Ghostwriting for Imran, beach-cricket with Viv, working for Pataudi - interview with Mudar Patherya

06/03/20 • 136 min

Our special guest this week is Mudar Patherya, a cricket writer for Sportsworld magazine through the 1980s - before he moved on to other interests.

Across five trips to Pakistan, visits to Sharjah, a tour to West Indies, and several assignments within India - Mudar made a name for himself as one of the finest writers on the game. The more we listened, the more we were convinced that he was the 'Forrest Gump of cricket' in the '80s.

Talking Points:

Covering India's tour to Pakistan in 1982-83
The fascination with Abdul Qadir
Getting to know Imran Khan
Javed Miandad's famous six in Sharjah
The shock and disbelief in Lahore on that evening in 1987
The World Cup final at Eden Gardens
The fiery passion for cricket in a small corner of Calcutta
Meeting (and shocking) a president of the MCC
The genius of Mushtaq Ali
The magnificent Mr Pataudi
The craze for football in the Calcuta of the '70s and '80s
When Sanjay Manjrekar was the Wall
Sachin Tendulkar's first day in Test cricket
Collecting cricket memorabilia
and much more...

Related:

Lessons from a middle-aged cricketer - - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya

Does Kolkata still love Test cricket - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya

Third Ground - The Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya

A man of opposites - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya on Tiger Pataudi

Charmingly villainous - The Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya on Imran Khan

An Old, Old Cricketer Speaks - Wisden Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya interview with DB Deodhar

'Every generation needs its writers to tell its stories' - Sharda Ugra podcast on 81allout

England XI v Australians in 1921

Victor Trumper's iconic 335 and a smashed boot factory window - Cricketcountry.com - Pradip Dhole

Books by Mudar Patherya:

The Penguin Book of Cricket Lists - Mudar Patherya and Barry O'Brien

Wills Book of Excellence: Cricket - Mudar Patherya

Ultimate World Cup Cricket Quiz - Mudar Patherya and Ravikant Srivastava

Books discussed in the podcast:

Another Bloody Day in Paradise - Frank Keating

Beyond a Boundary - CLR James

Our special guest this week is Mudar Patherya, a cricket writer for Sportsworld magazine through the 1980s - before he moved on to other interests.

Talking Points:

Covering India's tour to Pakistan in 1982-83
The fascination with Abdul Qadir
Getting to know Imran Khan
Javed Miandad's famous six in Sharjah
The shock and disbelief in Lahore on that evening in 1987
The World Cup final at Eden Gardens
The fiery passion for cricket in a small corner of Calcutta
Meeting (and shocking) a president of the MCC
The genius of Mushtaq Ali
The magnificent Mr Pataudi
The craze for football in the Calcuta of the '70s and '80s
When Sanjay Manjrekar was the Wall
Sachin Tendulkar's first day in Test cricket
Collecting cricket memorabilia
and much more...

Related:

Lessons from a middle-aged cricketer - - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya

Does Kolkata still love Test cricket - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya

Third Ground - The Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya

A man of opposites - ESPNcricinfo - Mudar Patherya on Tiger Pataudi

Charmingly villainous - The Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya on Imran Khan

An Old, Old Cricketer Speaks - Wisden Cricket Monthly - Mudar Patherya interview with DB Deodhar

'Every generation needs its writers to tell its stories' - Sharda Ugra podcast on 81allout

England XI v Australians in 1921

Victor Trumper's iconic 335 and a smashed boot factory window - Cricketcountry.com - Pradip Dhole

Books by Mudar Patherya:

The Penguin Book of Cricket Lists - Mudar Patherya and Barry O'Brien

Wills Book of Excellence: Cricket - Mudar Patherya

Ultimate World Cup Cricket Quiz - Mudar Patherya and Ravikant Srivastava

Books discussed in the podcast:

Another Bloody Day in Paradise - Frank Keating

Beyond a Boundary - CLR James

Previous Episode

The stories behind the stories - interview with journalist Clayton Murzello

Our special guest for our latest episode is Clayton Murzello, group sports editor of Mid-Day in Mumbai.

A few months ago, we had chatted with Clayton about his journey in cricket journalism and of the stories surrounding club cricket in Mumbai.

This time we chose to ask him about the stories behind the stories – and the challenges that a journalist often has to overcome in the process of doing a story.

Talking Points:

The pros and cons of working for a tabloid
The preparation and approach to a cricket tour
The importance of reading
Meeting a paralyzed Winston Davis in England
His first big story for Mid-Day - about Mohsin Khan
Interviewing Michael Holding in the Dhaka airport
Tracking down the family of a cricketer who mysteriously disappeared
Knocking on an Indian captain's hotel room door late at night
The economics of the media today
and much more...

Participants:

Clayton Murzello (@claytonmurzello)

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Related:

Cricket in Mumbai: stories, legends, and folklore - 81allout podcast with Clayton Murzello

Winston Davis is paralyzed, but not in spirit - Clayton Murzello

'Every generation needs its writers to tell its stories' - 81allout podcast with Sharda Ugra

Next Episode

'I wanted my own language to have some of the game's glory' - Prof Surya Prakash Chaturvedi interview

Our special guest this week is Prof Surya Prakash Chaturvedi, a veteran cricket writer from Indore.

Prof Chaturvedi, a retired professor of English, chose to write about his passion in Hindi and went on to author 15 books on the game.

The 83-year-old Chaturvedi has had a chance to witness the great breadth of Indian cricket - starting with CK Nayudu and Mushtaq Ali all the way to the current generation.

Talking Points: