Episode 1 - Shoaib Akhtar vs India, Kolkata 1999

The first episode of our podcast kicks off a series where we discuss our favourite fast bowling spells by Pakistani players.

We begin with the birth of a legend - Shoaib Akhtar's two wickets in two balls, including Sachin on a golden duck, began one of the most exciting, intriguing and dramatic careers in cricket history.

We go from Bappi Lahiri to Salman Khan in trying to explain what and who Shaiby was.

0 – 2:20 – Intro to the podcast
2:45 – 3:40 – The spell as the Pakistani Dream: bowling two Indians, one of whom is Sachin in front of a full house off two consecutive balls
3:40 – 5:55 – Silence in the Biggest Stadium in the World & some more on the dreamlike nature of Shoaib impact
7:32 – 10:15 Maradona 1986 vs England comparison
13:00 – 14:30 - The Two Deliveries as works of art 
20:20 – 22:17 - The Sallu Bhai comparisons
25:25 – 27:55 - The Faisalabad Story
28:25 – 33:40 - Gun Master Interlude – Bappi Da! Including the Jimmy Jimmy tangent
 38:00 – 39:39 - Why Dravid was the greater wicket (and Shaibi bowling genius)
41:45 – 43:53 Shaibi Origin Story and being an outlier as a worldly star
43:59 – 45:10 Shaibi Saves a Child and Hello Nicole Kidman 
45:11 – 47:00 The Groundedness of being Shoaib all the way through 
47:10 – 49:20  On a White Horse in the Margalla Hills, with a Quran
49:20 – 50:50  Navigating a way through match-fixing era
52:55 – 53:33 The Mathew Hayden send-off
53:45 – 59:05 The Sachin Ball and the Art of Bunking School
59:20 – end Loving Sachin Ball contd

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