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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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