State of Cricket Newsletter #26

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. For us, it's always the good ol' chai☕

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• Hot of the Pot - News ♨️

• Brewings - Best of Cricket 🍵

• Tea Takes☕

• Sipper of the Day 🥤

♨️ Hot of the Pot | News

Clinical India Bowl Sri Lanka out for 216

Kuldeep and Siraj picked three wickets apiece to bundle Sri Lanka for a paltry 216.

Australia withdraw from ODI series against Afghanistan

Scheduled for late March following the tour of India, Australia's three-match ODI series against Afghanistan won't proceed

Conway hundred stuns Pakistan

Sodhi, Santner, Bracewell, and Phillips took 5 for 114 in between them to sink the hosts in Karachi

🍵Brewings - Best of Cricket

Feature 🖋️

World Cup: Is too much talent a problem for Indian cricket?

It is a decade now since India won an ICC trophy, and with the 50-over World Cup set to be played in India in October-November, two questions ask themselves. Suresh Menon pens a brilliant piece on what to look forward. | Read

Video 🎦

Marnus & Gary come on the Grade Cricketer

Quote 🗣️

Interview 🎤

Ashwin still has not given up the idea of captaining India

While a number of players captained India in different formats in the last year, R Ashwin was not given the opportunity. Would be interesting to see a player like Ash captain. Like what he would do differently, seeing how he thinks outside the box so much and is not very conventional. | Read

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The Reality of Kuldeep Yadav

☕Tea Takes

South Africa going full monty with SA20 by putting the format at the front and center of the game, ahead of Test, one-day and domestic cricket. The board did not have a lot of choice. It has been losing so much money, for so long, that something drastic had to be done.

The game is changing in ways that are going to cause problems for everyone. England found that a handful of their young players turned down the opportunity to go on a development tour with the Lions side to Sri Lanka this winter because they had deals in South Africa and the UAE.

From now on, everything in South African cricket will be geared around whether they can make a success of the SA20. No one in there even seems to be pretending anything else. The hope is that the revenue generated by the SA20 will pay for the revival of their first-class cricket, and so, in time, the Test team will improve too.

Sipper of the Day 🥤

Congrats Kuldeep. Onwards and Upwards.

That's a wrap. Stay thirsty you romantics and nerds and see you tomorrow.

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