Duncan Weldon

Helluva opening partnership that.

Starc’s moustache gives him the look of a pre-talkies film star. Head is far more 1970s detective show.

Imagining the ticket sales department trying to find the ground staff in Perth to “just have a quick chat”

I’m going to say it - another 30 or 40 runs and I think England can do this.

Wonder if they’d made this graphic in advance?

I genuinely love The Hundred. Adore T20 cricket.
But this is real drama.

Fear this is my fault. 65/1 when I switched on. 76/5 now.

Turned on just as Duckett fell.

Maybe I should go back to sleep?

Good morning Joe Root.

Hear me out… is there a way Ukraine can make Mamdani their ambassador to the United States?

Day of the Jackal series. Less ridiculous politics. More Eddie Redmayne looking very stylish as he kills people in exotic locations.

Diplomat on Netflix is really good fun. If you like increasingly ridiculous political drama.

On the other hand first name last name at gmail dot com works surprisingly often when trying to contact someone new. So swings and roundabouts I guess.

Quite surprised at how quickly the latest Ukraine peace plan stuff has moved.

The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.

The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

Been in an excellent mood all day.
Fear that linking my general mood and demeanour to the success of the England cricket team is probably an awful idea though.

Aldi frozen Christmas lobster usually means I have lobster once a week in December.

Feeling quite good at moving up to 10KG dumbbells.
Until @duncanrobinson.bsky.social boasted about his 28.5KG dumbbell antics in a weekly newspaper.

I reckon early finish day 4.

V good Atherton match report.

www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...

Also: ridiculous that I saw 8 wickets live and still missed most of the day’s wickets!

A rollercoaster emotional start to the day for me.
First thing I saw was Australia at 1/1. A split second of ‘great start for England’ before the rapid realisation that they’d been bowled out whilst I slept.

What a first day!

Cameron Green was looking very good. Big wicket.

14 wickets in 50 overs.

We have a game.

Not sure this is a five day match!

Fully aware that I am doing this to myself but - this England bowling attack looks very dangerous.

It’s the hope that gets you. This is the problem with cricket.