@drcricket.bsky.social
Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council. Class - Culture - Environment https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Hold on #cricketsky! Is that sandpaper in Alec Bedser’s pocket?!
Or a leaf? 👀
Jason Ironheart (William Allen Young) puts his hands to his head in psychic turmoil
PsiCorps enforcer Bester (Walter Koenig) raises his black-gloved hand towards his target for a hostile psychic probe
OTD 1994: #Babylon5 Mind War
Terrific high-concept SF and great character interaction
Stolen by charismatic, quotable Andreas Katsulas’ Ambassador G’Kar
and guest-starring outstanding new bad guy
[in especially large letters at the end]
Walter Koenig
The footage (and context) of US military coming out of #Dubai etc. certainly reminds me of #Babylon5.
youtu.be/pLorVFhGOo8?...
Was so prescient in so many ways. Like you, I wish it hadn’t been.
02.03.2026 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The footage (and context) of US military coming out of #Dubai etc. certainly reminds me of #Babylon5.
youtu.be/pLorVFhGOo8?...
From the archives. Hitch on the money re #Iran (approx 27mins) and every other #US intervention, but whole thing well worth a watch (re #feminism certainly).
Begs the question how the likes of Emmett were ever taken seriously. 🤦🏻♂️
youtu.be/Atk7V3W6oUc?...
From the archives. Hitch on the money re #Iran (approx 27mins) and every other #US intervention, but whole thing well worth a watch (re #feminism certainly).
Begs the question how the likes of Emmett were ever taken seriously. 🤦🏻♂️
youtu.be/Atk7V3W6oUc?...
Not to be for Pakistan in the end.
Which means the only Urdu speaking country left in the world cup is England.
#WT20
I’d give it to a European country. Probably UK or Germany.
28.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
By-election #playlist.
#Manchester @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
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Player issue Bangladesh kit arrived (previous #T20WorldCup). Well smart!! 💚
#Everythingsgonegreen
Powerpoint slide with a tweet from illegal betting company Babu88, announcing their sponsorship of England's tour of Sri Lanka. Brook is pictured trying to ground his bat, with the betting sponsors visible on the advertising hoardings in the background.
Our final #CRN2026 panel is focused on Governance and Sustainability.
@stevemenary.bsky.social shares worrying findings about illegal betting sponsorship, which doubled between 2021 and 2025.
Harry Brook, Steve argues, is (inadvertently) helping to promote illegal betting in the screenshot below.
Some quite depressing findings from Richard Jones about cricket’s place in the sports news agenda, showing its decline.
His analysis of regional press, national radio & X posts suggests cricket is disappearing from some commercial media, and is heavily reliant on the BBC for prominence. #CRN2026
We said goodbye to Jane yesterday. But listening to songs by her favourite band (most for the first time) I can’t help but imagine - feel even - how she felt.
Music really is the best. Thank you Jane. X ❤️
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Great to hear from Odedra in this piece.
I am a bit puzzled as to why everyone seems so puzzled by the lack of South Asian representation in women's cricket, though. Women in sport are subject to racism too.
Combine that with sexism (in a little thing known as intersectionality), and here we are.
Or Bangladesh. 😉
25.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If the Daily Fail are scared of the ‘Green Menace’, Zac and the Green Party are doing everything right. 😂
25.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.
They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk
24.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 15631 🔁 2746 💬 0 📌 1
Any excuse:
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A sad indictment of #Thatcherism and its effect on #sport.
Workplace sport was a hugely important aspect of civil #society until deindustrialisation, attacks on trade unions, and the withdrawal of workplace welfare (remember that?) killed it. Blatant vandalism.
www.cprelondon.org.uk/news/merton-...
Table showing the English Cricket's preference for toffs
The English Cricketing Establishment manages to stand out even in a very crowded field [of bastards gatekeeping a sport]
@drcricket.bsky.social 's beat.
Oh yes! Wish it wasn’t though. 😅
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Be it the #US or #Mexico, the #FIFA #WorldCup can't go ahead now.
The safety of players and supporters simply can't be guaranteed.
This applies to so many… 😬
22.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ICC filing vs. the FIFA and UEFA Presidents is an opportunity to prove that international law still exists—and that collaborators in Israel’s grievous crimes will actually be held to account.
This complaint must just be the beginning.
We explain for @aljazeera.com.
includes a nice account of c8th precursor of Clarkson-style ‘farming’
21.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yet both did #TOTP! 😅
20.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Peak Dep on #TOTP. 🖤
20.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Were Paul Hardcastle and Mikey Pearce ever seen in the same room together? #TOTP
20.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ha ha! An old karaoke classic of mine. But not sure the subject matter is too clever these days. #TOTP
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