Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Switch hit in 1960-61 SA Women v England Women, Jo'burg Test : "A fighting 37 from Eileen Hurley ... dragged South Africa to 134 in 95 funereal overs, but despite the tedium Hurley executed some switch hits outside the off stump which would have given credit to Roy McLean or even the modern game" 100
Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 06/04/2026When CK Nayudu and Learie Constantine batted against Mohammad Nissar and Shute Banerjee. Quoted from My World of Cricket by Berry Sarbadhikary. Nissar played for Cricket Club of India, Nayudu for a team called University Occasionals. 010
Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Fast and efficient jackfruit plucking. 43 were dropped while I was there and each one landed on the sack. 000
Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Slow over rate was rife in ODIs in India in 1980s. 1987 world cup put a stop to that by imposing heavy fines This was the worst case situation : Three overs short in the final : fine of 25,200 pounds Prize money for the runner up : 12,000 pounds Not suprisingly, overrate was never a problem 1/2 100
Reposted by Rameses 🏏Peter Griffiths @petegcricket.bsky.social · 05/12/2024We have uploaded the 1872 edition of James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual to the ACS webite at archive.acscricket.com/jlca/index.h... #CricketHistory #Cricket @acscricket.bsky.social 175
Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Indira Gandhi as Statue of Liberty. Late 1971 or early 1972, around the time of the liberation of Bangladesh. RK Laxman cartoon. Kissinger and Nixon in the foreground 043
Reposted by Rameses 🏏Jarrod Kimber @jarrodkimber.bsky.social · 26/11/20242024 Test Cricket: Australia beat New Zealand, who beat India, who beat England, who beat Sri Lanka, who beat New Zealand, who beat South Africa, who beat Bangladesh, who beat Pakistan, who beat England. 810723
Rameses 🏏 @tintin1107.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I don't know what to post here so may as well type stuff from the books that I am reading. 1965-66 Ashes, second Test. Geoff Boycott was demoted to the 13 and told that if the unwell Ken Higgs dropped out, he would play. Writes Boycott : "On the day of the Test Higgs woke up feeling groggy... 1/2 120