More cricket podcasts
At least I’m not flying the flag solo for cricket podcasting any more!
Robert Harvey (who is a great supporter of The Net Sessions) has started The Cover Drive Podcast. One edition so far, an interview with Rediff’s (and Sight Screen’s) Prem Panicker, recorded during the Third Test between Pakistan and India. An interesting interview, even if some of the current events are now dated. I trust there will be more of The Cover Drive. The website is www.coverdrivepodcast.blogspot.com.
Two cricket podcasts to report from professional media outlets. As previously noted, Sunil Gavaskar is podcasting end-of-day summaries of India’s international matches through Yahoo! India. Currently, he’s covering the First Test against England at Nagpur.
In England, the Telegraph has sent former Middlesex pie-wrangler Simon Hughes to India to give daily “analysis” of the Test series via MP3. I haven’t reviewed his first two despatches (preview and day one summary) yet, but the podcast feed can be found here.
[…] Aside from his own Podcast, Rick Eyre mentions a couple of others: The Cover Drive and The Telegraph’s Simon Hughes. I like Hughes; he’s a really excellent writer, and his podcasts could be quite entertaining. I’m completely unconvinced about Podcasts…who has the time to listen to them all? Not I. I have an Ipod, but the whole “getting it on there” thing has me a bit confused. It’s not easy, and I’m not very clever. So until some genius makes it a simple case of plugging it in, leaving it for a minute, and unplugging then I can’t be naffed. […]
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