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🏏 Cricket Roundup: SKY’s delayed gratification, the end of Bazball, & KP on old feuds.
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🇮🇳 | Akshay Ramesh on Suryakumar Yadav’s delayed gratification with IND, Sarah Waris on how Jasprit Bumrah changed how we watch cricket, & Sampath Bandarupalli looks at the statistical records from the WC.
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🏴 | Andrew Miller thinks that the Bazball era is running out of time and energy.
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Simon Briggs talks to Kevin Pietersen about patching up (and in some cases, not patching up) with old teammates.
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Matt Roller talks to Warwickshire’s James Thomas about switching from football to cricket administration.
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Oliver wonders if there is a better way to schedule the World Cups, and compares the brackets from tournaments across multiple sports.
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Brent Simmonds on following cricket in Japan from the mid aughts, getting exposed to associate and Women’s cricket via Cricinfo scorecards at internet cafes, and the general growth of non-Full Member teams in the last two decades.
🗞️ Quick News: SL’s new coach, SL-AFG cancelled, & the everyday sexism pervading the final.
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SL have appointed Gary Kirsten as head coach, while their series against AFG has been cancelled due to the ongoing Iranian conflict.
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Boria Majumdar writes about one of his journalists – Gargi Raut – getting inappropriately touched while presenting from outside the stadium after the WC final.
📺 A/V: What it takes to be a modern cricket writer.
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“Cricket Writing in the Digital Age”
🎤 The Last Wicket talks to former ESPN & Cricket.com writer Shubh Agarwal about the trials and tribulations of getting into cricket journalism in the modern social media age. [Apple/Spotify]
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