If Bumrah doesn't get you, then Shami must

We review the India v England match in Lucknow - and chat about the other themes emerging in the World Cup. 

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Talking points: 

• The brutal simplicity of Mohammad Shami


• Jasprit Bumrah: the bowler with the joystick


• Rohit Sharma: the ultimate problem-solver


• England's awful batting slump


• Joe Root lbw Bumrah 0


• Ben Stokes - reckless or calculated?


• Pakistan's problem with no big hitting and no quality spin


• New Zealand losing with respectability 


• The furore over umpire's call


• Bangladesh's forgettable World Cup campaign

Participants:




Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)




Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd) 




Ashoka (@ABVan)




Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack | ESPNcricinfo




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Related:





• World Cup weekly review - Kartikeya Date - Cricktingview Substack


• This is Mohammad Shami's World Cup - Andrew Fidel Fernando - ESPNcricinfo


• Sky Sports Cricket podcast - Nasser Hussain and Eoin Morgan dissect England's loss - Spotify


• Wasay & Iffi - YouTube


• Buy War Minus the Shooting by Mike Marqusee - Amazon


• War Minus the Shooting - Revisiting the 1996 World Cup through a classic book - 81allout podcast


• Buy Cricket Beyond the Bazaar by Mike Coward - Amazon