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Dilip Sardesai interviewed by David Rayvern Allen



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/162
Date:
2006-03
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 27 minutes 16 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Dilip Sardesai, cricketer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 7 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:16] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:17-1:14] Sardesai talks about growing up in Goa and not being taught cricket until he was at college in Bombay, [1:15-2:50] Sardesai talks about playing in the Ranji Trophy for Bombay and being called up to the Indian Cricket Team, [2:51-4:13] Sardesai talks about preferring batting in the middle order, being moved to open and enjoying playing against spin bowlers , [4:14-4:57] Sardesai talks about batting against spin bowlers.

Track 2: [0:00-0:24] Sardesai talks about the increase in technological analysis, [0:25-3:47] Sardesai talks about throwing and how ICC deals with it

Track 3: [0:00-0:23] Sardesai talks about need to deal with throwing, [0:24-1:32] Sardesai talks about breaking his finger on the 1967 India tour in England and the bowling of John Snow, [1:33-1:41] Sardesai talks about the bowling of Graham of McKenzie, [1:42-2:07] Sardesai talks about preferring batting in the West Indies, [2:08-2:26] Sardesai talks about playing conditions in New Zealand, [2:27-2:48] Sardesai talks about English wickets, [2:49-3:57] Sardesai talks about uncovered wickets and the bowling of Derek Underwood.

Track 4: [0:00-0:22] Sardesai compares Derek Underwood to Indian spin bowlers, [0:23-1:05] Sardesai talks about fearing John Snow the most, [1:06-2:09] Sardesai talks about the bowling of Charlie Griffith, [2:10-3:09] Sardesai talks about the future of cricket and likens one-day cricket to baseball and the batting of Virender Sehwag, [3:10-3:31] Sardesai talks about modern cricket bats.

Track 5: [0:00-1:56] Sardesai talks about the style of modern cricket being to excite fans leading to poorer technique, [1:57-2:55] Sardesai talks about the focus on big hitting, [2:56-3:41] Sardesai talks about batsmen he batsmen he admired and calls Gary Sobers the greatest cricketer of all time.

Track 6: [0:38-1:38] Sardesai talks about modern cricketers he admires, [1:39-2:28] Sardesai talks about not playing well in England being the greatest disappointment of his career, [2:29-4:51] Sardesai talks about India beating the West Indies in the West Indies being the highlight of his career.

Track 7: [0:00-2:32] Sardesai talks about how much he used to get paid, earning extra money from outside the game and how he would prefer to have played in the current era.




A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Dilip Narayan Sardesai
David Rayvern Allen
Nariman Jamshedji Contractor
Muttiah Muralitharan
International Cricket Council
John Augustine Snow
Graham Douglas McKenzie
Charles Christopher Griffith
Virender Sehwag
Peter Barker Howard May
Michael Colin Cowdrey
Kenneth Frank Barrington
Rohan Bholalall Kanhai
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers
Stephen Roger Waugh
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Rahul Sharad Dravid
Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman
Brian Charles Lara
Subject
cricket in India, Spin Bowlers, throwing, Indian cricketers, India in England 1967, wickets, India in West Indies 1970-1971
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 27 minutes 16 seconds
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