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🏏 Cricket Roundup: What do players think of the County Championship, Notts’ unlikely win, & the IPL chair’s ambitions.
SRH beat KKR by 65 runs, & Nuwan Thushara files a lawsuit against SLC to play the IPL.
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Roshan Gede posits that Rinku Singh is the best fielder in the league.
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Deivarayan Muthu on Xavier Bartlett’s improvements since last season, & Nihal Koshie traces Sameer Rizvi’s roots.
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Chris Kay talks to IPL chair Arun Singh Dhumal about expansion, bilaterals, and the future of cricket.
AUS-W beat WI by 8 wickets.
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ESPNcricinfo panels County players to see what they think of the tournament’s changes, 🔒 Scyld Berry looks at the best County players pre-2000, & Simon Hughes remembers the different County world he entered 46 years.
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View from the Bridge on Notts’ unlikely championship in 2025.
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Ali Martin talks to Shoaib Bashir about rehabilitating his career at Derbyshire, & Andrew Miller talks to former ENG coach Chris Silverwood about their current troubles and his own job at Essex.
🗞️ Quick News: van der Dussen retires, the lack of parade death accountability, & Swanepoel gets his comeuppance.
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Rassie van der Dussen has retired from international cricket. Telford Vice eulogises the SA batter’s career.
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Pushkar V on the lack of accountability after the RCB parade deaths – with some of the main accused in the VIP boxes for the IPL opener.
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Caribbean economist Mariano Browne has criticised WI’s annual financial report as marketing fluff with no real details on their activities in the last year.
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Cricket South Africa has not given Beyers Swanepoel a NoC to play in the County Championship, after the all-rounder walked out of the CSA One-Day Cup final to catch a flight to England.
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The BCB & Dhaka clubs are in a stand-off, and it’s killing opportunities for their local players.
📺 A/V: On Suryavanshi’s rise.