From the pressbox to the BCCI: interview with Nishant Arora (Part 2)

Click here to support 81allout on Ko-Fi Our guest this week is Nishant Arora who, over two decades, has worked in multiple capacities within cricket – as a TV journalist, player agent, and BCCI media manager, and ICC digital producer. Nishant had joined us in March to talk about his time as a junior cricketer and his friendship with Yuvraj Singh and other Indian cricketers. You can listen to that conversation here. Talking Points: The saas-bahu model that the Indian TV media adopted in the mid-2000s The life of a television journalist in an age eager for controversy How coverage of cricket became incidental to a journalist's job The move from journalism to a player agent to a media manager The frosty relationship between the Indian players and the media in the mid-2010s What the BCCI does right - and the scale at which it operates The unsung heroes of Indian cricket - those who nurture the grassroots The increasing number of pathways for channeling talent into potential The spotting of Bumrah and Gill - and the lessons they teach us The future of the cricket media landscape and the opportunities it provides creators Participants: Nishant Arora (@NJA21) Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee) Related: From the field to the press box the managing the media: a chat with Nishant Arora - 81allout podcast The Test of my Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back - Yuvraj Singh, Amazon.com I won't force my kids into cricket - Sachin Tendulkar interview by Nishant Arora - CNN-IBN Virat Kohli masterclass with Nasser Hussain - icc-cricket.com Wasim Akram bowls to Warner, Gayle, Buttler, Kohli, Russell and Dhoni - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo.com How did India build their world-beating bench-strength? They have a system - Sidharth Monga- The Cricket Monthly Cricket's decade of madness - Rahul Bhattacharya - ESPNcricinfo.com