David Freedman #RejoinEU

I used to think all the Marxist doctrine my kids spout about the privileged ruling establishment using the levers of power to shaft the rest of us and entrench their selfish interests was a load of theoretical student onanism. These days, I'm not so sure.

@EshaAA33 19/20. Never used a boombox outside.

7 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

@SagarH62 Alvin Kallicharan. I met him twice. Nice man. Good player.

Less than 1% cricket fans can recognise this batter , If you're one of them. Can you guess the batter's name without the help of Google 👇

@Hobbo1964 @CricketopiaCom Marshall a fantastic bowler, yes. But actually a rather ugly front-on action.

@freedmanhp4 @CricketopiaCom A good list yes , but I’d add Marshall & Holding ! 😮‍💨💨

Of those options, Imran. But I’d have Lillee, Andy Roberts, Fred Trueman, John Snow and Simon Jones ahead of any of them.

@FrankBr05713205 Everyone now over the age of about 60, I would think. When I had to re-sit my maths O- Level in 1979 I had to take a special slide-rule paper in a room on my own because the standard exam had just moved to electronic calculators.

This was my calculator in college. On the plus side, it didn't need any batteries. Anybody else ever use one?

@femalebodybuil6 A plane, a pretty much the same as this one. A Stanley: Bailey No. 4. This belonged to my wife’s grandfather so probably made about 100 years ago. I used it on a wooden door a few weeks ago.

People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?

@ElectionMapsUK @Moreincommon_ Optimistic that this Reform fall is true, but I’d be sceptical until it’s corroborated by other polls. I think what’s often underestimated is the extent to which Farage’s boy-crush on Trump is harming Reform.

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (-5) CON: 22% (+3) LAB: 21% (+1) GRN: 13% (+1) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @Moreincommon_, 10-13 Apr. Changes w/ 2-7 Apr.

@major_crawley @izzywestbury Yes, of course. You’re right. I had been reading TB (not CB!) Macaulay for a different reason and he was in my mind. He was, I think (?) GM Trevelyan’s uncle or similar.

@freedmanhp4 @izzywestbury Most attributions are to GM Trevelyan in his English Social History.

Why did the French readily embrace rugby but not cricket? We missed an opportunity there - imagine a Bordeaux or two at lunch, world class cuisine, a cheese board for the ages, pastries at tea & an attitude towards everything that it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. 🧀🍷🥐

@izzywestbury There was a lovely cricket club in the Forêt de Meudon when I lived in Paris in the 1980s. Played there a couple of times. Both “home” and visiting teams were mainly from mainstream cricket-playing lands though. I wonder if it’s still there.

@major_crawley @izzywestbury CB Macaulay

@izzywestbury Timing, perhaps? "If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt"

@WG_RumblePants I am at Lord’s and Brett D’Olivera has just come in to bat. I am reminded of your question from yesterday about 70s players who would’ve been snapped up by the franchises. His grandfather would’ve been high on the list, surely?

Happy Round 2 of the County Championship!!! Can Essex and Sussex capitalise on their wins earlier in the week? There’s a whole pack of teams hunting for their first win of the season. Who will leap ahead? If you’re heading to the ground this weekend, I hope you have a fantastic time.

@WG_RumblePants Gordon Greenidge and Richard Hadlee seem the most obvious.

I’ve been trying to think of 80s and 90s cricketers who missed out on the franchise revolution, but who may have been big money players (if they’d had the chance). So far I’ve got: Sir Viv Richards Sir Curtly Ambrose Courtney Walsh Sir Ian Botham Darren Gough Graham Gooch Robin Smith Kapil Dev Anil Kumble Mohammad Azharuddin Allan Donald Lance Klusener Javed Miandad Saeed Anwar Imran Khan Wasim Akram Waqar Younis Who have I missed out?

@Thebestfigen I came here to point out that it’s a peg bag, and discovered that Americans call pegs “clothes pins”.

I do not know, I'm seeing this for the first time. What is that?

@dthroat @WG_RumblePants Simon Jones bowled with an almost identical action to John Snow’s. Had he stayed fit he would certainly have had as good a record. Snow was a hero, being the spearhead of Illingworth’s team that first got me hooked on the game.

@WG_RumblePants The only English Opening Bowler of late 60/early 70's if you compare his action to Higgs, Lever, Shuttleworth,Arnold,Hendrick, Ward and even Willis who seems that it doesn't look anachronistic when compared to what happened after that period with the Aussie/Windies fast bowlers.

John Snow seems to be England’s great forgotten strike bowler. He played 49 Tests between 1965 and 1976, taking 202 wickets at an average of 26.66 and economy rate of 2.68. In his 4 series against Australia, Snow was the leading England wicket-taker 3 times, and at home in 1968, he was 2nd. EW Swanton wrote that he “had not seen an Englishman bowl either faster or better than Snow at Sydney since Tyson”. Perhaps his career and achievements deserve a bit more recognition?

@AliSharifBiz @Currentreport1 A NATO ally was not attacked so your point is moot. Unlike in 1982 when the territory of the UK was invaded and the US did nothing.

BREAKING: UK has officially rejected Trump's request and will not send warships to the Strait of Hormuz.

I can’t say that #T20 is a version of the game that interests me very much, but it would require a heart of stone not to have enjoyed the #Zimbabwe victory over #Australia just now. #T20WC. #ZIMvAUS

@DattSharad79838 @WG_RumblePants Not Sobers. His last tour of England was 1973.

@WG_RumblePants Viv the greatest. Unforgettable WI team that season. Holding Marshal Sobers rRchards dynamite batting and bowling . I think head-guards for batsman became mandatory after them. Legends indeed

The gods once walked among us.

This is always worth repeating and - even if the frog-alike grifter divests himself of some of these sinecures - it will always be relevant that he ever believed it was acceptable given his previous public pronouncements. #Farage bsky.app/profile/ledbyd…

@93Yorker Tendulkar, Root, Lara

Pick one batsmen from each row

@washghost1 Germany and, in my experience, pretty much everywhere else.