State of Cricket Newsletter #39

By Cricket Huddle

January 27, 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 today.

🍵 Hot of the Pot

Lara turns Windies Mentor

Brian Lara has agreed to assist Cricket West Indies as a Performance Mentor – working across all international Teams and with input into the West Indies Academy. Lara will work with the men's international teams and with the board's academy, while also serving as head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL

Jadeja 'almost there' fitness wise ahead of Australia showdown

"Yes, yes, yes...," was Ravindra Jadeja's reply when he was asked if he was ready for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series. Playing his first competitive game in close to five months, having undergone a knee surgery, the left-armer picked up a seven-wicket haul against Tamil Nadu on Day 3 of the current round of the Ranji Trophy.

🍵 Sips of the Day

Quote 💬

With the personnel we have, guys going out and expressing themselves... if that equates to a South African Bazball way of playing - to use a stupid term - then so be it. If it means we are going to go out there and block the shit out of the ball, so be it.

 

Temba Bavuma has really had it with the B-word and everyone expecting South Africa to emulate England's aggressive new approach to cricket
Idea 🎤
Ponting has an Idea to Revive Test Cricket

When Cricket Australia negotiated its broadcast rights deal with Foxtel and Seven over the summer, it was from Test cricket’s uplift in the audience that virtually every dollar of rights value improvement came from. Yet the poverty of the Proteas’ cricket, particularly their batting, illustrated how the drain of players to Kolpak deals in English country cricket and to Twenty20 franchise leagues had sapped one of the game’s richest wellsprings of talent over the past 30 years.

Opinion 🐊
Inside his 22-month battle back to international cricket for Jofra Archer
Archer will make his England return on Friday after suffering two 'career-threatening' injuries and three surgeries. Archer is well aware of the expectation around his return, and his performances in the SA20 did little to quell the excitement. But that was the first step and this, in Bloemfontein on Friday, is the second. England have been cautious because they want him back bowling in the biggest events: flagship Test series like the Ashes and World Cups.
Feature 🤡
Jitesh Sharma didn't want a career in cricket but he got one anyway
The Punjab Kings and Vidarbha batter talks about his unusual journey to the highest level
State of Cricket 🛏️
It’s a Global cricketing issue to keep players inspired for all three formats
De Villiers is part of the SA20 commentary panel. The inaugural competition has taken an eight-day break to accommodate the ODI series between hosts South Africa and England.
Video 🎦
Babar Azam the King
Tweet 🐦
Surprise, Surprise

One Last Thing 🏝️

Invite for Chat with World Cup Winning Coach
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Sipper of the Day 🥤

The Indian Captain may have been angry but he definitely loves his coffee
That's a wrap. Stay thirsty you romantics and nerds and see you tomorrow.

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