In our latest episode of the podcast we chat with former Bangladesh Test cricketer Shahriar Nafees and ESPNcricinfo journalist Mohammad Isam.
Talking points:
- Street cricket in Dhaka
- Legends of tape-tennis cricket
- The value of age-group cricket in Bangladesh
- The period when cricket started to overshadow football in Bangladesh
- Memories of cricket from the 1990s
- The Fatullah Test against Australia in 2006
- A heady period for Bangladesh between 2005 and 2007
- The pressure of having to live up to expectations
Participants:
Mohammad Isam (@isam84)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Related:
Shahriar Nafees’ YouTube channel
Unbelievable to have scored a T20 hundred – Shahriar Nafees interview
Nafees leads Bangladesh’s brilliant charge – ESPNcricinfo report
When Mohammad Ashraful took on McGrath and Gillespie – ESPNcricinfo
That winning feeling – Rabeed Imam on Bangladesh’s win over India in 2004 – ESPNcricinfo
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Lead image from here