How a crime syndicate infiltrated a cricket association

It really is an extraordinarily good report for a sport that rarely sees anything critical of the administration.

🏏 Cricket Roundup: NKR tries to speed up, Maharaj trains SA-W’s spinners, & Muzarabani’s agents hit back at the PSL.

🏆 | PBKS BEAT LSG | Prateek Srivastava questions Rishabh Pant’s & Mitch Marsh’s slow partnership (48 off 31) in a 254-run chase. |
🏆 | KKR BEAT RR | Deepu Narayanan on KKR overloading on spin against a RR middle order that prefers pace. | Sreshth Shah on Rinku Singh finally showing off his finishing chops with an unbeaten 53 (34). |
🏆 | IPL FEATURES | Shashank Kishore talks to Nitish Kumar Reddy about his attempts to become a consistent 140 KPH pacer. | Rasesh Mandani theorises that Jasprit Bumrah may be a little gassed. | Bharat Sundaresan on the lack of defining narratives in the 2026 IPL season. |
🇿🇦🇮🇳 | SA-W BEAT IND | Firdose Moonda on how Keshav Maharaj has helped the SA Women’s spinners improve – as they took 39/4 in 8 overs (including all of IND’s Top 4 batters). |
🏆 | MULTAN BEAT KARACHI | Danyal Rasool calls time on Mohammad Rizwan’s reign at Multan after 16 losses in 17 games before Sunday. | Blessing Muzarabani’s agents hit back strongly against the PSL ban. |
🏏 | THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Firoz Mirza asks Hokaito Zhimomi why John Buchanan dedicated a chapter of his book to the Naga all-rounder. | 🔒 Jessy Humphreys talks to Paige Scholfield about her discomfort with being auctioned off for The Hundred. | Mangesh Kulkarni on whether WI should be proud or embarrassed about their seven-player count at the IPL. |

📚 Best Features: An investigation into CAN corruption, & a history of cricket amateurism.

“Threats, corruption and intimidation”
✍️ Steven D’Souza, Roxanna Woloshyn, & Lisa Ellenwood investigate the corruption at Cricket Canada – which may have led to a match-fixing scandal during the NZ-CAN game at the World Cup. You can also what their investigative report on YouTube.
“Gentlemen and Players”
✍️ Giles Wilcock on English cricket’s history with Gentlemen (the rich amateurs) and Professionals (the poor who needed pay), and how the former fought to exclude the latter at the turn of the 20th century.

🗞️ Quick News: UAE’s newest citizens, & the MCC could fast track female membership.

Paul Radley talks to the first generation of UAE cricketers to be naturalised in a country that rarely hands out passports to non-Arabs.
🔒 Sonia Twigg reports on the MCC’s debate on fast-tracking female members, after centuries of excluding them based on their gender.

📺 A/V: Patidar’s growth for RCB.

“Rajat Patidar Is RCB’s Best Player”
📽️ Cricket by JB breakdown the RCB captain’s improvement since he went unsold at the 2022 auction, and how he’s turned his career around. [YouTube]

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