Different day, same problems for RCB

🚨 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! 🚨

Different day, same problems for RCB

🏏 Cricket Roundup: RCB’s Groundhog Day, Ashok Sharma chases 150 KPH, & cricket in Indonesia.

• 🏆 LSG BEAT RCB | 🚨 Our writers went beyond the headlines; 📊 Raunak Thakur on RCB’s belated plan to counter Mitch Marsh, 📊 Tarun Pratap on Prince Yadav dethroning Virat Kohli, & Tarutr Malhotra on Tim David papering over RCB’s cracks. | 📊 Roshan Gede breaks down Prince’s great season. |

• 🏆 IPL FEATURES | Nagraj Gollapudi with GT’s Ashok Sharma on targetting 150+ KPH. | Aadya Sharma on LSG’s Mohsin Khan fighting back from a near amputation to IPL success. | Matthew Henry on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s potential IND debut. | Matt Roller with Ian Bell on coaching in the IPL. |

• 🏆 COUNTY CRICKET | Ali Martin on the likelihood of Ollie Robinson for ENG. | Jon Hotten on the (un-)likelihood of Dom Sibley for ENG. | 🔒 Elizabeth Ammon with Emilio Gay on plundering runs this season. | 🔒 Will Macpherson reports on the civil war at Lancashire. |

• 🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Firdose Moonda on the growth of cricket in Indonesia. | Gaurav Gupta remembers the “greatest” Ranji final ever. | 🔒 Gideon Haigh talks to the son of a cricketer shot dead on the field in 1952. |

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The American moat needs to be dug

📚 Best Features: Cricket’s lack of moat in USA, & a takedown of LHB-RHB critiques.

• “Cricket in North America”
  ✍️ Edward Fitzgibbon attends a sports investor conference in USA; cricket is part of the American investor discourse, but they’re not sure how to reliably make money from the sport yet.

• “In Defence of LHB-RHB Partnerships”
  📊 ChimpThought breaks down some of the half-arsed criticisms of dual handed partnerships in white ball cricket.

🗞️ Quick News: Corruption loses the IPL final, the BCCI’s ‘honeypot’ worries, & ENG’s new Aussie selector.

• Bangalore lost the IPL final because the local association demanded 10,000 free tickets over their 15% allocation (i.e. around 4,500 tickets) – in a stadium that only seats ~30,000 people.

• The BCCI has set of a list of rules to exclude girlfriends of IPL cricketers from staying with the teams. They even call it the “honeypot” guidelines, like they’re making a B-Grade spy movie parody.

• 🔒 Will Macpherson/Nick Hoult report that Durham director Marcus North – an Aussie! – will be ENG’s new selector. He seems a knowledgeable County expert.

• Danyal Rasool makes the case for Sarfaraz Ahmed as PAK’s new coach.

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The world through Bates’ eyes

📺 A/V: Bates on retiring, & Charlie Dean on a big ENG-W summer.

• “The New Zealand great”
  🎤 Stumped talk to Suzie Bates about her career, and retiring after the World Cup. [Apple/Spotify]

• “An EPIC women’s cricket summer”
  📽️ Sky Sports preview the English Women’s summer starting this weekend with stand-in captain Charlie Dean. [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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