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🏏 Cricket Roundup: SA’s newest prodigy, player burnout, & Ian Bell on his coaching dreams.
SA-M beat NZ by 33 runs, & NZ-W beat SA by 92 runs.
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Hemant Brar on the rise of SA’s Connor Esterhuizen who averaged 50 (!) at 145.98 this series, Hypocaust on the numbers behind NZ-W’s win, & Laura Jolly on five learnings from AUS-W’s 3-0 series win over WI.
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Daniel Gallan on the burnout of playing so many games consecutively, & Geoff Lemon on the administrative problem of maintaining interest with so many games after AUS scheduled 4 Test in 4 weekends for their 2026/27 summer.
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Danyal Rasool on the consistently inconsistent PSL, & Ahsan Nagi profiles Abrar Ahmed’s improvements in white ball cricket in the last two years.
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Ali Martin talks to Ian Bell about his dreams and the reality of being a coach, plus the regular questions on England and the 2005 Ashes.
Impact Players to be reviewed in 2027, & fans are angry about lack of RCB-SRH tickets.
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Abhijato Sensarma looks at the ten captains’ form since the last IPL, & Alex Malcolm previews the Aussies at the tournament.
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Chandra Prabhu talks to 31-year old Indian mystery spinner KC Cariappa who announced his “retirement” this year after getting dropped from the IPL and domestics, but is looking to international leagues for a pay day.
🗞️ Quick News: The effects of the RCB/RR sales, the creep of gambling, & the ECB are already doing damage control on Baz.
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Mihir Vasavda on the problems with RCB/RR’s high valuations, Vasavda on why Americans are investing in the IPL, Javed Farooqui on other IPL teams inspired by these sales, & Vinit Mehta on the downstream effects on the cricket vendor cottage industry.
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Andrew Jones has a good rebuttal of every Cricket Australia point on “needing” to sell the BBL, Gideon Haigh on the creeping growth of cricket betting, & Edward Fitzgibbon on how predictive markets could affect cricket.
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🔒 Michael Vaughan calls out Brendon McCullum for planning to come to England just days before ENG games start, the ECB has immediately gone into panic mode to bring him back earlier, & Vithushan Ehantharajah reports on the ECB’s struggles to find a new selector to ease public worries.
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Sussex are bleeding cash, and neither their coach nor players are guaranteed to be around next season.
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