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Oh, that was beautiful. Classy, casual Dolly Parton reference to lead us off from Athers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf69... #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

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Still every chance India win the Test & series fairly comfortably, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it start to finish. The pitches have allowed batters, quicks & spinners alike to flourish, and Sri Lanka have found a couple of gems in Sooriyabandara and Dinusha. #INDvSL🏏🇮🇳🇱🇰 #WTC27

Almost as good as Salman Ali Agha’s nose. As a man with a proper Punjabi schnozz myself, I am in awe.

Nakul Pande@nakulmpande.bsky.social · last mo.

Abdullah Shafique, as well as being a fine batter, has a truly magnificent nose. Like the noble prow of a ship carving majestically through the winds and waves. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

England's all-rounder stocks are dwindling, even with a fairly generous definition of that term. Sam Curran's having groin surgery and is out for the rest of the summer, and Will Jacks is recovering after an appendectomy. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Abdullah Shafique, as well as being a fine batter, has a truly magnificent nose. Like the noble prow of a ship carving majestically through the winds and waves. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

That replay showed Salman Ali Agha would still have missed the ball, or best-case scenario dragged it on, even if it hadn't moved. Josh Tongue's hard enough to play when you don't play all around straight ones. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

He's way off the record, which is when Adam Voges briefly threatened to make the most of becoming a Test cricketer aged 35 and went 614 runs between dismissals across 3 Tests in 2015/16. The Pakistan record is Javed Miandad's 365 in a home series vs India (remember those?) in 1983. #StatWatch

Nakul Pande@nakulmpande.bsky.social · last mo.

Abdullah Shafique was last dismissed in Test cricket on October 22 2025 (caught at gully by Marco Jansen off Kagiso Rabada, if you're interested), since when he's scored 236/0. Those three unbeaten knocks are the only times he's not opened in his 49 Test innings. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Abdullah Shafique was last dismissed in Test cricket on October 22 2025 (caught at gully by Marco Jansen off Kagiso Rabada, if you're interested), since when he's scored 236/0. Those three unbeaten knocks are the only times he's not opened in his 49 Test innings. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Abdullah Shafique is Pakistan's best batter, barring the injured Babar Azam. It's really odd that he's basically had to give up being an opener which he was almost exclusively until a couple of years ago to get himself back in the team. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

#StatWatch Before today, there had been 157 men's Test series in England, going back to 1880. In none of them had a wicket fallen off the first ball. Welcome to history, Ollie Robinson and Azan Awais. Pretty remarkable it's never happened before here. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Privately educated, well-spoken, scores runs for fun in the County Championship...averages under 30 in a 13 year Test career and under 26 in England. Other than the minor detail of him not being English, Shan Masood is the ultimate 2010s (or even 1990s) English top-order batter. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Joe Root's first review of his second stint proper as Test captain is...sub-optimal. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

Pakistan played two Tests in the West Indies, losing one by 90 runs and winning one by 8 wickets. Their XI at Headingley is a lot closer to the one that lost by 90 — Babar is injured, the only one who's actually been dropped from that XI is the all-rounder Aamer Jamal. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

England as expected go with four seamers & two part-time off-spinners in Lawrence and Root. Pakistan pick Abbas, thereby managing not to immediately shoot themselves in the foot. Sajid Khan’s 8-for vs WI not enough to keep him in the XI, Ali Usman is the sole specialist spinner. #ENGvPAK🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰 #WTC27

1st session: on as sub fielder when Chandimal injures neck & shoulder 2nd session: • Takes brilliant catch • Named as concussion sub for Chandimal 3rd session: golden duck first ball of international career Pasindu Sooriyabandara will never forget today, for good & ill. #SLvIND🏏🇱🇰🇮🇳 #WTC27

LOVE how calm Mominul is after hitting the biggest four in the history of Bangladeshi Test cricket. Like it’s just another day at the office — but it’s really, really not. What an all-round performance across the Test, they have done an absolute job on Australia. #AUSvBAN🏏🇦🇺🇧🇩 #WTC27

Mehidy Hasan Miraz & Taijul Islam are two of the most quietly impressive cricketers on the planet. One of the Fox commentators called them both world-class, which, yeah, they just are. Mehidy’s debut series v England in 2016 remains one of my favourites I’ve ever covered. #AUSvBAN🏏🇦🇺🇧🇩 #WTC27

This is so niche even I’m telling myself to touch grass, but I can’t help but giggle at the sound effects on the graphics transitions on the #SriLankavIndia Test coverage. Imagine Wile E Coyote landing on a trampoline, and you’re somewhere close. Booiiiing! #WTC27

Today, Issy Wong has been dropped off a hat-trick ball and missed a chance to take a hat-trick herself. Something something makes things happen something #BravevSunrisers #TheHundred #Eliminator

Today, I do my final bits of research for @glamcricket taking on Yorkshire. Tomorrow, I commentate at the charming ground in Neath. On Saturday, I’ll be at @londontranspride showing that bigots and bullies claiming to speak for cis people emphatically DO NOT. These are all me. 🏏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

How utterly depressing that Arsenal have posted a lovely video about their presence at Pride and the comments are turned off 😞 (I don’t blame them to be clear, I blame all of this *waves hand*)

Ye gods I’ve missed spinners bowling with fielders round the bat #ENGvIND🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇳

Harald Hardrada! Henrik Ibsen! Edvard Munch! Magnus Carlsen! Yggdrasil the World Tree! Can you hear me, Yggdrasil the World Tree? Your boys took a hell of a beating!

Politicians leeching onto football for self promotion is nothing new. In the face of an abhorrent diatribe Kylian Mbappé felt compelled to take a moment out of his World Cup to attack racism. Unlike his aggressor, he speaks with a strong yet eloquent voice. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Kylian Mbappe laughs at on-pitch provocation – but politician’s abhorrent abuse required powerful reply (Gift Article)

Mbappe does not invite these situations, but he had no desire to be blase about such a personal attack.

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THREE extremely unethical situations at the World Cup require more football stakeholders to challenge wrongs. 1. Banishment of the Somali referee 2. Balogun red card political interference 3. Treatment of Iran team Players/managers/officials/administrators. Pressure on FIFA should be unrelenting.

“Hakimi’s behaviour leads a lot to be desired” Nicely loaded comment from Lucy.

The answer would appear to be no. This is too obvious a weakness to be so restricting to players of that quality. #ENGvNZ🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇿 #WTC27

Nakul Pande@nakulmpande.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now we find out if Root (and later Brook) have worked out a way of not being completely nullified by the radical and not at all century-plus old tactic of the keeper standing up to a medium-fast bowler. #ENGvNZ🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇿 #WTC27

This World Cup would have looked grimly different without locally-based communities who showed up to bring their love to matchdays. Given travel restrictions and exorbitant prices diaspora supporters have made this World Cup. Arguably, they have saved this World Cup. www.nytimes.com/athletic/739...

How the love of the diaspora has helped give this World Cup soul (Gift Article)

This World Cup would have looked grimly different without the locally based communities bringing their cultural pride to matchdays

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That is back to back Smith on Smith violence - Jamie has been dismissed by Nathan two innings running. What is the most name-on-name dismissal in Test history? @zaltzcricket.bsky.social? @acscricket.bsky.social? #ENGvNZ🏏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇿 #WTC27