Ben Manning

@thecricketdraft.bsky.social Please can you confirm GW deadlines? My app is showing games at 10.00 this week so not sure if that's a case of it not updating since the weekend, or there's a new 1-hour deadline?

Phillips has been terrific again in the middle of the park #itfc

Thanks! Yeah doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing it. Ultimately looking for the most number of overs bowled in an inning split across the fewest number of bowlers used. SL used four in their 154, good for an average of 38 ½ each.

Is it possible to do a Statsguru query to show innings where only two bowlers have been used? #cricket

Currently sat as GW rank #1 in @thecricketdraft.bsky.social so savouring it whilst it lasts

Classic Aussies relying on the weather to bail them out of trouble #Ashes

The Bills' social media lady really earning her money chasing Josh Allen out of the tunnel there 😂😂

Broadhead is different class isn't he #itfc

Broadhead 😍 #itfc

Beaten Derby's 11 points 😅 #itfc

Time to get Delap off he's not offered much in this second half #itfc

Cameron Burgess has been absolutely everywhere in the first half. Immense performance #itfc

Matt Henry = good at cricket

Cricketers as Wombles:

Uncle Bulgayleria

Jacob Bethell: Ben Stokes explains England selection of 21-year-old - BBC Sport England captain Ben Stokes says he understands if the decision to bat Jacob Bethell at number three "does raise a few eyebrows", but insists "we're not picking people just to wind people up".

In history, nobody that has ever looked like they know what they're doing has been asked to clarify if they do in fact know what they're doing. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Via my friend Tom (not yet of this parish as far as I know), it's the second time this century (Australia in Kandy March 2004) that a team has won the toss, elected to bat, been rolled for fewer than 150 in the first innings, and gone on to win the game.

Only the eighth time ever!

The temptation to look online and see if a) they actually built it as designed; and b) if it's still there or got blown down by the Big Bad Wolf is almost too much to resist.

Going through Grand Designs from the start (having never been particularly interested before this season) and at the end of 01x06 Big Dog McCloud goes "next week I'll be following two young architects as they build an experimental house in North London, out of straw." Lovely stuff!

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This is one of my biggest fears when invoking the assistance of any trade. Got British Gas out last year because I couldn't find the valve to repressurise the boiler. Turns out I'd not reached high enough underneath the bloody thing 🙃

Somebody curating a list like this is a (David) boon.

Funny cricket is the best cricket.

Delighted to register on here and see that there's PLENTY of cricket waiting for me. 🙌🏻