40 minutes 32 seconds

Rashid Latif, cricketer, interviewed by Richard Heller. The recording consists of 3 tracks. Track 1: [0:00-1:25] Latif talks indecipherably, [1:26-3:14] Latif talks about being a product of tape-ball, names famous tape-ball players, how it is bad for bowling technique and its importance within Pakistan, [3:15-5:24] Latif talks about how tape-ballers don't play first-class cricket, professional tape-ball players, and corporate organisations getting involved with teams and sponsorship, [5:25-9:14] Latif talks about his academy such as age groups, how many children are there and how it functions, [9:15-10:05] Latif about being from a lower-middle class background, his family and father working for an oil company, [10:16-15:56] Heller and Altaf go for a walkabout around the academy, Latif talks about always wanting to be a wicket-keeper, his lease for the land, where he gets his soil from and number of coaches and pitches, [15:57-18:22] Latif talks about increase in young spin bowlers throwing and PCB trying to crackdown on suspect actions and getting an £8000 roller from England with support from Lashings CC, [18:23-20:11] Latif talks about receiving support from local government and multinational companies, [20:12-23:05] Latif talks about planning a youth tournament and the hours boys train in the academy, [23:06-25:50] Latif talks about Pakistani internal players who have come through the academy and rivalries with other academies, [25:51-28:23] Latif talks about it being hard to find wicketkeepers, Wasim Bari, he and Heller compare hands and a gentleman speaks in Punjabi, [28:24-31:10] Latif talks about cricket equipment being expensive, children arriving with little and receiving equipment donations, [31:11-32:53] talking in Punjabi, [32:54-40:58] Heller talks to Wasituallah, a coach at the academy, about his life, wicketkeeping, playing in a match together and Heller's own book. Track 2: [0:00-9:27] Feint voices, talking about tape ball cricket in Pakistan, [9:28-10:13] Heller talks about his background, [10:14-23:33] Heller, Latif and Qamar Ahmed talk about the Danish Kaneria match fixing case, [23:34-24:22] Latif talks about not joining PCB Board due to television work and commitment to his academy, [24:23-25:35] Latif and Ahmed talk about the time Geoffrey Boycott gave Latif 10 pounds for scoring 50 on his Test debut, [25:36-26:22] Latif talks about playing for Marchington Cricket Club and Lashings World XI, [26:23—27:31] Heller takes a photo of Latif and talks about visiting Pakistan. Track 3: [0:00-2:54] Latif talks about keeping wicket to a variety of Pakistan bowlers, [2:55-3:50] Latif one day cricket heavily favouring batsmen, [3:51-5:22] Latif talks about advising the ICC on match fixing, [5:23-9:12] Latif and Heller talk about Viv Richards.

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