🚨 If you’re an RCB fan, I’d love if you could fill out this 2-minute survey on how you feel about the franchise this year. I plan to create a graphic story of your answers soon! 🚨
🏏 Cricket Roundup: ENG-W’s wake up call, Vaibhav v Rashid, & Green is AUS’ opener.
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🏴🇮🇳 IND BEAT ENG | Ffion Wynne on Heather Knight’s poor form. | Valkerie Baynes with Sophie Ecclestone on a tough 18 months. |
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🇮🇪🇳🇿 IRE TRAIL BY 246 RUNS | Nathan Johns on Andy McBrine’s heroic half century as IRE are forced to follow on. |
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🏆 RR-GT | 📊 Lalith Kalidas on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s backfoot game. | 📊 Rudransh Khurana on the bowler matchups. | Sandip G on Jofra Archer’s bowling weapons. | Akshay Ramesh on Sai Sudharsan’s underrated season. |
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🏏 THE CRICKET ROUNDUP | 🔒 Dan Brettig on Cam Green’s potential opening role for AUS. | 🔒 George Simms on Harry Brook & Jacob Bethell as ENG’s future. | Will Macpherson on Henry Crocombe, the kid that every count is chasing. | Sarah Waris think Bhuvneshwar Kumar should play for IND. | 🤖 Omkar Walunj on Virat Kohli’s improved IPL game since 2024. |
📚 Best Features: Ben Cutting’s decade long illness, & East Africa in 1975.
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“It spiralled so far”
✍️ Adam Burnett on Ben Cutting’s miraculous 2016 season with Sunrisers Hyderabad, and how his “flu-like” symptoms before the final games – where he played brilliantly – were actually the start of a decade-long disease. -
“A brief look at East African cricket”
✍️ David Battersby remembers the combined East Africa team from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania who competed at the 1975 World Cup.
🗞️ Quick News: Pandya loses MI faith, IPL window could move, & ENG’s grassroots issues.
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Sandeep Dwivedi/Devendra Pandey report that Hardik Pandya will lose the MI captaincy, while IPL chair Arun Dhumal suggests moving the IPL to September-October to skip the summer heat.
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Simon Hughes on ENG’s struggles with getting kids to play cricket.
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Firoz Mirza with Michael Holding on commentators being forced to push particular narratives.
LEGEND:
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🚨 = Shameless plug (i.e. a BoC piece!)
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🏆 = Tournament Cricket
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🔒 = Behind a paywall
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📊 = In-depth statistics
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🤖 = AI-generated (take it with a pinch of salt)
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🎤 = Podcast
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📽️ = Video