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How ENG Brook-ed the PAK challenge
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Brook steps up, how Hetmyer got good, & the podcast bros gone doping.
T20 World Cup:
ENG beat PAK by 2 wickets.
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🏴🇵🇰 | 🚨 Our writers went beyond the headlines; Raunak Thakur on PAK’s middle overs problem, Karan Jain on Dawson & Rashid strangling PAK, Tarutr Malhotra on Brook’s century, & Tarutr Malhotra/Shayan Khan debate Babar’s impact. Danyal Rasool wrote about the shambolic ENG collapse, & Vithushan Ehantharajah zeroed in on Jos Buttler’s three-ball struggle.
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Al Muthu & Deivarayan Muthu talk to Jacob Duffy about making it from the cricket wildernesses of New Zealand, Pratyush Sinha chats with Mitchell Santner on staying relevant as a SLA bowler in T20s, & Firdose Moonda with SA’s Tristan Stubbs on playing with his childhood hero David Miller.
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📊 Omkar Walunj on how WI’s Shimron Hetmyer has taken a leap since 2025.
The Cricket Roundup:
AUS-W beat IND by 6 wickets, & J&K are at 284/2 after day one.
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Hypocaust on the numbers from AUS-IND.
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Aayush Puthran on how J&K’s younger batters made a mark in the Ranji final.
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Nick Friend with Chris Wright and Keith Barker on starting a podcast – and then having their lives crash down via separate, unrelated (unfair?) doping bans.
A look at an associate’s attempts at a cricket summer
🗞️ Quick News: IRE updates, Women’s T20 WC groups, & BCB want Shakib back.
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Nathan Johns reports the Cricket Ireland news; their summer schedule, a potential cricketing Six Nations, ETPL updates, and more!
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The Women’s T20 World Cup groups have been released.
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The BCB has submitted legal documents to the Bangladesh government in the hopes of getting Shakib Al Hasan pardoned to come back and play for BAN.
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Richard Pybus will be AFG’s new coach.
A tough conversation with Harmison
📺 A/V: Harmison’s mental health, Chappell on Imran, & Bucknor on that Tendulkar call.
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“Becoming the World’s Best Bowler”
📽️ Overlap Cricket host Steve Harmison to discuss his ENG peak, and his mental health struggles. [YouTube] -
“Selling the Summer”
📽️ Ian Higgins & Sam Perry with Greg Chappell on Imran Khan, India’s administrative dominance of cricket, & selling the AUS summer. [YouTube] -
“The Hardest Call of His Career”
📽️ WICUA talk to Steve Bucknor about his career, about advice for aspiring umpires, & about that Sachin Tendulkar wicket. [YouTube]
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