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🏏 Cricket Roundup: Stokes throws away ENG’s identity, ENG’s players need harsh truths, & the death of Bazball.
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The Ashes:
👉 Jon Hotten on Robin Smith, Ben Stokes, “weak men”, and ENG’s identity.
👉 Nasser Hussain thinks Stokes needs to shake up and expose ENG’s frauds.
👉 Andrew Miller – the writer who coined ‘Bazball’ – pronounces its death.
👉 Matt Roller on the ENG batters’ struggles down under. -
SMAT:
Sportstar has a roundup of the SMAT action.
👉 Shayan Acharya with Baroda’s Amit Pasi on his breakout season.
📚 Best Features: How ENG read the AUS pitches completely wrong.
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“Australia’s new clouds”
✍️ Jarrod Kimber has a great analysis of the changing bowling conditions in Australia, the relative importance of wobble seam, and why England’s handling of Anderson was understandable across history but short-sighted in today’s game.
🗞️ Quick News: Corruption in Pondicherry, the ICC’s media rights situation, & dropping IPL valuations.
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Lalith Kalidas investigates Pondicherry’s cricket association (CAP) – a privately funded state-level sports organisation that has all the problems that come with private equity in a social good; shady land grabs, fraudulent votes, & conflicts of interest galore.
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Kalidas also has emailed responses from CAP’s founder on the allegations of misappropriation of funds and fraud.
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Rasesh Mandani has details on the ICC’s tough spot after JioStar asked to be let out of their media rights deal.
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The IPL’s value has dropped 20% amidst the financial, political and administrative uncertainty of Indian cricket.
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