ROUNDUP: How DC resurrected their WPL campaign

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How DC resurrected their WPL campaign

🏏 Cricket Roundup: NSB v Charani, Smith’s T20 chops, & SKY’s troubles.

• WPL:
  DC beat MI by 7 wickets.
  📊 Our team went beyond the headlines on NSB v Charani over 12 months, Kaur’s resuscitation of MI, Rodrigues finding her groove, & more!
  👉 Purnima Malhotra on MI’s poor powerplay performance.
  👉 Sruthi Ravindranath profiles RCB’s Gautami Naik.

• The Cricket Roundup:
  Perth Scorchers beat Sydney Sizers by 48 runs in the BBL eliminator.
  👉 Tristan Lavalette on Perth’s Mahli Beardman v Sydney’s Steve Smith.
  🔒 Gideon Haigh on Smith’s swashbuckling BBL, and his T20 resurgence.
  📊 Deepu Narayanan analyses SKY’s troubles for IND recently.
  🔒 Nick Friend with Sav Perera, a run machine who can’t get a County contract.

Cricket returns to one of it’s biggest Meccas

📚 Best Features: Cricket comes back to Bangalore.

• “Cricket is finding its way back to Chinnaswamy”
  ✍️ Gokul Gopal talks to Sujith Somasunder, vice-president of the KSCA, about the 8-month long process of working with the government and authorities to bring cricket back to Bangalore.

🗞️ Quick News: Shah in Namibia, Key’s job is safe, & the BCCI don’t want to have top stars.

• Telford Vice on Jay Shah’s Namibian holiday a day before the BCB-ICC meeting on Bangladesh’s World Cup participation.

• Will Macpherson & Tom Morgan report that Rob Key is safe after The Ashes.

• The BCCI will kill off their highest-paid A+ central contract category.

• South Africa Women will host India for 5 T20Is in April.

• Ben Horne reports that Sophie Molineux could be a surprise AUS captain.

• Steve Smith & Mitch Marsh will appear in the revamped European T20 Premier League, while Steve Waugh, Glenn Maxwell & Brendon McCullum’s brothers will own franchises.

IPL 101

📺 A/V: Bobat on RCB, & Nepal coach Stuart Law wants to cause an upset.

• “Inside the mind of an IPL winner”
  🎤 Phil Walker talks to RCB Director Mo Bobat about working with the team, identifying the right talent, and building a good franchise side. [Apple/Spotify]

• “A desire to cause an upset”
  🎤 Stephen Wallis talks to Nepal head coach Stuart Law on the state of the game in his new cricketing home, and his plans for the T20 World Cup. [Apple/Spotify]

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