Episode 6: Liverpool with Asif Ahmed

Episode 10: Karthik Meiyappan, UAE National team cricket player

Karthik joins me to discuss his journey through academy cricket in the UAE and representing the National Team. Also, he shares his IPL experience as a net bowler with the Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2020.

Episode 9: Road Safety World Series and T20I Preview (Ind vs Eng)

In the first episode of 2021, I am joined by Keni who is working on the Road Safety World Series and we discuss his role, what the tournament is about and more (1:16). Thereafter, Raunak Vaswani joins me to talk about the upcoming India and England T20I series (18:25).

Episode 8: NBA Finals with Stephen Gabriel

In this episode, Stephen and I discuss NBA basketball in the bubble, the match up between the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA FInals. Will LeBron win another ring and bring the Lakers a championship in the year that Kobe passed on? Or will Jimmy Butler win his first championship along with fellow All Star, Bam Adebayo. The Pat Riley narrative is also an interesting one as he was responsible for Showtime Lakers but runs all basketball for Miami.

Episode 7: Umer Lakhani on graduating school during the COVID-19 pandemic, being a student athlete, and pursuing a degree.

Umer is a UAE resident who has graduated from school and has taken up a temporary position with Gulf News while he waits on the COVID situation to improve so that he can take up an offer he has to further his studies in the USA. Umer and I met through cricket as he attended the ICC Academy and he is very much into his sports and fitness. In this episode, we discuss the article (https://gulfnews.com/business/analysis/uae-can-do-much-to-retain-its-student-talent-than-lose-them-to-overseas-universities-1.73479589) he recently wrote for Gulf News, his experience finishing school during the lockdown, what his plans are for the future and much more.

Episode 6: Liverpool with Asif Ahmed

As the English Premier League concluded recently with Liverpool winning their first Championship in 30 years, I sit down with Liverpool supporter Asif Ahmed who has a wealth of knowledge about his club as well as the rest of the football industry. Great insight shared and I'm sure you will enjoy this, even if you aren't a Liverpool supporter! We talk about why he supports Liverpool, how amazing winning the league was, the rebuild under Klopp and if it can be sustained going forward and so much more!