Ali Martin
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Cricket correspondent for @Guardian_sport and the Observer. #nffc
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Moeen Ali back in the wickets and back above Michael Jordan
Virat Kohli is the only cricketer featured in the Pubity Sports' 'Top 10 greatest Athletics'.
- THE GLOBAL ICON, KING KOHLI....!!! 👑
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Test cricket ... where bad light can see a batsman trying to bowl his team to victory against two bowlers trying to bat their team to a draw. Beautiful.
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Last saw Shane Warne the day after Australia's Ashes win in Hobart. During our 10-min chat outside the hotel he was repeatedly asked for autographs/selfies etc by passing fans, and met every single one with charm, warm words and a few wise-cracks. A genuine man of the people.
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Liam Livingstone’s previous IPL deal was £75k. Bought today for £1.12m. A decent pay-rise, that
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Breaking news: Deal agreed - Channel 4 to show England's upcoming Test series in India. Starts Friday, 4am UK time
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Test cricket, where the second best bowler in the world - and his country's 4th highest wicket-taker of all time - can carry the drinks for four matches in a row (against a team he mangled just a few months ago), despite being fit and available. Daft, brilliant sport
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Ricky Ponting good value on Sky: "The lesson is, don't take on the sub fielder you know nothing about ... the bloke's covered 100 metres in 8.5 seconds"
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Chris Woakes returns to the Test team after more than a year out, takes 19wkts in an incredible Ashes series, winning runs at Headingley, named player of the series … and his only post on the old socials since is a tribute to Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali. Be more Woakes, people
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At this rate New Zealand will go into the next global tournament as overdogs
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England happy to soak up the flak for Sam Curran, Mark Wood, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler missing Test cricket this winter ... but now Moeen Ali is described as "choosing" to go home when this was his pre-agreed slot. Not entirely comfortable with how this is being framed
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Virat Kohli on playing Test cricket in England (in reference to Australia's Ashes chances): “If you go out there with an ego, you might as well not go at all. Because that Dukes ball, it buries egos pretty quickly."
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100 Test wickets for Chris Woakes ... and in his 34th Test.
Now has 100 wickets and 1,000-plus runs. By way of comparison, it took Jason Holder 39 Tests to reach this mark, Andrew Flintoff 43, Ben Stokes 43, Garry Sobers 48...
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Jasprit Bumrah may have just bowled the greatest non-wicket-taking delivery in Test history
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Pretty sure I'd retire on the spot if I hit this shot
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@mrjamesob
jump on the bandwagon and double your radio figures by simply stating the number of ears that were listening
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Sheldon Cottrell’s salute is actually great - and for those still not sure, here he is teaching some school kids in Nottingham how to do it. Good on him
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As England captain, Ben Stokes has spoken out against sky high ticket prices and the packed schedule, been evangelical about Test cricket and now come out against a reduction in County Championship fixtures. Already surpassed a few predecessors in terms of voicing an opinion
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One for the people who try to divide and spread hatred 👇🏻
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Jos Buttler has played 290 international matches in 10 years, won an Ashes series, a World Cup and made a case to be considered England's greatest white-ball batsman ... and yet still gets called "Josh" on commentary 🤷🏻♂️
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Shane Warne meeting 13-year-old Rehan Ahmed … man, he would have been buzzing for this Ashes call-up
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The oversized cheque for man of the series is only heading one way: Dinesh Karthik
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Unused quote from speaking to Jasprit Bumrah before the series:
"Watching a fast bowler get the stumps to cartwheel, or hit the stumps and leave the batsman knocked off their feet - that was fascinating to me as a child."
Suspect a fair few youngsters will be the same today.
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Mitchell Johnson has stuck up for Jofra Archer in his i newspaper column today
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Spinners who have clean bowled Virat Kohli more than once in international cricket:
Moeen Ali
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Epic 12 months of Test cricket:
🇦🇺 meltdown in 🇿🇦
☘️ and 🇦🇫 arrive on the scene
🏴 down world No1s 🇮🇳 4-1
🇳🇿 beat 🇵🇰 in the 🇦🇪
🏴 win 3-0 in 🇱🇰
🇮🇳 win 2-1 in 🇦🇺
🇧🇧/🇬🇾/🇯🇲/🇹🇹/🇦🇬 slap down 🏴
And now 🇱🇰win 2-0 in 🇿🇦
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Great to see Shoaib Akhtar, star of the series when England last played Test cricket in Pakistan, arrive at the team hotel yesterday. Big muscly hug with one of his modern day equivalents in Haris Rauf ... the combined energy could probably power the city for a month
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Rangana Herath bidding farewell to international cricket this week. Must be one of the most unlikely contenders for catch of the century 👇🏼
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People who don't know where Keaton Jennings's off stump is:
Ravi Jadeja
Virat Kohli
Keaton Jennings
People who do:
Mohammed Shami
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If you’re wondering what Jack Grealish tells his hairdresser…
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Just a short while ago England played an entire five-match T20i series in India without picking Moeen Ali once 🤷🏻♂️
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It's Duckett and Crawley's fastest start yet ... and India are still batting
ENGLAND GETS THE PENALTY...!!!
India penalised 5 runs for running on the pitch - England will start their innings with 5/0.
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Mark Wood hits five sixes in a single Test innings to leave Sachin Tendulkar (4), Don Bradman (2), Steve Smith (2) and Virat Kohli (2) trailing in his wake...
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Impossible not to get carried away by Jofra Archer the Test cricketer. Spread the word, this guy has the talent and the charisma to convert the unconverted in their droves
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Alec Stewart's Test runs: 8,463
Alec Stewart's birthday: 8/4/63
What’s one sports stat that will always blow your mind when you see it?
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The last time Jimmy Anderson and Mohammad Rizwan met on a cricket field...
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Virat Kohli, the most influential player on the planet, is against The Hundred and has now said the same about four-day Tests...
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In the mop-up after the Ashes defeat Joe Root confirmed he won’t be entering the IPL auction: “There’s a lot that we need to do for this team, which deserves all of my energy. I’ll keep sacrificing as much as I can because I care so much about Test cricket in our country.”
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Ben Stokes is in full warrior mode this Test match. Over my dead body stuff from England's vice-captain
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England confirm IPL players Bairstow, Buttler, Billings, Woakes, Moeen, Roy, Curran (x2) landed back in the UK this morning and will begin 10-day quarantine in government-approved hotels.
Morgan, Malan, Jordan still in India but expected to fly home in next 48 hours.
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England’s first training session in Rawalpindi underway. Great to be here, a lot of excitement building ahead of Thursday’s first Test
#PAKvENG
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14 years old and bowling leg spin for a county 2nd XI. V cool
Great to hear young Tazeem Ali picking up a pair of wickets on his Warwickshire 2nd XI debut.
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Jimmy doing the crossword was the absolute crowning glory of today’s Nighthawk shenanigans
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England and New Zealand are one of cricket’s great match-ups
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Joe Root confirms Jos Buttler flying home with broken finger
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Rafiq: "[Joe] Rooty is a good man, never engaged in racist language. But he was GB's housemate and was involved in a lot of those nights out where I was called a Paki. He might not remember it ..maybe it just shows [how normalised] a good man like him didn't see it for what it is
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Dinesh Karthik has made a really good start as an analyst on Sky. Strong beard game too, which is 90% of the battle
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That was England's first Test victory without 50+ score from Joe Root in two years. Handy.
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In terms of the noise levels in Rawalpindi, there are boundaries and then there are Babar Azam boundaries 💥💥💥
#PakvEng
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Adil Rashid on Eoin Morgan - few stronger bowler-captain relationships in world cricket, I reckon
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Said this before but would be great if Sky can kidnap Ian Smith for their Ashes coverage later this summer (or simply make him an offer to commentate)
Turn up your 🔊 and listen to this 👇
Ian Smith at his passionate, riveting best, calling the final moments of
#INDvNZ
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Edgbaston atmosphere, generated by Pakistan's fans, really was electric last night. Incredible atmosphere. Local residents I've spoken to today can't remember a summer evening like it for noise (in a good way)
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Kagiso Rabada is such a special bowler… makes South Africa’s retreat from Test cricket even sadder
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almost exclusively
Ollie Robinson has rated Jasprit Bumrah as “the best bowler in the world” and says the India quick’s success has prompted him to practice his slower ball.
#INDvENG
READ ⬇️
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Jason Holder suspended for the third Test due to slow over-rate. Once again cricket gets out the blunderbuss, takes aim at its own foot and pulls the trigger...
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Word coming through that Jonny Bairstow, Chris Woakes and Dawid Malan have all withdrawn from the upcoming IPL restart
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Blimey, Nottinghamshire have now hit capacity for day five of the Test match after making tickets free.
Club calls the demand as “remarkable” and adds: “Thank you for your support of Test Match cricket – which is a format of the game that, at Trent Bridge, we love.”
#ENGvNZ
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It's a long shot, but if anyone finds a teddy bear on the No50 bus from Birmingham heading south circa 12.45pm ... it's my daughter's.. 🙏
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After Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley becomes the third England spinner to claim a five-wicket haul on Test debut under Ben Stokes. Remarkable husbandry from the England captain
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Haseeb Hameed wearing a cable-knit tank top in Queensland is superb
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Breaking news ... Ben Stokes added to England's Ashes squad. Has declared himself "ready for Australia.”
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The Chris Woakes to open the batting dream is inching closer
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and so much unused power on the bench. Adil Rashid, carded at No11, has 10 first-class hundreds
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Jofra Archer on course to be fit for England’s 50-over World Cup defence | Jofra Archer | The Guardian
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Still up on the scoreboard at Edgbaston... Australia train this afternoon, wonder if it will stay there all day 🤔
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Joe Root in 2021: 1,117 Test runs @ 62, four centuries (inc two doubles), two-half centuries and currently 53*
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Kane Williamson, now New Zealand's record run-scorer, has never played a series longer than three Tests. Majority are two-Test affairs. Debut two years before Joe Root, 37 caps fewer
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Stuart Broad just missed a golden opportunity to complain about the broadcasters on the stump mic
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Never has a piece of headgear represented an era of English Test cricket better than this
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Mark Wood, rested after 25.3 overs in the first Test, will now play his third in a row...
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It shouldn’t need the County Championship to bring these two together but great that it has
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Moeen Ali to lead England T20 side during first visit to Pakistan for 17 years | England cricket team | The Guardian
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In other news, Moeen Ali has been named as England vice-captain for the Oval Test...
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Breaking news: England confirm that seven members of men’s ODI bubble - three players and four management team members- have tested positive for COVID-19. Whole squad to isolate but series v Pak continues, Ben Stokes to captain an entirely new squad (named later today)
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Steve Smith and David Warner end this Ashes series with respective averages of 30.5 and 34.12 ... if you'd told England that would be the case beforehand...
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For those who like their football rumours from a cricket correspondent, hearing Forest are v close to completing a deal for Morgan Gibbs-White
#nffc
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Even the commentary box have gone the extra spinner .... Graeme Swann in for Mark Butcher
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Stuart Broad has taken 130 wickets @ 23 since the last Ashes Test in Sydney four years ago. No bowler has taken more in that time
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Three lads with Pakistani heritage bowling England to a win over Pakistan at Headingley. Superb.
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The line of the stumps runs from the outside of the stump. The *centre* of the ball must land inside this (when issue is pitching outside leg). There is no umpire's call. It was as tight as they come. But it was out. (And we need to keep technology sweet or Terminator 2 happens)
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