81 All Out

Click here to support 81allout on Ko-Fi Our guest this week is Nishant Arora who, over two decades, has worked in multiple capacities within cricket – as a TV journalist, player agent, and BCCI media manager, and ICC digital producer. Nishant had joined us in March to talk about his time as a junior cricketer and his friendship with Yuvraj Singh and other Indian cricketers. You can listen to that conversation here. Talking Points: The saas-bahu model that the Indian TV media adopted in the mid-2000s The life of a television journalist in an age eager for controversy How coverage of cricket became incidental to a journalist's job The move from journalism to a player agent to a media manager The frosty relationship between the Indian players and the media in the mid-2010s What the BCCI does right - and the scale at which it operates The unsung heroes of Indian cricket - those who nurture the grassroots The increasing number of pathways for channeling talent into potential The spotting of B