ROUNDUP: A bowler-led T20 victory

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A bowler-led T20 victory

🏏 Cricket Roundup: RCB’s bowlers demolish LSG, Farhan on T20s, & Wisden’s blind spot with Women’s cricket.

The IPL

RCB beat LSG by 5 wickets.

• 🚨 Our team went beyond the headlines on the RCB-LSG game; 📊 Tarutr Malhotra on LSG’s slow starts with Markram and Marsh, 📊 Tarutr Malhotra on Rasikh Dar’s brilliant 4-fer, 📊 Karan Jain on RCB’s bowlers hunting Nicholas Pooran, & 📊 Priyanka Gulati on the ever-evolving Krunal Pandya.

• Ganesh Chandrasekaran on how RCB are turning the Chinnaswamy into a fortress, & Sandip G on Josh Hazlewood’s unerring consistency.

• Sruthi Ravindranath on MI’s bowling struggles, Venkata Krishna B on Anshul Kamboj’s resurgence since a terrible Test debut, & Shankar Narayan on SKY and Shreyas Iyer’s contrasting form.

The Cricket Roundup

• Ahsan Nagi talks to Sahibzada Farhan about his thriving T20 form.

• Mike Atherton says the golden age of foreign stars in the County Championship is over – so is it worth continuing to indulge the part-time players?

• So Much Sport on the rarity of Women’s players in Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year.

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TaylorMade

📚 Best Features: A female coach in Men’s cricket, & the best IPL bargains of all time.

• “A stupid, lovable game”
  ✍️ Phil Walker talks to Sarah Taylor about going from a 226-cap international to one of the few female coaches breaking into Men’s cricket.

• “The IPL’s Best Bargain Buys”
  🚨 Karan Jain looks at the rupee-for-rupee most valuable players in IPL history.

🗞️ Quick News: Cummins is back, the County’s sub rule, & the BBL’s stalled sale.

• Pat Cummins has been given the all-clear to play in the IPL.

• The County Championship’s substitute rule could be changed soon.

• The proposed BBL sale has stalled after two states rejected it, & Edward Fitzgibbon writes about cricket’s potential in North America.

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The data analyst on IPL data changes

📺 A/V: ABD x Freddie Wilde, Stokes on the Ashes, & Yusuf Pathan’s cheat code.

• “How Data Has Changed Cricket”
  📽️ AB de Villiers talks to RCB analyst Freddie Wilde about how data has changed the franchise’s fortunes. [YouTube]

• “Ben Stokes’ Ashes Review”
  📽️ The ECB’s internal channel hosts Ben Stokes to discuss his and ENG’s disturbing winter down under. [YouTube]

• “A genetic mutation of batting”
  📽️ Jarrod Kimber remembers the cheat code that was Yusuf Pathan. [YouTube]