Talking Cricket with Mohammad Isam

Mohammad Isam is Bangladesh cricket’s leading voice and has been
writing on cricket for over 15 years, first with The Daily Star
and what will be 12 years very soon for ESPN Cricinfo. Isam bhai
has a bird’s eye view of Bangladesh Cricket and looks at the game
not just as a journalist but also as someone who played the game
with many of the players who have or are currently playing in the
national setup.





In this freewheeling chat, we discuss at length what happened in
the Afghanistan Bangladesh game in the 2024 T20 WC, the larger
context around Bangladesh cricket, influence of social media on
the team and it’s management, eerie similarities to the Indian
Cricket team in the 1990’s, the burden of being Bangladesh with
the shadow of India and Pakistan, anecdotes on many cricketers
known and unknown, remembered and forgotten, fast bowling arsenal
for the future, business ideas for Asian nations barring India,
chances of Bangladesh being overdogs by playing more with
Associate nations, the vagaries of the first class structure
which ends up governing the Bangladesh Cricket Board and book
recommendations.





Articles Mentioned on the Podcast:





Javed Omar, no, yes, sorry in The Cricket Monthly -
https://t.ly/7zAHp


Left-arm revolutionaries in The Cricket Monthly -
https://shorturl.at/aXvLA





Books Mentioned on the Podcast:





Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya:
https://shorturl.at/IL1O0


Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya -
https://shorturl.at/b2N7n


Mashrafe by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Book is in Bangla)
https://shorturl.at/13564


Basil D'oliveira: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne -
https://shorturl.at/Hibgo





Book by Mohammad Isam:


On the Tigers’ Trail - https://t.ly/QuNnP