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🏏 Cricket Roundup: Samson’s redemption, SL’s fan disconnect, & J&K’s fairytale.
IND beat WI by 5 wickets, & SA beat ZIM by 5 wickets.
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🇮🇳🌴 | 🔒 Jarrod Kimber on Sanju Samson saving IND’s blushes, Sandip G on Jasprit Bumrah turning the game with one over, Sidharth Monga on how batters are attacking Varun Chakravarty, & 📊 Mayank on Ishan Kishan’s improvement.
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🇿🇦🇿🇼 | Firdose Moonda on Sikandar Raza’s heroics, Firdose Moonda with Brian Bennett on his breakout tournament, & Telford Vice on ZIM cricketers’ bond with their travelling fans.
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Andrew Fernando on the disconnect between SL fans and the team, Meer Khan has a chronology of PAK’s cricketing problems under Mohsin Naqvi, & 🔒 Tim Wigmore laments the lack of integrity at ICC tournaments.
J&K won their first ever Ranji Trophy.
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Aayush Puthran on the fairytale of J&K’s victory, Shashank Kishore on Ravichandran Smaran’s breakout season with the bat, & Shashank Kishore on coach Ajay Sharma’s redemption from a match-fixing ban in his playing days.
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Vijay Tagore with BCCI president (and former J&K player) Mithun Manhas on the magnitude of J&K’s achievement.
AUS beat IND by 185 runs, SL beat WI by 4 wickets, PAK beat SA by 119 runs, & NZ beat ZIM by 10 wickets.
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🇮🇳🇦🇺 | Laura Jolly on Alyssa Healy scoring 158 (98) in her last ODI, & Tom McCluskey on how rapidly Women’s cricket has grown since he accidentally discovered it on the back of a Shane Warne poster in 1998 – and how Healy has played a big role in that growth.
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🔒 Machel Hewitt on what to do about the broken bridge between youth and senior cricket in the West Indies.
📚 Best Features: How Google infiltrated cricket, & remembering IND’s 2001 comeback.
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“Google’s longest game”
✍️ Venkat Ananth reports on Google’s 15-year strategy of embedding itself into cricket’s ecosystem; and what that could mean with the two biggest media rights auctions on the horizon in 2027. -
“Miracle On Soil – Act I: Inevitable”
✍️ Sarthak Dev remembers the Indian landscape before that game against Australia at Eden Gardens 25 years ago.
🗞️ Quick News: Jayasuriya to step down, NEP’s growing interest, & the PSL’s media deal.
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Sanath Jayasuriya will step down as SL coach, Samsul Arefin Khan & Sukanta Halder on the intricacies of bringing Shakib Al Hasan back to BAN.
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Nepal were a top three viewer market for this World Cup.
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The PSL has signed a record broadcaster deal worth $93 million, while the Mumbai Cricket Association has launched a Women’s league selling franchises at INR 4 crore (~438K).
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The Trumpian attack on Iran has hit cricket; the ICC is monitoring teams’ need for travel in the Middle East, and the ECB is trying to get its players out of the UAE (including Andrew Flintoff’s Lions team) since their airspace is closed.
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