Bumrah breaks Bazball
6th February 2024
Bumrah breaks Bazball
ENG spinners are better their IND counterparts, a new Women’s tournament in SL, and 55M Indians watched the BBL!
India picked off the rest of England’s batting order yesterday to win the second Test by 106 runs. ESPNcricinfo’s Sampath Bandarupalli has the best stats from the game, while Cricket.com’s Shubh Agarwal has the biggest talking points.
Wisden’s Abhishek Mukherjee expresses surprise that England’s spinners have played better than their Indian counterparts so far.
Kane Williamson praised Rachin Ravindra for being a “class act”; no wonder, considering Ravindra (240) outscored the entire South African team (162) in the first innings of their Test!
Cricbuzz has a roundup of the latest Ranji Trophy updates, including wins for TN, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. Sportstar’s Anish Pathiyil walks us through a nail-biting finish between Karnataka and Railways over the weekend.
Sri Lanka will launch a Women’s National Super League to take place alongside the Men’s version that starts today. The tournament includes both 50-over and 20-over games.
The Big Bash League saw a massive 203% increase in viewership from India, with 55 million Indians tuning in at some point to watch the Australian T20 league!
The U19 World Cup stars
A review of the U19 stars lighting up the World Cup, how Azmat values the IPL, and AUS Women’s good spin headache.
ESPNcricinfo’s Shashank Kishore profiles Arshin Kulkarni, the U19 India star who idolised Jacques Kallis and went viral recently for his interaction with the Proteas legend.
Indian Express’ Pratyush Raj talks to Raj Limbani, the U19 bowler who is underpinning India’s pace hopes to clinch a sixth title.
Limbani has a way to go before he matches up with the bowler of the World Cup though. ESPNcricinfo’s Firdose Moonda talks to South Africa’s Kwena Maphaka who has lit up the tournament with an astonishing 18 wickets already!
Cricbuzz’s Atif Azam catches up with Afghani star Azmatullah Omarzai, as they talk about the upcoming IPL (Azmat’s first) and the upcoming T20 World Cup. They don’t really go over it, but I’d love to hear what the Afghani players think about playing a World Cup in America.
Cricket Australia’s Laura Jolly writes about the good headache that Australia Women have with their abundance of spin options.
A pretty interesting set of videos today
An IND-ENG review, the SA20 playoffs, what Tests look like to PAK and WI fans, & a historic pay deal in WI.
Sky Sports Cricket’s Nasser Hussain & Michael Atherton review the second Test between England & India.
The Full Quota Podcast preview the end of the SA20 stage and the upcoming playoff matches. [Apple Podcasts]
Grassroots Cricket’s Behram Qazi hosts Machel St Patrick Hewitt to talk about the disparity in Test cricket, with perspectives from Pakistan and the West Indies.
Machel also has a new upload on his own podcast, the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, about the historic new pay agreement signed between Cricket West Indies (CWI) & the West Indies Player Association (WIPA). If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s the press release for the agreement.
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