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Dicky Rutnagur interviewed by David Rayvern Allen



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/145
Date:
2006-05
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 41 minutes 00 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Dicky Rutnagur, sports journalist, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 10 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:10] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:11-0:34] Rutnagur talks about how he started covering club cricket in Bombay, [0:35-1:07] Rutnagur talks about playing school and club cricket and how he's loved it from the earliest age, [1:08-1:49] Rutnagur talks about falling into journalism by chance, [1:50-2:35] Rutnagur talks about who helped him at the Bombay Chronicle, [2:36-3:12] Rutnagur talks about covering cricket and racquet sports for the Bombay Chronicle, [3:13-4:44] Rutnagur talks about being offered to work for the Daily Telegraph.

Track 2: [0:00-0:43] Rutnagur talks about moving to England and taking up employment with the Daily Telegraph, [0:44-2:41] Rutnagur talks about who else was on the Daily Telegraph cricket staff and the nature of his employment, [2:41-3:05] Rutnagur talks about enjoying his work.

Track 3: [0:00-0:58] Rutnagur talks about writing for other publications including the Observer and Guardian and using a pseudonym, [0:59-2:11] Rutnagur talks about why he was unhappy with living in India, [2:12-2:46] Rutnagur talks about Indian cricket not being big until the 1980's.

Track 4: [0:00-1:37] Rutnagur talks about Indian journalists he respected, [1:38-3:01] Rutnagur talks about A F Takyarkhan, [3:02-4:40] Rutnagur talks about whose company he enjoyed keeping in the press box, [4:41-5:06] Rutnagur agrees with the press box being social.

Track 5: [0:00-1:58] Rutnagur tells a story of John Arlott missing a hat trick to get some wine, [1:59-2:50] Rayvern Allen explains the audio archive to Rutnagur.

Track 6: [0:00-3:55] Rutnagur talks about watching Indian pre and post-war cricketers and likens Mushtaq Ali to Kevin Pietersen, [3:56-5:40] Rutnagur talks about Vijay Hazare and C K Nayudu.

Track 7: [0:00-3:50] Rutnagur talks about his favourite innings by Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Gundappa Viswanath, [3:51-6:05] Rutnagur talks about Tendulkar being passed his best and how there is now too much cricket.

Track 8: [0:00-1:50] Rutnagur talks about how players of the past would fare in modern cricket including Don Bradman, [1:51-3:33] Rutnagur talks about West Indian batsmen highlighting Everton Weekes, [3:34-4:07] Rutnagur calls Greg Chappell the best Australian batsman he saw, [4:08-4:25] Rutnagur highlights his favourite England batsmen.

Track 9: [0:00-0:57] Rutnagur talks about Barry Richards, [0:58-1:31] Rutnagur talks about how some of the old aesthetic of batting can’t be brought back, [1:32-3:24] Rutnagur talks about his hopes for the future of cricket and the spirit of cricket, [3:25-4:06] Rutnagur briefly talks about squash.

Track 10 [0:00-2:13] Rutnagur talks about wanting to see cricket being taken to rural areas in India.




A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Dicky Rutnagur
David Rayvern Allen
Daily Telegraph
Ernest William Swanton
The Guardian
Ardeshir Furdorji Sohrabji Talyarkhan
Leslie Thomas John Arlott
John Charles Woodcock
William Eric Bowes
James M Kilburn
Syed Mushtaq Ali
Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad
Nanik Amarnath Bharadwaj
Vijay Samuel Hazare
Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Gundappa Rangnath Vishwanath
Sir Donald George Bradman
Sir Everton de Courcy Weekes
Gregory Stephen Chappell
Peter Barker Howard May
Thomas William Graveney
Edward Ralph Dexter
Michael Colin Cowdrey
David Ivon Gower
Barry Anderson Richards
Subject
Journalism, Indian cricket, Spirit of Cricket, batsmen, Indian cricketers
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 41 minutes 00 seconds
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