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Then the waffle about no one with potential above the age of Ahmed's 17 years. Well spin bowling take tremendous courage. Spinners get that courage beaten out of them before they reach their twenties. Leach eg. turned it before a coach reported him for 💪 and lost his venom

I suppose the reply will be, "but the the opponents's spinners will bowl us out". Ah catch 22. 2/n

Scyld Berry writes in The Telegraph that Shoaib Bashir took his haul to 49 wickets in 15 Tests, "but the limitations are becoming ever more apparent. He can only take wickets on "turners". Well give him turners. 1/n

@valderee53 @TorstenBell In part yes. Not sure they were strictly our own efforts. There was a lot of demand management, active government, financed by asset sales. Thatcher was a Keynesian.

@downatthirdman @TorstenBell 😁 Maybe, but 77-79 were grim with pay freezes and strike after strike. And in the 80s I could still improve my earnings from my own efforts regardless of politicians. Had my fill of them all. Feel sorry for anyone who has started earning in the last 10 years.

Staggering but true: in 2024, the typical male worker was earning 7 per cent less than their predecessor twenty years earlier, back in 2004 theguardian.com/business/2025/…

@valderee53 @TorstenBell Think you have the second 9 and the 7 inverted.

@TorstenBell Biggest dips in relative income I had were between 1999 and 2007. I’m trying to recall who was in power then. Maybe you can advise? In summary, governments have been rubbish since 1997 and still are.

@malleegirl57 @MailOnline Why does Trump seem to hate Ukraine's President? Trump needs Putin to appear strong so that Europe and Ukraine buys Trump's protection (gangster racket). Zelensky has shown how weak Russia really is.

Why does Trump seem to hate Ukraine's president? mol.im/a/14417039 via @MailOnline

In the historical //s of Emperors, Colonials, Revolutionaries and Loyalists, Putin = George3, Zelensky = Roger Sherman and Trump = William Franklin.

Enough is already Enough

@bhogle @amol_desai Best results for cricket come when the data is open to all.

@amol_desai I had written a last paragraph that we should have Indian cricket analytics companies that 'do' and surpass a CricViz, but I just didn't have reliable background information. If BCCI pays Hawk-Eye does it exclusively own the data?

A new, and long, ramble on how cricket analytics is getting smarter, more enjoyable and more valuable. bademian.wpcomstaging.com/2025/01/26/big…

@the_kk I was just going along with your jest, but clumsily.

@downatthirdman Nothing I say about tennis should be taken seriously or engaged with.

People are still playing tennis? Why?

@fredfertang @SeanEhlers @CricketWebNet The 💯 has introduced many to the Pav @ Lord's. Last yr I came across at party of young men enjoying the mustaches of the 1909 Australians in a team photograph. None of them had heard of Trumper. I hope after our brief chat they could remember to look him up the following day.

For those who read my review @SeanEhlers has taken a look at this delightful little book on the subject of what might one day be termed 'Trumperana' @CricketWebNet cricketweb.net/books/treasure…

@kamilkazani As Keynes "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."

13. Whether in China or in America, whether in Russia or in Iran, top decision makers are products of long gone cultures that stopped reproducing long ago. Wherever you live, you are likely to be governed by the living fossils, and their fossil memes

1. This book (“What is to be done?”) has been wildly, influential in late 19-20th century Russia. It was a Gospel of the Russian revolutionary left. 2. Chinese Communists succeeded the tradition of the Russian revolutionary left, or at the very least were strongly affected by it.

I’m beginning to understand why translations of my philosophy books are bestsellers in Turkey

So true. Cricket is 95% physics and bio mechanics.

@cableknitjumper @TheCricketerMag @GeorgeDobell1 Thank you.

@downatthirdman @TheCricketerMag @GeorgeDobell1 It's in the article. The era in which county and England cricket mattered.

"This year that sense of despondency is clinging a bit more persistently. Why? Well, maybe because it doesn't just feel like the end of a season. It feels like the end of an era." | ✍️@GeorgeDobell1 thecricketer.com/Topics/premium…

Danger Man

I am asked to celebrate my fourteen years accessing Twitter but X on the other hand wishes to close my account. #MyXAnniversary

@BishOnTheRockx V interesting interview. Pope seen as owing much to Bell. But hard to see that influence now. Perhaps it is all the tinkering. In the late 1960s, Grey Nicks brought out a bat called a Super Short. FWIW had a great run when accidentally picking up a Harrow thinking this feels 👍

Listen to what he says here. He uses a shorter length of the blade & a normal length of bat handle (which he doesn't use to its full length) because it feels lighter for him. Tweaks done in technique to fight other battles costed him big time against this ripper of a yorker END/

[THREAD] This is one of the best yorkers bowled in test cricket in recent times. This is Bumrah's ripping yorker that boomeranged in and knocked Ollie Pope out in the Vizag test. A thread on how Ollie Pope couldn't cope with it. 📸: Philip Brown 1/