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Cricket tragic, love history, cats and Pink Floyd. Citizen of the world, born and raised in the Netherlands as a British subject, now living and working in the south of Peru.
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When will Brandon King make his test match debut? Full episode on the Caribbean Cricket Podcast YouTube channel

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

What a disgusting human being Donald Trump is.

submitted 15 hours ago • 111 comments

It's patronising for media men to suggest "people back home" will enjoy Afghan success today. That win changes nothing for women who were studying at uni, had jobs, and ambitions and now have nothing. Gender apartheid in Afghanistan is abhorrent. The ICC should do something!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"The ECB suits and their obsession with the terrible format that is the Hundred, to the detriment of all other domestic cricket, has ruined English cricket. Which is a particular shame as it’s not that long ago England were world champions in two formats." evil_bilbo BBC Sport Comment #AFGvENG

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How to future-proof the T20 Blast medium.com/@kieranholly...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting perspective looking beyond the traditional 1st Class counties in the men’s game.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Have a timeline cleanse

submitted 15 days ago • 205 comments

A reminder that @ACScricket auction from Brian Croudy’s collection closes at 10.00pm GMT on Monday 17th February. Still plenty of time to participate. Go to archive.acscricket.com/auction/auction_page_all.html - there are a lot of fascinating things on offer. #cricketcounts

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

As this little community grows (yay for 200!), I want to start paying it some more attention. Apologies for my infrequent posting - paying attention to all the socials is hard! - but this is a very important piece that @valkeriebaynes.bsky.social and I worked on www.espncricinfo.com/story/powerp...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

#RIP David Lynch. What a legacy.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve just watched Australia beat India to win the series 3-1 and regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. But cricket needs to get a grip and kick Afghanistan out of the world game. If the ICC do nothing and allow the status quo to continue, it’s a victory for the Taliban’s female subjugation!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

England will not boycott Afghanistan match in Champions Trophy www.thetimes.com/article/a22c...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

This shouldn’t even be a debate, should it? Yet when I wrote this piece calling for a boycott of ICC 18 months ago, it was a battle to get it published. Several prominent cricket writers publicly disagreed with my stance.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

It's a New Year's Day tradition in Iceland to go sea swimming. -14 C this morning.

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

As we all ponder what an enigma Zak Crawley is and how low his average is, what about Mitch Marsh? 45 test, averaging less than 30 and let's be fair his bowling isn't burning down any houses.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

First Virat runs into someone. Then he runs someone out. Are we sure he doesn’t think he’s doing the Hokey Cokey?

submitted 64 days ago • 6 comments

The first side from England to tour Australia pictured on the eve of their departure from Liverpool in October 1861. Led by HH Stephenson, they arrived in Australia on December 24th and stayed for three months

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

🏏 New County #Cricket newsletter. Please share and enjoy 🟠 ECB spends on you-know-what, cuts money elsewhere 🔴 Spinning stories and creating doubt 🟣 My meetings set for New Year 🟢 Worcs, Notts, Surrey signings 🔵 30m Champ stream views in 2024

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

GREAT! Can someone now explain to him how tariffs work?

submitted 67 days ago • 13 comments

After the NZ series and what we/England may have learned, do you think England are now more or less likely to beat India and Australia? Do you back England to win those series based on the players they now have and the way they play?

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

This is where I am with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 are are a good team on a good track and have a 2 world class batters and some decent fast bowlers But they don’t seem to know how to adapt Bazball has served us well, but to beat the best, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿’s top 5/6 need to stop throwing their wickets away

submitted 73 days ago • 15 comments

Big fan of Harry Brook celebrating his number one ranking with a golden duck. That’ll show those stupid rankings, Harry #NZvENG 🏏

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments