A bloodbath at Lord’s
🏏 Cricket Roundup: ENG-NZ sees 16 wickets, AUS-W beat SA, & AFG’s rare Test.
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🏴🇳🇿 NZ TRAIL BY 79 | Matt Roller on Kyle Jamieson’s long road back to Tests. | Yas Rana on Ollie Robinson’s Test return. | 🔒 Paul Newman profiles ENG debutant Emilio Gay. | Jo Harman-McGowan on whether the paywall has helped or hindered ENG cricket. |
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🇦🇺🇿🇦 AUS-W BEAT SA | Valkerie Baynes on AUS’ low-pressure mentality ahead of the World Cup. |
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🇮🇳🇦🇫 IND-AFG | Hemant Brar on AFG’s search for more Tests. | Hemant Brar on Rishabh Pant returning to his favourite format. |
How RCB scaled the mountain a second time
📚 Best Features: Reliving RCB’s title win, & cricket’s hidden class of radicals.
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“RCB’s Sisyphean Task”
🚨 Tarutr Malhotra relives RCB’s miraculous title defence, which owed as much to good players as it did to constant innovation & adaptation. -
“Cricket for the Many”
✍️ Richard Heller & Peter Oborne on the surprising history of radicalism and Marxism embedded in the traditionally elitist sport of cricket.
🗞️ Quick News: Iyer is IND’s new captain, Sooryavanshi’s IND-A games to be televised, & the ICC investigates the BCB.
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Shreyas Iyer will be IND’s new T20I captain, Virat Kohli will miss the AFG ODIs with an injury, & an IND-A tri-series tournament will be televised because of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s participation.
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The BCCI wants to make it harder for retired Indians to play in other franchise leagues, & CA boss Todd Greenberg is worried about the effect of the Melbourne BBL team merger.
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The ICC visited Bangladesh to ensure their new cricket administration is running smoothly without political interference.
LEGEND:
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🚨 = Shameless plug (i.e. a BoC piece!)
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🏆 = Tournament Cricket
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🔒 = Behind a paywall
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📊 = In-depth statistics
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🤖 = AI-generated (take it with a pinch of salt)
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🎤 = Podcast
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📽️ = Video
