'A match that you watch from the stadium is a sacred thing': an interview with the historian Mukul Kesavan

In this episode, we chat with author, essayist, and perceptive cricket columnist Mukul Kesavan Click here to support 81allout on Kofi Talking Points: Viswanath - 'this extraordinarily skilled and beautiful Teddy Bear playing cricket' | Watching Imran Khan bowl live for the first time | The "neat perfection" of Sunil Gavaskar | Neville Cardus - and "everything undesirable about cricket writing | The thunderous silence around Wasim Jaffer | The IPL in Delhi during the the pandemic | The significance of Mohammad Siraj Participants: Mukul Kesavan ; Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@ sidvee ); Mahesh Sethuraman ( @cornerd ) Related: Beyond borders ; Watching, hoping, praying ; The Viswanath problem ; No room for bigotry ; Jaffer alone ; The nation state and modern sport - The India Forum ; A fairy tale on the field ; India ; Cricketing memory and a quest for rare videos ; Men in White ; Brightly Fades the Don ; Cricket Crisis ; Pundits from Pakistan ; Chinaman ; The Match ; A Corner of a Foreign Field ; Anyone But England ; Beyond a Boundary ; Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville