1 CD: 25 minutes 42 seconds

1 CD, Nari Contractor, journalist and Editor of CrickInfo Magazine, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 7 tracks. Track 1: [0:00-0:11] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:12-2:07] Bal talks about the health of cricket in India, the power of the BCCI and its finances, [2:08-3:00] Bal talks about BCCI plans on how they plan to spend their money, [3:01-3:34] Bal talks about the BCCI not being interested in hosting the Champions Trophy due to not making money from it. Track 2: [0:00-2:47] Bal talks about BCCI's intentions with the Champions Trophy and cricket politics, [2:48-3:17] Bal talks about how game can't come under the jurisdiction of MCC or ECB and need to work with the ICC. Track 3: [0:00-0:55] Bal talks about it not being important the ICC being based in Dubai, [0:56-2:09] Bal talks about the governance of the ICC and its increased commercialism. Track 4: [0:00-2:24] Bal talks about a rise in cricket writing in India. Track 5: [0:00-0:22] Rayvern Allen talks about the rise in Indian cricket writing being a delayed response to the rise in the Indian Cricket Team, [0:23-1:44] Bal talks about Indian and Pakistani cricket writers and the staff he employs, [1:45-2:01] Bal talks about his policy of employing young writers, [2:02-3:06] Bal talks about how he started in cricket writing. Track 6: [0:00-0:52] Bal talks about access and relationships with Indian players, [0:53-1:35] Bal talks about moving on from cricket journalism, [1:36-2:47] Bal talks about the viability of cricket magazines in the world, [2:48-3:06] Bal talks about the circulation of CrickInfo Magazine. Track 7: [0:00-0:59] Bal talks about the level of cricket knowledge of Indian fans, [1:00-2:02] Bal talks about reading Neville Cardus, [2:03- Bal talks about a mixture of employing old and young cricket writers and wanting the best cricket writers in the world to write for the magazine. Crowrd noises in background. A back-up copy of this CD is included.

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