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Sam Morshead

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4 years

Moeen Ali has a young family at home from whom he's been away for 6 weeks, 2 of which he spent alone in a foreign hotel room with Covid; he's a key part of the England T20 squad for a World Cup in October; and he'll be back in India in a fortnight Ffs, get off his back

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If you'd rather England had made 460, batted into day two, and the game had meandered into a draw, fair play to you. That is, of course, fine. I much prefer the way it went.

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5 years

India's top three: 111 Coincidentally, that's the number to dial in case of emergencies in New Zealand #CWC19 #INDvNZ

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Mali has no bespoke cricket facilities, no stores which sell equipment 10 of the 14-woman/girl squad were playing in their 2nd ever cricket tournament Their president wanted to withdraw after 3 heavy defeats They refused They deserve more than ridicule

The story of Mali's cricket team is a lesson in looking beyond the headline

SAM MORSHEAD: It's quite easy to cast aspersions from the comforts of home, based on opinions formed from scorecards. Behind those unusual numbers, however, is a human tale. A tale about daughters of...

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4 years

Two weeks before deadline. He'll never make a journalist, but he's perfect

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@SamMorshead_

4 years

Dreaming of being an umpire? 🤔

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5 years

PSL time.

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

As Winston Churchill famously said, "don't be suckered into pulling the short ball early with a man on the rope"

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5 years

David Warner's return to Ashes cricket Ball 1 - caught behind, not out, no review Ball 7 - warned for batting in the wrong place Ball 10 - hit on pad, not out, reviewed, not out Ball 14 - hit on pad, out, missing leg, didn't review Cricket's bloody brilliant

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5 years

Made a friend in Multan @SaeenDaAccount

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5 years

Most overs by England bowlers (all formats) in 2019 Jofra Archer - 400.5 Stuart Broad - 367.4 Ben Stokes - 336.2 Chris Woakes - 299.4 Moeen Ali - 231.2 Sam Curran - 201.5 Adil Rashid - 201.5

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3 years

Start him young

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8 years

Bristol Rovers boss Darrell Clarke doesn't just nail the whole EFL Trophy nonsense, he uses the entire tool box.

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@SamMorshead_

2 years

Darren Stevens has gone into the Big Bash draft, which is all the energy I need on a Monday morning

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@SamMorshead_

6 years

Multan Sultans, cricket and Ali: How @aliktareen is using a PSL platform with @MultanSultans to secure social mobility and female empowerment in South Punjab

Multan Sultans, cricket and Ali: How a South Punjabi boy thinks PSL can revolutionise cricket in...

SAM MORSHEAD IN DUBAI: Ali Khan Tareen's plan is wide-ranging - it covers social mobility, women's empowerment, the future of youth and Pakistan's domestic structure - but at the heart of it is...

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3 years

England should pick Jack Leach at Lord's if they want a spinner. Dragging Moeen back to red-ball cricket, leading to many immediately expecting the world, and removing him from his element when he can a) headline the rest of The Hundred and b) get T20 World Cup ready seems silly

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4 years

Beautiful broadcasting from @GaryLineker , and from his pundits to understand when to let the anchor speak

Football on TNT Sports

@footballontnt

4 years

"He had such an incredible passion for the game." "I've never seen anyone have such a beautiful affection with a football." A heartfelt tribute from @GaryLineker to the one and only Diego Maradona... And a lovely story that sums up his genius ❤️

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3 years

Tempted by now just to blame BT Sport.

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1 year

Usman Khawaja had his 2yo daughter in the presser. She sat there pefectly in front of the media, didn't interrupt or eat the microphone Earlier, my wife WhatsApped me to say our feral 2yo ate the eyeball of a baked trout at lunch, and shouted "ooh, crunchy"

The Cricketer

@TheCricketerMag

1 year

Usman Khawaja: "It's nice to show everyone the last 10 years haven't been a fluke."

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3 years

Knew I'd seen it somewhere before #ENGvSL

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7 years

Tim Sherwood leaves Swindon Town, ending the most pointlessly vainglorious episode in the club's history.

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1 year

You'd have thought Alex Carey had run up to Bairstow, floored him with a right hook and taken off the bails, the way this is dragging on

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@SamMorshead_

6 years

I'm spending the week in Dubai with @MultanSultans as they prepare for #PSL2019 . Owner @aliktareen joined his players in supporting Pakistan's women against West Indies earlier. Now his side are taking on @IsbUnited in a warmup game.

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5 years

Probs going to need some freelance cover for the Ireland ODIs, guys 😁😬😍

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6 years

Best finish you'll see today.

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5 years

Less than four years ago, Swindon beat Sheffield Utd in the most extraordinary L1 playoff Today they're Premier League and we're rotting halfway down L2, destined for our lowest finish in 35 years The owner has utterly failed the club

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6 years

Interesting variety of techniques among these England players Stokes: Maneuverable and mobile. Textbook (8/10) Anderson: Likely to scratch Long Room doors (6/10) Root: Bold. May be short enough to pull it off (6/10) Cook: WTF

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@SamMorshead_

1 year

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 Where the 2031 Ashes will be played 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 October's World Cup fixtures

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4 years

Cricket, specifically the BCCI in this instance, shafting itself to satisfy its own ego. Again. Denying fan accounts the joy of celebrating brilliance is just counter productive Our sport has a lot of growing up to do if it is going to bridge its perception divides

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4 years

He bloody loves Test cricket

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4 years

What the ECB achieved with their biosecure summer bubbles and 0 positive tests across 10 weeks gets more and more exceptional by the week

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8 years

Wonder what fans of Orient, Charlton, Blackpool, Coventry, Morecambe and rest of the dying EFL make of this. 'Killing our club'. Get real.

Mail Sport

@MailSport

8 years

Arsenal fans protest with outside the Emirates with a chorus of 'Arsene Wenger, you're killing our club' Ouch...

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4 years

Stuart Broad in Tests in Sri Lanka before today: 82 overs, 3-249 Stuart Broad today: 9 overs, 3-20

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3 years

Might need some work to get to 15 degrees at the elbow but the lad's got time on his side

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5 years

I've done a little digging and *that* picture being used to promote The Hundred was taken at a concert by American rapper Logic at the Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami in July 2017. Not quite "mums and kids in the school holidays"

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3 years

This is a huge step for us as a business, and an unbelievably exciting one for me as an editor George is the best cricket news-getter in this country, and a brilliant writer to boot Massive kudos to The Cricketer's owners, who are continuing to invest in cricket journalism

The Cricketer

@TheCricketerMag

3 years

The Cricketer is delighted to announce that George Dobell will be joining our team as chief correspondent from mid-November

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4 years

Lockdown and its effects have been tough, but I've just felt my unborn child kick for the first time and today is a fucking great day

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Cricket freelancers, I've got prize money from @TheCricketerMag 's ECB Domestic Journalism Awards win to spend (thank you ECB & CWC). It's only right this cash gets sent back into the industry in these uncertain times. Pitch to me via sam.morshead at thecricketer dot com

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4 years

There have been 16,124 partnerships between Englishmen in Test cricket That was the 6th best of all of them Some achievement by Crawley and Buttler #ENGvPAK

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5 years

A week in Dubai taught me about the projects being undertaken by @aliktareen and @MultanSultans

Multan Sultans, cricket and Ali: How a South Punjabi boy thinks PSL can revolutionise cricket in...

SAM MORSHEAD IN DUBAI: Ali Khan Tareen's plan is wide-ranging - it covers social mobility, women's empowerment, the future of youth and Pakistan's domestic structure - but at the heart of it is...

www.thecricketer.com

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3 years

Pooran + Pollard + Russell + Shakib + Warner + Smith + Maxwell vs England at this World Cup = 19 runs, average 2.7

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4 years

Ebay know

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3 years

🔴⚪😍

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4 months

Last night I caught up with a family who mean a lot to me, whom I’ve not seen for half my life. This is a story about the power of football tournaments. 18 years ago, I went to the World Cup: a naïve teenager dragging a Clio around Germany on my first football adventure. (1/)

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5 years

If you're booing this man as he walks off after that innings, you have no grasp of what you've witnessed

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

Ball crosses boundary, gets slapped back: Out Ball doesn't cross boundary, man falls over other man's leg: Not out Fucken love cricket

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

Time to mute "double hat-trick". 3x2=6 not 4

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

Sale CC has apparently reached capacity for Thunder v Vipers in the Heyhoe Flint Trophy, helped in no small part by fancy-dressed supporters presumably diverted from Old Trafford

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5 years

New year, new kit, new ratings Woakes: Classic, effective, nicest chair-carrier in cricket (8/10) Stokes: New technique, some risk to doorframes (7/10) Root: Danger to groinal area (4/10) Buttler: Yes, Jos! (9/10) Man carrying bench: How the hell are you doing that? (11/10)

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5 years

New Zealand Cricket have just sold six years of live broadcasting rights to a Netflix-style outfit (Spark Sport), and who'd bet against the Blackcaps when it comes to pre-empting a trend in the global game

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7 years

Why?

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3 years

Swindon Town are bumping up ticket prices for visit of Man City in FA Cup... not new Chief exec outlining in detail why they are doing it, with some of the most outward transparency I've seen in football recently... very new

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6 months

Describing the club's worst Football League season as "up and down" and of "mixed fortunes" suggests a fundamental disconnect from history, sentiment and reality. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

4 years

My team are at home, working harder than anyone could have possibly asked them to, and are worth twice as much as they were six months ago This is a lazy and blinkered take, and there's far too much of it around

Kirstie Allsopp

@KirstieMAllsopp

4 years

If your job can be done from home it can be done from abroad where wages are lower. If I had an office job I’d want to be first in the queue to get back to work and prove my worth to my employer. I am terrified by what could be on the horizon for so many.

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8 years

If Oxford had a pound for every time they beat Swindon, they'd have enough to finish their stadium.

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Overheard in a Maidenhead pub: "The Cricket World Cup final is on Channel 4, so might watch it" This morning, my mother-in-law - no previous interest (and from a family without Sky): "I actually can't wait to sit down and watch the cricket" Success + visibility = growth

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7 months

28 points from 32 games since October 1. 13 from 13 under the interim manager. Bottom of the form table. Piss on the floor, mold on the windows. There are alternatives, on and off the field. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

4 years

England have played some exceptional cricket away from home under Joe Root in the past 18 months, but this is the best of the lot

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@SamMorshead_

5 months

It's right to acknowledge a good week, especially after months and months of negatives. Swindon Town have started using actions rather than words. Long, long way to go to turn fan sentiment, but this has been a good start. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

A key focus of our coverage of the women's game over the past two years has been to treat it on a par with the men. This year, the domestic structure has been professionalised, and we'll cover it in the same way we cover the pro counties. Here's where it will all live 👇

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Question: What are the weaknesses of Kane Williamson's game? Eoin Morgan: His backing up #CWC19

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Counting down to people losing their jobs might be a step too far

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7 years

A season of neglect... now what? My attempt to sum up emotions of Swindon Town's most predictable relegation. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

10 months

That's it for me at @TheCricketerMag . It's been the pleasure of my career to build our silly little corner of the internet with some incredible people. Thanks to everyone who's played a part: devs, collaborators, readers, PRs (not necessarily in that order). Happy Christmas x

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5 years

This kid has to be in that T20 squad for New Zealand. And every other England white-ball squad thereafter. Until the machines take over.

The Cricketer

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5 years

I mean. Really. Just... Just look at it.

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5 years

For those moaning about Pom Bears and The Hundred, South African telly just did a live two-minute interview next to a bucket of fried chicken, sitting inside a giant bucket of fried chicken, namechecking the fried chicken. Colonel Sanders was at the toss.

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4 years

The pose. Yes please.

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@SamMorshead_

7 years

22 EFL Trophy games tonight. 29,398 total attendance. 1,336 average. Five in three figures. Lowest 517 (Fleetwood v Leicester). Just bin it

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4 years

If the Covid-safe measures are up to scratch, there is in my opinion no reason for England not to accept I went to Lahore and Multan in February for the PSL. Pakistan is safe, charismatic and in love with cricket Plus, we owe them

Test Match Special

@bbctms

4 years

The ECB have confirmed that @englandcricket have been invited to take part in a white-ball tour of Pakistan in early 2021. A final decision over whether the ECB accept the invitation will be taken in due course. England haven’t toured Pakistan since 2005. #bbccricket

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6 months

Baffling football club. I will celebrate protecting our EFL status as is due: Well done. Now for change. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

When I got married, the biggest piece of advice I got was to take a moment to appreciate the occasion Tomorrow, my advice to England fans: Take a minute to detach yourself and commit to memory just how brilliant this team is #CWC19

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3 years

I've written about my experience of The Hundred in its first week Given the quality of discussion on the subject on here, I'm not holding out much hope for a decent chat about it, but here goes..

A week of The Hundred: Divisive, gamechanging and bad for debate... what we have learnt so far

SAM MORSHEAD: A week is not long enough to determine if there is legacy in the gamble, nor to come up with any reasonable yardstick for success, but - when it comes to engagement - it is certainly...

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9 months

Late signings. Forwards. A headline name. No departures. Best 24 hours for Swindon Town's PR in months. Timely, given what came before. #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

The long journey starts today (maybe) #stfc

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@SamMorshead_

6 years

A chat with @TomMoores23 on England's glut of wicketkeeper-batsmen and his new-found life as a global traveller @MultanSultans

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6 years

Hit four. Get to 100. Win game. Mic drop. #ENGvsIND

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4 years

Fuck sake. 😂🙄👋

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3 years

New thing learned today: Humans can be boundary ropes

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@SamMorshead_

3 years

Tomorrow will be my first visit to the County Ground as a paying fan since before he-who-should-not-be-named, and my son's first football match. Cannot think of a better way to start 2022

Swindon Town Football Club

@Official_STFC

3 years

Why don't you come and start the New Year with us?! We kick-off 2022 tomorrow by facing @ntfc at The County Ground - 3pm KO, so come and help us start the New Year in style! 🎟️: #STFC 🔴⚪️

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@SamMorshead_

4 years

24-hour dash back to London from our rural refuge (for a baby scan) and this was a wonderful welcome home present. 10-year-old me is giddy at the sight of that byline

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@SamMorshead_

4 years

Your reminder that Swindon Town owner Lee Power's WhatsApp profile picture is Kim Jong Un, and his status is "your imperial leader has spoken". He doesn't give a hoot about accountability, and he never has

Jonny Leighfield

@JonnyLeighfield

4 years

TOWN FANS: I have been told by the club this evening that I'm banned from asking questions in Swindon Town's pre and post-match press conferences from now on. I'm still able to attend games and attend the pressers, but I will not be able to ask questions. Apologies. #STFC

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6 months

Gunning Line. Morfuni Meridian. Tropic of Crapricorn. Call it what you will, this is Swindon Town's worst season ever. A nine-month long admin error. Give me summer. #stfc

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6 years

A thrill to be invited to the House of Lords to pick up @TheCricketerMag 's ECB Outstanding Online Coverage of Domestic Cricket award 👏 👏 due to @Owen__Riley , @huwzat , @coynejames and all our wonderful freelancers for some terrific work in 2018 Now to repeat it 😬

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@SamMorshead_

2 months

10 years ago today... Swindon Town last won a League Cup game. That is daft.

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3 years

No one involved in this - the people pictured, the people taking the pictures, the admin on the account - are being paid by the shithouse owner. Leave.

Swindon Town Football Club

@Official_STFC

3 years

Day 1️⃣ of pre-season ✅ #STFC 🔴

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4 years

Visitors to in 2017: 217,000 Visitors to this week: 220,000 Thank you

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7 years

And @Official_STFC won. What a day.

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@SamMorshead_

7 years

Swindon Town were relegated 40 hours ago and still not a mention of it anywhere on club media Website? Nah Twitter? Nope Facebook? Pah

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@SamMorshead_

6 years

Some field this for Broad to Ashwin...

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Essex have brought cardboard cutouts of absent overseas stars Mohammad Amir and Adam Zampa with them to Edgbaston today. They've spent the day opposite the press toilets. Now they're being lined up for the victory photgraphs alongside their teammates.

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

Can we all just agree that Ian Smith should commentate on every sports event ever televised for the rest of time. #CWC19

ICC

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5 years

The moment the World Cup was won 🙌🏼 #WeAreEngland | #CWC19 | #CWC19Final

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9 months

I'll be chatting #stfc on @LoathedStranger tonight. Will make a chunk of today's conversation with Clem Morfuni available to Rich for use, if he wants it.

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@SamMorshead_

5 years

This looks far too good for League Two. Please don't be a false dawn. Please don't be a false dawn. Please don't be a false dawn.

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7 months

Our club has become Football League driftwood. Change please. #stfc

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5 years

Really looking forward to being in South Punjab next month to see PSL come to Multan @aliktareen is using cricket as a vehicle for social change, as @NickFriend1 found when he visited a very special academy This is a long but beautiful read

This place is like heaven for us – Cricket's oasis in the Pakistan wilderness

NICK FRIEND: Among the fields of Lodhran, an underrepresented outpost in rural Pakistan, sits the Tareen Cricket Academy, founded by Multan Sultans co-owner Ali Khan Tareen. Its role? To create...

www.thecricketer.com

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4 years

First beer of 2021. Fred approves. Cheers 🍻