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

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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