81 All Out

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 Sy