✍️ Steve Menary investigates the insidious online methods used by gambling operators to spread betting into all levels of Women’s cricket
“The number one location of 1xBet’s live cricket betting offerings is India, where unofficial competitions are taking place at venues like the Shri Krishna Cricket Academy in Sidipur, on the outskirts of Delhi with as many as six games in a day, every day of the week.
It is known as the Agra District Women’s League, a reference to a location hundreds of kilometres away, and it is a competition with little online presence outside of its semi-permanant status on a small number of betting sites like 1xBet and the CricHeroes streaming service.
It is so far outside the structures of organised cricket that teams do not change ends at the completion of an over, an occurrence that should usually happen every few minutes.”
✍️ Will Jeanes on why the Wisden Almanac is the Bible of Cricket.
“The almanack was founded by John Wisden, then a recently retired cricketer, in the early 1860s. As noted by L.E.S. Gutteridge in the 100th edition in 1963, Wisden owned a tobacco and sports equipment store in central London and wanted to compete with a rival shop who, as well as selling cigars, was producing a publication titled ‘The Young Cricketer’s Guide.”
✍️ Karan Jain looks at the rupee-for-rupee most valuable players in IPL history.
“Over the course of the season, the IPL’s 76th best paid player scored 472 runs (Ave: 47.2, SR: 151.76), and took 17 wickets (Ave: 22.52, Econ: 7.07). Shane Watson’s combination of runs, average and SR wouldn’t be topped for another three seasons, while his wicket tally and economy were only topped by teammate Sohail Tanvir across the entire league. His three games with 2+ wickets, <7 economy rate, and a half century remains a single season record 19 years later.
Most impressively, Watson delivered the fourth-most overs in the entire tournament (54.1). Not bad for a player that was advised to give up bowling altogether just to stay fit.”
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“The Queensland team that couldn’t be beaten”
✍️ Adam Burnett on Nev Paulsen, the Imparja Cup, & how professionalised tournaments for indigenous Australians entered the Cricket Australia ecosystem. -
“A stupid, lovable game”
✍️ Phil Walker talks to Sarah Taylor about going from a 226-cap international to one of the few female coaches breaking into Men’s cricket. -
“I lost focus on only two balls”
✍️ Hemant Brar with Sushma Verma – the 237-run scoring domestic champion of India – on her epic innings. -
“One Bats to the Left, One Bats to the Right”
📊 Rishikeshwaran CA pushes back against the trend that LHB-RHB partnerships are overrated.
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“Kohli pours salt on old RCB wounds”
📊 Tarutr Malhotra on Virat Kohli’s middle overs slow down. -
“MI are dampening the fuse on Boom-rah”
📊 Tarutr Malhotra on how MI are (mis)using Jasprit Bumrah. -
“LSG’s openers would be great…in 2022”
📊 Tarutr Malhotra on how LSG’s openers take too long to start their innings. -
“Pandya’s constant reinvention”
📊 Tanvi Bhaskar on how Krunal Pandya reinvented his game.
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“Scoring hundreds in Australia”
🎤 Phil Walker talks to Joe Root about The Ashes, England, the future of Tests, and more. [Apple/Spotify] -
“The Art of Captaincy”
🎤 Steve Crossman talks to Michael Vaughan & Alastair Cook about leadership. [Apple/Spotify] -
“Why The Hundred Will Fail”
📽️ Michael Vaughan talks to Lalit Modi about franchise tournaments around the globe, and the future of IND-PAK cricket. [YouTube] -
“India’s Best Leg Spinner?”
📽️ Cricket by JB remember Poonam Yadav’s career for IND-W, and how the legendary spinner was dropped permanently by 30. [YouTube]