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.
Apple Podcasts
SpotifyTalking 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 Bumrah and Gill – and the lessons they teach us
- The future of the cricket media landscape and the opportunities it provides creators
Participants:
Nishant Arora (@NJA21)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Related:
From the field to the press box the managing the media: a chat with Nishant Arora – 81allout podcast
The Test of my Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back – Yuvraj Singh, Amazon.com
I won’t force my kids into cricket – Sachin Tendulkar interview by Nishant Arora – CNN-IBN
Virat Kohli masterclass with Nasser Hussain – icc-cricket.com
Wasim Akram bowls to Warner, Gayle, Buttler, Kohli, Russell and Dhoni – Siddhartha Vaidyanathan – ESPNcricinfo.com
How did India build their world-beating bench-strength? They have a system – Sidharth Monga- The Cricket Monthly
Cricket’s decade of madness – Rahul Bhattacharya – ESPNcricinfo.com