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🏏 Cricket Roundup: Robinson’s ENG dreams, the IPL’s batting changes, & defending the workhorse Test bowlers.
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Alan Gardner with Ollie Robinson on forcing his way back into the ENG side, Matt Roller on another poor winter for Zak Crawley, & 🔒 Will Macpherson has suggestions on improving the ENG-County relationship.
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Hemant Brar talks to 33-year old MI rookie Raghu Sharma about finally making it to the IPL, Ashish Pant on how RCB can fit in Jacob Bethell, Sarah Waris analyses the IPL’s batting changes since 2008, & Sriram Veera remembers how wide yorkers became a go-to strategy for dot balls.
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📊 Somesh Agarwal defends the “workhorse” Test bowler with a deep dive on their effectiveness in the modern and pre-modern era.
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Rahul Desai on his lost love for cricket in the modern Gautam Gambhir era.
🗞️ Quick News: The IPL fixture list, Chinnaswamy’s first game, & a Lancashire rebellion.
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The IPL has released their full fixture list (why did they wait?!), & India’s recent T20 World Cup win has boosted the advertiser pool for Jio.
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The BCCI will not have an opening IPL ceremony as a “mark of respect” for the 11 people who died in last year’s RCB parade, but they will have a “grand entertainment function” for the final. Am I the odd one out for thinking respect should be defined as something more than just meaningless marketing bullshit?
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Shashank Kishore reports on the Chinnaswamy’s readiness to host a game.
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🔒 David Lloyd and other members are rebelling against Lancashire County’s board for some of their recent Hundred-related decisions.
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🔒 A fan with an “Free Imran Khan” shirt wasn’t allowed into the Sheffield Sheild final. I’m mildly impressed by the Pakistan military’s censorship reach.
📺 A/V: Cummins on business, decoding WI’s annual report, & the best IPL innings ever.
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“The Art of Bowling in a Batters Era”
🎤 Charlie & Harry Stebbings talk to Pat Cummins about captaining Australia, the business of the IPL and the BBL, & his strategies as an investor. [Apple/Spotify] -
“WI’s 2025 Annual Report – what now?”
📽️ Machel Hewitt & Santokie Nagulendran discuss the West Indies’ annual report (it doesn’t make for pretty reading). [YouTube] -
“Greatest IPL Innings Ever”
📽️ Varun Alvakonda, Saurabh Somani & Shayan Khan debate the best IPL knocks of all time. [YouTube]
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