Tristan Lavalette
Columnist, The Cricket Paper and Cricket Contributor at Forbes
News/Sports Journalist at Associated Press
Forbes cricket journalist| ESPNcricinfo in summer| AP/AFP| Author: Basketball 2.0 | Covered: Olympics/Grand Slam Tennis/Cricket, Soccer & Basketball World Cups
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Tristan Lavalette
With ambitious dreams of ultimately becoming 'America’s Team’ in the fledgling Major League Cricket, Seattle Orcas are firstly hoping to inspire the Pacific Northwest as the bat and ball sport builds towards a showcase at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The Orcas, a finalist in MLC’s debut season in 2023, are the only small market team in the six-team tournament boasting franchises from major locales of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC and Dallas (Texas).
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Tristan Lavalette
Zimbabwe give back the joy as long exile ends in heroic failureIt is as rare for a team that loses by an innings and 45 runs to go on a celebratory lap around the ground as it is for Zimbabwe to play in England, …
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forbes.com | Tristan Lavalette
Zimbabwe’s cricketers soaked in the surreal scenes, lapping it up in front of their giddy supporters at Trent Bridge in the aftermath of the one-off Test against England. After finally getting a chance against a powerhouse nation in Test cricket, performing credibly to arrest early nerves, the wide grins from the players matched the expressions from their expat compatriots who had long doubted they would ever get so close to their heroes. The result hardly mattered.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Tristan Lavalette
When small cricket nation Zimbabwe finally ends a 22-year Test drought against powerhouse England on Thursday, Tavengwa Mukuhlani will be emotional sitting in the terraces at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. He will feel a sense of pride after working tirelessly for a decade as Zimbabwe Cricket’s chair to restart bilateral ties with England. “It’s a sense of achievement on the part of Zimbabwe Cricket,” Mukuhlani told me in a phone interview on the eve of the one-off Test running from May 22-26.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Tristan Lavalette
Superstar batter Steve Smith will squeeze in a short stint in the upcoming Major League Cricket season between the World Test Championship final and Australia’s tour of the West Indies. In a tonic for the third edition of the well-heeled American T20 competition, the 35-year-old Smith is set to play two games for Washington Freedom - the franchise he captained to last year’s title.
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