Radio made cricket a religion in India,” says [veteran football commentator ... asked him to speak pure Hindi. “You have to find words for all field positions,” Mishra, then a station director in AIR, ...

Extracted with permission from Akashvani: A Century of Stories from All India Radio, Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni, ...

Remember when we’d all be glued to our radio sets during cricket matches ... It was the first Test match with Hindi commentary when India, led by the Nawab of Pataudi Jr, drew against the ...