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🏏 Cricket Roundup: Ngidi’s slower balls, Sanju v short balls, & a Colombo tour diary.
SL-W beat WI by 9 wickets.
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🇿🇦🇳🇿 | Sidharth Monga previews the NZ-SA semifinal, Firdose Moonda talks to Marco Jansen about his improvements, Alagappan Muthu writes about Mitch Santner’s all-round prowess, Matthew Henry makes the case for SA as World Cup favourites, Venkata Krishna B on how Lungi Ngidi perfected his slower ball during the IPL, & Rahul Iyer on the physics behind Ngidi’s slower balls.
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🇮🇳 | Rasesh Mandani talks to Sanju Samson’s youth coach about his trouble with short balls, Sarah Waris on the loneliness of Rinku Singh’s role, & Kingshuk Kusari traces Jasprit Bumrah’s reputational evolution from chucker to Godlike.
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Nagraj Gollapudi has a fun tour diary from Colombo as the World Cup leaves Sri Lanka’s shores, & Vishesh Roy profiles the Puma partnership that helped ZIM’s Ryan Burl years before he became a household name.
🗞️ Quick News: RCB’s split home stand, an AFG change, & Renuka’s out of the Test.
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RCB will play 5 home IPL games in Bangalore, & 2 in Raipur.
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Osman Samiuddin writes about the inanity of the PCB fining PAK players, while the ACB is mulling a change in AFG’s leadership.
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Renuka Thakur has been ruled out of the IND-AUS Test.
📺 A/V: How RCB won the IPL, a documentary on Shahid Afridi, & Sundaresan’s journey.
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“Realising the Dream”
📽️ RCB have put out a video with CEO Rajesh Menon, head coach Andy Flower, & director Mo Bobat on how they finally broke their IPL drought. [YouTube] -
“The Rise, The Storm, The Legend”
📽️ PakPassion have a full length documentary on Shahid Afridi’s career. It’s kind of an incredible random find for a Wednesday morning. [YouTube] -
“The MS Dhoni Aura”
📽️ AB de Villiers talks to Bharat Sundaresan about his journey from Mumbai to Australia as a ground-breaking cricket reporter. [YouTube]
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