Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Actually, not quite. He’s about three months older than the average age of the team, so pretty much bang on. 000 0
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If 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., 000 0
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Did 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. 2140 14
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There’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. 250 5
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Has anyone told SA that Bazball is very much last year. 2150 15
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Perhaps it’s just the time of year, but Verreynne suddenly reminds me of Josh Widdecombe. 240 4
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossOld Ebor @oldebor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In 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...oldebor77.substack.comThe Incomparable Violet WestbrookMore than an Original English Lady Cricketer 042 4
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’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. 000 0
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’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...kiaoval.comNightwatchman declares war on the off-season - Kia OvalOur friends at the Nightwatchman have plenty of fantastic writing to keep you occupied over the long winter months, not to... 082 8
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Strictly 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. 111 1
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Amazingly 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. 010 1
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I got it wrong on Tuesday, Pam but he’s definitely on today. 140 4
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossThe Grumbler @thegrumbler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bit 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 3355 35
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) 020 2
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Even less than half way if you start your journey from, say, Stockholm. 020 2
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 11/09/2026130 was what England set Australia at Headingley in 1981. Still the most remarkable come from behind victory in history. This would arguably top it. 5252 25
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is the gift that keeps on giving every time England loses The Ashes. 030 3
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Century 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). 110 1
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The ones That just do A sentence On multiple lines With capital letters To start each new Line Annoy Me The Most 230 3
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of poets, recently. End times? 3120 12
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossRaf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I 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/... 1236 23
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I haven’t been able to find it and Cricinfo hasn’t updated in a while. 100 1
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This 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. 35516100 516
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossSimon Horbury @simonhorbury.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thanks to @norcrosscricket.bsky.social for showing my son the importance of electronics to preserving cricket! 1161 16
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossTom Russell @callatruce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I 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 032 3
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Weirdly, I’ve only watched when India has been batting in this match. And about to head to Guildford, so will miss him again. 110 1
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossRaf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I’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 0236 23
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Lord’s Test. Surrey livestream either side of that. 020 2
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’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. 100 1
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ah, we multiply. I spent yonks adding them all up. Maths O level was 43 years ago. 200 2
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Is the George and Henry answer correct? Or do I not understand ‘product’? Eight Henrys = 36. Six Georges = 21. Or am I mathematically illiterate? 100 1
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026So @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? 150 5
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Semi-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. 360 6
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Call this dark? I can clearly see the detail on my neighbours’ window surrounds bathed in moderately eerie sunshine. #wokeeclipse 020 2
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 12/08/2026They can’t even get eclipses right. It was much better in 1999. 2240 24
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Top notch (and not just because it contains the factoid that my distant relative Sarah Norcross scored the first recorded hundred by a woman). 030 3
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026She is in my sights. Give my love to Betty Snowball’s plaque. 030 3
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It 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. 2275 27
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/08/2026For consistency of awfulness across the team, they were cruising it until Melie Kerr rebelled. 040 4
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Well, 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. 010 1
Reposted by Daniel NorcrossCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton 22672322813 7.2K