81 All Out
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed disagreement helps 81 All Out show how selection, technique and tactics shape the course of a cricket match.
81 All Out turns cricket analysis into a sustained table argument. Host Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and the regular crew take a match result as their starting point, then work through selection decisions, bowling plans and the logic behind a batting approach.
Afridi or Sanath first? You'll find yourself treating one possible sighter like a selection emergency.
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Bumrah's control anchors a sharp discussion of India's 106-run win.
The discussion keeps India's 106-run win over England in Visakhapatnam in view, and it does well to hold onto the uncertainty that lingered until late, even with Yashasvi Jaiswal's double hundred and Shubman Gill's hundred already in place.
A remarkable win, argued through the cricket rather than the headline.
England's 28-run win in Hyderabad feels larger than the margin suggests. India's first-innings lead of 190 should have put the match in a different place, yet the panel treats England's result as one of the more striking wins in India over the last decade and a half, especially…
A focused 2001 rewind that makes selection and balance the main story.
81 All Out uses England's upcoming visit to India to reopen the 2001 tour, and it gives the discussion room to breathe. Mahesh, Sid B, Ashoka, and Prashant revisit the series through the 1993 alternative, then move into selection choices, bowling balance, and the shifting case…
A focused cricket conversation about club memory, careful reporting, and how fame can look ordinary in a club setting.
The episode is strongest when it follows the reporting process behind a cricket story, especially the path from club memory to research and patient detail.
A cricket-literate postmortem that treats India's series win as a story of depth, bowling quality, and turning points.
India's 4-1 series win in Dharamshala lands as the headline, but the better thread is the refusal to reduce the match to the final margin. The discussion keeps pulling back to the series arc, weighing when England's resistance cracked and how India's depth and bowling quality…
A Bangladesh-focused Test discussion that works through Rawalpindi with bowling plans, batting survival, and the side's depth.
Bangladesh's 2-0 Test win in Pakistan gives this episode its shape, but the conversation is really about what sits behind that result. Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Ashoka, Kartikeya, and Mohammad Issam use the Rawalpindi Tests to talk through batting survival, bowling depth, and…
A lopsided scoreline is used to show how much the match context still mattered.
Australia's 10-wicket win in Adelaide is the headline, but the piece uses it to show how much the margin leaves out. It keeps circling back to Perth, where conditions, the ball, and the opening hours mattered almost as much as the result.
A close, unsentimental look at how India actually won the final.
This episode treats India’s seven run win over South Africa as more than a result. It stays close to the match itself, treating the pitch, the late overs, and the death bowling as the real story.
Local cricket, score by score.
Cricket analysis with the lid off.
Loose talk, sharp turns, real feeling.
Cricket reaction with memory and nerve.
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast looks at whether IPL 2024 marks a turning point for T20 batting, with Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Mahesh, Ashoka, and Kartikeya debating scores like 280, 270, and 200.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Ashoka and Karthikeya review Australia's 184-run win over India in the fourth Test at the MCG, where Australia scored 474 after winning the toss and India were bowled out for 155 chasing 340.
Australia beat India by six wickets at Sydney to win the series 3-1 and hold the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time since 2015.
Cosmologist and cricket analyst Dr.
The panel breaks down India's first-Test win over Australia in Perth.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan welcomes Scott Oliver and notes that he has admired his writing for years.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan opens the show with the regular crew.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan sits down with Paras Mhambrey for a special cricket chat.
India close out the fifth Test in Dharamshala.
India beat England by 434 runs and go 2-1 up in the series.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan brings back Deepak, Mahesh, and Ashoka for a looser 81 All Out conversation than usual.
The panel opens on India’s seven-run win over South Africa in the T20 World Cup final.
The T20 World Cup opens on tired pitches and low scores.
The panel opens on Bangladesh's 2-0 Test win in Pakistan.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Ashoka, and Karthikeya focus on the T20 World Cup Super 8s, where India, South Africa, England, and Afghanistan reached the semi-finals.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and Clayton Murzello center this 81 All Out episode on Nari Contractor, India’s oldest living Test captain, and the 1962 Barbados injury that still defines him for many listeners.
81 All Out’s Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and BP Prashant revisit fast-bowling spells built around speed, angle, and accuracy, using YouTube rewatching as the method.
The show marks its 200th episode with the regular panel back together and settles into a match review.
New Zealand beat India by eight wickets in Bangalore after India were bowled out for 46 in the first innings, and the hosts call it one of New Zealand’s finest wins in India since 1987.
Australia beat India by 10 wickets in Adelaide.
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast reviews New Zealand's 113-run win over India in Pune, completing a series victory after the first-Test win in Bangalore.
81 All Out reviews India's drawn third Test against Australia in Brisbane, where rain shortened large parts of the match and the series moved to 1-1 after three Tests.
81 All Out previews India's three-Test series against New Zealand, with Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Mahesh, Ashoka, and Kartikeya comparing the teams' recent form and squad changes.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan brings Ashoka and Kartikeya on 81 All Out to review India’s first Test against Bangladesh in Chennai, where India won comfortably.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Ashoka, and Kartikeya preview India v Australia across five Tests, starting from the long gaps in the 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1991-92 tours and moving to the current era of regular series.
New Zealand’s 3-0 Test-series win in India is framed by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan as the first three-match-or-longer series in India that any visiting side has won by that margin.
81 All Out reviews India’s five-wicket win over England in Ranchi, calling the fourth Test perhaps the best match of the series.
The hosts analyze India's 106-run victory over England in the second Test at Vishakhapatnam, highlighting Jasprit Bumrah's match-winning nine-wicket performance.
The podcast analyzes England's surprising 28-run victory over India in the first Test at Hyderabad, focusing on Ollie Pope's match-winning 196, England's Bazball approach, and India's shortcomings.
The hosts revisit England's 2001 tour of India, analyzing Nasser Hussain's defensive tactics that stifled Indian batsmen like Tendulkar, the impact of 9/11 on the series, and how this underrated contest shaped later cricketing strategies.