Good Areas Podcast

Michael Clarke is our topic this week. Clarke has always been so fascinating to me, and he was the first cricketer I ever wrote a feature on. So, I got Subash Jayaraman to come back into his temporary host seat to grill me about my Clarke work. Here we talk about Australia, class, chasing legendary status, LeBron and KD, Quentin Tarantino, Rick McCosker, and pretty much everything else.

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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://twitter.com/cricketcouch and the archive to his 200 podcast episodes are here [Couch Talk] ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-talk/id1474979526)

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 1971, legendary cricketer Rachael Heyhoe-Flint and millionaire Jack Hayward sat up into the night coming up with the idea for a global women’s cricket tournament. It was then that cricket had its first World Cup. So I got on an expert to discuss it. Raf and I chat about where women’s cricket was in ’71, the weird scheduling, political interference, a final (kind of), Enid Bakewell and of course a fair bit on Rachael Heyhoe-Flint.

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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 Raf Nicholson on twitter at https://twitter.com/RAfNicholson and you can find her site here [CRICKETher | Women’s Cricket News & Views] (https://crickether.com)

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 week we have a T20 cricketer who in the last five years has the 4th best average and 4th best economy rate. Benny comes on to talk about his weird career so far, how he’s been overlooked despite his record, how baseball changed everything and what part his ADHD has played in him becoming the player he is. Not many medium pacers are part pitcher and part Dan Vettori, but Benny Howell is not like the others.

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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 Benny on twitter at https://twitter.com/bennytweets_and you can see him bowling guys a lot here [Benny Howell - Gloucestershire Cricket) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmDQ-DnJ0o

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.

England sucked considerably in the 90’s, so much so that their sucking seemed to effect all English cricket fans from that era. They are a broken and deformed bunch, perhaps none more so than our guest on this episode, Emma John. This episode we talk about Emma’s teen years spent clipping things from newspapers, her journey in meeting so many of those 90’s players, and how many of those cricketers are like characters in the background of an Adam Sandler film.

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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 Emma John on twitter at https://twitter.com/em_john and you can find her book here [Following On: Emma John](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Following-Teenage-Obsession-Terrible-Cricket/dp/1472916875)

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

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

Harsha Bhogle is one of the cricket world’s most well-known faces. As a commentator he has spent years being the lone non-cricketer in a sea of monosyllabic former greats. But the thing about Harsha being a non-cricketer is that he’s not, he did play the game, and so o this episode we talk about his early life following and playing the game. Then later on he gets bored of talking about himself and stars to question me on the future of cricket and analytics.

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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 Harsha Bhogle on twitter at https://twitter.com/bhogleharsha and he’s most frequently found on CricBuzz these days [Harsha Bhogle-Voice Of Cricket http://Cricbuzz.com](https://cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/experts/harsha-bhogle/170)

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.

Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde have written the definitive book on T20 cricket. So I got Wigmore to come in and talk about some different themes that the book touches on. Chris Gayle’s hamstrings, drugs, Windball, Ganguly and ABDV’s fairly empty trophy cabinet are just some of the topics.

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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 Tim Wigmore on twitter at https://twitter.com/timwig and you can buy Cricket 2.0 here [Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution - Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year 2020](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cricket-2-0-Inside-T20-Revolution/dp/1909715840)

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

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

Left arm wrist spinner Tabraiz Shamsi comes on to talk about why he chose wrist spin, his mentor Imran Tahir, his different journey towards the top and the day he felt worthy when bowling to MS Dhoni.

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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 Tabraiz Shamsi on twitter at https://twitter.com/Shamsi90 and here is just one of his famous celebrations: [What a catch! Tabraiz Shamsi celebrates wicket with magic trick on field, watch - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AweX6143xPU).

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 something slightly different, we talk about my story on Sreesanth, and for that, we drop in the king of cricket podcasts Subash Jayaraman to interview me. Sreesanth was a fast bowler and figure of fun for much of his career, then there was the match fixing and what followed next. It was a bizarre story of an interesting man.

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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 Jayararman on twitter at https://twitter.com/cricketcouch and the archive to his 200 podcast episodes are here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-talk/id1474979526

You can find a link to the article on Sreesanth I wrote (with help from Nagraj Gollapudi) here https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1204180/sreesanth--the-story-of-a-fall

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

LBW's have changed, they way they are given, who gets them, and pretty much everything else to do with them. So Karthik has come on to chat about this, as he wrote a piece on it for Cricinfo recently. Today I got on someone who is equally interested in this as I am. We discuss how batmen’s techniques have changed, what bowlers are doing better and how tail enders are finally getting a good go of it.

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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 Karthik Krishnaswamy on twitter at https://twitter.com/the_kk and here is his piece on LBWs https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29140354/umpires-giving-more-lbws-now-did-drs.

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.

Wright Thompson comes on to talk about learning about cricket, India and the time he called up non-cricket fans to tell them about Mahela and Kumar. We talk about writing, journalism and the reason that cricket is so interesting.

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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 Wright’s work here https://www.espn.com/search/_/type/articles/q/wright%20thompson.

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

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