1 Bat 2 Balls - Cricket Unplugged!

Our guest for today is a true sporting legend in his own right, having represented India, and led Hyderabad Cricket for 10 years in a truly all-round sense!Mr Narasimha Rao, affectionately known as Bobjee, played for India at the highest level and represented Hyderabad for 17 years before retiring a champion post the pearl city’s triumph over Delhi, Hyderabad’s third and last ever Ranji trophy win in 1987, a mind-numbing 37 years ago! Armed with an excellent cricketing record that proudly ranks

For most of us growing up, knowing your cricket did matter, but India’s most popular sport was never a professional option for young fans. To understand this, we sit down with Sidhartha Vaidhyanathan, cricket writer, author and podcaster to discuss how a regular Bengaluru huduga like himself went on to make this a profession and rub shoulders with global sports stars.. Part of the team that launched ESPN’s digital magazine – The Cricket Monthly, he’s contributed to various publications including the

For Episode 3 we sit down with Mr Lalith Kalidas, a young sports journalist & editor. He’s just finished a stint with the iconic Sportstar Magazine and is looking to continue on with this passion driven profession of his. Profiled on the web as someone who primarily writes on cricket and loves watching tennis, with other interests including playing cricket, relishing long drives and having an affinity for photography!Journalism is a challenging field, and it gets tougher if you’re in a niche

The Don Bradman of cricket match archival, Rob started his career in 1982 and has amassed close to 70,000 hrs of recorded cricket footage! Rob went on to run robelinda, a super successful Youtube channel that had all this fantastic footage available online for absolutely free! The channel ran for 14 years and gave us cricket fans around the world their own free-to-air cricket-Netflix, prior to being unfortunately terminated. Watching cricket videos is the easy part, but actually recording &

A native of Kolkata, West Bengal, TC grew up in the city of joy in the 1980s as a huge sports buff, primarily cricket & football, two pastimes the city’s well known for. After a decade & a half of a  corporate career, Trinanjan finally decided to seriously pursue his passion for writing and release a first book on cricket history. We use the pod to discuss One Day International cricket, a format that is now at a crossroads. Once the go-to staple for limited overs, dwindling viewership, less

Cricket-Connect with 1 Bat 2 Balls and listen to legends, players, journalists, fans & cricket tragics from across the universe offer memories on the game. Binge-listen to host Kirti G brew & spew interaction with just the right pinch of beer-spice, while offering guests the chance to couch-talk cricket across the world! We offer conversations around the game, including with current & former players, starlets, coaches, trainers, writers, journalists, super-fans, SM influencers, &