A Cricketing View

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.

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

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.

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.

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.