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🏏 Cricket Roundup: IND’s pacers, RR’s brilliant analytics, & 7 days in Shafali’s life.
📚 Best Features: A Bodyline ashtray, the greatest performance ever, & ENG’s classism.
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“The Ashes’ most valuable artefact”
🔒 Nick Hoult has spent 30 years looking for a piece of memorabilia, and he’s finally found it; Harold Larwood’s ashtray, a gift from captain Douglas Jardine as a thank you for his work during the Bodyline series. -
“The greatest performance in a single Test”
📊 Anantha Narayanan digs through the numbers like only he can to try and quantify the qualitative greatness of individual performances. -
“Class prejudice made England a worse team”
🔒 Tim Wigmore on the classism that held back English cricket for decades.
🗞️ Quick News: ICC-Jio negotiations, a PAK women’s league, & cricket’s back to Bangalore.
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ICC & JioStar have denied a media rights negotiation, but State of Play’s Venkat Ananth talks to insiders to reveal the real story on the changes to their deal.
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The PCB is considering creating a Women’s franchise league.
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The Chinnaswamy gets the nod to host matches again.
📺 A/V: Pooran on his career and the IPL.
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“I Nearly Lost My Life”
📽️ Beard Before Wicket host Nicholas Pooran to discuss his career, the accident that altered his life, and learning from greats in the IPL. [YouTube]
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