Jaiswal goes big or goes home

The BGT versus the Ashes, Sehwag’s son scores 200 off 229 balls, & trends for the IPL auction

Jaiswal consistently scores either ducks or massive scores. He literally doesn’t have a single Test century that didn’t cross the 150-run mark!

Jaiswal goes big or goes home

Jaiswal’s limitless ceiling, Kohli’s understated knock, & Labuschagne no-good, horrible day.

• India lead by 522 runs, as Australia collapse to 12/3 at the end of day 3. You can watch the day’s highlights here.

• Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber analyses how good Yashasvi Jaiswal can become after his match-altering knock, & ESPNcricinfo’s Sampath Bandarupalli looks at the stats behind his fourth 150+ score.

• Cricket.com’s Gaurav Nandan Tripathi writes about the belated return to form of Virat Kohli, and his surprisingly low key century.

• Sydney Morning Herald’s Greg Baum writes about one of the worst team days in Australian cricket history, and the worst individual performance by Marnus Labuschagne.

• Sydney Morning Herald’s Tom Decent & Daniel Brettig reports that Cricket Australia and the broadcasters could lose up to AUD$2 million per day of cricket not played during this series.

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Iyer-ing the top spot

Pant and Iyer headline the IPL auction, what player agents do, & Bosch recalls dismantling the Aussie T20 dynasty.

• Rishabh Pant & Shreyas Iyer headlined the IPL mega auction. ESPNcricinfo’s Dustin Silgardo & Nagraj Gollapudi analyse the big purchases, while an uncredited piece looks at each team’s needs on day two. Deccan Herald’s Roshan Thyagarajan writes about RCB’s poor showing despite their huge budget.

• Cricbuzz’s Telford Vice talks to a player agent to understand how they pitch their players to IPL franchises, and earn that extra money for their clients.

• England Women beat South Africa by 4 wickets in their opening T20. Wisden’s Katya Witney talked to South African batter Anneke Bosch who masterminded Australia’s first T20 World Cup loss in 8 years last month.

• Cricket Australia has a team of the tournament for the WBBL, as the league stage wraps up.

• The ICC will decide on the Champions Trophy format this week, while the Asian Cricket Council could only sell their media rights at the base value of $170 million as new Indian broadcast behemoth Jio-Disney snubbed their sale.

Remembering Phil Hughes

How Hughes’ death changed AUS, how Fletcher rebuilt the ENG Test side in 1999, & Matthews’ classic save against WI in 2009.

• As the ten-year death anniversary of Phil Hughes comes up, Sydney Morning Herald’s Daniel Brettig talked to Pat Cummins, Glenn Maxwell & Steve Smith to understand how his death changed Australian cricket. Meanwhile, Cricket Et Al’s Gideon Haigh has a piece on the umpires-turned-first responders on the day of the incident.

• The Times’ Steve James writes about how Duncan Fletcher revamped the English Test side after their nadir of losing 2-1 to New Zealand at home in 1999.

• The Cricket Monthly’s George Binoy writes about Angelo Matthews’ acrobatic boundary save for Sri Lanka against West Indies at the 2009 T20 World Cup, and how it would come to represent a new frontier of fielding for cricket.

The numerical victory

IND’s dalliance with data, & how ENG is restructuring domestic Women’s cricket.

• Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber talks to former India data analyst Himanish Ganjoo about how India won the T20 World Cup via number crunching. [Apple Podcasts]

• Wisden Cricket Weekly’s Yas Rana & Katya Witney talk to Beth Barrett-Wild about the ECB’s domestic restructuring of Women’s cricket, before interviewing Surrey Director of Cricket Emma Calvert. [Apple Podcasts]

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