David Hopps
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Freelance cricket & travel writer, ex ESPNcricinfo & Guardian. Beach hotel at . Green Social Liberal. Leeds fan. Often exasperated.
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Rugby World Cup feels like a world festival of high intensity with supporters enjoying a holiday of their lives. Cricket World Cup feels like a tournament arranged for TV and some Indian fans with fixtures confirmed a few weeks before.
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I remember the D'Oliveira affair. England stood firm. Now Shoaib Bashir is being messed around on a visa and England are a second-rate country desperate not to annoy the wealthiest cricket nation in the world. Pathetic. One out, all out.
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Moeen Ali looks as committed to his county side as any player in the country, certainly any England cricketer. Playing relegation matches for Worcestershire at his own request, too, in the next fortnight. Calm, authoritative, innately modest and immensely committed.
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I know it's a busy schedule, and I know we live in the days of the Hundred, but reaching the QFs of the Blast after 14 matches and then seeing the best sides shorn of international white-ball stars undermines the entire tournament.
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“India’s top six should be a template for 50-over batting: very technical players whose games are built around [orthodoxy]” . Which begs the question about England.
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I respect Joe Root hugely. But for England to want 18 counties and 150,000 spectators and 350 pros to abandon the T20 Blast for 50-over cricket to make up for the fact England players don't play any 50 over cricket because they want to play The Hundred is classic double think
Joe Root calls for the Blast to give way. It makes most of the money for Yorkshire. His county. The county that nurtured him. One of the oldest, greatest cricket clubs in the world (and yes I am aware of their problems in recent years). It is disappointing
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Please, God, remove this moaning about "batter" from my timeline.🥱I'd like to see third man renamed whingeing old git so they can have their own fielding position. It would have to be compulsory. There often isn't a third man in cricket, but there's always a whingeing old git.
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This says so many good things about
@root66
. The fact he’s playing in the Roses T20 at all, as a Test captain, 24 hours after the end of the international summer to bale-out Covid-hit Yorkshire. & the fact that 1 of the world’s best batsmen & part-time offie has practiced this👏
💥 WHAT. A. NUT! 💥
Lovely from Root as Jones walks past a delicious leg-break and is stumped by Tattersall 👍
@VitalityBlast
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#Blast20
📺 Watch live 👉
📋 Scorecard 👉
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I've reluctantly come to accept some of the advantages of the Hundred. But every time I watch a T20 match at Taunton - and feel the sheer brilliance of the occasion - I can't help feeling that there is more to life, and cricket, then big-city stadia. Tonight is no exception.
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Before the North is entirely traduced, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Leeds (just) all voted to Remain. Despite economic and media betrayal
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England lose by 10 wickets in Pakistan T20. High time for an England High-Performance Review into the inadequacies of The Hundred which is clearly not preparing T20 cricketers. Suggest insights from swimming, taekwondo and WWF. £500 an hour sound ok?🙄
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BREAKING: ECB penalise 17 counties for not producing turning pitches. Somerset awarded 2021 title by default.
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There were four sides at Finals Day, all with much to admire. But in quick-buck times, where negativity abounds,
@WorcsCCC
win is a delight. A small county with a great academy that bounces back from failure, nurtures its young players and seeks excellence against the odds.
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The most open comments that have come out of
@YorkshireCCC
for a year and a context that is welcome because of that. Gary Ballance admits to racial slur against 'closest friend' Azeem Rafiq
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Nobody EVER says that chances provided by 92 league clubs undermine the England football team. This is egotism of a GREAT player who cares only about GREAT players and thinks like many GREAT players that all GREAT players are developed only by their own GREATNESS
#cricketelitism
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Much respect to
@juliacgc
. The "should women commentate on football?" rubbish we have heard recently reminds us that we still have our own problems in UK, but this reaction from a Brazilian sports journalist in Russia is totally justified
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Pitch debate on
@talkSPORT2
- whatever your view - is another important reminder that the sort of in-house commentary Channel 4 have had to buy from BCCI is essentially self-censorship and propaganda
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Even allowing for the ego-driven nature of Bazball this is utterly brain-dead batting and when it affects Root then madness is upon us. Australia are without Lyon on a flat pitch, Green can only bowl so much & they can only do this for an hour or so. Madness! Bring back Boycott😉
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England’s Test ailments aren’t “the fault of county cricket”but the fault of the MISUSE of county cricket: the muddle-headed, non-stop schedule, the endless tinkering, the complacency on diversity & development, the endless talking down. Cutting counties would deepen the failure.
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One of the great county cricket fixture mess-ups of all time. Lancashire play their Blast QF on a neutral ground at Chester-le-Street in front of a near-empty crowd because of a clash with the Ashes Test. It's utterly shameful
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Imagine, you are 16, the youngest player in the tournament, and you take a catch like this in the first over to dismiss Jason Roy.
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So all those of you who think
@leicsccc
are pointless what do you think now?
Rehan Ahmed is the youngest wrist spinner to take three wickets in an innings or at least five wickets in a match in the history of Test cricket. 🔥
#BBCCricket
#PAKvENG
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I took a month's holiday during the Hundred but couldn't relax until I had written this. The reaction will be mixed but at least I can now chill out. The counties must share the blame for English cricket's civil war.
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This is comfortably one of the best-ever from
@JonathanPieNews
. Nails hit on head again and again
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There are 8 private schoolboys in this England XI, some from overseas, even including Yorkshire who like to feel they spread the net wide. Well, well done the private sector for backing cricket. But the net is narrow. That's all you need to know.
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The revelation of Azeem Rafiq's anti-Jewish quote is a reminder that we live in a flawed society and insists the overriding need is education not blood lust: for
@yorkshireccc
to provide diversity training for all people, of all races & nationalities, who pass through their gates
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"This is an impossible situation" - Yorkshire's director of cricket Martyn Moxon demands an IPL cut-off date ahead of county crisis meeting as now David Willey joins Liam Plunkett in late dash to IPL
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Great entertainment in the
@VitalityBlast
at Taunton tonight. Ground glorious, crowd packed in and totally engaged. The essence of county cricket. A county utterly betrayed by The Hundred.
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As you're all talking about it, I thought I'd sign off for the winter with this.
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@laurenboebert
@taylorswift13
@realDonaldTrump
Stop pigeon holing and restricting a woman. She is entitled to behave as she wishes within the law.
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Discussions continue on The Hundred: This pretty much sums up the whole sorry show. "Root and Stokes will be allocated to a team for marketing purposes, but they won't be playing. The ECB made the point that this new audience won't necessarily know who Stokes and Root are anyway"
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Indian fans blaming Sri Lankans for protecting themselves against Delhi smog would be better campaigning for healthier outcomes for themselves and their children
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One day we'll all wake up to find BBC has been destroyed by political agitators of right and left and will say, why did we let that happen?
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Kevin Howells is one of cricket journalism's great unsung stars
And that’s it for the 2023 Season.
What a summer it’s been.
Huge thanks to all the commentary teams around England & Wales.
And special plaudits to the incomparable Kevin Howells for holding our County coverage together so brilliantly.
Thanks for listening!
#bbccricket
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Just given the milkman a traditional Yorkshire 'hello'. He is now crying in the street, clutching his head, and his mates are sledging me. What should I do?
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As for the usual Ashes blame game, if we were proud of our 18-team professional system and nurtured it, improved it and treasured it, instead of using it as a convenient scapegoat, we might actually improve matters.
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Working class fast bowlers
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I think renaming it from “cricket” might the best idea. Becomes more staggeringly banal by the day.
Exclusive: Wickets to be renamed 'outs' for The Hundred
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Hartlepool hereby wins the award for the most witless, mindlessly opinionated self destructive Question Time audience in history.
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OK, I have done a quick count up and, having read the opinions on Twitter on 100-ball cricket, there at least 30,000 more people the ECB will be suing in the morning.
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Fail to look after the roots and the plant will die. My annual moan about the arrogance that is betraying the professional game in England
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I tend to avoid the sort of people who criticise mood lifters like Micah Richards. Wish I'd learned that earlier in life.
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Well done
@SomersetCCC
for providing the turning surfaces on which Jack Leach and Dom Bess could learn their trade.
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So that's Slater, Duckett, Chappell and perhaps Clarke.
@TrentBridge
are free to seek excellence. But the ECB's failure to address the issue and introduce an adequate compensation or transfer system to bring county cricket into the real world is an abdication of responsibility
Nottinghamshire poised to sign Worcestershire's exciting young batsman Joe Clarke |
@NHoultCricket
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I've spent 40 years vaguely at odds with English cricket because of its lack of diversity. Now things are finally changing I'm no longer trusted because I'm a bald 64-year-old white middle-class bloke. From Yorkshire. No hope really.
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Using a Kookaburra in England in April and telling counties they should produce 90mph fast bowlers and world-class spinners is like telling a Championship football club on a wet Stoke night that they should play like Man City. There are only so many world-class players around.
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Just applied for ECB accreditation. With luck could be about to embark upon on my 40th English cricket season. FORTIETH?! Jeez, where did that all that time go then? Might be time to actually achieve something. 🙄
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Respect for high profile football figures -
@garylineker
@IanWright0
and many more who refuse to be cowed by far-right racists who twist the aims of Taking The Knee into some supposed supremacist anti-white cult. Shame on the Tory MPs who are stoking prejudice for their own ends.
If you boo
@England
players for taking the knee, you’re part of the reason why players are taking the knee.
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Will the Strauss Review bring the biggest rebellion of county members in cricket history? Can it succeed? Who is leading the opposition - and why? Me for
@ESPNcricinfo
on county cricket’s fight to stay relevant.
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Yorkshire thought they could win a treble. Instead they won nowt in a summer where they were beset by Azeem Rafiq's racism allegations. Not a happy read this one. Me for
@ESPNcricinfo
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Chair of
@KentCricket
Simon Philip hits the nail on the head. "The Strauss Review is a wide-ranging and comprehensive document. However, it should be remembered that it has been prepared through the prism of High Performance only." It's NOT just about England. ECB is blind to it
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England deserve their Ashes criticism but it rather overshadows the fact that calls to prepare flat county pitches to prepare for a dodgy Hobart day-nighter surface is somewhat illogical🤣🤣
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That's because about 90% have been vaccinated so the fact they are more does not mean vaccinations don't work. Don't expect
@Peston
to understand Simpson's Paradox but it is disgraceful that a basic duty to provide accurate information to millions has been ignored in this tweet.
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The signing of a new TV deal without a permanent ECB chief executive and chair in place, and without prior confirmation of the funds the counties will reeive from the Hundred, is a sleight of hand that a tin-pot dictatorship would be proud of.
Future of counties' £1.3million Hundred payments unclear despite announcement of broadcast deal |
@GeorgeDobell1
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Roger Pugh should have stayed neutral during an enquiry and should resign. Incidentally, I saw so many unacceptably bad umpiring decisions against players of Pakistan or Bangladesh origin over 30 years in league cricket it was beyond belief.
This written by the chair of Yorkshire League South is not particularly helpful when clubs' acceptance of BAME players is currently being questioned.
Personal issues should not cloud a league's approach to racism.
Does not describe the Azeem Rafiq I know.
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It’s a bit like Climate Change and the heatwave. You either take heed of the warnings and strive to address a problem or you remain driven by greed, call everyone a wimp and close your mind to it. Current levels are simply unsustainable.
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What is the police advice for protecting immigrants from right wing extremism post Brexit? Because already clear assurances are needed.
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Think Australia cricket has been heading for a fall for some time and some punishment appropriate. But the sort of governance that habitually turns a blind eye then suddenly tears into players for one incident as if mass murderers is not my idea of good, consistent leadership
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Call me a wet liberal, but if the official punishment for this offence is a 21 days ban then it should be a 21 days ban. If you believe in a ban for the whole summer with accompanying blandishments about team ethic then put it in the regs. That said, Alex Hales has been a fool
Breaking: ECB confirm Hales withdrawn from all England squads. His World Cup is over
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South Stand coin throwers are dragging down the reputation of a club that has seen its pride and standards restored by Marcelo Bielsa. They don’t share our values and
@LUFC
must make that totally clear and commit to banning anybody caught, whatever the supposed provocation.
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Outright lies, kindly fantasies, bias and endless embellishments. Neville Cardus would have never got away with it today but Duncan Hamilton’s biography still revers the cricket writer who changed sports writing. My review:
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@fineleg67
I am really excited about how you will spread your ageist and racist message to your 0 Followers
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In the tradition of Mike Marqusee comes this valuable study from
@stonedunc
. “The class and culture war at the heart of English cricket.” Book review for
@ESPNcricinfo
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I’m all for high-profile sports stars making strong social and political statements at times like this. Others will complain “stick to sport” because it disturbs them. But they are human beings with a chance to influence and you’ve got to try to shake the complacency.
Liverpool players took a knee around the centre circle at Anfield in a message of support following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
More:
#bbcfootball
#LFC
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Kane Williamson's dog
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Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams is a classic Reality Show, not a polemic, but it gently exposes the game’s deep-rooted problems. Final episode tonight. My review for
@ESPNcricinfo
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Why England's minority-ethnic cricket fans must take their chance and not reject county cricket, but spark its revival (and
@AzeemRafiq30
thinks so too...) me for
@ESPNcricinfo
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@AndyhHolt
: Bielsa today: “A humble opinion of mine: the tip of the iceberg is a response to the whole iceberg. If anything describes English football it’s League One and League Two. As a spectator of football in this country I feel they have the essence of English football.”
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I was against Rashid selection but I utterly reject the repellent nature of this headline. Afraid I have seen some SpoiltBrat behaviour elsewhete too!
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@Ianblackford_MP
@RishiSunak
@BorisJohnson
I have never voted Tory and never will but this is just a silly linguistic gotcha game which actually illustrates why many politicians are held in such disdain. Is this really the best you can do? I suppose it IS a Sunday morning.
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So the ECB take 20% from IPL for a county-contracted player and then don't pass it on to the county concerned? Well worth getting to the bottom of this important story as
@StewieCricket
adds his voice to county unease about IPL.
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Too many English cricket commentators only see the Jason Roy MLC issue through England eyes. There is also a professional club issue with Surrey where technically he remains contracted. Counties must continue to insist on the availability they are entitled to or simply end deals.
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@taslimanasreen
You are certainly disrespected within English cricket because you have attacked a valued member of a happy cricketing family based on your own sweeping political assumptions with no knowledge whatsoever of the dynamic within that group or of the individual's own philosophy.
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Somebody tell the clueless intern that dissing the rest of professional cricket in this country is best avoided …..
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Missing the county stuff so good to see
@SussexCCC
YouTube link is working and
@PhilSalt1
is batting.
@ECB_cricket
could provide a TV app linking to all matches if they are serious about helping Championship cricket.
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Nottinghamshire have completed the signing of fast bowlers Dillon Pennington and Josh Tongue from Worcestershire on three-year deals.
County cricket needs a transfer system
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Especially for those who still think nobody watches county cricket in England
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Stop pussy-footing around. If they don't honour the county contract then just sack them for breach of contract. If they want to play tinpot tournaments all year then they can make that their life. Apart from IPL the England summer must be sacrosanct.
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Quite respect the
@ICC
for asking the public for help in identifying this alleged match-fixer in the Al Jazeera documentary. Well worth a global RETWEET. Work together to eradicate match-fixing from cricket.
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What annoys me about the Hundred is not just the inane idea, it’s the fact that the top 150 players in the country would be taken from the forms of cricket valued by cricket fans to make it happen.
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If England really want to give fringe players opportunity they should stop ignoring
@joeclarke10
Eoin Morgan is keen to give fringe players a chance in England's T20Is against Pakistan, their last series before they have to submit a provisional squad for this year's
#T20WorldCup
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@Jamrat_
@miriamlaila
This has been achieved with so many right wing politicians and commentators constantly rubbishing the potential of renewables
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Cameron Bancroft has done his penance, done his yoga. Now a young man needs to relax and play the game he loves.
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I was run out like that at 14 by some old twat playing for Kirk Hammerton. Not that I’m still bitter…. 🙄
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THIS remains a huge issue for English cricket. While Yorkshire and so some extent the West Midlands have questions to answer re ethnicity, this often glosses over the fact that other parts of the country have made MINIMAL effort to solve the State v Private school imbalance
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Reckon I'll wake up to a Labour win by 500 in Batley and Spen thanks to tactical Lib Dem and Green voting, and the Hancock fallout. This may look silly in 8 hours.
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Why I think the ECB's unnecessary gamble on 100-ball cricket is terrible news for England's professional cricketers
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So if you all manage to stop the super rich from messing with your football just imagine if you stopped the super rich from messing with your life. These days that's not even a politically far-left thought.
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I think it might be the best Headingley Day 1 Test pitch I’ve ever seen. Certainly one of the best. Huge credit to
@YorkshireCCC
new head of grounds Richard Robinson
A big shoutout to this lot, the Headingley ground-staff, for producing what has played out as a spectacular Test pitch. After two pitches, which looked bereft of even basic seasoning, this one has both spice & a lot of flavour
#Ashes
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Eventually, probably long after I'm dead, the world will reassess and decide that what fast bowlers really need is lots more bowling at 80-90% intensity, less weight training and a more active lifestyle growing up.
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I'm desperate for England to win to reward an enlightened & talented squad. I want England to win because I'm English. I love much about England. But our base culture is yobbish, millions of us know that, it's inflamed by cheap political con-men and we are all fearing the worst.
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Historic moment in English cricket as hybrid pitch used in professional cricket for the first time - Glenn Maxwell seemed to like it
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