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Tom Rawstorne

@rawsty.bsky.social
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Journalism-loving journalist with a lifelong love of cricket, a new-found penchant for padel and an interest in rural affairs and politics.

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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why are flies called flies, and not birds?
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
18 wickets down in 74 overs of play as Australia play Bangladesh…what’s the wicket like?
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Liked the look of Jordan Coc - hard to tell though as Pakistan so poor - but Dan Lawrence will be found out - so leg-sided - and struggled against spin. Robinson great as ever (pitch and conditions depending)
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Are there are any other sports - like Test cricket - where the quality is declining, rather than improving? The only one I can think of is the women's hammer / javelin - but that was due to the success of the East Germans doping regime in the 70s, rather than a more recent decline in skill levels.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Poor Harry. Two lots of private school fees and then this... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publisher
The seven claimants, who include Sir Elton John and Liz Hurley, could potentially have to pay up to £25m more after losing their High Court privacy case.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lights pipe and looks out of window: 'I see the monsoon season has started early.'
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Harry’s return opens up the enticing prospect of a touchline fight between him and his brother as their sons turn out for opposing prep school teams
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s been hot for so long that a men’s group in Clapham is holding refresher classes in how to operate a quarter-zip jumper.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So what. We had bucket hats.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If I was Clicky Ponting I’d be emailing Jason Arday and offering to take him out for a beer…
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New England squad fills me with as much hope as when Jade Dernbach was seen as the future...
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Can’t they just give the tickets away to at least half fill Headingley? Imagine if the weather was crap these grounds would be seriously empty #the100
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Welcome to Lords ! We’ll have all the best Tests and biggest games, thanks. What? The pitch is rubbish? How dare you! This is the Home Of Cricket I’ll have you know! #the100
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Calibre of players in The Hundred much improved. Weather perfect. School holidays. Some good games. So why all the empty seats and reduced viewing figures? Guess no-one gives a sxxx about the teams.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not sure what’s more depressing, that a journalist can, apparently, be ‘bought’ - or that the going fee is just £100 an article. Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press - Guardian
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Lots of empty seats at Southampton - good weather (awful pitch..)
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For the next 30 days cricket commentators have to try and pretend that the Oval- based team isn’t going to win the competition despite the fact they obviously are #thehundred
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
At least John Healey can give more money to defence now …
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Curran’s such a competitor - just put him in the Test team in place of Stokes. Been saying it for ages. Make him captain if you want. #EngvInd
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Harry's return to England has been what one could only describe as 'sub-optimal'.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How much longer do we have to indulge the McCullum / Key project? Humiliating Ashes defeat should have been the end of it. The 'reset' and the series v NZ has been an embarrassment. None of the players are progressing, just clinging on in a whirlpool of chaos.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If I was Ben Stokes I’d get pissed at tea-time and have a punch up #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Ukraine War has now outlasted four British Prime Ministers
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
England finding it much harder to take wickets now the pitch is flat rather than bouncing as inconsistently as an overloaded 2CV negotiating a French farm track #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Flat pitch, good weather, England's all seam attack bowling into left-handers legs....this could be painful #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Looks like it could be a loooong day for England's identikit attack #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The England team's observance of the 'curfew' has been about as successful as the Iranian 'ceasefire' - although at least the Thames still remains open to freight traffic.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wonder who'll replace McCullum...
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Time to call time on the Stokes' era. His batting's gone and he's injury prone, so can't bowl through a series. Get Sam Curran in. I guess make Brook captain, assuming he wasn't fighting anyone on the same night...or give Root a second coming.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Andy Bull v good on the Lord’s pitch and comparison between different types of ‘garden’ steaming…#EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Jeez £75 for the box Mark Butcher was talking about on Sky...
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Awful surface at Lord’s - as it has been for too long now. All the white ball cricket there is rubbish.
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great bowling conditions and technically weak batsmen, but Lord’s can’t produce a wicket with even bounce on day two? #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The only way this match is going to five days is if it rains Saturday and Sunday.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For added jeopardy and to appeal to modern audiences - cameras in dressing room, reduce time to one minute. And you’re only allowed to start padding up when the wicket ahead of yours has fallen..
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
King Charles helps the homeless
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Andy Bull v good on why the McCullum era is over
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You wait six months for a Test match and then England turn up #EngvNZ
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great start by England, Crawley still not out #EngvNZ
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Man tired.
A shop sign reading MANGO HOME.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hmmm not at all risky for the ECB to invite members of the public to suggest names for the new Hundred trophy...
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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Takes them a month to run the average marathon, so this is remarkably good value.
An advert from FB looking for money towards pangolins. It reads:

Sponsor a pangolin
For just £2 a month
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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's all kicking off in Canterbury.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Unbelievable really.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/05/2026
"What would a bald man do with two hairdryers?" is a question you've unwillingly learned the answer to if you've spent enough time in a men's communal gym changing room.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
in this hot weather please check in on your local goths
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Woeful crowds at Lords and Edgbaston for the Blast. Should be sell-outs on a day like this. Depressing.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just put Sam Curran in all three England teams and drop Stokes - he might as well captain as well. He’ll get more runs and as many wickets.
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Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What a joke. Bethell out injured after his gap year in India
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