Pakistan Cricket Podcast

Had the pleasure of speaking to 6 brilliant fans on the first "Pakistan Fan Forum" on the Asia Cup 2022. Although he discuss the defeat and the problems in our approach, he begin by looking at Sri Lanka's brilliant victory and end with some positives (namely Naseem Shah and Nawaz). Unfortunately, we also had to address the possibility of another Shoaib Malik return!

You can find the panelists here:

Alvina: https://twitter.com/alvinaahmeds

Assad: https://twitter.com/CoverDriveCric

Raiyan: https://twitter.com/CricCritic2

Zain: https://twitter.com/PresidentMisbah

Abdullah: https://twitter.com/Abdullah719_

Osama: https://twitter.com/sporrtingnerd

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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So I’m really lucky to have interviewed Andrew Fidel Fernando—one of my favorite cricket writers—last week (August 3rd 2022).

You can find Andrew Fidel Fernando on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/afidelf

Here is his article on Sri Lanka's World Cup Victory in 1996: https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/834255/the-lion-s-fairy-tale

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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This is a special episode because not only is Zainub Razvi joining me as a guest host, we are joined by 6 members of “Pace is Pace Yaar” (aka PiPY). I want to thank two people in particular for making this happen: Zainub for coming up with the idea as well as the most important questions & Osman Samiuddin for helping me get MOST of the crew together.

You can find PiPY on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/PaceisPaceYaar

And some of PiPY's podcasts here: https://soundcloud.com/paceispaceyaar

You can find Zainub on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/zainubrazvi

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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So this is a special episode for the podcast. Not only do we have a wonderful guest in Nawab Hassan Hussein Qureshi from the Multan Sultans & Grassroots Cricket, I am also pleased to welcome the brilliant Hijab Zahid as a guest host for this episode for the first (of I hope) many occasions.

We talked about Pakistani Cricket in the 90s, Multan Sultans, and Grassroots Cricket. And, as promised, Hassan made sure to mention Biryani, Nihari, and Samosas during the recording. 

You can find Hassan here: https://twitter.com/HtotheQ

You can find Hijab here: https://twitter.com/hijaaaaab

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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I had the pleasure of speaking to my uncle Hammad Siddiqui (or Hammad Chacha to me), the former Pakistani first-class cricketer and cricket broadcaster. 

You can check out his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzwkYABJg69E4J_eE_r6cw/featured

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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This podcast is split into two parts. First, I had the pleasure of speaking to Azhar Mahmood, the former Pakistani all-rounder and bowling coach, for a few minutes on his coaching philosophy. This interview was recorded on March 9th. 

In the second part, I got the chance to speak to talkSport’s Cricket Editor and Surrey Cricket fan, Jonathan Norman about Pakistani players playing for Surrey over the years as well as Azhar Mahmood’s coaching reputation at Surrey.

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

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This podcast is split into two parts. First, I had the pleasure of speaking to Mickey Arthur, the former Pakistan Head Coach, for a few minutes on Zoom at the end of a long media day for his current team, Derbyshire. We spoke about the intelligence of players like Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, and Fakhar Zaman as well as the recent changes made to the Pakistani domestic structure.

In the second part, I was able to go in-depth into the topic of Pakistani coaches with the brilliant cricket journalist and commentator, Kamran Muzaffer https://twitter.com/Krick3r

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I’m really lucky to have Taha Hashim with me today.

Taha writes for Wisden Cricket Monthly and was recently commended for the Young Journalist of the Year award by the ECB https://twitter.com/taha_wisden?lang=en. Taha was recently in Pakistan covering the Pakistan-Australia Test Series, and joins me from the UK.

We talk about Usman Khawaja's form, the Azeem Rafiq-Yorkshire racism story, the criticism of Joe Root's captaincy, watching Abdullah Shafique bat, Naseem Shah's action, Pat Cummins's ridiculous consistency, and much more.

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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I’m really lucky to have two brilliant guests with me today.

Danyal is the sub-editor for ESPN Cricinfo writing on Pakistani Cricket, and Bharat is an Australian based cricket writer who writes for Cricbuzz. He is also the author of The Dhoni Touch: Unravelling the Enigma That is Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

You can find their work here:

For Danyal, see https://www.espncricinfo.com/author/danyal-rasool-689

For Bharat, see https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/author/bharat-sundaresan/235

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast

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I’m really pleased to be joined by Hijab Zahid & Alvina Ahmed to talk about: women's cricket in Pakistan, Bismah Maroof, the Women's World Cup in New Zealand, Cricket commentary, and online Pakistani cricket fan culture.

Hijab is an aspiring cricket commentator, who was the runner-up in the Voice of Pakistan, an initiative to find new commentary talent in the country (https://twitter.com/hijaaaaab). Alvina is a Pakistani cricket fan and writes for Khiladi Sports, an online platform for sports analysis (https://twitter.com/alvinaahmeds). 

For a brilliant article on the history of Women's Cricket in Pakistan, see this by Kamila Shamsie: 

For an excellent blog on Women's Cricket in Pakistan today, see this by Eman: https://doublewicketmaiden.substack.com/p/on-womens-cricket-in-pakistan-part?s=r

I also want to say thank you to DeKobe for letting me use his music: https://dekobe.bandcamp.com/album/space-adventures

You can donate to my patreon page if you would like to help me in continuing to do these podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/pakcricketpod

You can follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/PakCricPodcast 

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