✍️ journalist for @TelegraphSport 📚 Author of Test Cricket: A History, Times Sports Book of the Year - https://xitter.cf/t.co/tAGfFoWe9Y - and other books
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Tim Wigmore retweeted
A growing number of young football talents are coming through independent schools, where football programmes now offer specialist coaching, sports science and professional-level scouting.
@timwig explores how private-school football is booming ⬇️
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Josh Hazlewood hasn't got this much swing in a Test since 2018 - the last time he bowled at Kingsmead.
He is so often portrayed as the metronome, in some ways fairly - nobody bowls at his pace as accurately.
However - he is so, so much more than a line and length merchant.
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Very exciting and a little bit surreal to have my hands on a hard copy. I’m also pleased to say that signed copies are available at @GoldsboroBooks via this link:
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Great to hear Stephen Fleming say that England should pay more attention to the World Test Championship.
England's disregard for the WTC has long been an example of the worst of English exceptionalism in cricket
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The 3pm Saturday blackout for UK football matches has endured since the 1960s, and been seen as an essential way to support the whole football pyramid and protect attendances.
But the blackout is likely to end when the new TV deals begin in 2029
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An interview with Steve Smith.
On why he's not sure if he will make the 2027 Ashes, how wobble seam is transforming Test cricket and his fears that spin is being pushed out of the longest format
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🐌 Scoring too slowly
🏏 Rogue Dukes balls
💥 Bazball chaos
🇦🇺 Tonning up in Oz
Joe Root is one of the great problem solvers - he'll have to solve the LBW issues to pass Sachin, but this isn't his first rodeo.
Free to read on @TheAthletic
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Emilio Gay fought admirably in his first summer in Test cricket, in brutal conditions.
But Jordan Cox's emergence, and the return of Jacob Bethell, means that Gay could be squeezed out.
He will rue his two ducks, but falling 3 times from 50-60 even more
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Tim Wigmore retweeted
“It would be amazing painting, and watching my brother get 100. That’s what I really want.”
Spent an enjoyable afternoon watching Simeon Gay paint as his brother made 60 for England in teh Edgbaston Test
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A Wednesday start in mid-September, with plenty of empty seats and not great cricket. Today was a reminder that English cricket is just not getting these “even” summers with two three-Test series either side of the Hundred right telegraph.co.uk/gift/1aec50c…
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'I will never forget this summer.'
Seven years after retiring from international cricket because of anxiety, Sarah Taylor is the first woman to work as a coach with a men’s Test side. And she has helped transform Jamie Smith's keeping standing up.
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The skill of wobble seam bowlers has been a delight this summer. But Test cricket is at its best when the game has more variety, and all types of bowling can thrive.
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For @TheAthletic
A third of all two day Tests ever have come in the last nine years. So what's the recipe?
🇦🇺 Played in Australia, England, or South Africa
🏏 Better side bowls first
🃏 Bowlers get a huge load of luck
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Tim Wigmore retweeted
My wife is raising funds for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, to whom we are forever grateful for the brilliant work their brilliant staff do every single day. Please, if you can, contribute whatever you can. No amount is too little. Thank you!
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"If I’m in the dressing room, I’m a very small man. My job is over."
A pleasure to chat to Zaheer Abbas, who remains the only Asian batsman to score 100 first-class centuries, about his career and the art of batting long.
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For an 80mph bowler, a wicketkeeper has about 0.5 seconds between the ball leaving the bowler’s hand and it reaching them.
The skill behind keepers standing up to the stumps, which has enriched the Test summer - and how it is changing the game
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Pakistan’s tour of England has descended into chaos.
7 players were sent home and coaches sacked, with some of those involved learning the news from social media.
Saj Sadiq reveals the inside story of a tour that has left Pakistan cricket in turmoil ⤵️
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14 million played them at their peak. George Orwell said they helped stave off revolution. They employed 100,000 people. One winner adorned the cover of Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.
The rise and fall of the football pools.
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It’s really not the players.
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Babar Azam used to have one of the best defensive techniques in the world - it's fallen off a cliff.
His record when attacking is still exceptional, but time is ticking on his chance to achieve greatness.
Free to read at @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/7546109…
