Ep 65: It’s Mel-in-da Bits&Pieces House!

Aussie cricket media allrounder, Melinda Farrell first puts the gang at ease on their own podcast and then proceeds to rock it with her inimitable brand of humour and her insights laced with empathy about the goings on in cricket across the men’s and the women’s games. She also traces the key events in her own career, reflects on how she started writing long form and explains how she’s such a natural in front of the camera too. There’s also her stellar performance at our carefully curated rapidfire questions and her recollection of the brilliant #PoliteEnquiries, a space on ESPNCricinfo she made her own.
 
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Show Notes

Some of Mel’s best remembered pieces:

On Eoin Morgan: https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1182683/the-irishman-who-became-captain-of-england
On Pat Cummins: https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1206881/the-naive-and-fragile-boy-who-became-the-world-s-top-bowler
On Aaron Finch: https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1239729/aaron-finch-has-got-a-bloody-great-job
On Alyssa Healy: https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1222515/how-alyssa-healy-went-from-slugger-to-beast
On Ellyse Perry: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/every-ball-has-its-own-possibility-the-reinvention-of-ellyse-perry-20230225-p5cnjl.html
On touring Pak: https://www.sportingnews.com/au/cricket/news/what-its-tour-pakistan-australian-cricket-team/urvoqlb4hpkxdioify6q5ydi
On WPL auctions in the middle of the T20 World Cup: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/elephant-in-the-room-wpl-auction-looms-large-over-t20-world-cup-20230210-p5cjlm.html
On Headingley 2019: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/do-you-remember-how-it-started-1198765

Mel’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgcwlv7uLZvkpP2HbaARKqA
The awesomeness that was #PoliteEnquiries: https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricket-videos/genre/politeenquiries-119
Where is Orange?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_New_South_Wales