81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
Talking cricket with Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 75 minutes
- Episodes
- 211
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The ins and outs of Fantasy Cricket
Our special guest this week is Gaurav Sundararaman, a senior stats analyst at ESPNcricinfo, and he helps us unpack the complexities of Fantasy Cricket - where fans pick teams and compete in increasin…
'A match that you watch from the stadium is a sacred thing': an interview with the historian Mukul Kesavan
In this episode, we chat with author, essayist, and perceptive cricket columnist Mukul Kesavan
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Talking Points: Viswanath - 'this extraordinarily skilled and bea…
Glimpses of greatness: reviewing the Shastri years (2017-2021)
We review the Indian team over the last four years - the period since July 2017 when Ravi Shastri took over as head coach.
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Talking Points:
- The significance o…
From the pressbox to the BCCI: interview with Nishant Arora (Part 2)
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Our guest this week is Nishant Arora who, over two decades, has worked in multiple capacities within cricket – as a TV journalist, player agent, and BCCI media…
Lording it over The Oval: England v India, Oval Test review
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We review the fourth Test of the England v India series - which India won by 157 runs.
Talking Points
- Two Oval triumphs - 50 years apart
- India once again le…
78 all out: England v India, Headingley Test review
We review the third Test of the England v India series - which England won by an innings and 76 runs.
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Talking Points
- India's choice of five bowlers - choosin…
India ride on an awesome foursome: England v India, Lord's Test review
We review the second Test of the England v India series, with the focus on the dramatic final day.
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Talking Points
- The remarkable turnaround on the final day…
A whole lot of unknowns: England v India series preview
We preview the upcoming England v India Test series - that has had one of the most lukewarm build-ups in a time of Covid, The Olympics, and The Hundred.
It's a time of bio-bubbles, quarantines, injur…
The art of Bedi: Suresh Menon on the bowler, the man, and the biography
In this episode, we chat with the veteran cricket writer Suresh Menon on one of India's greatest cricketers - Bishan Bedi
Suresh talks about his early impressions of Bedi and the spin quartet, and ex…
Tepid endings and glorious beginnings: Vijay Lokapally remembers India tour of England in 1996
In this special episode, we chat with the veteran cricket writer Vijay Lokapally on India's 1996 tour to England.
Vijay relives the incandescent innings and spells he witnessed through the tour - bot…
New Zealand's triumph in a final to remember
We discuss the World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand in Southampton.
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‘He made you believe the impossible’: Gideon Haigh on Shane Warne
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We celebrate the 100th episode of the 81allout podcast with an illuminating conversation with Gideon Haigh - the gold standard when it comes to cricket writing…
The magic of 1971: reliving India's historic triumphs
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In the late…
That special whistle: the phenomenon called CSK
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In the latest episode we chat about Chennai Super Kings and the nature of fandom the team has inspired since the start of the IPL.
Three CSK fans share their e…
Cricketing memory and a quest for rare video archives
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Our special gues…
Understanding T20: a conversation with Hassan Cheema
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Our special guest this week is Hassan Cheema, the strategy manager at Islamabad United – the Pakistan Super League champions in 2016 and 2018.
Hassan talks abo…
'None of us knew anything about the Internet when Rediff began': interview with the journalist Prem Panicker
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Our special guest this week is Prem Panicker, a veteran journalist who has been writing on cricket for over 25 years. Prem was one of the founding journalists …
'Batting is now less artistic, more power-based' – Amol Muzumdar
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In our latest episode we talk to Amol Muzumdar, a legend for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy and a bona fide domestic great. Muzumdar's illustrious career spanned t…
A thumping finish: India v England, 4th Test review
We discuss the fourth Test between India and England in Ahmedabad.
Talking Points:
- India's terrific achievement across eight Tests
- A triumph of depth for the Indian team
- Axar's 27 wickets and his…