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June saw the Cricket WikiProject produce plenty of featured content&mdash;two featured articles, and five featured lists. In total, there were 9 new featured articles, 6 new featured lists, and 4 new featured pictures this week.

Cricket contributions
Led by Nichalp, ALoan, SmokeDog and a recently returned Jguk, cricket-loving wikipedians helped the Cricket WikiProject put together a notable month this June, producing two new cricket-related featured articles, The Ashes and Sydney Riot of 1879, while nominating a dozen cricket-related featured list candidates and seeing five of them attain featured list status thus far. This week, 4 were promoted&mdash;Sri Lankan national cricket captains, Bangladeshi national cricket captains, Indian national cricket captains, and List of cricket terms. The project can now boast a total of 13 featured works, including eight featured articles.

Featured content
There are 9 more featured articles following the promotion of this week's featured article candidates. The new featured articles are Second Crusade, Order of Canada, Indian Railways, Antarctic krill, Captain Marvel (DC Comics), Buckingham Palace (finally promoted after two failed nominations), The Giver, Hubble Space Telescope (which had previously been a featured article and was then demoted), and Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968, bringing June's featured article total to 40, the highest number of new features in a month since March. On 30 June, 2005, Raul654 noted that, after taking account of articles which had had their "featured article" status removed, there had been a net increase of 181 featured articles so far this year, an average increase of exactly one per day.

In addition to the four cricket-related featured lists, List of Indian districts and List of U.S. House committees were also featured. June's featured list total was 13, and 9 nominations failed.

4 images were featured this week after passing through featured picture candidacy, and June's total was 14.