The Coldplay singer who runs a NZ supermarket. Erm, wait…

🚨 If you’re an RCB fan, I’d love if you could fill out this 2-minute survey on how you feel about the franchise this year. I plan to create a graphic story of your answers soon! 🚨

The Mumbai Indians look broken

🏏 Cricket Roundup: ENG-W’s old squad, the County draws, & Abhishek v Sooryavanshi.

• 🏆 SRH BEAT MI | Deepu Narayanan on MI’s poor tactics and powerplays in 2026. | Sruthi Ravindranath on the usually unflappable Jasprit Bumrah faltering. |

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG-W | Valkerie Baynes analyses ENG’s bet on comeback talent to provide a WC X-factor. | Andrew Miller talks to prodigious teenager Davina Perrin about missing out on this World Cup. |

• 🏆 COUNTY | 🔒 Elizabeth Ammon on why April games are ending in draws now. | 🔒 Cameron Ponsonby on the cohort of older bowlers making their mark. | Ben Bloom on how the Knight-Stokes Cup can elevate state school cricketers. |

• 🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Vijay Tagore on the intriguing IPL Orange Cap race developing between Abhishek Sharma & Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. | Sandip G talks to the OG pacer with T20 variations, WI’s Franklyn Stephenson. | Ahsan Nagi on how Babar Azam has reinvented himself during the PSL. |

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The Coldplay singer who runs a NZ supermarket. Erm, wait…

📚 Best Features: Cricket’s Hall of Very Good Players.

• “Cricket’s Hall of Very Good”
  ✍️ Dom Murray writes about the brilliant players who have been relegated to history’s dustbin because they weren’t brilliant enough – starting with NZ’s Chris Martin, who will never see his face pop up first on a Google search.

🗞️ Quick News: SLC’s board resigns, & another BBL opponent arises.

• Sri Lanka Cricket’s president & board have all abruptly resigned.

• Queensland becomes the second state to officially oppose the BBL sale.

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The future of English cricket

📺 A/V: Stewart on running Surrey, & the IPL bowl-pocalypse.

• “Why Bellingham could be good”
  📽️ Mike Atherton talks to Alec Stewart about returning to Surrey, and the future of English cricket. [YouTube]

• “The Bowlpocalpyse”
  📽️ Jarrod Kimber on the sidelining of bowlers in the IPL. [YouTube]

LEGEND:

• 🚨 = Shameless plug (i.e. a BoC piece!)

• 🏆 = Tournament Cricket

• 🔒 = Behind a paywall

• 📊 = In-depth statistics

• 🤖 = AI-generated (take it with a pinch of salt)

• 🎤 = Podcast

• 📽️ = Video

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