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2 weeks ago | 
goodareas.co | Shayan Ahmad Khan |Jarrod Kimber |Varun Alvakonda
Everything is about context. If you hear a Cradle of Filth song in a dark and dingy club on the dodgy side of town, it seems right. If you are in a pharmacy buying some tissues and you hear:“Maleficent in dusky roseGathered satin lapped Her breastsLike blood upon the snowA tourniquet of Topaz.”It is going to stick out. Context. When Virender Sehwag played in Test cricket it stuck out. No one had attacked that hard at the top before.
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2 weeks ago | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan
A new power rankings, and it’s been another week in which the highly rated teams have decided to have a sleep in. But some of the sides down in our expectations are shining. As always, the power rankings don't represent the points table, but really are passed down to us by golden pigeons who look at strength of schedule, future games, who you beat and how, and then make it all up before crapping on us as they fly away. Good Areas is a reader-supported publication.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan
This is one of the greatest eras ever for pace bowling. The 1950s was the last decade that had a lower average, and that was a period where teams struggled to make runs or take wickets. Now, we get plenty of fast runs and even quicker wickets. It’s not just this decade; it actually started earlier in 2018. The last seven years have been incredible for fast bowlers. Only in one year have the batters gone at more than 30 against them.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Shayan Ahmad Khan
Australia were 373 runs away from the target when Travis Head got out in the fourth innings at Perth. Yet, Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli celebrated the wicket passionately. And they had good reason to—it was a terrific delivery. But it was also Head’s wicket. It means more these days. Across all formats, Bumrah and Head are two of the best male cricketers on the planet. Head’s scoring rate is like an unstoppable force, and that’s meeting an immovable object—Bumrah’s pinpoint accuracy.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda |Estelle Vasudevan
Download Hitwicket Cricket Game 2024 - Be the Owner, Coach and Captain of your own Cricket Team | The Ultimate Strategic Cricket-Manager Experience | Not a fad. No ads. At the start of 2019, Travis Head was co Test vice-captain. Yet, after nearly two years, he was dropped from the team. No one ever talked about his vice-captaincy again. He looked like a lost talent—a batter who only wanted to slash square on the offside, while struggling against spin and right-arm seam around the wicket.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda |Estelle Vasudevan
Download Hitwicket Cricket Game 2024 - Be the Owner, Coach and Captain of your own Cricket Team | The Ultimate Strategic Cricket-Manager Experience | Not a fad. No ads. Find someone who makes the pink ball talk the way Mitchell Starc does. With the red one, Starc is relatively ordinary in Tests. He is good early in the innings, can still get great bounce, and when cricket had reverse swing, he was good at that. But his record suggests that he’s slightly above replacement-level with the red ball.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda |Estelle Vasudevan
Men's cricket — 9 min read Download Hitwicket Cricket Game 2024 - Be the Owner, Coach and Captain of your own Cricket Team | The Ultimate Strategic Cricket-Manager Experience | Not a fad. No ads. What does India's win in the Perth Test mean for the rest of the series? Based on what we saw in Bengaluru, you would have to say that there is a good precedent for winning a Test by a huge margin, and going on to dominate the rest of the series.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Estelle Vasudevan |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda
Download Hitwicket Cricket Game 2024 - Be the Owner, Coach and Captain of your own Cricket Team | The Ultimate Strategic Cricket-Manager Experience | Not a fad. No ads. Marnus Labuschagne is dropped by Virat Kohli in slips off only his second delivery. With 150 runs on the board, dropping the number three is massive. For the next hour, Kohli gets to think about it as Marnus bats on. Watching a batter you’ve missed make runs is a special kind of frustration.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda
Download Hitwicket Cricket Game 2024 - Be the Owner, Coach and Captain of your own Cricket Team | The Ultimate Strategic Cricket-Manager Experience | Not a fad. No ads. A young player looks at the car park and sees a legend getting out of the car an hour after the match started. He told them he might be late, of course. He’s driven in his whites, and his sneakers are undone. He strolls onto field at first slip, but then tells the coach he is hungry and someone needs to get him some pastries.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda
It's possible that coming into this series, you might have thought India were not the front-runners. However, it was perfectly reasonable to think they had a chance. Australia's top four wasn't performing very well, and they have an ageing bowling lineup. However, I don't think many would have thought, "Do you know what's going to happen in the first Test match? India are going to win by 295 runs." 295 runs. That isn't a small victory, and it could have been more than that.
