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Oborne & Heller on Cricket Peter Oborne, Richard Heller
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Cricket authors (and obsessives) Peter Oborne and Richard Heller have launched a new podcast to help deprived listeners endure a world without cricket. They will chat regularly about cricket topics – hoping to keep a good line and length but with occasional wides into other subjects.
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World Cricket And All That Shapes It Covered By Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2023 is the longest edition on record. It not only records the present state of global cricket but also reflects on the mighty global forces – political, social, commercial, environmental – which shape it. Its editor, Lawrence Booth, analyses its content as the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed podcast.Lawrence begins by hailing the turnaround in England’s Test team under Ben Stokes as captain and Brendon McCullum as coach. Alt...
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Sovereigns, stars, stewards, scorers, statisticians … Steven Lynch on this year’s Wisden obituaries
Two monarchs lead the obituaries in the 2023 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. As always, it is a melancholy but matchless memorial to global cricket’s losses, and a section to which many readers turn first. Its compiler and editor, Steven Lynch, discusses its selection and preparation as the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed podcast. In this edition Roger Alton replaces Peter as co-host.Steven outlines the late sovereign’s long connexions with cric...
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From teenage record breaker to players’ champion: James Harris of Glamorgan and the PCA
After a record-breaking early start in county cricket for Glamorgan, James Harris is back with them after spells with Middlesex and Kent. He has also begun his second term as chair of the Professional Cricketers Association. He is the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed podcast. In this edition Roger Alton replaces Peter as co-host.James has just returned from Glamorgan’s pre-season tour of Zimbabwe. He gives an upbeat account of the country and its cricket...
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The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history
Many eccentric geniuses have written about cricket, and indeed played it. Few have been as eccentric as Major Rowland Bowen – or had his genius. In 1970, after years of dedicated research (not all his own) he published Cricket: A History of its growth and development throughout the world. Long out of print, it is still unmatched in its global sweep, its presentation of arcane facts, and its insurrectionary daring (which delighted C L R James) in overturning almost sacred cricketing myths. It ...
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Two testaments of cricket and war
John Broom has combined his passions for cricket and military history in two books on global cricket in both world wars: Cricket In The First World War Play Up! Play The Game and Cricket In The Second World War The Grim Test. They are both meticulous and moving. He explains his mission in writing them, as the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed podcast.John sought to fill a significant gap in cricket’s historiography. Eminent writers of standard works had a...
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A story made for the movies – Pakistan women’s cricket
Based in Mumbai, Aayush Puthran is an experienced cricket reporter and analyst, with a strong focus on women’s cricket. He has written an inspirational book, Unveiling Jazbaa, which weaves together the astonishing personal stories of the creators and players of women’s cricket in Pakistan.Aayush begins by explaining the Urdu word Jazbaa. It has no precise English equivalent, but conveys a cocktail of emotions and passions which generate stunning unexpected achievement. It has been regularly a...
Customer Reviews
A refuge from the sirens of New York
Listening from New York I so enjoy this podcast - it is an expression of England and its relationship to the world in the best way possible. I don’t watch cricket at all much anymore but I used to fanatically - I now just love the history of the game.
My only criticism is please get somebody to talk about Australian cricket, West Indian cricket and African Kenya, Zimbabwe, S Africa cricket the way that you have India andPakistan- Sri Lanka too would be great
I understand just how important it is to preserve the traditions of English cricket about which Oborne and Heller are so very passionate and I like hearing about it because it’s much neglected. As an avid listener I ask that you occasionally increase your geographic reach - I’d be even more of a fan of this thing - I loved the episode with ram Guha and the latest one too.
I Westbury also so interesting to listen to on the women’s game - it’d be great to hear about that tradition
Thank you!
Just about perfect
Osborne and Heller both have gorgeous radio voices and a total command of the language. They love and know cricket but understand CLR James’ dictum that ‘what do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ Excellent guests whom they know how to bring the best out of.
I found the Peter Hain episode deeply moving: just old enough to remember the fuss in the background but no sense at all of what hain went through until hearing that episode (then reading his book). (It made me proud of my own tiny role fighting for divestment on the campus of a private us university in the eighties).
But every episode teaches us something new. I want to spend some days at some county matches sitting with my 81 year old dad and our mate Bob watching joyfully and listening to these chaps in the car and during the breaks. (Normally we discuss education policy!).
Anyway. Outstanding. Another gift that the pandemic has brought. (Alongside antique dust and teaching in person on an otherwise deserted campus!)