State of Cricket Newsletter #42

By Cricket Huddle

February 01, 2023

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Gary Ballance set for Zimbabwe Test bow against West Indies

Gary Ballance is set to play Test cricket for the first time since 2017 after being named in Zimbabwe's squad to face West Indies in next month's two-match series.

Shreyas Iyer was ruled out of the first Australia Test.

The middle-order batter is expected to join the India squad for the second Test in Delhi. Iyer was told he needs to spend more time in rehab to recover from the back injury that had ruled him out of the recent ODIs against New Zealand.

Khwaja's Visa to India Delayed.

Khwaja's departure for Australia's tour of India has been delayed because of issues in acquiring a visa.

Father of Two Cricketers Speaks His Heart out on Trials as a Parent

“I have thousands of videos of Ben, but I hardly watch them,” says John. “My wife watches them all the time but I can’t do it. When Ben first passed away, I used to dream every night about his life until the point when he died. Then one night I went to the tree where his memorial is and Ben said to me, ‘Dad, time to move on, let me go.’ I’ve never had a dream like that since, but I still haven’t let him go. John, the father of former England players Adam and Ben Hollioake, talks candidly about a fairytale with a tragic ending.

The Viability of Women's Cricket as a Cash-Making Product ?

The BCCI fetched close to $572 Million Dollars in the first edition of the Women's Premier League making it the richest women's sporting league in the World. Congratulations to BCCI. The topic of discussion was about Women's Cricket is it a Viable product and whether would it match up to the standards of the Indian premier league.

RCB has put one of the most interesting Campaigns out there

RCB is scouting women fast bowlers who can bowl 130kmph for WPL. If you’re a woman fast bowler who can bowl 130 kmph, then send in your bowling videos to [email protected] along with your contact details

Are Fitness Tests in Cricket telling you all? Or is there more that meets Eye

What's the best way to measure fitness? It's a complex and multi-layered problem. Should it be so strictly applied and is it the only or best measure of these things? Pertinent Questions raised for fitness test measurement by Firdose Moonda

"We normally have two tour games over in England. This time we don't have a tour game in India. The last time we went [to India], I'm pretty sure we got served up a green top [in the tour game], and it was sort of irrelevant".
Steve Smith said at the Sydney airport before the team's departure for India
The New Milestone for Women's Cricket

Huge franchise fees and a seven-figure media deal for a new competition in India represent one of the biggest investments ever in a women’s sport. Even for a country familiar with jaw-dropping valuations for cricket teams, the numbers are remarkable: At a hotel in Mumbai on Wednesday, an auction for five teams in a new Indian women’s cricket league produced one of the biggest one-day financial injections in the history of women’s sports.

Guy Does it again. Broke his wrist and now batted left-handed. And no one knows why he got dropped out of Indian Cricket ?
Well, this Cricketer loves her Tea.
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