🏏 A little bit of history as 🇲🇳 Mongolia get their first win in international cricket. The Women's team beat Bahrain by 3 wickets in the ACC Premier Cup!

Least Hated Party update

FFS England you couldn't just let me watch Kane bat one last time could you...

If the number three isn't ready for the second ball of the innings then they should be out. Pathetic for CAN to apologise too. Back your players!

🏏 4 days and 6 matches into the Men's Asian Games qualifier, and all four qualifying teams are decided (🇳🇵🇲🇾🇭🇰🇴🇲) There are 5 days and 7 matches still to go. A very badly thought out qualifier...

The rankings qualification berth(s) continue to act as an insurance policy for full members, guaranteeing the top 8 ranked sides a place and making Ireland, and then Bangladesh very likely. Scotland and Netherlands would need a top 8 finish to qualify, and would push FMs to the global qualifiers

Delight for Netherlands women, as the beat Bangladesh 154/8 (20.0) for the first time in any format. Nigar Sultana 77 (51) Juairiya Ferdous 22 (24) Heather Siegers 3-39 Silver Siegers 2-24 Netherlands win by 8 runs. #BANvNED espncricinfo.com/series/scotl...

🏏 Never taken a 5fer before today!

TBF, try telling someone from 20 years ago there would be roughly 85 teams (+12 FMs directly qualified) qualifying for a World Cup! Or that Zimbabwe had to come through the first qualifying round last time out!

11 of Scotland's squad of 15 have been playing League 1 county cricket. With essentially home advantage, I think Sri Lanka, West Indies and Ireland could be seriously challenged by this side

Rwanda pick up their first victory over Kenya!

Well Everton, you ruined it for everyone...

Seriously, Starmer should go today. This is disgusting.

Strange scheduling to put the top sides in each group head to head on day 3. Stranger still to have the top side play on Days 1-4, meaning they'll qualify for the final and day 5 will be largely meaningless. Only upshot is Jersey and Guernsey will have an extra day's rest before the final

Here we go?

So: Duckett Gay Bethell Root Brook Stokes Smith Atkinson Robinson Fisher Tongue Continuing to select Bashir and recalling Ahmed is alarming because I don't think either is really test quality. Maybe Ahmed is preferred but I can imagine going all seam at Lords

Zimbabwe being on the receiving end of a lot of unwanted records hurts to see, but it's made so much worse knowing they're getting these opportunities at the expense of objectively better teams

#ChemChat - if a watched pot never boils, what is the chemistry equivalent?

Shetland?

Enjoying the rhythms of early season county cricket. Championship Fri-Mon each week (better than Thurs-Sun because more likely to get full days play at the weekend), WODC Saturday & Wednesdays. Consistent, doesn't feel like it's overloaded. Sadly it never lasts, September is a mess again

Really chuffed to be on the shortlist for Charles Tyrwhitt Cricket Book of the Year! Looking forward to the Oval on 21 May. @sportsbookawards.bsky.social

I'm going up for the evening but Glos could be all out by then 😬

*ICC cuts prize money for 1/3rd of teams

Big question for me - will this enable the EU to be bolder and more active, or will they find a new excuse?

MRPs seem to work great for predominantly 2 party politics, a la 2017, 2019. Haven't looked so good since

This is going to be such a mess. Just do two divisions ffs

Finally a genuinely good news story

They're traveling over the back side of the moon now...

TACO, obviously. I mean, I hope.

X = VIDEO: immigrants can resurrect now. This is why we need mass deportations #Jerusalemfirst Bluesky = clearly the Romans faked the resurrection to justify further crackdowns #falseflag

Mandatory listening with Artemis II about to launch link.deezer.com/s/32SihfLMyN...

🇮🇹 Italy appearances at sporting world cups since 2015: 🏉 Rugby: 3 ⚾ Baseball: 3 🏏 Cricket: 1 ⚽ Football: 0

Day out from the lab at Bristol Synthesis #Chemsky #Chemchat

My local Sainsbury's dropped its petrol price this week, but the nearby Shell garage has put theirs up. There's an 11p/L difference currently!

The Government has adopted Lib Dem proposals for all new homes built from 2028 to come with solar panels. This will reduce bills for owners of newbuild homes, reduce pressure on the energy grid, and help fight climate change. Huge credit to @maxwilkinson.bsky.social for his excellent work on this!

you see dubious political chicanery, I see admirable proof that the Met doesn't discriminate when it comes to its abject failure to investigate phone theft, even if the phone in question was being used to run the government

Can't imagine Eddie Vedder thought these lyrics would somehow get more pertinent than when he wrote them 6 years ago

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Starmer was doing so well in his post McSweeney reset. Ah well, guess he plain sucks

Looks a lot like the situation the BCB got into with the ICC & BCCI for the T20WC. FIFA has got a lot more time to sort this out if they want to, but given their recent political leanings, I bet they won't

🏏 The good news for Argentina is they've won the toss, so can qualify if they can win by ~110 runs The bad news is they're 14/4 after 4 overs

That was the most extraordinary game of rugby I've ever watched

🏏 There's a chicken roaming the outfield at the Cayman vs Mexico game at the World Cup Qualifier and I'm constantly distracted by it!

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SvS still leads!

Ed Davey LOTO on 12% of the vote 🤯

Would have been much simpler just to have guaranteed one semi final in Sri Lanka though