Good morning!
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Choudhary saves LSG, Chakravarty’s decline, & GT’s batting order.
LSG beat KKR by 3 wickets.
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Sreshth Shah on Mukul Choudhary’s match-winning, Dhoni-inspired half century, Roshan Gede on the KKR middle order’s strike rate problems, & 📊 Rahul Iyer on Varun Chakravarty’s sudden and steep decline.
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🔒 Jarrod Kimber on the IPL players who can play pace and/or spin proficiently.
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📊 Rudransh Khurana on GT’s poorly constructed batting order, as too much burden falls on Shubman Gill & Sai Sudarshan.
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Neil Manthorp talks to Chris Morris about being the highest paid foreign IPL player for years, and why it’s not necessarily a reflection of talent.
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An uncredited preview of the Women’s Tier 1 One-Day Cup, Andrew Miller with Grace Scrivens on captaining Essex, & Matthew Henry with Lauren Bell on leading ENG’s pace attack.
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Simon Hughes analyses Zak Crawley’s failing Test technique, & Matt Roller asks if a County stint can help improve Jake Weatherald’s AUS credentials.
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Kshitiz Pratap Shah profiles NEP’s 20-year old batting hope, Arjun Kumal.
📚 Best Features: Modi on the IPL.
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“The man who refuses to be wrong”
✍️ Shayan Acharya & Ayon Sengupta interview Lalit Modi on the IPL’s past, present & future (with a decent dose of Modi-esque self love thrown in).
🗞️ Quick News: Iqbal’s BCB, Gopinath passes away, & a 12-team WTC.
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Atif Azam on whether Tamim Iqbal can save the BCB; he’s started by boosting domestic salaries, & trying to solve the BCB-Dhaka club standoff.
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India’s oldest Test cricketer CD Gopinath has passed away at 96.
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Sharda Ugra remembers Ravi Shastri’s prime as a Wankhede stand gets named after him, while Akshay Kumaraswamy writes about Diana Edulji’s importance to Women’s cricket as she gets a gate named after her.
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Tristan Lavalette reports that we might get an expanded 12-team WTC.
📺 A/V: Yuvraj on his career and cancer, Yorkshire’s readiness, & Paine’s global coaching gigs.
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“Playing With Sachin, Beating Cancer & Hitting Six Sixes!”
📽️ Michael Vaughan talks to Yuvraj Singh about the IPL’s impact, his India career, & his cancer diagnosis. [YouTube] -
“The future’s bright”
🎤 Katya Witney digs into the state of Yorkshire women, including chats with their coach and batters. [Apple/Spotify] -
“PAIN IN MY HEART”
📽️ Gideon Haigh & Peter Lalor talk to Tim Paine about his gig as a roving franchise coach. [YouTube]