ROUNDUP: AUS win 4-1 & growing WPL hype

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ROUNDUP: AUS win 4-1 & growing WPL hype

🏏 Cricket Roundup: Tongue v Smith, lots of WPL coverage, & why SA dropped 4 big names.

• The Ashes:
  AUS beat ENG by 5 wickets to take The Ashes 4-1.
  👉 Andrew McGlashan on Beau Webster taking his chance.
  👉 Vithushan Ehantharajah on Jacob Bethell arriving earlier than expected.
  📊 Rahul Iyer on why Josh Tongue keeps getting Steve Smith’s wicket.
  🔒 Thom Gibbs laments the poor TNT commentary throughout The Ashes.

• WPL:
  👉 Shashank Kishore with Shreyanka Patil on her comeback trail.
  👉 S Sudarshanan with Deandra Dottin on playing for a new team.
  👉 Niharika Raina with Happy Kumari, the rare pace prodigy in the WPL.
  👉 Sruthi Ravindranath with Jhulan Goswami on improving IND’s pace stocks.
  👉 Shashank Kishore on five new faces to watch in this year’s WPL.
  👉 Shahid Judge on Abhishek Nayar taking up the coaching gig at UP Warriorz.
  📊 Hemant Brar analyses one big number for each team.

• The Cricket Roundup:
  👉 CS Chiwanza analyses the four big names dropped from SA’s T20 squad.
  👉 Colin Bryden on the challenges in SA’s first class system.
  👉 Atif Azam with Rahmanullah Gurbaz on believing in himself.
  👉 Shashank Kishore with Aman Rao, a breakout double centurion in the VHT.
  📊 Sampath Bandarupalli analyses the numbers from the VHT group stage.
  👉 Ahsan Nagi on Shadab Khan’s rehabilitation in the Big Bash League.
  👉 Qaiser Ali on Delhi’s shrinking footprint in IND teams.

Bangladesh rely on Jay Shah’s sense of fairness

🗞️ Quick News: BAN will try to convince the ICC, WPL ads increase, & join our WPL coverage team!

• Bangladesh’s sports advisor Asif Nazrul wants to change the ICC’s mind because playing in India would cause safety and embarrassment issues. I’m sure the ICC won’t let any of their conflicts of interest affect their ruling.

• Javed Farooqui reports on the WPL’s sponsorships & ads rising year-on-year.

• I’ve opened up public writing spots for Best of Cricket’s WPL coverage!

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