Beth

He has sent a few trick or treaters on their way.

Halloween costumes have come a long way.

I’ve always said WA is the Queensland of the west.

Patty is the perfect captain, in that he’s much taller than the smaller boys, but is the shortest of the bigger boys.

Ooh five for, not out and the wicketkeeper - what a player!

Are both Rabada and Cummins added to the visitor’s honour board?

Can’t wait for this to be the new Carey pool metric.

That sucks big time.

Do you want actual notifications to see if that resets?

I had someone suggest I try a matcha latte - just tasted like grass.

Best of luck

Not sure if they were just humouring me, but I appreciated that they thought to change their language.

During the most recent day night test, I sat next to a couple of older gents. One absentmindedly said ‘batsman’ and realised that wasn’t right. After a few minutes of discussion I suggested batter would be appropriate as the rules had been modified with this term. They self corrected the next time.

Wonderfully articulated post on the hypocrisy of language around cricket records for women.

The only asterisk for Cook’s batting record at the ground is the not out status and not the poor pitch finding from the ICC.

Awesome!

She said along the lines of next time they played a test they hoped it be televised.

Did they broadcast Healy’s swipe at channel 7?

Green and gold wash

Not sure of any tenuous links for Sophie Ecclestone, but three Victorian names gilded on to the MCG honour boards.

Trust in Sutherland - it’s in her name after all.

Can’t trust the field, go through the stumps.

The quest for simulwins is quite sweet.

What more could she have done that over?

Middle stump out of the ground, beautiful sight.

Should be!

Are you here? Crowd are giggling at dropped catches.

That can’t have been far from the helmet

When will ground announcers learn that microphones amplify voices and they don’t need to screech into the mic?

Early breakthrough!