GT & KKR shake up the IPL table

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GT & KKR shake up the IPL table

🏏 Cricket Roundup: GT’s chasing strength, KKR’s smart bowling, & how Kohli has improved.

• 🏆 GT BEAT PBKS | Sidharth Monga on Jason Holder’s Test match skills. | 📊 Gokul Gopal on GT’s significant advantages when chasing. |

• 🏆 KKR BEAT SRH | Shashank Kishore on Sunil Narine’s 15-year old mystery spin. | Pratyush Sinha on smart bowler matchups that stunted SRH. | Roshan Gede on Varun Chakravarty’s return to form. |

• 🏆 ZALMI WIN THE PSL | Danyal Rasool on how Marnus Labuschagne won hearts through his captaincy of losing finalists Hyderabad Kingsman. | Ahsan Nagi talked to Labuschagne before the final on his leadership style. |

• 🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | 📊 Sarah Waris on how Virat Kohli has improved his game. | Abhishek AB on how KL Rahul is a victim of his own success. | Andy Bull on Middlesex’s slow devolution into mediocrity. | 🔒 Cameron Ponsonby with Middlesex’s 20-year old Naavya Sharma on balancing County cricket & college exams. |

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Why Derby’s wicketkeeper died in Madrid

📚 Best Features: Derby’s greatest thief, & defining different T20 anchors.

• “The Flight of Samuel Richardson”
  ✍️ Giles Wilcock remembers the ex-Derby wicketkeeper who helped build their football arm, worked as a tailor for a Spanish king, & was suspected to have stolen giant sums from his old County club.

• “Towards a String Theory for Anchoring ”
  📊 Atharv Tambade & Aadityan Ganesh attempt to define different kinds of anchors in the IPL – defined as batters who play more balls than expected for their position – by how they score their runs.

🗞️ Quick News: IND-W’s WC squad, RR’s surprise new owners, & the non-Hundred county pushback.

• India Women announced their team for the World Cup. S Sudarshanan tries to explain the calls, while Nitin Sharma profiles WC debutant Nandni Sharma.

• 🔒 Venkat Ananth reports on the sudden ownership change at Rajasthan Royals, Kal Somani might litigate the loss of his winning bid, & 🔒 Gideon Haigh looks at RR’s “development” camps in Australia.

• 🔒 Daniel Brettig reports on the fallout of the failed BBL sale, while 🔒 Simon Wilde asks when the T20 bubble is going to burst.

• Lawrence Booth reports on the secret meeting between the 11 non-Hundred counties to fight back against their marginalisation, while Barney Ronay writes about Brendon McCullum’s disdain for the entire competition.

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Hard as Wood

📺 A/V: Wood on IPL pressure, & the Impact Player impact.

• “The pressure of playing at highest level”
  📽️ BBC host Mark Wood to talk about the IPL and his experiences – including a pretty worrying anecdote about being asked to play while injured. [YouTube]

• “Will the IPL end Indian cricket?”
  📽️ Cricket by JB discuss the increased strike rates and averages amongst IPL batters since the Impact Player rule was introduced. [YouTube]

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• 📊 = In-depth statistics

• 🤖 = AI-generated (take it with a pinch of salt)

• 🎤 = Podcast

• 📽️ = Video

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