State of Cricket Newsletter #35

By Cricket Huddle

January 23, 2023

GM Romantics and Nerds. This is the State of Cricket Newsletter 🥤, the daily email that gets you caught up with Best of Cricket while you sip on your favorite beverage. Rain or shine. For us, it's always the good ol' chai☕.
Let's get right into it. Here's what we got today.

🍵 Hot of the Pot

ICC proposes six-team T20 events for men and women at 2028 Olympics

The ICC has recommended six-team T20 events for both men and women to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games organizing committee (LA28), as it continues its push for cricket to be included in the biggest global sports events.

Half a dozen IPL franchises express formal interest to buy WIPL teams

On the day of the technical bids for the WIPL, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, SunRisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have showed up with bid documents. But a couple of high profile franchises like Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans have decided not to stake a claim for an WIPL team.

Haroon Rasheed named Pakistan's chief selector

Rasheed, 69, had previously served as Pakistan's chief selector between 2015 and 2016, and will take over from Shahid Afridi, who served as the interim chief selector after the Sethi administration removed Mohammad Wasim from the position soon after taking charge late last month.

🍵 Sips of the Day

Who Said What 💬

If you are looking for only slim and trim guys, then you might as well go to a fashion show and pick some models and then give them a bat and ball in their hand. You have cricketers in all shapes and sizes. Don't go by the size, but go by the runs and the wickets.

 

Sunil Gavaskar, On Sarfaraz Khan Snub
Opinion Piece🎙️
How pushy parents gave India their Next Big Batsmen – Gill, Sarfraz, and Prithvi Shaw
Shubman Gill, Sarfaraz Khan, and Prithvi Shaw's fathers, all nursing shattered cricketing dreams of their own, would spend most of their waking hours pouring cricket in the mind-spaces of their very young and impressionable sons. | Read
Long Form
Bradman and Tendulkar Documentary
In May 2022, ABC reporters Ben Knight and Paul Kennedy began work on a television documentary project comparing the lives and careers of two of Cricket’s greatest players – Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar. Inside the search to find out what made two of cricket's greatest click. | Read
Che 🧢
Che: Watching an Indian Test batter working to beat the odds in Ranji Trophy
Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon, Hazlewood, and Cummins have been among the most penetrative bowlers against Pujara in international cricket. And the 34-year-old is as engrossed in his preparation as he was when he was a rookie. Watching him silently maintain his rigors and uniquely successful methods - one that has earned him 98 Test caps - in Rajkot was an education. We shall wait for the results in February. | Read
Video 🎦
25 Questions with Pujara

What makes Cheteshwar Pujara angry?

The India batter dishes on his favourite batting partner, his messiest team-mate, the last sledge he responded to, and more

https://www.espncricinfo.com/video/25-questions-with-cheteshwar-pujara-what-makes-him-angry-1354300

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One Last Thing 🏝️

What does it take to make Squad of 15 & Why does Sarfaraz Khan not get picked?
We discussed the same on Episode #126 of the State of Cricket Podcast this week. Joining us this week was a documentary filmmaker - Rohit Kulkarni who made Pitch of Dreams - Cricket in America. Listen to the Full Episode

Sipper of the Day 🥤

Drink all the coffee Che
That's a wrap. Stay thirsty you romantics and nerds and see you tomorrow.

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