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Nostalgia Pod: The Best Test Innings vs India

In another trip down nostalgia’s lane, we do a snake-style draft to discuss the Best Test Innings vs India.

Joining today on the pod are the 2 Adityas, Raj, Nishant & MV.

15 innings/

performances which captured our imagination.

Jayasuriya 340 - AdityaP

KP 186 - RSS

Akmal 113 - Nishant

Baz McCullum 302 - Aditya1

Steve Smith 109 - MV

Ollie Pope 196 - MV

Dinesh Chandimal 162 & 59 - Aditya1

Afridi 141 - Nishant

Younis Khan 267 - RSS

Clarke 329 - AdityaP

Andy Flower -232 AdityaP

Jimmy Adams 174* & 78* - RSS

Hayden 203 Nishant

Travis Head 162 - Aditya1

Saeed Anwar 188 - MV

We rant about the Indian Olympic coverage, and a lot of sports tak.

We do a draft India-Pak squad purely on nostalgia and vibes. Discuss fond memories of the players along the way.

Michael Sanders is a professor of Public Policy at King’s

College, London and the director of the experimental

Government team & on this pod we discuss his latest

paper - Built it and they will search - The impact of

using double-header fixtures to boost the profile of

women’s cricket

Paper Link - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/double-header-matches-boost-

interest-in-womens-cricket-study-finds

King’s College Profile - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/michael-sanders

Twitter Profile - https://x.com/mike_t_sanders

Best of Cricket Substack by Tarutr Malhotra - https://

bestofcricket.substack.com/

In this episode, we discuss cricket analytics, growing the game, quantifying pressure/clutch in sport with one of the pre-eminent analysts in our game, Tim Wigmore.

A fantasy draft episode of men's cricketers who deserved an ODI WC but didn't win one. Also, lot of nostalgia detour along the way.

In this episode, we talk about the reactions, celebrations and the ramifications of this T20 WC win. Also, in the second half we discuss the state of the woman's game and the structural challenges to it. Also, more VikNik, Noman Niaz discussion.

Mohammad Isam is Bangladesh cricket’s leading voice and has been writing on cricket for over 15 years, first with The Daily Star and what will be 12 years very soon for ESPN Cricinfo. Isam bhai has a bird’s eye view of Bangladesh Cricket and looks at the game not just as a journalist but also as someone who played the game with many of the players who have or are currently playing in the national setup.

In this freewheeling chat, we discuss at length what happened in the Afghanistan Bangladesh game in the 2024 T20 WC, the larger context around Bangladesh cricket, influence of social media on the team and it’s management, eerie similarities to the Indian Cricket team in the 1990’s, the burden of being Bangladesh with the shadow of India and Pakistan, anecdotes on many cricketers known and unknown, remembered and forgotten, fast bowling arsenal for the future, business ideas for Asian nations barring India, chances of Bangladesh being overdogs by playing more with Associate nations, the vagaries of the first class structure which ends up governing the Bangladesh Cricket Board and book recommendations.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast:

Javed Omar, no, yes, sorry in The Cricket Monthly - https://t.ly/7zAHp

Left-arm revolutionaries in The Cricket Monthly - https://shorturl.at/aXvLA

Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya: https://shorturl.at/IL1O0

Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya - https://shorturl.at/b2N7n

Mashrafe by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Book is in Bangla) https://shorturl.at/13564

Basil D'oliveira: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne - https://shorturl.at/Hibgo

Book by Mohammad Isam:

On the Tigers’ Trail - https://t.ly/QuNnP