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Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am joined by Sandeep, Hamza and Ajit for a quick recap of the India-Pakistan match and other interesting results from the 2nd week of the tournament so far, and give our prediction for the Ind-NZ , and Pak-Afg match. We also talk about Netherlands' surprising show against SA, and England's disappointing one thus far.  The Cricket Slouch - @Cricketing_Co...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another edition of The Cricket Slouch. Why do we need to talk about ODIs ? In today’s episode Shounak, Sandeep and I talk about the recent comments made by Mark Nicholas on the decline of the ODIs and that perhaps we should stop playing ODIs altogether, other than the World Cup. We look at this from the view of a common cricket fan, like us, and try and parse that state...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to all our dear listeners.. This is the last in a 3-part series previewing the teams participating in the ten team tournament, also known as the ICC cricket world cup 2023. Eng and Australia were the last remaining teams which we had not covered earlier, and to help even that out I have James and Damien with me to share their thoughts on matters related to the sq...

Send us Fan Mail Greetings everyone. After starting the Ten Team Tournament preview with India-Pak the last time round, and with next one planned for Aus-Eng, this has become the Meat-in-the-Sandwich episode, and it is a big chunk of meat too as we discuss the squads put forward by New Zealand, South Africa, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Netherlands and Afghanistan.  We talk using food metaphors, sarcasm...

Send us Fan Mail Greetings and welcome to all listeners to the Cricket Slouch podcast. Today we will touch upon some of the salient events of the past 6 weeks, such as the series wins by Sri Lanka and Pakistan womens teams over England and South Africa respectively, Heath Streak’s passing, and the Indo-Pak section of the ongoing Asia Cup and then discuss India and Pakistan’s WC squads. Today I am...

Send us Fan Mail This episode focuses on the 3rd Ashes test post-mortem. We talk about Mitch Marsh's return, Stokes heroics, Wood's and Woakes' contributions, Murhpy's baptism, Bairstow's and Warner's poor form, poor cricket tactics from Australia, and possible selection dilemmas and expectations for the 4th test match. 

Send us Fan Mail This episode was recorded before the final match of the CWC Qualifier final between SL and Netherlands, which is a mere formality to decide which team ends in which group for the Ten Team Tournament. It has been a fascinating competition thus far over the past 3 weeks with more than a tournament’s fair share of highs, lows, heartbreaks and feel-good stories. To help talk about thi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we do a preview of the India-West Indies series. We talk team squads, the arbitrary science of selection, player fitness, Indian bench strength, squad development for the next major tournament, nostalgia about the Windies, press box gossip and the very high probability of India winning comfortably. To discuss this, we are joined by a new guest, Rahul Patil, who we...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the review episode for the 2nd Ashes test, where i am joined by James and Damien, my Ashes regulars now. In this one, we talk about the cricket and non-cricket drama from the second test of the men's Ashes series. We brush on politics, the loss of Windies from the WC 2023, Border's recent diagnosis, and our expectations from the next match. Long may the shenan...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am joined by Sandeep and Shounak, returning collaborators to talk about the ongoing CWC Qualifiers, the pathway to WC qualification, which team has impressed and who hasnt, our usual ICC bashing, and talk of potential things that can be done to market the game better.  TCS can be found on twitter @cricketing_conv

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am joined by Damien to discuss the first Ashes test, Ricky Ponting's wine, Broad's likely record for most 6 sixes in an Ashes career, England's ageing side, and a likely Aussie win. Twitter interactions on @Cricketing_Conv

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Sandeep and I are joined by Damien, our long awaited Australian contributor. We talk about the WTC final thus far and parse the Indian and Australian performance over the first 4 days and discuss the possibility for the final day. 

Send us Fan Mail The first episode of Season 2 ! In this one, i sit down with Sandeep, and Ajith from the Armchair Cricket Podcast, to preview the WTC Final between India and Australia, a bit prematurely but wanted to get this done while everyone else is focussed on the IPL final four.  Ajith can be found tweeting using the id @ArmchairCricPod We are at @Cricketing_Conv as usual. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch and this is the one-year anniversary episode. As we began the podcast on Sachin’s birthday with an episode dedicated to his Desert Storm innings , we will celebrate the anniversary with something related to the great player.  And to lend credibility to this episode, I have a very special guest appearance, a cricket and Sachin fan kn...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am joined in this episode by Shounak, a regular on this podcast, and along with us is our special guest, Amol Karhadkar, assistant senior editor with The Hindu. Our topic of discussion today is journalism in cricket, and both Amol and Shounak will provide personal insights based on their experience. We talk about the changes seen in the digital age, the difficul...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we have a special guest who has joined us all the way from the land of the rising sun, the samurais, the sakuras, the anime, manga, ramen, Takoyaki, etc.  Today we have Alan Curr, Head of Operations at Japan Cricket Association, here to talk to us about the state of the game in Japan, the hard work that his team and players have done to spread the game, build a dom...

Send us Fan Mail After a gap of almost a month, Sandeep, Shounak and I catch up to recap some of the main cricketing events, results, talking points and anecdotes over the last month.  We also give a shout out to a recent episode of The Red Inker by @ajarrodkimber where he talks about the origins of 'The Mankad' dismissal and I would highly recommend listening to this episode. 

Send us Fan Mail A preview of the India-Australia series with Bhavin. We talk about the likely team compositions, playing XIs, venues, pitches, missed selections and a likely outcome of the series. It appears that our curse has struck again and Hazlewood was pronounced injured soon after this podcast was recorded.. ouch..  Our twitter handle is @Cricketing_Conv Credit to Noman and Umangi for the p...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am joined by our regular collaborator James, and our esteemed guest Dan Weston. In this episode we talk about England’s rise from (since) the Ashes in tests, and their superior performances in white ball cricket that has led them to hold two WC concurrently. We also talk about the upcoming series against NZ, the Ashes obviously, and where does Eng cricket go from here, esp...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sandeep, Shounak, Ajith and I talk about the aspects of the sport that frustrate and annoy us the most, about why cricket sucks as a sport, especially to someone new to it. This one is about how cricket can become more standardised in its implementation of the laws and regulations and just do away with silly things like "fair play" codes. We also touch u...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another episode of The Cricket Slouch and this is SP, your usual host. Today I am joined by my recurring collaborators, Shounak and Sandeep, and we pay our respects to a few cricket personalities that left us last year and also look forward to what we most look forward to in 2023 from a cricketing perspective. Similar to the last episode, we have a book mentioned today,...

Send us Fan Mail For those following global cricket this year, you’d have noticed the number of “upsets” we have seen at the T20 World Cup and a few others outside the global tournaments. This led me to think about what some of these upsets would mean for the respective teams and the legacy they would lead to. So I got round to talking with Shounak and Sandeep about this and we went down nostalgia...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I sit with Nitesh of the Broken Cricket Dreams blog to discuss his Open Letter to BCCI and the Ten Commandments a few friends and I came up with in 2011. Although this is specifically targeted at the BCCI and Indian cricket in general, I suppose the template can fit any team as we have seen from England's example. The Ten Commandments are - 1) To get rid of pa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk to Shounak, a contributor and reporter on the Emerging Cricket website that covers cricket in the non-mainstream nations. We talk about the success of the Emerging teams at the T20 WC, the overall state of the game, how they can benefit from more exposure, funding and to be shown a little more respect by their more illustrious peers. We also bash the ICC a...

Send us Fan Mail The One Where - I host not one, but 3 guests, and we discuss who is likely to do well at the T20 World Cup, the likely qualifiers from the qualifiers, the potential semi finalists, and who's likely to make it to the final round. Also, who's likely to be the dark horse to pip one of the fancied teams to the semis !We go on on our usual fact-less, opinion-fuelled "ana...