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🏏 Cricket Roundup: The PCB’s governance, Knight’s dual role, & the tough path of a 19-year-old SA spinner.
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🇮🇳 | Osman Samiuddin writes about Jasprit Bumrah’s slower ball domination, & Venkata Krishna B praises Ajit Agarkar’s understated role as a revolutionary selector who made tough calls.
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🇵🇰 | Moiz Asim dissects the PCB’s governance problem.
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Sonia Twigg talks to Heather Knight about her dual role as a Hundred GM and an active player, while Geoff Lemon writes about the perpetual problem of not enough games for Women’s cricket after Alyssa Healy’s retirement.
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CS Chiwanza profiles SA’s 19-year-old left-arm spinner Enathi Kitshini who’s taken an unorthodox and difficult route from a township to cricket, & Shalini Gupta profiles the Indian-born Nensi Patel who made her NZ debut last month.
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Swaminathan Aiyar asks if the Indian government can help build the infrastructure to make Kashmir a global bat manufacturing hub.
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Harigovind S looks at changes in cricket’s public data analysis coverage, and recommends a path forward on best practices.
🗞️ Quick News: IND’s big reward, WI flies itself home, & an IPL schedule update.
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The BCCI have announced a INR 131 crore (~$14.25M) reward for the winning IND team. Meanwhile, WI has booked their own passage home after the ICC’s promises of a chartered flight kept getting delayed.
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The IPL will start on March 28 (probably), though the gas shortage caused by the Iranian conflict is being monitored and could delay proceedings. Meanwhile, the PSL is scheduled for March 26 to May 3.
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Cricket Australia is still planning a pink ball Test for the 2029-30 Ashes, despite reports that it was being dropped in the English media.
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Victor Otieno has an overview of the state of Kenya’s cricket administration as elections are coming up soon.
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