A cricket fangirl? Time to break the stereotypes and plug your ears to these 5 best podcasts

A cricket fangirl? Time to break the stereotypes and plug your ears to these 5 best podcasts

(Article authored by Gautam Raj Anand, Founder & CEO,  Hubhopper-India’s largest podcasting and audio on demand (AOD) platform

How exactly does watching a sport like cricket reflect one’s masculinity or feminity? While we are in 2019 with men and woke women all alike, there are people in Indiawho still have trouble believing that women can also watch cricket for non-platonic reasons and become a fan. They would make all kinds of stereotypical expressions when you are able to differentiate between‘a cover drive from a straight drive’, ‘a no ball and a dead one’, or you can tell who the captain of the opposition team is. Seriously? Enough of those raised eyebrows. All you fan girls out there, instead of bothering about men doubting your sincerity for cricket, plug your ears to these five podcasts and get ready to crush the male ego:

1. Its Cricket Show - World Cup Special

This is the world's first "Hinglish language" cricket podcast, which connects the biggest cricket-loving Hindi-speaking population with a global English-speaking audience. Hosted by Hamid Shaikh, this World Cup special version is for those who love cricket and want to catch-up everything that is going on around the cricketing world, this is the ultimate destination for keeping up to date. All the 56 episodes are just 10-minutes long featuring reviews, previews, analysis and discussion of all the controversies and news.

2. #AakashVani

This 92 episode podcast talks about Indian Cricket. ?Hosted by Aakash Chopra, a former International Cricket player, and a well-known cricket analyst, this is the absolute go-to podcast for all you cricket fans to acquire all the latest cricket updates.

3. Edges and Sledges

A weekly cricket podcast, Edges & Sledges centres on Indian cricket and the IPL. Conceived by the 1Tip1Hand blog team, thereare three podcast hosts who arethe average Indian cricket fans based out of Singapore, London and Cincinnati. They collaborate on the platform of Edges & Sledges to talk about the week’s biggest cricketing stories.

4. On Cricket, Off Topic

Three hosts; Rahul Bhaskar (aka Oranjee), Ujjwal Grover, and Abhishek Deshpande (aka Desi) take you down the memory lane, talking about their growing up days with cricket during the 1990s and 2000s. Each episode explores a World Cup in great detail, through stories, facts, and quirky details, reminding the nostalgia. 

5. Howzzat!

An original series by India’s leadingaudio streaming app Hubhopper,Howzzat keeps you up to date with the latest news and analysis from the world of cricket. There’s a lot to look forward to with international tours and series, to the IPL and, of course, the World Cup.  So ladies! Don’t keep yourself caught out.