Never on the Backfoot: A Podcast

Welcome to Episode 103 (Part B) of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. This episode is taking Gujarat Titans as a case study and assessing their run this IPL 2022 from a Sports Psychology perspective. On the podcast, we have Sahen Gupta, a Sports & Performance Psychologist and Founder of Discovery Sport & Performance Labs. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast, and many other platforms and spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, and more. Stay safe and take care listeners 🌻

Welcome to Episode 103 (Part A) of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Gujarat Titans embarked on a thrillingly unexpected path from being almost unanimously dismissed to winning the IPL title in their inaugural season. This episode is all about GT’s dream season with Navya Gupta. She was with us in Episode 93 during the IPL fan series and we had an amazing time discussing everything about GT but having her in this post-analysis episode is a bonus and a must listen. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast, and many other platforms and spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, and more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care listeners! 🌻

Welcome to Episode 102 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is Tanish Prabhu for a comprehensive look back at IPL 2022 team-wise. The 2022 IPL season provided numerous of surprises for fans, notably the dismal campaigns of the two most successful franchises, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. The Indian Premier League (IPL) came to a glamorous finale on with fireworks lighting up the Ahmedabad night sky and confetti showering on Hardik Pandya and his winning Gujarat Titans teammates. Instead, the increased 10-team competition saw the birth of Gujarat and Lucknow Super Giants, the latter of which also made the playoffs in their inaugural season. The playoff matches were split between Kolkata and Ahmedabad, and the big crowd for the final demonstrates the world's wealthiest T20 league's undying popularity. Where talent meets opportunity: the IPL played up to its slogan once more, with the 2022 season revealing a slew of pacers, some raw and others polished. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 101 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is N Jagannath Das. Born in a family of journalists, Sir was inspired by his father late NR Swami, who was correspondent of The Statesman, The Hindu and PTI from 30s to late 70s. His other three brothers (NVR Swami, N Pattabhi and late N Ramdas) followed in their father's footsteps. Sir started his career in Newstime in 1984 in Hyderabad before he joined Indian Express in 1986 and was in this paper till 2016. His last paper was Telangana Today where he worked as Deputy Editor heading sports desk. During his long career, he covered Test matches and the 2011 World Cup. He was part of the New Indian Express team that covered the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Apart from that be gave a lot of importance to local matches. For him, the biggest satisfaction was to write on Sania Mirza, VVS Laxman, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal when they were very young. They went on become super stars of Indian sports. He retired at the age of 62 on November 30 as Deputy Editor of Telangana Today. It was an amazing conversation where a lot of aspects about his career and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 100 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is WV Raman. Standing unusually tall at the crease, with a left-hander's penchant for off-side play, WV Raman was a batter who should have ended with more generous returns than 11 Tests and 27 ODIs. He began as a left-arm spinner whose strength was his ability to out-think batters rather than impart outrageous spin or deliver an indecipherable arm-ball; he picked up a wicket in his first over in Test cricket, albeit that of Courtney Walsh. But Raman proved to be a batter of considerable skill. He hit a purple patch in 1988-89, scoring 313 for Tamil Nadu against Goa, and for good measure notched up two more double-centuries, ending the season with 1018 runs, surpassing a 44-year-old record for most runs in a season. As with many other batters of his time WV Raman Sir was forced to open the innings in order to play for India, and did so with some success. His second-innings 83 on Test debut, batting at No. 3, was overshadowed by Narendra Hirwani's feat of picking up the best bowling figures of 16-136 on debut. Sir's international career never really got going, and when Vinod Kambli was favoured over him during England's tour of India in 1993 the writing was on the wall. Kambli cashed in, and Raman's career remained a question of what might have been. The record will show, however, that he scored 96, his highest Test score - against New Zealand at home in 1990, went to Sri Lanka in 1993 and did not take part in a single first-class game, and became the first Indian to score a hundred against the South Africans, in an ODI at Centurion Park in the Friendship Tour of 1992-93. Raman Sir continues to be one of the shrewdest thinkers of the game now and dons many roles. This introduction describing Sir was written beautifully by Anand Vasu Sir on ESPN Cricinfo, but there is so much more to the man. Hopefully, this episode provides you, listeners, with a glimpse of the man who indeed is a legend. Without further ado, let's hop on to understand more about his journey with Cricket. It was an amazing conversation where a lot of things about his career, playing days, his coaching career and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 99 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining me on the podcast is Yash Lahoti. Sir is the co-founder of Women's CricZone and its parent company ‘Breaking Boundaries’. Women's CricZone is the most comprehensive and premier media platform for Women’s Cricket in the world. They cover every single ball in every International and Domestic matches across all nations which play the sport. They produce unique video content for digital consumption which they share regularly on their social media platforms. At Women's CricZone, he is committed to growing the profile of Women's Cricket through media, business syndications and athlete management. It was an amazing conversation where a lot of things about his career, interests, passions and everything women's cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 98 of Never on the Backfoot. Joining me on the podcast is Shashank Kishore. He is a cricket writer and desk editor with over a decade's experience in the digital media space. He prides himself in telling human-interest stories, delving into the mind of players and coaches. It was an amazing conversation where a lot of things about his career, interests, passions and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 97 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is Annesha Ghosh. She is a multimedia journalist with ESPN (India) Digital Media Pvt Ltd with more than five years' experience in working with leading governing bodies in sport. Having begun her career in sports journalism in February 2017, she has covered the 2017 World University Games in Taipei City as a FISU Young Reporter, the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Young Reporter, and the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan as a writer-photographer on the CISM staff to name a few. She works as a full-time reporter, writer, and sub-editor with ESPN Cricinfo, the world's leading cricket website, and has covered Olympic sports such as tennis, shooting, football, hockey, and sports climbing for ESPN.com. In the recent past, she reported on a lot of the latest tournaments and has broken news several times from the headquarters of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. A major part of her work in cricket is focused on the women's game and involves creating long-form features (text, photos, and videos) for The Cricket Monthly, the digital magazine of ESPN Cricinfo. It was a lively conversation where a lot of things about her career, interests, passions and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 96 (Part 2) of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. This World Cup has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride as we’ve seen some scintillating matches and real nail biter encounters. What has been really fascinating to see is how none of the matches have been lopsided and they’ve all been fairly contested encounters. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙

Welcome to Episode 96 (Part 1) of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. This World Cup has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride as we’ve seen some scintillating matches and real nail biter encounters. What has been really fascinating to see is how none of the matches have been lopsided and they’ve all been fairly contested encounters. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners 💙