ROUNDUP: The “greatest rivalry” wasn’t as lopsided as it seemed

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The “greatest rivalry” wasn’t as lopsided as it seemed

🏏 Cricket Roundup: PAK lose it as much as IND win it, IND-PAK revitalised Colombo, & where is Ranatunga?

T20 WC Match Reactions:

IND beat PAK by 61 runs, USA beat NAM by 31 runs, & WI beat NEP by 9 wickets.

• 🇮🇳🇵🇰 | 🚨 Our team went beyond the headlines on IND-PAK; Ben Brettell on how PAK’s bowlers lost the PP, & Tanish Taneja on Saim Ayub’s brilliant spell. Andrew Fernando on how the joy of cricket came back to Colombo, Sahil Malhotra on Hardik Pandya’s decade-long rise to white ball MVP, 📊 Manas Patil on Varun Chakravarty’s reinvention, & Akshay Ramesh on the struggle of finding new IND-PAK angles as a member of the media.

• 🇺🇸🇳🇦 | Alagappan Muthu on Sanjay Krishnamurthi’s 68 (33) for USA.

• 🌴🇳🇵 | Vishal Dikshit on how WI turned their T20 v NEP into a Test.

T20 WC:

• Vijay Tagore on the disappearance of SL’s most famous cricketer, Arjuna Ranatunga.

• Sooryanarayanan S talks to SCO’s Tom Bruce about starting his career on his own dime with a trip to Bangalore in 2013 when he was still an NZ cricketer.

The Cricket Roundup:

IND-W beat AUS by 21 runs (DLS).

• Hypocaust has the stats from the opening IND-AUS T20.

• 🔒 Daniel Brettig profiles Alex Blackwell, the AUS-W pioneer who called out her own association multiple times during her playing career thereby advancing the cause of Women’s cricket in Australia immeasurably.

The innovative underbelly of associate cricket

📚 Best Features: Associate cricket’s unique economics, the stats behind ‘handedness’ matchups, & who are the most consistent Test players ever?

• “The visibility dividend”
  🔒 Venkat Ananth explores the growth of associate cricket in the shadows, and how the smaller nations have revolutionised cricket economics via online ingenuity in recent times.

• “Handedness matchups with Spin”
  📊 Amol Desai has a fantastic deep dive into ‘handedness’ matchups, (i.e. is the off-spinner the best choice v. the LHB, and much, much more).

• “The most consistent Test batters & bowlers”
  📊 Anantha Narayanan continues his highly enjoyable nerding out on statistical Test cricket history, this time looking at consistency across players.

🗞️ Quick News: NZ-W’s new skipper, Prior to aid Sussex, & new stand names in BLR.

• Amelia Kerr is NZ’s new all-format captain.

• Katya Witney on why Matt Prior is stepping in to help Sussex.

• The Chinnaswamy is naming stands after Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, & Shantha Rangaswamy.

The future of associate cricket

📺 A/V: What next for associate cricket?

• “Unlocking the Future of Cricket”
  🎤 The Last Wicket host former ICC Development Events Manager Eddie Fitzgibbon (yeah, the same one who writes business of cricket pieces on Substack) to talk about the future of associate cricket. [Apple/Spotify]

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