State of Cricket Newsletter #25

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 ♨️

• Ultimate Brews - Best of Cricket 🍵

• Quick Sip from Cricket Huddle☕

• Sipper of the Day 🥤

♨️ Hot of the Pot | News

Australia Name 18 Member Squad for India Tour

Selection for the Victorian off-spinner caps a meteoric rise, as Peter Handscomb and Mitchell Swepson return to an 18-player squad for the much-anticipated series Link

Smith convinced new SA20 competition can boost South Africa's Test team

Graeme Smith, says the country's new limited overs SA20 competition can also help the struggling Test team recover past glories | Link

Prithvi Shaw makes second-highest Ranji Trophy score

Shaw has become the ninth batter to go past 350 in a Ranji inning. He also holds the record of the highest individual score for Mumbai in history.

🍵Ultimate Brews - Best of Cricket

Feature 🖋️

SA20 hits the right notes as crowds flock to opening night

A sunset walk around the ground revealed that as much as people were paying some attention to what was going on in the middle, they weren't paying that much. This is, after all, a tournament that's about more than cricket and many of the people at Newlands were enjoying the other things on offer. They were catching up with their friends, eating too many hot chips, queuing at the bars, and every now and then appreciating a big hit. So far, so successful then as the SA20 officially starts. Link

Video 🎦

Season 2 starts in 2 days. If you want to catch the best bits of Season 1

Quote 🗣️

Interview 🎤

Prithvi Shaw’s turnaround mantra: Take diary notes, revisit old batting videos

The pressure was mounting on the 23-year-old. He came into the game against Assam with just 168 runs in seven innings, at an average of 22.85, but delivered when it mattered | Link

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Aakash Chopra summed it up perfectly

☕Quick Sip from Cricket Huddle

On our previous episode of the State of Cricket Podcast, we had writer Sanjit Misra come on board. He has written a book called the Inscrutable Master - the story of Hugh Tayfield. Very few know about this cricketer who at one time was compared to the great Jim Laker. He is the guy who Anil Kumble matched with his 10-wicket haul.

The book aims to bring to the reader the brilliance of Hugh Tayfield and his unique place in South Africa and Cricket’s history.

In the book, the journey of his cricketing life starts with his first series against Australia in 1949 and captures his exploits there. It moves on to his first overseas tour of Australia and New Zealand and speaks of his magnificent 13-wicket haul success at the MCG. The work then depicts Tayfield’s famous bowling performances in the 1955 tour of England and each of his 37 wickets in the aforementioned 1956-57 series against England, which was the pinnacle of his success. Finally, it captures the arduous passage of the Australia series of 1957-58 and then his final series against England in 1960, which ended in deep despair for Hugh Tayfield. The book can be found here

Sipper of the Day 🥤

Happy Birthday, Jams. Keep Dippin that ParleG in your Tea.

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