Couch Talk

Subash Jayaraman

Interviews with cricket players, officials and administrators, writers and journalists, fans and news makers.

  1. 15/03/2020

    Couch Talk 200 with Jarrod Kimber

    Jarrod Kimber, the most featured guest on the show, appears on the 200th episode of the podcast and talks about his transition from a cricket writer to cricket data analyst working with T20 franchises, and even becoming the general manager of the St Lucia Stars franchise (a clusterfuck of a time, in his words). He also talks about how he preps for a T20 draft and working with players he used to write about, and then suddenly becoming their boss all in a space of few weeks! Thanks to all of you that have made 200 episodes of Couch Talk possible.

    1h 26m

  2. 20/11/2019

    Couch Talk 199 with Chris Green

    In this episode, off spinner Chris Green of New South Wales, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Birmingham Bears etc., talks about his path to a professional cricketing career that is not based in first class cricket, his attitude towards bowling in the powerplay, his mental approach to the game, his idea of a good ball in T20, the challenges of being an itinerant T20 cricket and his dream of representing Australia.

    42 min

  3. 11/11/2019

    Couch Talk 198 - Brad Hogg

    Australian spinner Brad Hogg joins the CouchTalk to discuss how he came to be a left arm wrist spinner, how he learned his craft, how he handled being behind Shane Warne and Stuart McGill in the pecking order, dealing with self-doubt, his dismissal of Andy Flower in 2003, the circumstances surrounding Warne being sent home from the 2003 World Cup and his elevation to be the No. 1 spinner in the team, comparison of the 2003 and 2007 world cup winning Aussie teams, role of spin in T20s and his philosophy in life.

    51 min

  4. 07/11/2019

    Couch Talk 197 with WV Raman

    Former Indian opener WV Raman talks about the circumstances under which he became an opening batsmen, the challenges of facing bowlers from West Indies, New Zealand and South Africa, his playing career, the spectacular partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and Mohd Azharuddin in Cape Town (1996), his experiences as a coach in domestic cricket and as well as the head coach of Indian women's national team.

    43 min

  5. 05/11/2019

    Couch Talk 196 with Simon Taufel

    Former international umpire Simon Taufel joins the podcast for the second time and talks about his new book "Finding the Gaps", the effect of the terrorist attack on the team and official buses in 2009 in Lahore on him and his family, conflict resolution on a cricket field, the impact of social media and TV punditry on the heightened criticisms of umpires and whether there is a need for an umpire to be part of the TV commentary box, amongst other things.

    51 min

  6. 31/10/2019

    Couch Talk 195 with Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde

    In this episode, cricket journalist Tim Wigmore and Cricket analyst Freddie Wilde, co-authors of the book “Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 revolution” discuss the following: [Buy the book from AMAZON] a) What should a T20 scorecard look like? b) Why is the discourse around T20 doesn’t seem to have the appreciation of T20 being a different sport from cricket? c) What more measures of T20 performances are done by teams to illuminate the sport better? d) What is the contest in T20: bat v bat, ball v ball, or ball v bat? e) What sort of specialization of T20 skills in players is to be expected in the future? f) Could pitches be standardized in T20s to better understand the contest? g) CSK v RCB methodologies h) Are “The Hundred” and “T10” as sport more differentiated from cricket than T20 is?

    1h 10m

  7. 25/10/2019

    Couch Talk 194 with Harry Gurney

    In this episode, the quick bowler Harry Gurney of England and Nottinghamshire and a slew of T20 franchises talks about the use of slowers and yorkers in T20s, the art of setting a field and the options he has as a bowler in T20s, the difficulty in bowling the variations and the decision-making processes, and he breaks down the videos of Lasith Malinga's delivery to win the 2019 IPL (), and Jasprit Bumrah's slower to Shaun March in a Test match in 2018.   Malinga Video: https://www.iplt20.com/video/191529 Bumrah Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_BriRUC_o Gurney Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LW43mTHxjU

    39 min

  8. 15/10/2019

    Couch Talk 193 with R Ashwin

    Indian offspinner R Ashwin talks about his stints in the English county system with Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire, the reasons behind it, rediscovering the joy of playing cricket again, how he has handled Team India's decision to play him only in Tests, managing worload and injuries, spin culture in England, amongst other things.

    27 min
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Interviews with cricket players, officials and administrators, writers and journalists, fans and news makers.

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  • Creator
    Subash Jayaraman
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    200
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Subash Jayaraman
  • Show Website
    Couch Talk