England get Pant-sed, but are still standing tall
Pant & KL were great, remembering Dilip Doshi, & which countries can afford Test cricket?

England get Pant-sed, but are still standing tall
Pant & KL were great, remembering Dilip Doshi, & good journalism gets the Omani players paid.
England need 350 runs to win, with 10 wickets in hand. Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber praises Rishabh Pant’s madness after a second century, The Guardian’s Simon Burnton thinks KL Rahul was the perfect anti-Pant with his own century, & ESPNcricinfo’s Matt Roller says India’s late order collapses are keeping England in the game.
Cricket Et Al’s Gideon Haigh has the best remembrance of Dilip Doshi as the former India spinner passed away at 77.
The WCPL draft saw three Indians snapped up, including last season’s highest wicket taker Shreyanka Patil.
Oman has announced they will pay their players their backdated pay from the World Cup. This is a consequence of good journalism, after ESPNcricinfo’s Osman Samiuddin reported on the Omani players’ plight earlier this month.
Test cricket is not cheap
Which countries can afford Test cricket, remembering Joseph “Float” Woods, & the new captain/President of Cricket Brazil.
Broken Cricket Dream’s Nitesh Mathur goes through the financial records of every Test country’s association to determine who can afford to play five-day cricket.
Old Ebor has a retrospective look at one of the early forgotten geniuses of West Indies cricket; Joseph “Float” Woods.
Penbugs’ Krithika Venkatesan talks to Roberta Moretti Avery about becoming the President of Cricket Brazil while still captaining the side.
The birth of batting technique
How early batting technique evolved.
Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber & Behram Qazi discuss the biggest inflection points in batting technique changes during the 19th century. [YouTube]