Mavericks of cricket, past and present

🚨 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! 🚨

Bhuvneshwar does it all for RCB

🏏 Cricket Roundup: Bhuvi’s day out, Urvil’s 50, & Atherton visits Wood’s hometown.

• 🏆 RCB BEAT MI | 🚨 Our writers went beyond the headlines; Aadityan Ganesh on Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s reinvention, Aarush Adil Khan on Tilak Varma defying the pitch, & Tarutr Malhotra on Krunal Pandya as RCB’s glue guy. |

• 🏆 CSK BEAT LSG | Deivarayan Muthu on Urvil Patel’s 13-ball half century. |

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇿 ENG-W BEAT NZ | Hypocaust on the numbers behind ENG’s win. | Matthew Henry on the successful debut of teenager Tilly Corteen-Coleman. |

• 🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | 🔒 Mike Atherton spends the day with Mark Wood. | 🔒 Paul Hayward thinks ENG need to do more than just drop Zak Crawley. | Telford Vice with Kyle Abbott on prioritising County cricket. |

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Mavericks of cricket, past and present

📚 Best Features: Details on Sooryavanshi, & the repeated reinvention of Wilfred Rhodes.

• “The beast T20 made”
  📊 Himanish Ganjoo looks at biomechanics & specialised pace, line and length data to understand how Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has taken to T20 cricket like a duck to water.

• “Never Tired of Cricket”
  ✍️ Giles Wilcock on Wilfred Rhodes, the maverick who took 92 wickets in his debut season in Scotland in 1896-97, and how he constantly reinvented his game to stay dangerous.

🗞️ Quick News: An ICC video game, AUS can’t sign their players, & Lancashire’s civil war.

• Venkat Ananth reports on the ICC’s attempts at creating a video game.

• Multiple AUS players have held off signing central contracts due to underwhelming pay numbers. Alex Malcolm on Cricket Australia’s inability to afford their own best players, while Dan Brettig profiles James Allsop’s exact job as CA’s “Chief of Cricket”.

• The outgoing Lancashire chief has called the group of critics fighting him a bunch of “old entitled white men,” while Simon Wilde thinks the Lancashire civil war is indicative of a wider issue in County cricket.

• The first season of the NZ20 will be delayed a year.

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Is cricket cool?

📺 A/V: Is cricket cool enough, & Stubbs’ slow-paced finishing.

• “Does cricket have a cool problem?”
  📽️ Machel St Patrick Hewitt has a monologue that’s asked a question I’ve wondered for a long time; is cricket cool, and why does that matter? [YouTube]

• “The Finishing Anchors”
  📽️ Jarrod Kimber on the art of finishing, and Tristan Stubbs’s (relatively) slow-paced take on it. [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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