The defending champions are in real trouble

The defending champions are in real trouble

🏏 Cricket Roundup: Deepti’s consistency, Shafali’s inconsistency, & Kane the good boy.

• 🏆 WC GAMES | 🚨 Sri Lanka beat New Zealand, and England beat Ireland. | Hypocaust has numbers from both games. | ENG captain Nat Sciver-Brunt picks up an injury. |

• 🏆 WC FEATURES | Aayush Puthran on the quiet consistency of Deepti Sharma. | Vishal Dikshit on Shafali Verma’s struggle to preserve her wicket. | Osprey on the burgeoning West Indies-Scotland rivalry. |

• 🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Jarrod Kimber on Kane Williamson; not a rockstar, but the boy NZ could take home to their parents. | Steve James on Josh Tongue’s importance to ENG after just 10 Tests. | Gary Naylor has a roundup of the County Championship action. |

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Putting down new Roots?

🗞️ Quick News: ENG’s temporary captain, & the Melbourne merger collapses.

• Joe Root talks about enjoying his temporary captaincy stint alongside Brendon McCullum, while Matt Roller asks how temporary the change will be.

• The Melbourne Stars and Renegades merger is off after two weeks of talks.

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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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