The “Indian” Cricket Council?
Gambhir to interview for India, the Florida stadium’s failures, & does the ICC think the I stands for India?
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The “Indian” Cricket Council?
NZ’s golden pacers are done, Kirsten’s comments weren’t true (kind of), & does the ICC think the I stands for India?
New Zealand beat Papua new Guinea by 7 wickets, with Lockie Ferguson picking up a ridiculous bowling stat line of 4-4-0-3. ESPNcricinfo’s Sruthi Ravindranath pays tribute to Trent Boult after the pacer’s last World Cup game.
Indian Express’ Vinayakk Mohanarangan writes that the ICC has not covered themselves in glory by manipulating the tournament to best suit an already overpowered Indian team.
ESPNcricinfo’s Mohammad Isam laments Bangladesh’s batting performance despite their Super 8 qualification, Cricket.com’s Shubh Aggarwal laments Sri Lanka’s batting performance because they missed the Super 8s, & Cricbuzz’s Vijay Tagore reports on the truth behind those viral Gary Kirsten comments (the quotes weren’t true, but he did make similar remarks to the team in private).
The Times’ Mike Atherton lauds the ICC policy of using the T20 World Cup to promote new teams, while using the ODI World Cup to focus on high quality encounters.
Will Gambhir beat out the zero other candidates?
Gambhir to interview for IND, the Florida stadium’s failures, & Vaughan is running an AMA today.
Gautam Gambhir, the sole applicant for India’s head coaching position, will interview today. Jonty Rhodes is rumoured to be a candidate for the fielding coach position.
Cricbuzz’s Nathan Johns writes about the lessons associate nations can learn from America’s only purposefully cricket-first arena in Florida; if you’re rich, like America, ‘build it, and they will come’ is a viable strategy. If not, you need to be better about your resource management.
The Federation of International Cricketers (FICA), the global union for players, has rebranded as the World Cricketers’ Association.
Former English captain & current commentator/podcaster Michael Vaughan will be running an AMA (“ask me anything”) on Reddit later today. You can submit questions for him/see others’ questions here.
Not anyone can be a wicketkeeper
Previewing the Super 8s, the specialist wicketkeeper in the Women’s cricket, & what now for PAK?
The Cricket Unfiltered podcast has the best overview of the Super 8 stage of the World Cup (everyone else just focussed on a single team for some reason). [Apple Podcasts]
Wisden Cricket Weekly’s dives into English Women’s cricket; the crew discuss the English team to face New Zealand, Lauren Winfield Hill talks about wicket-keeping specialists, & Rhianna Southby talks about her wicketkeeping experiences in the The Hundred & The T20 Blast. [Apple Podcasts]
Cricwick’s Mazhar Arshad & Roha Nadeem discuss Pakistan’s failure at the World Cup, and what needs to be changed.
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