Dravid: “I better do something meaningful”

Dravid on that 2003 innings against AUS, why the BGT is bigger than the Ashes, & Joel Garner drinks rum and tonics.

Rahul Dravid should’ve run out Ganguly more often. It was always fun watching him and Laxman surprise the Aussies!

One step forward, seven steps sideways for the PCB

The PCB replace Gillespie hours after defending him, AUS beat PAK, & the PCB might go to CAS about the CT.

• Hours after the PCB vehemently denied that they were looking to replace Jason Gillespie as Pakistan’s white ball coach, they replaced Jason Gillespie as Pakistan’s white ball coach. Aaqib Javed will be the latest (interim) coach.

• Meanwhile, Australia beat Pakistan by 7 wickets to wrap up their T20 series 3-0. You can watch the highlights here. Writing on Medium, Raiyan is frustrated by the PCB’s back and forth administrative nonsense.

• The PCB could reach out to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to protect their Champions Trophy hosting rights. Meanwhile, they had to curtail the National Women’s Championship because they couldn’t find accommodations for the players after a fire broke out in their current hotel.

“I've got the captain run out, I better do something meaningful”

Dravid on that 2003 innings against AUS, why the BGT is bigger than the Ashes, & Joel Garner drinks rum and tonics.

• ESPNcricinfo’s Yash Jha talks to Rahul Dravid about his 233 in Adelaide in 2003, voted the best Indian performance in Australia by the site’s readers. You can watch the full interview here.

• ESPNcricinfo’s Sidharth Monga makes the cultural case for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being the biggest event in Test cricket, while The Guardian’s Jack Snape & Josh Nicholas make the economic case for it outpacing the Ashes.

• The Telegraph’s Tim Wigmore catches up with Joel Garner between rounds of run and tonic to discuss the forgotten parts of his professional life, while ACSCricket’s Brian Sanderson finds a photo of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe in 1926 and tells us the story of one of England’s great opening pairs.

• The Times’ Steve James writes about the dearth of Test draws (just one in 2024 somehow!), ESPNcricinfo’s Cameron Ponsonby reports on the problems with setting match timings based on global TV audiences, Andrew Fidel Fernando says Sri Lanka’s ODI team are back, & Cricket Australia’s Andrew Ramsey reports on the technical tweak that improved Alex Carey’s batting.

Apparently the BGT only started in 1996?

The best BGT XI of all time.

• Once you’re done with that, check out this podcast on the best all-time Border-Gavaskar Trophy XI (plus 12th man), as chosen by Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber, Behram Qazi & Estelle Vasudevan! [YouTube]

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