🏏 Cricket Roundup: NZ steal Stokes’ thunder, what next for IND-W, & Shedge for IND.
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🏴🇳🇿 NZ BEAT ENG | Matt Roller on Daryl Mitchell’s ‘boring’ century. | Jarrod Kimber on NZ playing cricket while ENG played to the crowd. | Abhijato Sensarma on loving and hating Ben Stokes’ last game. |
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🏆 IND’S EXIT | Aditya Padinjat on IND’s statistical weaknesses. | Vishal Dikshit on the necessary changes. | Vignesh Bharadwaj on the silver lining that is Sree Charani. |
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🏏 THE ROUNDUP | Shayan Acharya with ex-SL star Sidath Wettimuny on the state of South Asian cricket. | S Sudarshanan with Suryansh Shedge on his IND debut. | Venkata Krishna B on IND’s one-dimensional batting v IRE. | CS Chiwanza remembers the understated SA captaincy of Dean Elgar. | Smit Patel on Kunwarjeet Singh, Shubman Gill’s buddy who’s getting his chance in the MLC. |
🗞️ Quick News: The Stokes fallout, IRE’s coach resigns on a high, & Olympics qualification.
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Ben Stokes supports Harry Brook to be ENG captain. Lawrence Booth on the behind the scenes fallout with management, Paul Newman on ENG post-Ashes ‘reset’ in shambles, & Cameron Ponsonby on the two survivors of the mess; Brendon McCullum and Rob Key.
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IRE coach Heinrich Malan resigned after clinching the 2-0 series win over IND.
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The ICC have confirmed the qualification paths for the 2028 Olympics.
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