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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And honoured to be so! Thank you Jonathon - tho you have surely surpassed him some time ago in your eminence...

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New and FREE at our Substack - link in replies

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

An extract of Vinciness, plus details on how to order. A few copies still available...https://arrangements.substack.com/p/the-cover-drive-is-decadent-and-depraved

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Richard Beard @richbeard.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thanks Lynn, and thanks Matt ... 'a collaborative work of collective autobiography, which, well, is just fcuking great' ... can't say fairer than that.

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Repinnined and free at our substack: some memories of cricket withe the mighty Thorpes of Wrecclesham... arrangements.substack.com/p/the-way-th...

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The way the light falls

Some memories of Graham Thorpe

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Hundred extracts its price: NEW and FREE at our substack arrangements.substack.com/p/weary-play...

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Weary players lost in the moral haze

Proximity of the Hundred extracts its price

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Universal Turing Machine @universalturing.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

'I was from the last generation of true believers in the written word, both as a medium for self-expression and an act of resistance. The page was a place where time stopped. What was left? What was written.' Open some pages of stopped time, any time you like. universalturingmachine.co.uk

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Richard Beard

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Tom Holland recommends Richard Beard’s Universal Turing Machine in today’s Times summer reading special:

Tom Holland
The book of my summer is not — by conventional standards, at any rate — a book at all. The Universal Turing Machine is subtitled by its author, the novelist Richard Beard, "a memoir", but that barely scratches the surface of how dazzlingly original and multifaceted an achievement it is. Beard has divided his life into 64 chapters, and patterned them on to an online chessboard. The order in which these chapters are read is then determined in part by a randomiser.
At once a homage to Georges Perec, a work of science fiction and an often hilarious Bildungsroman, it can be read free here: universalturingmachine.co.uk

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

When you got the 22 you won by...

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BBLondon @courtyjnr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Kerrang! in the '80s was my bible and many of Mick's books are on my bookshelf. Very sorry to read he & his wife are having a rough time. If you can help....

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My dear friend and podcast partner Mick Wall suffered a heart attack ten days ago. In addition, he and his wife Linda are being evicted from their home. I've set up a crowdfunder that explains everything. Please spread the word if you can, thank you! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £10000 to Help Mick Wall – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Help Mick Wall. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

NEW and FREE at our substack. At what age is a 35-ball hundred un-amazing? open.substack.com/pub/arrangem...

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The Ages of Man

Child's play, the hair of KL Rahul and more notes from the IPL

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Meta have only stolen one of my books. I don't know whether to feel ripped off or insulted.

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

They have JUST WORKED THIS OUT in baseball.

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is an excellent speculative analysis of cricket's current powerplay. Maybe it's why Pat Cummins seemed to have a bit of extra gas yesterday, too...

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

New and free over at our substack. Why oh why etc etc arrangements.substack.com/p/success

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Success!

England's endless Amisian struggle with being two things at once

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hit every ball for six you cowards

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Should Jos bother with the smiling? NEW and FREE at our Substack arrangements.substack.com/p/becoming-t...

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Becoming the Jo(s)ker...

Can a captain change their spots... and should they bother?

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Re-up for our Substack as cricket rushes to decide how evil they want their evil...

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Is anyone at all asking why Avram Glazer would want to buy a franchise? I mean, his great love and financial support of all sport is a given, but, you know, WHY?

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Pink Floyd CC, 1975. Waters fined for non-conforming kit. Gilmour opening.

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

You will feel more intelligent for having read this...

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Jon Hotten @theoldbatsman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW and FREE and most definitely FLAIR over at our Substack arrangements.substack.com/p/it-would-h...

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It. Would. Have. Been. Flair.

Jacob Bethell speaks his shiny new language

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