Ixalan barney meme12/20/2023 I wanted to know about Brands Love Fans in the Stands, and Cricket Matters to Meta and Innovation at Play: Part 1 – The ICC NIUM Hackathon. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/ECB/Getty Images The Hundred ‘is something of a joke’ among those attending the ICC Cricket Matters conference. But really the point of going was to listen, to overhear the powerbrokers in their natural powerbroker habitat. In the event nobody asked me anything at all. I’d pictured fellow delegates nodding urgently as I described my app, maybe even a buzz, a feeding frenzy. Pretending I was a mercurial tech entrepreneur seemed more venue-appropriate, less draggy, than being a sports hack. It was presented by serious people who really do have a say in how cricket, and indeed every other sport you like, is going to be processed, consumed and violently reconfigured in the next few vital years. The conference was full of interesting content. And it was pretty much what you’d expect, even, perhaps, a little more fundamentally disorientating. Yes, I went to the lavishly staged ICC Cricket Matters conference in Mumbai so that you didn’t have to. In fact the app was more of a cover story, prepared earlier this week just in case I had to make emergency small talk with high-flying sports-media powerbrokers. Staring at a phone, which is pointed at a screen, while a voice says Canadian Hyper-Smash. Thanks to face recognition and real-time data Point&Crick will give you all the key stats and memes, will tell you who to support, how you should feel and what products you can buy to reinforce these emotions. But what is this exactly? And is that Wayne Parnell? It is emotionally and culturally wired into my brain. How many times have you switched on your screen to find a figure in a vibrant nylon shirt unfurling a field-splitting leg-side wangle while the commentator who just shouts “wow”, and thought to yourself: yes, I like cricket.
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