A Preview of England's Tests in India with Subash Jayaraman and Daniel Norcross

02/03/21 • 80 min

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.

Daniel Norcross tweets @norcrosscricket

Subash jayaraman tweets @cricketcouch

I tweet @cricketingview

This podcast was recorded on February 2, 2021.

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A conversation with Jack Shantry & Daniel Norcross on Umpiring and the Laws of Cricket

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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A Conversation with S Rajesh Of ESPNCricinfo About Their Control Statistic

This conversation is about ESPNCricinfo's Control statistic with their senior stats editor S Rajesh. We discuss what the metric tries to measure, what it contributes to understanding the game, and some interesting statistical summaries of the Control measure over 15 years and hundreds of Tests.

Read Sidharth Monga's review of Chennai Test featuring the control measure here

The episode was recorded on February 12, 2021.

Rajesh tweets (infrequently) @rajeshstats