In the aftermath of Sri Lanka's stunning rearguard action in the 2nd test of the recently concluded series, it was only fitting to get the voice of Sri Lankan cricket - Andrew Fidel Fernando on the pod!

Richa, Sarthak and Aditya speak to Fidel about a host of topics.

From Big Dickwella Energy, his feel for the game, school cricket, structure, administration, and underrated characters.

Sri Lanka remains an integral part of Cricket and there is no one quite like Fidel to help us understand their perspective.

You can follow him on Twitter, read his work on Cricinfo and of course please buy his excellent book - Upon A Sleepless Isle

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We'd like you to listen to some of our other podcasts on politics and academia below.

1. Bharatiya Junta Pod - quirky, liberal take on all that's farcical, absurd and depressing in 'New India'

2. Desi Academia Pod - Perspectives of early-career Desi researchers navigating their futures both in India and abroad

We are joined by Mohammad Isam, Cricinfo correspondent for Bangladesh Cricket, to discuss a historic Bangladesh Test win against Australia.

We ask him about their fast-bowling stocks, Shanto’s captaincy, Taskin’s celebration, Mahmud’s lack of one, and Kerry O’Keeffe.

MV hosts, along with Sarthak, Saurabh, and Richa on the panel.

This is one for the ages, folks.

Tune in.

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On this pod, Richa and MV are joined by Eddie Fitzgibbon.

Eddie is a former ICC Development Manager; he was the director of operations for Cricket All Stars and now runs a sports management consultancy.

Eddie's pieces on his Substack provide a window into the immense potential of Cricket as a global sport, offering a plethora of suggestions for improving the game through minor tweaks or by borrowing from other sports. It's not just about the players but keeping the fan at the centre of a lot of these conversations.

We discuss the importance of World Cups, the need for Cabo Verde in a football WC, a Grey's Anatomy reference, journey of Associate teams and lack of clarity, Caitlyn Clark, GenZ (where have we heard that before?) and the burning question: What would Elon Musk do if he bought Cricket?

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On this week’s PCCI pod, Richa, Sarthak, Nishant, Aditya, and MV discuss Rahane’s retirement and our best memories of his career, Gabba comes up once or thrice. We also discuss the ‘kesariya’ Indian Hockey Jersey, FIFA-UEFA jugalbandi, and Clicky Ponting type cricket ‘bodmosi’, the one off Women’s Lords Test between India and England, as well as the appointment of Fleming as the new Red Ball Manager successor to Baz.

We also deep dive into the PCCI staff piece on Substack ‘Your cricketing heroes, they don’t really care about us’ and why Sachin and Kohli toe the party line.

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Before we start this epsiode, we would like to extend our deepest condolences on the passing of a member of our PCCI and BJPod community, Sourabh. Sourabh ji was always a huge supporter of our content since the early days and eager to share his thoughts on Indian and world cricket. Rest in Peace.

In this episode, we discuss the recent developments from the ICC board meeting at Edinburgh and the last minute shrinking of the ICC ODI World Cup to be held in SA in 2027. We have with us Bertus de Jong, who first broke this story. Follow Bertus's substack - https://substack.com/@outsidethecircle/posts

and twitter - https://x.com/BdJcricket?lang=en

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We review the dual whitewashes and come up with solutions to ease GG's woes. Also, some tangential football WC chat, and uncle suggestions.

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We discuss how FIFA has learned some of its tricks from Jay Shah and ask if cricket was always ahead of its time. The discussion moves to how gatekept cricket is, and how it fails to even get the basics of organizing a sporting event wrong, again and again. The discussion moves onto the idea of expanding the sport, and what holds it back.

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In this episode, we have Sarthak, Nishant, Raj, Richa, and MV to discuss the burning topics of the day - Trishul on live telly, Homeopathy, how the average fan is thought as a noob by the broadcaster and above all the Joy of Watching Sport in different timezones and what it does to us being a fan and our growth as fans.