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Eleven Days
🏏 Cricket Roundup: ENG’s tactical mistakes, SKY’s T20I issues, & Project Gill’s failure.
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The Ashes:
The ECB is planning to stick with ENG’s leadership
🔒 Will Macpherson/Nick Hoult on eleven ENG mistakes.
👉 Vithushan Ehantharajah demands change in ENG’s thinking.
👉 Geoff Lemon on whether this AUS team can make it to 2027.
🔒 Andrew Wu/Dan Walsh rate all the players from both sides.
👉 Declan Fay gives out comedic awards for the 11-day series. -
The Cricket Roundup:
IND-W beat SL by 8 wickets.
📊 Karthik Krishnaswamy analyses SKY’s T20I failures for IND.
👉 Arani Basu on IND’s failed attempt at “Project Gill” in T20s.
👉 Venkata Krishna B on Ishan Kishan’s inclusion in IND’s T20 squad.
👉 Sandip G on why a Rinku-Hardik lower order is perfect for IND.
👉 Cricket with Mingus on Best Nickname XI of all time.
The Master Cobbler
📚 Best Features: Tendulkar redesigns the cricket shoe.
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“Tendulkar is rethinking the cricket shoe”
🔒 Venkat Ananth dives into the background of Ten x You, the shoe company that Sachin Tendulkar has not only invested in, but has poured countless hours into helping with the design of its new cricket shoe.
🗞️ Quick News: Kohli’s billion-dollar empire, AFG’s new league, & Saudi want to buy players.
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Abhishek AB recounts how Virat Kohli used his cricket and endorsement income to create multiple businesses worth over INR 1,000 crore (~$1.1B).
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Afghanistan have announced a five-team Premier League (presumably, they don’t have long term ambitions for a Women’s version).
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The BCB have rejected Saudi Arabia’s offer to nationalise some of their players in a bid to basically buy a new team for the future.
Karthik knows where his bread is buttered
📺 A/V: Karthik on how the IPL changed cricket.
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“The IPL Impact”
📽️ Beard Before Wicket host Dinesh Karthik to talk about his IPL career, and how the tournament has changed Indian & global cricket. [YouTube]
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