81 All Out

Click here to support 81allout on Ko-Fi In our latest episode we talk to Amol Muzumdar, a legend for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy and a bona fide domestic great. Muzumdar's illustrious career spanned two decades and he finished with 9,205 runs in the Ranji Trophy - which stands as the second-highest aggregate of all time. Muzumdar scored 30 first-class hundreds and was the backbone of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy side through much of the 1990s and 2000s. He won seven Ranji Trophy championships with Mumbai and captained them to the title in 2006-07, when they rallied after a poor start and upstaged the rest of the competition. Talking points: The importance of playing league cricket in England How helmets transformed batting techniques - and resulted in more players getting hit on the head Today's players preferring power-hitting techniques to an artistic approach The delicate balance with coaching - what to tell a player and when to pass on advice How players can be so vulnerable to advice, and change t