India C beat South Africa A

Varma beats SA, can Kohli turn it around in AUS, & is wrist spin about to evolve again?

Tilak Varma's maiden century (at a ridiculous 191 SR) helped India's C team overcome South Africa in South Africa.

India C beat South Africa A

Varma beats SA, IND’s hidden training sessions, & boards are refusing to pay their players.

• India beat South Africa by 11 runs to win their T20 series 2-1. Cricbuzz’s Telford Vice writes about Tilak Varma’s 56-ball 107 that turned the game.

• ESPNcricinfo’s Tristan Lavalette reports on the literal black veils that Team India are using to protect their training sessions in Perth.

• India Women will host West Indies & Ireland in January and February.

• The World Cricketers’ Association is concerned about national boards’ “intimidatory behaviour” towards players, including withholding payments from the recent Men’s T20 World Cup, and threatening players who question them.

• Star India made a loss of INR 12,548 in the last financial year, and they claim the ICC media rights deal (worth INR 12,319 crore!) was their biggest problem.

The pressure of Australia can revive Kohli’s form

Can Kohli turn it around in AUS, is wrist spin about to evolve again, & the need for an ENG cricket winter.

• News.com.au’s Ben Jones analyses how Virat Kohli can turn his form around, and Wisden’s Sarah Waris believes that Australia is the best place for him to rediscover his spark. Meanwhile, Cricket.com’s Shubh Aggarwal questions if Rohit Sharma’s problem is form or age.

• Wisden’s Rahul Iyer questions if wrist spin stands on the cusp of another evolution that can maintain its status as an essential tool for cricket teams, while ESPNcricinfo’s Himanshu Agarwal dissects Daryl Mitchell’s approach to spin based on his performances against India.

• The Guardian’s Ben Bloom advocates for the need to maintain English cricket interest in the winter, BBC’s Brent Pilnick writes about the overachievement of the Jersey cricket team, & ESPNcricinfo’s Cameron Ponsonby reports on England’s new red ball hope, Jacob Bethell.

Who would make an 80s XI?

The best Test players of the 1980s.

• Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber, Behram Qazi & Estelle Vasudevan discuss the best Test players of the 1980s, and who would make it into a World XI.

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