India jump their first hurdle with ease

Deepti ended the game with 3 wickets in her first 9 balls.

🏏 Cricket Roundup: IND cruise past PAK, BAN look comfortable, & a record-breaking WC.

IND BEAT PAK | 🚨 Sarthak Dev has the big talking points from the game. | Aayush Puthran on Smriti Mandhana capitalising on PAK mistakes. | Valkerie Baynes on IND’s trio of heroes; Mandhana, Richa Ghosh & Deepti Sharma. | Firdose Moonda on PAK’s over-reliance on Fatima Sana. |
BAN BEAT NED | Hypocaust has the numbers on yesterday’s games. | Atif Azam with BAN’s Fahima Khatun on mentoring her prodigious teammates. | S Sudarshanan with NED’s Heather Siegers who came out of retirement to help NED qualify. | Valkerie Baynes with NED’s Caroline de Lange, the doctor-turned-legspinner. |
AUS BEAT BAN | Mohammad Isam on BAN’s backup pacer Shoriful Islam picking up 6-48. |
THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | 🔒 Paul Newman on the record-breaking Women’s WC. | Jamie Ramage on SCO’s path-breaking Kirstie Gordon. | Sooryanarayanan S on Gurnoor Brar’s rise for IND. | Sarah Waris on Rishabh Pant in Tests v the IPL. | Chandra Prabhu with SL’s Vijayakanth Viyaskanth leading the way for Tamilian SL players. | Pat Rodgers remembers the forgotten legend of Percy Latham. |

📚 Best Features: When nostalgia overtook the ENG captaincy.

“Clothed the Grass with Gold”
✍️ Giles Wilcock on Reginald Spooner, the personified nostalgia of the Golden Age of cricket (even during the age!), who was picked to lead ENG after the horrors of the First World War. It went as well as nostalgia revived could go.

🗞️ Quick News: Williamson retires, the BBL’s D-Day, & a unique EUR league.

Kane Williamson announced his retirement. Osman Samiuddin remembers a great player and a good guy, while Pratyush Sinha recalls Kane’s ability to always find the right space.
🔒 Daniel Brettig on D-Day for the BBL sale talks, while 🔒 Peter Lalor reports that the players union are opposed to the sale.
Bertus de Jong on the Swedish franchise league building a local support base without the glitz of bigger globally-driven leagues.

📺 A/V: Kohli x Shastri, BTS on BBB commentary, & grassroots cricket in ZIM.

“Beyond the Boundary”
📽️ Abhishek Ganguly talks to Virat Kohli & Ravi Shastri about their tenure together with India. [YouTube]
“Behind the Scenes of Text Commentary”
🎤 The Last Wicket talks to Abhijato Sensarma about the intricacies of covering a game via ball-by-ball commentary. [Spotify/Apple]
“Grassroots Cricket”
🎤 Zimbabwe Cricket Pod talks to GrassRoots’ Tawanda Karasa about the work they are doing to popularise cricket in the country. [Spotify/Apple]

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