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The cost of Australia’s summer

The cost of Australia’s summer

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🏏 Cricket Roundup: CA’s financial decision, BAN’s pacers, & the first UAE-born IPL player.

NZ beat SA by 68 runs, & SA-W beat NZ by 18 runs.

  • Hypocaust has the numbers from the SA-W victory.

  • 🔒 Sam Perry on Cricket Australia’s impending financial decision on selling their domestic summer, while Tom McCluskey writes about his Sheffield Shield fandom and the competition’s quality that is at stake.

  • Abhishek Mukherjee on BAN’s world class pace attack.

  • Paul Radley traces Yash Punja’s roots, as the RR leg-spinner is poised to become the first UAE-born player in the IPL.

🗞️ Quick News: Can the ECB improve, another BAN investigation, & RCB’s final bidders.

  • Matt Roller asks if the ECB can improve their internal management structure, while 🔒 Surrey chief Gareth Batty says the County-to-Test pathway is broken.

  • The Bangladesh government responded to the BCB’s request to stop their election investigation by…starting a different investigation into whether boycotting the WC was a smart move. Abdullah Al Mehdi wonders why the BCB is complaining (and who exactly is complaining), considering their own constitution puts them under the control of the government.

  • Ashwin Mohan reports that the RCB sale has come down to two bidders; an Azim Premji-EQT combination, and a consortium led by Rajesh Pai.

📺 A/V: Overlap x Sam Billings.

  • “IPL Glory, Watching Man Utd with MS Dhoni, & Kohli Battles”
    📽️ Overlap Cricket talks to Sam Billings about the IPL, cricket in India, & The Hundred. [YouTube]

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