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Robin Uthappa (left) and Jarod Kumber

This is the time of the year again when the Indian Premier League (IPL) dominates sports pages in India in a few months. When it comes to sports broadcasting – and rapid, podcasting – fans are divided into two groups. A group, old-school, prefer former players to share anecdotes from their sports days, stories about contemporary cricketers and how they were ‘discovered’, et setera. A new generation of fans prefers a more scientific approach, listening to analysts, people who crunch the number and come with the most important factors and steps that define the gameplay that day.

all new Kimappa The podcast wants to combine these two aspects and so far, both the world’s best is distributed. Podcast with writer and cricket analyst Jarod Kimper with former Team India Batter Robin Uthappa, who was part of MS Dhoni’s T20 World Cup winning team since 2007, and represented India in a one -day international cricket (Podcast’s name is a portMantue of his names). Kimappa The ‘good areas’ of the Kimber have been hosted on their own channel along with YouTube page. So far, there have been four episodes of about 70–80 minutes, and the new episode has been recorded live over the weekend, covering the entire week’s IPL action.

Break power game

From the first episode itself, it was clear that Kimber and Uthappa enjoy an easy coordination. They are both deep thinkers of the game, both of them with IPL teams and other franchisees worldwide. And they are good games, generally speaking.

In the second episode, Kimper introduced himself, saying, “I am a Jearode Kimper, a writer and podcaster and other items that do not care about, and Robin Uthappa with me, former Team India’s former opener who scored 3 runs against the Mighty Bermuda team in the ADD World Cup in 2007.” For his credit, Uthappa laughed at the context, of course the most photographed of his career, because his dismissal against Bermuda included a luxurious one-hand catch by Dwayne “Slugo” Leverrock, which was a Potbeld Bermuda policeman who made a thorough way for this way in any way.

Jerode Kimper (left) with freelance writer Sam Collins | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

These days, most of the T20 cricket revolve around the power game practiced by the batsmen, and Uthappa does a big job of breaking the hitting technology. During the second episode, Uthappa talks about his game against spinners, and the importance of reading the reading length correctly – and early. It is a high quality analysis that attracts other sports such as baseball as well as its biomechanical antidendants. The unavoidable spirit of Machiso associated with Vipul six-heats like MS Dhoni and Andre Russell has also been given in a tongue-in-in-manner, when Kimper asked Uthappa, “When you come to bat less as MS Dhoni as number 9, how does it feel as a man?”

Mental health and finishing school

If I like, then you enjoy watching a big picture while talking about sports and geopolitics, Kimappa Have you covered that there is an excellent analysis of Saudi Arabia’s plans made recently to make major investments in cricket. We learned last month that the Kingdom is planning a multi-dowl-dollar franchise tournament, that talks are going on around for some time. What will this Saudi league look like, and what will it mean for the cricketing scenario in general? Does such a large -scale and time -taking league indicate the beginning of the end for the primacy of international cricket on the calendar? Podcast provides practical answers to questions like these.

Robin Uthappa takes a bow after hitting a stump in a bowl: Getty images

For me, however, the most influential section ever was where the Kimber and Uthappa talk about the mental health of the cricketers, especially those people entered the headlines during their teenage years. Uthappa won the World Cup, while 20, and as he puts it on podcast himself, he was “lost” for four to five years. At one point, he takes out an old picture and shows it to the kumber-a unfamiliar Uthappa is at least 30–40 pounds heavier than normal, with the haunted eyes trying their best to fake a smile. Uthappa also speaks poignantly about the reversal with suicide attempt. I think the episode should require listening/watching for very young cricketers.

In a similar vein, Kimber and Uthappa also talk about later ideas for young cricketers for “Finishing School”. Uthappa said, “Table manners, how to talk to the press, how to handle investment, how to read the contract, what skills they are developing outside cricket,” Uthappa said, “all these goods should be taught to the youth so that when they finally stop playing professionally, they have something to do something, something that will set them for life after the game.”

For cricket fans, I can’t recommend Kimappa Is extremely enough. And even if you are more of a casual fan and do not follow the game especially closely, I think you are very interested in this podcast.

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