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A remarkable end to the first day of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG as Dennis Lillee took 3 for 1 in 12 balls, bowling Viv Richards via an inside edge with the final delivery of the day to leave West Indies 10 for 4. Lillee later described this as his favourite dismissal

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Up to 500 Million viewers today! Sunny Gavaskar and I are ready to fire up! A massive sporting event! #indiavpakistan #THEFINAL #asiacup2025🏏 @asiancricketcouncil @sonysportsnetwork Four times the SuperBowl audience!

Great to be working the comm box alongside #wasimakram #hewalkedthetalk👑 @asiancricketcouncil #asiacup2025 #UAE

chris jones: you don’t even have 100 yards!

jalen: and we won the fucking game!

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A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Astonishing exit velocity!!! 🚀

A Taste of his own medicine ... Jeff Thomson fends off a bouncer from John Snow, 2nd Ashes Test, Lord's, August 1st 1975. Coming in at 81 for 7, Thomson scored an important 17 and helped add 52 for the 8th wicket with Ross Edwards

Jim Laker signs autographs as he leaves Old Trafford after his 19 wickets, July 31st 1956. He drove back from Manchester to London as he had a Surrey game the next day. Stopping in a pub on the way, he sat unrecognised in a corner as everyone discussed his amazing feat

David Steele, Bob Woolmer, Phil Edmonds, and new England captain Tony Greig pictured in the nets at Lord's on the eve of the 2nd Ashes Test, July 30th 1975. Steele and Woolmer made their debuts the next day, Edmonds had to wait until the 3rd Test

Cricket on the Gunfleet Sands off the Essex coast in 1931. The game was organised by the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and took place in September when tidal conditions exposed the sandbank

Yorkshire's Norman Yardley and Hedley Verity on manoeuvres with the 1st Battalion, Green Howards in Northern Ireland in July 1941. Yardley went on to captain England after the war. Verity died in captivity on July 31st 1943 from wounds received 12 days earlier. He was 38 (IWM)

I took this as I left the pavilion about 20 minutes after the close of the remarkable first day of the 1st Test at Lord's on July 21st 2005. Shane Warne relaxes with a cigarette on the Australian balcony

Dennis Lillee in the nets at Lord's ahead of the Australians match v MCC, July 2nd 1975. His batting practice did him little good as he was the third victim in a Bob Woolmer hat-trick in his only innings. But he took match figures of 10 for 132 (Patrick Eagar)

Does anyone really want to argue that Test cricket is not the format of the game which delivers the most?

A four year old girl with blonde hair biting her nails. she's wearing a white bow, pink glasses, and a pink cardigan.

a four year old girl wearing pig tails with pink bows and pink glasses. She's eating a piece of cake and a juice box. She's in front of a "happy birthday" banner

This is Hope.

Hope was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called MLS syndrome.

She is deaf and blind.

She also has a heart condition called cardiomyopathy, which makes it difficult for her heart to pump blood.

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

What... a... catch! 👌 #Bacchus

It was 50 years ago today ... Rod Marsh's spectacular catch to dismiss Tony Greig off Gary Gilmour, England v Australia, Prudential World Cup semi-final, June 18th 1975. One of the great cricket photos (Patrick Eagar)

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The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.

Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.

Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

The joy of watching county cricket in the 1970s and 1980s was the number of top overseas players, and also that England's players always turned out between internationals. Few sides were better to see than Somerset with Joel Garner, Ian Botham and Viv Richards

Everton Weekes (108*) and Frank Worrell (239*) head off at the end of the second day of the 3rd Test. England v West Indies, Trent Bridge, July 21st 1950. Their 3rd-wicket stand of 283 set West Indies on course for a ten-wicket win. Weekes made 129 and Worrell a Test-best 261

Some lovely film of Wes Hall's final over in the 1960 Tied Test together with interviews with Hall and Richie Benaud. Hall's shy at the stumps and dropped catch show how the pressure got to everyone involved ...

Remembering Rod Marsh who died three years ago today, here seen on his way to 110 in the Centenary Test, March 14th 1977. It was his third and final Test hundred (Patrick Eagar) #cricket

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Kash Patel, Trump’s F.B.I. Pick, Pushed False Claims About Trump Investigations (Gift Article) Kash Patel, Donald J. Trump’s choice to run the bureau, has made a series of spurious assertions about the Russia, Jan. 6 and classified documents inquiries.

I know many are fed up with the NYT, but this piece on Kash Patel is well worth a read covering his prior statements about various FBI investigations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

pretty wild how it looks like the only billionaire putting their money where their mouth is to resist Trump’s horrific policy agenda is… Michael Bloomberg

“Tiny rats with backpacks”

I’ll be thinking about this for the rest of the day.

Fanone: There’s a lot of John Fettermans in the world and unfortunately, that’s why we’re in the predicament that we’re in