Women’s Cricket World Cup – Australia v Sri Lanka – live

Love the optimism of the score predictor that thinks South Africa are going to get to 103 #CWC25

The women’s Cricket World Cup starts tonight! I spoke to two of the Australian team’s young stars about the future, as we sit poised at the end of an era

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

Wes Agar has lived with OCD since childhood - he spoke to daisy about the impact it's had on his life and his cricket. Long read - lots of insight into a complex and misunderstood condition. Grateful he could be so candid for the first time 👇🏻 daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/w...

I thought the whole point of Perth is that it doesn’t rain there? #Origin

Clearly Hazlewood wasn’t expecting to bat this test, he’s left his arm guard at home and has had to fashion one out of a bit he cut out of the change room wall #WTC25 #SAvAUS

"We are sad that the journalist didn't dodge the projectile that chose to go towards her" said her employer. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

The most maddening thing is that it would be perfectly fine to write "9News reporter shot by police" because it is it accurate, true and backed up by the video footage. Even *if* the cops want to claim it was accidental, to word "shoot" says nothing about intent. We're using passive voice to lie.

Riley Gaines: Why won't Simone Biles support the horrifying three-armed children trying to steal her ladder

Riley Gaines is comparing teenage trans girls to rapists. This vile coward defended her own swim coach after it was revealed he sexually assaulted her teammates. Simone Biles stood up to the man that systematically sexually abused her and her teammates.

This is Tilly, a lovely dog looking for a home. If you are interested in having a dog in your house, please get in touch and I'll put you in touch.

This reads like one of those paragraphs that’s made up specifically to demonstrate why Oxford commas are important

Scott Morrison will be given Australia’s highest award for service as part of the King’s Birthday honours. The awardee list is currently embargoed, but Crikey has obtained and is choosing to report on it.

Can someone please tell Sue to stop calling Cholhok “The Big C” please and thank you 🙃 #SSN2025 #FEVvFIR

Britain has dropped down Europe’s LGBTQ+ rights rankings. Good – now we might have to face reality | Jason Okundaye

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I made one of these and asked it, checkmate

Another addition to the 'generative AI energy use is small when you compare it to something bigger so what's the problem' series, this most recently from Hannah Ritchie's substack. This reply from @sashamtl.bsky.social is informative archive.ph/wip/lNoKX www.linkedin.com/posts/sashal...

My patient’s cancer was curable but for years she endured painful sex as a result. This story is all too familiar | Ranjana Srivastava

A landmark piece of Australian journalism. The headline makes it sound like it’s about one person. It’s an exposé of ongoing medical bias against half the population. www.theage.com.au/national/the...

Liberal-backed group Advance is running an anti-Greens campaign centred around quotes from two sexual assault accusers without their permission. They told Crikey they did not want their stories used this way. Despite this, Advance is still running the ads www.crikey.com.au/20...

Three headlines for the same story. Here’s how to read them. 🧵

If Swifts are going to use Grace Whyte to keep Smith & Simmons on the bench (and don’t get me wrong, I think this is a very good thing to do) then could they do me a favour & drop one of those two players out of the 10 instead of Fawns? #FEVvSWI #SSN

Excellent lunchtime read from @georgjar.bsky.social: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

I don't need history to prove me right because I am fully capable of judging right from wrong now, in real time. Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. It is threatening people with ethnic cleansing by forced removal as the BEST case scenario or complete annihilation.

The remarkable Sarah Coyte has now won ten WNCL titles with three different teams. New South Wales (2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2024/25) South Australia (2015/16) Tasmania (2021/22, 2022/23) #WNCL

There have already been thousands of words written on Marty Sheargold & his sexism, so I’ve tried to focus this piece on the attitudes that “jokes” like this reflect and how they are allowed to flourish

With it being eating disorder awareness week I wanted to again bring your attention to this piece by @meganmaurice.bsky.social EDs do not discriminate, they don't take days off, they don't care who you are, how old you are or what you do.... www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

I dusted off an ancient post about an underrated romcom classic this week, because French Kevin Kline deserves respect 🥖 open.substack.com/pub/gasbitch...

Daily Telegraph "acknowledges out approach could have been better". Also: "multiple venues" 👀

Another Lebanese-Australian targeted. Silencing artists, writers, & thinkers isn’t just censorship—it’s an assault on democracy. History shows that when creative voices are muzzled, terrible things follow & flourish. What are these lobbyists so desperate to hide? artreview.com/australia-dr...

I need this to be widely read so when I start referring to the MBBL and the MIPL people know what I'm talking about, rather than thinking it's the proposed Mykonos T10 tournament

When Megan first argued this case on Twitter a few years back, my natural impulse was to resist. But ultimately all my arguments boiled down to 'I am used to this other word'. So I switched. There’s no downside. There is upside. And why not get used to a new word before my ageing brain calcifies.

Today in my newsletter I'm exploring the importance of language in sport and wading into the battlefield of the "gentlemen's game" of cricket to take a look at why the language we use across both men's and women's cricket matters

Now would be a great time for all the women who have been in ads about how it's actually good to be strong to speak up on behalf of their more marginalized colleagues!

I can’t express how irritating this is. All graphic novels, from Maus to Black Hole, Persepolis to Fun Home, dismissed as trivial. Also, even when comics aren’t serious works of art, they’re still worth reading. The idea of them being dessert after “worthy” books is a TERRIBLE message for kids.

Yesterday, World Athletics announced new recommended rules that would ban all DSD athletes from competition and require EVERY woman who wanted to compete to undergo a chromosome test. I covered the main bits here:

Well over a thousand people at the national day of action to protect trans youth in Melbourne today, so great to see

Lunchtime reading. #SLvAUS 🏏

We cannot cheer on Afghanistan’s cricket team when Afghan women are being silenced | Zahra Joya

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.

Journalists and a major sponsor have vowed not to work with SEN following its controversial dismissal of Peter Lalor over his social media posting about Gaza. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.

ICYMI, the first post of my new Substack is out now - the theme is sport ft feminist ranting & unpopular opinions that no one will pay me to write about

Good read this. Laughable that some are so precious about an honours board. The choice of words from Gideon Haigh should have been better to.

Obviously you should all subscribe to Megan's newsletter. That goes without saying, surely.

I’m quietly pleased that MM is sufficiently annoyed.^ ^but only because that has delivered us all our next fave Substack.