You wait for ages, then two podcasts come along at once

Two podcast related things.

1. I was on theĀ New Zealand Digital Podcast with Paul Spain and Sim Ahmed, chatting about my role at NZC, and sportreview, among other things. You can listen to my episode in a variety of fashions here.

2. I submitted a ‘book nook’ entry to top cricket podcast, The BYC Podcast.

I reviewed The Art Of Captaincy by Mike Brearley, it went as follows:

You’ll love this book if you’re into tales of early 80s country cricket – it`s chocka with cracking dressing room quips by legendary players in damp knitwear waiting for the rain to stop and is reportedly one of Stephen Fleming’s big influences.

There’s straightforward and timeless advice on selection, field placement and batting orders – but it gets really interesting in the chapters on harnessing aggression and trying the unexpected. Brearley advocates underarm bowling in the right circumstances, a controversial stance in this country to say the least. There’s plenty on wrangling dressing room personalities, a possible pointer to Brearley’s post-cricket career as a psychologist,

Brearley played with and against some of the greats – Botham, Boycott, Greig, the Chappells and the dream West Indian pace attack are all used as examples. The contrasts between this era, when Boycott would open for England in limited overs matches, and today are fascinating.

Mike will be pleased to know there are lots of pictures.

9/10 – definitely made me feel more intelligent after reading.

Definitely listen to The BYC Podcast though, they made it loads better. And listen to it every week while you’re at it, it’s a must-listen chez moi.

sportreview weekly podcast French test preview

In this week’s podcast, our weekly podcast previews the big match between The All Blacks from New Zealand and the French from France.

Download: sportreview-podcast-vol4-251109
(1.6Mb download / 1’46” duration)

All the head to head clashes, all the big names, all the results and all the highlights.

Don’t touch that dial, you itchy-fingered control freak. Only joking with you mate! Har.

Listen to a podcast. About sport. On the sportreview.net.nz sporting podcast. Listen.

sportreview podcast volume one

sportreview.net.nz presents volume one of our weekly podcast.

If you’re looking for huge names, results, plays of the month, Cricket, sport, you’ll find it on the sportreview podcast. A weekly podcast.

If it’s sport, it’s on the sportreview podcast.

Download:sportreviewnetnz podcast vol1 210209
(1.6MB download / 1’20” duration)