81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
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Talking cricket with Siddhartha Vaidyanathan.
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
2w ago
How much does bowling matter in T20s and how does one measure the potency of a bowler in this format? What are the measures of excellence for a T20 bowler?
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Talking Points:
How does one describe a good T20 bowler?
Is it possible to separate actions and outcomes for T20 bowling?
A format that offers the bowlers almost no leverage
What is the role of bowlers in a contest designed to be between bat and bat?
Does a great T20 bowler need any particular skills?
The value of bowlers with unconventional actions
What Jasprit Bumrah does well in T20s
Why T20 b ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
3w ago
T20 started in the early 2000s but what if the format was invented 15 years earlier. Who were the players who would have excelled in the shorter format? We decided to pick a T20 side from the era before the IPL and debated how Aravinda de Silva and Brian Lara might have changed their game for T20s. And if players like Ricardo Powell and Adrian Kuiper would have had more illustrious careers than they did.
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Talking Points:
The evolution of ODIs and T20s - and how both took about 20 years ago mature
Would players like Sunil Narine have been as big a star if not for T20s ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
3w ago
We review the fifth Test between India and England in Dharamshala – where India stamped their authority with a win by an innings and 64 runs.
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Talking Points:
A one-sided – and thoroughly expected – end to a Test series in India
The Bazball delusion
England's inadequate bowling resources thoroughly exposed
Kuldeep the genius - a wristspinner with both variety and control
R Ashwin caps off his 100th Test with signature spells
The first morning - when Bumrah and Siraj made the ball talk
The challenge against spin for Duckett, Pope, Stokes, and Bairstow  ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
2M ago
We review the fourth Test between India and England in Ranchi – where India sealed a series with a magnificent five-wicket win.
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Talking Points:
The third-innings bowling that capped another brilliant third-day fightback
India's forced accelerated transition - with a team full of youngsters
Dhruv Jurel's expert batting with the tail
Ashwin, Jadeja, Kuldeep - an undecipherable trio
Bazball sucking all the oxygen out of the England media
Did England miss a trick by not bowling Anderson and Robinson enough?
How England's statements often ran opposite to their ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
2M ago
We review the third Test between India and England in Rajkot – where a terrific all-round performance helped India go 2-1 up.
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Talking Points:
India's magnificent bowling on Day 3
How the flat pitches in this series are neutralizing Bazball
India's spinners - turning the ball more with greater control
Why England's batting tactics are actually a tribute to India's great bowling
Why India are actually relentlessly attacking while England are highly defensive
Why England should have played an extra seamer in all three Tests
The problem for England's spinners in I ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
2M ago
We review the second Test between India and England in Visakhapatnam – where Jasprit Bumrah powered India to a 106-run win.
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Talking Points:
A celebration of Test cricket
A series with echoes of the 2016-17 home series v Australia
Are England really playing Bazball?
India's decision to play five bowlers even with an inexperienced batting line-up
Does anyone think of drawing a Test match these days?
Jasprit Bumrah: an artist operating on a different plane to the rest
James Anderson's spell and the mystery around how little he bowls in India
Did England pick ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
3M ago
We review the first Test between India and England in Hyderabad – where India lost a Test match at home after gaining a first-innings lead of 190.
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Talking Points:
One of England's greatest wins
Ollie Pope's freakish 196
India's approach to facing left-arm spin
Why England choose to sweep and reverse-sweep India's spinners
Bazball and the approach to risk-taking
India's batters getting out to unforced errors after being set
Jasprit Bumrah's astonishing range
Participants:
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)
Ashoka (@ABVan ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
3M ago
We rewind to England's tour to India in 2001-02 - when India won the three-Test series 1-0 and England leveled the six-match ODI series 3-3. England arrived in India on the back of terrific series wins in Sri Lanka and Pakistan - and despite a green bowling attack managed to gave India a scare in two Tests.
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Talking Points:
The uncertainty around the tour because of the events around 9/11
India's eventful 2001 - epic wins, big defeats, and plenty of controversy
The similar (yet contrasting) narratives around the captaincy of Nasser Hussain and Sourav Gangu ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
3M ago
We review the two-Test series between South Africa and India - which ended 1-1 after a bowler-dominated shootout in Cape Town.
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Talking Points:
India's missed opportunity to finally win a series in SA
Why the Cape Town pitch backfired on South Africa
India's lack of fast bowling depth - a sign of more struggles in future away series
Mohammad Siraj's dream spell on the first morning in Cape Town
Dean Elgar's century: a tale of plays-and-misses and cashing in on poor bowling
Aiden Markram's astonishing attack
Where Rabada and Bumrah showed their class: figur ..read more
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
5M ago
We are thrilled to have novelist and cricket writer Rahul Bhattacharya to talk about his experiences from the World Cup.
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Talking points:
Cricket writing v cricket analysis - and how each is a specialised job
Does the BCCI care for what is written about them in the press?
The antipathy towards Indian and foreign fans throughout this World Cup
The staggering amount of money people were willing to pay for tickets
The experience of covering a match at Ahmedabad
India v Pakistan - and how the discourse seems to be war minus the shooting
Jasprit Bumrah - what can't h ..read more