The Guerilla Cricket Podcast

Four months with no cricket, and now, we have no time. Host Nakul Pande and the unnervingly positive Machel St Patrick Hewitt (host of the excellent Caribbean Cricket Podcast) use the last moment of quiet before the 2nd Test build-up begins in earnest to recollect the emotion of Southampton in tranquility: Did England really doom themselves with their decision-making, or did they just not play as...

Two shaky top orders but pace in abundance, so who will prevail in the bio-secure bowl: Guerilla Cricket's Nigel Henderson puts the question to Mach St Patrick Hewitt, of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast and fellow broadcasters Dave Brook and Barry Wilkinson ( Line and Length ) before the latter pair argue the merits and demerits of coach Phil Simmons and recall happy days in the company of Everton W...

Guerilla Cricket meets Dan Newman of JDRF UK Throughout the rolling, tumbling, dice throwing mayhem of the Dickwella Broad Owzat Trophy, we’ve been partnering with JDRF UK.   In this special episode of the Guerilla Cricket Podcast, Guerilla and DBOT finalist Tony Bishop, meets Daniel Newman of JDRF UK. Diagnosed at 10 years old with Type 1 Diabetes, Dan’s journey has been challenging, deeply movin...

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Guerilla Cricket's Nigel Henderson talks to Indian former Test cricketer, coach and commentator Deep Dasgupta about whether and where the IPL can go ahead, scoring a century against England and how his best shot in international cricket came as he tried to protect his crown jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The title is woefully inadequate for the task at hand - but we had to call it something, and it's hard to spell a wordless scream. Anti-racism is not something to parcel into a pod-sized package and not think about again, and it's in that spirit that host Nakul Pande and Machel St Patrick Hewitt take to the mics. Nakul and Machel share their personal experiences of being cricket fans of colour, di...

The lords of cricket have spoken - what they've (not) said may shock you! Joining host Nakul Pande from across three continents to discuss the ICC's non-decision about the men's T20 World Cup, what's they've decided to decide instead, what might decide the  most important election in ICC history, and Australia deciding to scheduling some actual cricket - decisively:   MEL FARRELL - superstar freel...

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*STRONG ISAAC VIVIAN ALEXANDER RICHARDS CONTENT* Telling host Nakul Pande how their love of cricket and their time on Guerilla Cricket began this week: SEAN TRACEY ALAN HOTCHKISS Over the next couple of months, we're running a fundraising campaign for ourselves and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation UK, who do amazing work tackling Type 1 diabetes - stick around to the end for why this caus...

This week's episode tests even host Nakul Pande's relentless optimism. He discusses which of the IPL and the men's T20 World Cup can, will or even should happen in the second half of this COVID-ravaged cricketing year with: KHALID MOHIDIN: Owner and editor, Cricket Fanatics Magazine ANKIT MISHRA: Co-founder and editor, CricTracker  The panel dissect in some detail the logistical, financial and mor...

“Diligent research and evocative story telling combine to make this book a truly compelling read”. Praise indeed for ‘Wizards’ and its author Anindya Dutta, from none other than Kapil Dev.   In this episode of Guerillashire, Tony Bishop and Anindya discuss the mystical, twirling, whirling, floating, ripping, gripping world of Indian spin bowling. No other skill has contributed more to India’s cric...

You, and we, enjoyed our first edition of Origin Stories so much that we came back for another! This time, host Nakul Pande's companions on our stroll down memory lane are: ANNIE CHAVE: Unofficial president of the Marcus Trescothick Fan Club and actual founder and editor of County Cricket Matters GARY NAYLOR: Cricket writer, theatre critic and devotee of the aesthetics of cricket and those who pla...

It's cricket most thrilling, most physically demanding and most misunderstood skill - on this week's Guerilla Cricket Podcast, host Nakul Pande constructs a three-pronged attack to unpack what fast bowling's all about: IAIN O'BRIEN: Former New Zealand fast bowler, creator of the Youtube channel 108 with IOB and friend of the show GLADSTONE SMALL: Much-loved former Warwickshire and England fast bow...

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In the first of an occasional series, this week we're going back in time to where it all began for some of our most loved and most interesting Guerillas. When did they first watch and play the game? Who were their first cricketing heroes? How did they get the cricket bug? Were they bitten by a radioactive Peter Such? Host Nakul Pande breaks off from mythologising Lance Klusener long enough to hear...

It's not all about the big money and the big names. The COVID-19 cricket shutdown has repercussions at all levels of the game, including where the budgets are tight even at the best of times - and in case you'd not been paying attention, these really are not the best of times. To tell us about the challenges faced by smaller boards, what's being done to deal with them, and what the ICC are doing t...

The shutdown of cricket around the world is both a huge blow and a huge opportunity - we have the space to reflect on why we love cricket so and why it's not an exaggeration to say we need it. So this week we're looking at the game's impact on mental health, mental health's role in playing and watching cricket at all levels, and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects that symbiotic relationship. Host N...

Cricket is dead, long live the Guerilla Cricket Podcast! Host Nakul Pande and guests Tony Bishop and Tim Part are locked-down and loaded to reckon with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this cricketing year. We ask: Will there be cricket in 2020, and who makes that call? SHOULD there be cricket in 2020, and does it even matter? Should the Hundred be postponed? The need for creativity and conn...

Welcome to the latest Guerillashire. Best wishes and positive thoughts to everyone in these tough times!  In this edition, we have a special treat for followers of Lancashire as Gary Naylor of the Guardian and long - time Guerilla selects his greatest ever Lancashire England team. In his inimitable way (that we all enjoy imitatating), Gary picks players he has actually seen play in his life time,...

Neville Cardus’ two great passions were music and cricket. He described how one majestic stroke maker ‘made music’ and ‘spread beauty’ with his bat. Between the two wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words.   In this latest Guerillashire, Tony Bishop interviews multi award winning author Duncan Hamilton, who in ‘The Great Romantic’, casts a new light on the enigmatic Ca...

In the first Guerilla Cricket Podcast of 2020, we have some big questions to answer. In matters purely of willow and leather, there's the vexed issue of mandatory 4 day Tests, and a South Africa v England Test series heading into its 3rd Test finely poised. But we don't have the luxury of keeping it inside the boundary - with the Proteas' commitment to transforming what was for so long an all-whit...

Two teams in transition; four men in a state of confusion. Yes, it's the Guerilla Cricket South Africa v England series preview podcast in which host Nigel Henderson lures wisdom and whimsy on World Test Championships, Kookaburras, a sextet of potential new Test caps and obdurate coaching staffs from Guerilla regulars Tony Bishop, the Bear and, all the way from Joburg itself, Guerilla Cricket Sout...

“What is more frightening?  Facing the quickest bowler in the world in front of 30,000 people or walking into a crack den in South Central Los Angeles?”   That’s just one of the questions host @tonybishop1 discussed at Edgbaston with Paul Smith, hero of @WarwickshireCCC 1994 treble winners.  The latest Guerillashire Podcast from @guerillacricket is here!   Paul was part of the all - conquering War...

Five T20Is, two Tests and one month later, what did we learn? Host Nakul Pande and guest Tasneem-Summer Sadiq Khan pore over the footage and hit the scorebooks to find out. We get excited about England's T20 new boys, puzzle over the non-selection of Ben Foakes and lament the poor Test pitches. And as ever when we go beyond the on-field action, Tas is fascinating when we talk about the racial abus...

Welcome to the latest Guerillashire. We have a special treat for followers of Gloucestershire as life - long supporter Steve Jinmam selects history’s greatest ever Gloucestershire England team.  And what a history it is, with Steve leaving no stone unturned in the depth of his research.  Expect to see the likes of WG and Wally Hammond rubbing shoulders with other greats in a selection to get Glouc...