State of Cricket Newsletter #27

By Cricket Huddle

January 13, 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

Rahul relishes the No.5 challenge

"I've played at No. 5, I've played at No. 4, I've been asked to keep wickets. I think it is very fun for me. I have thrived on performing in tough conditions and under pressure. It tells me that the team trusts me and backs me. Well, no reason to question it now :)

Cricket Australia gives its reasons for not touring

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

Manchester United owners confirm interest in WIPL

Now, are we going to have a Red Devils team in WIPL ?

Adding fuel to fire

All this shows that Dhawan should never play another game for India

🍵Brewings - Best of Cricket

Feature 🖋️
How Avram Glazer of Manchester United finally got his finger in a cricket pie

The co-owner of the world's most famous football club tried and failed to buy an IPL franchise, but he's made up now. | Read

Video 🎦

Which Chief Selector invites players to their homes for dinner

Quote 🗣️

“At that high-performance level, you don’t realize it but a lot of the coaches [and] selectors are white,” he says. “There’s subconscious bias. If you have two cricketers, one brown, one white, both the same, the white coach is going to pick the white cricketer just because he has a son that might look similar to him. It’s what’s familiar to him.”

Usman Khwaja, on Racism in Australian Cricket
Interview 🎤
Labuschagne ready for India

"Since then [the last series] I've already started thinking," Labuschagne said. "I've changed some of my game because of what I've heard about Ashwin and how he bowled to me. I've adapted my game to try and foil a few of his ideas and ways he goes about it, so it's going to be a lovely game of chess and I can't wait for it. | Read

Tweet | 🐦

How a Cricketer lost money playing in an IPL team

☕Tea Take

One Step Close to Olympics for USA Cricket

USA Cricket has been approved by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Board of Directors, as a new member of the Affiliate Organizations Council (AOC) within the Recognized Sport Organization category, effective immediately.

Sipper of the Day 🥤

The guy loves his coffee and coffee machine more than anything.

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