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🏏 Cricket Roundup: RCB/MI’s great starts, the Dhoni paradox, & the LHB-RHB myth.
MI beat KKR by 6 wickets, RCB beat SRH by 6 wickets, & Dhoni’s injured.
South Australia win the Sheffield Shield, SA-W beat NZ by 2 wickets, & AUS-W beat WI by 90 runs.
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Alex Malcolm on the high level cricket on display that makes the Sheffield Shield valuable to Australia.
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Hypocaust has the numbers from SA-W’s win over NZ, & So Much Sport on what happens next for Charlotte Edwards’ charges at ENG-W.
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🔒 Johan Fourie crunches the international numbers to prove LHB-RHB combos don’t have an advantage (📊 you can read the full academic paper here), & Vishal Misra builds says the data backs up this analysis across domestic cricket too.
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Danyal Rasool on the Multan Sultans’ goal of Total Cricket, and Ekanth on the quiet growth of the Japan Premier League.
📚 Best Features: Tracing Suryavanshi, & the first popular cricket game from 1744.
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“Boy monster”
✍️ Shashank Kishore has a fantastic profile of Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s prodigious rise to global superstar before his 15th birthday. -
“The greatest cricket match ever known”
🔒 Scyld Berry remembers the 1744 All England-Kent game that formed the basis of England’s interest in cricket.
🗞️ Quick News: Imran’s detention, RCB tickets for the government, & how the WC win has boosted Women’s cricket in IND.
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Three despairingly bad “administrative” stories; 🔒 Peter Lalor on Imran Khan’s continued detention, Akshay Ramesh on the Karnataka legislature bullying RCB into giving them free tickets, & Aminul Islam sees no crisis as the Bangladesh government opens multiple investigations into his 5-month old BCB tenure.
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Ravichandran Ashwin has signed up for the MLS.
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A BBC report earlier this month traced how India Women’s World Cup win last year has boosted interested in Women’s cricket in the country.
📺 A/V: Cook for ENG, & how to do cricket videos.