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Our special guest this week is Prem Panicker, a veteran journalist who has been writing on cricket for over 25 years. Prem was one of the founding journalists at Rediff.com and a pioneer with regard to online commentary and internet radio.
Talking Points:

Falling in love with cricket in the late 1960s and '70s
The granular detail with which one remembers games from one's childhood
Listening to the radio and enacting the action based on the commentary
The arrival of television to India and the magic it brought forth
Entering the world of journalism
The brave new world of the Internet - and the leap of faith it entailed
Figuring out the internet while writing on cricket during the 1996 World Cup
How Indian cricketers embraced the new reality of online coverage
The BCCI's contradictory stance with respect to online portals like Rediff
JY Lele and his famous quote that predicted India would lose 3-0 in Australia
The match-fixing saga and falling out of love with cricket
The lure of blogging and the flexibility it offered
Twitter as a second-screen in the cricket viewing experience

Participants:
Prem Panicker (@prempanicker)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Related:
Prem Panicker's blog - Smoke Signals
Prem Panicker's column archive - Rediff.com
The Prem Panicker files - The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma
Money in cricket - Prem Panicker and Gideon Haigh on The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma
Prem Panicker interview from 2011  - Couch Talks
Lele unplugged - Faisal Shariff - Rediff.com
The day naivety, not football itself, died - Jonathan Wilson on Brazil's loss to Italy in 1982 - The Guardian
Radio Frequency - Srikanth Natarajan - 81allout.com
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Lead image from here.