The future of cricket - by Tarutr Malhotra

Four trophies in three years across genders…and somehow Jitesh is the face of it.

🏏 Cricket Roundup: RCB’s bowlers win the IPL, Kohli the chase master, & Sooryavanshi’s clean sweep of IPL awards.

🏆 RCB WIN THE IPL | Our team went beyond the headlines; 📊 Tarun Pratap on how RCB bounced GT’s batters out of the game, & 📊 Tarun Pratap/Aarush Adil Khan on the most important chase in Virat Kohli’s IPL career. | Venkata Krishna B on how Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s wobble ball is key to his IPL resurgence. |
🏆 IPL AWARDS | Vaibhav Sooryavanshi leads the IPL awards list. | 📊 Deepu Narayanan on Sooryavanshi’s statistical insanity. | Wisden’s IPL team of 2026. |
THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | 🔒 Tim Wigmore on ENG cricket turning it’s back on spinners. | 🔒 Mike Atherton on Lord’s on the eve of it’s 150th Test. | ESPN have their full list of best international in the 21st century. |

📚 Best Features: The future of broadcasting at Jio, & the man who would be WI’s first black captain.

“The future of sports broadcasting”
🔒 Sukhman Singh has an incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes look at the Jio broadcasting system that powers the IPL.
“The Highest Ambition”
✍️ Giles Wilcock on Cyril ‘Snuffy’ Browne, who laid the groundwork for West Indies to get it’s first black captain (though he wouldn’t achieve it himself).

🗞️ Quick News: A series of fascinating stories on the IPL’s length, revenue, & fan service.

Pratyush Sinha talks about an IPL stuck between eras, while 🔒 Gideon Haigh is more brutal in his assessment of the IPL’s long, boring schedule.
🔒 Cameron Ponsonby talks about how cricket (i.e. the IPL) reached the summit of sports revenue by optimising for broadcast.
Edward Fitzgibbon writes about cricket’s fundamental problem with grassroots participation, while Sharda Ugra argues that cricket’s (i.e. the IPL’s) billionaire overlords have to start thinking about the average fan’s experience.

📺 A/V: KP/Narine play with old balls.

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The future of cricket – by Tarutr Malhotra