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April 30, 2021 India

Prithvi Shaw hit six fours in an over and part of us thinks that’s better than six sixes in an over

2 minute readLook, obviously six fours in an over is not better than six sixes in an over. But also it is. That’s what we’re going to argue here. Delhi Capitals were chasing 155 against Kolkata Knight Riders yesterday and it’s fair to say they got off to a pretty solid start.

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October 4, 2018 India

What we do and don’t know about Prithvi Shaw

4 minute readYou’re probably wondering why there’s a photo of a load of fried fish awaiting a greedy human receptacle up there. We’ll get to that. It won’t take too long, but you’ll have to be a little bit patient. Before we get to it, we want to talk about the nature

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