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Oborne & Heller on Cricket

Peter Oborne, Richard Heller

Cricket authors (and obsessives) Peter Oborne and Richard Heller have launched a new podcast to help deprived listeners endure a world without cricket. They will chat regularly about cricket topics – hoping to keep a good line and length but with occasional wides into other subjects.

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56:54

Talking with Sports Writer and Radio Broadcaster Pat...

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/08/24

For well over forty years, as author, reporter and commentator with the highest standards of integrity, Pat Murphy has been telling the world about cricket as it really happened. He is the guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their latest cricket-themed podcast. He sets out his ideals as a radio commentator, above all, being authentic, the same person off air as on it – like Terry Wogan. He adds: “you’ve got the best seat in the house, bring people alongside you.” The paramount need is to

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44:26

Talking with Lord Jeffrey Archer

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/07/27

An ebullient Jeffrey Archer shares his lifelong passion for cricket as the latest guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller on their regular cricket-themed podcast.He describes his earliest memories of watching his beloved English county Somerset at the Clarence Park ground in Weston-super-Mare (sadly no longer used for first-class matches). As a boy, he demonstrated entrepreneurial flair selling scorecards and especially teas: this inspired resistance from trade unions and helped to shape his

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64:55

Talking with Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ehsan Mani

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/07/20

Ehsan Mani, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board – on Pakistan’s tour of England, on making cricket grow worldwide, on Pakistan v India, on Imran Khan – and the future Lord BothamEhsan Mani, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board since 2018, is the most experienced and high-achieving cricket administrator in the world. Apart from his present post, he served on the International Cricket Council from 1996 to 2006 and played a leading role in the transformation of world cricket.Anticipating

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55:19

Talking with ICC Umpire Simon Taufel

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/07/13

Simon Taufel, for five years in a row the ICC’s Umpire of the Year and author of Finding The Gaps, is the latest guest of Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in their regular cricket podcast, joining them from Don Bradman’s home town of Bowral, NSW, Australia. His book Finding the Gaps can be found here: bookdepository.com/author/Simon-James-TaufelHe offers unique personal insight into the role of modern umpires and match officials at the highest levels of cricket. They have become a “third team”, with

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42:51

Talking with Cricket Historian Stephen Chalke

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/07/03

Stephen Chalke has given deep personal service to the oral history of English cricket, weaving together the personal stories of cricketers past into a unique social tapestry of the game. His publishing house, Fairfield Books, published 42 titles, 19 by himself, of cricket books which might never have emerged from mainstream publishers. He did almost every job required himself, notably distribution and promotion, and his time and labour earned less reward per hour than the minimum wage. In retirement

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53:56

Talking with West Indian Commentator Fazeer Mohammed

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/06/26

Fazeer Mohammed has been delighting global audiences since 1987 as a cricket commentator combining ebullience, eloquence and erudition. In anticipating the coming West Indies series, he comments powerfully on support for the BlackLivesMatter agenda not just from the team but among all the people and nations of the West Indies.He analyses acutely the recent weakness of West Indies in traditional cricket in contrast to their resurgence in T20, and the deep-seated social and structural factors behind

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45:23

Talking with Mickey Arthur, Sri Lanka’s National Coach

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/06/19

Mickey Arthur has been Sri Lanka’s national coach since February this year. He has resumed his work there with the players after a strict lockdown. Before Sri Lanka, he coached three other national sides – his native South Africa, Australia, and Pakistan. This represents a world record which will take a long time to equal.

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43:47

Peter Gibbs on his County Career

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/06/12

In their eleventh podcast to help the cricket-deprived Peter Oborne and Richard Heller have a fascinating conversation with Peter Gibbs. With imposing initials as PJK Gibbs he appeared on first-class cricket scorecards for Oxford University and Derbyshire in the 1960s and 1970s: as Peter Gibbs he became an award-winning screenwriter, dramatist and novelist.

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48:53

The First Nets & More Cricketing Novels

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/06/05

Great excitement this week. The first cricket of the season has been played, and Richard has even been out to practice in the nets. Peter and Richard talk about that and cricketing novels they missed out the first time round. We always love to hear from listeners! To get in contact, email obornehellercricket@gmail.com

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45:30

Afghan Cricket with Dr Sarah Fane OBE

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/05/29

Afghan cricketers have burst onto the international scene making a huge impression in recent years and even establishing the sport in Germany. Peter Oborne and Richard Heller talk to Dr Sarah Fane OBE, who founded the charity Afghan Connection about how cricket has played a huge part in helping her develop education projects in the war torn country. She also talks about her new role as Director of the MCC Foundation.You can support the MCC Foundation by visiting: lords.org/mccfoundation/support

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47:07

The Impact of T20 with Tim Wigmore

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/05/22

Peter Oborne and Richard Heller are joined by Tim Wigmore, cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and author (with Freddie Wilde) of Cricket 2.0 a comprehensive history and analysis of T20 cricket which was chosen as Wisden’s best book of 2019.

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45:02

Cricket and Literature

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/05/15

Peter and Richard vent their spleen over the absence of cricket in the government's fifty page document outlining what sports can now be played. Then turning to literature where again, cricket has been overlooked.

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46:47

Analysis with Nathan Leamon

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/05/08

Peter Oborne and Richard Heller talk to Nathan Leamon, performance analyst for the England cricket team for ten years and author of the cricket novel The Test: an insider’s view of the stresses and strains at the top of the game.How in lockdown are professional cricketers keeping themselves ready to resume major cricket? How they might react to playing international matches behind closed doors? These are among many topics discussed in a wide ranging and sparkling conversation.

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40:55

British Politics and Cricket Entwined

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/05/01

In their fifth podcast to help the cricket-deprived journalists Peter Oborne and Richard Heller reveal a series of astonishing stories, which show the importance of cricket in British politics.They argue that cricket wrecked Boris Johnson’s chances of becoming Prime Minister in 2016, reveal John Major’s fear of being described as a lame duck in a match with Commonwealth leaders and describe how only weeks into his leadership of the Labour party, Keir Starmer faces a make-or-break challenge, because

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41:55

Cricket anyone? Anywhere?

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/04/24

In their latest cricket podcast Peter Oborne and Richard Heller discuss the prospects of seeing or playing any cricket in season 2020, in Britain and worldwide. They analyse the health and political obstacles that must be overcome for cricket and other sports to escape from lockdown. They speculate on the adaptations cricket might have to make if social distancing is still in force (matches with no live spectators? all fielders outside the circle? no on-field umpires?) They describe the financial

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44:04

Unpacking more of this year’s Wisden

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/04/17

In the first two episodes they previewed and then reviewed the new Wisden Cricketers Almanack. In this one they find they’re not yet done mining the rich seams of gold within its pages, talking about cricketing and the environment – how some of the most important matches are played in some of the world’s most polluted cities – how the game is gradually shifting to become more of a winter game, with the season starting earlier, and they celebrate the fact that the game is being played in new and

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39:51

Publication of Wisden 2020

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/04/10

In their second podcast Peter Oborne and Richard Heller root for truffles in the rich soil of the new Wisden Cricketers Almanack.

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39:37

A Preview of Wisden 2020

Oborne & Heller on Cricket ·

2020/04/03

In the first, they anticipate the imminent joyous arrival of Wisden Cricketers Almanack, all the more joyous for recalling the most glorious English summer of cricket in living memory. They guess at its nominees for Five Cricketers of the Year and the Wisden cricket book of the year. They share memories of the notable cricketers who died, including Bob Willis, the great West Indians Basil Butcher and Seymour Nurse and, especially, their personal friend, Abdul Qadir, the Pakistani genius who

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