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