🏏 Cricket Roundup: IND’s brilliant openers, SA’s nervy win, & ENG’s debutants shine.
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🏆 WC RESULTS | IND beat NED by 95 runs. | SA beat PAK by 2 wickets. | AUS beat BAN by 9 wickets. |
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🏆 WC REACTIONS | 🚨 Tarutr Malhotra on the talking points from IND-NED. | Vishal Dikshit on IND’s middle order woes. | Firdose Moonda on SA’s nervy win despite an easy chase. | Vishal Dikshit on AUS’ Kim Garth dismantling BAN. | Nathan Johns on IRE’s new batting uncertainty. |
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🇮🇳🇦🇫 IND BEAT AFG | Gokul Gopal has talking points. |
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🏴🇳🇿 NZ AT 291/7 | Vithushan Ehantharajah on ENG’s rookies helping them move forward from a tough week. | Matt Roller on Glenn Phillips outlasting Jofra Archer. |
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🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | Firdose Moonda with WI’s Shermaine Campbell on her decade-long time in the shadows. | Tanya Aldred on the enduring charm of domestic cricket in Blackpool. |
📚 Best Features: Improving cricket’s World Cups.
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“Putting the ‘World’ back into World Cups”
✍️ PCCI is inspired by the ongoing FIFA World Cup comparisons to discuss cricket’s World Cup problems; from small tournaments to small-mindedness.
🗞️ Quick News: WC injuries, a record WC opening, & how the WBBL has been erased.
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WC injures; IND’s Shreyanka Patil was stretchered off, ENG’s Nat Sciver-Brunt will miss two games, & IRE’s Ava Canning will be replaced by Jane Maguire.
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The ICC announced their biggest ever start to a Women’s T20 WC.
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🔒 Sarah Styles on how the BBL merger talk has reduced the WBBL from a transformational tournament to a forgotten financial throw-in.
📺 A/V: Remembering Agarkar’s career.
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“This Delivery Ended Agarkar’s Career”
📽️ Cricket by JB remembers Ajit Agarkar’s prodigious career, and why he isn’t remembered as an all-time white ball great. [YouTube]
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