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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 7h

What's Robert Croft been up to? The answer may surprise you.

cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 11h

I remember when he was the comms guy and both him and Broad looked like they were doing their A-levels. (This is a fantastic hire/promotion.)

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Posted something on FB asking men in particular to say something about what we need to do re: rape and sexual assault culture. Been up for a day. Has one (1) comment from a man, and it gets into a time he says he was falsely accused. I'm fucking sick of this. Dudes, stop being worthless assholes.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Folks said not to order this eyeball bleach but I knew it would come in handy.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mustn't complain etc., but The Weather owes us one next year.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No she’s not.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Sips cocktail, raises eyebrow* The Beatles, eh? Can I just shock you and say: pedestrian. Moderately interesting pop at best.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(I love that @jonmarthaler.com liked my Van Morrison in Pizza Express nonsense. There are few places on this planet where Van Morrison has stayed away from Pizza Express more than Minnesota. And yet still, somehow, they believe.)

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking at the County Championship table going into the final matches, I am reminded of the Van Morrison at Pizza Express Theory, which I have never explained on this platform. (I got into it on the old one back when it was good.) Friends, this is prime VMaPET territory.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can we convince the police they're all SOAS students demanding trans rights so they kettle the shit out of them or

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is lowkey why Virginia is never getting their dumb flag back.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The guys from The Rest is History were on US radio recently chortling about how the UK could never do something like Trump because those fash strongman tendencies don't exist in the UK.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FIU is currently in the middle of getting its backside handed to it in court over a genuinely moronic violation of students' free speech rights at an anti-ICE protest. It's got too-stupid-to-be-effectively-evil vibes that Liz will *love*.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Istanbul: perhaps a dance-off will stop this Rome-Chicago knife fight.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come on, Canada. Push for Test status or nothing.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People are asking questions about my "I am not complicit" t-shirt that are clearly answered by my "I am not complicit" t-shirt.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Only Cricket Fan In the Office, Vol. 127: An important contact at my new job goes by JC. Briefing me on him, a colleague told me it stands for Juan Carlos, "like the king of Spain." Let me tell you, when you follow that up in the Miami suburbs with an Ashley Giles joke, it does not hit big.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Listen people. The end of this Champo season is incredible. If there was ever a time to go full evangelical to our friends who don't care about county cricket or cricket in general, this is it. This is what us sad online cricket nerds have trained for.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Heathrow sitting there like Tony Montana with the blow mountain.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Imagine paying $357m and the biggest thing you've got to show for it is that you can help make the Marlins almost as irrelevant as you are.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every time I think the mainstream media in America can't get any worse, their counterparts in the UK pop up to remind me, oh, yes it can. It's like an entire ecosystem run by the Mean Girls clique

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thing is, county cricket, you could just skip the whole light-jogging-in-shorts-for-70-minutes warmup when there's been a delayed start. Limbering up the ol' hammies is something you can do indoors, it really is.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well, this is gross. I remember when "controversial Hampshire overseas signing" just meant Warne getting lots of time in England before an Ashes series.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Earlier this month, a group paid almost $10 billion for the NFL team in one of the cities US conservatives like to say is an ungovernable hellscape because of progressives.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know it's an old, dull complaint, but 13 points for Notts and 10 for Warks doesn't strike me as an accurate reflection of what happened in the match.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me normally: publish the ICE guys' addresses, let them live in fear. Me today: GET CORDEN TOO, PUT THE FUCKERS ON THE SAME PLANE.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yeah, but does his face fit? Nige seems like Our Sort of Man. (ECB, call me, I've got this selector thing figured out.)

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I want these to drill down even more. With whom would you like to have a Boots meal deal? Which potential PM would be the best partner for cycling around Belgium? Trout fishing? Salmon? If you were opening the batting (red ball) with a party leader, which one would it be? If you were waxing your anu

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Man on the right: works in private equity, prefers Cotswolds home to continent, thought whole "portrait of ourselves in cricket whites" idea was preposterous but quietly loves it. On the left: yacht interior design, weekends in Berlin, hasn't yet told husband about the sculpture he also bought.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It makes me genuinely happy the way photos of them tend to make them look like a couple that, despite their many differences, is still just as in love as when they met years ago.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Boards need to start saying they're starting up t20+30 leagues. Then the ICC will get behind whatever dodgy nonsense they've got in mind.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Disgusting. This European T20 league seems to have signed players, sorted out some grounds and is now playing an actual match. Do we not care about any cricketing traditions anymore?

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I once briefly interviewed Dolly. I was still with the Nottingham Post; Dolly was doing a press day ahead of a UK tour. She was doing a solid day of interviews, all in 15-minute interviews. That’s how these things often go.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I like that some counties are now pitching work-from-the-ground options for Championship matches. Instead of treating red-ball cricket like a dying thing that needs propping up, treat it like an interesting product that can appeal to supporters in new ways.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's not new, but I just for the first time caught some of that Modi-M*ch*el Va*gh*n podcast interview from earlier in the year. Something about the Why Test Cricket Dying debate that always kills me is when people insist that nobody has time for Tests any more.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

DERBY? He was in a nightclub in fucking DERBY? I don't need to see any handcuffs pictures, going to a nightclub in Derby is a life ban by my rules anyway.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It wasn't until this and the responses to it that I realised this cricket community of mine is just a filthy hippie commune.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I get corporate sponsorship and all but given the colonial history of cricket, it feels a little on the nose to have English cricketers in warmup jackets with "WHOLE EARTH" across the front.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just when I think I can't be any more impressed by England cricket fandom fatalism, we go and make one of Australia's most stunning home losses into a problem for England. Marvellous, marvellous stuff.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A friend just called me at 1am because he has never watched cricket in his life but has decided to bet on Aus v Ban. (He's got a complicated parlay going.) Wanted to know if Australia are winning. Not sure if "No, but they'll probably win by Sunday" was what he was looking for.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Listen. I know as well as you do that They've Both Got to Bat On It. But let's just have some fun for now.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Centre of Excellence. CoE stands for Centre of Excellence. For a sec there I thought there was a wild Victorian holdover in Indian cricket management

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Good thread here. If we want to add North America and the Caribbean, just use the Community walking-in-with-pizza-but-everything's-on-fire meme.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Spending a few days in a city with a t20 side that has never played in that city.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@paulframe85.bsky.social Checked in with the fellas last night. The run support was ... what it is.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Yorkshire Day to all who celebrate. May your caps be flat, your Tims be Taylor and your batting, above all else, be stoic.

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Andrew Nixon @andrewnixon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Imagine if the biggest story in football right now wasn't the whole situation with UEFA and FIFA but instead was someone diving to win a penalty in a Sunday League game in Skegness.

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