Mohammad Isam is Bangladesh cricket’s leading voice and has been writing on cricket for over 15 years, first with The Daily Star and what will be 12 years very soon for ESPN Cricinfo. Isam bhai has a bird’s eye view of Bangladesh Cricket and looks at the game not just as a journalist but also as someone who played the game with many of the players who have or are currently playing in the national setup.

In this freewheeling chat, we discuss at length what happened in the Afghanistan Bangladesh game in the 2024 T20 WC, the larger context around Bangladesh cricket, influence of social media on the team and it’s management, eerie similarities to the Indian Cricket team in the 1990’s, the burden of being Bangladesh with the shadow of India and Pakistan, anecdotes on many cricketers known and unknown, remembered and forgotten, fast bowling arsenal for the future, business ideas for Asian nations barring India, chances of Bangladesh being overdogs by playing more with Associate nations, the vagaries of the first class structure which ends up governing the Bangladesh Cricket Board and book recommendations.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast:

Javed Omar, no, yes, sorry in The Cricket Monthly - https://t.ly/7zAHp

Left-arm revolutionaries in The Cricket Monthly - https://shorturl.at/aXvLA

Books Mentioned on the Podcast:

Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya: https://shorturl.at/IL1O0

Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya - https://shorturl.at/b2N7n

Mashrafe by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Book is in Bangla) https://shorturl.at/13564

Basil D'oliveira: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne - https://shorturl.at/Hibgo

Book by Mohammad Isam:

On the Tigers’ Trail - https://t.ly/QuNnP

In this episode, we review the Super 8 stage and share our thoughts on the 8 teams and a special focus on Afghanistan Cricket & the importance of the asian nation’s qualification to the Semi finals of an ICC tournament. Books & Documentary mentioned on the podcast - Out of The Ashes Documentary by Timothy Albone - https://youtu.be/4H23kHiE_KQ?si=J7DGhzptalkEmQas Second XI: Cricket in its Outposts by Tim Wigmore https://amzn.in/d/0ewwq4ED (We mention the Afghanistan chapter but the book is a great read on Associate outposts of Cricket) Out of the Ashes: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Afghanistan cricket team by Timothy Albone https://amzn.in/d/03Tv1dtb — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepccipod/message