1,000 players are dropped from the IPL auction

The trimmed down IPL auction list, an analysis of the decline of batting technique, & remembering Vijay Hazare’s greatness.

There is a 13-year old in the auction! God damn kids making me feel old and unaccomplished.

1,000 players are dropped from the IPL auction

The trimmed down IPL auction list, Steve Smith’s plan to beat IND, & the PCB backs Gillespie.

• The IPL auction list has been trimmed down by a thousand names, with a 13-year old making the cut! Cricket.com’s Dhanush Lavanya analyses the top uncapped bowlers, & Abhishek Singh on the youngsters worth a contract.

• Rohit Sharma & Shubman Gill will miss India’s first Test against Australia, but KL Rahul is back in the nets. Ruturaj Gaikwad & Sai Sudharsan have departed the country with the India A team. Sydney Morning Herald’s Tom Decent & Daniel Brettig talk to Steve Smith about his plan to dominate the visitors’ bowling.

• The PCB have denied that they are planning to replace Jason Gillespie as Pakistan’s head coach, while the new central contracts for the Women’s team have excluded the big names of Nida Dar & Aliya Riaz.

• Brisbane Heat’s 18-year old Lucy Hamilton become the youngest ever WBBL bowler to take a fifer, picking up a ridiculous 5-8 against the Melbourne Stars.

Don Bradman on the decline in batting technique

An analysis of the decline of batting technique, remembering Hazare’s greatness, & the WI school that created Salt & Bethell.

• Sydney Morning Herald’s Greg Chappell talks bat moisture percentage, safety protections for fielders, and a chat with Don Bradman in 2000 to explain why modern batters struggle to develop their technique.

• Sydney Morning Herald’s Gideon Haigh writes about the connection between the “Bradman of India” Vijay Hazare and the original Don, while Broken Cricket Dreams’ Nitesh Mathur reads every Sheffield Shield team’s financial reports to understand the health of the Australian domestic game.

• ESPNcricinfo’s Cameron Ponsonby has a double feature from the Caribbean; first he asks if the West Indies can convince their stars to return to the Test team, and then he profiles Barbados’ Harrison College, the institute that bred the likes of Phil Salt and Jacob Bethell.

• The Telegraph’s Simon Wilde talks to Rob Key to understand how the ECB’s top cricket decision maker thinks, while BBC’s Sam Drury writes about the problems that Brendon McCullum inherits with the English white-ball team.

Bumrah as seen by his bowling coach

What makes Bumrah special, & the Welsh first family of cricket.

• Cricket.com’s Avanish Hegde talks to former India bowling coach Bharat Arun about what makes Jasprit Bumrah special.

• The Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast hosts the Smale family; mother Ann-Marie who is a Deputy Chair at Glamorgan CCC and fought to bring Tier-1 Women’s cricket to the county, plus children Sophia and Will who are fighting their way up the ranks as players. [Apple Podcasts]

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