India’s (lost?) all-rounder
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Vastrakar’s injury, SA’s middle order, & NZ’s power couple.
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🏆 WOMEN’S WC | S Sudarshanan with IND’s Pooja Vastrakar on returning from injury. | Firdose Moonda on SA’s middle-order woes. | Dave Sihra on IRE’s loss to SCO and lack of structured domestic game. | Rasesh Mandani on how Women’s tournaments are slowly becoming self-sustaining. |
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🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Matt Roller with NZ’s Nathan Smith on being a power couple alongside Amelia Kerr. | Dom Murray with a heartfelt note on Kane Williamson’s retirement. | CS Chiwanza profiles an SA starlet; Cole Francis. |
The Dutch Golden Age
📚 Best Features: How NED-W ended a 26-year WC drought.
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“How Netherlands returned to the World Cup”
✍️ Aayush Puthran traces Netherlands Women’s 26-year wilderness from the World Cup, and how they’ve rapidly improved their system.
🗞️ Quick News: The PCB’s new contracts, Baz is worried, & the most-watched IPL final ever.
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The PCB is switching to a format-specific contract system. Danyal Rasool on the details of their data-driven selection criteria.
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Brendon McCullum is worried about Ben Stokes. 🔒 Cameron Ponsonby on why the curfew break is a big deal, while Mark Ramprakash thinks Stokes should stay on as captain.
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The BBL sale has been agreed upon in principle if states have the right to choose to sell their teams.
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The 2026 IPL final saw 1.2 billion viewers – the most-watched final ever.
LEGEND:
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🚨 = Shameless plug (i.e. a BoC piece!)
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🏆 = Tournament Cricket
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🔒 = Behind a paywall
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📊 = In-depth statistics
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🤖 = AI-generated (take it with a pinch of salt)
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🎤 = Podcast
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📽️ = Video