Order a copy of this yearโs Wisden Almanack for more on the fate of womenโs cricket in France: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wisden-cr... 7/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@pobjourno.bsky.social
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Order a copy of this yearโs Wisden Almanack for more on the fate of womenโs cricket in France: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wisden-cr... 7/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Watch the remarkable match back here, the first time Iโve seen full French TV coverage of a game of cricket: www.youtube.com/live/0YN8_6-... 6/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1France Cricket has swept into the territory with their own mission, read the latest on @en.france24.com: f24.my/B15p 5/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The women in the new squad were converted from a traditional form of the game, widely played by Kanak women in New Caledonia since cricket was supposedly introduced by English missionaries in the 19th century. 4/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0France came last, losing all its matches, but only after an admittedly thrilling double Super Over. Perhaps the second in history, from my limited cricket knowledge?
๐ธ France Tรฉlรฉvisions Nouvelle-Calรฉdonie 3/7
The former squad? Nowhere to be seen, after they called for an investigation into France Cricket over alleged fraud in the domestic womenโs game. 2/7
15.03.2025 09:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฅ ๐ France Cricket update
Here are the results of the inaugural ICC-recognised Pacific-France Womenโs T20I Championship between Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and a brand-new French national team made up entirely of players from the overseas territory of New Caledonia cricheroes.com/tournament/1... 1/7
๐ #AIActionSummit too much about #France ?
@pobjourno.bsky.social put the question to @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social
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@mariaressa.bsky.social on falsehoods spread by AI: "AI is a way to evade responsibility, to evade accountability ... all this must stop." @france24.com
Spoke to Peter O'Brien @france24.com a bit this week about #CharmingCypress impersonating Peter in order to eventually phish users, there's a great summary by Peter on France24 (English) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6sG...
the French cricket authorities have been boasting about the rise of women's cricket in France.
one problem - some of the matches seem to have been invented to make the sport seem popular. great story. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...