ROUNDUP: The inevitability of an India loss

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The inevitability of an India loss

🏏 Cricket Roundup: Harmer turns the tables, ENG’s warring camp, & BAN’s latest solution.

• India v South Africa:
  IND trail by 522 runs.
  👉 Karthik Krishnaswamy on Simon Harmer’s success on IND pitches.
  👉 Prakash Govindasreenivasan on the inevitability of day five.
  👉 Neil Manthorp on Shukri Conrad’s “grovelling” gaffe.
  👉 Martin Williamson on the historical context of the grovelling comment.
  👉 Simon Wilde on SA’s anti-Bazball success in Test cricket.

• The Ashes:
  👉 Bharat Sundaresan on Usman Khawaja’s back spasm.
  👉 Matthew Henry on Zak Crawley’s ENG fit.
  👉 Will Macpherson on Harry Brook’s inconsistency.
  👉 Dan Walsh on ENG’s poor day-night record.
  👉 Daniel Brettig on the dawning war between ENG’s past and present.

• The Cricket Roundup:
  SL beat ZIM by 9 wickets.
  👉 Abdullah Al Mehdi on BAN’s latest middle order solution; promote the kids.
  👉 Sruthi Ravindranath has team-by-team suggestions for the WPL auction.
  👉 Shashank Kishore on the players who need a big SMAT season.
  👉 Simon Hughes with WACA chief John Stevenson on the state of Aussie cricket.

A new hope?

🗞️ Quick News: KSCA’s new president, & Multan Sultans’ new owner?

• Venkatesh Prasad is the last standing candidate for the KSCA presidency.

• Ali Tareen will walk away from the Multan Sultans after the PSL/PCB tried to censor him. The other five franchises have agreed to renew their leases.

The idea that worked (eventually)

📺 A/V: The useless CA XI that produced 9 internationals.

• “Out of our league”
  🎤 Stories After Stumps on the short-lived “Cricket Australia XI” that seemed a failure in its three years of existence – but has produced nine international cricketers for Australia years after the team was shut down. [Apple/Spotify]

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