State of Cricket Newsletter #28

By Cricket Huddle

January 14, 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. For us, it's always the good ol' chai☕
Let's get right into it. Here's what we got for ya today.

  • Hot of the Pot - News ♨️

  • Brewings - Best of Cricket 🍵

  • Tea Takes☕

  • Sipper of the Day 🥤

♨️ Hot of the Pot | News

Kohli, Sharma get left out in T20 against New Zealand

Prithvi Shaw is back in the T20I squad, while KS Bharat gets a maiden call-up to the ODI squad. On the other hand, SKY and Ishan Kishan get picked for the first 2 Tests against Australia. With Pant out, Ishan Kishan makes a comeback. Hard luck for Sarfaraz Khan who has been raining runs in the Ranji trophy for Mumbai.

Eight IPL franchises confirmed to be in race for WIPL teams

At least eight of the 10 men's IPL franchises will be bidding to own teams in the Women's IPL. The BCCI is set to announce the winning cities along with the franchises when it opens the sealed bids on January 25.

Why Langer and Chappell think Cummins’ men could make history in India

CA chief says "Rashid will always be welcome in the BBL," after the Afghanistan legspinner threatened to withdraw from the league | Read

🍵Brewings - Best of Cricket

Feature 🖋️
Rarest of rare: Kuldeep Yadav and Umran Malik, save them to savor their skill

Just a fantastic piece by Indian Express Editor Sandeep Dwivedi about two maverick cricketers. They have it in them to induce emotional expression, fan investment, and the magical power to provide temporary escapism from the real world. World Cups are not won by percentage players but by mavericks with rare and rarest of rare skills. | Read

Quote 🗣️

"I was really excited to potentially be on this tour … and the messaging was that my style of bowling might have been handy over there. But I think potentially last minute that was a change of mind. I don't know what is in store for me red-ball cricket wise, I'm just going to get through this Big Bash and reconsider,"

Adam Zampa (On Not being Picked from the Australia tour of India
Interview 🎤
How cricket umpire Billy Bowden turned arthritis into his creative edge

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. So when rheumatoid arthritis made it too painful for cricket umpire Billy Bowden to use the conventional hand signals during a match, he simply made up alternative versions of his own. | Read

Tweet | 🐦

Measure the amount of inswing

☕Tea Take

Geetika Kodali, the fearless captain forging a path for her team of trailblazers

If America can sometimes be seen as a country of extremes, then the USA squad preparing to take part in the maiden Women's Under-19 T20 World Cup is in some ways a microcosm of that, whether by population demographics, culturally or geographically. | Read

Sipper of the Day 🥤

Rohit gets left out of T20 squad. Hard luck captain

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