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Phil Walker

8 months

My dad doesn’t give a toss what I do for a living but he liked this one

Wes Hall: ‘I’m a West Indian, man. I’m a West Indian. To the bone’

The fastest bowler of his day, Hall was the shimmering spearhead of the first truly great West Indies team. But that’s not the half of it

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Something on Warne. Fuck, how good he was.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Essex, eh. First team to do the modern double. More trophies pocketed (18) than any other club in the 40 years since they won their first. Four England captains in that time. Phenomenal club

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Ladies and gents, meet Shaker Ullah Wasiq, our Afghan gun, took all 10 in our game today. Remember the name #10 -19

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 years

Hearing that Stokesy’s at Heathrow...

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

After as bleak a fortnight covering this game as any I can remember, something like this drops in our inbox, from a podcast listener

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 years

That joke’s lost a little lustre #Ashes

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Our designer's a bit of a dick tbh but sometimes he does things

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Cricket eh. Lad's just turned up here on a bike, masked up & wide-eyed, shouting through the railings, "Sir Cook? Sir Alastair Cook?" Turns out he's come from Pune to Chelmsford to catch a glimpse of his all-timer, says he's gonna hang around in the car park till tonight

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Utter joy to watch one of the great doomed stylists go about his business. The big game needs him more than ever #ENGvIND

Test cricket needed Rohit Sharma, and now it’s got him

Wisden Cricket Monthly editor-in-chief Phil Walker soaks in the everlasting beauty of Rohit Sharma’s 83 on the opening day of the Lord’s Test.

www.wisden.com

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Some mags are bigger than others, some mags are bigger than others, some mag covers, are bigger than other mag... covers

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

England’s Test No.5

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

José would fucking love Pujara

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

See @EssexCricket have nicked another tight one. Since start of 2017 they’ve won 30 first-class games from 45. Unstoppable

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Outside the Oval. Nothing like a 16-a-sider on a Thursday mornin

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

2 years

Thursday nostalgia, old AOCs. This one? October 2015

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Haseeb Hameed to WCM this month, the wisest boy in cricket

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

#CWC19

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

A year this week since Azeem first spoke to Taha and even now we still don’t know how deep this goes. Even now journalists at Wisden are blocked from talking cricket with any of the club’s players. Azeem deserves better. The game deserves better. It’s a shameful indictment.

George Dobell

@GeorgeDobell1

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Azeem Rafiq calls on ECB, politicians to intervene after Yorkshire delay publication of racism report

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Few things better than ambling home on a sat eve after a tough day in the dirt (draw; eight down, 35 short) and nodding at other stooped stalwarts of the greatest game as they lug their own bags of stories on their backs

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1 year

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

This is quite the thing. Our @WisdenCricket mag columnist @miller_cricket has chosen to waive all fees for his columns so far and those upcoming, on proviso the cash goes into boosting our freelancers budget for next few months. He'll kill me for telling y'all, but I couldn't not

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

This one drops in a couple of days...

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

Bradman diary entry after Day 1 at Leeds, 1930: 'Archie [Jackson] out for 1. I followed and at stumps was 309 not out, breaking previous highest score in Anglo-Australian Tests. Reached my 2000 runs for season. To hotel in evening for dinner and wrote letters, thence to bed.'

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

A storm of technical limitations, crushing lack of exposure to (and respect for) high-class spin, and a collective psyche scrambled not just by demons in the pitch but imagined slights off it, on top of a filthy ragger that does nothing for the game in the short or long run

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Latest @WisdenCricket magazine done. Subs are up by loads per cent. And I mean, just look at that

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

2 years

It’s always pissing down somewhere

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

If there was even a scintilla of doubt about Azeem’s integrity, some dark recess where scepticism festers, then it vanished today. Incredibly moving but not quite devastating, for his truth (and staggering courage) offers hope amid the horror. He will change the game forever.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

Of all the classy shots to make the cut in this year's @WisdenAlmanack Photo of the Year, I'm having this one, by Archie Brooksbank. Other beauties are available

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Last dance today for future England coach Ryan ten Doeschate, some 18 years after lugging his bags from Heathrow to Chelmsford on the off chance of a hit

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

Fascinating hour just passed with @iamamirofficial for next @WisdenCricket mag. Brutally honest, totally upfront and a little bit cheeky. Spoke beautifully about the role English cricket played in easing him back into the fold. Reminder of how the game looks after its own

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

He had me at Dylan. A few sad words on Bustlin’ Bob. One of the all-timers

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

1 year

South London, deathtrap outfield, girls eight-a-side, beautiful

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Still stunned by this. We asked for a few mins with the club captain to talk about a cracking win. It’s hard to shake the sense we’ve been locked out for doing our jobs in good faith.

Wisden

@WisdenCricket

3 years

“I really want to believe in the Yorkshire investigation. But would an organisation which really wants to get to the bottom of this seek to stifle the media?" – @GeorgeDobell1 , the incoming chair of @CricketMediaUK .

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Anyone for a free ashes magazine? It’s massive, far bigger than strictly necessary. But isn’t that the point? Oh and it’s free. Free at the point of need…

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 months

New one.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

Found in the scullery of my late Gran’s house, my first ever bat. Always been a Gray Nics man

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

1 year

Now then

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Eagar, at it again. Utterly magnificent. What we'd all give to climb inside it again just for one day

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 months

the most eerie and thrilling footage on the internet

Lancashire Cricket

@lancscricket

5 months

Rocky Flintoff with 3️⃣ sixes on his way to an unbeaten half-century for the 2nd XI! 💥👏 Our 2nd XI clash with Durham ends in a draw as the rain interrupts once again. Scorecard 📋➡ 🌹 #RedRoseTogether

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

1 year

Good fun this one, front cover bit special. Go on, throw your hands at it

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Sales figures in for this one, it's only our biggest-selling magazine ever (If you will: )

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Big day for @felixwhite as he gets to meet my mum

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

8 years

Just spoke to Haseeb Hameed. Proper diamond. Talks like Gary Neville, bats like Joe Root. Get him on the plane. He's ready, and he knows it

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Buried beneath all that stuff about leadership and being in the vanguard of change etc, we forget (or take for granted) what a superb cricketer Heather Knight is. Hiding her greatness in plain sight #ENGvsNZ

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Better late than never perhaps, but pretty lamentable that the story was out there via @WisdenCricket two weeks ago and only now, when @ESPNcricinfo take it on, are they moved to make a statement of sorts.

Yorkshire CCC

@YorkshireCCC

4 years

CLUB STATEMENT: Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chair Roger Hutton has released the following statement #OneRose

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Thought a lot about Jonny Bairstow this week, and some awkward truths about blind spots and petty egos

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

“I really hope that we're the last team who ever exit an ICC tournament in this way.” - Heather Knight. Not sure I’d be so restrained.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

1 year

Dude can bowl, knows it too

Wisden

@WisdenCricket

1 year

"It's a sadistic love of the grind and the dirt." In an exclusive interview with @Phil_Wisden , Ollie Robinson reveals how close he came to veering off track, and where the "surreal" journey takes him next. Print: Digital:

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

It’s done! Issue 1 of the Pinch Hitter, just in time for your empty, structureless, unbearably melancholic weekend Free too, but it doesn’t hate a donation All cash goes into making more. Let's keep ourselves nice

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

No trigger, no bother. Get him in

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

This kid is something else #SRIvENG

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Tragically, I reckon I spend more time on cricket photo libraries than every man alive (bar @Jo_Wisden ) and yet still, even now, a Patrick Eagar can stop me dead

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

It’s probably fair that I have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to JB, what with one thing and another, but that hitting tonight, the coldness of it, was a fuck-you of staggering brilliance

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Not an original point, but the booing of Smith betrays the game and cheapens us all. It's not panto. It's bollocks.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

This fella. On fame, pressure, love, dogs, batting and daring to walk the streets. A one-off interview. In every respect. Issue 11, out now.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Shan Masood, great story. Upended in Eng 4 yrs ago, goes deep into theory of batting, opens up stance and mind. Watched him at Lord’s a while back, feet pointed down the track, punching straight, drilling drilling drilling. Triumph of smarts and spunk. Top man too #ENGvPAK

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

I made (strummed) 126 today, my first ton in time. It’s a sign that tmrw’s on, right? Except signs don’t exist. It’s just a thing that happened, in a field in Essex, and tomorrow’s another thing that will happen somewhere else. But it’s still a sign. Isn’t it? #CWC19Final

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

2 months

The greatest game

Vitality County Championship

@CountyChamp

2 months

WOW One ball left, one run to win and set a new world record. James Bracey is not wearing a glove on his right hand. And he takes this catch.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Look I know it's vulgar to flag such things but the new @WisdenCricket magazine is out today and it's absolutely full of it Best grab one here. Print AND/OR digital...

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Found this hard to write. I hope he goes out at Cape Town, strums 170, captains like Brearley, wins by an innings and rams these words where the sun don’t shine

Wisden

@WisdenCricket

5 years

"Root is too precious to English cricket. And captaincy is not everything." @Phil_Wisden on how much longer it will remain feasible for Joe Root to retain the Test captaincy.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

No cricket? No dramas. Just sent this one away. It's out next week, and a marvellous creation

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

One of those mornings

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 years

"I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, but I'll have a beer tonight" - Cook still in beautiful touch after play #Ashes

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Now then, Haseeb Hameed. I've held off till now. But watching him today, fkg hell he's marvellous #countycricket2021

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Panic over. Burns has called in Big Stewie. Little brother Alec serves them up, and the true guvnor does the rest My bit on the biggest week of Burns' career, fools' errands, and how swiftly cricket can spit you out #ashes2019

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Now we’re talking #CWC2019

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Yeah, tidy day

Adam Collins

@collinsadam

3 years

Moments before @Phil_Wisden gave a smashing speech at his wedding last night (Stanbrook Abbey, wow), he jumped on with Geoff and me at stumps. The plan was for him to talk about his day but he played shots instead and that's why we love him. #ENGvIND 📹

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

8 years

New one! 150th @AllOutCricket & an all-time classic. Starring @benstokes38 , Root, @David215Gower & truckload of bats

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Yeah, so this is happening. This is what we do in times of strife: more stuff. Here’s to a new platform for freelancers to strut about, with a (loose) guarantee of something special at the end of it. We stick together. Do hang in there with us

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Pleased this magazine story was snapped up by Big Site. The bloke's got a heart the size of Sussex

Ian Salisbury: 'To coach players you need to show you care for them'

As Salisbury returns to where it all began at Sussex, he talks about love, loss, leg breaks and his own remarkable journey

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

9 months

Joyous. Game still means so much to so many

England Cricket

@englandcricket

9 months

Congratulations on 💯 caps, Rash ❤️ 💬 "You epitomise everything England Cricket is about. It's a privilege for me to give you this." #EnglandCricket | @Flintoff11

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Gower on Burns: “A lifetime’s work has come to fruition”. Beautifully put, Dave #ashes2019

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 months

A bit on the tattooed soothsayer at mid-on, to kick off the new magazine

Ben Stokes, England’s great shape-shifter, has mastered the toughest job in the game

Ben Stokes will play his 100th Test match in Rajkot this week. As England’s extraordinary talisman reaches another milestone, Phil Walker reflects on his spellbinding leadership.This article appears...

www.wisden.com

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Going on Sky’s Debate show in a bit. Have I missed much? #ENGvsPAK

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

No reflection on JB but last time Lawrence batted in a test he made 81* and 0. Such is the irrational authority of the century - 19 more runs (and remember he was strumming it) and he plays.

Telegraph Cricket

@TeleCricket

3 years

Jonny Bairstow set to resume Test career after Ollie Pope ruled out through injury / @NHoultCricket reports #ENGvIND

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

This then, the Pinch Hitter's final whack. Seven issues, 84 stories, 46 freelancers, £10k raised and divvied, and all done without a game in sight. Nice one. Here's to Stokes as skipper and a match on Saturday

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Quick reminder of the madness that England won a single home Test (v SL) in four full summers from '86-89

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 years

Wrote this last night. Wake up to hear the kid's in hospital. Turn up to find he's about to bat. #Ashes

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

It's quite an us thing to do to make a magazine that's pound for pound the best we've ever done at a time when the shops are shut and there's naff-all cricket to watch, but there you go

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

A day in a Northumbrian dreamworld with Stevie (coach), Bob (chairman) and Mark (batter who bowls)

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Temba Bavuma, the man for his time and place. Gave us a wise & beautiful WCM interview with @NeilManthorp last July

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Phil Walker

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2 years

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

This Sri Lanka heist. Spins your head. Can’t recall a more audacious smash and grab in all of my time. Mendis is a dream. All touch and class and aching vulnerability. Get it done #SAvSL

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

7 years

This is it. The exact moment when the last duffer slumps in his chair and admits there might be something in it #WWC17

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

6 years

"We’re here to play cricket, not take on the critics. They’ve had their time. It’s about us now." The man with the impossible job. A @WisdenCricket exclusive with the deft, mighty Jason Holder.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Giant of the game

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

The corners of the mouth always twitched upwards, even as daggers spat from it. Bob Willis, the punk pundit. The greatest.

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Transcribing an intw with Ollie Pope for next @WisdenCricket magazine. Kid's gonna break everything

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Joke of a knock #BobWillisTrophy

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

4 years

Sometimes you get lucky in this game

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

2 years

On the rattler coming back from that Leeds and Gardner, editing his podcast, tells me my opening answer clocks in at 5mins 21sec. One of the sillier weeks

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

As the whole of the developed world now knows, one can never have enough @felixwhite in life

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

One of our best, this. Good cover to get right, of a game at once unhinged yet buzzing for the next act And writing ( @kuks @OborneTweets @the_topspin @miller_cricket @collinsadam @benjonescricket @ZaltzCricket ) superb Print/digital, we got both kinds

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

1 year

Best one yet, I reckon. Some scandalously good writing It's over here, should you fancy it ⬇️

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Welcome to your new favourite cricketer

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

Had an hour with him after this. Race, identity, the NHS, collectivism, male egos, empathy, trusting your voice (and daring to use it), his future plans, and a dash of cricket. As a coach, he’ll have the lot

Essex Cricket

@EssexCricket

3 years

A special day at Chelmsford for a special man ❤️

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

3 years

@GeorgeDobell1 I’m not sure he’d be receptive, but I’ll test the water

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Phil Walker

@Phil_Wisden

5 years

Thoughts with Ben and his dad. Awful news. I met Ged a couple of times, came across as a very generous man. Will never forget watching them both have an impromptu net at Headingley, Ben bowling offbreaks in his socks, Ged smashing anything short, no inch given

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