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Sambit Bal interviewed by David Rayvern Allen



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/160
Date:
2006-03
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 25 minutes 42 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Nari Contractor, journalist and Editor of CrickInfo Magazine, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 7 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:11] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:12-2:07] Bal talks about the health of cricket in India, the power of the BCCI and its finances, [2:08-3:00] Bal talks about BCCI plans on how they plan to spend their money, [3:01-3:34] Bal talks about the BCCI not being interested in hosting the Champions Trophy due to not making money from it.

Track 2: [0:00-2:47] Bal talks about BCCI's intentions with the Champions Trophy and cricket politics, [2:48-3:17] Bal talks about how game can't come under the jurisdiction of MCC or ECB and need to work with the ICC.

Track 3: [0:00-0:55] Bal talks about it not being important the ICC being based in Dubai, [0:56-2:09] Bal talks about the governance of the ICC and its increased commercialism.

Track 4: [0:00-2:24] Bal talks about a rise in cricket writing in India.

Track 5: [0:00-0:22] Rayvern Allen talks about the rise in Indian cricket writing being a delayed response to the rise in the Indian Cricket Team, [0:23-1:44] Bal talks about Indian and Pakistani cricket writers and the staff he employs, [1:45-2:01] Bal talks about his policy of employing young writers, [2:02-3:06] Bal talks about how he started in cricket writing.

Track 6: [0:00-0:52] Bal talks about access and relationships with Indian players, [0:53-1:35] Bal talks about moving on from cricket journalism, [1:36-2:47] Bal talks about the viability of cricket magazines in the world, [2:48-3:06] Bal talks about the circulation of CrickInfo Magazine.

Track 7: [0:00-0:59] Bal talks about the level of cricket knowledge of Indian fans, [1:00-2:02] Bal talks about reading Neville Cardus, [2:03- Bal talks about a mixture of employing old and young cricket writers and wanting the best cricket writers in the world to write for the magazine.



Crowrd noises in background. A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Sambit Bal
David Rayvern Allen
Board of Control for Cricket in India
International Cricket Council
Sir Neville Cardus
Subject
cricket in India, finance, Journalism, Indian cricketers, publications
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 25 minutes 42 seconds
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