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Month: July 2022

July 3, 2022 England / India

Ranked: All eight deliveries in Stuart Broad’s world record 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah

4 minute readSome people said Stuart Broad’s 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah reminded them of when Yuvraj Singh hit him for 36 in the T20 World Cup that time. But it was not like that. It was not like that at all. This was much, much better and funnier. There’s actually a

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July 1, 2022 England

A piss-easy way to carve out extra time for each women’s Test match

2 minute readEngland’s men’s team are halfway through playing two Tests in two weeks against different opponents. England’s women’s team have a full year to wait until their next Test against anyone. The comparisons are easy, jarring and awful. The New Zealand/India fortnight is only the middle back-to-back for the men after

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