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Daniel Norcross

@norcrosscricket.bsky.social
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Freelance cricket commentator largely to be found on TMS and general grifter. The least capable co host on @zeroduckspod Will work, not very hard, for money and/or fine wine.

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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Actually, not quite. He’s about three months older than the average age of the team, so pretty much bang on.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If there is any suggestion that play might be lost later in the match to rain/bad light, then definitely the pickle could come in to play. For pure pickle, I think SA needed to get within 60 with 30 minutes remaining in the day.,
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Did I just hear the 34 year old Nic Maddison described as a ‘youngster trying to make his way in the team’? Basic rule of thumb for Aussies is that none of them are youngsters.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There’s something about playing Australia that seems to make batters get out to innocuous balls on flat tracks. Perhaps it’s an urgent need to get as far away from Marnus as possible.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Has anyone told SA that Bazball is very much last year.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I see that. Decent shout.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perhaps it’s just the time of year, but Verreynne suddenly reminds me of Josh Widdecombe.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1940 just started. Gird your loins.
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Old Ebor @oldebor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the early 1890s, Violet Westbrook attempted the impossible: to build a career as a professional woman cricketer. She was a member of the Original English Lady Cricketers, but she had a much broader vision than mere cricketing entertainment. oldebor77.substack.com/p/the-incomp...
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The Incomparable Violet Westbrook
More than an Original English Lady Cricketer
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s only two months and five days until the earliest sunset, if that’s any consolation. I confess, it isn’t much of one to me.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s the 1st October, which can only mean one thing: it’s WAR. Here’s how to survive the next six months. www.kiaoval.com/nightwatchma...
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Nightwatchman declares war on the off-season - Kia Oval
Our friends at the Nightwatchman have plenty of fantastic writing to keep you occupied over the long winter months, not to...
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strictly speaking, we’re still fretting about the inevitability of war. This is the ‘coming to terms with our fate’ zone before the invasion proper starts on 1st October. But I will allow this premonition of impending doom.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazingly not. We’ve still got around 58 days until the end of August. It’s early July, but the portents of impending doom are impossible to ignore.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got it wrong on Tuesday, Pam but he’s definitely on today.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think he’s on today and Thursday.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is not chaseable
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The Grumbler @thegrumbler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bit of a wobble in Dick Davies' voice as he signed off, saying 'support BBC cricket commentaries' Hear, hear. End of an era. We'll never have a broadcaster commentating on one team for 31 years ever again
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘To love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy therefore is to suffer.’ (Keaton/Allen)
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Even less than half way if you start your journey from, say, Stockholm.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Almost half way to Bristol.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
130 was what England set Australia at Headingley in 1981. Still the most remarkable come from behind victory in history. This would arguably top it.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It is the gift that keeps on giving every time England loses The Ashes.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Century after century Fascists fascist While poets Poet As good people Die (or, if they have sufficient means, plan an escape to the South Island of New Zealand).
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The ones That just do A sentence On multiple lines With capital letters To start each new Line Annoy Me The Most
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of poets, recently. End times?
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was honoured to be invited onto BBC Test Match Special last weekend to talk about my book, The Women in Whites: A History of Women's Cricket in England. The interview is still available for a few hours, so do have a listen here if you missed it (3.29 onwards): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Raf, Dan Norcross and Ali Mitchell in the TMS box at Lord's, with the pitch visible in the background. Raf is holding up her copy of The Women in Whites.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At least we won.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I haven’t been able to find it and Cricinfo hasn’t updated in a while.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This thing seems to be out in the open now, so even though publication’s eight months away, let’s drum up some early interest, shall we? Wayfarers is out next April. Here’s the cover.
A book cover. Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration, by Lev Parikian. It’s mostly blue, with swirling patterns representing movement, and stylised images of various migrating animals (butterflies, terns, a whale, bats, wildebeest, dragonflies, penguins, an arctic fox) dotted about the place.
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Simon Horbury @simonhorbury.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for showing my son the importance of electronics to preserving cricket!
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Tom Russell @callatruce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I recall a fascinating test match 34 years ago, the summer when we were introduced to reverse swing in dramatic fashion by its most skilful proponents. But a more traditional style of bowling prevailed in Leeds. Here's a puzzle in homage 🏏😀 @georgedobell.bsky.social @norcrosscricket.bsky.social
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Weirdly, I’ve only watched when India has been batting in this match. And about to head to Guildford, so will miss him again.
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’ll be at The Hundred final tomorrow so if anyone wants their copy of my book signed, or wants to buy a copy, please do message me 😊 It’s been great fun seeing it out in the wild this summer already - thanks for all the support 🙏 @jarrodkimber.bsky.social @mel-jones.bsky.social
Jarrod Kimber reading The Women in Whites in the commentary box at Lord’s.Mel Jones at The Oval with The Women in Whites.Raf and Claire Taylor with The Women in Whites.Raf and Beth Barrett-Wild at Headingley with The Women in Whites.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Lord’s Test. Surrey livestream either side of that.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s been a little odd. Stronger teams for the most part, but two of them (BP and LS women) have been atrocious. Can’t quite work out what’s going on.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ah, we multiply. I spent yonks adding them all up. Maths O level was 43 years ago.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Is the George and Henry answer correct? Or do I not understand ‘product’? Eight Henrys = 36. Six Georges = 21. Or am I mathematically illiterate?
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good data in this thread.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wow. Just seen the score.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let’s speak in December.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So @levparikian.bsky.social will your birds be doing two dusk choruses within an hour of each other, and if so, can you continue to defend them?
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Semi-seriously though, this is no different from sunset at the equator/tropics, except it’s the horizon that does the eclipsing. Granted it will get lighter for a little while, but not long. The bloody sun sets at 8:29 in London today.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Call this dark? I can clearly see the detail on my neighbours’ window surrounds bathed in moderately eerie sunshine. #wokeeclipse
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They can’t even get eclipses right. It was much better in 1999.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Top notch (and not just because it contains the factoid that my distant relative Sarah Norcross scored the first recorded hundred by a woman).
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
She is in my sights. Give my love to Betty Snowball’s plaque.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It really is a fabulous book which doesn’t shy away from examining how the women running women’s cricket for decades were every bit as regressive and elitist as their MCC counterparts in the men’s game, while still celebrating some true heroines I knew nothing about.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For consistency of awfulness across the team, they were cruising it until Melie Kerr rebelled.
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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well, not really. They have to win their last two games by huge margins, hope that WF lose both AND MSG lose both theirs by large margins. But mathematically, yes. For now.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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