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'Much much more than a cricket tour' - Interview with journalist Bharat Sundaresan
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 02:19:45
Publish Date: 2021-01-25 00:30:51
Description:

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 cricbuzz.com and is the author of The Dhoni Touch: Unravelling the Enigma that is MS Dhoni

Talking points:

  • Covering a Test series in COVID times
  • Driving from one Australian state to the other, avoiding borders
  • The uncertainty over the venues and itinerary
  • Wearing masks in the press box
  • A distracted press box as India collapsed for 36 in Adelaide
  • The spate of injuries during the tour
  • A relatively muted Boxing Day
  • Ashwin's spell in Melbourne
  • Ajinkya Rahane's captaincy
  • Mohammad Siraj improving with every spell in Melbourne
  • Siraj reporting poor crowd behavior
  • Australia constantly threatening to break away... until India kept fighting back
  • The net session when Pant talked to his bruised arm
  • The Ravi Shastri effect on the youngster in the team
  • Ashwin's innings in the battling draw in Sydney
  • Vihari - the quiet achiever
  • Covering the Brisbane Test from a radio studio in Sydney
  • Australians convincing themselves of the Brisbane myth
  • All the talk of the weather in Brisbane
  • India putting themselves in a position to dictate terms on the final day
  • The emotional charge to victory

Participants:

Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07)

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@Sidvee)

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The unlikely script of the Gabba heist - Bharat Sundaresan - cricbuzz.com

Bruised but unbowed: India's mighty display of guts and gumption - Bharat Sundaresan - cricbuzz.com

The summer of Siraj - Bharat Sundaresan - cricbuzz.com

Washington Sundar: destiny's child - Bharat Sundaresan - cricbuzz.com

Rahane's personality-defining day out - Bharat Sundaresan - cricbuzz.com

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List of Bharat Sundaresan's cricbuzz columns 
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