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@rafnicholson.bsky.social @crickether.com The ECB have posted a new article talking about how great umpiring women's cricket is. www.ecb.co.uk/news/4294601... Are umpires in professional women's cricket (mostly women) still being paid significantly less than those in men's cricket (all men)?

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It feels like they've taken 4-5 minutes between overs here through taking the new ball, warm ups and leisurely changing the field. There's absolutely no urgency at all...

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A lot of cricket clubs could use some guidance with regards to their social media, but maybe the people who were committing blasphemy against the Pope on X/Twitter three months ago aren't the best people to be telling everyone about "the right tone of voice".

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@crickether.com I didn't know Lauren Filer was a choreographer...

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For the first time in six years, Wisden have named an English woman as a Cricketer Of The Year. Six years...

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The Kent v Middlesex County Championship game has both teams playing their greatest hits. First, Middlesex have collapsed in the first innings and were all out for 222 just after Tea. Then Zak Crawley misses the ball completely, and is out LBW for a duck.

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It was a bold choice to have the writer and director of the new Naked Gun film be people who had never watched the original, instead presumably relying on the Wikipedia page.

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If you are an organisation which has admitted that it was institutionally racist and made promises to rectify that through measures such as the Rooney Rule (interviewing Black or Asian candidates for every coaching job), then it seems bad to start skipping it a few years later.

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Seven Things We Learned From Clare Connor and Charlotte Edwards At Lord’s On Wednesday

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