Good Areas Podcast

Helmets are still not worn uniformly by batsmen in cricket, and that seems odd with everything we know about concussions and the death of Phil Hughes. In this episode, Snehal Pradhan - the former Indian cricketer - comes on to talk about the need for batters to wear helmets even when facing spin. We chat about Sultan Zarawani, Bermuda batters, Brian Close, Virat Kohli, freak accidents, concussion, helmet design, seat belts and how fast Snehal was. Or wasn’t.

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You can find Snehal Pradhan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SnehalPradhan.

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

In 2003 I had never left Australia before, and I planned a round the world trip that would end up in South Africa for the Cricket World Cup. It was a life changing trip for me, and I’ve never really written about it. But cricket podcast emperor Subash has heard me talk about it, and so he thought it would make a good podcast. We talk about watching Michael Jordan, the price of Hockey tickets, a baseball fight, a pub called Belushi’s, a greyhound toilet, Andy Bichel, stealing from Andrew Symonds, spitting, John Davison, and the time I woke up Adam Gilchrist on a plane.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Subash Jayaraman on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/cricketcouch.

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

We talk about selections in cricket a lot. I can’t think of another sport that seems so focused on them, and yet we talk about the process of how teams are elected so rarely. So I brought on my former colleague Mohammad Khan to talk through how he believes teams should be selected, taking from his knowledge as a Wall Street Trader and someone who won the CPL as a general manager. We talk about the amateur days of selection, Fawad Alam, what an all-rounder is, our own personal depth charts and Merv Hughes.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

DRS has changed how umpires make decisions, how TV companies look at the game and how batsmen bat. But there is still so much about the system that even the commentators themselves don’t seem to understand. One of the best writers on this is Kartikeya Date who has spent years trying to get to the bottom of how the ball tracking companies have worked out LBWs. On this episode we talk about umpire calls, the science and math behind the decisions, how teams are similar in their use of DRS, why the fifth day is terrible for reviews and lie detector tests.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Kartikeya Date on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cricketingview.

His piece on DRS is here: [On Umpire's Call] (https://cricketingview.substack.com/p/on-umpires-call)

If you want more reading try these two pieces as well:

[DRS: The Story So Far] https://redballdata.blog/2020/12/28/drs-the-story-so-far/

[Decoding the DRS: Quantifying the impact of umpire’s call] https://medium.com/kishan19/quantifying-the-impact-of-umpires-call-f00f7d1c80e0

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

This episode is about English spinners. Since Graeme Swann retired, England have tried 12 spinners. Many are batsmen who bowl a bit. Recently Geoffrey Bunting wrote a piece about English spin, the treatment of Jack Leach, and the reality of how little England seems to understand about nurturing the craft. We talk Samit Patel, Dom Bess, Moeen Ali, Gareth Batty and the “learn to bat” advice.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Geoffrey Bunting on Twitter at https://twitter.com/geoffreyreads.

His piece on England spinners can be found here: [Long Live The Kings Of Spain] (https://www.thefulltoss.com/england-cricket-blog/long-live-the-kings-of-spain/)

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

The common refrain from many cricket fans is that that associate teams are largely just Indian or Pakistani second XI’s. But in truth, modern sport is much more complicated than that. So this week we brought on Nishadh Rego from Emerging Cricket to talk about immigration in cricket, throughout history, and how it has changed and built cricket nations. We talk Afghans in Pakistan, Afghans in Germany, Oman and early Australia and South Africa, Ranji, the Thai Women’s team and how an Italian footballer had a poster of Allan Border on his bedroom wall.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Nishadh Rego on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ntrego88.

His piece on this issue can be found here: [The expat native binary in Associate cricket] (https://emergingcricket.com/opinion/the-expat-native-binary-in-associate-cricket/)

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

This episode of Red Inker is on one of cricket’s most remarkable spells by the man who bowled it, Aasif Karim. In 2003 I was backpacking around the World Cup, and we headed to Durban for the Kenya vs Australia match. We really didn’t expect much, as good as Kenya had been in the tournament, no one expected them to put up such of a fight against Australia. Brett Lee started with a hat-trick, Kenya limped to a sub-par total, and then Adam Gilchrist hit Kenya’s best bowlers out of Kingsmead. The match was heading for an obvious result when what looked like a middle-aged insurance broker came on to bowl. And what followed was extraordinary, as the world’s best team were stopped dead in their tracks by a man who had played a lifetime already, and who no one had noticed.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Aasif Karim on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/AasifKarim.

My piece on Aasif is here: [The Master Of Mombasa| The Cricket Monthly] (https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/900135/the-master-of-mombasa)

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

This has been a spectacularly bad year for pretty much everything, but they still played cricket, just. So, we talked about the highs, lows and major news stories in the game with Vithushan Ehantharajah. We covered the Women’s World Cup, bubbles, administration, IPL, the Hundred and the vector of disease.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Vithushan Ehantharajah on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Vitu_E, and here is his review of the year in cricket: [Cricket in 2020: Tumultuous year exposes deep-rooted issues amid flickers of game’s charm] (https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-2020-stuart-broad-james-anderson-b1779509.html)

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

This episode of Red Inker is where I get in a cricket podcast legend Subash Jayaraman to interview me. He wanted to talk about my love of Pankaj Singh, the Indian seamer. This is more than just Pankaj though, it’s about how we obsess over lovable losers. They guys who didn’t quite make it, they guys who did but left quick, the hard luck stories and grinders. We talk about other guys like Jamie Siddons, Mark Ramprakash, S Badrinath and Bryce McGain. We talk about the reason why these sorts of players stay with us, and also a little bit on Pankaj’s nipples.

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Subash Jayaraman on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/cricketcouch.

My two pieces on Pankaj can be found here: [The Woeful World Of Pankaj Singh] (https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21478548/the-woeful-world-pankaj-singh), [Pankaj Singh, Test wicket-taker] (https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21467716/jarrod-kimber-pankaj-singh-first-test-wicket)

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.

This episode of Red Inker we talk about the incredible English summer of 2019, when Steve Smith and Ben Stokes erased all previous faux-pas by being really good at cricket. So I got in someone who wrote a book called The Comeback Summer about the entire thing, Geoff Lemon. We look at what fans and media think, how these stories and narratives are constructed. Should Warner have scored more runs in the Ashes for extra love? Would Cameron Bancroft be better at redemption if he was better at cricket? Has being really good at the sport he was really good at shown us something about the moral character of Ben Stokes? And is Steve Smith an amorphous dumpling?

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To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121.

If you like this podcast, you may like the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/jarrodkimberyt.

You can find Geoff Lemon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GeoffLemonSport. His book, The Comeback Summer, can be found here: https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/the-comeback-summer-by-geoff-lemon/9781743796696[N1]

This podcast is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/nickamc.

The theme tune is by Red Crickets https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Red_Crickets/Red_Crickets.