@burge1987 @DutchBKate Time will tell. I don't think you can know until you give them a run.
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Robert
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@Bobjacket @DutchBKate I see a lot of similarities between the two - a lack of willingness to adapt their game to conditions, or to the challenge different bowlers pose. It’s just attack and don’t mind too much if it doesn’t come off. Test cricket won’t let you get away with that for too long
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@burge1987 @DutchBKate Agree. That was a terrific innings - after that, he had to be given a run of games and its the same for Bethell I think 🙂
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@Bobjacket @DutchBKate Zak Crawley batted wonderfully when he made his double century that time, but that didn’t mean that he could do it consistently or was the right person for the job.
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@Moody_Chops @LeadingEdgePod it would go to the court of human rights 😅
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@Bobjacket @LeadingEdgePod Was checking out his Wiki entry. Last man to bowl 10,000 balls in a season. Imagine modern players doing that..
Grafton, England 🇬🇧 English
Most wickets in County Championship history 🏏
These records belong to a completely different cricketing world.
AP “Tich” Freeman leads the way with 3,151 wickets and an unbelievable 328 five-wicket hauls. A Kent leg-spinner and one of the greatest wicket-taking machines in cricket history, he also holds the wider first-class record for most five-wicket hauls.
Wilfred Rhodes is next: 3,119 wickets at 15.72. A Yorkshire icon, England great, and one of cricket’s ultimate all-round careers - starting as a brilliant left-arm spinner and later becoming a serious opening batter too.
Charlie Parker took 3,022 wickets, mostly for Gloucestershire. A slow left-armer with huge workload and vicious spin, he remains one of first-class cricket’s all-time leading wicket-takers.
Then you’ve got Tom Goddard, another Gloucestershire giant, and Derek Shackleton, Hampshire’s relentless seam metronome, who took 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons.
Modern bowlers simply don’t live in this statistical universe.
#CountyCricket #Cricket #CountyChampionship
Stats by redballcricketstats.com
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@jayrad198900 @surreycricket I got my ruler out😅 I reckon its a leg stump shaver
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Matt Fisher gets the big wicket of Joe Root!! 📈
Fisher has bowled wonderfully on his return to Headingley! 🤝
Yorkshire 105/3.
🤎 | #CountyChampionship
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@benjonescricket @CricViz This article could have been written in 9 words: McCullum and Stokes want batsman who can score quickly
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In the last two years, Dom Sibley has the best batting record in CC. By more metrics than anyone, he's top of the tree. Yet nobody talks about him.
Had a look on the @CricViz Substack about why that is, about selection, and the old battle: data v eyes.
cricvizanalyst.substack.com/p/dom-sibley-a…
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@JohnAdamsInUK @owenjonesjourno "generational talent" is the worst sporting cliche going
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@owenjonesjourno My bug bear is the use of the word talent to describe a fellow MP.
"Once in a generation talent"
"He's very talented"
🤢😅😞
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Can we please ban "we need our best players on the pitch"
It is driving me insane.
Please tell me I'm not alone.
It has to stop. Seriously. I hate it.
Lucy McDaid@LucyJMcDaid
BREAKING: Wes Streeting says Andy Burnham should be allowed to run in the Makerfield by-election The now former Health Sec - who quit yesterday - says 'we need our best players on the pitch' and 'there is no doubt that Andy Burnham is one of them'
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@SteveSladl @PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 Think he got one in England - he deserves that to count for sure 🙂
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@Bobjacket @PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 The greatest player never to score an away test hundred!
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Now that the pressure is off him a bit, I genuinely hope Zak Crawley can carve out a fulfilling and successful career for himself at Kent.
I don’t think anyone wanted him to fail, but it was certainly high time for England to get him out of the firing line given his poor run of scores.
Hopefully the vast majority of fans now wish him well.
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@SteveSladl @PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 Been a bit generous there to Trav, Steve! Terrific player and bloke, but averages 30 outside of Australia
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@PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @Bobjacket @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 Travis Head is the best batsman in the world- Zak did better than the other two openers Duckett and Weatherald.
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@PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 My own feeling is that they need to look elsewhere. I don't think Pope has it mentally.
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@bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @Bobjacket @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 I don't think Pope is completely out of the reckoning..Yes Bethell is locked in at 3 but any injuries befalling him imo would see Pope recalled
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@PaulAtk52540619 @bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants @fh_stephen @realomerlatif @SarahShah_85 Yes he's had a long career; was picked on potential, and just didn't get any better.
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@bobsmailes @WG_RumblePants The Australia innings was of the highest order and the way Green was despatched took my breath away. Sadly Crawley had far too many failures and identical dismissals..I wish him well but it will be a long road back
@fh_stephen
@Bobjacket
@realomerlatif
@SarahShah_85
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@bagga_buntyy1 lol kumble having a lot of fun running between the wickets😅
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@IsraelMFA Good luck with this, but it would be more effective to instruct the Mossad to hack into their IT systems, subscription platform, etc. Knocking these scum offline for a day or two would send a strong message.
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Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
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@AMP86793444 @Marcus60s70s80s Not sure if there has been a more recent one but Cook, Trescothick and Strauss were the first three in the order v Sri Lanka in 2006.
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With Emilio Gay set to open innings against NZ, there will be two left handed batsmen opening for England. And also if Bethell is the number 3, England will have top 3 that are left handed.
When as the last time this happened in England cricket?
@cricketslave
@Marcus60s70s80s
@WG_RumblePants
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@allywilson1987 @Calmacleod @andrewslaven7 seems dubious to award a pen. The major impact has to be forehead on ball - that's why the ball travelled so far. Maybe the hand also brushes the ball, but I don't think there's a conclusive picture
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@Calmacleod @andrewslaven7 His hand is literally above his head
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For me. It's a handball. The excuse of trajectory is rubbish. Unnatural position & hits the hand.
McInness quotes also calling this "disgusting decision" is also a full Kevin Keegan moment. The pressure has finally popped. Don't be dragged into decisions out of your control.
Sky Sports Scotland@ScotlandSky
🟢 Here's the incident that resulted in Celtic's winning penalty at Fir Park, following a VAR check! Motherwell vs Celtic & Hearts vs Falkirk reaction | Sky Sports Football now 📺
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@GrandAuldTeam_ @scottmufc1979 if its made contact with his hand it can only be a very minor touch. Its not possible to see that on these pictures. His hand is obscured by the ball when it hits is head
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@scottmufc1979 A forgot of it hits his hand the ball falls vertically down 🤥
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Put this to bed before it grows arms and legs. There is no world where this isn’t handball
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@gerrybhoy007 @JeffStelling @richie26188 @johnmerro1 I agree it is if he's touched it. Seems dubious to claim it though from the pictures Ive seen.
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@Bobjacket @JeffStelling @richie26188 @johnmerro1 And that's a penalty..his hand is in an unnatural position..hand on his head..not by his side
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Seriously that is never a handball at Fir Park. The boy headed it 20 yards. The ref takes one look after VAR calls him over. Embarrassing for Scottish football.
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@gerrybhoy007 @JeffStelling @richie26188 @johnmerro1 possibly the ball brushes his hand, but its mostly off his head or it wouldn't have gone so far.
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@JeffStelling @richie26188 @johnmerro1 He clearly, clearly..touches the ball with his hand before it hits his head !
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Leeds summer 2026:
Out:
🇧🇬 Gruev - £40m
🇫🇷 Meslier - £30m
🇧🇪 Bornauw - £30m
🏴 Harrison - £50m
🇧🇪 Ramazani - £60m
🇳🇱 Piroe - £100m
🏴 Byram - Free
Total: £310m
Nuel@LfcNuel
Liverpool Summer 2026 Out: 🏴 Joe Gomez - £40m 🇮🇹 Federico Chiesa - £70m 🇳🇱 Jeremie Frimpong - £60m 🇳🇱 Cody Gakpo - £90m 🇫🇷 Konate - £60m 🇦🇷 Mac Allister - £100m 🇧🇷 Alisson- £50m 🏴 Andrew Robertson - Free 🇪🇬 Mo Salah - Free Total: £470m In: 🇮🇹 Alessandro Bastoni [CB] - £80m 🏴 Lewis Hall [LB] - £50m 🏴 Tino Livramento [RB] - £50m 🏴 Adam Wharton [DM/CM] - £60m 🇵🇹 Joao Neves [DM] - £100m 🇬🇪 Kvaraskhelia [LW] - £120m 🇫🇷 Micheal Olise [RW] - £130m 🇨🇮 Yan Diamonde [RW] - £60m Total: £650m Net spend: £150m After that Liverpool would be set for years and still have the strongest squad. SQUAD GK - Mamardarshvli, Woodman CB - Van Dijk, Bastoni, Leoni, Jacquet LB - Kerkez, Lewis Hall RB - Bradley, Livramento DM - Joao Neves, Gravenberch, Bajcetic CM - Curtis Jones, Adam Wharton, Nyoni AM - Wirtz, Szoboszlai LW - Kvaraskhelia, Rio Ngumoha RW - Olise, Diamonde CF - Isak, Ekitike Coach - Arne Slot
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