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🏏 Cricket Roundup: The specialist keeper, an over-performing academy, & RCB’s jack of all trades.
SA-M beat NZ by 19 runs, & NZ-W beat SA by 6 wickets.
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Hypocaust has the numbers from NZ-W’s win.
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Vishal Dikshit talks to Sayali Satghare about her sudden rise for IND-W, Laura Jolly on AUS-W’s spin conundrum with Alana King, & Machel Hewitt asks how the WI-W system can be improved.
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🔒 Jarrod Kimber/Shayan Khan trace the role of the specialist keeper.
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Hugh Fort hilariously recalls the worst village cricket games he’s played, Anand Vasu on how cricket has provided an escape for Lebanese children who were caught in the ISIS cross-fire in the 2010s, & Telford Vice talks to Marais Erasmus about ending his storied umpiring career.
Akash Deep will miss the IPL due to injury.
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Namit Kumar profiles the small-town Rajasthani academy that churns out IPL talent, Deivarayan Muthu picks 10 rookies to look out for, & Firoz Mirza talks to Swapnil Asnodkar – Shane Warne’s favoured ‘Goa Cannon’ at RR – who’s focussed on youth coaching since his career ended.
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Nagraj Gollapudi talks to RCB’s Krunal Pandya about his jack of all trades mastery, while Sahil Malhotra asks about the disappearance of RCB’s disgraced bowler Yash Dayal.
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Tom McCluskey asks why teams keep picking potential over performance, with Cam Green the latest example for KKR.
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Rudransh Khurana on why IPL teams have such similar jerseys (tldr; sponsorship maximisation), WPP Media have a new report on the continued growth of cricket sponsorship in India, & 🔒 Venkat Ananth writes about the IPL’s challenge now that media rights deal valuations have probably plateaued.
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Raunak Kapoor has a (PR-esque but fun) chat with Ambati Rayudu & Matthew Hayden about CSK’s storied IPL history.
📚 Best Features: The physics of anchoring, Victoria’s record-breaking season, & Act III of the IND-AUS series in 2001.
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“String Theory for Anchoring in T20 Cricket”
📊 Atharv Tambade/Aadityan Ganesh go deep – and I mean very deep – on the numbers of anchoring in T20 cricket by creating a new metric called Net Effective Balls to measure the value of the role. -
“Spirit & superpowers”
✍️ Louis Cameron reports from inside the record-breaking 2025-26 Victoria Sheffield Sheild regular season. -
“Miracle On Soil – Act III”
✍️ Sarthak Dev has the conclusion of his remembrance of that iconic 2001 series between India and Australia, as Harbhajan Singh announced himself with a 15-wicket haul in Chennai. -
“The Brutal Economics of Associate Cricket”
📊 Nitesh Mathur breaks down the financial details behind Associate cricket administrations, and shows why the system is completely broken.
🗞️ Quick News: How Baz saved his job, the PSL’s troubles, & NZC pick a domestic tournament.
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Nick Hoult/Will Macpherson on how Brendon McCullum saved his job, Nick Hoult on the bandaged McCullum-Stokes relationship, & Simon Wilde thinks ENG need to restore their County-to-Test pipeline.
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Nathan Johns questions Cricket Ireland’s new plans.
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The PSL will be played behind closed doors amidst the Iranian conflict gas crisis, & the PCB has promised punishments for PSL players that defect to the IPL after Dasun Shanaka replaced Sam Curran at RR.
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NZC has chosen to simplify their domestic structure by focussing on the NZ20 (with added Women’s cricket) over the Super Smash.
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A Euro Nations cricket tournament could launch as soon as 2027.
📺 A/V: How the cricket media has changed.
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“Cardus, Somerset and the changing cricket media”
📽️ James Coyne talks to Vic Marks about how the cricket media has changed in the four decades the latter has been involved in the industry. [YouTube]
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