State of Cricket Newsletter #37

By Cricket Huddle

January 25, 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

Owners of Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, RCB win bids to own WPL teams

Adani group make biggest bid to bag WPL team. The Adani Group and Capri Global buy the other two WPL teams; Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and Lucknow to be home venues | Read

Rohit wary about rushing Bumrah back

India skipper Rohit Sharma warned against rushing Jasprit Bumrah back into international action from his back injury. Rohit also hoped that the pace spearhead would have recovered sufficiently to be available for the last two Tests of the four-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy in March.

Siraj is the new No. 1 bowler

Gill overtakes Kohli on the batters' table. Rohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya, and Kuldeep Yadav are the other Indians to move up after their series sweep over New Zealand

🍵 Sips of the Day

Who Said What 💬

‘I’ve not got many words, to be honest. I thought I’d get picked up, but I didn’t think I’d get picked up for that much,

 

England’s Harry Brook of the £1.325million contract with Sunrisers Hyderabad
Interview
I was told I'll get my chance in Bangladesh

There is a reason Sarfaraz Khan has been trending past 2 weeks. In 36 first-class games, the 25-year-old has scored 3380 runs at an incredible average of 80.47. | Read

Opinion
England cricket tours to South Africa didn’t used to be extended sleepovers
ODI series will last less than a week – a far cry from 13,000-mile round trips made by steamer and 60-hour coach journeys | Read
Feature
Swepson hoping Australia “sticks with” the Lyon combination for the first India Test
Leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson has his eyes on being named in Australia’s XI to face India in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Series next month. | Read
Racism in ECB
Michael Vaughan's 'you lot' comment never happened
New evidence will be presented to ECB next month, including Hoggard's claim about widespread abuse of Asian players | Read
Video 🎦
Wonderful evening
Tweet 🐦
Right...How did we miss that

One Last Thing 🏝️

What does it take to make Squad of 15 & Why does Sarfaraz Khan not get picked?
We discussed the same on Episode #126 of the State of Cricket Podcast this week. Joining us this week was a documentary filmmaker - Rohit Kulkarni who made Pitch of Dreams - Cricket in America. Listen to the Full Episode

Sipper of the Day 🥤

This time we have the Voice of Cricket who indeed loves his coffee...
That's a wrap. Stay thirsty you romantics and nerds and see you tomorrow.

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