The Alternate Cricket Roundup | 8-14 Dec, 2024
Cartoons, crosswords and all the weird stats that you won't find anywhere else!
Cartoon Corner: Bumrah Shrugged
Conceptualised & illustrated by Satish Acharya. Follow him on Twitter & Facebook.
You can check out the rest of his cartoons here.
Crossword of the Week: I don’t know if you heard - India lost to Australia?
From India losing to Australia (despite a vice-captain masterclass) to India losing to Australia (despite a vice-captain masterclass), it’s been an eventful week of cricket. Not to mention stories about The Hundred, multiple fifers, and 2024’s surprising batting sensation!
So, how well do you remember Cricket’s Week That Was? Well, there’s an objective way to find out; complete this weekend’s crossword!
Answers can be found here. [Don’t click on the “ANSWERS” tab on the crossword page, it will take you nowhere.]
As always, the answers to the clues can be found in articles profiled in the newsletter from the past week. Catch up on the news from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday!
You can check out the the crossword archive here.
Half-Assed Internet Research: Cricket’s robot overloads
It looks like AI has finally come for cricket. Some of you may say that’s an improvement, some of you may lament the good old days of typewriters, but all of us can agree that the game will never be the same again;
Hmm. Okay, maybe we don’t have to fear the terminator just yet. Then again, maybe AI could help us decipher the vortex of social media news updates;
Speaking of the Adelaide Test, I think we may have figured out how Australia won despite losing Josh Hazlewood;
…and, of course, how India lost;
Meanwhile, Michael Vaughan is having fun throwing stones now that he no longer has to play in the glasshouses;
But, there is another series going on down under. England versus New Zealand. But, you’d be a fool to think that the series is about England or New Zealand. As anyone who’s ever been to stadium when Smriti Mandhana is batting, there’s only ever one team that matters;
