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🏏 Cricket Roundup: Root’s AUS century, Brook’s carelessness, & Kohli’s box office appeal.
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The Ashes Roundup:
ENG scored 325/9 on day one.
👉 Andrew McGlashan on Mitch Starc standing tall as AUS’ lone ranger.
👉 Max Rushden on watching through his fingers during the first hour.
👉 Jarrod Kimber on Joe Root’s old fashioned century amidst the modern chaos.
👉 Ben Jones analyses how Root scored his first hundred down under.
👉 Ben Hayes on Joe Root’s all-time greatness with and without this century.
👉 Simon Wilde on Harry Brook’s stupid wicket, & potentially unfulfilled talent.
👉 Malcolm Knox on AUS’ self-inflicted wound of dropping Nathan Lyon. -
The Cricket Roundup:
👉 Venkata Krishna B on Virat Kohli’s century selling out the final IND-SA game.
👉 Ashish Magotra on Kohli’s historically unique knack for back-to-back 100s.
👉 Abhishek Mukherjee questions IND’s reluctance to call up Rinku Singh.
👉 Anish Pathiyil with Auqib Nabi on how he’s developed his bowling.
👉 Neil Manthorp on players/franchise tournaments having 2-game contracts.
📚 Best Features: Rodrigues on anxiety, IND’s support system, and following Mandhana/Kaur.
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“When Harman or Smriti speak, this team responds differently”
✍️ Purnima Malhotra has the last installment of her interview with Jemimah Rodrigues – about her anxiety stemming from watching her cousin drown as a child, to the cricketing support system she leans on, to the importance of India’s two leaders throughout the World Cup.
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