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🚨OUT NOW🚨 The 2025 STORY OF THE SEASON ebook is available to buy. Highlights from this year's Love Lane Liverpool Competition coverage, full results from all three 1st XI divisions and My 2025 - new and exclusive content looking back on the season. buymeacoffee.com/tomevanscricke…

Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s subscribed so far, genuinely humbling given I have not actually published anything worthwhile on there yet… the previews are on the way, want to drop them as late as possible to account for late changes.

Plenty done, plenty more still to do. Going to drop them as close as I can to the start of the season…

Bit of news... hope you all understand the reasons behind this, but always willing to hear feedback. merseysidecricket.com/2026/03/14/mer…

Pre-season interview frenzy begins in earnest this week... very keen to hear from clubs I don't normally cover, in particular those who are new to the Comp. Message me on here, on @TomEvansCricket or you know someone who has my number...

@AughtonCC Hi, who’s your 1st XI skipper this year please?

@WinstanleyPark Hi, who’s your 1st XI skipper this year please?

@2018Wirral Hi, who’s your 1st skipper this year please?

About to start sending my first pre-season interview requests… would help massively if I had up-to-date contact details for every club’s captain. Please spread the word, and drop me a line! Not just Comp clubs, the local Cheshire league sides too. Thank you!

Hope all the batters among you are seeing it like a beachball in the nets, and all the bowlers are working out the perfect ways to dismiss your own teammates.

Finally, if you've done anything interesting over the winter - travelling to watch the Ashes, playing overseas yourself, going to a training camp or tour, anything at all - let me know.

RIGHT YOU LOT. Time to fire up the pre-season preview machine. Big plans, and there's a few ways you can help me out... If you're a captain or club official, please fill in the pre-season survey which should have been sent to you all . The more clubs fill it in, the better.

Keep filling this in, guys, it all helps - either to give me something to work on or to boost my fragile ego.

As well as this, a pre-season survey should be arriving soon in club officials' inboxes... but to give me a head start, please let me know by DM, WhatsApp, carrier pigeon or whatever of any changes to captaincy or other big pieces of news at your clubs. Thank you!

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Thank you all for reading, listening, contributing, arguing, interacting in any way. It was a blast and I'm already making pre-season plans. All the best for 2026, everyone x

I also launched a podcast, alongside @JamieBowman77 - have a listen here if you haven't yet. merseysidecricket.com/category/the-l…

His stint didn't last long, but the madcap scramble to get IPL star Ashutosh Sharma to Wigan was one of the most surprising stories of the year, and one I enjoyed telling. merseysidecricket.com/2025/06/05/geo…