Good morning!
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🎤 = Podcast
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📽️ = Video
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🚨 = Shameless plug (i.e. a BoC piece!)
The (no-longer-just-boy) genius
🏏 Cricket Roundup: Suryavanshi’s ascension, the most interesting IPL tactics, & how Sudarshan keeps improving.
The IPL
RR beat MI by 27 runs.
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Karthik Krishnaswamy on Vaibhav Suryavanshi v. Jasprit Bumrah, Aayush Puthran on Suryavanshi graduating from potential to reality, & Deivarayan Muthu on Yashasvi Jaiswal keeping up with his younger opening partner.
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🚨 Karan Jain breaks down the most interesting tactical choices from 2025’s middle-to-lower table teams; 📊 RR’s bowler reset, 📊 MI’s Bumrah (mis)use, 📊 LSG’s Rishabh Pant shuffle, & 📊 CSK’s overseas player distrust.
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Devendra Pandey profiles GT’s 150-kph pacer Ashok Sharma, Samreen Razzaqui on how GT’s Sai Sudarshan keeps improving, & Rudransh Khurana on what makes Lungi Ngidi special.
The Cricket Roundup
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Gary Naylor has the biggest talking points from the first round of County action.
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James Wallace with Josh Tongue on his ENG ambitions, 🔒 Mason Crane on the loneliness of being a spinner in England, & 🔒 Elizabeth Ammon profiles Paralympian Sarah Storey’s newest (administrative) challenge at Lancashire.
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🔒 Sonia Twigg with Lauren Filer on breaking the 80 mph barrier, & 🔒 Nick Friend with Issy Wong on fighting her way back to the ENG-W side.
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Ahsan Nagi on how Hasan Ali has been Karachi Kings’ trump card at the death in the PSL.
So long, and thanks for all the fish(-iness)
🗞️ Quick News: The BCB shakeup, a new T20 Africa Cup, & Puma x RCB.
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BAN have appointed Tamim Iqbal as the new BCB president, after finding serious abuses of power by the former incumbent, Aminul Islam. You can read all the findings here.
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AUS-W have announced their new central contracts.
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Tristan Lavalette reports that a T20 Africa Cup – with SA & ZIM – is in the works.
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Indrani Bose talks to Puma’s Marketing Head about their partnership with RCB.
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Pooja Yadav on how IPL watching is boosting quick commerce in India.
Can Rew do it?
📺 A/V: The County kicks off, & KL v. Kohli.
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“Is there space for James Rew?”
🎤 Yas Rana, Phil Walker & Lawrence Booth discuss the opening round of the County Championship. [Apple/Spotify] -
“How Good Has Kl Rahul Been?”
📽️ Praatibh Surana & Aswin Anil compare the IPL careers of Virat Kohli & KL Rahul in the last 6 years. [YouTube]