Martin
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Martin
@keeps71
Translation, cricket and eustachian tube dysfunction.
เข้าร่วม Eylül 2009
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@WG_RumblePants I’m sure these guys were all very talented - but it does look somewhat ‘gentle’! 😊
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Here’s a nostalgic look back at preparations for the 1946 cricket season.
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@nickgoff79 That's very funny - I'd have creased up if I'd heard that while keeping.
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Exact replica almost won me a punch in the face in the Uni (2nd XI) team. Opening with a total twat, he left 1st ball of match & his off stump went flying. From the non-strikers, I’ve called ‘WAIT. NO!’
Well, the twat completely lost the plot didn’t he. Fielders laughed though.
Durham Cricket@DurhamCricket
First ball of pre-season... 😮💨 #ForTheNorth
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@joni_askola @Kasparov63 Germany’s socialists appear to have a misplaced sense of loyalty to Russia that they acquired from propaganda in formative years in the GDR. Have seen it most in friends & colleagues aged 40+ either playing down Russian actions or complaining about cost of supporting Ukraine.
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The European far right and far left are just two sides of the same Russian coin.
Whether they shout about sovereignty or pacifism, the result is always the same:
They end up repeating Kremlin talking points and trying to dismantle the alliances that keep us safe from Moscow
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@StickToCricket What an incredible comment from Cook, Liam’s comments should be dismissed because he has a grievance??? So, because he was dropped from the side he makes stuff up? Weird attitude to have.
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“I keep hearing how great the set up is!”
Have England made the right decision to stick with their management team? 👀
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@WG_RumblePants @chuckadolphy Trott I like… did a good job with AFG - a very difficult team to man-manage and with a language barrier. Top candidate imo.
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“I believe we have a group of players that can really take English Cricket forward.”
England Men’s MD, Rob Key, has a message for all England fans 🗣
Click below for the full interview 🎥
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‘Leopards don’t change their spots'
~ Geoffrey Boycott
He wrote in his article for The Telegraph
“It is ludicrous nobody has lost their job after shameful Ashes.
For the ECB to clear Rob Key & McCullum without guarantees that things will change is an insult to England cricket fans.”
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England Managing Director Rob Key responds to the suggestion that there may be a 'drinking culture' within the team ❌
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Hiring companies - your cycle to work scheme is no more than a greenwashing tax dodge unless you actually offer secure bike lockups and decent showering and changing areas too.
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How did we all get duped into the lie of "comfy old jeans"? Jeans are not comfortable and they never have been.
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@NoContextCounty LBW. Ridiculous form of dismissal. Only there to stop batters deliberately ‘padding’ the ball away. But all this ‘clipping the bail’ & ‘umpire’s call’ nonsense is way over the top. But unfortunately there’s no alternative. LBW must stay. Sadly.
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If you had to remove one mode of dismissal from cricket which would you pick?
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@bushontheradio Sadly moved into slipper zone a few years back. It’s a sign of age. But I’ve learned to accept my fate. And my feet aren’t cold any more.
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@englandcricket Only one he turned in ten years! Happy Birthday Gilo - loved the 05 Ashes 🏏😊
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Happy Birthday, Ashley Giles! 🎈🎉
Throwback to this absolute beauty from the ’05 Ashes 😮💨
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@WG_RumblePants Used to be our arch rivals - the only artificial strip on the Island back in the day. It was fast and they had the fastest bowler on the Island too: Jeff Hose (father of Worcs batter Adam Hose). The slope was odd because the ball would often plug, robbing you of a boundary.
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Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Ventnor CC on the Isle of Wight
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@DarrenMordecai @nimishdubey @alawyerwrites @fredfertang @CraigNelsy @tds122 @WG_RumblePants @Koushik_laribee @indranil9 @ushrit2020 @TheGrou75062162 @VatsMusings I was gonna say played on! It’s the only way really…
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@nimishdubey @alawyerwrites @fredfertang @CraigNelsy @tds122 @WG_RumblePants @Koushik_laribee @indranil9 @ushrit2020 @TheGrou75062162 @VatsMusings WEST INDIES v ENGLAND
2nd TEST MATCH
DAY 3
TRINIDAD
FEBRUARY 7 1998
Watch from 14:15....
youtube.com/watch?v=VSBKoD…
YouTube
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Some photographs you just cannot understand.
I saw this in the newspapers and for the life of me could not fathom how a batsman as technically accomplished as Mike Atherton got clean bowled, middle stump, while attempting what seems to be a hook against Courtney Walsh.
Port of Spain 1998.
#cricket #England #WestIndies
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@JMPSimor @NJ_Timothy I cannot believe that utter fuckwits like him were anywhere near the levers of power. It beggars belief. All you learn about meritocracies goes out the window now that these gimps can reveal their true minuscule intellects to us via social media.
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@NJ_Timothy What are you talking about? Totally incoherent.
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The wilful misunderstanding in this post says everything about the people behind the “Islamophobia” definition.
The point is not that Sikhs have danced on Trafalgar Square.
Or that the Passion Play has been hosted there.
Neither is the point that Muslims gathered on Trafalgar Square.
The point is that mass ritual prayer in public - in this case next to a church - is an act of domination.
So is the public call of the Adhan, which explicitly denies other religions including Christianity.
That is the difference.
And yet neither Dominic - nor the Labour MPs who were instructed by No10 to attack me last night - will engage with the substance.
Instead he claims he knows my personal views when we haven’t talked, and incorrectly describes me as a spokesman for the Free Speech Union.
People like Dominic can’t work out why the ideological world they built is falling apart. They never pause to wonder if perhaps they might have got things very badly wrong.
Dominic Grieve@dominicgrieve_
This is a very odd post from a Conservative who says he believes in freedom of expression under law and is a principal spokesman of the Free Speech Union. I appreciate that he does not like Islam and there is no reason why he should. As a Christian it is not my faith. But the use of Trafalgar Square ( with permission) for religious events Christian and other goes back a long way. There have been prayers and hymns, chants and religious events performed there in the past. If such an event 'shouldn't happen again' it raises the question of whether this is to apply to all religious events or just to Muslim ones. If to all, then we are moving like France to imposing secularism as a norm and it is contrary to our national tradition and does not seem to have helped develop social cohesion there.If just to Muslims then it is an act of discrimination against them without any lawful basis. To achieve it you would have to enact discriminatory legislation targeted at Muslims. Is this what Nick Timothy is advocating ?
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