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David Hopps

@davidkhopps.bsky.social
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Freelance cricket writer (old & on the down slope apparently) & Sri Lanka travel guru. Ex ESPNcrinfo & Guardian. Politically-exasperated, conflicted Yorkshireman, largely liberal, centre-left, realist. Great beach hotel at suitelanka.com. Leeds fan.

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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Quite impressed by how she undermines her argument with her very first word. Takes some doing.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
apparently this?
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interested why Phillip Stoner Jewellery logo is covered up on the Dickie Bird Clock with what looks like a bit of elastoplast or something. Old story or new story? Yorkshire fall out or sponsorship pettiness?
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The next pandemic, put Rupert Lowe in charge then as soon as anybody dies, get the bastard.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Arguably, the only Test captain to resign in a healthy mental state in the past 70 years was Mike Brearley. Cricket captains take on so much, increasingly at a young and vulnerable age. (Compare Harry Kane whose on-field responsibilities seem to amount to little more than putting an armband on)
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
‪Really proud of how one of our young stewards at Suite Lanka is developing his video skills. What do you reckon @melindafarrell.bsky.social @jarrodkimber.bsky.social ?
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
AI has now made a tactical switch and thinks you have some Kipling influences 😀
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Lucas Perri is roughly where I'd expect (although any data that has Raya 13th should not be trusted). Maybe Leeds could try standing all 3 keepers in the net at the same time? #lufc
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Usual ICC incompetence. One month before the tournament, they have confirmed the authorised travel agents. How do these people keep their jobs?
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Porn actress support Reform would be a sharper headline. What a weird world we live in when The Spectator seems curously taken by her.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Nice. Macbeth particularly apt methinks.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Truth matters
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This fascinating biography into one of English cricket's most unrestrained figures was a worthy winner of the @cricketmediauk.bsky.social Cricket Book of the Year award. Tim Wigmore's Test Cricket: A History (1/2) was runner-up in a very strong year (1/2).
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
There is no limit to the incompetence of cricket administrators #cricketworldcup
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Maybe tell some of your fellow columnists, dear
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Or is time BBC news stopped clowning around and covered political party conferences properly? And maybe is it time they stopped clowning around and got on BlueSky properly instead of investing all their efforts on the hate-filled X? The clowning is necessary because of second-rate journalism.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Do this lot even know they are still promoting "stories" that have been outdated for days? Total charlatans. They can't even copy other people's stories correctly. What a desperate state so much of "journalism" is in these days. #lufc
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Dodgy? These nice young men? Surely not! 🙄
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hey. it's still 5 days til we re-open. The Suite Lanka guys are way ahead of schedule with the beach restuarant upgrade. 🫣
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This made me laugh. Take away the London rivalry effect and the message is clear.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It’s mind boggling how a company with the resources and reputation of ESPNcricinfo can make such a pig’s ear of how it shows its live scores.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains.
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Oh, they have done. That was quick.
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