1/ For over a decade, I've been chasing the story of Iggy Fernandes, the greatest guitarist from Karachi you'd never heard of. He played left-handed, in the 70s & 80s, died tragically at 27 and came with that rockstar name: How can you not get obsessed? .

RT @BoothCricket: Wisden in the New York Times - natural bedfellows, I always thought

Binge-watching the Anderson-Tendulkar series (Pataudi Trophy still sounds better IMO).

RT @ESPNcricinfo: England vs India was a series so packed with events and excitement that you'll struggle to remember more than a handful l….

A masterpiece of an opening on Tongue, from @mroller98 .

Change is the only constant etc etc. Yet another overhaul of Pakistan’s domestic cricket.

Pant could play purely as a stump mic commentator - no batting or even keeping - and he’d still be the most entertaining player in all of cricket.

There was so much drift on that Washington Sundar delivery to Stokes that calling it ‘drift’ is too gentle and passive. That’s something far more menacing and active.

Azhar Mahmood becomes the 7th man to take over as Pakistan's Test head coach since 2021, and another interim appointment. Not sure how it helps him or the side to be an interim appointment.

Rishabh Pant averages 44.44 after 44 Tests (if he'd played 122 more balls, he'd have faced 4444 balls in his Test career).

An SL-Bang Test series has become a requiem of sorts in the hands of @afidelf, from the margins of Test cricket.

RT @theoldbatsman: The lovely people at @ClassicRockMag have put this up.

Adam Lyth, unlucky to fall to historically and statistically the least likely mode of dismissal in cricket: c (Ind) wk b (Pak) bowler

Full story on Oman Cricket finally agreeing to pay its players (now former players) prize money from the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Some good news for Oman’s cricketers from the 2024 T20 World Cup (now former cricketers)

All Test @afidelf has been paying glorious tribute to Angelo Mathews but this one, on his last day, brings the real to the feels. Bye Angie.

Nobody does feels-ical and tactical as well as Nasser.

Ollie Pope has it for now and here's a little history of the England No. 3 from @Vitu_E. Excellent read.

Currently impossible for Nepal to have a boring game of cricket

Still possible for cricket scorecards to throw up something new

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