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Root’s reinvention
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Root after McCullum, Mushfiqur’s debut, & IND’s Test crisis.
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The Ashes:
👉 Yas Rana on Brendon McCullum’s impact on Joe Root.
👉 Joe Nutall on Brendan Doggett’s potential impact on the first Test.
👉 Cameron Ponsonby has fun decoding ENG’s lineup for the first Test.
👉 Stephan Shemilt on the stats behind the key battles.
👉 Roshan Gede on analytical trends going back to the last Ashes. -
Bangladesh v Ireland:
BAN are 292/4 after day one.
👉 Nathan Johns on the first day of action.
👉 Andrew Miller remembers Mushfiqur Rahim’s debut at Lord’s in 2005. -
The Cricket Roundup:
👉 Karthik Krishnaswamy on IND’s growing Test crisis.
👉 Probuddha Bhattacharjee analyses RCB’s retentions.
👉 Venkata Krishna B decodes Tamil Nadu’s struggles in the Ranji Trophy.
India’s female cricketers break out of cricket
📚 Best Features: Vogue on IND-W, & Guha on boosting cricket’s diversity.
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“The team that changed Indian sports forever”
✍️ Suprita Das has the first breakout profile for the Indian Women’s team as Vogue takes a magazine-like look at their impact, and their lives beyond cricket. -
“We want to advance ethnic diversity”
✍️ Paul Newman talks to Isa Guha about her attempts at improving cricket’s racial and gender diversity.
🗞️ Quick News: Multan Sultans could sue the PSL, the massive ad jumps in Women’s cricket, & NZC turn a profit.
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Multan Sultans’ owner is threatening to sue the PCB and the PSL.
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The Women’s World Cup final saw an insane 23.5x surge in ad revenue compared to the 2022 final. Harmanpreet Kaur has seen a tripling of her brand deals.
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NZC have a new president after posting a NZ$ 2.2 million ($1.24M) profit
How can England win?
📺 A/V: Kimber on ENG’s chances.
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“Have England always been worse?”
📽️ Jarrod Kimber tries to find the light at the end of the tunnel for the English side travelling down under. [YouTube]
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