81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast

Our special guest this week is Nishant Arora who, over two decades, has worked in multiple capacities within cricket – as a TV journalist, a player agent, a media manager with the BCCI, and a digital…

We discuss the third Test between India and England in Chennai

Talking Points:

• Where did this pitch stand in the Premadasa-Sabina scale?
• The importance of consistent bounce in the ICC evaluation s…

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Our special guest this week is Osman Samiuddin, a senior editor at ESPNcricinfo and author of The Unquiet Ones: A History of Pakistan Cricket.

One of the f…

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We discuss the second Test between India and England in Chennai

Talking Points:

• Was there anything at all wrong with the pitch?
• How Rohit Sharma tackled the tr…

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In this episode, we look back to England's tour to India in 2012-13.

England had not won a series in India since 1984-85 and they began the tour as underdogs -…

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This website began as a blog where Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd) and I exchanged leisurely thoughts on Test cricket. When I suggested the name 81allout, Mahesh had said: “Can’t get a mo…

We preview the upcoming India v England Test series which comes on the back of an epic series win for India in Australia, and a very impressive win for England in Sri Lanka. While the teams prepare f…

In this special episode of the 81allout podcast, we chat with journalist and author Bharat Sundaresan on his experiences of covering India's recent tour to Australia.

Bharat is a cricket reporter at …

We discuss the final day of the fourth Test in Brisbane, where India did the improbable.

Talking Points:

• Excuse me, what did we just see?
• India's greatest series win?
• Teams getting ambitious with…

We discuss the third Test in Sydney, where India held on for a valiant draw.

Talking Points:

• When a draw was like a win
• Steve Smith resumes normal service
• The versatile Mr Jadeja
• Rohit and Gill …

We discuss India's memorable eight-wicket win in Melbourne and place it in context of some of the famous Indian victories in Australia.

Talking Points:

• Placing the victory in context
• Parallels wit…

We process India's 36 all out in the Adelaide Test. Was it a tragedy? Or a dark comedy? Is it even something that can be explained?

Talking Points:

• The visceral shock that accompanies a rapid colla…

In this episode, we look back to India’s tour of Australia in 1980-81.

India went into the Test series against a strong Australian team after playing merely one Test since the end of the home series …

In this episode, we chat with journalist, blogger, author, podcaster, vlogger – or in short, the Mark Waugh of cricket coverage – Jarrod Kimber.

We focus on a piece Jarrod wrote last year titled 'The…

In this episode of the 81allout podcast, we zero in on the cliche that makes an appearance in all sporting contests: the moments that mattered. We discuss how for fans some moments take on more signi…

We are thrilled to be joined by two former India cricketers - Hemang Badani and Vijay Bharadwaj.

Hemang and Vijay enjoyed stupendous domestic careers and took part in some of the most memorable Tamil…

In this special episode of the 81allout podcast, we chat with the photographer Mala Mukerjee on her historic photo from the tied Test in Madras in 1986.

Ms Mukerjee watched the last day of that famou…

The purple patch of Ben Stokes has provoked a lot of discussion about the greatest allrounders. We take a deep-dive to talk about the role of allrounders in Test cricket, the great allrounders over t…

Street cricket chronicles moves to Tamil Nadu and we were delighted to be joined by Tamil Nadu's promising wicketkeeper batsman Narayan Jagadeesan to talk about playing amateur cricket in his formati…